<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Mirko and I are just sending a reminder!  Hope you are all well.</span><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 7:21 AM Tracey P. Lauriault <<a href="mailto:tlauriau@gmail.com">tlauriau@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><span id="gmail-m_-6487362465547044515gmail-m_8223280913107862149gmail-docs-internal-guid-c7a89451-7fff-a5ff-52a9-8c8d5a24d31e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14.6667px;white-space:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">OA Book Call for Contributions:</span></span>
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Making a Difference!</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Novel Research Methods in the Datafied Society</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Background:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Schäfer and Lauriault are critical, theoretical and practice based scholars who do data work within and beyond the academy. While doing so they have experienced the tension between the expectations of traditional forms of scholarly funded research, and doing novel forms of socially relevant empirical work. This rewarding research is engaged, and often involves relationship building with partners from  government, the private sector and civil society. This also requires relationship building, time, learning by doing, and knowledge mobilization often at odds with the publish or perish model.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">They want to hear from others whose research practices actually make a difference in the datafied society.  This edited book </span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Making a Difference! Novel Research Methods in the Datafied Society </span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">invites scholars, instructors, practitioners and professionals in academia, government, the private sector and civil society who do the same and want to share their critical, participatory and entrepreneurial data work to improve social and material outcomes, and create systems that are fair, accountable and transparent. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Making a Difference!</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> also matters in the classroom, especially with students at different stages in their academic and professional life trajectories who seek impactful and meaningful learning opportunities. This is also true in boardrooms, as there is also the call for evidence-informed decision making and for responsible data practices. It has proven difficult for many however to balance the traditional mission of the university and the desire to have a positive impact on society. This is especially the case when doing data work with practitioners, administrators and professionals. Some in the university are adapting and evolving their research practices in unique and interesting ways, others are doing critical research outside the academy, and some are doing both. We want to hear how you address these challenges.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Making a Difference! </span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">will feature bold ideas from researchers, practitioners, designers, and instructors who have developed collaborative ways of doing critically informed data work. This may include digital methods and analytical approaches to conduct joint projects with government, media, corporations, and civil society partners. This work may be funded by both traditional and novel forms of financial arrangements. This direct engagement with external partners often connects research agendas to address urgent societal needs, which often allows students to incubate new ideas and create new occupations. In addition to reconfiguring relationships with practitioners, entrepreneurially minded scholars have maintained independence while producing rigorous and critical research. These emerging and mutually beneficial approaches to doing critically informed data work increasingly recognize team efforts, transdisciplinary cooperation, and entrepreneurial skills that have made difference.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chapters for this OA book will be between 3000-8000 words and will be organized into the following broad areas: </span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:13pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Theoretically informed applied research; </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:13pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Methodological approaches to doing engaged and participatory research;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:13pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Transdisciplinary and multi-sectoral research projects; </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:13pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Case studies (may be shorter chapters 3000-4000 words); </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:13pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Novel pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning (3000-4000 words);</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:13pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Position statements that identify pressing challenges about doing this type of critically informed data work (could also be shorter chapters 3000-5000 words).</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The following is a list of potential topic areas:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Action, engaged, and participatory scholarship and research</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Entrepreneurial research (as an example see</span><span id="gmail-m_-6487362465547044515gmail-TSRSpan_349" style="display:inline-block;width:16px;height:16px;padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;vertical-align:top"><img style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px;"></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSKk1kYgDHk" style="background-color:rgb(184,234,184);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">this video</span></a><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Socially transformative interdisciplinary collaborations </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Multi-sectoral team-based collaborations </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Applied basic research and practices from STEAM disciplines, in the humanities, social and/or natural sciences, data science, HCI, etc. </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Academic-community knowledge transfer</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Co-creation, co-design and forms of public engagement</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Citizen science, crowdsourcing, and open data</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Engaged pedagogical approaches, community partners in the classroom; multi-purpose assignments, and etc.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Maintaining impartiality, autonomy and research integrity with private funding</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Scholars as experts, practitioner, and as academics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Impact measurers, metrics, indicators, and theory of change</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Data practices that address equity & inclusion and anti racism, sexism, LGBTQ, ableism, Indigenous issues, labour, etc.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Other issues that arise from AI/ML, data infrastructures, systems, and technologies through these novel forms of conducting research</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Suggest an idea!