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Visiting Assistant Professors in Informatics at UAlbany
by Jackson, Sam 17 Jul '21

17 Jul '21

The University at Albany’s Informatics program is searching for multiple Visiting Assistant Professors to start in Fall 2021 (soon!). Full details can be found here: https://albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp;jsessionid=69C3166…. A few details from that job listing: * “Candidates' focus within Informatics is open, but may include: software development, IoT, IUX, HCI, cybersecurity, data analytics/data science, and web science.” * “The Visiting Assistant Professors will teach a 3-3 academic year load, maintain a full graduate advising load, and perform other college or university service as requested.” * “The position will be appointed for one year, with one-year option for renewal.” * *”Professional Rank and Salary Range: Visiting Assistant Professor - $75,000 - $80,000”* I’m not on the search committee, but I’m happy to track down answers to any questions. Sam — Sam Jackson Assistant Professor College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity University at Albany https://sjacksonphd.wordpress.com<https://sjacksonphd.wordpress.com/>

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references on the materiality of media technologies and their imaginaries
by Hamlet Lopez 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

Dear all, I am looking for references on how users imagine the materiality of digital media technologies, how do they explain its possible malfunction and how they disseminate this knowledge in virtual communities. I would appreciate any suggestions in this regard, especially if they are from open access journals or books. Sincerely thanks, -- Dr.C. Hamlet López García Investigador Auxiliar Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural "Juan Marinello" Profesor Auxiliar Universidad de la Habana

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Autumn School "Disrupted Ethnography" in Bochum, Germany & Online // October 21/22, 2021 // Call for Application
by Rüller, Sarah 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

*** Please forward this e-mail to potentially interested students/researchers and media practitioners *** Practical Autumn School "Disrupted Ethnography - Building Trust, Telling Stories, Unpacking Concepts and Reporting from Within" October 21/22, 2021, in Bochum, Germany & online (hybrid) Application deadline: August 1, 2021 https://disrupted-ethnography.org/ with Jignesh Patel, Ramyata Limbu, Mariam Barghouti & Mosa’ab Elshamy Keynote by Dominic Boyer ### Dear list members, we are pleased to announce and invite you to our practical Autumn School titled „Disrupted Ethnography - Building Trust, Telling Stories, Unpacking Concepts and Reporting from Within”, taking place on October 20/21, 2021, both at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany and online. Check out our website (https://disrupted-ethnography.org/) to find more information about the four workshops and the application process. We invite advanced Master students, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers as well as media practitioners, journalists, and activists to apply, deadline is August 1, 2021 (anywhere on earth). Together, we want to dismantle challenges of ethnographic fieldwork related to disruption such as travel restrictions, gaining and maintaining field access, finding contacts and forging cooperation, as well as ethical questions of representation of social life and scenes of conflict and injustice. Participation is free of charge. Please share the event widely among your networks and reach out to us if you have further questions. Kind regards, Sarah Rüller _________________ Sarah Rüller M.Sc. Pronouns (She/Her) Researcher // CRC 1187 - Media of Cooperation PhD candidate // Information Systems and New Media University of Siegen Kohlbettstraße 15 // 57072 Siegen // Room: US-E 103 Phone: +49 271 740 3474

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WEBCAST TODAY: RPKI Week - Day 5 - ISPs, NSPs, and RPKI – A MANRS Community Panel
by Joly MacFie 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

