BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MediaWell - ECPv6.6.4.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MediaWell REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191105T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191105T140000 DTSTAMP:20261014T003540 CREATED:20191016T150048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T154237Z UID:53218-1572958800-1572962400@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:NULab Misinformation Speaker Series: Miriam Metzger DESCRIPTION:Event featured image\, but exclude link Event content \n\n“Please join us for a talk by Miriam Metzger\, Professor\, Comm & Info Technologies\, Department of Communication\, UCSB. \nMore details coming soon! \nCo-sponsored with the Department of Communication Studies and the Shorenstein Center.  \nThis event is part of the Misinformation Speaker Series\, co-sponsored by the NULab and the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics\, and Public Policy.” \n\n .tribe-events-single-event-description \n .tribe-events-cal-links \n Event meta URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/nulab-misinformation-speaker-series-miriam-metzger/ LOCATION:Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA\, United States CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191106T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191106T180000 DTSTAMP:20261014T003540 CREATED:20191018T154459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T141628Z UID:53424-1573057800-1573063200@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:OXDEG: ‘Don’t forget to like\, subscribe and turn on the bell notifications’ DESCRIPTION:“We are delighted to welcome Zoë Glatt for an OxDEG talk on ‘An (auto)ethnography of YouTube creators’ labour in the online video industry’ \nIn the late 2000’s a new and exciting cultural phenomenon was bubbling under the surface. Around the world\, teens in their bedrooms were turning on their webcams to film asynchronous conversations with unknown audiences and uploading them to YouTube. Online communities started to flourish on the platform and new genres began to crystallise: vlogs\, tutorials\, comedy sketches\, video responses. In these early years being a ‘YouTuber’ was not yet a viable career and creator culture mainly flew under the radar of mainstream media organisations\, or else was viewed as trivial or insignificant. Since then\, we have seen the rise a new and powerful cross-platform creative industry. What began as pockets of amateur creators on YouTube has grown into a mature infrastructure of diverse and competing platforms\, such as Instagram\, TikTok\, Patreon\, Facebook and Twitch\, that combine online video and social networking affordances with opportunities for content creators to earn an income. \nShifting patterns of employment in the creative industries away from stable structures\, and the emergence of a new neoliberal worker-subject: entrepreneurial\, flexible\, self-directed and always available to work\, has been the topic of much academic scrutiny over the past decade (Gill 2010; Gill and Pratt 2008; Ross 2009; McRobbie 2016; Schlesinger 2016). Studies of this type of work have highlighted the collapse of boundaries between work and play\, intermittent and precarious income\, and a passionate attachment to work and the identity of creative labour (Erin-Duffy 2017). The platform-native online video industry offers new sociocultural and economic formations of creative labour\, fraught with ambivalence and precarity\, that require critical scrutiny. In particular\, the imperative for content creators to diversify income streams across multiple platforms\, brand deals\, merch and tour sales\, advertising revenue and crowdfunding\, all whilst scrutinising popularity metrics and audience feedback\, marks an extension of the neoliberal worker subjectivity. \nIn order to research the lived experiences and labour of aspiring and professional YouTube content creators\, I concluded that it was insufficient to merely watch\, like and comment on videos; I needed to become a YouTuber myself. In this talk\, as well as discussing my preliminary findings\, I reflect on my journey and experiences of using this experimental digital ethnographic method\, in addition to multi-sited online/offline fieldwork and interviews with content creators. As social media platforms have increasingly profound sociocultural impacts\, researchers need to find new methodological tools for engaging critically with this changing landscape. Autoethnography has provided me with significant insights into the labour of online creators\, from the ways in which they understand and navigate algorithms\, channel metrics and the multi-platform environment\, to the emotional highs and lows of trying to cultivate an audience.” URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/oxdeg-dont-forget-to-like-subscribe-and-turn-on-the-bell-notifications/ LOCATION:Oxford Internet Institute\, Oxford\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191108 DTSTAMP:20261014T003540 CREATED:20191002T203905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T145420Z UID:53051-1573084800-1573171199@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working People DESCRIPTION:Event Listing Header \n\n\n“The powerful have long agreed: Poor and working people must be watched. \nWith the proliferation of digital monitoring and algorithmic management of gig economy and blue collar workers\, it might seem like the expansion of workplace surveillance is a new trend. In reality\, it is a centuries-old phenomenon that has shaped core aspects of modern privacy debates. From English Poor Laws\, to the monitoring of 19th century coal miners and 20th century farmworker advocates\, to contemporary efforts to track workers in the digital economy\, this conference will follow the surveillance of poor and working people and those who advocate for them. \nHow has the myth of the untrustworthy pauper or worker transformed over time? What role has race and ethnicity played in justifying surveillance? Has this surveillance proven effective or not? How has technology normalized and propogated this surveillance? Finally\, how are local communities\, advocates\, and artists responding to these challenges? \nThe Color of Surveillance addresses these questions and more\, elevating the voices of working people\, labor advocates\, artists\, and historians. The conference will take place on Thursday\, November 7 in Hart Auditorium at Georgetown University Law Center\, and is presented in partnership with Free Press and MediaJustice\, with support from The Center on Poverty and Inequality Economic Security and Opportunity Initative\, the Workers’ Rights Institute\, and The Institute for Technology Law and Policy. \nStay tuned for more information on speakers and session details (note: if you would like to RSVP without going through Eventbrite\, please email us at privacy@georgetown.edu). For updates\, subscribe to our newsletter.” \n\n\n\n Event Listing Body \n\n Listing Hero Details \n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-color-of-surveillance-monitoring-of-poor-and-working-people/ LOCATION:Georgetown University\, Washington D.C\, United States CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191111 DTSTAMP:20261014T003540 CREATED:20190911T165741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190911T165741Z UID:52680-1573084800-1573430399@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:American Studies Association Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:“The American Studies Association annual meeting is a place for scholars\, teachers\, students\, activists\, and artists to share interdisciplinary research on U.S. culture and history in a global context. \nIt is a place for participants otherwise separated by disciplines\, geographies\, and professional barriers to come together\, network\, collaborate\, and connect. Participants gather together to present individual papers\, panels\, performances\, roundtables\, workshops\, or alternative formats. As an event\, the annual meeting promotes the field of American studies among its practitioners and with the public at large\, through the recognition of a range of accomplishments.” URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/american-studies-association-annual-meeting/ LOCATION:Hawai’i Convention Center\, Honolulu\, HI\, United States CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191112 DTSTAMP:20261014T003540 CREATED:20191018T154537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191018T172523Z UID:53432-1573171200-1573516799@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:WikiConference North America DESCRIPTION:WikiConference North America 2019\nNovember 8-11 \nYou’re invited to Cambridge\, Massachusetts to join Wikipedia and Wikimedia enthusiasts for the annual continental conference. \nWikiConference North America is the annual conference of Wikimedia enthusiasts and volunteers from throughout North America\, including the United States\, Canada\, Mexico\, and the Caribbean. The 2019 conference will take place in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, November 8-11. Join Wikipedia\, -media\, -data\, and -cite enthusiasts for a long weekend of collaboration and discovery. \n\nOur main host is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\nThis year’s theme is reliability / credibility\nParticipation in conference activities includes compliance with our friendly space policy. URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/wikiconference-north-america/ LOCATION:Cambridge\, Mass.\, United States CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T193000 DTSTAMP:20261014T003540 CREATED:20191106T173923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191106T202354Z UID:53799-1573669800-1573673400@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Oxford Internet Institute Bellwether Lecture with Dr Alondra Nelson DESCRIPTION:“The OII invites you to attend a lecture and drinks reception in the Weston Library Lecture Theatre\, followed by a drinks reception in Blackwell Hall. \nAlondra Nelson is President of the Social Science Research Council and the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study\, an independent centre for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry in Princeton\, New Jersey. \nAn award-winning author\, Nelson has published widely-acclaimed books and articles exploring science\, technology\, medicine\, and social inequality. Her recent publications include