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WEBCAST TODAY: Nigeria National Youth IGF #ourinternet #yigf #nigf2019
by Joly MacFie 10 Jul '19

10 Jul '19

This event is well underway with the current session covering the gripping topic 'Tackling Cybercrime amongst Youths in Nigeria'. [image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/yigf2019>The 2019 Annual *Nigeria National Youth Internet Governance Forum <https://yigf.org.ng/>* (YIGF) happens today *Wednesday 10 July 2019* at the Muson Center in Lagos, with the theme “*Our Internet; Shaping the digital future*”. The Youth IGF initiative provides a national forum to engage young professionals of the digital sector, technologists, researchers, academics, activists and civil society, government representatives and students. The aim of the forum is to sustain a dialogue platform and create partnerships as well as initiating policy proposals and reform. The event will be carried live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/>*. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/yigf2019 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/yigf2019>* *AGENDA: http://bit.ly/30sdYyq <http://bit.ly/30sdYyq>* *TWITTER: #ourinternet #yigf https://bit.ly/yigf2019 <https://bit.ly/yigf2019>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11195/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Why We Post book series passes three quarters of a million downloads
by Haapio-Kirk, Laura 10 Jul '19

10 Jul '19

Why We Post book series passes three quarters of a million downloads The Why We Post book series (UCL Press) has passed three quarters of a million downloads (766,131). The series is now developing a series of translations. How the World Changed Social Media [https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/106697] is available in Portuguese, Hindi and Tamil with UCL Press and is currently being translated into Chinese and Spanish. The Italian version is separately published with Ledizioni. The individual monographs about Social Media in Brazil, Chile, India, and China are also being made available in their relevant languages over the next few months. Following the completion of the Why We Post project, a new project has been developed which shifts the focus from social media to understanding the use and consequences of smartphones around the world. The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA) [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/assa/] involves 10 anthropologists who have just completed sixteen months’ of fieldwork in Al-Quds, Brazil, Cameroon, Italy, Chile, China, Ireland, Japan and Uganda. A new series of monographs are being written about the use of smartphones by older people, alongside a more general comparative book about the global smartphone and an edited collection about our work on mHealth.

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Call: Digital Socialism/Communicative Socialism, edited by Christian Fuchs, Special Issue of the Journal Communication, Capitalism & Critique
by Christian Fuchs 10 Jul '19