</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Making a Difference!</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Will be organized as follows. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1.</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">    </span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Theoretical Approaches about doing critically informed transdisciplinary and multi-sectoral data work that challenge traditional humanities and social science scholarship </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In this section chapters (3000-8000 words) contextualize emergent forms of engaged scholarship through in-depth theoretical reflections about how to transform the academic status quo in terms of research and pedagogy. Here we also imagine chapters that might include methodological and pedagogical approaches.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:42.5197pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 11.4803pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2.</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Case Studies about Doing Critically Engaged Data Work  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chapters here might be shorter (3000-5000 words) and include one or more case studies that apply theory and describe novel approaches to engaged research, teaching and collaboration. We are particularly interested in contributions that track a project’s societal impact, and that emphasize how challenges to traditional forms of university research have been overcome, including  those encountered by those outside the academy working with scholars.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:42.5197pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 11.4803pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3.</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">      </span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Position Papers on Pressing Challenges</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chapters here might address practical solutions to the challenges imposed by the transformation of the academy and societal needs for critically engaged data work. Authors would take a position on productive paths forward on topics such as (but not limited to) obtaining funding, ensuring research integrity, awarding recognition, avoiding cooptation, implementing new metrics, creating incentives, conducting open access and open data research, and conceptualizing new roles for researchers and students.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About the editors:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:14.1732pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mirko Tobias Schäfer</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University, and a co-founder of the </span><span id="gmail-m_-6487362465547044515gmail-TSRSpan_350" style="display:inline-block;width:16px;height:16px;padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;vertical-align:top"><img style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px;"></span><a href="https://dataschool.nl/en/" style="background-color:rgb(184,234,184);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Utrecht Data School</span></a><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span><a href="mailto:m.t.schaefer@uu.nl" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">m.t.schaefer@uu.nl</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:14.1732pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span id="gmail-m_-6487362465547044515gmail-TSRSpan_351" style="display:inline-block;width:16px;height:16px;padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;vertical-align:top"><img style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px;"></span><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-2738" style="background-color:rgb(184,234,184);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tracey P. Lauriault</span></a><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is Associate Professor of Critical Media and Big Data, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tracey.Lauriault@Carleton.ca</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Contributions:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:14.1732pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We seek contributions from scholars, instructors, practitioners and professionals in academia, government, the private sector and civil society. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:14.1732pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We hope to receive works from any of the following: geography, anthropology, media studies, communication, journalism, organizational studies, business, public administration, sociology, social work, gender studies, criminology, philosophy, digital humanities, HCI, data science and others that do critically engaged data work for an open access book entitled </span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Making a Difference! Novel Research Practices in the Datafied Society</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to be published by Amsterdam University Press by the spring of 2022. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission Instructions:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please send a 250 word abstract proposal by August 13th, 2021 to both Mirko Schäfer, M.T. <</span><a href="mailto:m.t.schaefer@uu.nl" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">m.t.schaefer@uu.nl</span></a><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">> and Tracey P. Lauriault <Tracey.Lauriault@Carleton.ca>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In the </span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">subject line</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> of your email, include:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Making a Difference! </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In the </span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">body of your email</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> include:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:circle;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Chapter title</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:circle;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Section you are submitting to</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:square;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Section 1: Theoretical approaches; </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:square;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Section 2: Case studies; or </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:square;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Section 3: Position papers. </span></p></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:circle;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">250 word abstract</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:circle;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Name of author(s), title(s), institution(s), & email addresses.</span></p></li></ul><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We will send out confirmations by August 30th, 2021</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;v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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Tracey P. Lauriault<div>Associate Professor, Critical Media and Big Data</div><div>Communication and Media Studies</div><div>School of Journalism and Communication</div><div><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-2738" target="_blank">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-2738</a><br></div></div></div></div>