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Help with crowdsourced projects on Creativity and Mobile Gaming
by Adriana de Souza e Silva 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Colleagues, I hope you are all doing well! As you start preparing your spring semester classes, I wanted to highlight two crowdsourced projects from the Networked Mobilities Lab (https://nml.chass.ncsu.edu/) for which we are collecting entries: 1. The Mobile Networked Creativity repository: https://mobilenetworkedcreativity.pubpub.org/ People and communities are constantly finding new uses for existing technologies – things the technology’s designers never intended, and possibly never even considered. To better understand this creative process, I’m part of a team of researchers that is collecting examples of how people are using mobile, networked technologies to accomplish unexpected things – from improving local transportation in low-income communities to sharing information about public health.To identify examples of these innovative efforts, we are enlisting the public’s help. We’ve created a website called the Mobile Networked Creativity Repository <https://mobilenetworkedcreativity.pubpub.org/> to crowdsource examples from around the world. The project is featured here: https://news.ncsu.edu/2022/06/creativity-as-survival/ 2. The Retro Mobile Gaming Database: http://database.mglab.chass.ncsu.edu/ The Retro Mobile Gaming Database (RMGD) contains a collection of mobile games from 1975 to 2008. This database allows users to search games by multiple search criteria including title, year developed, type of game, and more. This search system will help researchers not only to find games but also to create new correlations among historical types of mobile games. The project is featured here: https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/01/tracing-the-history-of-mobile-games/ Our goal is to increase our collection of examples for both of these projects, so I’d like to ask your help in sharing these with your students and/or creating a class project that could ask students to submit entries as part of an assignment. We have done this before in previous classes and students really enjoyed the research experience. I am happy to offer support for these activities and If you have any questions, please do reach out! Best, Adriana _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva, Ph.D. University Faculty Scholar | Professor Dept. of Communication | NC State University www.souzaesilva.com <http://www.souzaesilva.com/> The Networked Mobilities Lab https://nml.chass.ncsu.edu <https://nml.chass.ncsu.edu/> _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva, Ph.D. University Faculty Scholar | Professor Dept. of Communication | NC State University www.souzaesilva.com <http://www.souzaesilva.com/> The Networked Mobilities Lab https://nml.chass.ncsu.edu <https://nml.chass.ncsu.edu/>

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30+ new cross-discipline Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Professor posts at Lancaster University, UK
by Jacobs, Naomi 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Dear all, There are 30+ new academic positions in the area of Security and Protection Science (Digital) available at Lancaster University, UK, following the university's investment and positioning in the creation of the North West Cyber Corridor. These are permanent, interdisciplinary roles to be based in various departments of the university, available at a range of levels from Lecturer (Assistant Professor equivalent) to Professor. Applications are invited from the following areas that may be of interest to those on this list: Computer Science, Data Science, Design, Digital Health, Engineering, Law, Linguistics, Mathematics and Statistics, all disciplines associated with the Organisation, Business and Management fields, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. Please do share across your networks. SPS Academic Roles in Security, Protection Science and Related Disciplines - Jobs at Lancaster University (lancs.ac.uk)<https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=SPS> The closing date for applications is 8th January 2023, salary information is available at the link above. If you would like to know more about Imagination Lancaster<http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/> and the School of Design please let me know. All the best, Naomi Dr Naomi Jacobs Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) The LICA Building Lancaster University Bailrigg LA1 4WY Pronouns: She/her Because I work flexible hours, you may sometimes receive emails from me outside of your usual working times, and I may not always reply immediately. Regardless of when I sent this email, please do not feel you have to respond outside your own working hours.

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MA Internet Equalities Open Day at University of Arts London
by Peaks Krafft 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Please join this Wednesday 2pm GMT 23rd November for the Creative Computing Institute's MA Internet Equalities open day! Register here: https://www.arts.ac.uk/whats-on/ma-internet-equalities-online-open-day MA Internet Equalities explores how power relations and structures of oppression are organised, embedded and perpetuated by internet technologies. سلام‎ مشمش — P. M. Krafft, PhD (they/them<https://pronoun.is/they/>) University of Arts London Creative Computing Institute Senior Lecturer and Course Leader, MA Internet Equalities<https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/creative-computing/postgraduate/ma-internet…> "Wherever you are, it was circled on a map for you." -Hafiz 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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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Second Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

