[Air-L] Antw: Air-L Digest, Vol 257, Issue 24 (Abwesenheit / Out of Office)

Tue Dec 23 13:10:47 PST 2025

Ich mache gerade eine kurze Weihnachtspause, um mich mit meiner Familie,
gutem Essen und Freude zu erholen. Ich werde nach meiner Rückkehr am 7.
Januar 2026 alle Mails antworten.

Fröhliche Feiertage!

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I’m on a short Christmas holiday break, recharging with family, food,
and fun. I’ll respond when I return on 7 January 2026.

Warm wishes, 

Merle Willenberg

Merle Willenberg (sie/ihr)
Anglistik/Sprachwissenschaft
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Adam-Kuckhoff-Str. 35 | 06108 Halle (Saale)

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Today's Topics:

   1. Job Opening: Tenure-track assistant professorship in
      empirical communication research at Department of Communication,
      Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (Alan Wervick)
   2. CFP [due Jan 2nd]: Gaming Across Boundaries: Interactive
      Technology in Education and Culture (Greenhalgh, Spencer P.)
   3. Platforms & Society, Articles published in 2025
      (Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann)
   4. CFP [due Jan 2nd]: Gaming Across Boundaries: Interactive
      Technology in Education and Culture (Greenhalgh, Spencer P.)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:40:59 +0100
From: Alan Wervick <awervick at gmail.com>
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Subject: [Air-L] Job Opening: Tenure-track assistant professorship in
	empirical communication research at Department of Communication,
	Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
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*Tenure-track assistant professorship in empirical communication
research*
The Department of Communication, Faculty of Humanities at the University
of
Copenhagen is inviting applications for a tenure-track assistant
professorship in empirical communication research starting on June 1,
2026,
or as soon as possible thereafter.

The Department is seeking a new colleague with strong qualifications in
quantitative communication research as demonstrated through the
application
in research projects and teaching activities. In addition, competencies
in
qualitative and mixed-methods studies of communication are an advantage.
It
is a further advantage, if the candidate has experience from
collaborations
with organizations outside the university in research and/or teaching.

*The deadline for applications is 23:59 [CET] on 26 January 2026.Read
more*
*Read more:*
https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=3010&ProjectId=154683&DepartmentId=19951&MediaId=5121

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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:47:28 +0000
From: "Greenhalgh, Spencer P." <spencer.greenhalgh at uky.edu>
To: Kylie Jarrett via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-L] CFP [due Jan 2nd]: Gaming Across Boundaries:
	Interactive Technology in Education and Culture
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Dear AIR-L colleagues,

The Gaines Center for the Humanities at the University of Kentucky is
funding a conference on Interactive Technology in Education and Culture
(with a particular?but not exclusive?focus on games) that will take
place in February 2026. The conference will take place at the University
of Kentucky but will support exclusively online and hybrid presentations
and panels aPlease see attached for the full CFP?abstract submissions (max. 500
words for individual talks; max. 1,000 words for panels) are due on
January 2nd. Abstracts (or any questions) can be directed to Nash Meade
(nash.meade at uky.edu<mailto:nash.meade at uky.edu>).

Best,

Spencer

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Spencer Greenhalgh, PhD (he/him/his)

Program Coordinator, Information Communication Technology
Associate Professor of Information Communication Technology

School of Information Science
College of Communication and Information
University of Kentucky

Production Editor, Journal of the Mormon Social Science Association

website: spencergreenhalgh[dot]com[slash]work
zoom: uky[dot]zoom[dot]us[slash]greenhalgh

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:14:21 +0000
From: Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann <rafael.grohmann at utoronto.ca>
To: Researchers <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-L] Platforms & Society, Articles published in 2025
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Hi AoIR,

As the year wraps up, check out the articles published by Platforms &
Society in 2025. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/pnsa/2
And consider submitting your article in 2026!

Platforms & Society
Volume 2, January-December 2025

Table of Contents

Platform gaslighting: A user-centric insight into social media corporate
communications of content moderation
Tom Divon, Carolina Are, Pam Briggs

Multichannel networks in China's livestreaming industry: Failing
industrial lore and limited intermediary roles amidst platformization
Zhen Ye

Disciplined autonomy: A failed platform-cooperativism initiative in
Brazil
Walmir Estima, Andr? Lemos

Online moving of Chinese boys? love fans: A platform ecology perspective
Lin Zhang

State, platform capitalism and infrastructural power: Microsoft's data
centres in Greece 2.0
Charis Papaevangelou, Eugenia Siapera

Platform imperialism and disinformation in Aotearoa-New Zealand
Olivier Jutel, Leon A. Salter

Gendered inequalities of platform work in Africa: Findings from a
multi-country analysis
Batoul Al Mehdar, Sharon Geeling, Nagla Rizk, Funda Ustek Spilda, Eisha
Afifi, Joseph Budu, Pitso Tsibolane, Richard Boateng, Hilda
Mwakatumbula, Mark Graham, Richard Heeks

Navigating labour's labyrinth: Developing a typology of platform work in
Sub-Saharan Africa
Adio-Adet Tichafara Dinika

Mapping Amazon's logistical footprint on the Ruhr ? How a tech company
is influencing cities, cluster politics and climates
Maja-Lee Voigt

?We do not marshal your feed?: How Alt Tech platforms (re) conceptualise
safety
Paloma Viejo Otero, Rebecca Scharlach

?Eyo, mixed girl check?: The commodification of embodied performance in
the #mixedgirlcheck trend on TikTok
Ana-Nzinga Wei?, Florian Primig, Hanna Dorottya Szab?

Perpetual precarity: Cycles of value extraction in the platformised
multi-level marketing scheme
Jacob ?rmen, Andreas Lindegaard Gregersen, Anne Mette Thorhauge, Linea
Munk Petersen

The rise of war influencers: Creators, platforms, and the visibility of
conflict zones
Tom Divon, Moa Eriksson Krutr?k

Prodexchange: Digital?industrial economization in Google Search supply
chain
Koray Caliskan, Donald MacKenzie, Addie McGowan

Injustice by design: A critical technocultural discourse and Latina
feminist analysis of Amazon's ACX audiobook labor platform
Ruth L. Nu?ez

Labour super-exploitation in differential uberisation: A Latin American
perspective on the platform economy
Federico De Stavola

Platforms and the governmentality of political consumerism: A critical
analysis of review bombing and de/politicization on Steam
Andrew Wirzburger

The Amazonification of Royal Mail and postal worker identity
Jess Brand, Lina Dencik

Intermediation of lending: Platforms, mobile money, and data
transactions in India
Rahul Mukherjee

>From platform governance to institutional practice: Experimentation,
misalSurveil to protect and surveil to punish: Strategies to tackle sexual
exploitation between national law and global corporate policies
Carmela Morgillo, Salom? Lannier

The incentives of PayPay against the convenience of cash: On the
conveniencing of cashless payments in Japan
Marc Steinberg

Data interoperability and the governance of public value
Linda Huber

Value through contribution systems
Ellie Rennie

Value from data? A decentralized approach
Kelsie Nabben

Comparing TikTok and Instagram's sociotechnical environments for
cultural production
Alex Turvy

Golden shares in Chinese platforms: The state as news licensor and
minority shareholder
Angela Xiao Wu

Local platformized utopias? corporate discourse, community groups, and
volunteer moderation on Facebook, Reddit, and NextDoor
Nicholas Proferes, Kelley Cotter, Kjerstin Thorson, Ankolika De,
Chia-Fang Chang, Ava Francesca Battocchio

Sex work as cross-platform self-branding. Challenges and strategies of
OnlyFans? content creators in a precarious ecosystem
Margherita Di Cicco, Davide Beraldo

A systemic framework for disinformation on social media platforms
Raquel Recuero

Algorithmic pedagogy: How Douyin constructs algorithmic imaginaries for
content creators
Meng Liang, Linqi Ye

The politics of value: Platform economies in the ecological transition
Franziska Cooiman

Data or content? The conceptual battles defining dataset markets
Jake Goldenfein

Toward a platform?labor?territory nexus: Platform-driven
deterritorialization and reterritorialization processes in the Chilean
Andes
Jae-Young Elisabeth Lee

Worker power in self-organised networks: Algorithmic management,
solidarity and resistance on platforms
Mohammad Amir Anwar

Value from digital twins
Mark Andrejevic, Zoe Elena Horn, Michael Richardson

Synthetic imaginaries of ?sensitive? AI: On ambient amplification and
jail(break)ing as method
Elena Pilipets, Marloes Geboers

Workflow monopolies: A platform historiography of Unity in the immersive
app economy
Chris J Young, Daniel J Joseph, David B Nieborg

Sociotechnical enveloping: Productization of APIs and the transnational
expansion of Alipay+
Jing Wang

?Why can?t I just be fat and exist on the internet??: The embeddedness
of antifatness on TikTok
Kelley Cotter, Rebecca Jonas, Ankolika De

Coordinated inauthentic behaviour on Facebook? A typology of
manufactured attention
Richard Rogers, Nicola Righett

Digital platform economies: Value from data?
Janet Roitman, Andrew Moon, Leila Lin

Platform power and climate responsibility: A longitudinal view on
digital platform companies? environmental discourse
Mervi Pantti, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Elis Karell

