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Question: Twitter follower count distribution
by Aram Sinnreich 06 May '20

06 May '20

Hey Fellow AoIRistas, Quick question: Do you know of any top-down measures of the distribution of follower numbers for Twitter accounts? I'm sure the curve overall looks like a standard power law distribution, but I'm interested to know whether there are emergent tiers (e.g. <250; 251-2,500; 2501-10,000; 10,001+) or something along those lines. Thanks! Aram -- *Aram Sinnreich <http://www.sinnreich.com>* Associate Professor Chair, Communication Studies American University <http://www.american.edu/soc/> School of Communication <http://www.american.edu/soc/> Author <http://j.mp/sinnreich>| Musician <http://sinnreich.com/music/> (he/him/his)

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Postdoc opportunity at University of Michigan School of Information on privacy/ethics/emotion recognition
by Nazanin Andalibi 06 May '20

06 May '20

Hi, I have an opening for a postdoc position for an NSF-funded project around ethics/privacy/emotion recognition technologies. This links includes more information about the position and how to apply: https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/186457/postdoctoral_research_fellow Best, Nazanin Andalibi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Michigan School of Information 3372 North Quad Website: https://www.nazaninandalibi.net/ Pronouns: She/Her *Affiliate faculty:* Digital Studies Institute Center for Social Media Responsibility Center for Ethics, Computing and Society

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Digital Modern Languages Call for Doctoral Research Presentations - Deadline 15 May 2020
by Naomi Wells 06 May '20

06 May '20

Digital Modern Languages Seminar Series: Call for Doctoral Research Presentations The Digital Modern Languages (https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/) convenors are planning a series of virtual events to bring together research and teaching in Modern Languages which engages with digital culture, media and technologies. For our first event, we would like to showcase the new and exciting research currently undertaken by PhD students across Modern Languages and related departments. The aim is also to provide a forum for doctoral researchers to present and receive feedback on their work in a supportive environment, particularly at a time when such opportunities may be more limited than in normal circumstances. As a result, we are planning to host a virtual seminar from 3-5pm (GMT) on Wednesday 3 June 2020, including four 15-minute presentations from doctoral researchers, followed by a Q & A session with all presenters. To ensure a supportive virtual environment, the seminar will only be open to those who register in advance and presenters will be able to choose whether they would like their presentation recorded/shared more widely after the event. We will also support presenters in advance to ensure they are comfortable and familiar with the virtual seminar format. If you’re interested in contributing to the seminar, please submit a title and brief abstract of around 150 words (200 max) on your proposed presentation, with your name, institution and year of PhD study/completion. Presenters should be either current or recently completed PhD students (within 1 year of their viva) from a languages or closely related department. In line with the series’ aim, we will adopt an inclusive approach, both thematically and in terms of the languages of specialism of seminar speakers. Areas of potential but not exclusive interest include: digital cultural studies, digital archives and databases, digital ethnography, digital discourse analysis, language teaching and digital technologies, translation technologies and digital/computational approaches to the study of language and text (all with a primary focus on languages other than English). Proposals should be submitted by email by Friday 15 May (midnight GMT) to naomi.wells(a)sas.ac.uk and paul.spence(a)kcl.ac.uk. Please also contact us if you have any questions about contributing to the seminar. If you’re currently supervising digital research in Modern Languages, please also share this opportunity with any of your own PhD students who might be interested in contributing. Dr Naomi Wells Early Career Researcher in Italian and Spanish with Digital Humanities Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study | University of London Room 238 | Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU | UK Email: naomi.wells(a)sas.ac.uk http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/

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Webinar: Digital Activism in times of pandemic - Thursday, May 7, 2020
by Gerbaudo, Paolo 06 May '20

