Dear AOIR Colleagues, As the COVID-19 pandemic made clear, being online has become essential to everyday life worldwide. Yet, while the digital world seems here to stay, to what extent do we get to choose to be part of it, or not? What are the risks of being either online or offline? Being online carries many harms and risks <https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/> associated with misinformation, surveillance, artificial intelligence (AI), datafication, discrimination, tracking, profiling, etc. Being offline, whether by choice or circumstance, means being cut off from essential services and also experiencing social isolation. And what are the necessary protections or remedies to address these risks or harms? Globally, these are the concerns of those working to advance digital/data rights <https://digitalfreedomfund.org/digital-rights-for-all/>, justice <https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/pathways-to-digital-justice/>, equity <https://ctu.ieee.org/what-is-digital-equity/>, and inclusion <https://www.un.org/techenvoy/sites/www.un.org.techenvoy/files/general/Definition_Digital-Inclusion.pdf>. And all of these efforts require funding. Yet the issue of “funding” is often the "elephant in the room”. An important concern for everyone, but something many don’t talk about. This is likely because, as experts <https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo23530413.html> have noted, “Philanthropy is everywhere…[It] is not just a beneficent activity or a funding mechanism. It can also be a form of power”. For example in the U.S.: A September 2022 report <https://bit.ly/46UvOx0> examining U.S. philanthropic giving toward digital equity found that in spite of the pandemic highlighting the urgency of addressing digital inequity, philanthropic funding in this space has largely remained stagnant. According to the report, “Funding for digital equity makes up less than 1% of overall giving by large foundations”. We invite you to join the RGK Center at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in co-creating a timely, inclusive, and robust exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives to build and share knowledge together about the many roles funders play in the fields of digital/data rights, justice, equity, and inclusion worldwide. Our questions include: · What is the state of scholarship on the roles funders (governmental, corporate, or philanthropic) have been playing to help prevent or remedy the many risks and harms of living in a digital society? · What are lessons learned, success stories, and best practices related to funding in these fields? What’s working and what’s not? What challenges have funders and grantseekers faced? · What should funders focus on next, why, and how? Our goals invite collaboration to… · Identify under-resourced types of interventions necessary to keep people safe in a digital society. · Generate ideas about how to strengthen and expand equitable access to funding ecosystems to advance the fields of digital/data rights, justice, equity, and inclusion worldwide. · Initiate collaborations that build, share, and mobilize necessary knowledge to inform governmental, corporate, and philanthropic investments in these fields of work. We seek a wide variety of participants (scholars, policy advocates, community leaders, public officials, technologists, policymakers, journalists, funders, etc.) from the following sectors: · Government (public sector) · Corporate (private sector) · Social sector (civil society/civic sector) I hope we will have the privilege of your involvement in our effort to catalyze and connect conversations about the funding ecosystems needed to support those working to advance digital/data rights, justice, equity, and inclusion not just in the U.S., but globally. Please consider downloading symposium details and joining this conversation by adding your insights, questions, and participation preferences here: https://rgk.lbj.utexas.edu/call-participation Best regards, Becky Lentz, PhD Director of the Tech & Society Initiative LBJ School of Public Affairs (RGK Center on Philanthropy and Community Service) University of Texas at Austin USA ——— Becky Lentz <https://lbj.utexas.edu/becky-lentz>, PhD | Faculty Associate | LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin --Director of the Tech & Society Initiative at the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service <https://rgkcenter.org/about> --Public Voices Fellow <https://www.theopedproject.org/fellowships> with The OpEd Project <https://www.theopedproject.org/mission> (https://shorturl.at/pwxBR)
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1. CFP: ?Streaming Diversity?" Journal of Convergence special issue (Maura Edmond) 2. Launch of Platform Governance Archive (PGA) v2 with new data set, access options, website and data paper** (Christian Katzenbach) 3. Job opportunity - Research Associate on the Everyday Misinformation Project (Part-time from September 2023 until February 2024) (Cristian Vaccari) 4. Sonia Livingstone on the CaMP blog (Ilana Gershon) 5. CSCW Workshop CfP: A Toolbox of Feminist Wonder ? Theories and methods that can make a difference (Karin Hansson)
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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:07:54 +1000 From: Maura Edmond <maura.edmond@monash.edu> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] CFP: ?Streaming Diversity?" Journal of Convergence special issue Message-ID: <CA+RJq5MPmVexhcNHGLEpT2=2KAYomsHpuzEigaXv+GfKQPTBuQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
*Call For Papers: ?Streaming Diversity? On and off-screen diversity in an era of automated media culture? *
Abstracts due 22 Sept 2023
Special Issue of *Convergence: The International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies*
Guest editors: Dr Maura Edmond, Dr Olivia Khoo, Dr Claire Perkins and Dr Verity Trott, from @Gender&MediaLab <https://twitter.com/gendermedialab> in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia.