*** Second Call for Papers *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library. The theme of UMAP 2023 is "Personalization in Times of Crisis”. Specifically, we welcome submissions that highlight the impact that critical periods (such as the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and climate change, to name a few) can have on user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems; the focus is on investigations that capture how these trying times may have influenced user behavior and whether new models are required. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. As always, contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Abstracts: January 19, 2023 (mandatory) • Full paper: January 26, 2023 • Notification: April 11, 2023 • Camera-ready: May 2, 2023 • Conference: June 26 - 29, 2023 Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) CONFERENCE TOPICS We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems targeting a broad range of users and domains. For detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track please visit the UMAP 2023 website. Personalized Recommender Systems This track invites works from researchers and practitioners on recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects of recommendations, we welcome research contributions that address questions related to user perception, decision-making, and the business value of recommender systems. Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web This track welcomes works focused on the use of knowledge representations (i.e., novel knowledge bases), graph algorithms (i.e., graph embedding techniques), and social network analysis at the service of addressing all aspects of personalization, user model building, and personal experience in online social systems. Moreover, this track invites works in adaptive hypermedia, as well as semantic and social web. Intelligent User Interfaces This track invites works exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, leveraging solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to submit their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics Researchers, developers, and practitioners have a social responsibility to account for the impact that technologies have on individuals (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and society. This track invites works related to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, and beneficial to society. Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems This track invites submissions focused on personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design, and evaluation methods. It also welcomes work that brings attention to the user experience and designing personalized and adaptive behavior change technologies. Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-robot Interaction This track invites works investigating new models and techniques for adapting synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to individual users. With the conversational modality so in vogue across disciplines, this track welcomes work highlighting the model and deployment of synthetic companions driven by conversational search and recommendation paradigms. Research Methods and Reproducibility This track invites submissions on methodologies to evaluate personalized systems, benchmarks, and measurement scales, with particular attention to the reproducibility of results and techniques. Furthermore, the track looks for submissions that report new insights from reproducing existing works. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions for any of the aforementioned tracks should have a maximum length of *14 pages* (excluding references) in the ACM new single-column format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) (Papers of any length up to 14 pages are encouraged; reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate for the contribution.) The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 . Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. At least one author should register for the conference by the early registration date cut-off. UMAP uses a *double-blind* review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions; they should also avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' prior work should be in the third person. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) as well as the ACM Publication Policies and Procedures (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies) PROGRAM CHAIRS • Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, Austria • Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands TRACK CHAIRS Personalized Recommender Systems • Noemi Mauro (University of Torino, Italy) • Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA) • Marko Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia) Knowledge Graphs, Semantics, Social and Adaptive Web • Daniela Godoy (ISISTAN - CONICET/UNICEN University, Argentina) • Cataldo Musto (University of Bari, Italy) Intelligent User Interfaces • Bart Knijnenburg (Clemson University, USA) • Katrien Verbert (KU Leuven, Belgium) • Wolfgang Wörndl (TU Munich, Germany) Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling • Oleksandra Poquet (TU Munich, Germany) • Olga C. Santos (UNED, Spain) Responsibility, Compliance, and Ethics • Michael Ekstrand (Boise State University, USA) • Peter Knees (TU Wien, Austria) Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems • Federica Cena (University of Torino, Italy) • Rita Orji (Dalhousie University, Canada) • Jun Zhao (Oxford University, England) Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-Robot Interaction • Li Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) • Yi Zhang (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) • Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University, Australia) Research Methods and Reproducibility • Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) • Alan Said (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Contact information: umap2023-program(a)um.org

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CfA Memories made for You! Remembering and forgetting by and through digital platforms SI / Memory, Mind & Media
by Annabell, Taylor 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Call for Abstracts: Special Collection of Memory, Mind & Media “Memories made for You! Remembering and forgetting by and through digital platforms” Special Collection Editors: Rik Smit (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Benjamin Jacobsen (Durham University, UK), Taylor Annabell (King’s College London, UK) Whether it is Facebook’s and Apple’s Memories, Spotify’s Wrapped, or Year on TikTok, commercial digital platforms interact with our past on a daily basis. Now that our lives increasingly take place on such platforms, we have come to depend on platforms for not only the storing and archiving of our photos, videos and posts, but they also automatically represent this mediated past for us. Moreover, platforms’ interest in our past is not altruistic; it is part of profitable business models. We are in the midst of a process of colonization of our personal and collective pasts for commercial benefit and an increased dependence on the colonizers to access our “memories”. Platforms thus enable and shape new forms of remembering and forgetting. This is what Lewandowsky and Pomerantsev (2021) in their inaugural article for MMM call the “Jekyll and Hyde of the algorithm.” Platforms are not neutral intermediaries in the construction of memory, whether this is cultural memory through YouTube, or autobiographical memory through a diary app. Hence, both intimate personal memories and collective forms of memory depend on and are shaped by data companies and algorithmic systems. To remember is increasingly to remember in and through digital platforms. This special collection invites contributions that examine the distribution of agency among humans and digital technologies within memory’s construction with, on and by platforms such as Facebook, Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and memory apps. Moreover, the special collection is open for contributions that are concerned with the affective, psychological and cognitive dimensions of remembering by and through digital platforms. Additionally, the special collection is concerned with the question of how platforms contribute to the quantification, metrification, and datafication of memory, and thus how memory is both prepared for algorithmic processing and its product. Contributions that address how the economic, governmental and infrastructural logic of platforms extends into and affects digital memory are therefore welcomed. As such, the special collection aims to bridge memory studies (in its broadest definition) with critical platform, app, and software studies, a much-needed epistemological step within the field. Besides traditional academic articles, this special collection also accepts interviews, commentaries, critical interventions, digital art, design fictions, photography and video essays. Contributions could address but are not limited to the following themes: * Theoretical approaches to algorithmically generated memories and use of mnemonic language by platforms * Empirical investigations on individual and collective remembering and forgetting with, on and through platforms * The role of platforms in shaping public and social memories of events, places, peoples * Political-economic critiques of the platformization of memory * Experiences, imaginaries and contestations of algorithmically generated memories * Historical precedents and precursors to contemporary memory practices and technologies of memory * Emergent and counter-cultural memory practices * The cognitive implications of the platformization of memory * Relationship(s) between memory and quantification, metrification, datafication or colonization Timeline and procedure MMM has a rolling submission window. Special collections do not have a finite number of pages and/or contributions. Rather, contributions are accepted on the basis of relevance to the topic and quality. The special collection will not be published as a whole, but each contribution in the collection will flow through the peer review process as soon as possible. The collection will therefore emerge over a period of months and each contribution will be promoted separately. 500 to 700 word abstracts should be sent to p.h.smit(a)rug.nl<mailto:p.h.smit@rug.nl><mailto:p.h.smit@rug.nl<mailto:p.h.smit@rug.nl>> by December 2, 2022, or sooner. The abstract should include: 1) the topic discussed and the research question(s) to be answered, 2) the methodological or critical framework used, 3) the expected findings or conclusions and, 4) academic and/or societal relevance. Next to traditional academic articles, this special collection also accepts critical design interventions, software, digital art, and design fictions. Also the journal facilitates photography and video content, such as video essays or collages. Feel free to consult with the Special Collection Editors about your article ideas and potential angles or approaches. Decisions will be communicated to the authors by January 13, 2023. Invited paper submissions can be submitted directly to the submissions portal for Memory, Mind & Media: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mmm where they will undergo peer review following the usual procedures of Memory, Mind & Media. The invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee acceptance into the Special Collection. The individual articles for this Special Collection will be published on a continuous basis as soon as they are fully accepted. Taylor Annabell PhD Candidate, Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King’s College London

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Second Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
by Announce Announcements 20 Nov '22

20 Nov '22

*** Second Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ Proposals due: January 16, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 PROPOSAL FORMAT Workshop and tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF format via the Easy Chair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23, not exceeding 5 pages, and following the ACM single-column format. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROPOSALS ● For tutorials: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-tutorials/ ● For workshops: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-workshops/ WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ACM UMAP 2023, the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program comprising different workshop formats, combining newly emerging, currently evolving and established research topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop schemas are possible, such as: ● Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic; participants may be asked to submit a white paper or position statement ● Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper submission and review processes ● Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation ● Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP general research topics ● Joint panels for different workshops We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas. We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that may attract various types of contributions and may ensure rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop web site containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timeline. They will be responsible for their own publicity and reviewing processes. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Hence, the workshop organizers will need to adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline. IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ● Proposal submission: January 16, 2023 ● Notification of proposal acceptance: January 30, 2023 ● Send the workshop description & website URL: February 23, 2023 ● Workshop Date: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ● New user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. exploiting data mining and big data analytics for user modeling, evaluation methodologies, data visualization, etc.) ● User modeling and personalization techniques for specific domains (e.g., health sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, education, internet of things, mobile, music, information retrieval, etc.) ● Application of user modeling and personalization techniques for information retrieval and recommender systems ● Eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account users’ emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, cognitive factors An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Tutorial presenters can have one page in the adjunct proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ● Proposals due: January 16, 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2023 ● Camera-ready tutorial summary: May 18, 2023 ● Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 18, 2023 ● Tutorial and Workshop Day: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS CHAIRS ● Veronika Bogina, Haifa University, Israel sveron AT gmail.com ● Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNICEN antonela.tommasel AT isistan.unicen.edu.ar

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Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor, Data and Society
by Alexander Halavais 19 Nov '22

19 Nov '22

Hello, All, We are hoping to hire teaching faculty to join our group at Arizona State University: someone who shares our interest in critical approaches to social data. The position is a career track (non-TT) position, teaching in our online and campus masters programs. See below for the details. Happy to answer any questions. Best, Alex Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor, Data and Society DESCRIPTION The School of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University is seeking a full-time, benefits-eligible Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor of Data and Society. This new faculty member will contribute primarily to our online and campus-based programs. We are seeking a scholar who has experience working and teaching students across disciplines. An ideal candidate understands the relationship between social institutions and networked digital systems, and has experience using and teaching social science-based approaches to data science. The applicant would be expected to teach required courses in the master’s programs, including those in digital methods, data wrangling, communicating data science, theories of data and society, and other courses. The current graduate curriculum may be found at https://newcollege.asu.edu/social-technologies-ma The expected teaching load is four courses each semester. We draw students from a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines and prefer applicants who can demonstrate teaching approaches that effectively engage emerging scholars from a diversity of backgrounds and disciplinary training. Our hope is to find a dedicated teacher-scholar who is passionate about building a new cadre of researchers and professionals in our existing graduate programs and contributing to future curricular initiatives. ABOUT THE SCHOOL The School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is presently in a period of expansion and innovation around new initiatives and programs, including those in Social Data Science and Cognitive Data Science. It participates in a college-wide collaboration around Biological, Behavioral, Computational, and Critical (B2C2) Data Initiative. The School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is one of the schools within ASU’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. More information about the School can be found at https://newcollege.asu.edu/ssbs and more information about the New College can be found at https://newcollege.asu.edu . ASU is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 80,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions intellectual and cultural diversity, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe. OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves. New College strives to uphold values of cultural and intellectual diversity and to provide a welcoming and inclusive environment where all can thrive, share ideas, and pursue their goals. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION * Teach four courses each semester, online and on campus. * Mentor graduate students. * Update courses to ensure that they represent the state of the art in the field. * Participate in faculty governance related to the program. * Qualifications REQUIRED QUALIFICATION * Ph.D. in the Social Sciences, Information and Computer Sciences, or cognate field. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS * Demonstrated teaching excellence and innovation in social data science or related areas * Application of high-quality pedagogical techniques and technologies to encourage active learning, in online and offline graduate courses * Knowledge of technical data science approaches, including coding in python, data cleaning, data management, and data visualization * Research experiences that demonstrate the application of data science methods to investigate social platforms, policies, organizations, or sociotechnical systems more broadly * A continued commitment to developing as a teacher-scholar * Demonstrated commitment to working successfully with a diverse student population, including first-generation college students APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS Application Deadline: The initial application deadline is December 31, 2022 at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis for a reserve pool. Applications in the reserve pool may then be reviewed in the order in which they were received until the position is filled. A background check and official transcripts are required prior to employment. For assistance with your application, or for position-related questions, contact lavonne.morris(a)asu.edu Application Procedure: Only electronic submissions via Interfolio will be reviewed. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Applications must contain: * Cover letter that addresses the required and desired qualifications; * Curriculum vitae with contact information, including telephone number and e-mail address * One-page statement of teaching philosophy * Evidence of teaching effectiveness – e.g., student evaluations, syllabi, peer observation, annual evaluations, etc. * Unofficial graduate transcripts * Information for three professional references (their position, title, e-mail, phone number) * A statement with specific examples and indication of impact that describes how your teaching interests and experience have intersected with and/or will contribute to matters of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion ASU conducts pre-employment screening for all positions which includes a criminal background check, verification of work history, academic credentials, licenses, and certifications. Employment is contingent upon successful passing of the background check. To apply, submit materials via Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/117012 Equal Employment Opportunity Statement A background check is required for employment. Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. (See https://www.asu.edu/aad/manuals/acd/acd401.html and https://www.asu.edu/titleIX/.) In compliance with federal law, ASU prepares an annual report on campus security and fire safety programs and resources. ASU’s Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is available online at https://www.asu.edu/police/PDFs/ASU-Clery-Report.pdf You may request a hard copy of the report by contacting the ASU Police Department at 480-965-3456. COVID-19 Vaccination - Arizona State University is a federal contractor and subject to federal regulations which may require you to produce a record of a COVID-19 vaccination. For questions about medical or religious accommodations, please visit the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’s webpage. -- // Alexander Halavais (he/him) @halavais alex.halavais.net // Associate Professor of Social Data Science socialdatasci.org // New College, Arizona State University theprof(a)asu.edu <http://asu.edu/>

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EWIS Workshop Proposal 2023
by Hedvig Ördén 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

For anyone interested in disinformation/influence ops/security studies, me and my colleagues at Lund University are putting together a workshop proposal for EWIS 2023, 12-14 July, in Amsterdam. *Existential Threats, Foreign Interference and Cognitive Resilience in Times of War: The case of the European Union* For almost a decade, the European Union has worked to counter foreign interference through measures aimed to enhance the ability of citizens and institutions to withstand malicious online influence. Existing practices for strengthening cognitive resilience include public diplomacy, fact checking and debunking, content flagging, media literacy, intelligence collection/sharing and public attribution. Such practices are premised on the idea of foreign interference being part of a ‘grey-zone’ conflict conducted below the threshold of war, using nontransparent methods to undermine the cognitive capacities of a population. In this context, a longstanding problematic has furthermore been how to reconcile ends and means when safeguarding liberal democratic values and institutions. Against this background and in the light of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, we ask: How does the outbreak of war in Europe redefine EU cognitive resilience practices? This workshop seeks to address cognitive resilience practices in an ambiguous European security context where existential dooms-day-like threats of nuclear annihilation and full-scale invasion emerge alongside the long-time preoccupation with grey-zone activities. We hope to engage in interdisciplinary discussions on cognitive resilience practices in times of war and welcome security studies, critical security studies, IR and strategic communication scholars. The overarching aim is (1) to empirically take stock of emerging cognitive resilience practices in times of war, (2) to unpack security with regard to foreign interference in a contemporary European context, (3) to describe and theorize the changing relationship between justifiable ends and means, as well as the legitimacy of security actors, in relation to EU cognitive resilience practices in wartime. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: On what grounds can we assess the appropriateness of cognitive resilience practices in wartime? Is there a changing relationship between justifiable ends and means? (consider the use of offensive practices, employment of sanctions, the changing character of digital diplomacy, use of new defense technologies and surveillance capabilities, new modalities employed by intelligence actors, differences in addressing disinformation vs. state propaganda, etc.) How can we best conceptualize security and security governance in the current European context, and in relation to foreign interference? (conceptual discussions on ontological security, logics of risk/resilience/security, concepts of total defense, comprehensive security, but also papers drawing on innovative insights from psychology, neuroscience, policing, intelligence analysis). What are the implications of the changing security context for the legitimacy of security actors in Europe? Who should engage in cognitive resilience practices? (The EU vs. NATO, member states vs. EU institutions, military/intelligence agencies vs. researchers or journalists, ‘coalitions of the willing’, regional vs. local, public vs. private actors, etc.) If you are interested in joining in, please send a few short lines summarizing your potential paper topic to *hedvig.orden(a)svet.lu.se <hedvig.orden(a)svet.lu.se>* no later than *November 27th.* All the best, Hedvig

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Twitter Revisited - Briefly
by Shulman, Stu 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

I just got home from a canceled Twitter developers conference. I was given some advice about where to get a beer near Twitter and here is a brief report. The Beer Garden, 1 Polk St. SF, is a place you can go to get really excellent beer and bump into some of the remaining Twitter personnel. Yesterday, they were processing the whole 5 PM deadline to check the box for yes on "extreme" working conditions. Conversations were animated at 6 PM. The streams of Tweets bidding farewell by Tweeps after six to ten years of work were rebounding through phones and animated conversations. Now the building is in another lockdown, critical infrastructure posts formerly staffed by large teams have two, one, or zero engineers in place. Trust & Safety and content moderation teams are crippled and probably beyond short term repair. Despite all that, I was told that an academic got a quick turn around an application for academic credentials, so I'm not sure what to expect in the days ahead. Part of me wants and expects the bird to crash. The other part loves Twitter. -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics* -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*

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Migration to Mastodon
by Dr. Emma Briant 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

Dear all, I wanted to highlight an issue to the community if I may relating to our transition to Mastodon, which I think could have implications for diverse and emerging scholar expertise. Of course Mastodon isn’t a replacement Twitter, it operates differently, but it may well replace it in the daily lives of many of us. Twitter has helped many previously obscure scholars, experts and scientists to get their voices out in a way previously not possible. I’m a little worried the way Mastodon works may not enable visibility as easily for those who aren’t already *known* in the same way, and potentially, in this aspect, more readily reproduce inequality. https://twitter.com/emmalbriant/status/1589170894303551488?s=46&t=GuaOniF5N… https://mastodon.online/@emmalbriant/109295686807615811 The issue is when people follow… in notifications Mastodon doesn’t seem to show follower bios like it does in Twitter. An apparently small thing, but I think it has important implications as I try to explain in the thread. Grateful for your thoughts. Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant 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 "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin

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