06 May '20

Dear Colleagues, You are invited to the webinar organised by the Centre for Digital Culture and the International Sociological Association, Research Committee 47 on digital activism in the pandemic. The event will start tomorrow Thursday 7 May, at 3pm (UK time). If you want to join https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-activism-in-times-of-pandemic-ticket… Details below. Best, Paolo Webinar Digital Activism in times of pandemic Date: Thursday,May 7, 2020 Time: 10a.m. (New York Time), 11a.m. (Brazilian Time), 4p.m. (Central European Summer Time & South Africa Standard Time), 7:30 p.m (Indian Standard Time) Duration: 1:30 h Registration link and access: Each discussant will give a 10-minutes presentation. The audience can ask questions via chat in the Video Conference. If you only want to watch, you can also use the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Classes and Social Movements (ISA RC47) Youtube channel, live or afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr-0ie11P6GSQEs9KGFGawg About: Digital Activism has been an important trend in contemporary social movements, amid an era marked by rapid technological change. From the 2011 movements of the squares, to the Gilets Jaunes and the 2019 anti-government protests from Chile, to Ecuador and Lebanon have seen the use of new social media tactics, using platforms such as Facebook and Twitter for purposes of organization and mobilization. The 2020 coronavirus crisis makes digital activism even more important. Due to lockdown measures citizens cannot engage in traditional physical forms of protests, such as demonstrations, pickets, sit-ins, etc. However, the need to social action is not diminished, given the need for social solidarity amidst this crisis, and the emergence of new grievances, related to the economic effects of the crisis, which unveiling the enormous injustice at the heart of our societies. Thus, in the last weeks we have witnessed new forms of collective action organised online. This range from collective flashmobs such as #clapforourcarers in the UK and similar ones in other countries, which call citizens to express their solidarity towards doctors and nurses to all sorts of actual protest organised online such as ‘caceroladas’ (banging pots protests) called on social media, to the use of memes and other forms of online propaganda to express dissent at the way governments are managing the crisis. This webinar will bring together activists and social movement scholars around the world, to discuss the new forms of online activism that are developing in this difficult period. It will ask how activists are using the Internet and social media to mobilise against the injustices revealed by the crisis, and how activists are using online organizing tool to cope with the isolation produced by lockdown measures. Participants Paolo Gerbaudo is a sociologist and political theorist and the director of the Centre for Digital culture at King’s College London. He is the Author of Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism<https://www.plutobooks.com/9781849648011/tweets-and-the-streets/> (2012), The Mask and the Flag: Populism, Citizenism and Global Protest<https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-mask-and-the-flag/> (2017), and Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy<https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745335797/the-digital-party/> (2019) Anastasia Kavada is a Reader in Media and Politics at the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster. She is Co-Director of the Arts, Communication and Culture Research Community. Her research focuses on the links between digital media, social movements, and social change. Her work has appeared in a variety of edited books and academic journals. Mengying Li has recently completed her PhD at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. She is currently writing a book on Weibo and WeChat’s involvement in Chinese online activism and is about to join the Journalism School at Shanghai Fudan University as a postdoctoral research fellow. Her research focuses on digital cultures, social media and online activism. Marisa von Bulow is a political scientist and Associate Professor at the University of Brasilia. She is author of Building Transnational Networks (2010), Social movement dynamics: new perspectives on theory and research from Latin America (2015) and Social movements in Chile: organization, trajectories and political consequences. Her recent researches deals with social movements and digital activism Brazil and Chile. Winnie Wong is an activist. She is senior political adviser to the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. Dr Paolo Gerbaudo, Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, Department of Digital Humanities Director of the Centre for Digital Culture King's College London, Room S3.10, Strand Building, 3rd Floor, Strand London WC2, England Phone: +44 (0)20 78481576

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COVID-19 Seminar #3: Prof Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University
by Thao Phan 06 May '20

06 May '20

*COVID-19 Seminar #3: Prof Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University* https://ruha-benjamin-seminar.eventbrite.com.au Please join us for the first seminar in the COVID-19 seminar series, co-hosted by the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation (ADI) <https://www.deakin.edu.au/adi> and the Science and Society Network (SSN) <https://scienceandsocietynetwork.deakin.edu.au/>.This week's seminar will take the format of 2 x pre-recorded guest lectures followed by live Q&A with the speaker, Professor Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University. *Date/time:* Tuesday 12th May, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern Standard Time, GMT+10) *Pre-recorded guest lectures:* 1. Black Skin, White Masks: Racism, Vulnerability & Refuting Black Pathology (30:48) https://aas.princeton.edu/news/black-skin-white-masks-racism-vulnerability-… 2. Are robots racist? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology and Society (23:24) https://www.dropbox.com/s/ia5j8ao5ycllyzd/Ruha%20Benjamin%20Guest%20Lecture… *About the speaker:* Ruha Benjamin an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she studies the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine. She is the founder of the JUST DATA Lab and the author of two books, People’s Science (Stanford) and Race After Technology (Polity), and editor of Captivating Technology (Duke). She writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the relationship between knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice. *Live Q&A discussion with Professor Benjamin:* Limited tickets are available for those who would like to part of the Zoom discussion (this is to help manage numbers and Zoom interruptions). Register as a 'Zoom participant' on Eventbrite. The Q&A will also be live streamed on YouTube live. Access using the live link: https://youtu.be/zTOBG2RxYTY (Register as a 'YouTube Live participant' on Eventbrite to receive an email reminder for the event). Date/time: Tuesday 12th May, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern Standard Time, GMT+10) To send questions/participate in the YouTube Live chat, you'll need to sign-in using a YouTube account <https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-comment-on-youtube?r=AU&IR=T>. If you have any questions, please send to ssn-info(a)deakin.edu.au <ssn-info(a)deakin.edu.au> The talk will also be recorded and available on the SSN Youtube Channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVYFQV_UFX9CLreqpNzanVA>. Did you miss our last seminar? Watch it here! <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtH1AbnJ7AFApbhh29fL5kqjNFdD_0eID>