Deadline for abstracts: *22 September 2023* | Expected publication date: August 2024
The unprecedented growth of video-on-demand streaming platforms has brought both new optimism and new complications to concerns around screen ?diversity?. Without the limitations of linear television, streaming services have far greater capacity for producing and distributing more diverse screen content. Many of the streaming platforms have made high profile public commitments to diversity, such as Netflix?s ?Inclusion Report?, introducing new policies and commissioning processes intended to support culturally diverse representation and content production. Large global SVODs and smaller region-specific and genre-specific platforms have also launched original series and commissioned content that has been widely marketed as and celebrated for its diverse representations. Together, this has created a popular impression that streaming platforms are improving diversity in terms of both representation and practical opportunities for screen creatives. This special issue of Convergence will critically explore the impacts of video streaming platforms on different dimensions of ?diversity?.
Existing studies on diversity in the screen sector have consistently demonstrated long standing and entrenched inequality regimes affecting women and non-dominant groups, but there remains limited research on how this plays out at the streaming services specifically. Research on SVOD-related impacts have focused instead on understanding how major global companies like Netflix have interacted with existing local screen industries and production ecosystems, affected global distribution and content flows, and created overall regulatory imbalances. We are calling for papers that will examine the impacts of video streaming platforms that extend our understanding of diversity in an era of automated, on-demand video.
In keeping with the themes of this issue, we welcome proposals looking at streaming services and experiences outside US contexts.
Questions of interest include, but are not limited to:
- How is diversity represented and made discoverable via platform features such as the image tiles and categories used in catalogues?
- How do recommendation systems understand and operationalise ?diversity??
- What values and messages about diversity are being communicated by the content commissioned by streaming services?
- What are we to make of existing policies and practices intended to support diversity, equity and inclusion at the streaming platforms?
- What policy options are there for regulating ?diversity??
- How do audiences, users and communities engage with streaming platforms to discover, view or value ?diverse? content?
Please submit a 500-word abstract & 100 word bio by 22 September 2023 to:
streamingdiversity@gmail.com
Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 20 October 2023. Full articles will be due 01 March 2024
No payment from the authors will be required
Dr Maura Edmond
Senior Lecturer School of Media, Film and Journalism
Building B, Room B4.31 Monash University Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia
t: +61 3 990 34119 e: maura.edmond@monash.edu
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Message: 2 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 10:58:00 +0200 From: Christian Katzenbach <christian.katzenbach@gmail.com> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Launch of Platform Governance Archive (PGA) v2 with new data set, access options, website and data paper** Message-ID: <DC24FFC6-A143-4C15-BF61-33C75CCF7C65@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Dear colleagues,
I am happy and proud to announce that our team at my PGMT lab in Bremen, in collaboration with Open Terms Archive and the Alexander von Humboldt Institut for Internet and Society (HIIG), has relaunched the Platform Governance Archive as PGA v2, now constituting a complete resource for researchers, journalists and interested people for exploring and comparing platform policies of major platforms, partly going back to founding years in the mid 2000s. We are now offering new datasets, complete access and bulk download options, a new website and a data paper to document the data.
https://www.platformgovernancearchive.org/
Below you find the full announcement. Please don?t hesitate to reach out if you have questions or ideas. Please note, that we will organise a workshop later this year to bring together people working with platform policies and content moderation guidelines.