10 Jul '19

Call: Digital Socialism/Communicative Socialism, edited by Christian Fuchs, Special Issue of the Journal Communication, Capitalism & Critique ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MON, JULY 15 https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/35 The special issue “Digital/Communicative Socialism” asks:What is digital/communicative socialism? The special issue will publish peer-reviewed contributions that explore perspectives on digital/communicative socialism in respect to theory, dialectics, history, internationalism, praxis, and class struggles. Marx and Engels saw socialism as the movement for a society that is based on the principles of equality, justice, and solidarity. They distinguish different types of socialism, of which communism is one, whereas reactionary socialism, bourgeois socialism, and critical-utopian socialism are others. Rosa Luxemburg summarises the history of socialism: “Socialism goes back for thousands of years, as the ideal of a social order based on equality and the brotherhood of man, the ideal of a communistic society. With the first apostles of Christianity, various religious sects of the Middle Ages, and in the German peasants’ war, the socialist idea always glistened as the most radical expression of rage against the existing society. […] It was in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century that the socialist idea first appeared with vigor and force […] the socialist idea was placed on a completelynew footing by Marx and Engels. These two sought the basis for socialism not in moral repugnance towards the existing social order nor in cooking up all kinds of possible attractive and seductive projects, designed to smuggle in social equality within the present state. They turned to the investigation of the economic relationships of present-day society”. Marx and Engels argue that socialism is grounded in the antagonistic class structure of capitalism that pits workers against capitalists. In the 19th century, the socialist movement experienced a split between reformist revisionists and revolutionary socialists. After the First World War, the Communist International and the Labour and Socialist International were created. After the collapse of the Second International, there was an institutional distinction between Socialists and Communists. Whereas reformism dominated the Socialist International, Stalinism became dominant in the Communist International. The notion of “socialism” became associated with social democratic parties and the notion of “communism” with communist parties. From a historical point of view, both Stalinism and revisionist social democracy have failed. With the rise of neoliberalism, social democracy turned towards the right and increasingly adopted neoliberal policies. When Tony Blair became British Prime Minster in 1997, his neoliberal version of social democracy influenced social democracy around the world. The crisis of capitalism and the emergence of new versions of socialist politics (Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Podemos, Syriza, etc.) has reinvigorated the debate about socialism today. tripleC’s special issue explores perspectives on the digital and communicative dimensions of socialism today. In the intellectual realm, the socialist debate has e.g. resulted in the vision of the renewal of a class-struggle social democracy (by Jacobin-editor Bhaskar Sunkara in the book The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in An Era of Extreme Inequality) or the vision of fully-automated luxury communism (formulated by Novara Media’sAaron Bastani in the book Fully Automated Luxury Communism). Such contributions show that for a renewal of socialism, we need intellectual and theoretical foundations that inform class struggles in digital/communicative capitalism. There were earlier contributions to the discussion of computing and socialism, such as André Gorz’s notion of post-industrial socialism, Radovan Richta’s work on the role of the scientific and technological revolution for democratic communism, Autonomist Marxism’s readings of Marx’s “Fragmentof Machines”, Fernando Flores’ and Stafford Beer’s roles in Chile’s Project Cybersyn during the Allende presidency, Norbert Wiener’s and Joseph Weizenbaum’s reflections on a humanistic instead of an imperialistic and instrumental use of cybernetics and computing, etc. The special issue seeks contributions that address one or more of the following questions: * Theory: What is socialism today? What are the communicative and digital dimensions of socialism today? What is communicative/digital socialism? What theoretical approaches and concepts are best-suited for understanding digital/communicative socialism today? Does it or does it not make sense to distinguish between digital/communicative socialism and digital/communicative communism? Why or why not? * Dialectic: What are the contradictions of digital capitalism? How does digital/communicative socialism differ from and contradict digital/communicative capitalism? * History: What lessons can we draw from the history of socialism, communism, social democracy and Marxist theory for the conceptualisation and praxis of digital/communicative socialism today? * Internationalism: Socialism is a universalist and internationalist movement. What are the international(ist), global dimensions of digital/communicative socialism today? * Praxis and class struggles: What strategies, demands and struggles are important for digital/communicative socialism? How can socialism today best be communicated in public? What class struggles are there in the context of communication and computing? What are the roles of communication and digital technologies in contemporary class struggles for socialism? What is the role of social movements, the party and trade unions in the organisation and self-organisation of digital and communication workers’ class struggles for socialism? How should socialist class politics, unions and strikes look like today so that they adequately reflect changes of the working class and exploitation in the age of digital capitalism? What is a digital strike and what are its potentials for digital socialism? All papers should explicitly address socialism. Submission Abstracts can be submitted per e-mail to christian.fuchs(a)triple-c.at, using the form published at https://triple-c.at/files/journals/1/CfP_Form_Socialism.docx Please do not make submissions that omit a completed form. Submission deadline is Monday, July 15, 2019. Feedback on acceptance/rejection will be provided at latest until July 31, 2019. The deadline for the submission of accepted papers is October 13, 2019. The maximum length of full papers is 8,000 words. Articles should in the first stage of submission (October 13) not be longer than 7,000 words so that there is space for additions as part of the revision process. All articles will be peer-reviewed and published in a special issue of tripleC. The special issue will be published open access. There are no APCs.

