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#RecruitMeNot - Student/researcher solidarity with Timnit Gebru
by Peaks Krafft 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

No Tech For Tyrants, a grassroots student-led tech justice advocacy group, has put out a call to show solidarity with Timnit Gebru by pledging not to work for Google until the demands of the Google Walkout for Real Change are met: * That Google meet with the Ethical AI team to explain the process by which the paper was unilaterally rejected by leadership. * Transparency to the broader public, including Google users and our colleagues in the academic community, about Google leadership’s decisions * Providing clear guidelines on how research will be reviewed and how research integrity will be respected within Google Over 500 students and researchers have already signed! Sign the pledge! change.org/recruitmenot <http://change.org/recruitmenot> Please share with students and researchers. And share the pledge on Twitter!<https://twitter.com/NoTech4Tyrants/status/1371478379229278213> #RecruitMeNot Cheers, Peaks (they/them<https://pronoun.is/they/>) — P. M. Krafft, PhD Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for MA Internet Equalities<https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/creative-computing/postgraduate/ma-internet…> (accepting applications for 2021!) University of Arts London Creative Computing Institute This email and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this email and/or its attachments you must not take any action based upon them and you must not copy or show them to anyone. Please send the email back to us and immediately and permanently delete it and its attachments. Where this email is unrelated to the business of University of the Arts London or of any of its group companies the opinions expressed in it are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of University of the Arts London (or the relevant group company). Where the sender's signature indicates that the email is sent on behalf of UAL Short Courses Limited the following also applies: UAL Short Courses Limited is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 02361261. Registered Office: University of the Arts London, 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY

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CfP - Opting Out of Pandemic Digitalities: Digital Disengagement and Covid-19
by Adi Kuntsman 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

***Opting Out of Pandemic Digitalities: DigitalDisengagement and Covid-19*** Edited by Adi Kuntsman, Sam Martin and EsperanzaMiyake Under consideration by Bristol University Press Call for Contributions Emerging from the concept of “digital disengagement” – aframework developed by the editors to examine digital media from the point ofdisconnection, refusal, and opting out –this book brings into interdisciplinary dialogue two critical key areas ofconcern in the context of COVID-19. The first one is what we call “pandemicdigitalities” – the rapid and extensive increase, reliance and shifts inmeaning of digital technologies in the age of COVID-19 and post-COVIDfuturities across various spheres in science, technology and society: frompublic health, to education, to politics, to everyday life. The second concernsthe politics of refusal, the right and even the viability to opt out of digitaltechnologies, networks, tracing surveillance, and databases. At this unique moment in time, both have global spreadand significance: the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every society globally; sodo digital technologies and networked communication. Crucially, “global” shouldnot be mistaken for “universal” – while both the virus and digital technologiesare spread around the world, their adoption, use and impact are profoundlydifferent both across, and within different countries, societies andcommunities. Within the growing field of Disconnection Studies, research onopting out and digital refusal has focused almost exclusively on “theWest”/“global North”. To this date, no literature addresses in great depth theimplications, consequences and (im)possibilities of opt out in the quicklychanging digital landscape and lived realities of the COVID-19 pandemic whichhas forced a rapid and sudden digitisation in times of crisis. Taking a critical global perspective, this timely editedcollection thus has two key aims: firstly, to explore digital disengagement andopt out through the lens of the global pandemic; and secondly, to explorepandemic digitalities through the critical perspective of digitaldisengagement. As we are arguing elsewhere, digital disengagement is acontinuum, rather than a dichotomy, containing a range of individual andinstitutional practices, legal frameworks, and technologies, as well as degreesof disengagement that shrink and expand elastically across time and space. Anddigital disengagement is also a matter of justice, operating within andvis-à-vis political forces and forms of structural injustice. How do thesetimes and spaces of digital disengagement open and close in the era of COVID-19and post-COVID futurities? What does digital justice look like at the time ofthe pandemic? Looking at digital disengagement through the lens ofCOVID-19 and at the pandemic through the lens of the pandemic, we invitecontributions that would take a variety of perspectives: legal, social,cultural, political, and economic. We seek contributions that address, but arenot limited to, the following in the context of digital disengagement and thepandemic: • Inequalities (e.g. race, gender, sexuality, class,ability) • Individual versus collective concerns (e.g. individual data rightsversus collective data justice, individual freedoms versus social responsibility,collective good or herd needs) • Health and wellbeing (e.g. Zoom fatigue, LongCovid, lockdown) • Digital economies • Key workers, home-schooling and digitallabour • Spaces, times (e.g. lockdown, social-distancing) • Increasedsurveillance (e.g. track-and-trace, digital health apps, WFH/remote working) •New spaces of digital disengagement • Environment (e.g. extractive economies,regeneration and sustainability) • Social Media (e.g. misinformation and fakenews, media saturation) Format: contributions of up to 5,000 words length, in avariety of formats (creative and academic, autoethnographic, reports, criticalcommentary and more). ***SUBMISSION INFO*** Please send a 500 words abstract to digitaldisengagementproject(a)gmail.com by May 10th 2021. Authors will be notified byMay 31st, with full submissions due by end of December 2021. Dr Adi Kuntsman, Reader in Digital Politics Programme Leader, MA in International Relations and Global Communications Coordinator, PhD pathway in Digital Politics Department of Politics | Manchester Metropolitan University Geoffrey Manton Building| Manchester | M15 6LL| Web| Online office hours (term time only): Thursday 1-2pm and Friday 4-5pm on Teams (chat or call). Latest publications: --“Reverberation,Affect and Digital Politics of Responsibility”, in Boler and Davis, AffectivePolitics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means, Routledge. --“Environmentalmedia amidst the COVID-19 pandemic”, rapid response special issue of Journal of Environmental Media (co-edited with Becky Alexis-Martin and Liu Xin) | | | | | | | | | | | Journal of Environmental Media: Ingenta Connect Table Of Contents | | |

