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Higher education for a sustainable future
by Dr. Patrick Blessinger 18 Mar '20

18 Mar '20

Dear Colleagues, *HIGHER EDUCATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE* <https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20181128082326995>*:* https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20181128082326995 For a sustainable future, we need to promote renewable resources. The one type of renewable resource that is also needed for continued human progress is the resource of human intelligence, creativity, and ingenuity. -- Dr. Patrick Blessinger <http://www.patrickblessinger.com/> Contributing Writer, University World News <http://www.universityworldnews.com/search.php?query=blessinger&type=all&mod…> Director and Chief Scientist, HETL Association <https://www.hetl.org/> Editor, Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education <http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=jar…> Editor, Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning <https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/series-detail/Innovations-in-Higher-E…>

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IDIA2020 Virtual Conference participation
by Mamello Thinyane 18 Mar '20

18 Mar '20

Hi all, We have the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the upcoming IDIA2020 Virtual Conference, which is organized by the United Nations University in Macau for three days from 25th to 27th March 2020. Over the three days, there will be a virtual workshop, a keynote, and 19 research presentations. The keynote, which is titled "Privacy by Design for the Next Billion," will be delivered by Payal Arora, a digital anthropologist, author, consultant, founder, editor, and professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is the author of the "The Next Billion Users" with Harvard Press and has been named by Forbes as the "next billion champion" and “the right kind of person to reform tech”. Further details at https://www.idia2020.com/keynotes/ To participate, register now at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudOirqD4iuVr4N3sQ63E-U5imbAWYnw and reserve your place - the Zoom meeting link will be provided in the registration email. We are hosting a workshop titled “Using creative problem solving methods with applied improvisation to increase communication and innovation across multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams” which will be run by Russel Mcmahon. The workshop aims to introduce participants to alternative ways of conducting creative problem-solving sessions and to teach methodologies that can be used for creating better cross-cultural teams in terms of communication, collaboration, and cultural understanding. Further details at https://www.idia2020.com/workshops/ The following are some of the papers that will be presented at the conference: - "Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach to AI: Case Study of Apprise," by Hannah Thinyane and Francisca Sassetti - "After the Smartphone has arrived in the Village. How practices and proto-practices emerged in an ICT4D project", by Larry Stillman, Mauro Sarrica and Tom Denison - "Towards a resilience framework for integrating and using mobile technologies in South African public rural schools: theoretical considerations" by Sifiso Dlamini and Marita Turpin - "The Effect of a Digital Community-Based Tourism Platform on Hosts' Livelihood" by Pietari Keskinen, Niina Arvila, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, and Marko Nieminen - "Development Tendency of Double-Layers Digital Divide in Mainland China: A Longitudinal Study Based on Group Segmentation Perspective" by Longxiang Luo and Zhiwei Lin The full program is available at https://www.idia2020.com/programme/ Please share and distribute this widely in your networks. We are looking forward to seeing you. Kind regards, IDIA2020 Organizing Committee ------------------------------- Keynote abstract: "Privacy by Design for the Next Billion" Radical cost reductions in data pricing and mobile phones in the Global South have brought the next billion users online, many from the lower socio-economic segment. Global tech companies are expanding their data empires with the next billion users fast becoming their biggest data producers and consumers. Governments and development organizations view the rise of these mobile platforms as a novel opportunity as they embark on building service applications to connect with and mobilize these long-neglected demographics. They are doing so by partnering with tech companies in what is seen as a win-win relationship. As data becomes the so called fuel that is meant to feed into the smart and AI (artificial intelligence) driven economy, there urgently needs to be a far more rigorous discussion on what constitutes as global privacy values. Also, we need to ensure that already disadvantaged populations do not become victims of data breaches, privacy violations and targets of unsolicited and misinformed content, amplifying their vulnerability. The fact is that as of now, the concept of privacy continues to be viewed through a market-based and ethnocentric lens, disproportionately drawing from empirical evidence of perceptions and behaviors of Western-based, white, male, and middle-class demographics. Traditional development paradigms continue to view privacy as a luxury while they tackle what they see as the more urgent needs and wants of daily sustenance. We need to break away from these traditional constraints and radically rethink tech and development frameworks long dictating the global South. We need to channel our energies to pioneer privacy by design frameworks that optimize for civility, dignity, and pleasure, broadening the prevalent emphasis on optimizing for profit and efficiency. These pathways can pave the way for a global and ethical standard for privacy governance worldwide, particularly for the marginalized majority. -------------------------------- Workshop abstract: Using creative problem solving methods with applied improvisation to increase communication and innovation across multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams Improv is not just for comedy theatre. The concept of using applied improvisation for creative problem-solving (CPS) grew out of the 1990s from those who did human resources and talent development training. Improvisation also makes use of the CPS process in a very informal but explicit manner as performers create a story “out of nothing” to create a work of art that is both entertaining and thought provoking. One of the most common forms of long-form improvisation is called the Harold and it involves both divergent and convergent thinking at multiple stages of the show which allows the performers to create multiple-phase vignettes using just-in-time thinking which is a keystone of CPS as well. The Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem-Solving process was developed in the 1950s. The CPS process involves four stages and explicit process steps within each stage that involves both divergent and convergent thinking. The Creative Education Foundation’s (CEF) Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) conference grew out of this work and has been held for more than 60 years. It is from this work that methodologies such as design thinking arose. In the 1980s, Min Basadur developed the Basadur Simplexity system which is an enhancement of original CPS process and includes the use of an innovation profile and challenge maps. Activities proposed for this workshop will include an overview of the Basadur Simplexity CPS. This workshop will also teach participants some of the techniques of improvisation and ideas on how it can be used to develop better diverse teams that work together toward a common goal. There is research that supports the use of applied improvisation, including the work done by the Alan Alda Center for the Communication of Science at Stony Brook University which was the site of the Applied Improvisation Network 2019 Conference. -------------------------------- More information on participating in IDIA2020: https://www.idia2020.com/virtual-participation-information/ -- Mamello THINYANE Conference Co-chair IDIA2020 Principal Research Fellow United Nations University Casa Silva Mendes, Estrada do Engenheiro Trigo No 4, Macau SAR Tel: +853 2871-2930 | mamello(a)unu.edu<mailto:mamello@unu.edu> | Website<http://cs.unu.edu/>| www.unu.edu<http://www.unu.edu/>