2020 was the year of RPKI. Many big network operators across the globe started the rollout of Route Origin Validation (dropping routes with “Invalid” ROA status) and many others have followed them in 2021. There are many things to consider, such as selection of relying party software, the right set of config parameters for the edge routers, design, and how to monitor it. In this panel, prominent industry players who implemented ROV will share their insight, clear common misconceptions, and address problems it causes and how to remedy them. Moderator: Philip Smith (NSRC) Speakers: D’Wayne Saunders (Telstra) Mark Tinka (Seacom) Tony Tauber (Comcast) https://www.manrs.org/resources/upcoming-events/rpki-week/ <http://http//livestream.com/internetsociety/rpkiweek>On *12-16 July 2021* the *Internet Society <https://internetsociety.org/>* will host *RPKI Week <https://www.manrs.org/resources/upcoming-events/rpki-week/>* to highlight the importance of *Resource Public Key Infrastructure <https://www.apnic.net/community/security/resource-certification/>* (RPKI) and encourage network operators to take concrete steps to improve routing security. RPKI helps prevent Internet routing incidents like prefix hijacking and route leaks. It allows an entity to cryptographically verify that an autonomous system (AS) is authorized to originate a prefix, thus reducing incidents that can lead to DDoS attacks, traffic inspection, lost revenue, reputational damage, and more. All sessions are at *13:00 UTC*. *Mon 12 July* - Welcome to the RPKI Week *Tue 13 July* - MANRS Recommendation for Operators of RPKI Services *Wed 14 July* - MANRS Community Panel Discussion for IXPs *Thu 15 July* - MANRS Community Panel Discussion: ISPs/NSPs *Fri 16 July* -Trust in RPKI — An X.509 Primer *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/rpkiweek <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/rpkiweek>* *AGENDA https://www.manrs.org/resources/upcoming-events/rpki-week/ <https://www.manrs.org/resources/upcoming-events/rpki-week/>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM - See agenda for links* *TWITTER #RPKIWeek <http://bit.ly/RPKIWeek> @RoutingMANRS @InternetSociety @APNIC #RoutingSecurity #MANRS #RPKI* *SIMULCASTS* *http://bit.ly/RPKIWeekLIVE <http://bit.ly/RPKIWeekLIVE> (MANRS YouTube)* *https://www.facebook.com/RoutingMANRS/ <https://www.facebook.com/RoutingMANRS/>* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/rpkiweek <https://archive.org/details/rpkiweek>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14313/ -- =================================== Joly MacFie Internet Society Livestreaming - http://isoc.live Whatsapp +12185659365 ===================================

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A 5-minutes study about time perception and entertainment activities
by Maria Rosa Miccoli 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a nice Friday, before the weekend. The iScience team from the Konstanz University is currently investigating time perception and entertainment activities from a behavioural perspective. We would sincerely appreciate your participation in this study, it will take you only 5 minutes! Here is the link: http://wextor.eu:8080/iSciencecore/Exp/index.html?source=mlr Please, feel also free to email me for suggestions or questions! Thank you in advance, have a nice weekend! Maria Rosa Miccoli

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WEBCAST JTODAY: A11yVR – Exploring Virtual Reality User Experience for People with Facial Palsy – Claire Baert & Marg Laing
by Joly MacFie 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

This is just about to start. [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr16>On* Thursday July 15 2021* at *19:00 EDT / 23:00 UTC / 08:00 JST* (Fri) the *Accessibility VR Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/A11yVR/>* hosts '*Exploring Virtual Reality User Experience for People with Facial Palsy <https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/278183292/>*' on Mozilla Hubs. *Claire Baert <https://twitter.com/claire_csg>* & *Marg Laing <https://twitter.com/marg_laing>* will cover learnings about how to do research with people with facial palsy, the challenges of adapting the headset and creating experiences for these users, explain how user research was brought into the product team, show examples of how user-centered design techniques were employed, and discuss their collaboration on a new VR therapy for people with facial palsy. The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the *Internet Society Accessibility SIG <https://a11ysig.org/>* (A11ySIG). *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr16 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr16> *(open captions) *PARTICIPATE VIA MOZILLA HUBS: https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/278709922 <https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/278709922> *(open captions) *REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr>* *TWITTER: @a11yvr <http://bit.ly/A11yVR> @Claire_csg @emteqlabs marg_laing #UX #VR #XR* *SIMULCASTS* (open captions) *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>https://youtu.be/ne2PkDu51Xc <https://youtu.be/ne2PkDu51Xc> *(monitored for comments) *ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/a11yvr16* <https://youtu.be/ne2PkDu51Xc> *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14184/ -- =================================== Joly MacFie Internet Society Livestreaming - http://isoc.live Whatsapp +12185659365 ===================================

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Call for papers] Dossier Internet Concentration and Regulation
by Helena Martins 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

