From gertml at xs4all.nl  Sun Mar  3 09:52:00 2019
From: gertml at xs4all.nl (gertml)
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2019 09:52:00 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> =?utf-8?q?Revealed=3A_Facebook=E2=80=99s_global_lobb?=
 =?utf-8?q?ying_against_data_privacy_laws_=7C_Technology_=7C_The_Guardian?=
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Revealed: Facebook?s global lobbying against data privacy laws | 
Technology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/02/facebook-global-lobbying-campaign-against-data-privacy-laws-investment

Is the private sector becoming the law maker of the world?
--g



From samitanandy at gmail.com  Mon Mar  4 16:39:00 2019
From: samitanandy at gmail.com (Dr Samita Nandy)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 10:39:00 -0500
Subject: <unlike-us> NYC 2019 CFP Bridging Gaps: Re-Fashioning Stories for
 Celebrity Counterpublics
Message-ID: <CAK7HPiqv8paOv-Fq9k4E8+1bW+9DugSDBw-MnnuLR-AC3LNBRA@mail.gmail.com>

*The following CFP might be of interest to UNLIKE-US members exploring
alternative narratives in popular culture. In addition to receiving
in-depth reviews and editorial support for publishing with Intellect Books,
eligible delegates will now have the option to share opinion pieces. The
best op-ed / personal essay will be published in the Medium and receive
further editorial advice for print media. The conference includes media
workshop ?Scholars as Critics? where delegates can discuss further
questions on media relations. Deadline for panel proposals and
abstracts: **March
18, 2019* *NYC 2019 CMCS 8th International Conference*
*Bridging Gaps**: Re-Fashioning Stories for Celebrity Counterpublics*
Terrace Club at Club Quarters
New York City, USA
Friday, August 30 ? Sunday, September 1

*Keynote Speakers:*
Dr* Andrew Zolides*
Communication and Media,Xavier University, USA

*Day 1 ? Opening Keynote*: *Celebrity and Digital Narrative Practice*
http://cmc-centre.com/keynotes/2019-cmcs-keynote-andrew-zolides/
<http://cmc-centre.com/keynotes/2019-cmcs-keynote-andrew-zolides/>

*Dr** Basuli Deb*
*English and Gender Studies,**Rutgers* *University** and **CUNY**, **USA*
*Day 1 ? Opening Afternoon Keynote*:
*From MeToo to UsToo: Celebrity Counterpublics to Migrant Counterpublics*
http://cmc-centre.com/keynotes/2019-cmcs-keynote-basuli-deb/
Dr* Alex Symons*
Fashion Media,LIMS College, USA*Day 2 ? Opening Keynote*:

*Activism and Risks for Comedians in **America*
http://cmc-centre.com/keynotes/2019-cmcs-keynote-alex-symons/



Best presented papers will be published in the *Journal of Applied
Journalism and Media Studies
<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=220/>@*
IntellectBooks <https://twitter.com/IntellectBooks>. Discounted
subscription options are below.



Call* for Papers: *
In the recent past, there has been an increased interest in exploring
intersections of life writing and studies of celebrity culture.
Storytelling is central to effective branding in fame. Furthermore, the use
of biographical elements has been recognized as a rhetorical device in
writing op-eds, personal essays, and public speaking that often raise
awareness on critical issues in popular media. Biography, as Lola
Romanucci-Ross points out, is mainly a useful symbolic tool for reflecting,
rotating and reversing real-life situations. Like biography, autobiography,
memoirs, and testimonials play crucial roles in mapping social facts.

The impacts of glamorous forms of storytelling in scandals, gossip, and
rumor become so crucial that they are often studied as sociological data,
regardless of whether they enable actual social change. For pop culture
enthusiasts and social observers, celebrities may or may not be actual role
models in telling meaningful stories and constructing subjectivity. Yet,
fans and students often invest affective and intellectual labor when it
comes to accepting, negotiating or contesting what appears to be
significant in understandings of popular figures. Celebrity scholars are
equally familiar with the complexities of engaging with and researching
?glossy topics?. As Sean Redmond (2014) has shown, acknowledging one?s own
celebrity attachments can produce innovative ways of (re)writing fame.
Conversely, these first-person accounts may also contribute to the
celebritisation of individual academics. What is the critical and
pedagogical potential of personal takes on fame within the field of
celebrity studies?