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Additional Online Resource - Hey Watch This!
by Patricia Lange 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Colleagues, I just released my ethnographic film Hey Watch This! Sharing the Self Through Media (2020) which uses a case study of early YouTubers to explore enduring and profound philosophical questions about media such as: Where is the "real me" in and through media? What constitutes true participation on social media? What do I envision for my digital legacy? The film can be used to illustrate information in my book Thanks for Watching: An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube (2019), or on its own. The film is posted on Vimeo and has a study guide. It is constructed in a modular way so that individual online break-out sessions or exercises might follow from individual student screenings at once or in chapters/sections. Stay well everybody, during these hard times! https://vimeo.com/394007182

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AI fictions / IA fictions: International conference, Call For Papers
by Francesca Musiani 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

*AI fictions / IA fictions* *International conference, Call For Papers* This is the first conference ever organized on the theme of Artificial Intelligence in fiction (literature, series, films, comics, video games): the focus will be on representations of AI and their meanings, as well as the creative uses of AI to produce and understand fiction. A road trip entirely written by an artificial intelligence embedded in a car, Ross Goodwin's *1 the road* has joined at the start of the 2019 literary season a whole series of texts whose common point was to stage and act out a dream of automation and artificialization of literary language, whose genealogy goes back at least to the first automatic writings of Oulipo: artificial intelligence is no longer just a fiction but a tool for producing fiction. Hito Steyerl revisits the narrative power of documentary film using deep learning algorithms to better question its ability to shape reality; *Second Earth *by Gregory Chatonsky takes us into a new world whose automatically generated images already tell the story, while by associating two images to a logical connector he shows the power of an algorithm to create a small story (*If... then*, 2009). Embodied in figures, familiar, AI now offers incarnations that cannot be resolved on the apocalyptic horizon of robots waiting for the hour of singularity to triumph over the human species. AI is no longer just the object of a fantasy but is gradually becoming an everyday tool through facial recognition or personal assistants, while the first tools of predictive writing and cultural recommendation are emerging and it is announced that a story produced by an artificial intelligence would have been a finalist for a literary prize in Japan. We already knew the very rich mythology of AI in cinema, from 2001's *Odyssey of Spac*e to Spielberg's *A.I. Artificial Intelligence*, via *Terminator *or *Her*: each time, the political, ethical and social stakes of AI open up avenues for deep critical reflection and question the most essential philosophical categories by which we think about mankind and our place in the world. But AI is now taking on a concrete presence. *Databiographie *by Charly Delwart proposes to retrace a destiny based on digital data and their visualisations; *Le_zéro_et_le_un.txt *by Josselin Bordat tries to stage an artificial intelligence in the process of awakening to the world, *Kétamine *by Zoé Sagan sets a scene of a "predictive" journalist centred on data: never have we been so close to artificial agents that are integrated into our lives. Moving from fantasy to computer tools, the fictional representations of AI are thus added to the fictional representations of the emerging uses of narrative AI by opening up a field of opportunity and fear for culture: on the one hand, creation by AI or assisted by AI can offer a major experimental field of interest to both conceptual writers and storytelling practitioners. On the other hand, the way in which culture is "dated" and the way in which these dates are analyzed can profoundly affect the fiction industry and its attention control, further multiplying our perplexity about the emergence of artificial narrative intelligence. Contributors are invited to consider one or other of these topics: - examples of fictions produced by AI: tools, projects, applications, games; - the computer methods used: GAN, machine learning, deep learning; - AI's fiction: robots, cyborgs, computers; - the themes of post-humanism, singularity, utopias and dystopias of AI; - the cultural history of representations of AI and its inventors (Alan Turing for example); - criticism produced by AI: audience analysis, scenario analysis, cultural recommendation algorithms; - the analysis of fiction by AI methods in the field of Digital Humanities; - the legal problems induced by creation: law, data sharing, tax system; - the narrative aesthetics of AI, the link with conceptual art and performance literature; - the transformation of theoretical categories by AI and the modification of the vocabulary of criticism and aesthetic philosophy, from the notion of narration to that of literature; - the representation of psychological, ethical and political problems induced by AI, from Asimov's three laws of robotics to *Westworld*; - the philosophical dimension of fictional reflection on AI: the problem of freedom, consciousness, agentivity, autonomy; - AI as a way of questioning the question of minorities, the topic of vulnerability, the frontiers of the human, the frontier of gender, the frontier of species. *The conference will take place at the Maison de la recherche of the University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne nouvelle, Maison de la recherche, 3 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris, from 3 to 5 June 2021.* *Proposals in English or French (1 page + 1 short bio-bibliography) should be sent to **ia.fiction.2021(a)gmail.com* <https://webmail.cnrs.fr/owa/redir.aspx?C=5NY3com7ukZg3F5Q9EKercyJ1AqfQFOkwU…>* before 30 September 2020.* *Conference organized by Alexandre Gefen ((CNRS/Paris 3) with Marida di Crosta (Marge, Université de Lyon III), Ksenia Ermoshina (CNRS, Centre Internet et Société), Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (University of Geneva), Léa-Saint-Raymond (ENS).* *-----* *IA fictions / **AI fictions* *Colloque international, appel à contribution* C’est le premier colloque jamais organisé sur le thème de l’intelligence artificielle dans la fiction (littérature, séries, films, bande dessinée, jeux vidéo, arts plastiques) : on s’intéressera aux représentations de l’IA et à leurs significations ainsi qu’aux usages créatifs de l’IA pour produire et comprendre la fiction en textes, en sons, en images fixes et animées, comme en jeux vidéo. *Road trip *entièrement écrit par une Intelligence Artificielle embarquée dans une voiture, *1 the road *de Ross Goodwin a rejoint à la rentrée littéraire 2019 toute une série de textes dont le point commun était de mettre en scène et en acte un rêve d'automatisation et d'artificialisation du langage littéraire, dont la généalogie remonte au moins aux premières écritures automatiques de l'Oulipo : l'intelligence artificielle n'est désormais plus seulement une fiction mais un outil à produire des fictions. Les fictions sont autant textuelles qu'imagées. Hito Steyerl revisite la puissance narrative du film documentaire à l’aide d’algorithmes de deep learning pour mieux interroger sa capacité à façonner le réel ; *Second Earth *de Grégory Chatonsky nous promène dans un nouveau monde dont les images, générées automatiquement, disent déjà l’histoire, tandis qu’en associant deux images à un connecteur logique il montre la puissance d’un algorithme à créer une petite histoire (*If... then*, 2009). Incarné dans des figures, familier, l’IA offre désormais des incarnations qui ne se résolvent pas à l’horizon apocalyptique de robots attendant l’heure de la singularité pour triompher de l’espèce humaine. L’IA n’est plus seulement l’objet d’un fantasme, mais elle devient peu à peu un instrument quotidien à travers la reconnaissance faciale ou les assistants personnels, alors qu’émergent les premiers outils d’écriture prédictive et de