[Air-L] New longform article on machine learning and investigative journalism
Monika Sengul-Jones
jones.monika at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 14:46:01 PST 2021
Hi air-l list members:
I'm writing to share my latest article for Data Journalism.com, a project
of the European Journalism Centre, on using machine learning and
investigative journalism, which may be of relevance to your work.
Bring in the machines
<https://datajournalism.com/read/longreads/machine-learning-investigative-journalism>:
AI-powered investigative journalism describes how journalists/newsrooms are
using machine learning to hold governments and big businesses accountable.
And features case studies from reporters working with Buzzfeed News, ICIJ,
Grist, The Markup, and more.
It's written for journalists, but appropriate for a general audience as
well -- students, educators, academics, media makers, and/or anyone curious
about the uptake of machine learning for investigative reporting on or with
large data sets.
I hope you will read and if you are so moved, share. Happy to
answer questions as well.
Link:
https://datajournalism.com/read/longreads/machine-learning-investigative-journalism
Best
--
Monika Sengul-Jones, PhD (she/her)
Independent writer and scholar
www.monikasjones.com
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> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 09:15:12 +0000
> From: "Carmi, Elinor" <Elinor.Carmi at city.ac.uk>
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> You're invited to join GigaNet's Annual Symposium TODAY from 14.00 to
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> PANEL 1A: Platform Regulation
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> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 12:21:30 +0000
> From: camrievent <camrievent at westminster.ac.uk>
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> Subject: [Air-L] Algorithmic Desire and the Ideology of Twenty-First
> Century Capitalism (Matthew Flisfeder)
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> Please join us at the CAMRI seminar Thursday this week
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> Algorithmic Desire and the Ideology of Twenty-First Century Capitalism
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> Matthew Flisfeder (University of Winnipeg)
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> Date: Thursday, 9 December 2021
> Time: 17.00-19.00 (UK time)
> Location: Online event - Zoom Meeting (please register so that we can send
> you the Zoom link)
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> Registration:
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> Much has been written about the more deleterious dimensions of social
> media websites, platforms, and apps, from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube,
> to Instagram and Snapchat, dating apps like Tinder, and more recent apps
> like TikTok. We are all more than familiar with critiques of social media
> corporate and government surveillance, the commodification, expropriation
> and exploitation of user-provided data, the tailoring and curation of
> content, and of course recent dilemmas focused on fake news tying our use
> of social media to international cyberwarfare. Given all of these potential
> problems, why don?t we just give up and abandon our attachment to social
> media? How might we grapple with the exploitative and anti-democratic
> aspects of social media set against the kinds of enjoyment that it
> procures? Despite some of these problems, Matthew Flisfeder argues that
> social media helps us to grasp the co-ordinates, not merely of our trouble
> with machines and new media, but with the larger totalit
> y of twenty-first century capitalism. Conceiving social media as a
> central metaphor for our historical present, Flisfeder proposes extending
> the concept to its fullest potentials. Instead of abandoning the concept,
> Flisfeder argues that the term social media helps us to render what is
> problematic about contemporary neoliberal capitalism, proposing that it is
> only by pursuing and failing to achieve a truly authentic social media as
> our goal that we are best positioned to understand the real contradictions
> of our time, as well as dominant forms of subjectivity, consciousness, and
> enjoyment.
>
> Biography
>
> Matthew Flisfeder is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communications
> at The University of Winnipeg (Canada). He is the author of Algorithmic
> Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media (Northwestern UP
> 2021), Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (Bloomsbury 2017), The Symbolic,
> The Sublime, and Slavoj ?i?ek?s Theory of Film (Palgrave Macmillan 2012),
> and co-editor of ?i?ek and Media Studies: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan
> 2014).
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> Further CAMRI Seminar this term:
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> Thursday, 16 December 2021
>
> Book launch: AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives
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> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 16:59:17 +0000
> From: Jessie G Taft <jgt43 at cornell.edu>
> To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-L] 2022 Fellowships at the Digital Life Initiative,
> Cornell Tech
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> Good morning,
>
> Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative (DLI) invites applications for its
> 2022 Fellowship class. This year, we are recruiting for two Fellowship
> positions: a Technology Law and Policy Fellowship and a Postdoctoral
> Research Fellowship. Working alongside and complementing an outstanding,
> multidisciplinary community of DLI Postdoctoral Fellows, Doctoral Fellows,
> Visitors, and Faculty, new Fellows will pursue research in, and policy
> approaches to, a range of urgent topics including but not limited to
> privacy and surveillance, platform governance, transparency, content
> moderation, algorithmic discrimination, digital political economy,
> information control and freedom, fundamental rights, digital inequality,
> network regulation, and security.
