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9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022): Final Call for Satellite Contributions
by Announce Announcements 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

*** Final Call for Satellite Contributions *** 9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022) March 22-24, 2022, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany https://www.esocc-conf.eu Scope Service-oriented and cloud computing have made a huge impact both on the software industry and on the research community. Today, service and cloud technologies are applied to build large-scale software landscapes as well as to provide single software services to end users. Services today are independently developed and deployed as well as freely composed while they can be implemented in a variety of technologies, a quite important fact from a business perspective. Similarly, cloud computing aims at enabling flexibility by offering a centralised sharing of resources. The industry's need for agile and flexible software and IT systems has made cloud computing the dominating paradigm for provisioning computational resources in a scalable, on- demand fashion. Nevertheless, service developers, providers, and integrators still need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service- oriented applications in the cloud. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state of the art and practice of service- oriented computing and cloud computing in Europe. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of service-oriented computing and cloud computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. Satellite Contributions - PhD Symposium: an opportunity for PhD students to present their research activities and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, hence getting fruitful feedback and advices on their research activities. - Projects Track: a useful opportunity for researchers to disseminate the latest research developments in their projects and meet representatives of other consortia. - Industrial Track: a useful opportunity for the industry to disseminate the latest innovations and product developments in their field and meet other industry representatives. - Workshop Papers: three specialised workshops will be organised as part of ESOCC 2022; more information is available here: https://esocc-conf.eu/index.php/workshops/ . Topics of interest ESOCC 2022 seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects of service- oriented and cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Service and Cloud Computing Models  • Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies  • Governance models  • Architectural models  • Requirements engineering  • Formal Methods  • Model-Driven Engineering  • Quality models  • Security, Privacy & Trust models  • Self-Organising Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures Models  • Testing models - Service and Cloud Computing Engineering  • Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation and Selection  • Monitoring and Analytics  • Governance and management  • Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Federated Cloud solutions  • Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based Applications  • Cross-layer adaptation  • Edge/Fog computing  • Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management  • Service Level Agreement Management  • Service Evolution/Optimisation  • Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation  • QoS for Services and Clouds  • Semantic Web Services  • Service mining  • Service & Cloud Standards  • FaaS / Serverless computing - Technologies  • DevOps in the Cloud  • Containerized services  • Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds  • Microservices: Design, Analysis, Deployment and Management  • Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories  • RESTful Services  • Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms  • Blockchain for Services & Clouds  • Services and Clouds with IoT  • Fog Computing with Service and Cloud - Business and Social aspects  • Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud  • Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management  • Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance, Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities  • Business Process as a Service - BPaaS  • Service and Cloud Business Models  • Service and Cloud Brokerage  • Service and Cloud Marketplaces  • Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing  • Crowdsourcing Business Services  • Social and Crowd-based Cloud  • Energy issues in Cloud Computing  • Sustainability issues Submissions - Industry papers (15 pages including references). - PhD Symposium (8 pages including references, authored by the PhD student with indication of his/her supervisors' names). - Projects Track (1 to 5 pages including references, describing an ongoing project). - Workshop papers: please refer to each workshop's web site, accessible from https://esocc-conf.eu/index.php/workshops/ . We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines. They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2022 by selecting the right track. Accepted papers are expected to be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. Important Dates - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Organization General Chair • Wolf Zimmermann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Programme Co-Chairs • Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) • George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Industrial Track Chair • Andreas Both (Anhalt University of Applied Science) Projects Track Chair • Damian Tamburri (Technical University Eindhoven) Workshops Co-Chairs • Guadalupe Ortiz (University of C·diz, Spain) • Christian Zirpins (Karlsruhe University of Applied Science) PhD Symposium Co-Chair • Jacopo Soldani (University of Pisa) • Massimo Villari (University of Messina)