recommandation culturelle et l’on annonce qu’un récit produit par une intelligence artificielle aurait été finaliste d’un prix littéraire au Japon. On connaissait déjà la très riche mythologie de l’IA au cinéma, de *2001 l’Odyssée de l’espace *à *A.I. Intelligence Artificielle *de Spielberg en passant bien sûr par *Terminator *ou *Her *: à chaque fois, les enjeux politiques, éthiques, sociaux de l’IA ouvrent des pistes de profonde réflexion critique et viennent interroger les catégories philosophiques les plus essentielles par lesquelles nous pensons l’humanité de l’homme et notre place dans le monde. Mais l’IA prend désormais une présence concrète : *Databiographie *de Charly Delwart propose de retracer un destin en s’appuyant sur des données numériques et leurs visualisations, *Le_zéro_et_le_un.txt *de Josselin Bordat essaye de mettre en scène une intelligence artificielle en phase d’éveil au monde, *Kétamine *de Zoé Sagan met un scène un journaliste « prédictif » centré sur les données : jamais nous n’avons été aussi proches d’agents artificiels qui s’intègrent dans nos vies. En passant du fantasme à des outils informatiques, s’ajoutent ainsi aux représentations fictionnelles de l’IA des usages émergents des IA narratives en ouvrant un champ d’opportunité et de peur pour la culture : d’une part, la création par l’IA ou assistée par l’IA peut offrir un champ expérimental majeur intéressant autant les écrivains conceptuels que les scénaristes que les praticiens du storytelling, les plasticiens et les performeurs. D’autre part la manière dont la culture se « dataifie » et celle dont ces datas sont analysées peut affecter profondément l’industrie de la fiction et sa maîtrise de l’attention, multipliant encore notre perplexité face à l’émergence d’une intelligence narrative artificielle. On invitera les contributeurs à se pencher notamment sur l’une ou l’autre de ces pistes de réflexion : - les exemples de fictions produites par l’IA : outils, projets, applications, jeux ; les méthodes informatiques utilisées : GAN, machine learning, deep learning ; les mises en fiction de l’IA : robots, cyborgs, ordinateurs ; - les thèmes du post-humanisme, de la singularité, les utopies et les dystopies de l’IA ; - l’histoire culturelle des représentations de l’IA et de ses inventeurs (Alan Turing par exemple) ; - la critique produite par l’IA : analyse des publics, analyse de scénarios, algorithmes de recommandation culturelle ; - l’analyse de la fiction par des méthodes IA dans le champ des Humanités Numériques ; - les problèmes juridiques induits par la création : droit, partage des données, régime fiscal ; - les esthétiques narratives de l’IA, le lien avec l’art conceptuel et la littérature en performance : - la transformation des catégories théoriques par l’IA et la modification du vocabulaire de la critique et de la philosophie esthétique, de la notion de narration à celle de littérature ; - la représentation des problèmes psychologiques, éthiques et politiques induits par l’IA, depuis les trois lois de la robotique d’Asimov jusqu’à *Westworld *; - la dimension philosophique de la réflexion fictionnelle sur l’IA : le problème de la liberté, de la conscience, de l’agentivité, de l’autonomie ; - l’IA comme manière d’interroger la question des minorités, le thème de la vulnérabilité, les frontières de l’humain, la frontière du genre, la frontière des espèces. *Le colloque aura lieu à la Maison de la recherche de l’Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne nouvelle, Maison de la recherche, 3 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris, du 3 au 5 juin 2021.* *Les propositions en anglais ou en français (1 page + 1 courte bio-bibliographie) sont à envoyer à **ia.fiction.2021(a)gmail.com* <https://webmail.cnrs.fr/owa/redir.aspx?C=5NY3com7ukZg3F5Q9EKercyJ1AqfQFOkwU…>* avant le 30 septembre 2020.* *Colloque organisé par Alexandre Gefen (CNRS/Paris 3) en collaboration avec Marida di Crosta (Marge, Université de Lyon III), Ksenia Ermoshina (CNRS, Centre Internet et Société), Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (Université de Genève), Léa-Saint-Raymond (ENS).* -- Francesca Musiani, Ph.D. Chargée de recherche | Associate Research Professor, CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr> Directrice adjointe | Deputy Director, Centre for Internet and Society <http://cis.cnrs.fr> [CIS], UPR 2000 & GDR 2091 CNRS Chercheuse associée | Associate Researcher, i3-CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech Global Fellow, Internet Governance Lab <https://internetgovernancelab.org>, American University I'm involved in: CPT <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/cp-t>-IAMCR | @PolicyR <http://policyreview.info/> | ISOC Franc <https://www.isoc.fr>e <https://www.isoc.fr> | CSA Lab <https://www.csa.fr/Informer/CSA-lab/Fonctionnement> | RESET <https://journals.openedition.org/reset/> On the Web <http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article1960> | On Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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My new book - Media Distortions - is OUT and OPEN ACCESS
by Carmi, Elinor 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Hi everyone, In what seems to be the worst time in a century, I'm mildly excited to announce my book is finally out, and it is OPEN ACCESS! Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise and Other Deviant Media (Digital Formation Series, Peter Lang) Here's the blurb: Media Distortions is about the power behind the production of deviant media categories. It shows the politics behind categories we take for granted such as spam and noise, and what it means to our broader understanding of, and engagement with media. The book synthesizes media theory, sound studies, science and technology studies (STS), feminist technoscience, and software studies into a new composition to explore media power. Media Distortions argues that using sound as a conceptual framework is more useful due to its ability to cross boundaries and strategically move between multiple spaces—which is essential for multi-layered mediated spaces. Drawing on repositories of legal, technical and archival sources, the book amplifies three stories about the construction and negotiation of the ‘deviant’ in media. The book starts in the early 20th century with Bell Telephone’s production of noise, tuning into the training of their telephone operators and their involvement with the Noise Abatement Commission in New York City. The next story jumps several decades to the early 2000s focusing on web metric standardization in the European Union and shows how the digital advertising industry constructed web-cookies as legitimate communication while making spam illegal. The final story focuses on the recent decade and the way Facebook filters out antisocial behaviors to engineer a sociality that produces more value. These stories show how deviant categories re-draw boundaries between human and non-human, public and private spaces, and importantly, social and antisocial. Check out the book's website - https://media-distortions.net/ - where you can find: 1. A link to download the book for FREE. 2. More info about the book. 3. What the wonderful endorsers - scholars who have inspired my work since the beginning - had to say about the book, THANK YOU Tiziana Terranova, Evelyn Ruppert, Jussi Parikka and Robert W. Ghel! 4. The book's playlist with songs/tracks that will bring the dark atmosphere of the book to you, so you can dance in between the sections. For the advanced music snobs who think they can create a better playlist - this is the time to make a positive use of your reviewer 2 energy and send me your playlist interpretation of the book so I can add them to the website! 5. I also kept my shattered dreams, I mean USA book tour that had to be cancelled due to the Coronavirus but which will be rescheduled for the fall, if humanity will survive. 6. More info about me. If you're interested in an inspection/review copy please write back to (don't 'reply all' although spamming everyone is a duty when it comes to this book 😉 me and I'll connect you with the publisher to get your copy. I want to thank Liverpool University for making this book open access! I hope you enjoy and May the Schwartz be with you. Stay healthy and take care in your social distancing. 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

