[Air-L] CFP: Mediating Misogyny
Jacqueline Vickery
jvickery183 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 13:22:55 PDT 2016
*Call for Book Chapters – Mediating Misogyny: Technology, Gender, &
Harassment*
*Editors: Dr. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Department of Media Arts, University
of North Texas**& Dr. Tracy Everbach, Mayborn School of Journalism,
University of North Texas*
This proposed edited collection of interdisciplinary essays aims to
critically analyze the ways the internet and digital technologies mediate
misogyny, gender-based harassment, and assault. The online harassment of
women has been gaining increasing visibility with contemporary incidents
such as Gamergate, revenge porn sites, and the public misogynistic trolling
campaigns directed at celebrities and journalists. In response, women are
using the internet as a space for consciousness raising, feminist activism,
collective storytelling, and resistance to gender-based harassment. This
book will analyze how gender-based harassment is mediated and also uncover
the ways women are using digital media technologies to fight back against
harassment, trolls, and assault – both online and offline.
In an effort to propel the conversations forward and expand the discourse,
we are particularly interested in chapters that not only document,
critique, and analyze gender-based online harassment, but also put forward
possible solutions that include a wide array of stakeholders and spheres
including (but not limited to): activism, education, platform design, the
law, social norms, workplace and platform policy, and the market.
We invite theoretical, qualitative, and quantitative approaches to the
topic and welcome different disciplinary approaches including, but not
limited to: cultural studies, media studies, critical race theory, gender
studies, feminist approaches, communication, journalism, sociology,
cultural anthropology, technology studies, and historiography.
Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Feminism as related to safe (digital) spaces
- The public sphere and women’s participation in networked publics
- The relationship between platform design, policies, and online
harassment
- The intersections of sexuality, race, ability, religion, age, class,
and/or geography and the relationship to gender-based harassment
- Historical approaches to and contextualization of digital misogyny
- Case studies documenting, critiquing, and analyzing harassment via
digital media
- The blurred boundaries of online and offline harassment
- Feminist anti-harassment activist campaigns
- Mediated representations of online harassment in news journalism
and/or fictional narratives
- Harassment of women in the global south and other underrepresented
online populations
- Professional women and harassment on the job
Please send *complete chapters* (max. 7,000 words w/ refs), a brief bio,
and full CV to Dr. Jacqueline Vickery (jacqueline.vickery at unt.edu) and Dr.
Tracy Everbach (tracy.everbach at unt.edu) by *November 1, 2016*. We will
market the book for classroom adoption so take an undergraduate audience
into consideration in your tone, scope, and approach. Routledge has
indicated interest as part of the Gender & Sexuality series and we will
continue to consider other reputable academic publishers. Please circulate
the CFP widely with graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars
who work on any aspect of (digital) media, gender, and harassment.
*Dr. Jacqueline Vickery, Ph.D.*
Assistant Professor
Department of Media Arts | http://mediaarts.unt.edu/ <http://rtvf.unt.edu/>
University of North Texas
Personal website | http://jrvickery.com/
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> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 15:18:59 -0700
> From: Galen Panger <gpanger at gmail.com>
> To: Tanja Aitamurto <tanja.aitamurto at gmail.com>
> Cc: Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook and Twitter user recruitment?
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> Tanja, just wanted to belatedly follow up and thank you for your
> suggestions. I ended up leaning on MTurk and Twitter ads to get me to the N
> I needed for my study, but I did contact Qualtrics and Survey Monkey at
> your suggestion, too. Qualtrics reached out but never actually got back to
> me with a quote and Survey Monkey said they won't work with Qualtrics
> surveys, which is how my study is implemented.
>
> I would highly recommend Twitter ads to others on this list. The
> acquisition costs went down over time as people favorited and retweeted the
> ad, which lent credibility to it and (maybe? not sure) free distribution to
> their followers. I was able to bring costs down for MTurk, too, by forcing
> workers to manually check a box next to each eligibility requirement to
> certify that they did, in fact, meet the requirements, which many otherwise
> breezed by. The usual confirmation codes and attention checks were
> essential, and one worker also helpfully suggested I use a timer in
> Qualtrics to force workers to sit on my Consent Form long enough to have
> plausibly read it. I also used a worker qualification for the first time to
> prevent Turkers from accidentally retaking my HIT when I re-posted it. The
> how-to is here:
> https://experimentalturk.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/excludi
> ng-workers-from-previous-studies-using-excel.pdf
>
> If I'd felt like I could have, paying more per participant would have been
> ideal especially, perhaps, when it came to recruiting from my university's
> subject pool, which was not as successful as I'd hoped. But I tried to make
> up for the lowish pay karmically by making the study as seamless for
> participants as possible (apart from the mental effort).