The journal EPTIC (International Electronic Journal of Political Economy of Information, Communication, and Culture) calls for submissions for the thematic dossier “*Internet Concentration and Regulation*”, to be published in the third volume of 2021 (December). The publication will be done in partnership with OBSERVACOM. The dossier will be coordinated by Patricia Maurício (PhD), Rodrigo Moreno Marques (PhD), and Ana Bizberge (PhD), content editor of OBSERVACOM. Interested parties must submit articles by August 20th, 2021. The problem of concentration, which accompanies the development of capitalism, has historically been addressed by the Political Economy of Communication, Information, and Culture. Associated with digitalization, the convergence between audiovisual, telecommunications, and informatics have been reducing the differences between sectors of the economy, allowing main agents to act beyond their original markets. In such a context, the concentration in the sphere of communication and information increases. Many and different works analyze the market of television, convergence, and the expansion of concentration. Given the recent transformations in the realm of the internet, fundamental discussions emerge on the digital monopolies and their effects upon the exercise of rights, such as upon the right to freedom of expression, as well as on the competition and innovation. Through the dossier *Internet Concentration and Regulation*, organized by the journal EPTIC in partnership with OBSERVACOM, we aim to reflect upon the current internet concentration, its impacts, and possibilities of overcoming it through regulation and counter-hegemonic practices. The concentration of platforms has impacts on the creation and circulation of content in society. Google and Facebook are emblematic examples of main actors of the digital environment: they concentrate the access to informative content and digital marketing; message services and online social networks; the market of web browsers and search engines. Besides that, they, increasingly, become huge providers of internet access (building undersea cables), among other aspects. Furthermore, through contracts between telecommunications companies and corporations that commercialize services and contents, new restrictions to socially produced content arise, as shown by the zero-rating practices (access to some services/content without data consumption) by mobile phone companies. Moreover, in the audiovisual sector, the merger processes of Disney and Fox, WarnerMedia (AT&T)-Discovery, or Amazon-MGM, demonstrate the tendencies of "convergent concentration" by large traditional players as well as by technology companies that seek to position themselves also in the video streaming market, globally led by Netflix. For this call for papers, we expect articles that propose discussions on the following issues: - Concentration on search services, social media, and messaging, as well as its impacts on content creation and circulation. - Regulation proposals to face the power of platforms. Public regulation of platforms on content moderation. Challenges to freedom of expression. Algorithmic moderation and human intervention. User rights, terms, and conditions of use and international standards. - Platform self-regulation: how platforms control user content through terms of service, community norms, and algorithms. - Business models, value chains and sustainability. Relationship between traditional media and digital corporations, their characteristics, and proposals to address imbalances. - Concentration of video streaming services offer. Convergent mergers; strategies of traditional actors in the streaming market; case studies of global internet actors. - Regulation of audiovisual services on the internet: national cases, regional and global agendas. Reach and competence of regulators. Encouraging content production, promoting diversity, visibility criteria, among others. - Convergence, platformization, and concentration: concentration on access infrastructure, platforms as connectivity providers; agreements between infrastructure and application operators, zero-rating practices. Edition: Sept-Dec. - vol. 23, n. 3, 2021. Deadline for submission of articles: August 20th, 2021. https://seer.ufs.br/index.php/eptic/announcement/view/327 -- *Helena Martins* Professora da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) Editora da Revista Eptic <https://seer.ufs.br/index.php/eptic> Líder do Telas - Laboratório de Pesquisa em Economia, Tecnologia e Políticas da Comunicaçã <http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/570544>o <http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/570544> <http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/570544>

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[Call for Papers] ACM WSDM 2022
by Ugur Kursuncu 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

Call for Papers: WSDM 2022 - International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining Deadline: August 9, 2021 Notifications: October 11, 2021 Website: http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/ The 15th ACM International WSDM Conference will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, between February 21 and 25, 2022. WSDM is a highly selective conference that includes refereed, original and high-quality papers related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical yet principled approaches. Original papers emphasizing novel algorithmic approaches are particularly encouraged. Application-oriented papers that make innovative technical contributions to research are welcome. Visionary papers on new and emerging topics are particularly encouraged. Topics: (WSDM proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library) - Web Search: - Algorithms for web-scale search; Adversarial search; Search user interfaces and interaction; Distributed search, metasearch, peer-to-peer search; Local and mobile search; Multimedia web search; Query analysis and query processing; Search benchmarking and evaluation; Search user behavior and log analysis. - Web Mining and Content Analysis: - Crawling and indexing web content; Web recommender systems and algorithms; Clustering, classification, and summarization of web data; Data, entity, event, and relationship extraction; Knowledge acquisition and automatic construction of knowledge bases; Large-scale graph analysis; Semantic search, faceted search, and knowledge graphs; Multimodal data mining; Scalable algorithms for mining web data; Opinion mining and sentiment analysis; Web traffic and log analysis; Web measurements, web evolution, and web models. - Web of Things, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing: - Geo and location data analysis, mobility and behavior data mining; Location-based social networks; User activity modeling and exploitation. - Privacy, Fairness, Interpretability: - Fairness and accountability in ranking, recommendation and advertising; Explainability in web systems; Model and algorithm transparency; Interpretable models of individual and social behavior; Web search and data mining under privacy constraints. - Social Networks: - Link prediction and community detection; Social network analysis and graph algorithms; Computational social science; Influence and viral marketing in social networks; Social sensing; Searching social and real-time content; Social network dynamics; Sampling, experiments, and evaluation in social networks; Social media analysis: blogs and friendship networks; Social network analysis, theories, models and applications; Social reputation and trust. - Intelligent Assistants: - Voice search, conversational search, and dialog systems; Personal assistants, dialogue models, and conversational interaction; Task-driven search; Zero-query and implicit search. - Crowdsourcing and Human Computation: - Collaborative search and question answering; Human-in-the-Loop and Collaborative Human-AI systems. - Web-Based Health Applications: - Public health techniques on the Web; Healthcare delivery on the Web; Personal health on the Web; Web-based mental health and well-being support. For more information, please visit http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/