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> Read more and apply here:
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> Applications will be considered beginning on January 15, 2022, until
> positions are filled.
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> Please forward to others who may be interested, and don't hesitate to
> contact us at digitallife at cornell.edu<mailto:digitallife at cornell.edu> if
> you have any questions about the position.
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> Sincerely,
>
> Jessie G Taft
> On behalf of Helen Nissenbaum and the Digital Life Initiative
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> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 12:45:28 -0500
> From: Kat Schrier Shaenfield <kschrier at gmail.com>
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] Call for Chapters and Inclusive Games Group
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> A few reminders:
>
> 1. We have a new *Inclusive Games Network*
>
> We are hosting our next meet-and-greet meeting on *Thursday, December 9th*
> at 8 pm ET. Come join us!
>
> We are exploring things like...
> --Developing an "unconference" on inclusive games
> --Creating whitepapers/open access books on inclusive games
> --Connecting with each other and with organizations that are supporting
> inclusion in games
> --Finding collaborators for grants, research, and scholarship
> --Finding collaborators for games and other projects
> --Creating a cozy, inclusive, caring community
> --& MORE!
> Please email me if you want more details about the group and our meeting.
>
> 2. In fact... we have a new book in the works!
> *50 Games to Use for Inclusion, Equity, and Justice (ETC Press)*
>
> The call for chapters is due on *this Thursday* December the 9th!
>
> Here is the VERY QUICK proposal form
> <
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerAZdBHHzRMAO3taMPy_qUwQ2eH4pzmPGJnBD4HMJ7CfsX_Q/viewform
> >
> :
>
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerAZdBHHzRMAO3taMPy_qUwQ2eH4pzmPGJnBD4HMJ7CfsX_Q/viewform
>
> If you don't know which of many games to choose, just pick one and then in
> the comments, provide other possibilities -- that's fine!
>
> If you don't know any game to choose but you want to participate, that's
> fine too! Just add your name and put in the games questions N/A - and then
> explain in the comments that you are excited to write about any game (I can
> help you choose one)!
>
> We are specifically looking for people willing to write about:
> Indie games
> Non-digital games/board/card games
> AR/VR games
> Online multiplayer games
> Popular commercial games
> TTRPGs
> and more!
>
> Thanks!
> -----------------------------------------
> Dr. Karen (Kat) Schrier
> http://www.karenschrier.com
> www.twitter.com/drgamermom
>
> Associate Professor & Director, Games & Emerging Media program, Marist
> College
> Game Design Consultant, World Health Organization (WHO) Academy
> Author, *We the Gamers* <https://gamesforcivics.com/> (Oxford University
> Press)
> Author, *Knowledge Games
> <https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/knowledge-games>* (Johns Hopkins
> University Press)
> Editor, *Learning, Education, & Games <https://gamesforgrowing.com/>
> book *series
> (ETC Press/Carnegie Mellon)
> Author, Designing Ourselves <https://www.adl.org/media/13011/download>
> (Center
> for Technology & Society)
> *Please call me Kat or Dr. Kat (She/They)*
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> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 18:43:31 +0000
> From: Lina Dencik <DencikL at cardiff.ac.uk>
> To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-L] Lecturer position in Digital Media and Society at
> JOMEC, Cardiff University
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> The School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University
> is looking to hire a Lecturer (Grade 7) in Digital Media and Society.
>
> The role involves the delivery of high-quality and research-led teaching
> at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and to contribute to the
> research record of the School through the commitment to carry out research
> leading to the publishing of high-quality research; to pursue excellence in
> research, teaching and enterprise and to inspire others to do the same; and
> to advance the School?s renowned work in the field of digital media,
> critical data studies, and data justice.
>
> Deadline for applications is 09/01/2022. Further details can be found
> here:
> https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/HomeWithPreLoad?partnerid=30011&siteid=5460&PageType=searchResults&SearchType=linkquery&LinkID=6#jobDetails=1890519_5460
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> Best,
>
> Lina
>
> --
>
> Professor Lina Dencik
>
> Co-Founder Data Justice Lab
>
> PI Data Justice: Understanding datafication in relation to social justice
> (DATAJUSTICE), ERC Starting Grant 2018-2023
>
> PI Advancing Data Justice in the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales)
> Act, EPSRC Network+ Grant 2021
>
> Co-I Towards Democratic Auditing: Civic Participation in the Scoring
> Society, Open Society Foundations 2018-2021
>
> School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University
>
> Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff CF10 1FS
>
> Email: DencikL at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL at cardiff.ac.uk>, Tel: +44
> (0)29 208 75461
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> Twitter: @LinaDencik
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> Fellow, Center for Media, Data and Society, Central European University
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