Celebrity narratives are perceived to have real power whether or not
celebrities are ?important? people in the academic or moral sense. Drawing
on current affairs, celebrity politicians have used personal claims and
outrageous stories to push political agendas in divisive ways. Many other
famous personas use extravagant fashion as expressions of their luxurious
lives and build persona brands at the cost of ethics. For Elizabeth
Wissinger, the ?glamour labor? involved in self-fashioning, surveillance,
and branding is often an inevitable and unfortunate outcome in the
production of consumer values and desirable bodies in fashion industries.
Public personas still self-fashion themselves and promote their brand by
extending text(ures) of language that sells to consumer tastes. However,
the challenge remains to sell the values of social justice. Can public
intellectuals learn narrative strategies from celebrity storytelling and
fill this gap

What appears to be a shared reason behind the success of most popular
narratives, verbal (including oral) and non-verbal, is a persuasive
?strategy? to effectively tell life stories. If studying celebrity biographies
/ autobiographies, best-selling memoirs, and other popular forms of
life-writings and self-expressions carry cultural worth, then biographical
elements of rising and celebrated public intellectuals, academics, critics,
and activists are equally important to consider in disciplinary and
interdisciplinary practices and understanding of fame. For instance,
real-life first-hand accounts, such as testimonies and visual evidence,
together with literary/artistic representations of gendered oppression
provide meaning for progressive thinking and practice. Anecdotal accounts
of famous sports personalities, actors, best-selling authors, and top
models among other public figures are often useful rhetorical tools that
help us to understand popular culture better. With this in mind, we need to
extend popular storytelling beyond celebrity culture and persona branding, and
use it to empower social change in academia, politics, and other spheres.

The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) *Bridging Gaps* conference
series, with the support of Intellect Books, uses a reflective practice
paradigm and asks an urgent question: Can we learn popular strategies and
re-fashion celebrity stories into tools for public intellectualism and
social transformation, in addition to studying them? What enables or
disables the public to tell personal stories in studies and practices of
celebrity culture? Can different forms of storytelling from the lives of
rising and celebrated academics, public intellectuals, critics, and
activists enable urgent social change? The conference problematizes what it
means to be a popular ?storyteller? and invites all academics, journalists,
publicists, activists and models and guests to attend, collaborate and
publish valuable and purposeful work around this key question and related
topics in our conference.

The format of the conference aims at being open and inclusive of
interdisciplinary academic scholars and practitioners involved in all areas
of celebrity culture, fandom, fashion, and journalism.  The conference
combines paper presentations, workshop panels, roundtables, slideshows, and
interviews that aim to bridge gaps in celebrity activism, persona branding,
and fashion education. Working papers, media productions, and personal
stories will be considered for the conference.

Extended versions of selected best papers will be published in a special
issue of the Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies (Intellect
Books)

*Registration **includes*: Your printed package for the complete
conference, professional development workshop, access to reception, all-day
coffee, complimentary evening drink, consideration for publication, and the
CMCS $100 best paper and $100 best screen awards. The best op-ed / personal
(optional) will also receive an opportunity to publish in the *Medium*.

*Abstract Submission Guidelines*:
?    250-word abstract or workshop / roundtable proposal
?    Include a title, your name, e-mail address, and affiliation if
applicable
?    Submit abstract at celebrity.mediastudies at gmail.com    Extended
deadline *March 18, 2019*
?    Notification of acceptance: *March 31, 2019*
?    Early bird deadline for hotel & conference registration: *April 30,
2019*
?    Conference reception & presentations: *Friday, August 30 ? **Sunday,
September 1, 2019*

*Celebrity Chat video Submissions Guidelines**:*
?    Video length should be 10-20 minutes
?    Include a title, your name, e-mail address, and affiliation if
applicable
?    Submit to Celebrity Chat producer Jackie Raphael at the email
      address: media.celebstudies at gmail.com
?    Conference reception and presentations: *August 30 ?**September 1,
2019*
*Topics include but are not limited to:*