>
> Anyway, just reporting back in case this is helpful to anyone. Thanks again
> to everyone who offered suggestions.
>
> Sincerely,
> Galen
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Tanja Aitamurto <
> tanja.aitamurto at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
> > How about subject pools run by Qualtrics, Survey Monkey, etc? We once
> > asked for a quote for an online survey from their subject pools. We
> didn't
> > end up using those though.
> > I'd be curious to know what makes your MechTurk participants
> disinterested
> > in the study? 90 minutes is a long time though. In user-testing studies,
> 90
> > minutes participation is often compensated with more than $25. It may be
> > worthwhile considering distributing the payment so that there's a draw to
> > the follow-up sequence too.
> >
> > Dr. Tanja Aitamurto
> > Brown Fellow, postdoctoral
> > The Brown Institute for Media Innovation <http://brown.stanford.edu/>
> > School of Engineering
> > Stanford
> > www.tanjaaitamurto.com <http://brokenfence.flavors.me/>
> > ~ examining collective intelligence in journalism, governance and design
> ~
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Galen Panger <gpanger at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Do others know, perchance, of any subject pools that are open to
> Internet
> >> researchers, where a lowly researcher such as me might be able to list a
> >> study? I'm working with my own university's subject pool, but it's
> summer
> >> and they don't anticipate I'll recruit the number of subjects I need.
> It's
> >> going well with this pool so far, but I probably won't hit my numbers
> >> there. Looking for any other possible sources.
> >>
> >> Anyway, thanks to Fabio, Scott and to a couple of others who responded
> >> off-list. Fabio, I'll try out the Facebook lead ads!
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >> Galen
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Fabio Giglietto <
> >> fabio.giglietto at uniurb.it
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi Galen,
> >> > have you also tried Facebook lead ads (
> >> > https://www.facebook.com/business/a/lead-ads)?
> >> >
> >> > Best, Fabio Giglietto
> >> >
> >> > Il sab 16 lug 2016, 3:36 AM Galen Panger <gpanger at gmail.com> ha
> >> scritto:
> >> >
> >> >> Thanks -- to be clear, I'm not looking for my study to be blasted
> out,
> >> at
> >> >> least not without talking first about (1) what the population looks
> >> like
> >> >> and (2) working on the recruitment language. I shared the URLs in
> case
> >> >> people wanted to get a better sense of what the study/ies entail.
> >> Thanks
> >> >> for any and all ideas/leads/advice, though!
> >> >>
> >> >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Scott MacLeod <
> scott at scottmacleod.com
> >> >
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > Hi Galen and AoIR,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I just shared your request, Galen, as a Minute as part of World
> >> >> > University and School's open monthly business meeting process, as
> >> you'll
> >> >> > see here -
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/07/
> minutes-for-wuass-july-9-2016-monthly.html
> >> >> > - along with some of WUaS's rationales for this, which include as
> >> you'll
> >> >> > see: "In seeking to become the online Harvards of the Internet in
> all
> >> >> > ~204 countries main languages (accrediting for free CC MIT OCW in 7
> >> >> > languages and CC Yale OYC BS/BA, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, as
> >> well as
> >> >> > I.B. diplomas), this is also a model for how WUaS (and if I become
> an
> >> >> > assistant professor in the MIT Media Lab too) may further seek
> social
> >> >> > science samples for research in both courses and in various
> >> languages."
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks for this interesting and rigorous online social media study.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Sincerely,
> >> >> > Scott
> >> >> >
> >> >> > https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > On 7/15/16 2:12 PM, Galen Panger wrote:
> >> >> > > Hi all, for my dissertation I'm recruiting separate samples of
> >> Twitter
> >> >> > and
> >> >> > > Facebook users for a multi-part study (see
> >> >> > http://facebookstudy.berkeley.edu
> >> >> > > and http://twitterstudy.berkeley.edu). I'm having some luck with
> >> >> Twitter
> >> >> > > ads, and with my university's subject pool for Facebook, but am
> >> >> wondering
> >> >> > > if folks here might have ideas for recruiting more participants
> to
> >> >> help
> >> >> > put
> >> >> > > me over the top (I'm hoping to end with usable samples of over
> 300
> >> >> each).