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Re: [Air-L] Call for Abstracts - PhD Symposium on Platform Economy and Platform Work
by Ming-Yi Wu 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

Hi, Rafael and All, Thank you for sending us the CFP! I have some related questions about AI theories! What are the theories that may explain social economic impacts of AI? Are there any good/classical books or articles in this area for us to read? If you can answer my questions, it will be truly appreciated! Thanks, Ming-Yi Ming-Yi Wu, Ph.D. Graduate Faculty Northeastern University U.S.A. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 15, 2021, at 12:39 PM, Ming-Yi Wu <mingyiwu(a)att.net> wrote: > > Hi, Rafael, > > Thank you for your quick reply! > > Yes, I will take a look at the link which you suggested! > > In the mean time, I will reply your original email and ask our Air-L members these questions, too. > > Thank you! > > Best, > > Ming-Yi > > Sent from my iPhone > >>> On Jul 15, 2021, at 12:01 PM, Rafael Grohmann <rafael-ng(a)uol.com.br> wrote: >>> >> Dear Ming, >> Nice to see you again. Your questions are very broad. We have a newsletter on our website - https://digilabour.com.br - and every week we recommend many articles and books on these topics. On our website, you can check all editions and read interviews and indications of texts. It's all in Portuguese, but it can be easily translated into English. I hope can be useful to you. >> best, >> Rafael >> >> >> >> >> De: "Ming-Yi Wu" <mingyiwu(a)att.net> >> Enviada: 2021/07/15 12:47:47 >> Para: rafael-ng(a)uol.com.br >> Assunto: Re: [Air-L] Call for Abstracts - PhD Symposium on Platform Economy and Platform Work >> >> >> Hi, Rafael, >> >> Thank you for sending us the CPF. >> >> It reminds me of few questions that I asked in your conference few months ago. I know you planned to bring my questions to the presenter. But, we ran out of time. Maybe I can ask you. Below are my questions: >> >> What are the theories that may explain social economic impacts of AI? >> Which books or articles should I read to know about third wave and fourth wave of industrial revolution? >> >> If you can let me know, it will be truly appreciated! >> >> Thank you! >> >> Best, >> >> >> Ming-Yi >> >> Ming-Yi Wu, Ph.D. >> Graduate Faculty >> Northeastern University >> U.S.A. >> >> On Thursday, July 15, 2021, 11:27:31 AM EDT, Rafael Grohmann <rafael-ng(a)uol.com.br> wrote: >> >> >> Hello! >> Please join us and send your proposal until July 30! >> The keynote speaker will be Lilly Irani (UC San Diego)! >> CALL FOR ABSTRACTS >> PhD Symposium >> >> The Future of the Platform Economy and Platform Work >> >> 27-28 October, 2021 >> >> Hosts: >> >> Dimmons, IN3, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya >> >> DigiLabour Research Lab, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos >> (Unisinos University) >> >> Timeline: >> >> July 30: Deadline for submission of 300-word abstracts >> >> August 31: Selection Notifications >> >> >> Call for Abstracts >> >> We invite contributions to the “The Future of the Platform Economy and >> Platform Work” PhD Symposium. PhD students are encouraged to submit >> their ongoing research related to the broad topic of platform work. >> >> We especially welcome submissions related to studies that improve our >> understanding of the platform economy business models in promoting >> certain working conditions. Some topics may include:^: >> >> – Future of Work and Workers >> >> – Gender, Race and Platform Economy; >> >> – Worker-owned platforms and platform cooperativism; >> >> – Data Commons and Platforms; >> >> – Platform Governance Beyond Big Tech; >> >> – Platform Work, Decent Work, and Sustainability; >> >> – Design Justice and Platform Work; >> >> – Public Policies and Platform Work; >> >> – Action-Research on Platform Work; >> >> – Consumption of Platforms; >> >> – Workers’ Organization: tech and platforms sectors; >> >> – Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Platform Economy; >> >> – The Future of Micro-Work Platforms; >> >> – Academic Work and Platformization; >> >> The doctoral symposium is designed to provide a platform for students >> and researchers at different stages wishing to present and receive >> guidance on various aspects of their research and career perspectives >> from established researchers and other PhD students. >> >> The symposium aims to enable PhD students to interact with each other >> and potential collaborators