?  Celebrity

?  Fandom

?  Audience

?  Persona

?  Life Writings

?  Oral storytelling

?  Fiction

?  Fashion

?  Photography

?  Performance

?  Publicity

?  News

?  Interviews

?  Social Media

?  Film and video

?  Theory and Methods

?  Research Agenda

?  Business Models

?  Ethics and Morality

?  Human, Animal and Environmental Ethics

?  Media Literacy

?  Education and Advocacy

?  International Relations

?  Community Building and Partnerships

*Conference Chair*: Dr Samita Nandy
*Conference Committee*: Dr Jackie Raphael, Kiera Obbard, Sabrina Moro, and
Diana Miller
*Conference URL*: http://cmc-centre.com/conferences/nyc2019/
<https://cmc-centre.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d968a451671b45aa780b5674&id=1c23b96aea&e=9b4b89800a>
*Conference Twitter* @celeb_studies
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 #CMCS19

*Special Acknowledgements:*
Intellect Books @IntellectBooks
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*Half Price for Personal Journal Subscription *
Print only*: ?22 / $39 USD
(Full price: ?44 / $78 USD)

Please contact Turpin Distribution, quoting ?HALF PRICE PC?:

?  +44 (0) 1767 604 951 (UK & ROW)

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*Special thanks to CMCS board members **Dr** Nicole Bojko & Jarret
Ruminski, author of **The Limits of Loyalty: Ordinary People in Civil War
Mississippi*
<https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1TSCD_enCA708CA708&q=The+Limits+of+Loyalty:+Ordinary+People+in+Civil+War+Mississippi&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LVT9c3NEwzqDI1ysspV4JwUyoLS0yLjM21pLKTrfST8vOz9RNLSzLyi6xA7GKF_LycSgC3TpoDPAAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAl6jVis_fAhXRxoUKHeK7BrkQmxMoATAXegQIAxAE>
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Mon Mar  4 19:02:44 2019
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 19:02:44 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> Canada Research Chair in Politics of Democracy and
 Artificial Intelligence
Message-ID: <69F24BAE-4DE8-49AE-9E25-ED8C667389A4@xs4all.nl>

Deadline to Apply: March 31, 2019

The Department of Politics, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University invites applications from outstanding early career researchers who specialize in Politics of Democracy and Artificial Intelligence for appointment as professorial tenure-track or tenured professor at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Note that this appointment is contingent upon a successful nomination to the Canada Research Chairs program (http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/) at the Tier 2 level. The start date for this position is July 1, 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The successful candidate must have a PhD in Political Science or a related discipline. The ideal candidate will be an emerging world-class researcher with demonstrated potential for international recognition in their field, and for taking a pioneering approach to the study of democracy and technology.

The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) poses a host of challenges to social and political life, many of which will have an impact on the struggle towards democracy. The core focus of the proposed Chair is the relationship between AI and the democratic governance of states and societies. This relationship bears on, but is not limited to: 1) the political control of residents (populations) bearing on migration, privacy, political expression, and, given emerging trends toward trans-humanism, who or what counts, in what ways, as a citizen or even human; 2) political and policy decisions about the organization of economies, the nature of work, consumption, and the environment; and 3) the very constitution of polities as it relates to the nature of states and the democratic body politic. The CRC in the Politics of Democracy and Artificial Intelligence will lead a research program into the democratic possibilities of AI, and the political demands for achieving greater democracy through the social disruptions and resources AI will produce.

The successful applicant will be eligible for prompt appointment to the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Preference will be given to those with experience supervising graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and/or the potential to attract, develop, and retain excellent students and future researchers, while contributing to curricular development in their area of specialization. Pedagogical innovation in high priority areas such as experiential education and technology enhanced learning is preferred.

The Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program seeks to attract outstanding researchers for careers at Canadian universities. Tier 2 Chairs are intended for exceptional emerging scholars (i.e., who, at the time of nomination, are within 10 years of attaining their highest degree, with consideration for career breaks) who have the acknowledged potential to lead their field of research. Appointment to a Tier 2 Chair is for five years, is renewable once, and comes with enhanced research support from the program. Applicants who are more than 10 years from their highest degree (and where career breaks exist, including maternity leave, extended sick leave, clinical training, etc.) may have their eligibility for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair assessed through the program?s Tier 2 justification process. Please see the CRC website (http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/) for further eligibility details.

For this nomination, we are particularly interested in candidates with diverse backgrounds and especially encourage candidates in equity, diversity and inclusion categories, including members of the four designated groups (women, members of visible minorities (racialized groups), Indigenous peoples and persons with disabilities) to apply. York acknowledges the potential impact that career interruptions (e.g. maternity leave, leave due to illness, etc.) can have on a candidate?s record of research achievement. Applicants are encouraged to explain in their application the impact that career interruptions may have had on their record of research achievement; this will be taken into careful consideration during the assessment process.

