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Special issue published: Inclusive Media Literacy Education for Diverse Societies published
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

Inclusive Media Literacy Education for Diverse Societies special issue, published in Media and Communication, 2022, Volume 10, Issue 4, Edited by Cigdem Bozdag, Anamaria Neag and Koen Leurs Complete issue: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/issue/view/328<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/issue/view/328> Table of Contents: Editorial: Inclusive Media Literacy Education for Diverse Societies www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6625<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6625> By Çiğdem Bozdağ, Annamária Neag and Koen Leurs Children’s News Media as a Space for Learning About Difference www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5729<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5729> By Camilla Haavisto, Avanti Chajed and Rasmus Kyllönen Beyond Solutionism: Differently Motivating Media Literacy www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5715<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5715> By Julian McDougall and Isabella Rega Intergenerational Perspectives on Media and Fake News During Covid-19: Results From Online Intergenerational Focus Groups www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5712<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5712> By Ana Filipa Oliveira, Maria José Brites and Carla Cerqueira Using Comics as a Media Literacy Tool for Marginalised Groups: The Case of Athens Comics Library www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5716<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5716> By Lida Tsene Storytelling as Media Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue in Post-Colonial Societies www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5814<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5814> By Maria Teresa Cruz and Madalena Miranda Inclusive Media Education in the Diverse Classroom: A Participatory Action Research in Germany www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5640<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5640> By Çiğdem Bozdağ Aspiring to Dutchness: Media Literacy, Integration, and Communication with Eritrean Status Holders www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5605<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5605> By Rosanne van Kommer and Joke Hermes Taking a Dialogical Approach to Guiding Gaming Practices in a Non-Family Context www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5727<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5727> By Gilda Seddighi Transforming Disinformation on Minorities Into a Pedagogical Resource: Towards a Critical Intercultural News Literacy www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5708<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5708> By Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer and Helena Dedecek Gertz Joining and Gaining Knowledge From Digital Literacy Courses: How Perceptions of Internet and Technology Outweigh Socio-Demographic Factors www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5669<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5669> By Azi Lev-On, Hama Abu-Kishk and Nili Steinfeld When Everyone Wins: Dialogue, Play, and Black History for Critical Games Education www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5680<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5680> By Rebecca Rouse and Amy Corron Youmans Digital Rights, Institutionalised Youths, and Contexts of Inequalities www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5663<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5663> By Maria José Brites and Teresa Sofia Castro Beyond Digital Literacy in Australian Prisons: Theorizing “Network Literacy,” Intersectionality, and Female Incarcerated Students www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5734<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5734> By Susan Hopkins Including the Experiences of Children and Youth in Media Education www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5709<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5709> By Markéta Supa, Lucie Römer and Vojtěch Hodboď Mapping the Inclusion of Children and Youth With Disabilities in Media Literacy Research www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5769<http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5769> By Carla Sousa and Conceição Costa ---------------

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Twitter Journalist Suspensions
by Dr. Emma Briant 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

Dear Colleagues, I’m sure all will agree that the mass censorship of, I think now 11 journalists from major news organisations today by Elon Musk is incredibly disturbing. I am wondering how one deletes all one’s tweets? Anyone know? I’m considering doing this but leaving my account as a placeholder, so I am not leaving that data there, and removing myself at this point from the platform. I was hoping not to do this, given that I network in Twitter for my research on propaganda and develop contacts. But this obviously crosses such a line. People need to push back somehow not just move to mastodon , but I’m honestly not sure how. I’m trying to process the implications and wondered other’s thoughts on this latest development. Thanks, 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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7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023): Second Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