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > I'm paying about $25 (plus a $500 Apple Gift Card drawing) for a
> >> total
> >> >> > time
> >> >> > > of around 90 minutes, with the catch that the second part of the
> >> study
> >> >> > > involves downloading and using an app, which is a step that
> results
> >> >> in a
> >> >> > > fair amount of drop-off (despite my follow-up efforts, which only
> >> >> help on
> >> >> > > the margin). I've tried Mechanical Turk but there's too much
> >> drop-off.
> >> >> > > Craigslist also appears to be taking down anything that's not a
> >> >> > > face-to-face transaction, and my study is entirely
> >> >> online/Qualtrics/app.
> >> >> > > Facebook ads haven't worked at all for recruitment for me.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Anyway -- if your university subject pool is open to outsiders,
> or
> >> if
> >> >> you
> >> >> > > have a tip that's worked for you in the past, I'm all ears for
> any
> >> >> ideas!
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Sincerely,
> >> >> > > Galen
> >> >> > >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > --
> >> >> > - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
> >> >> > - http://worlduniversityandschool.org
> >> >> > - 415 480 4577
> >> >> > - PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516
> >> >> > - World University and School - like Wikipedia with best
> STEM-centric
> >> >> > OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school
> in
> >> >> > California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational
> >> >> > organization, both effective April 2010.
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 19:53:10 -0700
> From: "Dan L. Burk" <dburk at uci.edu>
> To: Charles Ess <c.m.ess at runbox.no>
> Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Ethical challenges in qualitative research using
> Facebook
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>
> Hi Charles --
>
> I guess I missed that message? (The one about Australia, having a fair
> use policy.) I know they have been debating whether to adopt a fair use
> provision (instead of fair dealing), and I thought it got tabled after
> opposition from their recording industry. But it sounds like I had
> better go check the status, maybe it succeeded after all. Thanks for the
> tip.
>
> See you in Berlin for sure. DLB
>
> On 2016-08-03 14:05, Charles Ess wrote:
>
> > Dear Dan, copy to Emily,
> > with great regret at taking far longer to get to this than I would have
> liked - our daughter is now moved to Canada from Heidelberg, a project that
> took up a good deal of our collective time and energy these past few weeks
> as I'm sure you can imagine.
> > In any event, just wanted to say thanks very much - between this and the
> Australian colleague's posting that Australia has a fair use policy, this
> got cleared up fairly nicely, I think.
> >
> > Again, many thanks and hope to see you in Berlin?
> > best in the meantime,
> > - c.
> >
> > On 27/07/16 09:00, Dan L. Burk wrote:
> > Hi Charles -- In any Berne or TRIPs signatory country, copyright will
> arise automatically when the text is written. So, yes in most countries,
> certainly Australia. Whether that matters, (for example, whether Australian
> fair dealing might allow the posts to be used or quoted for research
> purposes regardless) is a whole other question that I can't answer off the
> cuff. Cheers, DLB On 2016-07-25 23:14, Charles Ess wrote: Hi Emily and
> colleagues, First of all, kudos for your taking such good care at looking
> into these ethical dimensions of your research. Secondly, a couple of
> questions: are the posts drawn exclusively from Australian FB users - and
> if so, what is the Australian law regarding what appears in a public
> context online? In the U.S., last I knew, such postings are considered
> automatically copyrighted, and so one ethical-legal issue is, should this
> be the law in Australia as well, to recognize the posters as copyright
> holders. Thirdly, the methodological approach and !