Looking forward, Christian
? Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach
Professor of Media and Communication Head of Lab ?Platform Governance Media, and Technology? Director of MA program ?Digital Media and Society" Centre for Media, Communication & Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen www.uni-bremen.de/zemki https://platform-governance.org <https://platform-governance.org/>
Associated Researcher Alexander von Humboldt Institut for Internet and Society (HIIG) www.hiig.de
Launch of the Platform Governance Archive (PGA) v2 with new data set, access options, website and data paper
The Lab Platform Governance, Media and Technology (PGMT) at the ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, and the Alexander von Humboldt Institut for Internet and Society (HIIG) launch this week an updated version of its pioneering open-access repository of platform policies, the Platform Governance Archive (PGA). The extensive update includes the launch of a new website, which enables easier data access, the publication of a data paper, which gives a holistic overview of building the PGA, and the release of an updated dataset, which widens the scope of the PGA to cover more platforms and policies.
The power of social media platforms has been a focal point of critical discussion and research ? long before Musk took over Twitter. Platforms corporate policies are a key measure of the way platforms govern and order public discourse as they articulate which kind of content and conduct is allowed and prohibited on their services. These rulebooks are the subject of the Platform Governance Archive (PGA), an open-access repository of platform policies which aims to enable collaborative research on/critical engagement with how and when and why platforms are changing their rules founded by the Alexander von Humboldt Institut for Internet and Society (HIIG) and now hosted at the University of Bremen.
The need for the systematic study of platform policies
When first launched in April 2021, the PGA emerged out of the need to systematically study the historical evolution of platform policies and due to the lack of coherently collected data in this area, which did not rely on the platforms? own corporate archives. The resulting PGA v1 dataset <https://www.platformgovernancearchive.org/data/dataset-pga-v1-historical-dataset/>contains all historical versions of the Terms of Service, Community Guidelines and Privacy Policies by Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram (with the exception of YouTube?s Community Guidelines) from the time when they were first introduced through late 2021.
New download option and data paper
The dataset was built through a combination of automated and manual approaches of data collection and data cleaning which are explained in detail in our newly published data paper <https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/2331>. The paper also lays out the conceptual set up of the PGA and gives a detailed overview of the specificities of the included policies as well as some of the general trends and patterns which run through the historical evolution of the PGA v1 corpus.
As part of the new PGA website <https://www.platformgovernancearchive.org/>, the dataset is now available as a direct download <https://github.com/PlatformGovernanceArchive/pga-corpus/releases/>. Overall, the corpus of the PGA v1 contains 153 policy documents with a total of 6,036 pages, which are provided in PDF, HTML and Markdown formats. The downloadable archive furthermore contains additional material and tools that were used in the data collection process.
Collaboration with Open Terms Archive: New dataset includes more platforms and policies
With the relaunch of PGA, we are also publishing a new dataset <https://www.platformgovernancearchive.org/data/dataset-pga-v2-ongoing-collection/> which widens the scope of the PGA to cover 18 platforms and currently 79 policies. The dataset is generated in collaboration with Open Terms Archive <https://opentermsarchive.org/> (OTA), an open source initiative which is dedicated to increase the transparency and democratic oversight of digital services.
The timeline of the PGA v2 dataset goes back to April 2022 and is automatically updated on a daily basis to enable the continuous tracking of changes in the selected policies. Whenever a change is made to one of the tracked policies, the system stores a snapshot to a Github repository where the change can be examined by ways of a change visualisation. The dataset can also be downloaded as a bulk download as an archive of Markdown files.
Funding for the PGA has been provided by the hosting institutions as well as by different partners and funding schemes such as the EU Horizon 2020 project reCreating Europe <https://www.recreating.eu/>, Wikimedia Deutschland and the Data Science Center (DSC) at the University of Bremen.