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JoCTEC Fall 2021 CFP
by Plothe, Theo 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Journal of Communication Technology Call for Proposals Fall 2021 Issue The Journal of Communication Technology (ISSN 2694-3883), the official journal of the Communication Technology division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication is pleased to announce a Call For Papers for the Fall 2021 issue to be released in October/November 2021. JoCTEC welcomes scholarship from a broad area of inquiry, with the expressed mission to bring together research that facilitates discussion and cultivates understanding of the ways in which communication technologies are changing not only media processes and content, but also audiences, institutions, and society at large. We ask for submissions with a particular focus that pertains to communication technologies, this includes but is not limited to studies of advertising, science, networks, health, politics, history, policy, public relations, management, economics, ethics, minorities, visual communication, and social media. JoCTEC is not limited to a particular theoretical and methodological perspective. We welcome research that informs debates from comparative empirical perspectives and more conceptual and theoretical approaches. What remains at the forefront for our journal is that scholarship is systematic and rigorous concerning communication technologies and their impacts, no matter the disciplinary precision of the inquiry. While we will still consider article submissions on a rolling basis for regular issues, to receive full consideration for the Fall 2021 issue, we have set a July 1, 2021 deadline. Please find submission guidelines and information below. Guideline for Paper Submission: Submissions should follow the manuscript guidelines for JoCTEC. • Prepare the manuscript using APA (7th ed) citation style, with text of no more than 9,000 words (inclusive of abstract, figures/tables, and references). • Submit the manuscript in Word format with all author-identifying information omitted to allow for blind peer review. • Confirm manuscript is not before another journal for consideration, and that the manuscript has not been previously published, including in a language other than English. • The submission deadline is July 1, 2021. Best, Dr. Plothe -- Theo Plothe, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Mass Communication Savannah State University