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Call for Chapter Proposals: Zoom
by Mark Nunes 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Apologies if this call already went through once. --mark ___________ *Zoom: Performance, Precarity, and Performativity in the Age of COVID-19* Mark Nunes & Cassandra Ozog, co-editors In March of 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous countries across the globe declared nationwide shutdowns that resulted in profound changes in the daily life of millions of individuals. While many workers in the hospitality and travel industries were suddenly left unemployed, countless others found themselves working—and playing—through video chat software platforms. And of those platforms, Zoom quickly emerged as the default modality for remote engagement, rapidly morphing from brand name to eponymous generic—a verb and a place and mode of being all at once. In an era of COVID-19, our relationships and experiences are deeply intertwined with our ability to “zoom.” Now, as we enter our third year of the pandemic (and our nth wave of outbreak), much of the newness of Zoom and other video conferencing platforms has become a matter of banal practice. Yet we have witnessed during this period of mandated telepresence new forms of artistic innovations, new modes of pedagogy, and new ways of social organizing. And we have also seen new forms (and exacerbated existing forms) of exploitation, inequity, social isolation and precarity. As the initial hype and dread has faded, the moment presents itself for a more in-depth critical analysis of the past two years of living with Zoom. This collection of essays will explore the impacts and implications of Zoom and other video conferencing platforms on economic, artistic, social, political, and cultural practices. We invite contributions that explore the experiences of our new cultural reality of Zoom through a variety of disciplines and areas of investigation including, but not limited to: - Teleworking and Hypercapitalism - Mediating Race, Gender, and Sexuality - Trolling in the age of Zoom-Bombing - Screens as Permeable Borders - Intersectionality, Power, and Telepresence - Positionality, Privilege, and Access - “Zoom-Outs” and Techlash Movements - Surveillance and Hypervisibility - Place, Performance, and Mediated Copresence - Connection, Isolation and Mental Health While we welcome a wide range of topics, we anticipate organizing this collection of essays around the following sections: Theorizations of Zoom; Artistic/Literary Performance; Zooming Academia; The Politics of Zoom; Access; Performative Publicity/Privacy. Prospective contributors should email a brief abstract, a one-page chapter summary, and a brief biography by January 31, 2022 to nunesm(a)appstate.edu and cassandra.ozog(a)uregina.ca. We anticipate requiring full chapters (6000-8000 words) from accepted authors by August, 2022.