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CFP E-Vote-ID 2020
by Peter ROENNE 05 May '20

05 May '20

*Deadline postponed to June 15, 2020* *Conference going digital* In these challenging COVID-19 times, the question on how to deal with democracy during a pandemic has been raised by several voices. We consider that keeping the conference, albeit in digital format, is not only an academic responsibility, but also responds to the need for an active focus on electronic voting by facilitating high quality debates and responses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS E-Vote-ID 2020 Fifth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting 6–9 October 2020 www.e-vote-id.org (Paper Submission Date: 15 June 2020) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: @evotingcc Hashtag: #EVoteID2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs: Krimmer, Robert (Tallinn University of Technology, Ragnar Nurkse School, Estonia), Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Outreach Chairs: Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Krivonosova, Iuliia (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the fifth edition of one of the leading international events for e-voting experts from all over the world. Due to the COVID-19 situation, the conference will this year take a digital format. One of its major objectives is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary and open discussion of all issues relating to electronic voting. In the first 4 editions, up to 121 presentations had been discussed, gathering more than 400 participants. The aim of the conference is to bring together e-voting specialists working in academia, politics, government and industry in order to discuss various aspects of all forms of electronic voting (including, but not limited to, polling stations, kiosks, ballot scanners and remote voting by electronic means) in the four following tracks below and a PhD colloquium: Track on Security, Usability and Technical Issues Chairs: Beckert, Bernhard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Küsters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart, Germany) and Kulyk, Oksana (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Design, analysis, formal modeling or researching and implementation of: - Electronic voting protocols and systems; - Voter identification and authentication; - Ballot secrecy, receipt-freeness and coercion resistance; - Election verification including end-to-end verifiability and risk-limiting audits; - Requirements; - Evaluation and certification, including international security standards, e.g. Common Criteria or ITSEC; - Human aspects of security mechanisms in electronic voting and in particular of verifiability mechanisms; or - Any other security and HCI issues relevant for electronic voting. Track on Administrative, Legal, Political and Social Issues Chairs: Duenas-Cid, David (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia / Kozminski University, Poland), Solvak, Mihkel (University of Tartu, Estonia) - Discuss legal, political and social issues of electronic voting implementations, ideally employing case study methodology; - Analyze the interrelationship with, and the effects of electronic voting on democratic institutions and processes; - Assess the cultural impact of electronic voting on institutions, behaviours and attitudes of the Digital Era; - Discuss the administrative, legal, political and social risks of electronic voting; - How to draft electronic voting legislations; - Public administrations and the implementation of electronic voting; - Understandability, transparency, and trust issues in electronic voting; - Data protection issues; - Public interests vs. PPP (public private partnerships). Track on Elections and Practical Experiences Chairs: Oliver Spycher (Swiss Federal Chancellery, Switzerland) and Beata Martin-Rozumilowicz (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, USA) - Review developments in the area of applied electronic voting; - Report on experiences with electronic voting or the preparation thereof (including reports on development and implementation, case law, court decisions, legislative steps, public and political debates, election outcomes, etc.); Contributions in this track will be published in TalTech press proceedings only. These experience and practical reports need not contain original research, but must be an accurate, complete and, where applicable, evidence-based