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Call for Papers: Genealogies of Data Junior Scholars Workshop
by Alex Hanna 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

The Genealogies of Data Research Group is calling for original works-in-progress from junior scholars (defined as pre-PhD or having received a PhD after 2017) to present and discuss at a Junior Scholar Symposium on May 24, 2021. We are looking for papers that interrogate the ethical and political modes of data construction, broadly defined, within computational sciences. We hope to bring together researchers working on data histories, data infrastructures, data (after)lives, and related narratives, as well as their implications for AI and data-driven forms of development. This workshop seeks to engage with researchers across multiple disciplines, including machine learning-oriented researchers in computer vision and natural language processing, social science-oriented researchers in the history of science, sociology of knowledge and science, anthropologists of technology, social and political theorists, law and policy scholars, and civil society actors and activists. The workshop will be structured as an all-day symposium, split into several differently themed sessions. Presenters will give a short talk on their work, and an invited senior scholar will comment on the papers in the themed session. The deadline for submission is April 5, at 11:59 PM PST. We will extend up to 12 invitations at this workshop and notify participants by the end of April. Please remove all identifying information from your original work-in-progress and submit it via this Google form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLdquaSmmJXuynE0amp6hBbpQELdQftTT…>. Manuscripts should contain (1) an abstract of no more than 400 words and (2) a text of a minimum length of approx. 4000 words and a maximum length of approx. 6000 words (the title, abstract, and bibliography are not counted). Presenters will be expected to attend the event in its entirety and will be offered a small honorarium for their time. If you have questions, please direct them to <genealogiesofdata(a)gmail.com>. Our workshop is supported by the UC San Diego Institute for Practical Ethics <https://ipe.ucsd.edu/>, the USF Center for Applied Data Ethics <https://usfblogs.usfca.edu/dataethics/cade-fellows/>, and the UC San Diego International Institute <https://internationalinstitute.ucsd.edu/>. Razvan Amironesei (CADE, USF) Emily Denton (Google Research) Alex Hanna (Google Research) Andrew Smart (Google Research) Hilary Nicole (Google Research) -- Alex Hanna, PhD alex-hanna.com Senior Research Scientist | Google Lecturer | UC Berkeley School of Information

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19th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless - ACM MobiWac 2021 - Deadline: July 5th, 2021
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS The 19th ACM* International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (ACM MobiWac 2021) November 22 - 26, 2021 - Alicante, Spain http://mobiwac-symposium.org/ (*Pending) Sponsored by ACM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: Paper submission deadline: July 5th, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The MobiWac series of events are intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobility management and wireless access protocols. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of wireless and mobile access technologies, with an emphasis on mobility management and wireless access. Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research. Submitted papers must neither have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * 5G/6G * AI-based mobility management * AI-enabled wireless networks * Analysis/simulation of wireless mobile systems * Big data analytics for mobile and wireless networks * Channels and resource allocation algorithms * Context-aware protocols, services, architecture and applications * Cyber-Physical Systems and Cyber-Physical Social Systems * Energy and power management algorithms * Fault tolerance solutions * Localization and tracking * Mobile and wireless entertainment and multimedia applications * Mobile broadband wireless access * Mobile cloud/fog/edge computing * Mobile/vehicular environment access * Mobility models, control and management * Multi-Channel Multi-Radio MAC/network layer management * Multi-Homing and vertical handoff * Multi-technology switching using Software Defined Radios * Next generation wireless systems * Pervasive communication and computing * Pervasive, mobile and wearable computing systems and services * QoS management * Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Mobility Management * SDN solutions in mobile and wireless networks * Security, trust management and privacy issues * Social mobile networks and applications * Testbeds for experimental and simulation analysis * Ubiquitous and mobile access * Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks * Wireless applications and testbeds * Wireless Internet and All-IP integration * Wireless systems' design * Wireless/mobile access protocols and web access ============================================================================ Submission Guidelines: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the Symposium. The symposium will have a single track for regular papers and in addition, a separate interwoven track with short papers / posters. Paper length must be no more than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. Note that the regular paper size will be 8 pages, with the possibility to obtain up to 2 additional pages (total 10 pages) by paying a publication fee. Only PDF format is accepted. All accepted papers will appear in the Symposium proceedings published by ACM press. Papers are submitted via the EDAS system: https://edas.info/N28242 For any question or problems related to MobiWac 2021 submissions, please contact the PC Chairs. ============================================================================ Important Dates: Submission Deadline: July 5th, 2021 Notification of Acceptance: August 15th, 2021 Camera Ready version due: TBA Author Registration deadline: TBA Submission link: https://edas.info/N28242 ============================================================================ Organizing Committee: General Chair Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Program Co-Chairs Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Rodolfo W. L. Coutinho, Concordia University, Canada Tutorials Chair Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Posters/Demo Chair Valeria Loscri, Inria, France Publicity Co-Chairs Mirela. A. M. Notare, Technology University on Fly Transportation, Brazil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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WEBCAST TODAY – Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa | Mesurer la résilience d’Internet en Afrique (MIRA) #WACREN2021
by Joly MacFie 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