> its
> affiliated ethical challenges as you describe them are, in my somewhat
> limited experience, rather standard. This means that I've seen similar
> projects - including ones involving far more sensitive expression - receive
> IRB and REB approval, so I would not stop with your worst-case scenarios
> (though these are clearly and carefully thought out - again, kudos). Some
> possibilities. In terms of dissemination / publication - would it be
> possible to (a) disguise many, if not the majority of posts by way of a
> paraphrase and/or aggregate identity (if appropriate), thereby avoiding
> direct citations, while (b) using some direct citations when absolutely
> necessary - and then requesting permission to do so? While there are
> difficulties with requesting such permission, as you point out, in my
> experience (i.e., reading about and/or discussing similar cases in a
> variety of contexts - the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), these are not
> insurmountable. To be sure, one needs to exercise caution
> regarding identity - though these days, it seems that the vast majority of
> FB identities are more or less authentic. Ditto in the case of a vulnerable
> group, beginning with legal minors. But with care, permission can be
> requested when necessary in ethically sensitive and responsible ways. Of
> course, there will likely be a few instances of "no, thank you" (or less
> politely) - but with any luck, having to omit perhaps a handful of choice
> citations (and relegating them back into more anonymized form if possible /
> necessary), will not prevent you from having sufficient evidence and
> analyses to effectively respond to your research questions. That's at least
> my first take - and I only offer these as first thoughts, knowing that
> there are real experts on this list, including several colleagues in
> Australia who will have better information about the Aussie context, as
> well as our colleagues Elizabeth Buchanan, Michael Zimmer, Annette Markham,
> and many others in the northern hemisphe!
> re with
> extensive experience in these domains as well who will have much more to
> add. Hope this helps, then, as at least a helpful start in the discussion.
> Again, kudos and all best wishes, - charles -- Professor in Media Studies
> Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <
> http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html [1]>
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> c.m.ess at media.uio.no <mailto:c.m.ess at media.uio.no> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016
> at 7:06 AM, Emily Wolfinger <emilywolfinger at hotmail.com <mailto:
> emilywolfinger at hotmail.com> wrote: Hi AoIR Community, I am a PhD
> Candidate and I have run into some ethical issues in my research, which I
> am looking for some guidance on. I am exploring Facebook user perceptions
> of sole mother poverty and welfare in Australia, focusing on a period of
> welfare debate in which sole parent pension amendments were introduced (May
> 2012-Janua!
> ry 2013).
> I'm undertaking a discourse analysis of a subset of comments across four
> categories of public pages and groups- media, political parties and
> ministers, welfare/charity organisations and sole mother networks- that
> were published in response to the amendments. Although Facebook Data Policy
> considers this information public, Internet research ethics guidelines and
> other academic papers point to a number of ethical issues around publishing
> the comments of users without obtaining their consent. As I am doing a
> post-structural discourse analysis this is unavoidable unless I consider
> paraphrasing or similar techniques that aim to protect the identity of
> users, however this strategy raises questions of scientific rigor and does
> not seem to be one that is widely used or indeed fool proof. There are also
> issues around contacting users for consent, for example users could be
> underage or belong to other vulnerable groups. I am left with two options
> if I take a worst case scenario approa!
> ch to
> these dilemmas - either tweak my research question (for example to look at
> the posts of public figures and organisations such as media outlets) or
> consider alternative research methods which do not present the ethical
> challenges of discourse analysis or other methods of close analysis, but
> allow me to answer my research question (What were the Facebook user
> perceptions of sole mother poverty and welfare in Australia between May
> 2012 and January 2013?). Any suggestions for readings, tips or advice
> regarding ways forward including methods would be most appreciated. Many
> thanks in advance, Emily _______________________________________________
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> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 10:52:06 +0000
> From: inbar michelzon <inbar.md at gmail.com>
> To: "Dan L. Burk" <dburk at uci.edu>, Charles Ess <c.m.ess at runbox.no>
> Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Ethical challenges in qualitative research using
> Facebook
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> Hi to all
>
> Emily, thank you so much for starting this important discussion, which I
> already learned a lot from.
>
> I hope it is o.k for me to add a question to this debate. You have mention
> the term special attention you need to give in researching minors and this
> is my biggest dilemma as a youth research that do digital ethnography.
>
> My question is more about the consent in the case of teenagers. Let me just
> say that, I also do a discourse analysis and my research involve teenagers
> (ages 15-19) that I divide in to tow groups: the first one are those I
> interview face to face, and than ask them if I can follow them on FB and
> Instagram. If they agree I give them a paper for their parents, that
> explain about the research and says that if they do not agree that their
> son/daughter will participate in this research, please inform me.
> The teens in the second group are friends of the interviewees, to whom I
> send a follow request with a personal message that explain about the
> research and link with the same latter to their parents.