*** Second Call for Papers *** 7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023) September 13-15, 2023, 5* St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/ Submissions due: May 1, 2023 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS; Best Paper Award sponsored by Springer with 300 EUR) “Internet for Survival”: How the effective and democratic evolution of the Internet towards an infrastructure/ecosystem supporting resilience and equality depends on deeply intertwined considerations rooted in technological, social and economic sciences. INSCI is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scholars and practitioners at the intersection of technological, social and economic sciences seeking to learn how the Internet can be used to make our world a better place. Its insights are expected to create a better understanding of this complex socio-technical system we call “Internet”, for instance to inform political decisions on the technological priorities for public funding and to drive a more sustainable and equitable development of the innovation and social ecosystems it supports. INSCI welcomes fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research, including policy- oriented studies and works offering technological solutions, that investigate the role of Internet for sustainable development, social and economic resilience, collective intelligence, reliable information processing and protection, and, more generally, for a holistic understanding of societal transformations, governance shifts and innovation quests. INSCI welcomes works done in interdisciplinary teams that may include computer scientists, sociologists, policy makers, economists, designers and artists, or complex system scholars, among others, preferably uniting expertise from social, economic and technical sciences. This kind of work is expected to close the gap between societal / economic impact and requirements and technological developments, seen as both drivers and consequences of each other. Thus, INSCI 2023 welcomes submissions to a wide range of topics including but not limited to the following list. TOPICS Green, Sustainability, and Innovation • The challenges of Responsible Research and Innovation on Internet solution • The technological, social and economic benefits of Transnational and Inter-Cultural Projects • Internet solutions supporting Environmental policies related to Climate Change • Green Computing in a holistic perspective: trade-offs of computing power, social benefits, economic and environmental impacts (e.g. blockchains) • Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Novel Platforms for alternative distributed economic models • Distributed environmental awareness: creating a collective consciousness of environmental issues and possible solutions at individual and collective level. Collective intelligence, sensing and action • Energy optimisation from from networked production to shared consumption, relying on top-down and bottom-up approaches • Networks for circular economy models: conceiving and putting in place platforms and solutions effectively supporting circular and social economy models, collaborative making, art and creativity. Enabling Technologies, Applications and Infrastructures • Social implications of Reinforcement Algorithms, Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems • Feasibility and social /economic aspects of Algorithms for mediation content • Data Sovereignty and inclusion aspects of Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing • Recommender, Adaptive and Context Aware Systems: design, social and inclusion aspects, feasibility and adoption • Networking and Wireless Systems as enablers: inclusion, health, privacy and pervasiveness aspects • People-driven Internet Technologies and Applications, including Collaborative Platforms & Social Search, Open Data and New Interfaces Societal Structures • How will Internet of Things change Society and interaction models • Digital Competences and Participation • Virtual Communities and Behavioural Patterns: how are they affected by the technological platforms being used • Knowledge, Education, Technology Enhanced Learning, and Societal Web Impact on Internet Evolution • Offline and Online Human Behaviour with Emphasis on Social Media and Online/ER/ VR Interactions Digital Politics and Governance • Internet and Political Participation • Online Political Freedoms in Policing and in Effect: Regional and Local Perspectives, technological impacts and requirements • Citizen Involvement into Decision-Making: Platforms, Actors, and Experiences • Political Discussions Online: Issues and Groups Behind Them, technical and collaborative solutions to moderate them • E-governance Practices of Today’s Authorities across the world • Internet regulation: Security vs. Openness Free Communication Patterns and Democracy • Freedom of Speech Online: a Contested Area of Policing • Algorithms as New Total Communicative Power • Extremist and Radical Talk Online and Policies or socio-Technical solutions to counteract it • Universal Internet Freedoms vs. Dark Web • Participatory Democracy and Budgeting: citizens’ involvement in democratic processes, for more equal and inclusive resource allocation • Cognitive, Psychological Aspects and Incentive Mechanisms for online Engagement, Collaboration and Participation (smart citizenship, e-literacy, participation skills, decision support and recommendations for informed citizens and collective actions) • E-Democracy and E-Participation: risks and opportunities, lessons learnt from currently deployed solutions (e.g. e-voting, Decidim) • Reliable online information: collaborative models and processes to produce/qualify online information (e.g. post-truth Practices Online, filter bubble and fact checking), for health (e.g. vaccination), democracy (international decision-making, political campaigns, opinion and sentiment modelling, governmental censure and influence), economy (product labelling, ethical marketing), safety of online ecosystems (children protection, fake news, digital rebels) • Crowdsourcing: implications, enablers Sustainable Network Economy • Legal, economic, technological and innovation hurdles related to Intellectual Property and the Digital Commons • New Collaborative Markets Analytics • Economic Power of Online Platforms: Expropriation of Digital Labour, Open Data solutions and their applicability • Digital Corporations: World Leaders and Regional Alternatives • Analogous Elites, Technological Precariat • Digital Professions and Reshaping of Online Labour Markets • New decentralised economic models: enabling and sustaining a distributed ecosystem of platforms and solutions intrinsically respectful of privacy, self- disclosure and digital sovereignty • The consumer perspective: unlawful profiling, discrimination and lock-in, automated contracts and warranties Global Access Opportunities • Internet Resilience: Defining/Comparing non-disconnection Technologies, Monitoring Approaches and Internet Governance Models ensuring resiliency and citizens’ empowerment and sovereignty • Global and Local Faces of Today’s Digital Divide • Comparing existing and future Open Distance Education and Life-long Learning Environments on online/Virtual Reality Platforms, Practices Around the World • Global Media Online: Translation and Language Divide • Empowerment of Disabled with New Body Extensions • Post-human and Tech-human Individuals and Societies Data Sharing and Protection • Data Openness vs. User Protection: tech and social aspects of open data policies • Limits of Privacy and Anonymization, their dependance on technological solutions and intended applications • Clouds, Big Data and Data Protection Regulation vs. knowledge sharing and open innovation • Global Tech Powers and Alternative Solutions based on decentralisation • Open Science and Access to Scientific Production: technological enablers, platform governance, economic and innovation aspects IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of Papers: May 1, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Decision: July 1, 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: July 15, 2023 • Author Registration Deadline: July 15. 2023 PAPER REQUIREMENTS All submitted papers must: • Describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere • Be written in English and be submitted in PDF format • Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses • Be formatted according to the Springer’s LNCS format Proceedings template: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html • Contain three to seven keywords characterizing the paper, to be indicated at the end of the abstract • Be submitted via the conference system in EasyChair, using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=insci2023 Full paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). We encourage a length of 12 pages for full papers. The Program Committee reserves the right to accept a submission as a short paper. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding the submission page limits or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. SELECTION All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international Program Committee, with a mix of social, economic and technological expertise. The review process will be single-blind. Selection will be based on: • Degree of interdisciplinarity (between social, economic and/or technical sciences) • Novelty and technical merit • Relevance of the generated insights for the future Internet development The best paper will be sponsored with 500 EUR by Springer. CAMERA-READY Camera-ready submissions should be corrected by following the remarks of the reviewers and submitted using the same submission link in zip format including: • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in pdf format • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in editable sources format • The Consent to Publish signed in ink and scanned to image file PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be presented at INSCI2023 and published in the conference proceedings volume, which will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of selected best papers from the conference will be contacted in order to consider submission of an expanded version of their papers for publication in a special issue to be organised with an accredited journal (under negotiation). ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Vasileios Mezaris, Information Technologies Institute, Greece • Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG CONNECT, Belgium Steering & Program Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/committees/

