[Air-L] Satellite Events aligned with #AoIR2023

[Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers]

#AoIR2023 Revolutions <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/> is a few weeks away!
There are two satellite events happening before and after the conference.
Additional details can be found on AoIR’s website :
https://aoir.org/satellite-events-for-aoir2023/

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*CARGC SymposiumTurning Points: The Long 1990s in Internet History*
October 16 & 17, 2023
Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Organizing Committee:
Aswin Punathambekar, University of Pennsylvania
Jing Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kinjal Dave, University of Pennsylvania
Ignatius Suglo, University of Pennsylvania
Devo Probol, University of Pennsylvania

Turning Points examines critical moments that shaped the development of
media in various parts of the world, circumstances and histories leading to
these moments, and their impact on media development in subsequent periods.
Steering clear of Anglophone, north-Atlantic media histories, this
symposium returns to the ‘long 1990s’, a period defined by major
political-economic, social, and cultural transformations across Asia,
Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, we ask: what new histories of
the internet emerge into view if we think from the moment of ‘reform’ and
‘economic liberalization’ in varied regional contexts? In what ways would
our understanding of Internet histories and digital futures shift if we
were to draw insights from media histories, practices, and environments
from varied Global South contexts that do not or will not follow an easily
comprehensible, linear path toward a seemingly inevitable digital horizon?

For more information go here:
https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/cargc-symposium-turning-points-long-1990s-internet-history

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*The Post-API Conference: Social media data acquisition after
TwitterSunday, October 22, 2023 (the day after AoIR ends)*
Annenberg Public Policy Center
202 S 36th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
8:30am – 4:30pm

Organizing committee
Deen Freelon, University of Pennsylvania
Josephine Lukito, University of Texas at Austin
Bree McEwan, University of Toronto Mississauga
Josh Pasek, University of Michigan

If you use social media data in your research, you’re going to want to
listen up, because we’ve reached a crisis point. Digital data access has
survived in an uncomfortable and unpredictable flux for years, but the most
recent wave of policy changes may well be existential. Consider the
following developments from the past 12 months:


   - Elon Musk has eliminated free access to Twitter’s API, and the only
   academically useful paid tiers far exceed most researchers’ budgets.
   - Musk has also demanded that Decahose users delete all Twitter data
   acquired under previous agreements–whether this demand will be extended to
   Academic API users is currently unknown.
   - Reddit has denied access to its API for Pushshift, a popular service
   used by researchers to collect Reddit data. Popular Reddit app Apollo is
   facing API charges of $1.7M per month to continue operating.
   - TikTok released a new API for researchers, which among other things
   requires them “to regularly refresh TikTok Research API Data at least every
   fifteen (15) days, and delete data that is not available from the TikTok
   Research API at the time of each refresh.”
   - Crowdtangle, Meta’s researcher tool for acquiring data from Facebook
   and Instagram, still exists as of this writing. But rumors of its imminent
   demise have been reported in multiple reputable outlets.


If your research pipeline has been caught in the crossfire of these and
similar developments, this one-day Post-API Conference is for you. We’re
looking to convene some of the brightest minds working on these issues
across disciplines to help identify the most viable solutions and
alternatives.

To encourage informal conversation between participants, the conference
will adopt a nontraditional structure. Participants will be organized into
four informal plenary panels–two in the morning and two in the
afternoon–each of which will begin with a series of four 5-minute lightning
talks. However, most of the time will be spent in large-scale moderated
discussions between participants and panelists.

For more info please visit here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQYX6jTdcoEi9Laq-PGVfv34g4vZvyF77JoKlMDcJNr15ixSbCcYkHaNdCOVUl7A06_Qn_vZJmc27Kd/pub>
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