As a research Chair, a CRC is expected to develop research linkages within and beyond York. In the case of this Chair, productive research trajectories may include collaborations with scholars across the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, as well as a number of York?s Research Centres and Institutes (www.yorku.ca/research/about/centres.html).

The deadline for applications is March 31, 2019. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. All York University positions are subject to budgetary approval.

Applicants should submit a signed letter of application outlining their professional experience and research interests, an up-to-date curriculum vitae, a research and research leadership plan for the prospective Chair, a sample of their scholarly writing (maximum 50 pp.), and a teaching dossier, and arrange for three signed confidential letters of recommendation to be sent to: Professor David Mutimer, Chair, Department of Politics, Email: polsjobs at yorku.ca (Subject line: CRC in Democracy and Artificial Intelligence).

York University has a policy on Accommodation in Employment for Persons with Disabilities and is committed to working towards a barrier-free workplace and to expanding the accessibility of the workplace to persons with disabilities. If you require accommodation at any time during the hiring process, please contact Professor David Mutimer, Chair, Department of Politics at polschr at yorku.ca.

York University is an Affirmative Action (AA) employer and strongly values diversity, including gender and sexual diversity, within its community. The AA Program, which applies to Aboriginal people, visible minorities, people with disabilities, and women, can be found at http://acadjobs.info.yorku.ca/ or by calling the AA office at 416-736-5713.

Self-Identification and Work Status Declaration forms may be found at: http://acadjobs.info.yorku.ca/affirmative-action/. Applicants wishing to self-identify can do so by downloading, completing and submitting the form. A declaration of work status is required. 



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From zeena.feldman at kcl.ac.uk  Thu Mar  7 14:37:48 2019
From: zeena.feldman at kcl.ac.uk (Feldman, Zeena)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 13:37:48 +0000
Subject: <unlike-us> Monopolies of Intelligence: Questioning the Political
 Economy of AI - 28 March
Message-ID: <0156BF78-7321-4261-94ED-0FE8D2FC469D@kcl.ac.uk>

For those in and around London at the end of March, this event may be of interest. Hope to see you there!
-Zeena


*** MONOPOLIES OF INTELLIGENCE: QUESTIONING THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AI ***

A panel discussion with Mercedes Bunz, Nick Srnicek, Leif Weatherby

WHEN: 28 March 2019 at 16:00-18:00. Reception to follow.
WHERE: King?s College London, Bush House Lecture Theatre 3 (BH(NE) 0.01)

Artificial Intelligence systems are being applied to many areas of human life. While AI is heavily debated - hyped as our future saviour or feared for their biases - the political economy of AI is rarely being discussed. With this panel discussion framed by short statements, the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London aims to change this and also welcome the department's current Willard McCarty Fellow Leif Weatherby (NYU). Please join us. Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/monopolies-of-intelligence-questioning-the-political-economy-of-ai-tickets-58280723212.

In the Clouds - Nick Srnicek (Digital Humanities, KCL)
We live in an age dominated by tech giants. Yet for all the attention paid to them, discussions of artificial intelligence have focused on ethical issues around bias and political issues around surveillance. The properly political economic questions have been left aside, or reduced to a simple ?robots taking our jobs? narrative. This talk will aim to uncover the political economy of artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on how the technological conditions of AI either facilitate or delineate possibilities for the greater concentration of capital and power.

Data as Capital ? Leif Weatherby (German, NYU and KCL's Willard McCarty Fellow)
A recent report from MIT announces the arrival of a new metaphysical player in the game of business: data capital. This form of wealth forms represents a shift in the relationship between capital and society. Data capital has now driven the market capitalization of the largest platform companies above the "unicorn" value of 1 trillion USD, creating something like intelligent monopolies. But capital as data has to be interpreted to be useful, an operation most often carried out by algorithms called "neural nets." The data is exascale, beyond any human imagination - yet parsed, categorized, interpreted. I propose to call this activity at the heart of modern enterprise "artificial semiotics" in order to analyse how data has altered the structure of capital in the present.