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CALL FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES: JARHE
by Dr. Patrick Blessinger 09 Jul '19

09 Jul '19

Dear Colleagues, Call for academic journal articles: Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education <http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=jar…>: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=jar… JARHE is an internationally peer-reviewed journal focused on the scholarship and practice of teaching and learning and higher education and covers: - Higher education teaching, learning, curriculum, assessment, policy, management, leadership, and related areas. - Digitization, internationalization, and democratization of higher education, and related areas such as lifelong and lifewide learning. - Innovation, change, and reflections on current practices. JARHE is indexed in Academic Search Alumni Edition, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, BFI (Denmark), Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Higher Education, EBSCO and Education Research Complete. JARHE is ranked by Scopus and Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics). JARHE is a member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics <http://publicationethics.org/> and signatory of DORA <https://sfdora.org/>. Regards, -- Patrick Blessinger, Ed.D. <http://www.patrickblessinger.com/> University World News <http://www.universityworldnews.com/search.php?query=blessinger&type=all&mod…> UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab <http://en.unesco.org/inclusivepolicylab/users/patrick-blessinger> St. John's University, New York City <https://www.stjohns.edu/academics/faculty/patrick-blessinger-edd> Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education <http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=jar…> Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning <https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/series-detail/Innovations-in-Higher-E…>

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HIV in the age of PrEP+Internet and Lesbian Experiences of Gay Village
by Jaime García Iglesias 09 Jul '19

09 Jul '19

Please come along to the 'Humanitas Brew' launch event at the Molly House in the Gay Village in Manchester where two University of Manchester researchers will be presenting on timely and thought-provoking topics. This is a free event, register at: https://bit.ly/2Jmx8zT “HIV in the age of internet and PrEP” by Jaime García-Iglesias (@JGarciaIglesias) How has the internet changed our relationship to HIV as gay men? How do we negotiate HIV in dating apps? What is the impact of PrEP on gay men’s relationship to the virus? In this talk, Jaime will address these issues to explore how our changing world is modifying our relationship to the virus that marked our history. Using data from his PhD research on sexual fantasies and internet use, he will discuss people’s changing views of HIV and their responses to it. Jaime is a PhD candidate in Sociology at The University of Manchester, where he is currently researching sexual fantasies, internet use and HIV prevention using bugchasers as case study. He is one of the few scholars in the world to have addressed this practice to develop more effective sexual health approaches. “Being a lesbian in the Village” by Jessica Mancuso (@AlmostDrJess) In this talk Jess discusses experiences of lesbians in Manchester’s gay village to explore how LGBTQ women negotiate the male-dominated gay scene and the struggles of having only one lesbian bar in the village. Jess is a Sociology PhD candidate at The University of Manchester and is researching lesbian representation in current LGBTQ social spaces. *Each talk will last between 20 and 30 minutes and will be followed by a Q&A session. -- *Jaime Garcia-Iglesias* The University of Manchester Twitter <https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=A_gZOKKCeUAotWHc_1i3ExusP…> ¦ Academia <https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=Rgjwhvh-Nj7EqjH53AkxYFG26…> ¦ UoM <https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=KcbFOtK5fr0gpIFVMAiLCtgC_…>

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Final CALL: ICDIM 2019
by ijwa＠dline.info 09 Jul '19

09 Jul '19

Fourteenth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2019) September 24-26, 2019 University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK (www.icdim.org) Technically co-sponsored by IEEE TEMS Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006), Lyon (2007), London (2008), Michigan (2009) , Thunder Bay (2010), Melbourne (2011), Macau (2012), Islamabad (2013), Bangkok (2014) Jeju (2015) Porto (2016), Fukuoka (2017), and Berlin (2018) the Fourteenth event is being organized at Luton in UK in 2019. The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology Digital Information technologies are gaining maturity and rapid momentum in adoption across disciplines. The digital community is producing new ways of using digital information technologies for integrating and making sense out of various data ranging from real/live streams and simulations to analytics data analysis, in support of mining of knowledge. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design, and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. The Fourteenth International Conference on Digital Information Management will be held during August 22-24, 2019 at Irish Computer Society, Dublin, Ireland The topics in ICDIM 2019 include but are not confined to the following areas. Information Technology Management Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business, and e-Government Edge and Fog Computing Data Analytics Software Engineering Deep Learning Natural Language Processing Smart Learning and Smart Cities Signal Processing Network Services Data Mining and Text Mining Knowledge Graphs, Recommender System, Ontology Computational Linguistics Distributed information systems Information visualization Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Image Analysis and Image Processing Cloud Computing Computational Intelligence Privacy, Security and Trusted Computing Machine Learning Human-Computer Interaction Internet of Things The modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed journals. 1. Journal on Data Semantics 2. Technologies 3. Data Technologies and Applications 4. Webology 5. Journal of Digital Information Management 6. International Journal of Computational Linguistics 7. Journal of Optimization General Chair Pavel Losket, Swansea University, UK Program Chairs Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Program Co-Chair Adrian Florea, University of Shibu, Romania Important Dates Full Paper Submission July 15, 2019 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection August 05, 2019 Registration Due September 05, 2019 Camera Ready Due September 05, 2019 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos September 23, 2019 Main conference September 24-26, 2019 SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Contact: conference(a)icdim.org -----------------