Future directions
In the future, the PGMT Lab will continue developing the PGA by merging the historical dataset with the ongoing data collection into an integrated dataset. The roadmap also includes the addition of more platforms and more language versions. The PGA has been used for a growing body of research on platform policies <https://www.platformgovernancearchive.org/research/> and enables researchers, journalists and the public to answer questions on the historical evolution of platform policies.
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Message: 3 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 10:24:11 +0100 From: Cristian Vaccari <cristian.vaccari@gmail.com> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Job opportunity - Research Associate on the Everyday Misinformation Project (Part-time from September 2023 until February 2024) Message-ID: <CANbKZGtpEgBcKB492NNuvSEMMH=XFZqfhx_xDVjwx9Rw0DLoWQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Dear colleagues,
We are recruiting a Research Associate to assist us in the final phase of the Everyday Misinformation Project (https://everyday-mis.info/). Information on the post is available below and at https://vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?V... .
Please feel free to share this information with anyone whom you think may be interested.
*Postdoctoral Research Associate (Everyday Misinformation Project)*
*Part-time (0.6 FTE/ 22 hours per week) and fixed term from 18th September 2023 until 29th February 2024*
The Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C) at Loughborough University is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to work with Professor Andrew Chadwick and Professor Cristian Vaccari on the Leverhulme-funded *Everyday Misinformation Project* ( http://everyday-mis.info).
This is a part-time (0.6 FTE) postdoctoral research role that runs until February 29, 2024. The vacancy arises due to the appointment of current PDRA, Dr Brendan Lawson, to a Lectureship. The researcher?s main responsibilities will be to contribute to project management; gather, organize, and analyze quantitative and some qualitative data; arrange events and meetings relating to research online and/or in person; and contribute actively to the writing and sharing of the research findings in high quality academic publications and public reports and at conferences and workshops. Quantitative skills, including experience of multivariate analysis of longitudinal survey data using regression with lagged variables, autoregression, and similar techniques, are essential. Experience of using either SPSS, or STATA or R is essential. Familiarity with NVivo for qualitative analysis is desirable but not essential.
In addition to working with the team, the appointee will have the opportunity to lead on publications based on their own analyses of survey data gathered by the project.
The successful applicant will be an experienced researcher with PhD-level social science training in either communication and media, journalism studies, political science, sociology, social psychology, or a cognate discipline or interdisciplinary field, such as behavioural science. They will have substantial knowledge of research on misinformation, be a team player, have excellent written and spoken English, presentational, and time management skills, be highly technologically literate, and be committed to the development of original social science theory and concepts. An awarded PhD *at time of application* is an essential criterion. This is not a remote working position, but requests to work away from campus will be considered in light of the University?s Dynamic Working policies.
The researcher will primarily work with Professor Andrew Chadwick (Principal Investigator) and Professor Cristian Vaccari (Co-Investigator). They will also collaborate with the project?s full-time postdoctoral researcher Dr Natalie-Anne Hall.
In the latest UK Research Excellence Framework (2021), Communication and Media at Loughborough was ranked 5th in the UK and submitted 40 researchers. Overall, 65% of its research was assessed as ?world leading??the highest possible rating of 4 stars. Its research environment and research impact were both awarded the maximum possible rating of 100% 4-star quality. The department is ranked top in the Complete University Guide, and third in both the Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide and the Guardian guide.
Full job description, person specification are available at https://vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/jobdesc/REQ230880.PDF
*Informal queries *
Professor Andrew Chadwick, director, Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C), Communication and Media, Loughborough University: a.chadwick@lboro.ac.uk
*Application closing date*: 11th August 2023.
Late applications will not be considered.
*Visa Sponsorship: *
For candidates who would require sponsorship to work in the UK to achieve sufficient points under the Points Based Immigration System, it is likely that you will either need to:
- Have completed a PhD in a subject relevant to the job.
OR
- Qualify as a ?new entrant?. For more information on this please see paragraphs SW 12.1 - SW 12.7 of the Immigration Rules Appendix Skilled Worker <https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-skilled-worker>, available at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-ski...
