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CFP (IFIP WWIC 2019): The 17th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, Bologna, Italy. June 17-19, 2019
by simone.bolettieri＠iit.cnr.it 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IFIP WWIC 2019 The 17th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications http://wwic2019.nws.cs.unibo.it June 17-19, 2019, Bologna, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** PAPER REGISTRATION DEADLINE: February 18, 2019 ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for publication on a fast track special issue of Computer Communications (Elsevier) journal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Due to advancements in technology and development of new services, we foresee a tremendous growth of new devices and smart things that need to be connected to the Internet through a variety of wireless technologies. At the same time, the edge of the Internet is increasingly empowered with new capabilities, like pervasive sensing and computing power, which opens the way to new domains, services and business models beyond the traditional mobile Internet, such as connected cars, participatory and urban sensing, industrial IoT. As a consequence, new types of information have to be delivered by the network with varying requirements in terms of reliability, transmission rates and latency. To cope with the exponential growth of devices and mobile data traffic, there is a need for clean-slate or evolutionary Internet architectures merging and assembling different network technologies, supporting new paradigms for wired/wireless system planning and optimization, efficient transport over heter ogeneous wireless access options, efficient and quality-aware content distribution, and new approaches for unified operations and management of the heterogeneous components, like software-defined systems and network function virtualization. These are only some examples of the challenges that are of interest to IFIP WWIC 2019. The IFIP WWIC 2019 conference takes a broader view to the merge of wired and wireless technologies and welcomes submissions from academia and industry that explore challenges and advances in architectures, algorithms, protocols, and technologies for a global wired/wireless Internet network. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. We also encourage work-in-progress and position papers that describe highly original ideas, present new directions, or have the potential to generate insightful provocative discussions. IFIP WWIC is a single-track conference which has reached, over the last 15 years, a high-quality level, which is reflected by the paper acceptance rate as well as the level of attendance. Following the conference tradition, there will be the best paper award. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Anticipatory Mobile Networking - Architectures and protocols for unified operations and management in wired/wireless environments - Architectures and protocols for mobile edge/fog computing - Content-centric and user-centric networking in wired/wireless environments - Cross-layer network design and optimization - Data-driven network design and optimization - Delay/disruptive tolerant and opportunistic networking - Emergency communication and public-safety networks - End-to-end QoS support - Game-theory applications in distributed networked systems - Heterogeneous wireless access networks - Internet/Web of Things and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications - Interactions between wireless and optical networks - Intent-based wired and wireless networking - Localisation, tracking, and mobility management - Machine-learning approaches in cognitive radio networks - Machine-learning approaches for network planning, optimization and management - Modelling of heterogeneity aspects - Mobile clouds and mobile edge computing (MEC) - Mobile service level agreements/specifications - Network mobility and handover management - Network Function Virtualization (NFV) - Network security, trust and privacy in a wired/wireless environment - Pricing, charging, and accounting - QoS/QoE mechanisms in wired/wireless environments - Resource management and admission control - Robot and UAV networks - Routing in wired/wireless environments - Satellite and space networking - Seamless inter-networking and self-organisation - Service composition and management - System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences - Software-defined wireless networks - 5G and beyond 5G networks - Traffic characterization and modelling - Transport protocols and congestion control in a wired/wireless environment - User-centric networking - Virtual and overlay networks - WiFi hotspot sharing - Wireless ad hoc, mesh, vehicular and sensor networks - Wireless network monitoring - Wearable communications and computing ------------------------------------------------------------------ PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ------------------------------------------------------------------ Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers with unpublished material and not currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Papers should not exceed 12 LNCS formatted pages, including figures, tables, and references. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference and present the paper. Papers accepted and presented at IFIP WWIC 2019 will be published as part of the Springer LNCS. They will also be submitted to appear in Scopus, ISI Web of Science, DBLP and other leading indexing services. Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for publication on a fast track special issue of Computer Communications (Elsevier) journal. All submitted papers must conform to the LNCS Formatting Guidelines. Authors are invited to use either the LNCS's Latex template or MS Word Template. If you have any questions about paper submissions or the program, please contact us at http://wwic2019.nws.cs.unibo.it. All submissions must be made electronically via EDAS using this link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25605 ------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------ - Manuscript registration deadline: February 18, 2018 - Manuscript submission deadline: February 24, 2018 - Manuscript acceptance notification: April 20, 2019 - Camera-ready paper submission: May 6, 2019 - Conference dates: June 17-19, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------------ General Chairs Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy Enrico Natalizio, Université de Lorraine, France Program Chairs Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Andreas Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden Publication & Web Chair Angelo Trotta, University of Bologna, Italy Publicity Chairs Deval Bhamare, Karlstad University, Sweden Simone Bolettieri, IIT-CNR, Italy ------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTACT ------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please visit the conference website at: http://wwic2019.nws.cs.unibo.it or contact the conference organizers at: wwic2019-chairs(a)edas.info