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CfP: Psychoanalysis, Sexualities and Networked Media
by Jacob Johanssen 09 Jul '19

09 Jul '19

*Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society* *Special Issue: Psychoanalysis, Sexualities and Networked Media* Edited by Jacob Johanssen (St. Mary’s University, jacob.johanssen(a)stmarys.ac.uk*)* *Call for papers* For psychoanalysis, sexuality, how it is both individually thought about and lived and how it is culturally constructed, is key to understanding both the human psyche and social change. Freud believed that the sexual behaviour of an individual, from the earliest stages of development onwards, provided key insights into how they related to others and themselves in life more generally. While Freud stressed that there is no ‘normal’ sexuality and heterosexuality was a myth, his particular theories of female sexuality were nonetheless critiqued by feminist thinkers. Initially for Freud, the symptom itself was a distorted or covered manifestation of sexual activity which related to conflicts. Those ideas were developed by post-Freudian psychoanalysts in numerous ways. It is psychoanalysis that fundamentally contributed to the theorisation and understanding of the role that sexual desires and fantasies play in our (un)conscious forms of relating to ourselves and others. While psychoanalytic schools have come to understand sexuality in different ways, other disciplines such as queer theory, cultural studies and philosophy have grappled with and drawn on those conceptualisations of sexuality. Particular notions that are often taken for granted in every day discourse – perversion, fetishism, voyeurism – were (and are) developed by psychoanalysts. The call for papers for a special issue of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society takes psychoanalytic theories of sexuality / sexualities and how they were adapted/critiqued by other disciplines as a starting point for analysing contemporary networked media, online spaces and digital phenomena. In the past two decades, the Internet and networked devices have not only transformed societies but also human agency and subjectivity. How we communicate and relate to others has been shaped by our engagement with and immersion in digital media, devices and platforms. Social media in particular can be seen as enablers of unprecedented levels of human communication and cooperation which result in a sense of recognition and security for individuals, at the same time users have become data points which are commodified, surveyed and tracked by companies, governments and other entities. Contemporary online communication is also often marked by strong levels of hatred, aggression and polarisation which are characterised by the symbolic, and sometimes physical, destruction of the other. This proposed special issue of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society places a specific focus on sexualities in contemporary online spaces. Sexualities have become more flexible and fluid thanks to technology as they are facilitated through hook up apps like Tinder, or Grindr. In reproductive terms, devices connected to the Internet such as fertility and health check apps have also become available. The Internet facilitates an informative and pleasurable engagement with sexualities, be it through online content, or communities around sexual identities for example. Subjects reveal aspects about their sexualities online more than ever before. At the same time, much of mainstream pornography has been critiqued as depicting women as oppressed, sexualised objects aimed to satisfy a male gaze. Clinicians have also noted that pornography can impact young people’s sexual development in harmful ways. Perhaps somewhat related to the widespread engagement with some forms of pornography, women are discussed in certain online spaces (such as forums on Reddit or 4chan) in highly misogynistic terms. Such language is often inspired by right-wing discourse and imagery which has gained increasing visibility online. The #MeToo movement on the other hand has made use of social media for activist purposes in order to resist and expose the widespread sexual assault and harassment conducted by men. It has attracted criticism for some of the methods and narratives deployed which have led to false accusations for example. It is safe to say that the representation of and engagement with sexualities has exploded due to digital technologies. There is scope to interpret such aspects in depth through psychoanalysis in combination with other approaches. Possible topics include but are not limited to: - Psychoanalytic approaches to sexuality - Psychoanalysis and other conceptualisations of sexuality (e.g. Foucauldian, Deleuze-Guattarian, queer theoretical) - Clinical perspectives on sexuality and digital media - Repression and its status today - Pleasures, unpleasures – Eros and the death drive - #MeToo and activism against sexualised violence - The Alt-Right and online misogyny - Online pornography - Livestreaming and camming - Hook-up apps - The Internet of Things (fertility devices, sex toys, sex robots, etc.) - Social media - Games and gaming cultures - Virtual reality and forms of simulation Please send abstracts of no longer than 500 words to Jacob Johanssen ( jacob.johanssen(a)stmarys.ac.uk) by 09 September 2019. Accepted full papers will be due in February 2020. The special issue will be published in December 2020. Article length: 6-8,000 words *About the journal* *Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society* is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by Palgrave (https://www.palgrave.com/gb/journal/41282) It explores the intersection between psychoanalysis and the social world. It is a journal of both clinical and academic relevance which publishes articles examining the roles that psychoanalysis can play in promoting and achieving progressive social change and social justice. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society benefits a worldwide community of psychoanalytically informed scholars in the social and political sciences, media, cultural and literary studies, as well as clinicians and practitioners who probe the relationship between the social and the psychic. It is the official journal of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society.