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WEBCAST TODAY: Diplo - How to organise and run online meetings
by Joly MacFie 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Back in 2016, at Inbox Awesome, I streamed Justin Gallagher, VP Product of Trello (video <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/inawe16/videos/139391817>). He talked about the company's policy of "*One remote? All remote!*". If any one person attends a meeting remotely, they all have to go back to their desks and webcams. Digital equity in full effect. Now, thanks to COVAD-19, we all have it. But not without some hiccups, and many choices. Again, for captions on this you will have to wait for YouTube. <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv0NNIwtb50KEp8VDTZeAOg> ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday March 17 2020 at 09:00 EDT (13:00 UTC) the Diplo Conference Tech Lab presents an online discussion 'Diplomacy goes virtual as coronavirus goes viral: How to organise and run online meetings' which will address the new challenges and opportuniti" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/diploconf>On *Tuesday March 17 2020* at* 09:00 EDT* (13:00 UTC) the *Diplo Conference Tech Lab <https://www.diplomacy.edu/conference-tech-lab>* presents an online discussion '*Diplomacy goes virtual as coronavirus goes viral: How to organise and run online meetings <https://www.diplomacy.edu/calendar/live-discussion-diplomacy-goes-virtual-c…>*' which will address the new challenges and opportunities for interactive online events. Speakers: *Jovan Kurbalija* - Head, Geneva Internet Platform; *Arvin Kamberi* - DiploFoundation’s online participation team; *Marilia Maciel* - DiploFoundation. *LIVESTREAM: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/diploconf <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/diploconf>* *PARTICIPATE: https://www.diplomacy.edu/registrations/live-discussion-diplomacy-goes-virt… <https://www.diplomacy.edu/registrations/live-discussion-diplomacy-goes-virt…>* *TWITTER: @DiplomacyEdu #onlinemeetings <http://bit.ly/2wZg9js>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11913/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST TODAY: ‘The Regulatory and Licensing Framework for Community Networks’ w/ Ritu Srivastava
by Joly MacFie 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