All the best,
Cristian Vaccari, he/him/his ************************* Professor of Political Communication, Loughborough University <http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/socialsciences/staff/cristian-vaccari/> Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Press/Politics <http://hij.sagepub.com/> ************************* New book: Outside the Bubble: <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/outside-the-bubble-9780190858483?lang=en&cc=gb>Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/outside-the-bubble-9780190858483?lang=en&cc=gb> New project: Everyday Sharing of Misinformation on Private <https://everyday-mis.info/>Social Media <https://everyday-mis.info/> ************************* Personal website: https://cristianvaccari.com/ Google Scholar profile <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3_TethEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao>
Mastodon: @cvaccari@mastodon.social <https://mastodon.social/@cvaccari> Twitter: @prof_vaccari <https://twitter.com/prof_vaccari>
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Message: 4 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:22:00 -0500 From: Ilana Gershon <imgershon@gmail.com> To: Mediaanthropology EASA <medianthro@lists.easaonline.org>, LING-ETHNOG@jiscmail.ac.uk, "Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group (LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org)" <linganth@listserv.linguistlist.org>, Air list <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Sonia Livingstone on the CaMP blog Message-ID: <CAO8u+-OpWZ1QkZVgP5Q5KwOVKnG=HCtmqWjBMEhBvNF_1H0iug@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Dear Colleagues, Today on the CaMP blog, Ashley McDermott interviews Sonia Livingstone about her co-authored book, Parenting for a Digital Future.
Best, Ilana
Press blurb: In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation. In Parenting for a Digital Future, Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross draw on extensive and diverse qualitative and quantitative research with a range of parents in the UK to reveal how digital technologies characterize parenting in late modernity, as parents determine how to forge new territory with little precedent or support. They chart how parents often enact authority and values through digital technologies since "screen time," games, and social media have become both ways of being together and of setting boundaries. Parenting for a Digital Future moves beyond the panicky headlines to offer a deeply researched exploration of what it means to parent in a period of significant social and technological change.
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Message: 5 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:05:14 +0000 From: Karin Hansson <khansson@dsv.su.se> To: "air-l@aoir.org" <air-l@aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] CSCW Workshop CfP: A Toolbox of Feminist Wonder ? Theories and methods that can make a difference Message-ID: <D132BF8C-405D-402E-94B5-98746F283A69@sh.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
The call for paper is now open for ?A Toolbox of Feminist Wonder ? Theories and methods that can make a difference?, a hybrid workshop at CSCW 2023 (https://cscw.acm.org/2023/), October 15 in Minneapolis, MN, USA.
This one-day hybrid workshop builds on previous feminist CSCW workshops to explore feminist theoretical and methodological approaches in HCI. Since its inception over a decade ago, feminist HCI has progressed from the margins to mainstream HCI. While feminist approaches have grown in popularity and become mainstream, it is getting more difficult to distinguish the feminist emancipatory core from other attempts of developing and improving society in various ways. In this workshop, we therefore want to revisit our feminist roots, where theory is a liberatory and creative practice, motivated by affect, curiosity, and wonder. The goal of this workshop is to; 1) create an inventory of feminist theories and concepts that have had an impact on our work as designers, educators, researchers, and activists; 2) develop a feminist toolbox for the CSCW community to strengthen our feminist literacy.
Call for paper: To participate, submit a 2-4 pages position paper where you suggest one or more feminist theories and methods that have been useful in your previous research. Describe the theory/method and explain how you have used them. As this is a hybrid workshop, notify if you intend to participate online or offline. Use the templates found here: https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/taps-production-w... E-mail your submission to: atoolboxofwonder@gmail.com<mailto:atoolboxofwonder@gmail.com>
? First round submission deadline: August 18, 2023 (decision notification: August 25) ? Second round submission deadline: September 22, 2023 (decision notification: September 28)
Information: https://blogg.sh.se/a-toolbox-of-feminist-wonder/
For more information contact Karin Hansson (Karin.hansson@sh.se<mailto:Karin.hansson@sh.se>) or Adrian Petterson (a.petterson@mail.utoronto.ca<mailto:a.petterson@mail.utoronto.ca>)
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