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CFP - "Data & markets" Open Panel at 4S
by kevin.mellet＠orange.com 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

We invite submissions to an open panel entitled "Data & Markets" (#32) at the Society for Social Studies of Science 4S annual meeting which will be held in New Orleans, 4-7 September 2019. Convenors: Thomas Beauvisage, Orange Labs Franck Cochoy, University Toulouse Jean Jaurès Mary Ebeling, Drexel University Kevin Mellet, Orange Labs STS scholars have long been interested in the assorted and diverse devices that equip markets, from market infrastructures to mundane marketing tools like shopping carts, knowledge devices, and measuring instruments. As markets are digitized, data are a key element in the operation of markets in a variety of forms: consumer records, scoring and targeting instruments, customization engines, algorithmic pricing, vending and trading machines. Hence, data act as a versatile, yet vital, apparatus for markets, through the construction of data as a device, a valuation tool, an infrastructure, or an asset. This panel aims to explore these various facets of data, and how these help to achieve markets. We particularly - though not exclusively - welcome contributions on three aspects of market 'datafication'. First, emergent data-based "images" of the consumer enhance classic customer representations produced by marketing, through data innovations in CRM databases, data brokers' segments, cookie-based data pools, and social media data. What lies behind these data doubles, and what are their lived and experiential effects on consumers? Secondly, with big data technologies, marketing knowledge is increasingly produced from the analysis of large databases that combine a diverse array of information on consumers, products, firms, and market operations. These data are then stabilized through metrics, dashboards and standards. How do these new knowledge devices reconfigure practices? Third, data fuels market automation mechanisms, such as algorithmic pricing, recommendation engines, programmatic advertising, high-frequency trading. How do algorithmic markets and digital platforms take place in practice, and how do they reconfigure market agencements? Deadline for submitting proposals is 1. February 2019 Submission link (open panel #32): https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/4s19/ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ce message et ses pieces jointes peuvent contenir des informations confidentielles ou privilegiees et ne doivent donc pas etre diffuses, exploites ou copies sans autorisation. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, veuillez le signaler a l'expediteur et le detruire ainsi que les pieces jointes. Les messages electroniques etant susceptibles d'alteration, Orange decline toute responsabilite si ce message a ete altere, deforme ou falsifie. Merci. This message and its attachments may contain confidential or privileged information that may be protected by law; they should not be distributed, used or copied without authorisation. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this message and its attachments. As emails may be altered, Orange is not liable for messages that have been modified, changed or falsified. Thank you.

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CFP: Domestic Technologies: Place, Person, Process (4S open panel)
by Amy Johnson 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