As noted, today's talk is an Asia-Pacific take on this key topic. Guest Ritu Srivastava is a co-convener of the Community Network Exchange (CNX) Asia Pacific. http://cnxapac.org/ No captions, sorry, but it will be posted to PCMLP's YouTube <http://bit.ly/2YX5DCf> after, where it will be AI captioned. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Tuesday March 17 2020, at 10:00 UTC (06:00 EDT) the University of Oxford’s Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) and the University of Johannesburg’s School of Communication present the 6th seminar of the Global Media and Policy Ser" [image: livestream]Today, *Tuesday March 17 2020*, at *10:00 UTC* (06:00 EDT) the *University of Oxford’s Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy <https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-and-subject-groups/programme-comparative-…> *(PCMLP) and the *University of Johannesburg’s School of Communication <https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/school-of-communication>* present the 6th seminar of the *Global Media and Policy Series <http://bit.ly/2YX5DCf>* (GMPSS). *Ritu Srivastava <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritusrivastava2208/>* of Jadeite Solutions (India) will be discussing ‘*The Regulatory and Licensing Framework for Community Networks <https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/events/pcmlp-global-seminar-series-ritu-srivastava…>*‘ with series director *Dr Kira Allmann <https://twitter.com/KiraAllmann>*. The talk will focus on the regulatory and licensing frameworks that enable or inhibit community networks in Asia Pacific countries. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/gmpss6 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/gmpss6>* *PARTICIPATE: https://zoom.us/j/701672480 <https://zoom.us/j/701672480>* *TWITTER: @OxfordMediaLaw @ritu_instablogs #CommunityNetworks #gmpss <https://bit.ly/GMPSS> * *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11908/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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ACM UMAP 2020 - 2nd Call for Demos and Late Breaking Results
by Oghenemaro Anuyah 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