> I know there is a big chance that they will not pass it on to there
> parents, so I would love to here other suggestion regarding research with
> youth on line. I should also mention that my main question is about gender
> and class identity and that maybe it will help if I commit not to publish
> in our language, but only in english, which will make it very hard to
> identify the participants.
> Best regards
> Inbar Michelzon Drori
>
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 at 05:53 Dan L. Burk <dburk at uci.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi Charles --
> >
> > I guess I missed that message? (The one about Australia, having a fair
> > use policy.) I know they have been debating whether to adopt a fair use
> > provision (instead of fair dealing), and I thought it got tabled after
> > opposition from their recording industry. But it sounds like I had
> > better go check the status, maybe it succeeded after all. Thanks for the
> > tip.
> >
> > See you in Berlin for sure. DLB
> >
> > On 2016-08-03 14:05, Charles Ess wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Dan, copy to Emily,
> > > with great regret at taking far longer to get to this than I would have
> > liked - our daughter is now moved to Canada from Heidelberg, a project
> that
> > took up a good deal of our collective time and energy these past few
> weeks
> > as I'm sure you can imagine.
> > > In any event, just wanted to say thanks very much - between this and
> the
> > Australian colleague's posting that Australia has a fair use policy, this
> > got cleared up fairly nicely, I think.
> > >
> > > Again, many thanks and hope to see you in Berlin?
> > > best in the meantime,
> > > - c.
> > >
> > > On 27/07/16 09:00, Dan L. Burk wrote:
> > > Hi Charles -- In any Berne or TRIPs signatory country, copyright will
> > arise automatically when the text is written. So, yes in most countries,
> > certainly Australia. Whether that matters, (for example, whether
> Australian
> > fair dealing might allow the posts to be used or quoted for research
> > purposes regardless) is a whole other question that I can't answer off
> the
> > cuff. Cheers, DLB On 2016-07-25 23:14, Charles Ess wrote: Hi Emily and
> > colleagues, First of all, kudos for your taking such good care at looking
> > into these ethical dimensions of your research. Secondly, a couple of
> > questions: are the posts drawn exclusively from Australian FB users - and
> > if so, what is the Australian law regarding what appears in a public
> > context online? In the U.S., last I knew, such postings are considered
> > automatically copyrighted, and so one ethical-legal issue is, should this
> > be the law in Australia as well, to recognize the posters as copyright
> > holders. Thirdly, the methodological approach and !
> > its
> > affiliated ethical challenges as you describe them are, in my somewhat
> > limited experience, rather standard. This means that I've seen similar
> > projects - including ones involving far more sensitive expression -
> receive
> > IRB and REB approval, so I would not stop with your worst-case scenarios
> > (though these are clearly and carefully thought out - again, kudos). Some
> > possibilities. In terms of dissemination / publication - would it be
> > possible to (a) disguise many, if not the majority of posts by way of a
> > paraphrase and/or aggregate identity (if appropriate), thereby avoiding
> > direct citations, while (b) using some direct citations when absolutely
> > necessary - and then requesting permission to do so? While there are
> > difficulties with requesting such permission, as you point out, in my
> > experience (i.e., reading about and/or discussing similar cases in a
> > variety of contexts - the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), these are not
> > insurmountable. To be sure, one needs to exercise caution
> > regarding identity - though these days, it seems that the vast majority
> of
> > FB identities are more or less authentic. Ditto in the case of a
> vulnerable
> > group, beginning with legal minors. But with care, permission can be
> > requested when necessary in ethically sensitive and responsible ways. Of
> > course, there will likely be a few instances of "no, thank you" (or less
> > politely) - but with any luck, having to omit perhaps a handful of choice
> > citations (and relegating them back into more anonymized form if
> possible /
> > necessary), will not prevent you from having sufficient evidence and
> > analyses to effectively respond to your research questions. That's at
> least
> > my first take - and I only offer these as first thoughts, knowing that
> > there are real experts on this list, including several colleagues in
> > Australia who will have better information about the Aussie context, as
> > well as our colleagues Elizabeth Buchanan, Michael Zimmer, Annette
> Markham,
> > and many others in the northern hemisphe!
> > re with
> > extensive experience in these domains as well who will have much more to
> > add. Hope this helps, then, as at least a helpful start in the
> discussion.