Domestic Technologies: Place, Person, Process (4S open panel #41) Domestic technologies have long been a generative focus of feminist technology studies, the study of the social construction of technology, and scholarship on the social shaping of technology. Motivated by current sociotechnical challenges to public/private boundaries and the impact of economic disparity, war, and environmental crisis on homes and homelessness, we look anew at the relationship between the technological and the domestic to investigate contemporary lived experience. From this foundation, we pursue three lines of inquiry: Domestic technologies as objects of the home: Deeply sociotechnical, the home mixes the personal, relational, and architectural. How do household technologies, from weighted blankets to kimchi fridges, produce domesticity? How do different technological conceptions of the home, from refugee camp to castle to networked ecology, shape inhabitants’ lives? Technologies as domestic persons: From homemaker and domestic worker to digital assistant and autonomous vacuum cleaner, the home supports varied forms of personhood. How do language, performance, and affective labor construct domestic technologies as persons—and humans as domestic technologies? How do materiality and design mark domestic technologies as persons and nonpersons? The domestication processes of technology: The deep familiarity of the home makes it also a terrain of uncanny valleys. What practices, internal or external to the home, render domestic technologies acceptable, intimate, and familiar? What place does domesticity occupy in larger societal trajectories of technologies? We invite papers drawing on diverse contexts and methodologies. This Open Panel will have a companion panel at the National Women’s Studies Association conference. *Deadline to apply: February 1, 2019* Submission info (+ full open panel list): https://www.4s2019.org/accepted-open-panels/ 4S 2019 will be held September 4-7, 2019 in New Orleans; this year's theme: Innovations, Interruptions, Regenerations. More info here: https://www.4s2019.org/ --- Amy Johnson, PhD Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard @shrapnelofme

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CFP: 4S NOLA - Games, Virtual Technologies, and STS
by Malazita, James Wilson 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

250 word abstract deadline February 1. Conference September 4-7 2019 in New Orleans ------------------------------------ 57. Games, Virtual Technologies, and STS Organizer: James Malazita, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute https://www.4s2019.org/accepted-open-panels/ Games are flexible epistemic objects, variously constructed as entertainment, military and logistics simulations, communications technologies, scientific apparatuses, cultural artifacts, art, and media. With a few notable exceptions, however, academic analyses of games and game development practices tend to be the domain of media and cultural studies scholars, which produce vibrant—but disciplinary-inflected—research practices, perspectives, and interpretations. This panel seeks to understand what games and virtual technologies mean from an STS perspective, as well to connect STS’s strengths analyzing knowledge practices, situated knowledges, and the mutual shaping of technology & society to the thriving communities of games studies scholars in media studies, interpretive textual studies, and critical code studies. What does STS have to contribute, and how can STS reconfigure its own boundaries about what “counts” as scientific and technical practice to better address games, media technologies, and virtual spaces? This panel track welcomes submissions on games and their interrelated virtual technologies, including VR and simulation systems, game development engines, software/hardware interfaces and platforms, graphics technologies, and real-time code. We especially welcome papers that address games and virtual technologies as political knowledge systems and practices, and papers that adopt feminist/decolonial science studies and critical technology studies stances in their analyses. ---------------------------------------------- Jim Malazita malazj(a)rpi.edu Assistant Professor Science & Technology Studies Games & Simulation Arts & Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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CFP: 4S Open Panel on Becoming “Data-Driven”: Burgeoning Data Cultures and Liminality in Civil Service
by Leah Elaine Horgan 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

*4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) 2019 Open Panel: #**14. Becoming “Data-Driven”: Burgeoning Data Cultures and Liminality in Civil Service* *September 4-7, 2019 | **New Orleans, USA | Deadline is February 1st, 2019* Premised on the promises of being “data-driven,” nation-states across the globe are building web-based, data-driven systems to manage populations, resources, and risk. Scholarship in postcolonial STS and critical data studies critiques the widespread use of data-driven systems, pointing to the racialized, gendered, and socioeconomic consequences embedded in their production and use, and the troubled histories from which such apparatuses arise (Borocas and Selbst 2016; Browne 2017; Crawford and boyd 2012; Noble 2017; Suchman 2007). This research has productively demonstrated that data technologies are not neutral, but instead are socially, culturally, and politically situated ways of knowing and seeing (Browne 2017; Gitelman 2014; Jasanoff 2017; Thakor 2017). While scholars have studied the recent and often algorithmic proliferation of these data-driven practices (Eubanks 2018; Brayne 2017; Lyon 2014), less attention has been paid to the complex interplay between data-driven domination and the changing norms of everyday administration—the day-to-day work of forging of what Oscar Gandy calls ‘‘actionable intelligence’’ (2012: 125). And, how these systems work outside of the West is largely unattended to. Using these conditions as a starting point, we illuminate the range of practices and perceptions of being “data-driven,” from policy makers in capital cities to mid-management urban police to rural officials. How do government workers develop a sense of “data literacy” in divergent contexts across regions? How do they derive value in data and data-driven techniques? Through empirical analysis, this panel digs beneath macro trends and rhetoric to query the lived experiences of working through these burgeoning data systems. Single paper submissions should be in the form of abstracts of up to 250 words (*submission guidelines below*). We welcome traditional papers as well as experimental responses to the panel’s theme (mixed-media, performance, experimental writing, etc.). *Organizers: * Leah Horgan, University of California, Irvine *horganl(a)uci.edu <horganl(a)uci.edu> * Margaret Jack, Cornell University *mcj46(a)cornell.edu <mcj46(a)cornell.edu>* Cindy Lin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor *cindylky(a)umich.edu <cindylky(a)umich.edu>* Guideline for Submission: https://www.4s2019.org/call-for-submissions/ List of Accepted Panels: https://www.4s2019.org/accepted-open-panels/ *Leah Horgan* dept of informatics donald bren school of information + computer sciences university of california, irvine