============================ Call for Demos and Late Breaking Results (LBR) - ACM UMAP 2020 28th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Theme: "Responsible Personalization" Genoa (Italy) July 14-17, 2020 Website: https://www.um.org/umap2020/ ============================ - Submission of demos and LBR papers: April 6, 2020 - Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2020 - Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: May 7, 2020 ============================ BACKGROUND AND SCOPE: ============================ ACM UMAP – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP 2020 invites Demonstrations and Late-Breaking Results (LBR) papers of innovative UMAP-based systems (including research prototypes). Demonstrations Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and to get valuable feedback from the community. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how. To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or to any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub). Descriptions of demonstrations should have a length of max. 2 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings template. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2020. Late-Breaking Results Late-Breaking Results (LBR) are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit a late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Late-Breaking Results papers have a length of 4 to 6 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings template and will be presented to the conference as posters. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS ============================ Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymized before submission. Submissions (demos and late-breaking results) must adhere to the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template. A template can be found at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template . Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2020 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2020 SUBMIT A PAPER <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2020> The review process will be single blinded, i.e. authors’ names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits (2 pages for demos and 6 pages for LBR) or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION ============================ Accepted Demo and Late Breaking Results papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2020 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS AND DEMO CHAIRS ============================ - Li Chen, Department of Computer Science Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong - Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, South Carolina USA - Frosina Koceva, University of Genova, Genova, Italy ============================ *UMAP Statement on Coronavirus* ============================ UMAP 2020 will proceed as planned July 14-17, but we will continue to monitor the evolving situation related to the coronavirus disease outbreak and potential impact on global travel. We are following the guidelines provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO), local public health authorities, individual governments and the Italian Government. Decisions will be based on that. We wish to reassure that should a physical conference be unsafe or should people have travel limitations from Governments, the remote presentations/recordings will be possible. Proceedings of the Main Conference and Adjunct Proceedings will be available as planned in the ACM Digital Library. Any changes to operating status will be communicated immediately on the website and social media as well as to all authors of accepted papers and to registered meeting attendees. Stay tuned. ============================ Regards, Oghenemaro Anuyah Graduate Research Assistant Dept. of Computer Science, Boise State University ACM UMAP Conference 2020 - *Co-publicity Chair* oghenemaroanuyah(a)u.boisestate.edu