a symposium in the British Journal of Sociology on the history of slavery\, genetic genealogy\, and the #GU272\, as well as coauthored articles in Public Library of Science (PLOS): Computational Biology\, Genetics in Medicine\, and Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. She is currently at work on a book about science and technology policy in the Obama administration.” URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/oxford-internet-institute-bellwether-lecture-with-dr-alondra-nelson/ LOCATION:Oxford Internet Institute\, Oxford\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191118 DTSTAMP:20261014T003540 CREATED:20190911T191134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190911T191134Z UID:52683-1573689600-1574035199@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:National Communication Association 105th Annual Convention DESCRIPTION:“The National Communication Association advances Communication as the discipline that studies all forms\, modes\, media\, and consequences of communication through humanistic\, social scientific\, and aesthetic inquiry.\n\nNCA serves the scholars\, teachers\, and practitioners who are its members by enabling and supporting their professional interests in research and teaching. Dedicated to fostering and promoting free and ethical communication\, NCA promotes the widespread appreciation of the importance of communication in public and private life\, the application of competent communication to improve the quality of human life and relationships\, and the use of knowledge about communication to solve human problems. NCA supports inclusiveness and diversity among our faculties\, within our membership\, in the workplace\, and in the classroom; NCA supports and promotes policies that fairly encourage this diversity and inclusion.” URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/national-communication-association-105th-annual-convention/ LOCATION:Baltimore Convention Center\, Baltimore\, MD\, United States CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191116 DTSTAMP:20261014T003540 CREATED:20190807T182258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190807T182258Z UID:52242-1573776000-1573862399@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:News Impact Summit: Covering Politics in the Misinformation Age DESCRIPTION:“How can journalists provide reliable information in a sea of information\, misinformation and data? During this summit\, experts will tell us how to make the most of digital tools to cover elections\, by sharing experiences that range from creating new apps to deliver election results in real time to smartphones\, to experimenting with platforms that flag and debunk misinformation during elections.” URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/news-impact-summit-covering-politics-in-the-misinformation-age/ LOCATION:Lyon\, Lyon\, France CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T130000 DTSTAMP:20261014T003540 CREATED:20191106T173622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191106T204235Z UID:53800-1574164800-1574168400@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Information Wars: A Conversation with Richard Stengel - Shorenstein Center DESCRIPTION:“Join us for a conversation with Richard Stengel\, former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy\, about his new book Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It. In conversation with moderators Amb. Wendy R. Sherman and Nancy Gibbs\, Stengel will delve into his time at the front lines of the Obama administration’s battle against disinformation campaigns by the Islamic State and Russia. Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership.”\n\n\n  URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/information-wars-a-conversation-with-richard-stengel-shorenstein-center/ LOCATION:Harvard Kennedy School\, Boston\, MA\, United States CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191125T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191125T200000 DTSTAMP:20261014T003540 CREATED:20191023T182821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T140156Z UID:53511-1574704800-1574712000@mediawell.ssrc.org SUMMARY:Citizens and Technology Summit 2019 DESCRIPTION:Event Listing Header \n\n\n“The Citizens and Technology Summit brings together communities\, researchers\, and advocates to share\, imagine\, and design citizen-led agendas for technology and society. \nHow can citizens work for a world where digital power is guided by evidence and accountable to the public? Leaders in the field will share lightning talks of inspiring projects to test the social impacts of technology\, discover effective actions for change\, and scale those discoveries. \nThe summit will also launch a new identity for the Citizens and Technology Lab (currently CivilServant)\, which started as a PhD project and has grown into a center for innovation at Cornell University. The summit is hosted by the Citizens and Technology Lab.” \n\n\n\n Event Listing Body \n\n Listing Hero Details URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/citizens-and-technology-summit-2019/ LOCATION:Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice\, New York\, United States CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR