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Fwd: Call for participation: Workshop "Interdisciplinary collaboration in IG Research" - 4 Dec. Guadalajara (GIGANET/IPO, UPenn)
by Julia Pohle Sept. 5, 2016

Sept. 5, 2016

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [GIGANET-MEMBERS] Call for participation: Workshop "Interdisciplinary collaboration in IG Research" - 4 Dec. Guadalajara (GIGANET/IPO, UPenn) Datum: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 12:21:34 -0300 Von: Aguerre, Carolina Ines <aguerre(a)UDESA.EDU.AR> Antwort an: Discussion list for GigaNet Members <GIGANET-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> An: GIGANET-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Dear Colleagues, I'm pleased to announce a call for a workshop to be organized on day -1 (4 December), i.e. the day before GIGANET's 11th Annual Symposium at IGF11 in Guadalajara. This is a joint initiative between GIGANET and the Internet Policy Observatory at the University of Pennsylvania. As you may be aware, the weekend before the IGF is increasingly used by the different communities that come to the IGF to have their own discussions and GIGANET's SC believes this is an excellent opportunity to engage in longer and specific debates about particular issues, in this occasion about research methods on IG and collaboration across disciplines. Please see below for more details about the workshop. We will be circulating the full agenda in the coming weeks. Please save the date and RSVP (details below). --- *Challenges and Opportunities: A Condensed Workshop on Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Internet Governance Research* Organized by GIGANET & the Internet Policy Observatory at the University of Pennsylvania 4 December, Guadalajara 2:00 pm -6:00 pm Hotel NH Collection Salon San Francisco Internet governance research has traditionally been at the interdisciplinary cross-roads of many traditions. In the last years, this trend is becoming more prevalent as the challenges to address and theorize Internet governance issues increasingly rely on a greater understanding of technical configurations and their implications. The methods and approaches of computer scientists for data collection and analysis is one such trend. To help bridge the gap across disciplines and open opportunities for interdisciplinary research, the event will bring together computer scientists and social, political and/or legal scholars who have been conducting research on issues such as censorship, net neutrality, privacy and surveillance to discuss methodological issues as well best practices for collaboration between scholars from a variety of disciplines. The second half of the program will feature an open roundtable to discuss the role of academics (and GIGANET) in the wider internet governance and policymaking context. Discussions will focus on how to foster research that is relevant both in academic circles as well as for policy and advocacy communities, how to build research collaborations with advocacy organizations that might be conducting research or have access to significant datasets, and how to bring more researchers and academics, particularly emerging talent, into internet governance conversations and spaces. For the full agenda and to RSVP, please email lsh(a)asc.upenn.edu <mailto:lsh@asc.upenn.edu> The event is free of charge, but requires advanced registration. --- If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to contact me. Best regards Carolina -- Carolina Aguerre Profesora, Depto. de Ciencias Sociales Investigadora Afiliada,Centro de Tecnología y Sociedad T. +5411 4725 7042 www.udesa.edu.ar <http://www.udesa.edu.ar>

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Please fill out our short survey on trends in learning
by Benedikt Fecher Aug. 17, 2016

Aug. 17, 2016

Dear NoC friends and colleagues, in our new research programme "The Knowledge Dimension" at the HIIG we are examining how the Internet affects the way we create, manage, and distribute knowledge. In a preliminary study we are now *examing trends in learning and knowledge dissemination*. To make sure we are not overlooking important developments, we created a short survey that we are sending out to colleagues and experts in the field. Since all of you work with "knowledge and the Internet" everyday and have unique insights to the developments in your particular country, we would be grateful if you could spare 5-10 minutes to fill out our survey <https://docs.google.com/a/hiig.de/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYj-Rkhb_8t1bMxm6buA8e9…>. Please do not hesitate if you have any questions regarding the study. Thank you very much and best regards, Benedikt, Karina & Wolfgang

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Call for (Research Grants) Proposals: ZD.B Junior Research Groups
by Daniel Mendez Aug. 3, 2016

Aug. 3, 2016

Dear all, I gladly forward the open call for proposals for our new research funding programme (for establishing up to ten research groups) on topics related to digitisation. Best regards, Daniel ***************************** In the process of actively shaping the chances offered by the digital transformation, the Bavarian government has developed the strategy "BAYERN DIGITAL". The Centre Digitisation.Bavaria (German: Zentrum Digitalisierung.Bayern, short: ZD.B) provides the core element of that strategy. The ZD.B has established a platform for research, collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship in order to strengthen digital competences in Bavaria and foster collaborations between industry and research on key topics in this area. One central initiative is the establishment of the ZD.B junior research groups (short: research groups) on topics of digitisation at Bavarian state universities and state universities of applied sciences (in the following both referred to as universities). The goal of the funding programme for establishing the research groups is to support young postdoctoral scholars working on topics that are relevant for digitisation in technical, industrial, or societal areas. *** Funding Programme *** The funding programme of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Science and the Arts will support up to 10 junior research group leaders---with an excellent PhD degree---to establish an independent research group working on innovative projects with high practical impact. The programme will provide excellent young scholars with the possibility to begin a long-term academic career. The grant features for each research group include the following: * A volume of up to 250.000,- € per year * A duration of up to 5 years (provided a positive intermediate evaluation after approximately 2 years) * The possibility to supervise PhD students * The possibility to represent their research topics / discipline in teaching The funded research groups are formally assigned to a Bavarian state university and will have their work focus there. To foster an intensive collaboration between the research groups, presences and work phases at the ZD.B offices in Garching (Munich) are planned. All research groups are independent in their research and in the organisation of their research project, as well as in additional fund-raising. The research group leaders supervise scientific theses such as Bachelor, Master, Diploma, and PhD theses. They publish independently as responsible authors and have project budget to hire additional personnel. All publications need to indicate that the research results have been produced in the context of the Centre Digitisation.Bavaria and that it has been funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Science and the Arts. *** Prerequisites and Selection Criteria *** Postdoctoral researchers from Germany and from abroad are entitled to apply for the grant as long as they fulfil the following prerequisites: * Completion of an excellent PhD * Excellent achievements in research and teaching, based on an outstanding publication record (quality and originality), awards and honours, third party funding, collaborations, etc. The application must include the following (according to a given template): * An academic curriculum vitae including qualifications, list of references, experiences in teaching, and an overview of third party funding obtained and / or research projects in which the applicant participated * Three references not including the PhD advisor(s) * A proposal for a research project with a high practical impact, high originality and especially high relevance for the digitisation. Research projects in the context of universities of applied sciences as well as research projects to be conducted in collaboration with industry are also welcome. * Letter of intent from the university to which the applicant will be formally assigned Details on the application can be found following the link provided below. *** Application *** The application must be submitted in English in electronic form as well as via a printed and signed document. All necessary material is available for download under http://zentrum-digitalisierung.bayern/nachwuchsforschungsgruppen/call-for-p…. Only applications that meet the formal requirements will be evaluated. The application must be self-contained without additional, complementary material or publications. It is expected that the application contains a complete and comprehensible concept for additional third-party funding, where reasonable and necessary. The letter of intent, to be signed in advance by the chosen university, must be part of the application. The deadline for the application to the offices of the Centre Digitisation.Bavaria (address below) and in electronic form, to be sent to ResearchGroups(a)zd-b.de<mailto:ResearchGroups@zd-b.de>, is October 1st 2016. _____________________ Dr. habil. Daniel Méndez ZD.B | Zentrum Digitalisierung.Bayern Lichtenbergstraße 8 85748 Garching Tel.: +49 (89) 2488071-13 Daniel.Mendez(a)zd-b.de<http://zd-b.de> http://www.zentrum-digitalisierung.bayern/

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PhD scholarship in internet research - with a focus on the United States
by Klaus Bruhn Jensen July 27, 2016

July 27, 2016

PhD scholarship in internet research with a focus on the United States (re-advertisement) The Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, invites applications for a 3-year PhD scholarship. The successful candidate will be affiliated with the Peoples’ Internet (PIN) project sponsored by the Carlsberg Foundation. The scholarship is expected to begin November 1, 2016, or as soon as possible thereafter. Description of the project “The Peoples’ Internet – Market, state, and civil society in China, Europe, and the United States” will undertake a comparative study of the internet in different world regions. Digital networks are among the most flexible and universally applicable technologies ever invented by humans. But the many significant variations in the social uses of the internet around the world remain poorly understood. The PIN project compares the current state and future potential of the internet in three centers of the global economy and world politics – China, Europe, and the United States – focusing on the interplay of civil society with the other two key sectors of modern societies: market and state. The PhD candidate will be an integral part of the PIN research group. The PhD candidate will participate both in formal project events and in informal deliberations throughout the candidate’s affiliation with the project; will have the opportunity both to pursue personal research interests and to contribute to the overall theoretical and methodological framework of PIN; and will join a wider interdisciplinary research environment centered in the University of Copenhagen’s Center for Communication and Computing and its research group on Digital Communication and Aesthetics. In addition to coursework and other institutional obligations, the PhD candidate will undertake the following main activities: • six months of ethnographic fieldwork in the USA • review of regulatory regimes and cultural traditions in the fieldwork area • participation in analyses of population surveys • contributions to the dissemination of project findings and other outreach. The successful PhD candidate must be fluent in spoken and written academic English. Prior experience with cross-cultural studies and/or survey research within media and communication studies will be considered an advantage, but is not a requirement. It is expected that the successful candidate will be present, part of the research group, and engaged in the activities of PIN on a daily basis. Departing from the PIN project framework, the PhD project description must include: • a main section outlining preliminary research questions, methodological considerations, and a time schedule for a six-month ethnographic fieldwork in the United States of America • a section identifying preliminary issues to be addressed in a review of regulatory regimes and cultural traditions in the U.S. • a section discussing how insights from the fieldwork may inform and complement the survey component of the PIN project. Please notice that this position is advertised in parallel with a similar position where the focus is on Europe, please see: http://phd.humanities.ku.dk/how_to_apply/calls/phd-scholarship-in-internet-… The project proposal must lie within the overall framework of PIN. For further information, including a copy of the project framework, please contact the Principal Investigator of PIN, Professor Klaus Bruhn Jensen kbj(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:kbj@hum.ku.dk> Application deadline: September 15, 2016 at 23.59 (CET), http://phd.humanities.ku.dk/how_to_apply/calls/phd-scholarship-in-internet-… ********************************************************** Klaus Bruhn Jensen Professor, dr.phil. Head of Centre for Communication and Computing Section of Film, Media, and Communication Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication University of Copenhagen Karen Blixens Vej 4 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark kbj(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:kbj@hum.ku.dk> www.media.ku.dk Tel +45-35328100 Fax +45-35328110 ********************************************************** *New publication* Special section of the International Journal of Communication: Audiences across Media (2015), http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc

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Preconference workshop @AOIR2016: The Internet Rules, But How? A STS Take on Doing Internet Governance
by Julia Pohle July 18, 2016