by stimulating the exchange of ideas and >> experiences. On the one hand, students at different stages of their >> research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their >> research questions, goals, methods and results. On the other hand, the >> PhD Symposium will offer training sessions on topics and skills that >> may be useful to future researchers. To achieve these, postgraduate >> students and postdoctoral researchers will share their experience and >> lecturers will deliver training on research skills and future career >> prospects. >> >> Each strand of the Symposium will be coordinated by two experts who >> will chair the discussions and respond to the presentations. >> Participants’ presentations should deal with the issues addressed or >> hypotheses tested in their doctoral research, the results so far >> obtained, and above all the methodology applied. Each presentation will >> last no longer than 5/10 minutes, followed by 5 minutes’ discussion. >> Each session will be followed by an open discussion between the >> participants. Participants are expected to be available throughout the >> two days of the Symposium, to attend all the presentations and to take >> an active part in the discussions. >> >> In parallel to the Symposium, a conference track conformed by keynotes >> and roundtables with renowned experts on the field of platform work >> will be held. >> >> Eligibility >> >> The Doctoral Symposium welcomes applications from PhD students as well >> as early stages PostDoc researchers. PhD students in their first year >> of studies are welcome to participate as attendees and as far as they >> have a well-defined problem statement and some ideas about the solution >> that they would like to discuss. >> >> The Symposium is opened for participation of students and researchers >> meeting the requirements, worldwide. The working language of the event >> is English. >> >> Submission Guidelines >> >> The application should take the form of a summary of the project of no >> more than 300 words, indicating: >> * The main topic and issues, including the thesis proposed/hypothesis >> defended; >> * The methodology (theoretical tools and standpoints); >> * Where relevant, the corpus or primary literature under >> consideration; >> * The results obtained so far. >> >> Please submit proposals at: https://forms.gle/LX1R9JQVVg954Vvy6 >> >> Applications should be sent by 30 July 2021. >> >> The eligibility check and the selection of submissions will be >> completed and announced by 31 August 2021. >> >> Review Process >> >> All submissions will be reviewed by the PhD Symposium organizers and >> ad-hoc reviewers who are experienced researchers, and can provide >> feedback and suggest future research directions. The goal of the review >> is to identify participants who are most likely to benefit from the >> Symposium and invite as many as possible to participate. >> >> Dates >> >> It will be fully held online and will take place, according to >> provisional programming, on 28th and 29th of October 2021. >> >> Organizers and contact >> >> The PhD symposium and global conference is co-organized by DigiLabour >> Research Lab from the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS >> University) and Dimmons Research Group from the Open University of >> Catalonia (UOC). >> If you have any doubts or queries, please send an email >> to hello(a)digilabour.com.br >> https://digilabour.com.br/2021/05/10/call-for-abstracts-the-future-of-t >> he-platform-economy-and-platform-work-phd-symposium/ >> https://dimmons.net/call-for-abstracts-the-future-of-the-platform-econo >> my-and-platform-work-phd-symposium/ >> Best, >> Rafael Grohmann >> [DEL: Assistant Professor in Communication, Universidade do Vale do Rio >> dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil :DEL] >> [DEL: Coordinator, DigiLabour Research Lab :DEL] >> [DEL: Principal Investigator fo :DEL] r Fairwork Project in Brazil >> [DEL: Researcher of Histories of AI project, University of Cambridge, >> International Research and Collaboration Award :DEL] >> [DEL: Member, :DEL] Scholarly Council, Center for Critical Internet >> Inquiry (C2i2), UCLA >> [DEL: Founding Board Member of the Labor Tech Research Network :DEL] >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/

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Call for Abstracts - PhD Symposium on Platform Economy and Platform Work
by Rafael Grohmann 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