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CIRC19 CfP
by Jack Qiu 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Sorry for cross-posting. But anyone interested in the event below (an ICA pre-conference), please submit by February 1, 2022. All the best, jack *CALL FOR PAPERS*The 19th Chinese Internet Research Conference China and the Future of the Internet *23-24 May 2022School of Communication and FilmHong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong(Hybrid Conference)* GENERAL INFORMATION The School of Communication and Film at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) welcomes scholars from all disciplinary backgrounds to the 19th annual Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC), to be held in Hong Kong and online on Monday and Tuesday, 23-24 May, 2022. The theme for CIRC 2022 is China and the Future of the Internet. Conference Theme China’s internet is flowering and provides successful examples of digital transformation in domains such as economic and social development, finance, entertainment, cyber governance, health, and more. Being the world’s largest internet market by several measures, the Chinese internet has a great impact on individual and collective life at the domestic, regional, and global levels. The Chinese internet offers an innovative model of a state-led digital capitalism with a strong developmental dimension. This model differs from the dominant internet discourse, which focuses on market-based solutions for digital empowerment and for creating and supplying cyber consumers. Amid the rise of the Chinese Soft Power and the country’s hardware proficiency, questions can be raised concerning how the Chinese model of the internet - with its distinctive values and practices - intersects with its Western counterparts. Since the internet technology will continue to transform the economic, political, cultural, social, and health sectors of China and other countries, the cooperation, competition, confrontation, and convergence of the Chinese model with other models will have a critical role in characterizing the future of the internet. Under this broad theme, a wide range of issues - from ethics, information, crisis management, government-citizen relationship, participation, and lifestyle to data technologies, digital diplomacy, internet laws, information ecologies, and cyber governance - are worthy of scholarly inquiry. To this end, CIRC 2022 proposes to interrogate questions around, but not limited to, the following topics: - To what extent has China evolved an internet model? - Is China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) providing a new digital infrastructure for globalizing the state-led cyber-capitalism? Is it replicable among other developing countries? - How successful have China’s efforts been towards data localization and data management? - China has used data for development in innovative ways by deploying AI. How does the outside world view this – especially in reconciling large-scale and extensive surveillance with meeting developmental needs of its people, particularly in rural areas? - China has developed its own interpretations about the principles of global cyberspace such as being ‘multilateral, democratic, and transparent.’ How do the Chinese interpretations and practices of cyber governance and digital democracy differ from their Western counterparts? - How is ‘internet sovereignty’ understood in domestic discourse in China in comparison to perspectives from the outside world? What is the role of national governments in global cyber governance? - China’s digital economy has increased rapidly in recent years, particularly in the areas of e-commerce and fintech. What are the major risks and opportunities of further digitalization of the Chinese economy? - From a health perspective, what opportunities and challenges does the Chinese internet provide to risk management and disease control? - What insights can be drawn from the Chinese government’s regulation of internet information and digital content? - What is the impact of digital protectionism on China and other nations? - In what ways can China shape the future of cyberspace? Paper and Panel Proposals Proposals are invited for paper presentations or panels that address one or more of the questions raised above, as well as proposals related more generally to questions concerning Chinese Internet. This may include (but not limited to) topics such as: - Perspectives on the globalization of the Chinese internet - Internet and social development - AI, blockchain, and machine learning: Lessons learned from the Chinese experiences - China’s digital economy and its impacts on domestic market and beyond - Ethical issues revolving around the Chinese model of internet - Personal information protection, content controls, and cybersecurity laws - Cyber governance and digital democracy - Civic engagement in social and political affairs in the Chinese context - Journalism in Chinese digital networks - Misinformation and disinformation in the digital age - The role of platforms in digital content production and dissemination - Influences of platforms and algorithms on digital content use - Health implications of Chinese internet technologies - Users and digital content - Digital technology in everyday life Submission Guidelines All submissions should be written in English. This conference accepts abstracts and panel proposals. Abstract and panel proposals should be submitted by 1 February 2022 to: https://www.comm.hkbu.edu.hk/circ2022/ <https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2…>. For further inquiries, please contact: circ2022_cmcr(a)hkbu.edu.hk. Abstract: Individual or co-authored abstracts should be between 300-500 words, excluding the title page and references. The title page should include the title of the paper and authors’ names, academic/professional affiliations, and email address. The abstract should include central arguments and a summary of the substance. Panel proposal: Panel proposals are limited to 1,000 words, excluding the title page, references, and appendices. The organizing committee will inform applicants of its decision by March 2022. Full versions of the accepted papers are to be submitted by 1 May 2022. Papers should not exceed 8,000 words, including notes and references, and should be uploaded to the submission system or sent to the organizer via email. Additional information Organizer: - Centre for Media and Communication Research (CMCR), School of Communication and Film, HKBU Co-organizers: - AI and Media Research Lab, School of Communication and Film, HKBU - Department of Communication Studies, HKBU - Department of Journalism, HKBU About the School of Communication and Film: Located in Kowloon, Hong Kong, the School of Communication and Film at HKBU provides a comprehensive range of programs in communication at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels under three academic units: Department of Journalism, Department of Communication Studies, and Academy of Film. Home to some 35 research faculty and 40 PhD Students, the School has been recently rated Hong Kong’s leading institution for communication/media research outputs based on the 2020 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) conducted by the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong. Organizer Committee: Leanne Chang, Co-Director, Centre for Media and Communication Research Daya Thussu, Co-Director, Centre for Media and Communication Research Rose Luqiu, Department of Journalism, HKBU Celine Yunya Song, Department of Journalism, HKBU Xinzhi Zhang, Department of Journalism, HKBU Stephanie Jean Tsang, Department of Communication Studies, HKBU Location: Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Other information: - No registration fee for the conference will be required - The language of the conference will be English - Open to the public, without fees, subject to registration in advance -- Jack Linchuan Qiu, Ph.D. Professor & Research Director <https://ap5.fas.nus.edu.sg/fass/cnmqlj/>, Dept of Communications & New Media, <https://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cnm/> National U of Singapore New article, "Conducting research in difficult, dangerous &/or vulnerable contexts <https://doi.org/10.1177/08933189211058706>", *MCQ *(2022) Article, "Radical praxis of computing in the PRC <https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2021.1949817>", *Internet Histories* (2021) Article, "Effects of digital media upon labor knowledge and attitudes <https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1933565>", *iCS* (2021) Special issue of *Comunicação e Sociedade,* "Digital Platforms in Connected Economies <https://revistacomsoc.pt/index.php/revistacomsoc/issue/view/175>" (2021) Special issue of *China Perspectives,* "Agency beyond Precarity <https://www.cefc.com.hk/issue/china-perspectives-2021-1/>" (2021)