It's been a while since we last covered MIRA in July 2020 <https://isoc.live/12489/> - it will be good to have an update.Be aware that ISOC's Insights platform has been rebranded as https://pulse.internetsociety.org/ Cela fait un moment que nous n'avons pas couvert MIRA pour la dernière fois en juillet 2020 <https://isoc.live/12489/> - ce sera bien d'avoir une mise à jour Sachez que la plate-forme Insights de l'ISOC a été rebaptisée https://pulse.internetsociety.org/ ISOC Live posted: "On Monday March 15 2021 at 14:00-16:00 UTC, as part of the 6th Annual West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) Conference the Internet Society and AFRINIC will present 'Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa (MIRA)' MIRA is a coll" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/wacren-mira>On *Monday March 15 2021 at 14:00-16:00 UTC*, as part of the *6th Annual West and Central African Research and Education Network <https://wacren2021.wacren.net/>* (WACREN) Conference the *Internet Society <https://internetsociety.org/>* and *AFRINIC <https://www.afrinic.net/>* will present '*Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa (MIRA) <https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/11/measuring-internet-resilience-…>*' MIRA is a collaborative project facilitating and carrying out sustained Internet measurements in the African region, part of the Internet Society’s work on *Measuring the Internet <https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/measurement/>*, and a key component of the *Pulse Platform Internet Resilience <https://pulse.internetsociety.org/resilience>* focus area. [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/wacren-mira>Le *lundi 15 mars 2021 à 14: 00-16: 00 UTC*, dans le cadre de la *6e conférence annuelle du Réseau de recherche et d'éducation de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre* (WACREN), l'*Internet Society <https://internetsociety.org/>* et *AFRINIC <https://www.afrinic.net/>* présenteront « *Mesurer la résilience de l'Internet en Afrique (MIRA) <https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/11/measuring-internet-resilience-…> ». <https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/11/measuring-internet-resilience-…>*' MIRA est un projet collaboratif facilitant et effectuant des mesures Internet soutenues dans la région africaine, une partie du travail de l'Internet Society sur la *mesure de l'Internet <https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/measurement/>*, et un élément clé du domaine d'intervention de la *résilience Internet de Pulse Platform <https://pulse.internetsociety.org/resilience>*. *PRESENTERS* *Kevin Chege*, Director, Internet Development, Internet Society *Amreesh Phokeer*, Research Manager, AFRINIC *LIVESTREAMS* *http://livestream.com/internetsociety/wacren-mira <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/wacren-mira> (ENGLISH)* *http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/wacren-mira <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/wacren-mira> (FRANÇAIS)* *PARTICIPATE https://bit.ly/3etohN0 <https://bit.ly/3etohN0>* *TWITTER #WACREN2021 <http://bit.ly/WACREN2021> @isoc_pulse @afrinic @KevinGChege @amreesh #AfricanInternetResilience <https://bit.ly/AfricanInternetResilience> #Internetmeasurement @InternetSociety @WACREN* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* *https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/live <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/wacren-mira <https://archive.org/details/wacren-mira>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13857/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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TikTok & Youth Cultures in the Age of COVID-19 Virtual Event
by Bondy Kaye 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

