<div dir="ltr"><div><b>[ please share our call for short pieces ]</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>We need your Computers & Society short pieces!</b></div><br>We at the SIGCAS* Publications Group are seeking short pieces that are relevant, provocative, diverse, and unexpected for our newsletter. We also hope they will be fun to write.<br><br>The possibilities, effects, implications, opportunities, challenges, myths, realities, and struggles related to computers and society that are being played out every day in millions of different ways are helping to determine who we are and where we are going.<br><br>We want to capture at least some of that.<br><br>Your short piece could raise arguments, issues, critical questions, resource needs, current work, research, reviews, discussions, etc. etc. To that end we have developed a robust infrastructure of departments, divisions, bureaus, and other descriptive categories to help convey to you all that this is a vast, very formal and bureaucratized enterprise. <br><br>While some of the names may be fanciful we are optimistic that the articles they help characterize will be compelling, relevant, and influential. <br><br>We plan to experiment with this approach. We are currently planning to run several short pieces per issue. And we will probably add new departments at will. We also plan to be flexible but we do insist that these articles be short. (After all, the SIGCAS Newsletter will still run longer pieces!) Shall we say 1,200 words max?<br><br>To be considered for the next newsletter please submit your short piece to the SIGCAS Newsletter Editor, Rick Blumenthal, <a href="mailto:editors_sigcas@acm.org">editors_sigcas@acm.org</a>, by December 1, 2020. Please include "Short Piece" in the subject line.<br><br><b>SIGCAS Newsletter Departments</b><br><br>   *  News From _____ (community, company, department, movement, country, sector, dimension, rain forest, or what-have-you)<br>   *  Your Resolution or Manifesto Goes Here Desk<br>   *  Not All is Wrong Department<br>   *  Systemic Racism & Black Lives Matter Studies and Reports<br>   *  Teaching about Computers and Society<br>   *  Social Responsibility in Computing Department<br>   *  Department of Development Studies<br>   *  Ominous Development Department<br>   *  What Could Possibly Go Worng? Department<br>   *  Office of Emerging Technological Directions<br>   *  Voices of Practitioners and Younger Professionals<br>   *  Department of Diversity and Inclusion<br>   *  Climate, Biodiversity, and the Environment Department<br>   *  History Department (of SIGCAS and Computers and Society)<br>   *  Looking at SIGCAS: Useful, Enlightening, Maddening or Other <br>   *  Influential Fiction, Poetry, Art, and Movies Related to Computing and Society Division<br>   *  Department of Technology Assessment<br>   *  War and Peace Studies Hall<br>   *  Help me work on myProject.dept<br>   *  Science Lab<br>   *  Religion and Spirtuality Division<br>   *  Gender Notes<br>   *  Underscrutinzed Implications Bureau<br>   *  Office of Expected and Unexpected Consequences<br>   *  What Should We Do Room<br>   *  Methods: How to do Computers and Society Group<br>   *  Annals of Agnotology<br>   *  Algorithms: Good, Bad, and Ugly<br>   *  What's a Professional Organization To Do Department<br>   *  Automating Evil: Office of Worst Practices<br>   *  Chronicles of Civic & Community Tech<br>   *  Department of Civic and Collective Intelligence <br>   *  Office of Technology Assessment <br>   *  Critics Corner (interviews, etc.)<br>   *  City Desk / Urban Studies<br>   *  Town and Country Consulate <br>   *  Point / Counterpoint Forum<br>   *  SIGCAS Agenda Development Department<br>   *  SIGCAS and Wicked Problems<br>   *  On the Job Department: SIGCAS and Employment<br>   *  SIGCAS and the Green New Deal<br>   *  Personal Perspective Department.<br>   *  You Can't Make This Up Department<br>   *  Design Perspectives and Perspectives on Design<br>   *  Student Voices Division<br>   *  Activism Sector<br>   *  Patterns of Computing Department<br>   *  Limits and Collapse Ministry<br>   *  Recent Reviews (books, articles, etc.)<br>   *  Steering Tech Department (policy and all the rest) <br>   *  Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing<br>   *  Thrilling Adventures in Computing<br>   *  No Comment Department<br>   *  For or From The Archives<br><br>* SIGCAS is the Special Interest Group on Computers and Society of ACM. ACM is the Association for Computing Machinery.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);border-collapse:separate"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><div style="font-size:12px">Douglas Schuler</div><div style="font-size:12px"><a href="mailto:douglas@publicsphereproject.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">douglas@publicsphereproject.org</a></div><div style="font-size:12px">Twitter: @doug_schuler</div><div style="font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12px">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div></span>Public Sphere Project<span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><div style="font-size:12px">     <a href="http://www.publicsphereproject.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.publicsphereproject.org/</a></div></div></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12px"><br></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good</div><div>     <font color="#4787ff"><u><span> <a href="http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci</a></span><span>4cg-announce</span></u></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">    </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Creating the World Citizen Parliament</div>     <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;border-collapse:separate"><a href="http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament</a><div>     </div></span>Liberating Voices!  A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) <div>     <a href="http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv</a></div><div><br></div>Liberating Voices!  A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book)         <div> <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601</a></div></span></div></div></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);border-collapse:separate"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><div style="font-size:12px">Douglas Schuler</div><div style="font-size:12px"><a href="mailto:douglas@publicsphereproject.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">douglas@publicsphereproject.org</a></div><div style="font-size:12px">Twitter: @doug_schuler</div><div style="font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12px">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div></span>Public Sphere Project<span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><div style="font-size:12px">     <a href="http://www.publicsphereproject.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.publicsphereproject.org/</a></div></div></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12px"><br></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good</div><div>     <font color="#4787ff"><u><span> <a href="http://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