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UQ Art Museum x Liquid Architecture 'Listening to Misrecognition' online talk
by Thao Phan 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

*UQ Art Museum x Liquid Architecture Online Talk* *Title:* Machine Listening: Listening to Misrecognition *Speaker: *Dr Thao Phan, Emerging Technologies Research Lab and ARC Center of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making & Society, Monash University *Date:* Tuesday 18th January, 5:30pm Brisbane Time/6:30pm Melbourne Time *Register for Zoom link: *https://art-museum.uq.edu.au/event/session/2087 *Abstract:* What is the sound of racialisation? How might we listen to misrecognition? What does machine error tell us about the precision of racism? And how can the tools of a racist system be used to transcribe new forms of resistance? This experimental presentation by feminist technoscience researcher Thao Phan brings together critical work on race and algorithmic culture with new techniques for dissecting and analysing automatic speech recognition, applied to personal and public archives drawn from Thao’s life and research on race. Broadcast live on Zoom and across multiple platforms, this event is part of Machine Listening <https://machinelistening.exposed/curriculum/>, an ongoing investigation and experiment in collective learning, instigated by artist Sean Dockray, legal scholar James Parker, and curator Joel Stern for Liquid Architecture <https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/>. In addition to Thao’s presentation, the event will feature a discussion and demonstration of the Word Processor tool, <https://machinelistening.exposed/experiment/word-processor/> developed by the Machine Listening team and Reduct, and recently launched as part of the event ‘Unnatural Language Processing <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Vzqaoeul8>’, at Unsound Festival. *About the speaker:* Thao Phan is a feminist technoscience researcher who specialises in the study of gender and race in algorithmic culture. She has researched and published on topics including: the aesthetics of digital voice assistants like Siri, Amazon Echo, and Google Home; ideologies of ‘post-race’ in algorithmic culture; and AI in popular culture. Her research takes an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach, drawing on theory and methods from feminist science and technology studies, media and cultural studies, queer and gender studies, critical race studies, and critical algorithm studies. *More info:* https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/thao-phan-listening-to-misrecognit…

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#AfternoonTeaandTruthBiscuits Launch
by Dr. Emma Briant 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Happy New Year Friends and Colleagues...I am delighted to say my new YouTube channel has launched. Thank you to all those who have subscribed - powerful truthtellers take on the lies in style - over a nice cup of tea. Each week I am taking on the propaganda over afternoon tea and biscuits with a new exciting guest. This week my rebel tea drinkers are Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin. We will be exploring how election disinformation is so wildly profitable and hearing about plans from their organization Check My Ads <https://checkmyads.org/branded/j6-defund-the-insurrectionists/> to demonetize the biggest culprits. If you want to hear about how to bust the budget of Breitbart and other organizations do tune in here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0s3KPZEN-8&feature=youtu.be> Tuesday 11th at 3pm ET/8pm GMT (there will be a recording if you miss it). If you were busy over the holidays and missed my last guests you might want to check out the videos at the bottom of this email for: Afternoon Tea & Truth Biscuits 1: Dr Emma Briant and Heidi Cuda <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmJmJ-NXK0w&feature=youtu.be> With Emmy award-winning investigative producer, author, and filmmaker Heidi Cuda we look back on what we've learned about events of 2021, a dark year for disinformation. AND Afternoon Tea & Truth Biscuits 2: Dr Emma Briant and Jack Poulson <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6DrfwcKNEA> Jack Poulson, a former Google Research senior scientist, now the Executive Director at Tech Inquiry (@tech_inquiry) a non-profit investigating national security procurement and lobbying. Jack chats with Emma about surveillance tech & its ties to think tanks. Please subscribe and do feel free to share with others, I appreciate you spreading the word. Thank you for reading and for subscribing to the show. Best wishes for the year ahead, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Independent Researcher/Author/Analyst Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant -- Dr Emma L Briant Independent Researcher/Author/Analyst Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant

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CFP: Cryptocurrency and Societal Harm, Symposium and Special Issue of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety
by Daniel Bateyko 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

Hi all, The Stanford Internet Observatory<https://io.stanford.edu/)> and Jeff Hancock (Department of Communication<https://comm.stanford.edu/>, Stanford) have started a new open-access journal, the Journal of Online Trust and Safety<http://tsjournal.org/>. We invite researchers across disciplines to submit their work for a symposium and a special issue on Cryptocurrency and Societal Harm. The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers for a conversation on cryptocurrency and its links to crime and other socially harmful activities (broadly defined). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * New anti-money laundering laws or other regulations for cryptocurrency * Money laundering and cryptocurrency * Money mixing or “tumbler” services * Ransomware groups, including tracing payments to these groups and mapping connections between them * Darknet marketplaces * Cryptocurrency scams (typosquatting, exit scams, pump and dump of cryptocurrency coins) * Analysis of social media and messaging posts about illegal activity or evading regulations tied to cryptocurrency * Understanding the use of “privacy” coins like Monero, Dash, and Zcash * Terrorism financing linked to cryptocurrency The full call can be found here: https://tsjournal.org/index.php/jots/article/view/12/3 Timeline Letter of inquiry submission deadline: February 15, 2022 Desk decisions: March 1, 2022 Draft submission for symposium: April 1, 2022 Symposium date: April 15, 2022 Paper submission for special issue: May 15, 2022 Publication date of special issue: August 31, 2022 Submission Instructions Authors interested in submitting an article for the symposium and/or the special issue should follow the journal’s standard submission process by sending a letter of inquiry (LOI) by February 15, 2022. Authors should note in their submission whether they wish to be considered for the symposium, special issue, or both. The symposium will be non-archival (no published proceedings), and attendees are not required to submit a full paper nor to make a submission for the special issue. Attending the symposium is not a prerequisite for submitting an article for the special issue. The symposium will be hosted by the Stanford Internet Observatory in April 2022. We hope this can be a hybrid in-person and remote symposium, though this will depend on COVID-19 protocols. Full paper submissions for the special issue are due May 15, and if accepted will be published near the end of August 2022. Questions about the special issue or symposium may be directed to the guest editor, Karen Nershi, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Internet Observatory (nershi(a)stanford.edu)

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CGSA 2022 Conference Submission Deadline Extended
by Gerald Voorhees 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

Good news! The deadline to submit a paper abstract or panel or workshop proposal for the 2022 (May 31 - June 1) Conference of the Canadian Game Studie Association is extended to midnight PST (UTC 8:00) January 16. Original cfp is linked <https://bit.ly/3GfJ7dw> for your reference. Best regards Gerald Gerald Voorhees, Ph.D. (he/him) Associate Professor Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies Department of Communication Arts University of Waterloo

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Three PhD positions, Department of Media and Communication (IMK), University of Oslo (UiO).
by Charles M. Ess 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