Dear colleagues, The TikTok Cultures Research Network is pleased to announce a virtual event on TikTok & Youth Cultures in the Age of COVID-19 on 29 March 2021 hosted by founding members Associate Professor Crystal Abidin, Dr D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, and Dr Xinyu (Andy) Zhao. TikTok has become one of the most widely used short video platforms around the world, with millions of new users joining during the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. The platform is now a key social arena for global youth culture, creativity, professionalization, and activism. This event is an open forum for discussions on how digital cultures are evolving in the wave of a global pandemic and the massive uptake of TikTok by diverse groups of people during this time. This two-hour virtual event will take place via Zoom on 29 March 2021 at 0900-1100 (GMT+8) and will feature one research presentation and two panel discussions with a diverse array of panellists including TikTok influencers, media experts, social media industry professionals, and academics. We invite professionals from media industries and social media industries, students and researchers in academia, and members of the general public to attend this event. The event is free but registration is required. Please register here <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I7V1n_lCSFWoqj6qifF9UQ> (opening on 15 March 2021 0900hrs GMT+8, closing on 28 March 2021 1700hrs GMT+8). Please find a programme for the event here <https://tiktokcultures.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/v5tiktok-and-youth-cultu…> and speaker bios here <https://tiktokcultures.com/covid-19-speakers/>. This event is organized by the Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) at Curtin University, and supported by the Social Science Research Council (Rapid-Response Grants on COVID-19 grant) and Australian Research Council (DE190100789). *--* *D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, PhD* Digital Media Research Centre <https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/> Faculty of Creative Industries <https://www.qut.edu.au/creative-industries> Queensland University of Technology <https://www.qut.edu.au/> d2.kaye(a)qut.edu.au *Publications <https://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Valdovinos_Kaye,_D=2E_Bondy.html> *

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Invitation to webinar on dark participation: March 16!
by Svetlana S. Bodrunova 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

Dear colleagues, I am glad to invite you to a free-of-charge webinar on dark participation - the concept by Thorsten Quandt (U of Muenster) that unites under one umbrella the participation-linked digital threats. The webinar is based on the special issue of 'Media and Communication' published in February 2021. The presentations by scholars from four leading universities in commuication research located at various parts of the world (Oxford Internet Institute, U of Southern California, University of Muenster, and St.Petersburg State University) will be commented upon by the current President of International Communication Association, professor Claes de Vreese (U of Amsterdam). The webinar will take place on March 16, 10.30 CET. Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_hEi9AWpsS9qZfnk5usgUrw The special issue: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/issue/view/207 Welcome! :) -- Svetlana S. Bodrunova, Prof., D.Polit.Sci. Head, Center for International Media Research School of Journalism and Mass Communications, St.Petersburg State University +7 921 933 02 14 s.bodrunova(a)spbu.ru, spasibo-tebe(a)yandex.ru