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Exercises for teaching digital ethnographic methods (remotely)
by Morris,CJ (pgr) 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

Hi all, I'm now putting together lectures on digital qualitative/ethnographic/field methods for my departments undergraduate and postgraduate students. This seems like one of the few ways they will be able to safely do some of their assignments. I'll be giving this lecture via Zoom, a digital classroom. The current lecture design is: Intro -> My research background (digital ethnography of WeChat/Weibo activism) -> Understanding the digital field -> Ethics -> Q&A -> Doing ethnography in... (FB, WhatsApp, Weibo, Twitter, WeChat, Douyin/TikTok, Reddit, Insta, hashtags) -> being playful in the field -> exercise -> feedback -> final Q&A. I'm putting together a 30 minute exercise, but i was wondering if anyone had examples of successful digital, ethno/qualitative research methods exercises they've done. Particularly those that reflect on ethics, research design and methods. I'm currently planning on going basic, asking them putting together the research plan of a digitally centred study. This is open to change, but if I continue with this, does anyone have any recommendations for topics that they could do the plan for? I'd rather assign topics to the groups to help focus them in the short time period we have. Carwyn Morris PhD Candidate in Human Geography and Urban Studies Department of Geography and Environment London School of Economics Co-organiser LSE China Reading Group Tweeting @carwyn<https://twitter.com/carwyn>

