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1. Best lit for documenting/explaining lower online participation by disadvantaged groups (David Brake) 2. Re: Best lit for documenting/explaining lower online participation by disadvantaged groups (Thomas Ball) 3. ICA2017 preconference CfP: Digital Inequalities and Discrimination in the Big Data Era (Abstracts Feb. 10) (Jenifer Sunrise Winter) 4. Submit by Feb 1: InfoSocial Grad Conference @ Northwestern (William Marler) 5. call for papers - Information Ethics from a Marxian Perspective (Ricardo Pimenta)
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:21:24 -0330 From: David Brake <davidbrake@gmail.com> To: AoIR mailing list <Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Best lit for documenting/explaining lower online participation by disadvantaged groups Message-ID: <6F1FEAFE-012B-443F-AA17-4B3AE7553B35@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Dear all,
I am teaching how to encourage participation in online communities and I have a paper - my own (a) - which describes some of the inequalities in education level, class and age that exist in terms of usage of social media but I realized looking back at it I don't have enough foundational literature on how and why it is that the voices of the disadvantaged (women, LGBT people, the disabled, ethnic minorities) are less often heard - in part because of straightforward discrimination but also because of internalized doubts that they will be understood or appreciated and feelings of inarticulacy. I was always struck by Bourdieu’s writing about this (b) Much of this literature is I imagine from political science and may not relate directly to the internet - that's okay. I'm just interested in short, clearly argued and (preferably) recent works.
I have been struck by the absence of this factor in text book and practitioner discussions of how to encourage participation in online communities…
I hope you can help!
Regards,
David
(a) Brake, D. R. (2013). Are we all online content creators now? Web 2.0 and digital divides. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 19(3), 591–609. doi: 10.1111/jcc4.12042 (b) "Certain categories of locutors are deprived of the capacity to speak in certain situations and often acknowledge this deprivation in the manner of the farmer who explained that he never thought of running for mayor of his small township by saying: ''But I don't know how to speak!’’ p. 146 Bourdieu, P., & Wacquant, L. J. D. (1992). The Purpose of Reflexive Sociology (The Chicago Workshop). In P. Bourdieu & L. J. D. Wacquant (Eds.), An invitation to reflexive sociology (pp. 62-215). Chicago: University of Chicago Press
-- Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media” https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline
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Message: 2 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:57:37 -0500 From: Thomas Ball <xtc283@gmail.com> To: David Brake <davidbrake@gmail.com> Cc: AoIR mailing list <Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Best lit for documenting/explaining lower online participation by disadvantaged groups Message-ID: <CAFGTeKDESdacCmi5BEYb2mvJ+yZoRLSQ4ec8aAhjzRmwdpF+3Q@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Earlier on Air-L, Marwick's *Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Branding in the Social Media Age *was suggested. Having now reviewed it, I would highly recommend this book as a highly useful ethnographic investigation into the fraught dynamics of social media.
https://www.amazon.com/Status-Update-Celebrity-Publicity-Branding/dp/0300209...
Thomas Ball
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:51 AM, David Brake <davidbrake@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I am teaching how to encourage participation in online communities and I have a paper - my own (a) - which describes some of the inequalities in education level, class and age that exist in terms of usage of social media but I realized looking back at it I don't have enough foundational literature on how and why it is that the voices of the disadvantaged (women, LGBT people, the disabled, ethnic minorities) are less often heard - in part because of straightforward discrimination but also because of internalized doubts that they will be understood or appreciated and feelings of inarticulacy. I was always struck by Bourdieu’s writing about this (b) Much of this literature is I imagine from political science and may not relate directly to the internet - that's okay. I'm just interested in short, clearly argued and (preferably) recent works.
I have been struck by the absence of this factor in text book and practitioner discussions of how to encourage participation in online communities…
I hope you can help!
Regards,
David
(a) Brake, D. R. (2013). Are we all online content creators now? Web 2.0 and digital divides. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 19(3), 591–609. doi: 10.1111/jcc4.12042 (b) "Certain categories of locutors are deprived of the capacity to speak in certain situations and often acknowledge this deprivation in the manner of the farmer who explained that he never thought of running for mayor of his small township by saying: ''But I don't know how to speak!’’ p. 146 Bourdieu, P., & Wacquant, L. J. D. (1992). The Purpose of Reflexive Sociology (The Chicago Workshop). In P. Bourdieu & L. J. D. Wacquant (Eds.), An invitation to reflexive sociology (pp. 62-215). Chicago: University of Chicago Press
-- Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media” https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline
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Message: 3 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 07:26:53 -1000 From: Jenifer Sunrise Winter <jwinter@hawaii.edu> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] ICA2017 preconference CfP: Digital Inequalities and Discrimination in the Big Data Era (Abstracts Feb. 10) Message-ID: <CAOx1NvELNmWiOt7+0sddkt81d=ORYjoFm9wU41utsd9yK2jhZg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Dear AoIR Friends and Colleagues, the deadline for abstract submissions to our ICA preconference is approaching (Feb. 10). Please see the CfP below.