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8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): Last Mile for Paper Submission
by Announce Announcements 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** 8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): "Democratizing AI Development" July 6-8, 2021, Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel 4*, Limassol, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/iseud2021/ (Proceedings to be published by Springer) End-user development (EUD) aims at empowering end users to develop and adapt systems at a level of complexity that is adequate to their expertise, practices, and skills. EUD may occur along the entire software lifecycle, with the purpose of making users able to participate in their artifact development, not only at design time, but also during actual use. Originally, EUD was conceived as a more general concept than end-user programming; thus, scholars proposed methods, techniques and tools that allow end users to modify or extend software artifacts, such as spreadsheets, web applications, video games, and mobile applications. In the co-called Internet of Things era, end-user development moved on to address the problem of defining and modifying the behavior of smart environments, including smart objects, pervasive displays, smart homes, smart cities, and so on. Therefore, the term "end-user development" acquired a broader meaning covering approaches, frameworks and socio-technical environments that allow end users to express themselves in crafting digital artifacts that encompass both software and hardware technology. Recent research and technological trends like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Cyber-Security, Robotics, and Industry 4.0, have contributed to renew the vision of end-user development, by providing tools and platforms that allow end users to harness the power of AI to create solutions involving Computer Vision, Image Processing, Conversational User Interfaces, as well as solutions for smart environments. Such developments lower the threshold for creating AI solutions, and expand the programmer base for such solutions, by extending AI application both for professional and discretionary use. IS-EUD is a bi-annual event for researchers and practitioners with an interdisciplinary approach to EUD, including: Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Work Interaction Design, and related areas. IS-EUD 2021 Theme: Democratizing AI Development The 2021 edition of IS-EUD focuses on EUD for AI-based systems, where end users are called on to become end-user developers of intelligent agents, digital twins, collaborative and social robots. This edition would like to discuss the adoption of EUD in new fields, the proposal of novel EUD paradigms, and the impact of AI-based EUD in terms of user acceptability and appropriation. One of the most interesting topics in human-AI interaction is explainability of AI-based systems: research submissions presenting end- user oriented solutions to this problem will be particularly welcome. Theoretical and empirical work analyzing pros and cons of this new EUD wave, identifying requirements for end-user development of AI and acceptance of related solutions is invited. Software infrastructures and eco- systems supporting the reuse of solutions and the emergence of meta- design practices are of particular interest to this community, linking the challenges relating AI to topics central to the IS-EUD community. Conference Topics The conference welcomes contributions that: · describe new, simple and efficient environments for end-user development · describe new processes, methods and techniques for empowering users to create, modify and tailor digital artifacts · present case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end-user development · develop theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user development Specific topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones: · User-oriented orchestration of AI-based devices · Conversational interfaces for end-user development · End-user development for big data visualization and exploration · End-user development for collaborative robotics · End-user development for social robotics · End-user development in Industry 4.0 · End-user development and explainable AI-based systems · Cybersecurity and end-user development · End-user development in daily life · Technologies and infrastructures for end-user development · Empirical studies of end-user development · Recommender systems to support end-user development · Cultures of participation and meta-design approaches · Technology acceptance and adoption studies of end-user development technologies · Evaluation of end-user development technologies · Supporting creative work through end-user development Submissions We invite two types of paper submissions: 1. Regular papers, up to 16 pages, describing original unpublished research making a substantial contribution to the research field 2. Short papers, up to 8 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a small but solid contribution to the field All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The review process for this category is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Accepted papers (both regular and short) will appear in the archival proceedings of IS-EUD 2021, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be presented in plenary sessions of the conference. Workshop proposals are invited (max 6 pages) aligned to the themes of the conference. Workshops provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Workshops can be half day or one-day long and will be held on July 6, 2021. Accepted workshop proposals will be included in the IS-EUD 2021 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to http://ceur-ws.org for online publication. Submissions of regular papers, short papers and workshop proposals should indicate in the title page "Regular", "Short" or "Workshop" respectively. Demonstration and Work in Progress papers are also welcomed. A Demonstration paper (max 6 pages) should be structured according to the following: · Abstract (150 words maximum) · Topics to be covered and their relevance to the EUD community · Detailed description of the planned demonstration activity · Diagrams or screenshots (if relevant) · Supporting documentation (e.g., project website) · References Work in Progress submissions (max 6 pages) are intended for presenting preliminary results or tentative findings and position papers. The authors of accepted contributions will have the opportunity to give an oral presentation during parallel sessions. Finally, the IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on theory and application of EUD. We particularly encourage students that are about half-way through their doctoral research to submit doctoral consortium contributions (max 6 pages) describing the topic of their PhD, their approach and a summary of their progress. Demonstration, Work in Progress and Doctoral Consortium submissions should indicate in the title page "Demo", "WiP" or "DC" respectively. Accepted submissions will be included in IS-EUD 2021 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to http://ceur-ws.org for online publication. Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer LNCS format: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… and should be submitted through the Easy Chair system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2021 Important Dates · Regular and Short papers submission: March 22, 2021 · Notification: April 14, 2021 · Camera-ready: May 15, 2021 · Workshop proposal submission: March 8, 2021 · Notification: March 15, 2021 · Camera-ready: May 31, 2021 · Demonstration and Work in Progress submission: April 21, 2021 · Notification: May 15, 2021 · Camera-ready: May 31, 2021 · Doctoral Consortium submission: April 21, 2021 · Notification: May 15, 2021 · Camera-ready: May 31, 2021 Organizers General Chairs · Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) · George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Program Chairs · Daniela Fogli (University of Brescia, Italy) · Daniel Tetteroo (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Short papers Chairs · Barbara Rita Barricelli (University of Brescia, Italy) · Simone Borsci (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Work in Progress Chairs · Jelle Van Dijk (University of Twente, The Netherlands) · Carmen Santoro (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Demonstration Chair · Stefano Valtolina (University of Milan, Italy) Workshop Chairs · Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus) · Simone Stumpf (City University London, UK) Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Monica Maceli (Pratt Institute, USA) · Antonio Piccinno (University of Bari, Italy)