On Distributed Intelligence ? Mercedes Bunz (Digital Humanities, KCL)
Recent advances of AI have resulted in a fundamental shift in programming. However, the conditions of algorithmic production as well as the interfaces to use those programs and new capabilities have largely stayed the same. AI applications are currently mostly black box systems in which systems trained on data are making decisions for users and not with users. By analysing examples of image recognition regarding medical images, this talk will show that this constellation is dangerous and difficult. Automated decision-making in the medical sector transfers medical knowledge and agency from our medical institutions to technology companies without the necessary checks and balances. At the same time, machine learning has great potential to assist with medical decision making. In her talk, Mercedes will discuss two aspects of machine learning ?data sets and interfaces ? as entry points that could be used to make machine intelligence more accessible, collaborative, and distributed ? against monopolies of intelligence.

***
Biographies

Mercedes Bunz is Senior Lecturer in Digital Society at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. Her research explores how digital technology transforms knowledge and with it power; a question she explores currently specifically regarding medical knowledge with a Wellcome Trust Seed grant. Recent publications: The Internet of Things(Polity 2017) co-published with Professor Graham Meikle, and the small Open Access publication Communication with Finn Brunton (University of Minnesota Press 2019), on how contemporary communication puts us humans not only in conversation with one another but also with our machinery.

Nick Srnicek is Lecturer in Digital Economy at King's College London. He is the author of Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016) and Inventing the Future(Verso, 2015 with Alex Williams). With Helen Hester, he is currently writing After Work (Verso, 2020).

Leif Weatherby is Associate Professor of German at NYU, co-founder of the Digital Theory Lab, and Willard McCarty fellow of the Department of Digital Humanities at King?s College London. His research focuses on philosophies of technology - especially the digital - Romanticism and Idealism, and political economy. His book, Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx, tracks an early techno-philosophy in the doctrine he calls "Romantic organology." His ongoing work on the relationship between cybernetics and German Idealism has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt association. His writing has appeared in venues like SubStance, Grey Room, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Fri Mar  8 08:14:05 2019
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 08:14:05 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> links
Message-ID: <F5C8B0E6-BC14-4A58-B6F7-532D2A4AB53E@xs4all.nl>

You give apps sensitive info, then they give it to Facebook
https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-give-apps-sensitive-personal-information-then-they-tell-facebook-11550851636 <https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-give-apps-sensitive-personal-information-then-they-tell-facebook-11550851636>

The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona <https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona>

Jamie King meets Scuttlebutt, a P2P-based social ?network of networks? 
https://stealthisshow.com/s04e04/?utm_campaign=solarpunk-social-with-scuttlebutt <https://stealthisshow.com/s04e04/?utm_campaign=solarpunk-social-with-scuttlebutt>

Morozov?s three ?techlash? responses to the current tech giant problem
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/27/left-radical-big-tech-moderate-solutions <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/27/left-radical-big-tech-moderate-solutions>

Facebook as an American geopolitical weapon @yashalevine <https://twitter.com/yashalevine>
https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/facebook-as-an-american-geopolitical-weapon <https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/facebook-as-an-american-geopolitical-weapon>

Zucked--Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/598206/zucked-by-roger-mcnamee/ <https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/598206/zucked-by-roger-mcnamee/>

The Facebook and Community Question
https://stratechery.com/2019/facebooks-privacy-cake/ <https://stratechery.com/2019/facebooks-privacy-cake/>













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From douglas at publicsphereproject.org  Mon Mar 11 16:57:16 2019
From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:57:16 -0700
Subject: <unlike-us> Fwd: AI & Society and CRASSH Conference Call for
 Papers- Cambridge
Message-ID: <CACt_=d+q71x2iFOp0zdmNyPx6OchWqF-kV2OXbVDy6-owdu54A@mail.gmail.com>

Date: Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 11:44 PM
Subject: AI & Society and CRASSH Conference Call for Papers- Cambridge
To: Douglas Schuler <douglas at publicsphereproject.org>

I am delighted to announce this Call for Papers for the forthcoming AI &
Society and'Re-' Interdisciplinary Network CRASSH conference at the
University of Cambridge on June 26-28 2019.

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28385

I would like to invite you to submit an abstract and participate in the
conference discussion. Please share this Call with your colleagues,
research students, within your institution(s) and in your networks! It
will be an exciting three days!

The deadline for abstracts (300 words, pdf format) is 1st April 2019, to
be sent to spg12 at cam.ac.uk.

I look forwards to hearing from you.

With good wishes,

Satinder
(Associate Editor, AI & Society Journal)

------------------------------------
CONFERENCE: Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age

CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline for abstracts (300 words) 1st April

Joint Conference by the ?Re-? Interdisciplinary Network and the AI &
Society Journal

A concept that has been at the fore of discussions around the sociology
of scientific knowledge, the limits of AI, and most recently the design
of ?collective intelligence?, is ?tacit knowledge?. First coming to
prominence in the 1960?s, with Polanyi?s The Tacit Dimension (1966), it
is a concept that continues to be addressed by scholars and
practitioners from a wide range of disciplinary and inter-disciplinary
perspectives, and applied fields of practice. This conference explores
the place of the tacit in the 21st Century, where our lives are
increasingly augmented by AI algorithms.

Engagement with and through social media networks and mobile apps are
re-shaping the notion of community and family, and affecting wellbeing,
as well as the cultures of the workplace and institutions. The
exponential rise of big data flows in networked communications causes
vast gaps in translation, confusion about what is true and false, and
mistrust of ?experts?. In the shadows of machine thinking we are unable
to engage with difference.

This challenges us to come up with technological futures rooted in us as
persons, not as numbers, parts, sensory mechanisms, genes, and
individual bodies.

What alternative models might allow humans to better engage with
technology?
How can we reconsider the relation between a person and a collective
intelligence?
How can we reconceive the self as interaction in a digital age?

Ideas of performance and re-performance help us reposition seemingly
singular subjects and objects as collective phenomena, and help
reconnect art and science after their separation in the 19th Century;
but the arts in general can play a key role in questioning and reframing
our understandings by directing attention to the tacit assumptions,
norms, and expectations embedded in all cultural processes.

There is a supposed neutrality around technology, evidenced in the idea
that human ?intelligence? can, in the absence of ?person?, be
artificially re-presented, re-constructed and re-produced through
computation (AI). The conference explores in what ways the interplay of
the arts and sciences is reconceiving augmentation, and questions what
an ?intelligence? that is ?artificial? might be.

We invite contributions from across the disciplines and practices of the
arts, performance arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences,
engineering, neuroscience, technology, and healthcare to engage in
reflections on these and other issues around tacit engagement in the
digital age, in line with the four central themes of the conference:

1.      Performance as a Paradigm of Knowledge
2.      Self as Interaction in the Digital Age
3.      Trust in the Shadows of Machine Thinking
4.      Future Possibilities in intersections of Art, Science, Technology,
and Society.

Abstracts (300 words) should be submitted in pdf format to Satinder Gill
(spg12 at cam.ac.uk)



-- 
Douglas Schuler
douglas at publicsphereproject.org
Twitter: @doug_schuler

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From gertml at xs4all.nl  Tue Mar 12 12:38:37 2019
From: gertml at xs4all.nl (gertml)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:38:37 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> Fwd: AI & Society and CRASSH Conference Call for
 Papers- Cambridge
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Hi Doug,

This gets interesting.

Collective intelligence is already in a precarious state (because it can 
hardly be profited from and so receives no funding)[1], but add AI (and 
its endless prospect for profit) to it and it will most certainly fail 
miserably (on the "intelligence" part). You trade 99.9% accuracy for 80% 
accuracy (and a lot of profit). What a spectacular missed opportunity 
for problem solving.

AI is the blackbox that can break every tool chain.  The perfect add-on 
cloak for those operating in obscurity.

[1]
Why You Should Never, Ever Use Quora
https://waxy.org/2018/12/why-you-should-never-ever-use-quora/