Hello! Please join us and send your proposal until July 30! The keynote speaker will be Lilly Irani (UC San Diego)! CALL FOR ABSTRACTS PhD Symposium The Future of the Platform Economy and Platform Work 27-28 October, 2021 Hosts: Dimmons, IN3, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya DigiLabour Research Lab, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos University) Timeline: July 30: Deadline for submission of 300-word abstracts August 31: Selection Notifications Call for Abstracts We invite contributions to the “The Future of the Platform Economy and Platform Work” PhD Symposium. PhD students are encouraged to submit their ongoing research related to the broad topic of platform work. We especially welcome submissions related to studies that improve our understanding of the platform economy business models in promoting certain working conditions. Some topics may include:^: – Future of Work and Workers – Gender, Race and Platform Economy; – Worker-owned platforms and platform cooperativism; – Data Commons and Platforms; – Platform Governance Beyond Big Tech; – Platform Work, Decent Work, and Sustainability; – Design Justice and Platform Work; – Public Policies and Platform Work; – Action-Research on Platform Work; – Consumption of Platforms; – Workers’ Organization: tech and platforms sectors; – Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Platform Economy; – The Future of Micro-Work Platforms; – Academic Work and Platformization; The doctoral symposium is designed to provide a platform for students and researchers at different stages wishing to present and receive guidance on various aspects of their research and career perspectives from established researchers and other PhD students. The symposium aims to enable PhD students to interact with each other and potential collaborators by stimulating the exchange of ideas and experiences. On the one hand, students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. On the other hand, the PhD Symposium will offer training sessions on topics and skills that may be useful to future researchers. To achieve these, postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers will share their experience and lecturers will deliver training on research skills and future career prospects. Each strand of the Symposium will be coordinated by two experts who will chair the discussions and respond to the presentations. Participants’ presentations should deal with the issues addressed or hypotheses tested in their doctoral research, the results so far obtained, and above all the methodology applied. Each presentation will last no longer than 5/10 minutes, followed by 5 minutes’ discussion. Each session will be followed by an open discussion between the participants. Participants are expected to be available throughout the two days of the Symposium, to attend all the presentations and to take an active part in the discussions. In parallel to the Symposium, a conference track conformed by keynotes and roundtables with renowned experts on the field of platform work will be held. Eligibility The Doctoral Symposium welcomes applications from PhD students as well as early stages PostDoc researchers. PhD students in their first year of studies are welcome to participate as attendees and as far as they have a well-defined problem statement and some ideas about the solution that they would like to discuss. The Symposium is opened for participation of students and researchers meeting the requirements, worldwide. The working language of the event is English. Submission Guidelines The application should take the form of a summary of the project of no more than 300 words, indicating: * The main topic and issues, including the thesis proposed/hypothesis defended; * The methodology (theoretical tools and standpoints); * Where relevant, the corpus or primary literature under consideration; * The results obtained so far. Please submit proposals at: https://forms.gle/LX1R9JQVVg954Vvy6 Applications should be sent by 30 July 2021. The eligibility check and the selection of submissions will be completed and announced by 31 August 2021. Review Process All submissions will be reviewed by the PhD Symposium organizers and ad-hoc reviewers who are experienced researchers, and can provide feedback and suggest future research directions. The goal of the review is to identify participants who are most likely to benefit from the Symposium and invite as many as possible to participate. Dates It will be fully held online and will take place, according to provisional programming, on 28th and 29th of October 2021. Organizers and contact The PhD symposium and global conference is co-organized by DigiLabour Research Lab from the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS University) and Dimmons Research Group from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). If you have any doubts or queries, please send an email to hello(a)digilabour.com.br https://digilabour.com.br/2021/05/10/call-for-abstracts-the-future-of-t he-platform-economy-and-platform-work-phd-symposium/ https://dimmons.net/call-for-abstracts-the-future-of-the-platform-econo my-and-platform-work-phd-symposium/ Best, Rafael Grohmann [DEL: Assistant Professor in Communication, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil :DEL] [DEL: Coordinator, DigiLabour Research Lab :DEL] [DEL: Principal Investigator fo :DEL] r Fairwork Project in Brazil [DEL: Researcher of Histories of AI project, University of Cambridge, International Research and Collaboration Award :DEL] [DEL: Member, :DEL] Scholarly Council, Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2), UCLA [DEL: Founding Board Member of the Labor Tech Research Network :DEL]

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