*DIGITAL INEQUALITIES AND DISCRIMINATION IN THE BIG DATA ERA*
*Preconference of the International Communication Association '17*
May 25, 2017, San Diego Hilton Bayfront, San Diego, California (USA)
Co-sponsored by the Pacific ICTD Collaborative, the School of Communications (University of Hawaii at Manoa), and the Institute for Information Policy (Penn State University)
*Abstracts due: February 10, 2017 *
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
A growing number of ordinary objects are being redesigned to include digital sensors, computing power, and communication capabilities – and new objects, and processes, are becoming part of the Internet. This emerging Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem – networks of physical objects embedded with the ability to sense, and sometimes act upon, their environment, as well as related communication, applications, and data analysis, enables data to be collected from billions of everyday objects. The emerging datasphere made possible by these developments offers immense potential to serve the public good by fostering government transparency, energy conservation, participatory governance, and substantial advances in medical research and care. On the other hand, a growing body of research addresses emerging privacy and civil liberties concerns related to big data, including unjust discrimination and unequal access to data and the tools needed to make use of it.
For example, big data analytics may reveal patterns that were previously not detectable. Data about a variety of daily tasks that seem trivial is increasingly being federated and used to reveal associations or behaviors, and these analyses and the decisions made based on them pose potential harms to individuals or groups. Many transactions that seemed innocuous can now be used to discriminate – one’s movement throughout the day, items purchased at the store, television programs watched, “friends” added or looked at on social networks, or individuals communicated with or who were in close proximity to the subject at various times, can all be used to make judgements that affect an individual and his or her life chances. With the advent of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we are increasingly moving to a world where many decisions around us are shaped by these calculations rather than traditional human judgement. For example, sensitive personal information or behaviors (e.g., political or health-related) may be used to discriminate when individuals seek housing, immigration eligibility, medical care, education, bank loans or other financial services, insurance, or employment. At the same time, individuals, groups, or regions may also be disadvantaged due to a lack of access to data (or related skills and tools) to make use of big data in ways that benefit their lives and communities.
This preconference session seeks to advance understanding of digital inequalities and discrimination related to big data and big data analytics. *Papers between 5,000-8,000 words and position papers between 1,000-2,000 words are welcomed.*
*TOPICS OF INTEREST*
We welcome scholarly and applied research on, but not limited to, the following:
• Social, economic, and ethical implications of big data analytics in a variety of contexts (e.g., access to housing, immigration, medical care, education, bank loans or other financial services, insurance, or employment).
• Perspectives on big data from scholars from emerging economies or traditionally marginalized groups.
• Predictive analytics, algorithmic discrimination, and artificial-intelligence-based decision making.
• Digital inequalities, such as unequal access to big data sets, skills, or tools.
• Emerging data literacies.
• Use of big data to counter social and economic inequality (e.g., promoting civil rights and social justice).
• Disclosure of algorithms, algorithmic transparency, and the public good.
• Big data, security and encryption (potential for hacking, theft, third-party abuse).
• Government and corporate surveillance.
• Big data brokers and sale of personal data (is privacy a commodity or a right?)
• International norms and standards for big data.
• Policy/legal analysis related to big data and the preconference theme (e.g., standards of liability for injury and defective work products (algorithms/burden of proof), the challenge of Notice and Consent, liability for bad or false or slanted or insufficient data collection, government regimes for supervision of big data policies).
• Consumer bill of rights for big data.
• Big data and anonymity, re-identification of anonymous data.
• Big data vs. privacy as an essential condition for safeguarding free speech, intellectual property (i.e., how IP laws impact big data), or Constitutional rights of freedom of assembly and association.
Papers may include empirical research as well as policy analyses, new methodological approaches, or position papers addressing the preconference theme. Submissions by graduate students working in this area are welcomed.
*The costs of the workshop are heavily subsidized by the participating Institutes, to keep fees for participants at a nominal level.*
*IMPORTANT DATES*
*Abstracts due*: February 10, 2017
*Notifications to submitters*: February 27, 2017
*Full papers due*: May 12, 2017
*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*
Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of the author(s) should be emailed to pictdc@hawaii.edu by February 10, 2017. Please include “Digital Inequalities ICA 2017” in the subject line.
Full papers accepted for presentation at the preconference will, with the consent of the authors, be submitted to the Journal of Information Policy ( http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_JIP.html/) for consideration for a Special Issue curated by guest editors from the field. The papers will be blind peer-reviewed, to assure their academic value to both authors (for academic credit) and readers.
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Regards,
Jenifer
Jenifer Sunrise Winter, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Graduate Chair, School of Communications Co-director, Pacific ICTD Collaborative University of Hawaii at Manoa 2550 Campus Road, Crawford Hall 325, Honolulu, HI 96822 ph: 808.956.3784
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Message: 4 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 11:59:52 -0600 From: William Marler <willmarler@u.northwestern.edu> To: Air-L@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Submit by Feb 1: InfoSocial Grad Conference @ Northwestern Message-ID: <CAF150w1EW2sfLKsvP3DXcpTG8tLPaH_77MYi1xJ0Wc_iceUqpw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
AoIR Grad Students,
Deadline is *February 1 (next Wednesday)* to submit abstracts <https://infosocial.soc.northwestern.edu/submit/>of your outstanding research to our April 7-8 graduate conference InfoSocial <https://infosocial.soc.northwestern.edu>. We are casting a wide net, and would love to hear your ideas and provide you a forum for feedback, including the comments of accomplished faculty, from Northwestern and around Chicago. The conference is free and meals are provided. We are also working to provide student hosts, if the price of accommodation is a concern.
AoIR Faculty, please forward the attached CFP to grad students you think you be interested.
Hope to see you in April! Get in touch with any questions: infosocial@u.northwestern.edu
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Call for Papers
InfoSocial 2017
A graduate student conference hosted by the twin programs of
Media, Technology, and Society (MTS) and Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) at Northwestern University.
Date: April 7-8, 2017
Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, February 1, 2017
The Information Age was getting hype before most graduate students today were born. The idea of the Network Society is approaching the U.S. drinking age. And the Digital Era? As old as Rick Astley. To break new ground and continue to explore how people interact through and with technology, we need novel ideas, updated methods, and a disregard for disciplinary conventions and boundaries.
Enter InfoSocial. InfoSocial is a student-run conference dedicated to showcasing interdisciplinary graduate student research on the role of technology in contemporary society. In 2017, the conference aims to bring scholars from diverse disciplines together to showcase new, innovative approaches to key questions, and highlight opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaborations that explore the (now old) argument that human society has forever been changed by technology.
This is your call. We are looking for papers authored by graduate students (submitted as extended abstracts) that are theoretically engaging, methodologically sound, and socially relevant, as well as timely. We are disciplinary agnostics, seeking submissions from within and across fields like communication and media studies, information science, computer science, science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, sociology, psychology, political science, and anthropology. New and mixed methodologies will excite us, including approaches that blend established methods with new, innovative tools.
Here are only some of the topics we hope to include:
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Human-computer interaction -
Online behavior & cyberpsychology -
Privacy, surveillance & encryption -
Social media & big data -
Youth, family & the media -
Social impact, policy & regulation of technology -
Digital cultures, online communities & gaming -
Digital inequality, skills & social capital -
Information and communication technologies for development -
Communication, technology, and politics -
Transformation of the mass media in the digital era
Submissions:
To submit to InfoSocial 2017, please prepare an anonymized extended abstract of no more than 1,000 words (excluding references) that explains your paper, any unique methodological approaches you use, and how it pushes the boundaries of our knowledge about how people interact through and/or with technology. Please format your abstract in either APA or ACM SIGCHI style. Submit your abstract no later than February 1, 2017 at https://infosocial.soc.northwestern.edu/submit/.
Dates and Information:
Extended abstract submission deadline: February 1
Acceptance notification date: February 20
Conference Dates: Friday and Saturday, April 7-8, 2017
Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Conference URL: https://infosocial.soc.northwestern.edu/
Note: There will be no fee to attend or participate in the conference. Some meals will be provided, and interested attendees may request to be housed with Northwestern students. While we can make no guarantees, we will do our best to accommodate requests.