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WEBCAST MONDAY: Spouseware and Stalkerware – Where Do We Go From Here? #LogicLoungeNY
by Joly MacFie 09 Jul '19

09 Jul '19

It's not often I give a full week's notice on a livestream, but it's not often we get Eva Galperin in front of the camera (last time was 7 years ago <https://youtu.be/9-E0Ypl_gl0>) ! Eva was recently named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business for 2019 <https://www.fastcompany.com/90345870/most-creative-people-2019-electronic-f…> . As to the topic: there's plenty of concern about government or capitalist surveillance, but what about when it is someone closer to you? [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/logicloungeny> On *Monday July 15 2019* at *5pm EDT* (21:00 UTC) the *31st International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification <http://i-cav.org/2019/>* (CAV) and the *Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at TU Wien <http://www.vcla.at/>* (VCLA) present a talk: *Spouseware and Stalkerware - Where Do We Go From Here? <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/logiclounge-with-eva-galperin-spouseware-and-s…>* at the New School in NYC. Powerful surveillance software aka spyware is widely available on the internet at affordable prices. It is marketed to employers wanting to monitor the movements of their workers, to parents wanting to check electronically on the whereabouts of their children, or even to reveal a partner's infidelity. Where do the tech community, the police, and the policymakers stand on the issue of surveillance for private purposes? How much such usage/marketing is legal? And, lastly, how do you safeguard yourself against an attack? Speaker *Eva Galperin <https://twitter.com/evacide>*, Director of Cybersecurity at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), will address these questions and more. The event will be webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/>*. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/logicloungeny <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/logicloungeny>* *TWITTER: #LogicLoungeNY http://bit.ly/logicloungeny <http://bit.ly/logicloungeny>* *ABOUT LOGIC LOUNGE* The LogicLounge was born at the Vienna Summer of Logic in 2014, which brought together almost 3000 scientists in the fields of logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and artificial intelligence. Since then it has been traveling the world as a regular event at the Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV). The LogicLounge series is organized by Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at TU Wien, Austria. The recordings of past LogicLounges with Toby Walsh, Dana Scott, and others are available at http://www.vcla.at/logiclounge/ *Permalink*: https://isoc.live/11188/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Look out for the FAT*2020 CfP
by Maya Ganesh 08 Jul '19