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PhD position in digital methods - Univ. Amsterdam
by Richard Rogers 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

PhD candidate Digital Methods Faculty of Humanities – Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis Pre-requisite Master's degree Salary indication €2,325 to €2,835 gross per month Closing date 14 February 2019 Period 38 hours per week Vacancy number 19-018 Research at the Faculty of Humanities is carried out by six research schools under the aegis of the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research <http://aihr.uva.nl/>. The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis <http://asca.uva.nl/>, one of six research schools of the Faculty of Humanities, has a vacant PhD position as part of the Cross-lingual Event-centric Open Analytics Research Academy (CLEOPATRA ITN), led by Prof. dr. Richard Rogers. ASCA is home to more than 110 scholars and 120 PhD candidates, and is a world-leading international research school in Cultural Analysis. ASCA members share a commitment to working in an interdisciplinary framework and to maintaining a close connection with contemporary cultural and political debates. Project description The PhD position is in digital methods and concerns ‘Wikipedia as first draft of history’. It is connected to the CLEOPATRA EU research project that aims to make sense of the massive digital coverage generated by the events of global importance in Europe over the past decade. CLEOPATRA offers a unique interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral research and training programme, which explores how we can begin to analyse and understand the major events that influence and shape our lives and our societies. It facilitates advanced cross-lingual processing of textual and visual information related to key contemporary events at scale, and develops innovative methods for efficient and intuitive user access to and interaction with multilingual information. As a successful candidate, you will: conduct research at University of Amsterdam in the context of the CLEOPATRA project; provide important input to the development of integrated cross-lingual data analytics platforms; actively participate in the training programme offered by the CLEOPATRA ITN; engage with researchers at CLEOPATRA partner organisations across the EU; conduct research visits and secondments according to the individual career development plan. Your research will focus on selected topics in the area of multilingual information science in a challenging and unique research environment. Requirements To be eligible you must satisfy the mobility requirements of Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. According to these guidelines, at the time of recruitment, the potential candidate “must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the recruiting beneficiary for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date. Compulsory national service, short stays such as holidays, and time spent as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Convention (1951) are not taken into account.” Furthermore, according to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie rules, Early-Stage Researchers shall, at the time of recruitment by the host organisation, “be in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers and have not been awarded a doctoral degree”. Furthermore, as our successful applicant you must have: a relevant Master’s degree in the Humanities or Social Sciences, focusing on digital methods or new media and digital culture; outstanding research qualities, manifested in strong transcripts and a high-quality Master’s thesis; demonstrable experience with research software and working in data sprint environments; demonstrable experience working with theoretical frameworks and a keen interest in new media and digital culture; excellent written and spoken English skills; a keen interest in interdisciplinary research methods and approaches; ability and willingness to work in a team; willingness to travel abroad for research stays, conferences and project expert workshops; strong organizational skills. Successful candidates will have a strong background in Digital Methods (an outstanding MA or MSc degree in the corresponding discipline). Good proficiency in English is expected, knowledge of further European languages is an advantage. International experience during your studies or afterwards as well as good social and communication skills are helpful. Further information For further information, please contact: Prof. Richard Rogers <mailto:R.A.Rogers@uva.nl?subject=19-018%20PhD%20candidate%20Digital%20Methods> Appointment As PhD candidate you will be appointed to the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Humanities, Department of Mediastudies. The appointment will be for 36 months, full-time, under the terms of employment currently valid for the Faculty. You will be a part of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). The first contract will be for 12 months, with an extension for the following 24 months, contingent on a positive performance evaluation. The intended starting date is 1 July 2019. The gross monthly salary will be € 2,325 during the first year to reach € 2,835 during the third, based on 38 hours per week. The Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities <https://www.vsnu.nl/en_GB/cao-universiteiten.html> is applicable. Job application The UvA is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We value a spirit of enquiry and endurance, provide the space to keep asking questions and cherish a diverse atmosphere of curiosity and creativity. Please submit your application in a single PDF file (not zipped). Your application must consist of the following: a detailed letter of motivation, stating why you want to carry out this particular research project and why you are the right candidate for this position (no more than 1,000 words); your Master’s thesis (if in a language other than English, a summary of 250-500 words); a CV outlining all relevant experience; transcripts of your Master (or equivalent) program; the names and contact details of two referees familiar with your academic record and research skills. Shortlisted candidates may be requested to provide additional materials. Applications must be submitted to asca-fgw at uva.nl <mailto:asca-fgw@uva.nl?subject=19-018%20PhD%20candidate%20Digital%20Methods> no later than 14 February 2019, with the subject line 'Application Rogers PhD ITN-CLEOPATRA'. Prof. Richard Rogers Media Studies University of Amsterdam http://www.digitalmethods.net/ r.a.rogers(a)uva.nl