> > Again, kudos and all best wishes, - charles -- Professor in Media Studies
> > Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <
> > http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html [1]>
> > Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations <
> > https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/ [2]> Postboks 1093 Blindern
> > 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess at media.uio.no <mailto:c.m.ess at media.uio.no> On
> > Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Emily Wolfinger <
> emilywolfinger at hotmail.com
> > <mailto:emilywolfinger at hotmail.com> wrote: Hi AoIR Community, I am a PhD
> > Candidate and I have run into some ethical issues in my research, which I
> > am looking for some guidance on. I am exploring Facebook user perceptions
> > of sole mother poverty and welfare in Australia, focusing on a period of
> > welfare debate in which sole parent pension amendments were introduced
> (May
> > 2012-Janua!
> > ry 2013).
> > I'm undertaking a discourse analysis of a subset of comments across four
> > categories of public pages and groups- media, political parties and
> > ministers, welfare/charity organisations and sole mother networks- that
> > were published in response to the amendments. Although Facebook Data
> Policy
> > considers this information public, Internet research ethics guidelines
> and
> > other academic papers point to a number of ethical issues around
> publishing
> > the comments of users without obtaining their consent. As I am doing a
> > post-structural discourse analysis this is unavoidable unless I consider
> > paraphrasing or similar techniques that aim to protect the identity of
> > users, however this strategy raises questions of scientific rigor and
> does
> > not seem to be one that is widely used or indeed fool proof. There are
> also
> > issues around contacting users for consent, for example users could be
> > underage or belong to other vulnerable groups. I am left with two options
> > if I take a worst case scenario approa!
> > ch to
> > these dilemmas - either tweak my research question (for example to look
> at
> > the posts of public figures and organisations such as media outlets) or
> > consider alternative research methods which do not present the ethical
> > challenges of discourse analysis or other methods of close analysis, but
> > allow me to answer my research question (What were the Facebook user
> > perceptions of sole mother poverty and welfare in Australia between May
> > 2012 and January 2013?). Any suggestions for readings, tips or advice
> > regarding ways forward including methods would be most appreciated. Many
> > thanks in advance, Emily _______________________________________________
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> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 14:33:39 +0300
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> Subject: [Air-L] 43rd International Conference on Current Trends in
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> Dear colleagues,
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> The 43rd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice
> of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2017, see http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~georg
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> take place at Lero in Limerick January 16-20, 2017.
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> SOFSEM (SOFtware SEMinar) is the annual international winter conference
> devoted to the theory and practice of computer science. SOFSEM aims to
> present the latest results and developments in research in academia and
> industry, in leading areas of computer science.
>
>
> DEADLINE EXTENSION
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> Due to the many requests for a deadline extension, we have postponed the
> deadlines as follows:
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> Abstract and paper deadline: August 10th, 2016
>
> Kindly submit your abstract as early as possible in order to enable
> the bidding process. You will be able to update your submission
> until the deadline.
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>
> PROCEEDINGS
>
> The SOFSEM 2017 proceedings containing all invited and contributed papers
> will be published in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science by
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> Computing and Software Science.
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> STUDENT RESEARCH FORUM
>
> The SOFSEM 2017 Student Research Forum (SRF) will provide young researchers
> with valuable scientific feedback and networking. Master and PhD students
> are invited to present their research ideas and projects, discuss them with
> the scientific community, and establish collaborations in their field of
> research.
>
> See you at SOFSEM 2017!
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> Tiziana Margaria and Mike Hinchey (General Chairs)
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 10:58:36 -0400
> From: Nanette Levinson <nlevins at american.edu>
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] PostDoc Fellowship Opportunity at Internet Governance
> Lab/American University
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> Colleagues,
>
> Prof. Derrick Cogburn, Prof. Laura and I are seeking a postdoctoral
> fellow to join us this coming academic year at the Internet Governance
> Lab at American University in Washington, DC.
>
> More information here and
> attached: [1]https://jobs.american.edu/JobPosting.aspx?JPID=5829
>
> We would greatly appreciate your help distributing this far and wide to
> your various networks. (We apologize also for any cross posting.)
> Please reach out directly to one of us if you have any questions.
>
> Best, Nanette
>
> Nanette S. Levinson
> Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
> School of International Service
> American University
> Washington, DC 20016-8071
> nlevins at american.edu
>
> References
>
> 1. https://jobs.american.edu/JobPosting.aspx?JPID=5829
>
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