--gert


Doug Schuler schreef op 2019-03-11 16:57:
> Date: Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 11:44 PM
> Subject: AI & Society and CRASSH Conference Call for Papers- Cambridge
> To: Douglas Schuler <douglas at publicsphereproject.org>
> 
> I am delighted to announce this Call for Papers for the forthcoming AI
> &
> Society and'Re-' Interdisciplinary Network CRASSH conference at the
> University of Cambridge on June 26-28 2019.
> 
> http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28385
> 
> I would like to invite you to submit an abstract and participate in
> the
> conference discussion. Please share this Call with your colleagues,
> research students, within your institution(s) and in your networks! It
> 
> will be an exciting three days!
> 
> The deadline for abstracts (300 words, pdf format) is 1st April 2019,
> to
> be sent to spg12 at cam.ac.uk.
> 
> I look forwards to hearing from you.
> 
> With good wishes,
> 
> Satinder
> (Associate Editor, AI & Society Journal)
> 
> ------------------------------------
> CONFERENCE: Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age
> 
> CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline for abstracts (300 words) 1st April
> 
> Joint Conference by the ?Re-? Interdisciplinary Network and the AI
> &
> Society Journal
> 
> A concept that has been at the fore of discussions around the
> sociology
> of scientific knowledge, the limits of AI, and most recently the
> design
> of ?collective intelligence?, is ?tacit knowledge?. First
> coming to
> prominence in the 1960?s, with Polanyi?s The Tacit Dimension
> (1966), it
> is a concept that continues to be addressed by scholars and
> practitioners from a wide range of disciplinary and inter-disciplinary
> 
> perspectives, and applied fields of practice. This conference explores
> 
> the place of the tacit in the 21st Century, where our lives are
> increasingly augmented by AI algorithms.
> 
> Engagement with and through social media networks and mobile apps are
> re-shaping the notion of community and family, and affecting
> wellbeing,
> as well as the cultures of the workplace and institutions. The
> exponential rise of big data flows in networked communications causes
> vast gaps in translation, confusion about what is true and false, and
> mistrust of ?experts?. In the shadows of machine thinking we are
> unable
> to engage with difference.
> 
> This challenges us to come up with technological futures rooted in us
> as
> persons, not as numbers, parts, sensory mechanisms, genes, and
> individual bodies.
> 
> What alternative models might allow humans to better engage with
> technology?
> How can we reconsider the relation between a person and a collective
> intelligence?
> How can we reconceive the self as interaction in a digital age?
> 
> Ideas of performance and re-performance help us reposition seemingly
> singular subjects and objects as collective phenomena, and help
> reconnect art and science after their separation in the 19th Century;
> but the arts in general can play a key role in questioning and
> reframing
> our understandings by directing attention to the tacit assumptions,
> norms, and expectations embedded in all cultural processes.
> 
> There is a supposed neutrality around technology, evidenced in the
> idea
> that human ?intelligence? can, in the absence of ?person?, be
> artificially re-presented, re-constructed and re-produced through
> computation (AI). The conference explores in what ways the interplay
> of
> the arts and sciences is reconceiving augmentation, and questions what
> 
> an ?intelligence? that is ?artificial? might be.
> 
> We invite contributions from across the disciplines and practices of
> the
> arts, performance arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences,
> 
> engineering, neuroscience, technology, and healthcare to engage in
> reflections on these and other issues around tacit engagement in the
> digital age, in line with the four central themes of the conference:
> 
> 1.      Performance as a Paradigm of Knowledge
> 2.      Self as Interaction in the Digital Age
> 3.      Trust in the Shadows of Machine Thinking
> 4.      Future Possibilities in intersections of Art, Science,
> Technology,
> and Society.
> 
> Abstracts (300 words) should be submitted in pdf format to Satinder
> Gill
> (spg12 at cam.ac.uk)
> 
> --
> 
> Douglas Schuler
> douglas at publicsphereproject.org
> Twitter: @doug_schuler
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From douglas at publicsphereproject.org  Wed Mar 13 20:18:57 2019
From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:18:57 -0700
Subject: <unlike-us> New sources of revenue for bigEd
Message-ID: <CACt_=dLivSMQUbxcmzRJVJDP9JdzSFJ56vwCOOuYrj9+PLG5xA@mail.gmail.com>

Many universities on board to get Ford Foundation money for Technology in
the Public Interest.

https://www.newamerica.org/public-interest-technology/university-network/about-pitun/

I hate to say it but I wonder where everybody has been for the past 40
years.

 I guess I should say better late than never. Hope it's not too late.

? Doug

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From paulmx at tuta.io  Fri Mar 15 00:17:27 2019
From: paulmx at tuta.io (Paul Sulzycki)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:17:27 +0100 (CET)
Subject: <unlike-us> Tumblr crashing post-porn ban & Discord going mainstream
Message-ID: <L_yUk9D--3-1@tuta.io>

theverge.com/2019/3/14/18266013/tumblr-porn-ban-lost-users-down-traffic <https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/14/18266013/tumblr-porn-ban-lost-users-down-traffic>
tldr: 30% fewer users since the ban was activated in December.

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/how-discord-went-mainstream-influencers/584671 <https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/how-discord-went-mainstream-influencers/584671/>
tldr: It's not sucking like loads of the other alternatives on there, and YouTubers/Fortniters are making it huge.

Guys, is there an INC Telegram/Discord/Slack/Keybase group? I'd love to share this stuff quicker than the listserv...


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Paul Sul?ycki
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Mon Mar 25 20:25:50 2019
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 20:25:50 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> links
Message-ID: <988A2E1E-34BD-4091-A6AB-C8628B8E76FA@xs4all.nl>

Facebook?s likely blockchain first steps ? decentralized log-ins and a stablecoin
https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/facebooks-likely-blockchain-first-steps-decentralized-log-ins-and-a <https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/facebooks-likely-blockchain-first-steps-decentralized-log-ins-and-a>

Dialogue between Naomi Klein and Shoshana Zuboff
https://livestream.com/internetsociety/zuboff/videos/188168492 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/zuboff/videos/188168492>

Facebook and Christchurch
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-03-2019/mark-zuckerberg-four-days-on-your-silence-on-christchurch-is-deafening/ <https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-03-2019/mark-zuckerberg-four-days-on-your-silence-on-christchurch-is-deafening/>

'Your silence is an insult to our grief': Facebook infuriated a New Zealand official with its sluggish response to the Christchurch massacre
https://www.nhregister.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Your-silence-is-an-insult-to-our-grief-13713868.php
by Isobel Asher Hamilton/Associated Press

New Zealand's top privacy official is attacking Facebook for its lack of communication following the Christchurch massacre earlier this month.
Privacy Commissioner John Edwards shared an email he sent to Facebook's executives with the New Zealand Herald, in which he said: "Your silence is an insult to our grief."
Edwards has already expressed his frustration with the tech giant following the shootings, which were broadcast live on its platform.
New Zealand's privacy commissioner has skewered Facebook for its lack of response following the mass shootings in two Christchurch mosques, which were broadcast live on Facebook by the alleged shooter.

Privacy Commissioner John Edwards on Monday gave the New Zealand Herald <https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12215894&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nzh_tw&ref=NZH_Tw&hootPostID=788be04d2e1574c8794a921c7cbbb083> a copy of an email he sent to Facebook executives in which he voiced his frustrations.

"It would be very difficult for you and your colleagues to overestimate the growing frustration and anger here at Facebook's facilitation of and inability to mitigate the deep, deep pain and harm from the live-streamed massacre of our colleagues, family members and countrymen broadcast over your network," the email said.

"Your silence is an insult to our grief."

Read more: Facebook says no one reported the New Zealand mosque shootings live video. But a reporter says he raised the alarm mid-attack. <https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-says-no-one-reported-new-zealand-mosque-shootings-live-video-2019-3?r=US&IR=T?utm_source=hearst&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=allverticals>
Edwards has expressed his frustration over Facebook's lack of communication before. Last week, he tweeted that prior to the massacre, he had video-conferenced with Facebook and the company had promised to keep an open and regular line of communication. He added that he hadn't heard from the company since March 15 <https://twitter.com/JCE_PC/status/1108633209682579456>, when the shootings took place.

Edwards asked Facebook to hand over account details <https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12214281> of those who shared the video of the attack after the company announced on March 18 <https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/update-on-new-zealand/> that fewer than 200 people watched the video while it was still live, and it was viewed a total of 4,000 times before Facebook removed it.

Facebook's VP of global policy Monika Bickert told the Herald that she would not "weigh in" on Edwards' demand. She said Facebook has to follow the law when it comes to divulging account details, and that normally Facebook only gives them over to police if there is "something like an imminent threat of violence."

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has also criticised Facebook <http://fortune.com/2019/03/19/new-zealand-facebook-mosque-attack/> or facilitating the proliferation of the attacker's footage, although she was in contact with COO Sheryl Sandberg <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-19/new-zealand-facebook-christchurch-shooting-video-sheryl-sandberg/10915184> over the issue.

The company announced last week that it removed some 1.5 million copies of the video in the 24 hours following the attack <https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-removed-15-million-videos-of-the-new-zealand-mosque-shootings-in-24-hours-2019-3?r=US&IR=T?utm_source=hearst&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=allverticals> ? 1.2 million of which it was able to block at upload.

Facebook did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.


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