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ICADIWT 2019
by ijwa＠dline.info 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

The Tenth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2019) May 20-22, 2019, Casablanca, Morocco July 07-09, 2019 Luton, UK (www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt) The Tenth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2019) is a forum for researchers to present the intensive and innovative research, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Computer Communications, Communication networks, Communication Software Communication Technologies and Applications, and other related themes. This conference (ICADIWT Edition IX) will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. Digital Technologies is embeeded in the research activiites of large number of people and it ensures the Ubiquitous reaching of more number of people in the recent years. Research in digital technologies has been carried out in many directions using various resources and tools and on the other side, the application issues are addressed by more volume of researchers not necessarily limited to information and computing technology. Thus the proposed conference series realize its value and potential and manifest the requirements in the form of the international conference. This edition will address the following outlined themes (but not limited to) Internet Communication Internet Technologies Web Applications Internet Software Data Access and Transmission Digital Communication Software Digital Networks Web Communication Interfaces Adaptive Systems Internet of Things Internet of breath Augmented Reality Databases and applications Web Systems Engineering Design Intelligent Agent systems Semantic Web Studies Adaptive Web applications and personalization Actuators and sensors Robotics and Machine Vision Vibration and noise control Smart cities and structures Control Automation Human-machine interfaces Real-time simulation Digital Technologies for Mechanical and other designs Publication and Indexing The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and submitted for inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be submitted for indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be indexed in many databases as given at http://www.frontiersinai.com/?q=indexing The accepted papers will be published as a post-conference publication. During the conference, the pre-conference volume will be distributed. The previous ICADIWT proceedings ars indexed in Web of Science Honorary Chai Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, (Opole University, Poland) Co-Chair Chafik Okar, ENSA, Hassan 1st University, Berrechid, Morocco. General Chairs Abdelali El Bouchti, Institute for Forecasting and Futuristics (I2F), FS, Hassan 2nd University, Casablanca, Morocco Program Chairs Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, (Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico) Important Dates Submission of papers (Morocco/UK) March 01, 2019/April 01, 2019 Notification (Morocco/UK) April 01, 2019/May 01, 2019 Camera ready (Morocco/UK) May 01, 2019/June 01, 2019 Registration(Morocco/UK) May 01, 2019/June 01, 2019 Conference Dates (Morocco/UK) May 20-22, 2019/July 07-09, 2019 Paper Submission at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/ Contact: icadiwt(a)socio.org.uk or diwt(a)dirf.org ----------------------

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CFP - Digital Inclusion Policy and Research Conference 18-19 June 2019
by Elinor Carmi 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

