#AoIR2023 Revolutions <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/> is a few weeks away! There are two satellite events happening before and after the conference. Additional details can be found on AoIR’s website : https://aoir.org/satellite-events-for-aoir2023/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *CARGC SymposiumTurning Points: The Long 1990s in Internet History* October 16 & 17, 2023 Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Organizing Committee: Aswin Punathambekar, University of Pennsylvania Jing Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison Kinjal Dave, University of Pennsylvania Ignatius Suglo, University of Pennsylvania Devo Probol, University of Pennsylvania Turning Points examines critical moments that shaped the development of media in various parts of the world, circumstances and histories leading to these moments, and their impact on media development in subsequent periods. Steering clear of Anglophone, north-Atlantic media histories, this symposium returns to the ‘long 1990s’, a period defined by major political-economic, social, and cultural transformations across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, we ask: what new histories of the internet emerge into view if we think from the moment of ‘reform’ and ‘economic liberalization’ in varied regional contexts? In what ways would our understanding of Internet histories and digital futures shift if we were to draw insights from media histories, practices, and environments from varied Global South contexts that do not or will not follow an easily comprehensible, linear path toward a seemingly inevitable digital horizon? For more information go here: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/cargc-symposium-turning-points-... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *The Post-API Conference: Social media data acquisition after TwitterSunday, October 22, 2023 (the day after AoIR ends)* Annenberg Public Policy Center 202 S 36th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 8:30am – 4:30pm Organizing committee Deen Freelon, University of Pennsylvania Josephine Lukito, University of Texas at Austin Bree McEwan, University of Toronto Mississauga Josh Pasek, University of Michigan If you use social media data in your research, you’re going to want to listen up, because we’ve reached a crisis point. Digital data access has survived in an uncomfortable and unpredictable flux for years, but the most recent wave of policy changes may well be existential. Consider the following developments from the past 12 months: - Elon Musk has eliminated free access to Twitter’s API, and the only academically useful paid tiers far exceed most researchers’ budgets. - Musk has also demanded that Decahose users delete all Twitter data acquired under previous agreements–whether this demand will be extended to Academic API users is currently unknown. - Reddit has denied access to its API for Pushshift, a popular service used by researchers to collect Reddit data. Popular Reddit app Apollo is facing API charges of $1.7M per month to continue operating. - TikTok released a new API for researchers, which among other things requires them “to regularly refresh TikTok Research API Data at least every fifteen (15) days, and delete data that is not available from the TikTok Research API at the time of each refresh.” - Crowdtangle, Meta’s researcher tool for acquiring data from Facebook and Instagram, still exists as of this writing. But rumors of its imminent demise have been reported in multiple reputable outlets. If your research pipeline has been caught in the crossfire of these and similar developments, this one-day Post-API Conference is for you. We’re looking to convene some of the brightest minds working on these issues across disciplines to help identify the most viable solutions and alternatives. To encourage informal conversation between participants, the conference will adopt a nontraditional structure. Participants will be organized into four informal plenary panels–two in the morning and two in the afternoon–each of which will begin with a series of four 5-minute lightning talks. However, most of the time will be spent in large-scale moderated discussions between participants and panelists. For more info please visit here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQYX6jTdcoEi9Laq-PGVfv34g4vZvyF77JoKlMDcJNr15ixSbCcYkHaNdCOVUl7A06_Qn_vZJmc27Kd/pub> .