Code of Conduct and Anti-Harassment Policy: InfoSocial is dedicated to a harassment-free conference experience for everyone. Our code of conduct and anti-harassment policy can be found at: https://infosocial.soc.northwe stern.edu/code-of-conduct/
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Message: 5 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 16:03:34 -0200 From: Ricardo Pimenta <ricardo.pimenta@gmail.com> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] call for papers - Information Ethics from a Marxian Perspective Message-ID: <CA+Jg9zz+ZaapQp4Jw5URSn44v4eHFnS-NGbRPdnjrEewwroZMg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Dear all,
Sharing this CfP one more time. Sorry for cross-posting,
-- Ricardo Pimenta Tenured researcher at Brazilian Institute for Science and Technology Information.
Call for PapersInformation Ethics from a Marxian Perspective
*Call for Papers for Vol. 27 (08/2017)*
- Deadline for extended abstracts: *28th February 2017* - Notification of acceptance to authors: *15th April 2017* - Deadline for full articles: *30th June 2017* - Deadline for revised articles: *31st July 2016* - Publication: *August 2017*
With his concept of Sittlichkeit, Hegel posited that the manifestation of a truly ethical life must be grounded in the concrete foundation of ethical institutions. But for Hegel, the creation and support of such institutions was not the task of philosophy. While Marx didn't specifically mention Hegel's concept, he noted that bourgeois society would not have produced (or could ever produce) such institutions. He also disagreed with Hegel that philosophy should be separated from the creation and advocacy of ethical institutions. On the contrary, Marx proposed a paradigm change that instead gave primacy to praxis (the dialectical articulation of theory and practice) over pure theory. After all, what is the purpose of ethics if not to guide the process of human praxis? For Aristotle, the point of ethics as a philosophical discipline is not only to know good but to do it. The same could be said about Marxian ethics, implicit in the famous 11th thesis on Feuerbach, which states "Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." But in what sense should this change take place? Toward the goal of eliminating the alienation, exploitation, and reification of men and women as the only way to ensure, theoretically and practically, the emergence of a real, true Sittlichkeit
Bearing this in mind, it is here posited that the question of information ethics stands privileged as one of the most urgent theoretical and practical questions of our time. Because capitalism continues to be, more than ever, structured on foundations that enforce unequal access to information and to the literacy skills needed to engage information, no serious egalitarian knowledge of the world or critical worldview can yet be formed. Information is yet the core element of power maintenance in a bourgeois society, affecting scientific, industrial, financial, commercial, political, military, and cultural sorts of information. As such, widespread abuses are perpetuated through information control; lies, monopolies, biased corporate and state-influenced media, ubiquitous spying by governments on citizens and control of the means of production and circulation of information. Nevertheless, the proliferation of the Internet, with its tendency toward free information flows within both commercial and public medias, furnishes vast opportunities for information access through open search tools and unfettered communication channels, allowing new means of overcoming alienation and exploitation.
We invite submissions related (but not limited) to the following issues:
- Information ethics, imperialism and the digital divide. - Information ethics, class struggle and critical information literacy. - Information ethics and media corporations. - Exploitation of informational labour. - Knowledge organization, information and alienation. - Assigning value to information during its disposal or preservation processes. - Scientometrics, the promiscuity of scientific research within USA military-industrial complexes and the general political economy of scientific publishing. - Perceived Information society utopias vs global-wide growing material misery - The building of ethical regimes of information beyond capitalism.
Papers on these and related issues are welcome.
*Guest Editors:*
*Dr. Marco Schneider (Communicating Guest Editor)* Tenured Researcher at Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology, IBICT. Professor, Information Science Graduation Program, IBICT/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ and Communication Department at Fluminense Federal University, UFF. Email: marcoschneider@ibict.com <http://www.i-r-i-e.net/marcoschneider@ibict.com>
*Dr. Ricardo M. Pimenta* Tenured Researcher at Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology, IBICT. Professor, Information Science Graduation Program, IBICT/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ. Email: ricardopimenta@ibict.com <http://www.i-r-i-e.net/ricardopimenta@ibict.com>
For further information, especially on how to submit a paper, please refer to: *Information Ethics from a Marxian Perspective - Call for Papers* cfp-pdf-fulltext (30 KB) <http://www.i-r-i-e.net/inhalt/CFPs/cfp-IRIE-27-Marx-2016.pdf> (right click and select "Save Target As")
*Prof. Dr. Ricardo M. Pimenta* Pesquisador Adjunto I do Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT) http://www.ibict.br Professor do Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência da Informação (PPGCI/IBICT-UFRJ) http://ppgci.ufrj.br Tel.: + 55 21 3873-9460
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