Hello everyone, We would like to invite you to the Digital Inclusion Policy and Research Conference that we are organising in June 2019 in London, UK. The conference is FREE of charge and will be running for two days. Please see below all the information for the CFP, and feel free to email me if you have any further questions. All the best, Dr. Elinor Carmi, Postdoc Research Associate - Digital Media & Society, Department of Communication and Media, Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, School of the Arts, Liverpool University, UK. https://elinorcarmi.com<https://elinorcarmi.com/> Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIPRC2019: Digital Inclusion Policy and Research Conference 2019 University of Liverpool in London, Finsbury Square London, UK, June 18-19, 2019 As more of our everyday lives become digital, from paying bills, to contacting companies and services and keeping in touch with your friends and family - it has become crucial to include everyone in the online world. What type of skills do people need to ‘be digital’? Do different people from different ages and abilities need different types of skills and training? And how can we foresee what skills will be needed for future work? While these questions have been occupying the private sector and policy makers, as more tasks become automated and digitalised they become ever more crucial. Evidence shows that inequalities in access to and use of digital media have measurable impacts on the life chances, health and economic wellbeing of citizens. The GoodThings Foundation published a reporton September 2018 which identified that over 11 million UK citizens lack the basic digital skills they need to participate fully in our digital economy<https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/research-publications/economic-impact-…>. As the Foundation predicts, by 2028 the UK will lose over £22 billion of value as a direct result of digital exclusion. Since the introduction of machine learning and artificial intelligence research has shifted to understanding inequalities in complex skills and use. In addition, as ‘fake news’ and misinformation have become common practice by various entities it has introduced new avenues to include in digital literacies. This shift has become key to some governmental digital strategies, such as those of the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and their equivalents around the globe. This conference will bring together academic research with policy makers and stakeholders to review the current state for the art in digital inclusion policy and practice. The conference will draw upon over two decades of research, policy, and practice. Over this time digital inequalities, digital inclusion and digital literacies have changed in response to developments in digital technologies and media. Though key themes have remained, such as: material and financial access; skills and digital literacy; effective use by citizens and communities; the impact of socio-economic factors; motivation and attitudes; and, more recently socio-economic and socio-cultural variations in patterns of usage. Digital inequities therefore have become an important part of broader persistent issues of social equity and justice. The primary aim of this conference is to link up international policy efforts to address digital inequalities, access and skills with the outcomes of recent research at from around the globe. The intention being to support sharing best practice and research insights. The conference will be a mix of invited presentations from policy and research colleagues, along with open paper sessions. For the open sessions we seek presentations that cover empirical research as well as policy and practice interventions, such as: * Data analysis of levels of digital inclusion/exclusion and engagement * Studies on the link between misinformation and data literacies * Studies of the impacts of digital exclusion * Policy interventions * Case studies of initiatives and programmes * Case studies of community impact Submission and Registration Guidelines The conference is FREE of charge. To register go to the Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diprc2019-digital-inclusion-policy-and-resea…. If you wish to present a paper or case study please submit a 300 word abstract by 31st March 2019 to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=diprc2019. Acceptance notification will be sent by 25th April 2019. Contact The conference is organised by Professor Simeon Yates and Dr. Elinor Carmi, Department of Communication and Media, Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, School of the Arts, Liverpool University, UK For questions and other inquiries please email Dr. Elinor Carmi - Elinor.Carmi(a)liverpool.ac.uk.<mailto:Elinor.Carmi@liverpool.ac.uk> We look forward to seeing you in June! Venue The conference will run from 18 June to 19 June at the London Campus of the University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool in London, 33 Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1AG: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/london/ – just off London’s “Silicon Roundabout” district: http://www.siliconroundabout.org.uk/ . Do you have questions about DIPRC2019: Digital Inclusion Policy and Research Conference 2019? Contact School of the Arts - University of Liverpool <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diprc2019-digital-inclusion-policy-and-resea…>

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Fwd: Fw: 4s2019 open panel on Automation, Skill and Identity in an age of AI
by Janaki Srinivasan 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