account of the technology or system used. Submissions will be judged on quality of review and level of analysis, and the applicability of the results to other democracies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track on Posters and E-Voting System Demo Chair: Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) The Poster and Demo session will be replaced with shorter presentations in a format to be determined. Participation is open to all conference participants, but we request a Short Paper (two pages) by 15 September submitted via Easychair describing the system’s requirements and properties, such as: - whether the system is intended for use in controlled (i.e. in polling stations) or uncontrolled environments (i.e. remotely via the Internet or in kiosks); - which types of elections it accommodates; - whether it addresses the needs of voters with disabilities; - what sort of verifiability it provides; - the extent to which it guarantees vote privacy; - whether it has been deployed in a real election; - where to go for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PhD Colloquium Chairs: Driza Maurer, Ardita (Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau ZDA/ University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Iuliia Krivonosova (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) The goal of the colloquium is to foster understanding and collaboration between PhD students from various disciplines working on e-voting. To this end, the program allows plenty of space for discussion and initiating collaboration based on presentations by attendees. Each interested participant should submit his/her research proposal (or alternatively ideas for papers, open problems, or other issues where feedback from colleagues would be helpful etc.) on the shaper of a short paper (two pages length) using the conference platform. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Format of the Conference Unfortunately, we will not be able to meet in person in Bregenz this year, but we will arrange a digital conference. We will take input from upcoming digital conferences to determine the best possible format. The dates will still be 6–9 October 2020. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper-based Submissions Paper-based submissions may be in one of two formats - either as a full paper or as an abstract. - Full paper submissions (max 16 pages in LNCS format all in); - Short Paper submissions (max 2 pages in LNCS format all in). All submissions will be subject to double-blind review. Submissions must be anonymous (with no reference to the authors). Submissions are to be made using the EasyChair conference system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2020, which serves as the online system for the review process. During submission, please select the appropriate track or the PhD colloquium. The track chairs reserve the right to re-assign papers to other tracks in case of better fit based on reviewer feedback and in coordination with other track chairs. LNCS style has to be used (see the Springer guidelines at http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…, including templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word). If you think that one or more of the programme committee members could have a conflict of interest with your submission, please let the general chairs know at conference-chairs(a)e-vote-id.org. In turn, according settings in the EasyChair system will be set, so that the respective member/s is/are not involved in the review process. Accepted papers will be presented at the digital conference, but the opportunity to present the works at next year’s, hopefully, physical conference will be given. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Deadline for submitting papers: (Hawaiian time, rigid deadline, no extension) 15 June 2020 – 23:59 Notification of Acceptance: 24 July 2020 Deadline for submission of papers for theTrack on Election and Practical Experiences and the PhD Colloquium: 10 July 2020 Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 20 August 2020 Deadline for Poster Submission and Short Papers for E-Voting System Demo Session: 15 September 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Publication The conference proceedings will be available at the time of the conference. Full papers accepted for the tracks on security, usability, and technical issues, respective administrative, legal, political, and