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Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security (APPS 2020) - ACM UMAP Workshop
by Marios Belk 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security (APPS 2020) - ACM UMAP Workshop CALL FOR PAPERS The Second International Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Privacy and Security, in conjunction with the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2020), Genoa, Italy, July 17, 2020 Workshop Website: http://appsworkshop.cs.ucy.ac.cy Paper Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apps2020 IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: April 13, 2020 (23:59 AoE time) Notification: April 30, 2020 Camera-ready papers: May 06, 2020 MOTIVATION & GOALS Millions of users across different continents and countries are daily engaged with privacy and security tasks which are indispensable in modern information systems and services. Such tasks are commonly related to user authentication, human interaction proofs (e.g., captcha), privacy and security pop-up dialogs, setting privacy and security features within online user profiles, etc. Recent privacy and security incidents of famous online services have once more underpinned the necessity towards further investigating and improving current approaches and practices related to the design of efficient and effective privacy and security. In order to achieve this objective, one possible direction is related to providing adaptive and personalized characteristics to privacy- and security-related user tasks, given the diversity of the user characteristics (like cultural, cognitive, age, habits), the technology (like standalone, mobile, mixed-virtual-augmented reality, wearables) and interaction contexts of use (like being on the move, social settings, spatial limitations). Hence, adaptive and personalized privacy and security implies the ability of an interactive system or service to support its end-users, who are engaged in privacy- and/or security-related tasks, based on user models which describe in a holistic way what constitutes the user's physical, technological and interaction context in which computation takes place. APPS 2020 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on diverse topics related to understanding and improving the usability of privacy and security software and systems, by applying user modeling, adaptation and personalization principles. Our special focus in 2020 will be on healthcare systems, more specifically on ensuring security and privacy of medical data in smart patient-centric healthcare systems. The workshop will address the following objectives: - increase our understanding and knowledge on supporting usable privacy and security interaction design through novel user modeling mechanisms and adaptive user interfaces; - discuss methods and techniques for understanding user attitudes and perceptions towards privacy and security issues in various application areas; - identify human-centered models for the design, development and evaluation of adaptive and personalized privacy and security systems; - discuss methods for evaluating the impact and added value of adaptation and personalization in privacy and security systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Privacy and security in smart patient-centric healthcare systems - Adaptation and personalization approaches in usable privacy and security - Effects of human factors (e.g., cognition, personality, etc.) in privacy and security systems - Novel user interaction concepts and user interfaces for achieving usable security - Cultural diversity in usable privacy and security - Context-aware privacy and security - Adaptive usable security in various domains such as healthcare, IoT, automotive - Trust perceived in patient-centric healthcare systems - Perceived security and usability in patient-centric healthcare systems - Adaptive user authentication policies - Novel approaches to the design and evaluation of usable security systems - Lessons learned from the deployment and use of usable privacy and security features - Ethical considerations in adaptive and personalized privacy and security PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION All workshop papers must contain original, previously unpublished, research work adhering the two publication types: - Full research papers (6-8 pages, incl. references), proposing new approaches, innovative methods and research findings. - Short research papers (2-4 pages, incl. references), presenting works in progress, lessons learned, emerging or future research issues and directions on topics related to APPS. Manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) Please submit your paper through the EasyChair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apps2020 Accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Marios Belk, Cognitive UX GmbH, DE & University of Cyprus, CY Christos Fidas, University of Patras, GR Juliana Bowles, University of St. Andrews, UK Elias Athanasopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus, CY

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