July 18, 2016

Dear all For all among you attending the AoIR conference in Berlin in October, please find below the programme of our pre-conference "The Internet Rules, But How? A STS Take on Doing Internet Governance". Please keep in mind that the Early Bird deadline for AoIR2016 is August 1st. Best regards, Julia, on behalf of the workshop organisers --- The Internet Rules, But How? A Science and Technology Studies (STS) Take on Doing Internet Governance Organizers: Dmitry Epstein (University of Illinois, Chicago), Christian Katzenbach (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin), Francesca Musiani (ISCC – CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne/UPMC Paris), Julia Pohle (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) Over the last decade, the regulation and governance of the Internet at the national and international level have attracted growing attention by policy-makers and researchers. This is particularly the case in post-Snowden times which increased distrust of formal government institutions and their ‘dangerous liaisons’ with the private sector. Accordingly, observing and researching governing processes as they relate to the Internet is both timely and important. Traditionally, researchers and practitioners in Internet governance (IG) focused on new institutions established to discuss and negotiate the technical coordination of the Internet or related policies. Recently, authors have criticized this institutional focus, and perspectives from Science and Technology Studies (STS) suggest to rethink and substantiate questions of ordering and governing the net. In this view, the ‘doing’ of IG more broadly consists in practices and controversies of the design, regulation, and use of material infrastructures, as well as digital uses and practices. This preconference workshop seeks to nurture the growing interest in researching and observing IG from STS-informed perspectives. More broadly, the workshop aims to facilitate a discussion and an exchange of perspectives about the intertwined roles of design, infrastructures, and informal communities of practice in IG. This workshop is part of a broader effort of advancing an STS-informed conversation on Internet governance: it builds on the panel on STS perspectives on IG that took place during AoIR 2015 in Phoenix and a forthcoming special issue of the Internet Policy Review <http://policyreview.info/> (to be published in early September 2016). Tentative program 08:45 Welcome 09:00 Keynote, Laura DeNardis 09:45 Session I. STS and Theoretical Perspectives on Internet Governance * Moderator: Dmitry Epstein * Doing Internet Governance: Constructing Normative Structures inside and outside Intermediary Organisations Tobias Mast, Markus Oermann and Wolfgang Schulz * Situated Governance: On Topological Limits to Internet Governance Ashwin Mathew * Designing a Public Intervention: Towards a Sociotechnical Approach to Web Governance Faranak Hardcastle, Susan Halford and L. Moreau * Building an Authoritarian Counter‐Hegemony? Iran in the Global Debate about Internet Governance Marcus Michaelsen 11:15 Coffee Break 11:30 Session II. Controversies: Unpacking Internet Governance o Moderator: Julia Pohle o Privacy Concerns in the Domain Name System Samantha Bradshaw and Laura DeNardis o SNS Infrastructure as an Actor Inbar Michelzon Drori o Critical infrastructure due diligence – ISPs, security and privacy (tbc) Joanna Kulesza o Migrating Servers, Elusive Users: Reconfigurations of the Russian Internet in the Post-Snowden Era Ksenia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Session III. Round table: Doing STS-informed Internet Governance Research * Moderator: Francesca Musiani * Internet Policy as a Minority Rights Issue Andrea Hackl * Search engine imaginary. Visions and values in the co-production of search technology and Europe Astrid Mager * Human rights and internet infrastructure. Sociotechnical imaginaries and grassroots ordering in internet governance Stefania Milan and Niels ten Oever * Opening the black box of discursive production in multistakeholder policy-making Julia Pohle 15:30 Coffee Break 16:00 Round table: Opening the Black Boxes of Today’s Internet (Governance) * Moderator: Christian Katzenbach * Participants: Laura DeNardis (tbc), Jeanette Hofmann, Tarleton Gillespie (tbc), Stéphane Couture, Dmitry Epstein 17:30 End of the Workshop

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Research stay at WZB Berlin - Internet Policy group
by Julia Pohle July 1, 2016

July 1, 2016

Dear all, The Internet policy project group <https://www.wzb.eu/en/research/international-politics-and-law/internet-poli…> at the WZB Social Science Center Berlin <https://www.wzb.eu/en/about-the-wzb> welcomes (doctoral or postdoctoral) visiting fellows who study different aspects of Internet policy and regulation from a social science perspective and wish to visit Germany for a short-term research stay. In particular, we are looking to support applications for third-party funding for longer research periods such as the Individual Fellowships of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (find the current call below). Please feel free to get in touch if you are interested in a research stay at our institution or in any other kind of cooperation with our group (julia.pohle(a)wzb.eu) Best regards Julia --- Call for Individual Fellowships of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) within Horizon 2020 for postdoctoral researchers: Individual Fellowships allow excellent postdoctoral researchers from abroad to come and spend up to 24 months at the WZB. At the time of the deadline for submission of proposals, researchers shall not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Germany for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the call deadline. Researchers of all nationalities are eligible to apply for an Individual Fellowship. An MSCA grant usually includes: - up to two years' salary - a mobility allowance - research costs (as well as overheads for the host institution). There are two types of individual fellowship: *European Fellowships* are particularly attractive to researchers either coming to, or moving within, Europe. Furthermore, they can help to restart research careers after a career break (e.g. parental leave), and they can also facilitate the reintegration of researchers coming back to Europe. *Global Fellowships* fund secondments outside Europe for researchers based in the EU or associated countries. There is a mandatory one-year return period, which is not affected by the mobility rule. European and Global Fellowships can also include an optional period of secondment of up to 6 months in the private sector in Europe. The current call can be found on the Participant Portal: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/… -- Dr. Julia Pohle Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung(WZB)/ WZB Berlin Social Science Center Politikfeld Internet / Internet Policy Internationales Recht und Politik / International law and politics Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin / Germany Office: +49-(0)30-25491-220 Email:julia.pohle@wzb.eu