See below for a call for abstracts on automation and identity for a 4S panel co-organized by my colleague, Bidisha. Might be of interest to some of you! Apologies for cross posting. Janaki Srinivasan Assistant Professor, IIIT-Bangalore ------------------------------ *From:* Prof.Bidisha Chaudhuri *Sent:* 19 January 2019 11:54 *To:* Janaki Srinivasan *Subject:* CfP: 4s2019 open panel on Automation, Skill and Identity in an age of AI Dear Janaki, We are looking for paper abstract (250 words) submissions for our open panel at the Annual Meeting of 4S 2019, New Orleans (September 4-7, 2019). Could you please circulate the call in your networks? *The last date of submission is 1st February 2019.* *Panel Description* *11. Automation, Skill and Identity in an Age of AI <https://www.4s2019.org/accepted-open-panels/>* *Organized by Bidisha Chaudhuri and Soumyo Das, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore* Barely thirty years ago information technology (IT) was considered to be the final answer to “the labour question” (Zuboff 1988). We are again at a historical juncture, where AI-based automation seems to bring back a similar promise (Levy & Murnane 2004). Whether this new machine age will lead to displacement of human labour or will create new economic opportunities is a matter of a different debate. However, with increasing delegation of human activities to intelligent agents, what we definitely witness is a shift in human skill trajectory (Bright 1958). Michael Polanyi in his book, The Tacit Dimension (1966), argued that much of human knowledge and capability stems from skills and rulesets that lies underneath our conscious understanding. Moreover, human abilities such as empathy, sympathy, trust are often transmitted to us via culture, tradition and are beyond the general directive of ‘skill’. Drawing on earlier work on automation and skill (Spenner 1983; Adler 1987; Vallas 1990), we explore these grey zones in human skills/activities, which, while undergoing the current phase of AI-based automation, go beyond a linear trajectory of deskilling and reskilling (Acemoglu & Restrepo 2018). It manifests rather as a more complex intertwining between human activities, technology, and organization structure. The objective of the panel is to bring together an analysis of these nuanced process through which human skills are evolving and will evolve, given increasing reliance on AI-based automation and how this will impact human identity, which in the modern capitalist system, relies on our occupation. Thanks, Bidisha

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CFP: 4S Open Panel on Big Data Surveillance
by Caelyn Randall 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Call for Participation for 4S Open Panel on "A New/Old Technology for Governance? Questioning Big Data Surveillance”<https://www.4s2019.org/accepted-open-panels/> Society for Social Studies of Sciences, New Orleans, LA, September 4-7, 2019Submission Deadline Feb 1, 2019 A NEW/OLD TECHNOLOGY FOR GOVERNANCE? QUESTIONING BIG DATA SURVEILLANCE Driven by deterministic assumptions that the mere presence of information leads to positive social transformation (Srinivasan, Finn, & Ames, 2017), the era of big data has arrived (boyd & Crawford, 2012), bringing with it a series of critical questions that ask what big data surveillance looks like. As the titles of popular books and articles on the topic of big data surveillance such as Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (O’Neil, 2016), “The Dystopia We Signed Up For” (Manning, 2017), and “How Big Data is Automating Inequality” (Eubanks, 2018) all underscore, the way in which big data is being imagined is as a new, nearly cataclysmic threat to public well-being. Such questions, however, may elide the ways in which big data surveillance is embedded within existing socio-political networks of power. As a technology of governance, big data surveillance constrains and enables the mobility of data/bodies asymmetrically. For example, surveillance, especially as an apparatus of state governance, has long been used for the social control of communities of color (Brown, 2015). Although big data surveillance may represent new, 21st century relations between private companies, universities, and the U.S. intelligence community (e.g. Amoore & Piotukh, 2015; O’Neil, 2016), it is still guided by a pre-existing and longstanding ideology of monitoring and controlling (Benjamin 2016). We invite papers that critically engage with big data surveillance practices, either by questioning the epistemological systems underpinning these practices or examining how these practices enable, constrain or distribute economic, political, and social mobilities. Single paper submissions should be in the form of abstracts of up to 250 words. If you submit, select “Papers for Open Panels,” and then select “#2 A New/Old Technology for Governance? Questioning Big Data Surveillance." Organizers: Caelyn Randall, University of Wisconsin-Madison Xerxes Minocher, University of Wisconsin-Madison Caelyn Randall Doctoral Candidate Department of Communication Arts University of Wisconsin-Madison 821 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706 Pronouns: they/them/theirs

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