Dear AoIR-ists, The Department of Media and Communication (IMK), University of Oslo (UiO), has opened three PhD positions with an application deadline of Feb 1, 2022. From the job description (<https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/215708/doctoral-research-fel…>): == IMK is an interdisciplinary department, approaching media and communication from social scientific, humanistic and technological perspectives. In line with the department's new strategy for 2030, it will be prioritized to follow-up UiO's bold efforts to develop more competence and knowledge about conservation and development of democracy, climate and the environment. The doctoral project must be innovative and relevant to the current research that takes place at IMK. The successful candidate will take part in research groups within relevant areas at the department, and applicants must enclose a project description with topics or research questions within one or more of the research areas outlined below: *Children, adolescents and digital media Research on children's and adolescents' digital lives, how they use digital media, digital skills, adolescents as natives of a global media culture (global natives), digital parenting, children and adolescents' safety and rights online, political socialization and children's democratic rights, and regulations on children's digital life. * Media aesthetics Media aesthetics follows a humanistic tradition that emphasizes technologically mediated communication, sensory and experiential aspects of media expressions in a cultural and social perspective. This includes research on the form and content of media texts, perception, media history, and media development and innovation. * Political communication Research on political communication between different actors, in different public spheres, and political influence through strategic communication. This includes research on lobbying, political rhetoric, election campaigns, opinion processes and influences, algorithms and artificial intelligence, fake news, media policy, journalism in digital media, freedom of expression, media, power and democracy. * Screen cultures Screen cultures is a research and educational initiative that studies how screen media shape people´s experience and understanding of themselves and the world. This includes research on development, use and experience of new and established screen media, such as film, television and new digital platforms. Ambivalence, resistance and attempts at withdrawal or digital detox are relevant perspectives. * Method and analysis of digital media Innovative/creative methods for research on communication, utterances and changed usage patterns in digital media. Including an increased focus on data collection on digital/social media and analysis of big data. == From my perspective, these are three very exciting possibilities for pursing one's PhD in a top-ranked department in the marvelous city of Oslo, Norway. Please see the website for further details, including the encouragement to contact the particular research area(s) of interest for further information about their work. As a start, you can look at <https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/about/> Good luck and good hunting! - charles -- Professor Emeritus University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Secretary, IFIP Working Group 9.8, Gender, Diversity, and ICT <http://ifiptc9.org/9-8/> Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany 3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out: <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428>

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RIPE@2022 CfP Between the Fourth Estate and the Fifth Power: Conservation and Innovation in PSM Journalism
by Maria Michalis 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

*_Between the Fourth Estate and the Fifth Power: Conservation and Innovation in PSM Journalism_* Call for Paper Proposals RIPE@2022 conference **18 – 21 September 2022 in Vienna, Austria** The 11th biennial RIPE conference is sponsored by ORF, Austria’s public service media (PSM) provider, and hosted by the University of Vienna. The conference theme invites paper proposals that are relevant for advancing understandings of journalistic theory and practice in the context of a complicated set of challenges related to digital disruption, globalization, commercialization, information disorder, and the importance of fair, free and independent information and news provision that has been a persistent responsibility of public service media organizations over the decades. Elaboration of the Conference Theme Digital technologies have created enormous disruptions for media systems and companies, and ushered in consequential shifts in economic as well as political power. More media of more types are motivated by commercial imperatives even as the editorial function has become endangered. New media platforms are increasingly influential and used sources for ‘news’ and information and resist being defined as media companies. The big tech big data corporations have substantial influence on public communication today. National PSM providers remain important in principle but are often at severe disadvantage in many respects, including economic funding, political support, commercial pressure and competition, channel proliferation, and fundamentally as a consequence of the enormity of changes in the scope and scale of competition. Countries and populations around the world are challenged by trends summarized as fake news, mis- and disinformation campaigns, filter bubbles and the algorithmic production of personalized content – especially news. The collapse of editorial responsibility has resulted in a systemic condition characterized by nontransparency and unaccountability. All of this gravely endangers the health and vitalbity of the public sphere for democratic societies, and undermines PSM in both institutional and operational aspects. As people increasingly cruise the internet universe of commercial social media, trust and performance for quality journalism is seriously at risk. The historic paradigm has prioritized the creation and maintenance of independent media based on professional, accountable journalistic skills and practices as an essential for democratic practice. For this reason, the press has been conceptualized as the Fourth Estate of power (alongside Executive, Legislative and Judicial) in democratic societies. This understanding of the institutional framework that has protected PSM’s role in the Fourth Estate is under attack from political and business interests in an increasing number of countries. PSM is under stress in traditional broadcasting and even more so in the online environment that is largely governed by commercial interests that manage a corporatized Internet with profound potential consequences given the powerful influences of social media. At the same time, societies are struggling to cope with massive social disruption manifest in polarization and fragmentation, nationalistic protectionism, xenophobic politics, sophisticated new forms of clandestine propaganda and cyber-strategies that seek to undermine democracy and foment unrest. A series of crucial questions invite serious consideration: How can PSM keep pace with these dynamics and mitigate the damaging consequences of digital transformation? How can PSM effectively compete with the dominance of digital media giants and serve as a counterbalance? How can PSM resist the alarming constellation of pressures opposing them and develop appropriate answers to maintain their role and function as independent, trusted sources of truthful, fair and balanced information dedicated to serving the whole of society? How can PSM be distinctive in providing and defending Quality Journalism in the digital age, avoid being caught up in the problem of filter bubbles, escape the risk of unwittingly engaging with fake news, safeguard independence and advance media pluralism and content diversity? The RIPE@2022 conference will address one of the most challenging contemporary topics facing PSM in the digital age. We invite paper proposals that are relevant to these concerns about the role of public service journalism as an essential and foundational part of the Fourth Estate to effectively challenge the negative impact of the fifth power. Topics of Specified Interest Empirical and comparative research is especially needed that addresses the following topics that will ultimately frame the workgroup structure for the RIPE@2022 conference in Vienna: 1. Policy developments affecting news and journalism for PSM organizations • Comparative and/or indepth analysis of trends and changes in media policy affecting PSM’s role and function as a news and current affairs provider • Challenges in the growth of populist politics and the politization of information for partisan interests • Complications and potential solutions for policy affecting domestic information and news provision given the proliferation of transnational actors and pressures • Other topics and aspects related to media policy and legal developments affecting PSM news and current affairs journalism, especially challenges to safeguards for independence 2. Developments in journalistic and editorial practice in the digital media environment • Addressing sophisticated forms of propaganda from domestic and international sources that are intentional and strategically designed to stir unrest and undermine democracy • Internal strategies and policies developed by PSM organizations to cope with a range of challenges involving fake news, filter bubbles, mis- and disinformation, etc. • New approaches to news and current affairs provision and programming, including formats and genres intended to serve either general or particular populations • PSM’s role and ambitions in news provision at the international level • Challenges and developments in journalistic codes of ethics for PSM today, and the need for independence in practice and provision • Other topics and aspects affecting PSM news and current affairs journalism 3. Challenges and opportunities posed by commercial interests as the fifth power • Ways and degrees to which the rise of commercial power and pressures can be reasonably understood as posing a 5th power or estate in contemporary democracies • Strategies, developments and impact of commercial news on PSM’s position and capacity. May be targeted to one or more levels of engagement (local, national, global, etc.) • Changing competitive dynamics and related challenges as well as opportunities this creats for PSM news organizations and operations • Linkages between state interests and commercial interests affecting the capacity of PSM journalism to remain free, truthful, critical and independent • Other topics and aspects related to the rise of commercial pressures on PSM journalism 4. Challenges and developments in news and current affairs across relevant platforms • Cross-platform journalistic and editorial strategies and practices in news provision today • Emerging technological opportunities and threats for PSM news production and provision • Organizational and operational restructuring initiatives in the area of news and current affairs, especially as these are a response to commercial and other competitive pressures • Requirements, complications and competencies related to online news provision by PSM companies • Partnerships with other public and private sector organizations or companies in the development of strategies and operations to enhance PSM news and current affairs services • Other topics and aspects related to organizational and operational developments in PSM journalism 5. Criteria for PSM as the Fourth Estate in the digital ecology • The role and regulatory framework of PSM in terms of requirements or expectations for distinctiveness in its mission and remits in the digital ecology • Criteria for safeguarding accountability and independence from political and business interests in the governance and practice of journalism today • Approaches for guaranteeing universality and accessibility for society with a focus on innovation • Strategies and practices for building and maintaining public trust and institutional credibility in PSM news and current affairs provision • Other topics and aspects related to strengthening PSM’s essential role and functions as a vital part of the 4th Estate for democracies in the era of digital media 6. Declining trust in public institutions, alternative publics and strategic alliances • Explaining the decline of public trust in institutions and the implications for PSM both as an institution and especially in news and public affairs provision • Challenges and opportunities for PSM journalism in supporting the exercise of citizenship in the digital media environment • The nature, concerns and dynamics of alternative publics with a focus on relationships with established institutions • How mistrust is being handled by PSM news and journalism in organizational and content provision in increasingly polarized environments • The identification, construction and management of strategic alliances to combat mistrust and strengthen the journalistic value of PSM news and current affairs provision Submission Requirement Paper proposals can be submitted via a link that will be available on the conference website (https://ripe2022.univie.ac.at<https://ripe2022.univie.ac.at/>) shortly (third week of January 2022). You need to register in the internal system of the University of Vienna before you can submit a proposal. A registration link can be found at the bottom of the registration page, to which you will be redirected after clicking on the submission link mentioned above. During the registration process you will have to enter information about you and your institution. If there are several authors, you can add them and their institutions during the later submission process. Please enter the following information into the online submission form: • the paper’s working title, • an extended abstract (max 1,000 words) addressing the six elements for evaluation (provided below) • the two working group topics the paper is most closely related to. Additionally, the abstract (including the paper’s working title) needs to be uploaded as a Microsoft Word file. Please make sure that your Word file is anonymized and does not contain any indication of the author(s) either in the text or in meta data. All submissions will be peer-reviewed (double-blind) by a scientific committee. The evaluation criteria are: • Relevance to the conference theme and fit with one of the working group topics. • Newness or originality of the research (empirical) or essay (philosophical) • Theorization and general importance • Research methods and design (for empirical papers) • Key findings and implications for theory • Relevance for PSM management and practice Empirical research is highly valued, but we also welcome insightful philosophical, critical and theory-driven papers. Comparative research is important. RIPE conferences focus on substance, dialogue and results. We therefore limit acceptance to about 60 papers and each is assigned to one of the workgroups. **Submissions are due 7 March 2022**. Decisions about acceptance will announced on 11 April 2022 including further details regarding the submission of the completed papers. Completed papers are due on 15 August 2022. The conference happens over 2.5 days with a welcoming reception the night before the first day and the inaugural RIPE General Assembly on the afternoon of the third day. The conference language is English. Conference fees will be announced at a later date. The fee will cover conference meals, events and materials, but not hotel accommodation or travel. Based on the level of interest, a non-obligatory social programme might be planned for the day after the conference at an additional cost for those interested to participate. The RIPE conference does not supplement personal travel costs. The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.

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Jan 28 book launch and publication - Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism
by Jacob Johanssen 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

Join us for the book launch of Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism (Zer0 Books) by Bonni Rambatan and Jacob Johanssen In an age where Silicon Valley dictates what it means to innovate a painless future, knowledge and enjoyment are fertile breeding grounds of political contestation. But it’s not exactly democracy. We are controlled through platforms that turn us into data for the profit of billionaires. Control has become so playful that we carry it in our pockets, as we continue to crave likes and followers. What is to be done? Should the Left continue to cling to the promise of a political Event, patiently waiting for a revolutionary rupture where new possibilities emerge? Is there a way to delineate its horizons amidst the chaos? Through a psychoanalytic interrogation of the intersections of online culture, sexuality, and politics, Bonni Rambatan and Jacob Johanssen explore such horizons at the limits of capitalism. Event Horizon examines how capitalist ideology functions in our current moment, and, more importantly, how it breaks down. With the increasing urgency of formulating a proper Leftist response to the rapidly growing violence that seriously threatens the lives of marginalised communities, this book could not be more timely. More information about Event Horizon: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/event-horizon-sexua… Book Launch: 28.01.2022 2pm GMT - 8am CT - 9pm WIT - 10pm SST Speakers: Bonni Rambatan (Independent Scholar, Indonesia) and Jacob Johanssen (St. Mary's University, UK) Alfie Bown (Royal Holloway University, UK) Julia DeCook (Loyola University Chicago, USA) Rosemary Overell (National University of Singapore, Singapore) The event will take place on Zoom. A link will be emailed to all attendees 2 hours before start time on the 28th. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/event-horizon-book-launch-tickets-239460050457

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