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article on open access, innovation & infrastructure
by Benedikt Fecher June 24, 2016

June 24, 2016

Dear network members, a colleague and I recently wrote a short article on Open Access and infrastructure/innovation that might be of interest for some of you: Abstract: http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/2/17/ HTML Version: http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/2/17/html PDF Version: http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/2/17/pdf Manuscript: http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/2/17/manuscript I am very much interested in discussing ideas on the market for OA publishing and potential new business models for scholarly publications. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you are interested to discuss ideas, perhaps in the "learning call"-format that we are already using in the NoC. Best regards from Berlin benedikt fecher

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Promoting the NoC - website, mailing list and social media
by Lorenzo Canova June 20, 2016

June 20, 2016

Dear Colleagues, As you know, the Network of Centers (NoC) shares its updates via: - the NoC website: http://networkofcenters.net/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NetworkofCenters?fref=ts - Twitter: https://twitter.com/Network_Centers - the Netsociety mailing list: https://lists.networkofcenters.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/netsociety To further promote the NoC, could you please (if you have not already done so): 1) link the NoC website on your websites; 2) follow/cite the NoC on Twitter/Facebook; 3) invite any interested party to subscribe to the netsociety mailing list ? Given the breadth of our Network, we are sure that your help would be really effective! Many thanks, all the best, Lorenzo

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Benchmarking Demand: PAKISTAN AND THE INTERNET USERS’ PERSPECTIVE‏
by Arzak Khan June 9, 2016

June 9, 2016

Dear All, We at Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan and Center for Global Communication Studies are happy to announce our latest report "Benchmarking Demand: Pakistan and the internet users's perspective". This report is the third in a series that examines public attitudes and preferences about Internet censorship and regulation in states in which media and Internet use are subject to increasing restrictions.In the context of Pakistan, where rapid increases in internet access and usage are accompanied by a propensity to regulate this new cyber-territory, the goal of this report is to uncover the views of Pakistani Internet users with respect to the regulation and control of online spaces.In each of these reports, we seek to provide insight into who uses the Internet in each country and the most used and trusted sources of online and offline information. But more than that, the surveys seek to add to a process: learning how to plumb general views about the influence of the Internet on politics and society and chart attitudes concerning censorship on various political, religious and social grounds. The reports test an approach to determining who, among competing institutions, people trust to regulate the Internet, what constitutes their policy preferences about Internet regulation, and the extent to which Internet regulation issues might figure in political mobilization efforts in furtherance of Internet freedom.I hope you all found this report interesting. Best Regards,Arzak Khan

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Benchmarking Demand: PAKISTAN AND THE INTERNET USERS’ PERSPECTIVE‏
by Arzak Khan June 9, 2016

June 9, 2016

Dear All, We at Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan and Center for Global Communication Studies are happy to announce our latest report "Benchmarking Demand: Pakistan and the internet users's perspective". This report is the third in a series that examines public attitudes and preferences about Internet censorship and regulation in states in which media and Internet use are subject to increasing restrictions.In the context of Pakistan, where rapid increases in internet access and usage are accompanied by a propensity to regulate this new cyber-territory, the goal of this report is to uncover the views of Pakistani Internet users with respect to the regulation and control of online spaces.In each of these reports, we seek to provide insight into who uses the Internet in each country and the most used and trusted sources of online and offline information. But more than that, the surveys seek to add to a process: learning how to plumb general views about the influence of the Internet on politics and society and chart attitudes concerning censorship on various political, religious and social grounds. The reports test an approach to determining who, among competing institutions, people trust to regulate the Internet, what constitutes their policy preferences about Internet regulation, and the extent to which Internet regulation issues might figure in political mobilization efforts in furtherance of Internet freedom. I hope you all found this report interesting. Best Regards,Arzak Khan

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