social issues will be published in Springer LNCS. All other accepted publications, including full papers in the election experience track, accepted abstracts in any of the tracks, and from the submissions in the PhD colloquium will be published in proceedings with TalTech press. In case your academic host institution requires you to publish your research as open-access only, please contact the conference chairs for further information in which way it is intended to make accepted publications accessible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee General Chairs Krimmer, Robert (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Track Chairs Track on Security, Usability, and Technical Issues Beckert, Bernhard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE) Küsters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart, DE) Kulyk, Oksana (IT University of Copenhagen, DK) Track on Administrative, Legal, Political, and Social Issues Duenas-Cid, David (Tallinn University of Technology, EE and Kozminski University, PL) Solvak, Mihkel (University of Tartu, EE) Track on Elections and Practical Experiences Spycher, Oliver (Federal Chancellery, CH) Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (IFES, US) PhD Colloquium Driza Maurer, Ardita (Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau ZDA / University of Zurich, Switzerland) Krivonosova, Iuliia (Tallinn University of Technology, EE) Outreach Chairs Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Krivonosova, Iuliia (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Track on Security, Usability, and Technical Issues Programme Committee Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft Research, US) Bernhard, Matthew (University of Michigan, US) Cortier, Véronique (INRIA-LORIA, FR) Essex, Aleksander (Western University, CA) Gibson, Paul (Telecom SudParis, FR) Giustolisi, Rosario (IT University Copenhagen, DK) Gjosteen, Kristian (NTNU Trondheim, NO) Goré, Rajeev (Australian National University, AU) Grimm, Rüdiger (University of Koblenz, DE) Haenni, Rolf (Bern University of Applied Science, CH) Haines, Thomas (Polyas, DK) Müller, Johannes (University of Luxembourg, LU) Naumann, Stephan (Darmstadt Technical University, DE) Pereira, Olivier (UC Louvain, BE) Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, LU) Ryan, Mark (University of Birmingham, UK) Ryan, Peter Y.A. (University of Luxembourg, LU) Schneider, Steve (University of Surrey, UK) Schoenmakers, Berry (University of Amsterdam, NL) Schürmann, Carsten (IT University Copenhagen, DK) Stark, Philip (University of Berkeley, US) Teague, Vanessa (University of Melbourne, AU) Truderung, Tomasz (Polyas, DE) Wen, Roland (UNSW Sydney, AU) Willemson, Jan (Cybernetica, EE) Track on Administrative, Legal, Political and Social Science Programme Committee Aranyossy, Marta (Corvinus University, HU) Barrat, Jordi (EVOL2 – eVoting Research Lab, ES) Braun Binder, Nadja (University of Zurich, CH) Darnolf, Staffan (IFES, US) Eenma-Dimitrieva, Helena (University of Tartu, EE) Germann, Micha (KU Leuven, BE) Goodman, Nicole (University of Toronto, CA) James, Toby (University of East Anglia, UK) Musiał-Karg, Magdalena (Adam Mickiewicz University, PL) Nemaslaki, András (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU) Nurmi, Hannu (University of Turku, FI) Pammett, Jon (University of Carleton, CA) Reniu, Josep Maria (University of Barcelona, ES) Sasvari, Peter (National University of Public Service, HU) Serdült, Uwe (Ritsumeikan University, JP) Soares, Delfina (UNU-EGOV, PT) Vinkel, Priit (National Election Commission, EE) Track on Election and Practical Experience Programme Committee Bismark, David (Votato, SE) Bull, Christian (Telenor, NO) Caarls, Susanne (Independent Expert, NL) Catozzi, Gianpiero (EC-UNDP, BE) Chanussot, Thomas (Independent Expert, FR) Chelleri, Riccardo (Desk Officer - EU Council, BE) Driza Maurer, Ardita (Independent Expert, CH) Egger, Philipp (State Chancellery of St. Gallen, CH) Franklin, Joshua (OutStack, US) Loeber, Leontine (Council of State, NL) Macias, Ryan (Independent Expert, US) McDermott, Ronan (Independent Expert, CH) Misev, Vladimir (Senior Election Advisor - OSCE/ODIHR, PL) Past, Liisa (Chief National Cyber Risk Officer, EE) Petrov, Goran (Independent Expert, MK) Plante, Stephanie (University of Ottawa, CA) Vollan, Kåre (Quality AS, NO) Wolf, Peter (International IDEA, SE) Wenda, Gregor (Federal Ministry of the Interior, AT) Yard, Mike (Independent Expert, US)