08 Jul '19

Hello, The annual Fairness Accountability Transparency (FAT*) conference has a new look: first time in Europe, with a (soon to be announced) new name, and a brand new Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) track: https://fatconference.org/2020/callforpapers.html Primarily a Computer Science + Law conference, FAT* is now evolving in response to critical scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities about the algorithmic shaping of everyday life and social and political institutions; that there needs to be more than just a computational tweak to ensure fairness and manage bias in these socio-technical systems. I am honoured to be part of the SSH track committee this year. The CfP is not formally out yet, but on behalf of the SSH team I am sending out an advance notice for people in this community. Please look out for the CfP in the coming weeks (on Twitter follow @fatconference). Full papers are due August third week, which is not a very long time away. So please start thinking about that half-written paper you have tucked away and that can be finished in time for this call. The SSH track is looking for submissions from STS, History of Science, critical Tech/Media studies, big data + algorithm studies, Philosophy etc. We are hoping to give the reviewers a very hard time choosing between the many brilliant submissions we get to the SSH track!! Best wishes, Maya -- Berlin | UTC + 2 T: @mayameme W: bodyofwork.in Fingerprint: D108 EA05 471F 709B E644 18E6 2A9F A109 16D7 EE98

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Topics on Internet Censorship and Surveillance (TICS) #2: Call for Papers
by Vasilis Ververis 06 Jul '19

06 Jul '19

* Topics on Internet Censorship and Surveillance (TICS) #2: Call for Papers * Online version: https://tics.site/cfp/ The 2nd TICS will focus on AI-assisted information controls. Collocated with the 18th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (https://webintelligence2019.com) October 14, 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece. Abstract The ever-increasing demand for online content moderation and user profiling sees the adaptation of web intelligence concepts that were developed in good faith, into a censorship and surveillance apparatus owned by corporations and national agencies. Consequently, users are bound to an Orwellian Internet where mainstream platforms such as search engines, social media, and content providers place the blame for filter bubbles and extensive user behavioral analysis on artificial intelligence. This is alarming, since it is particularly difficult to distinguish between AI bias and deliberate human intervention. TICS aims to explore the technological, socio-economic, and legal means and driving forces behind these issues, and to propose alternative directions for building a semantic and human-centric web that promotes empowerment of individuals to decide on how their identities are or are not constructed and aggregated online. Topics The goal of TICS is to raise awareness around the implications of network interference, by inviting researchers from complementary disciplines to consider the effect of their own domain on online censorship and surveillance. Along those lines, we invite submissions that address the following topics: - Research on technologies and policies that build upon advancements on the field of web intelligence to imply blocking, limitation or distortion of the availability of network services and online content - The application of web intelligence concepts such as behavioral modeling, data mining, and social network analytics to target groups and individuals by law enforcement agencies and private corporations - The implications of algorithmic and AI-assisted user content classification (such as for identification of hatespeech, copyright, or disinformation) - Novel techniques that leverage web intelligence to defend netizens against censorship and surveillance, or privacy enhancements to the existing AI infrastructure to mitigate these threats - Measurement methodologies that detect network interference or content moderation based on crowd knowledge or web analytics - The socio-economic consequences and implementation limitations and fallacies of upload filters and recommendation systems - Business models and amendments to legal frameworks which promote the use of web intelligence in ways that build a pluralistic, private, and human-centric experience without violating user freedoms * Important dates * Paper Submission due: July 19th, 2019 July 10th, 2019 Notification to authors: Aug 15th, 2019 Final, camera ready papers, due: Aug 25th, 2019 Workshop date: Oct 14th, 2019 * Paper Submission * Paper Submission Page: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2019/wi19/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S04&undi… Submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the standard ACM 2-column format. The ACM Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines can be found at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Program Chairs Marios Isaakidis, University College London, marios(a)tics.site Vasilis Ververis, Humboldt University Berlin, vasilis(a)tics.site Gunnar Wolf, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, gwolf(a)tics.site You can contact all of the chairs by addressing your mail to chairs(a)tics.site. Program Committee Apostolos Pyrgelis, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Bogdan Kulynych, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Chrystalenni Loizidou, University of Nicosia Gabriele de Seta, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Keith McManamen, Psiphon Inc. Savvas A. Zannettou, Cyprus University of Technology Will Scott, University of Michigan Cheers, ~Vasilis

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