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CFP Convergence Special Issue 'Conspiracy Theories in Digital Environments'
by JING ZENG 13 Mar '21

13 Mar '21

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear Air-L members, Please see below a CFP that might be interesting for those of you who research conspiracy theories. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. ------ *Conspiracy Theories in Digital Environments* *Special Issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies* Guest editors: Dr. Jing Zeng (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Prof. Mike S. Schäfer (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Prof. Thaiane Oliveira (Federal Fluminense University, Brazil) Timeline: Deadline for Abstracts: 1 May 2021 Notification on submitted abstracts: 4 June 2021 Full article submission deadline: 1 September 2021. The full CFP is available here https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/CON/convergenceCFP_2021Ma… This special issue aims to assemble scholarship from different disciplinary perspectives that offer conceptual reflections, methodological advances, and in-depth discussions of conspiracy theories in digital environments. We particularly welcome submissions investigating this topic in countries or regions in the Global South. The editors welcome contributions that explore, or go beyond, questions such as: - Which actors propagate conspiracy theories in digital environments, how prevalent are conspiracy theories in public discourse, which users contribute to this reach and in what ways does it affect them? - To what extent do the communication and social functions of online conspiracy theories differ across cultural contexts? How do conspiracy theories operate online in different political systems? - What conceptual and theoretical approaches are needed to analyse conspiracy theories in digital environments - in how far do existing concepts and theories have to be adapted or are novel concepts and theories needed? - What methodological approaches are suitable for cross-platform/cross-lingual/cross-national analysis of conspiracy theories? - How do platform affordances influence conspiracy theories in digital environments, especially in the case of emerging or “fringe” platforms (such as TikTok, 8kun, Gab or Parler)? Please send a 500-word abstract and a 100-word bio to guest editors: j.zeng(a)ikmz.uzh.ch, m.schaefer(a)ikmz.uzh.ch, and thaianeoliveira(a)id.uff.br by 1 May 2021. —End of Call— Jing Zeng ____________________________________________________________ Dr. Jing Zeng Senior Research and Teaching Associate University of Zurich, Department of Communication and Media Research Andreasstrasse 15, Zürich 8050, Switzerland

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