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Global Disinformation Index hiring
by Lucas Wright 05 May '20

05 May '20

Hi everyone, The Global Disinformation Index (disinformationindex.org) is hiring for two full time, remote roles that might be of interest to some people here. The first is a research position working mostly on index development. Deadline is May 15. https://disinformationindex.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Reseacher-Data-S… The second is for a communications lead. Deadline is May 22. https://disinformationindex.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CommunicationOut… I'm happy to answers questions about the roles or the organization. Best wishes, Lucas Wright

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Call for Papers: NewsQ/SSRC News Quality in the Platform Era
by connie im dialog 05 May '20

05 May '20

Dear all, Sharing the following call for papers on the question of "News Quality in the Platform Era"; please feel free to forward: https://www.ssrc.org/programs/component/media-democracy/news-quality-in-the… Best, Connie ---- *How do we define and measure news in the platform era?* Defining “the news” has never been a straightforward proposition, but in the era of platform media, a number of factors complicate this task further. Beyond legacy media, today's news is transmitted by mobile phones, tablets, smart home devices such as Amazon’s Alexa, and algorithmically driven news feeds by many of the major platforms. In addition to the influence of the feeds, the content of news is increasingly produced by individuals without professional training, from dedicated bloggers monetizing content for niche audiences, to impromptu citizen journalists livestreaming to social media feeds. Mixed in is an ever-expanding cohort of websites that present themselves as traditional news organizations, but skirt journalistic norms, producing content ranging from opinion posing as fact to outright disinformation. For better or worse, what has counted as news in the Western tradition—and what made its way to news consumers—has historically been determined by a professional elite: news editors. Today, however, the gatekeeping role of editors is increasingly appropriated by technology: the search and recommendation algorithms that suggest content to ever greater proportions of news consumers. The result is that we rely heavily on technology, but lack a precise understanding of how that technology operates. How have ubiquitous content production, rampant opinion and disinformation presented as fact, and plummeting trust in expertise complicated the task—imperative in a democracy—of defining the news and measuring its quality? What counts as “news quality,” and can we imagine improvements or remedies to algorithmic or semi-automated recommendation and ranking systems? The Social Science Research Council <https://www.ssrc.org/> (SSRC), in collaboration with the NewsQ Initiative <https://newsq.net>, invites proposals for research about the nature and quality of news. In particular, we invite theoretical, conceptual, empirical, or applied research that suggests new approaches to—and actionable critiques of—algorithmic news dissemination. The workshop is tentatively scheduled to be held in New York City on November 12-13, 2020 (COVID-19 contingency details in the call), and will be chaired by Philip M. Napoli <https://sanford.duke.edu/people/faculty/napoli-philip-michael> (Duke University) and Regina Lawrence <https://journalism.uoregon.edu/people/directory/rgl> (University of Oregon). Funding will be provided for participant travel and accommodations. Further details can be found on the SSRC website: https://www.ssrc.org/programs/component/media-democracy/news-quality-in-the… To apply, please send the following materials to mdapplications(a)ssrc.org by Monday, June 15, 2020 with “Application for News Quality Research Development Workshop” in the subject line: - Current C.V. of the author who will participate in the workshop (maximum two pages). - An abstract of up to 500 words. The abstract should clearly outline the main theoretical and/or empirical contribution of the proposed paper. - A short statement (up to 300 words) detailing your interest in the workshop and how it will advance your research agenda. If you have publications or projects that are related to the research detailed in your abstract, please feel free to list up to three citations in this document. -- connie moon sehat connieimdialog(a)gmail.com https://linkedin.com/in/connieatwork PGP Key ID: 0x95DFB60E

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AI Ethics: Publication Norms for Responsible AI (Part 1)
by Abhishek Gupta 05 May '20

05 May '20

Hi everyone, Of likely interest to folks here, the *Montreal AI Ethics Institute* is co-hosting this session on publications norms in responsible AI with *Partnership on AI*, details are as follows: *We'll be discussing on the following as it relates to publishing AI research:* 1) What can we learn from other fields dealing with high-stakes technology, and from history? 2) What are the potential pitfalls of changing the existing status quo of publishing norms? 3) How can we encourage researchers to think about the risks of their works, as well as the benefits? 4) What tools or services need to exist to help people navigate publications decisions? 5) How can we design effective review processes? 6) How do we coordinate effectively as a community? *Date*: May 13, 2020 Noon-1 pm *Venue*: Zoom *Link for tickets*: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ai-ethics-publication-norms-for-responsible-ai-… Looking forward to seeing you there, thanks! Abhishek

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Postdoc in Educational Technology and Instructional Design at Cornell University
by Yoon Hyung Choi 05 May '20

05 May '20

Summary below, please see full job posting at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/16313. Department of Communication College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Postdoctoral Associate Position SUMMARY: The Cornell Social Media Lab in the Department of Communication at Cornell University is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Associate to participate in inter-university research at the intersection of instructional design, human-computer interaction, and educational technology. The postdoc will work on the development of technologies and content for educational interventions as a part of the Social Media TestDrive project https://socialmediatestdrive.org/, an interactive digital citizenship education tool developed in collaboration with Common Sense Education https://www.commonsense.org/education/. As we seek to expand the Social Media TestDrive program to new populations, such as youth from low-income households and older adults, we are especially interested in someone who has interest and experience designing inclusive technologies and educational interventions for diverse populations of learners. This position is a 1-year, full-time academic position beginning August 1, 2020 and renewable for a 2nd year contingent on available work, funding and performance. Application: All components of the application must be submitted through this application portal: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/16313. For questions, contact Dr. Natalie Bazarova at nnb8(a)cornell.edu. We will begin reviewing applications on May 25, 2020 and will continue reviewing until the position is filled. Application Materials Required: cover letter, curriculum vitae, research statement, contact information for three references, and statement of diversity, equity and inclusion.

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