How do multi-modal large language models understand non-English visual
hate? Insights from studying hate speech in Chinese-speaking communities
on Instagram
Jing Zeng, Qinghao Guan, Ariadna Matamoros-Fern?ndez, Xiran Liu

Hot tubs, yoga pants, and gamba: Twitch's controversial metas as
cultural negotiations of platform governance
CJ Reynolds

A conversation on housing under platform capitalism: The contentious
regulation of short-term rentals in European cities
Emanuele Sciuva, Mara Ferreri, Gianluca Bei, Francesca Artioli, Thomas
Aguilera, Claire Colomb

>From Murdoch to Musk: Platform ownership and the political economy of
online content governance
Paddy Leerssen

States and platform capitalisms: A conversation
Hatim El-Hibri, Joe F. Khalil, Marc Steinberg, Lin Zhang, Rahul
Mukherjee

Redefining social media influencership through followership building
Muhammed Tobiloba Alakitan

Adaptive governance: How digital platforms change their design
Dani?lle Flonk Kevin Garvey

Platformized labour and harassment in Canada: Quantifying the effects of
racism on content creators
Daniela Zuzunaga Zegarra

Music streaming platforms and everyday musical lives: Dynamics of
community, individualisation and personalisation in China
David Hesmondhalgh, Shuwen Qu

Regulating AI in the workplace: A criDigital rhythmanalysis: Studying memetic and affective rhythms on the
post-viral Web
Sal Hagen, Dani?l de Zeeuw, Tommaso Venturini

The vortex of visibility: Platformization and literary practices in an
emerging economy
Rosie Nguyen

The Salesforce of safety: Software vendors as
infrastructural/professional nodes in the field of online trust and
safety
Lucas Wright

Ghost infrastructure: The political economy of abandoned submarine data
cable projects
Sofie Flensburg, Signe Sophus La

Infrastructural platforms as producers of incremental innovation:
Investigating software development in Amazon's Alexa Prize Competition
Niklas Str?ver

Seeing (like) a platform: Using data rights for participatory study of
platforms
Ana Pop Stefanija, Jo Pierson

Symbolic surplus: How recruitment strategies form workers? social
composition and protest in food delivery gig work
Heiner Heiland

The editors
Julie Yujie Chen
Rafael Grohmann
Andrea Pollio
Cheryll Soriano
Niels van Doorn

--

dr. Rafael Grohmann

Assistant Professor of Media Studies

Department of Arts, Culture and
Media<https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann>

Faculty of
Information<https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/rafael-grohmann/>

University of Toronto

Leader, DigiLabour<https://digilabour.com.br/>
Research Associate, University of
Oxford<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/rafael-grohmann/>

Founding Editor, Platforms &
Society<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS>

Principal Investigator, Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms
(WOIP)<https://digilabour.com.br/worker-owned-intersectional-platforms-woip/>

Co-Lead, Creative Labour and Critical Futures
(CLCF)<https://criticaldigitalmethods.ca/creative-labour-critical-futures/>

Researcher, AI Policy Observatory for the World of
Work<https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/ai-policy-observatory-for-the-world-of-work>

Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and
Society<https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/> 
<https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/>

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:58:35 +0000
From: "Greenhalgh, Spencer P." <spencer.greenhalgh at uky.edu>
To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-L] CFP [due Jan 2nd]: Gaming Across Boundaries:
	Interactive Technology in Education and Culture
Message-ID: <E088454F-4537-44FD-83AB-AEBF202D595E at uky.edu>
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Dear AIR-L colleagues,

Please don't tell my colleagues that I can't do attachments properly, or
they'll take away my tenure. :) Here's a link to the CFP:
https://www.cfplist.com/CFP/46091

The Gaines Center for the Humanities at the University of Kentucky is
funding a conference on Interactive Technology in Education and Culture
(with a particular?but not exclusive?focus on games) that will take
place in February 2026. The conference will take place at the University
of Kentucky but will support exclusively online and hybrid presentations
and panels as well.

Please see the link above for the full CFP?abstract submissions (max.
500 words for individual talks; max. 1,000 words for panels) are due on
January 2nd. Abstracts (or any questions) can be directed to Nash Meade
(nash.meade at uky.edu<mailto:nash.meade at uky.edu>).

Best,

Spencer

------
Spencer Greenhalgh, PhD (he/him/his)

Program Coordinator, Information Communication Technology
Associate Professor of Information Communication Technology

School of Information Science
College of Communication and Information
University of Kentucky

Production Editor, Journal of the Mormon Social Science Association

website: spencergreenhalgh[dot]com[slash]work
zoom: uky[dot]zoom[dot]us[slash]greenhalgh

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