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10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): First Call for Submissions
by Announce Announcements 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

*** First Call for Submissions *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ AIM AND SCOPE Nowadays, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing are the primary approaches to build large-scale distributed systems and deliver software services to end users. Cloud-native software is pervading the delivery of enterprise applications, as they are composed of (micro)services that can be independently developed and deployed by exploiting multiple heterogeneous technologies. Resulting applications are polyglot service compositions that can then be shipped in serverful or serverless platforms (e.g., using virtualization technologies). These characteristics make Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing the natural answers for fulfilling the industry’s need for flexibly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications, to be delivered through state-of-the-art methodologies, like DevOps. To further support this, researchers and practitioners 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, now also considering the Cloud-IoT computing continuum to exploit widespread adoption of smart connected things and the increasing growth of their computing capabilities. 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. ESOCC aims 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. TOPICS OF INTEREST ESOCC 2023 seeks original, high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Applications for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., big data, commerce, energy, finance, health, scientific computing, smart cities • Blockchains for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Business aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., business models, brokerage, marketplaces, costs, pricing • Business processes, e.g., service-based workflow deployment and management • Cloud interoperability, service and Cloud standards, • Cloud-IoT computing continuum, e.g., edge computing, fog computing, mobility computing, next generation services/IoT • Cloud-native architectures and paradigms, e.g., microservices and DevOps • Cloud service models, e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, FaaS, etc. • Deployment, composition, and management of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Foundations and formal methods for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Enablers for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., service discovery, orchestration, matchmaking, monitoring, and analytics • Model-Driven Engineering for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Multi-Cloud, cross-Cloud, and federated Cloud solutions • Requirements engineering, design, development, and testing of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Semantic services and service mining • Service and Cloud middlewares and platforms • Software/service adaptation and evolution in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Storage, computation and network Clouds • Sustainability and energy issues in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality aspects (e.g., governance, privacy, security, and trust) of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality of Service (QoS) and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Social aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., crowdsourcing services, social and crowd-based Clouds • Virtualization for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., serverless, container-based virtualization, VMs IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of abstracts: June 4th, 2023 (AoE) • Submission of full papers: June 11th, 2023 (AoE) • Notification to authors: July 14th, 2023 (AoE) • Camera-ready versions due: July 31st, 2023 (AoE) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ESOCC 2023 invites submissions of the following kinds: • Regular Research Papers (15 pages including references, for the technical and special tracks) • PhD Symposium (12 pages including references) • Projects and Industry Reports (Projects and Industry Reports (1 to 6 pages including references, describing an ongoing EU or national project, or providing industrial perspectives on innovative applications, technologies, or methods in ESOCC’s scope) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the proceedings guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs) They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2023 by selecting the right track. Accepted papers from all tracks will be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. For publication to happen, at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. A journal special issue is planned, and authors of selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their articles. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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NDSS MADWeb Keynote - Problematic Content in Online Ads - Franzisca Roesner
by Joly MacFie 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

NDSS 2022 Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web (MADWeb) Workshop 2022 - Keynote 2 - Problematic Content in Online Ads https://youtu.be/HO1bU05Zukw Online advertisements are an unavoidable fact of the modern web: they are embedded in and financially support the majority of content websites. Significant prior work in the computer security and privacy community has previously studied the ecosystem of online advertising, particularly in terms of its privacy implications. What has not been substantively considered in the security community, however, is the visible, user-facing content of these advertisements. Our recent work reveals significant prevalence of a range of problematic content in these ads, including clickbait, misinformation, scams, and manipulative design patterns. In this talk, I will describe our work characterizing and measuring problematic content in the online ad ecosystem, including an investigation of ad content on misinformation sites and a study of political-themed ads on news and media websites around the time of the 2020 U.S. elections. SPEAKER Franzisca Roesner (University of Washington) Franziska (Franzi) Roesner is an Associate Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where she co-directs the Security and Privacy Research Lab. Her research focuses broadly on computer security and privacy for end users of existing and emerging technologies. Her work has studied topics including online tracking and advertising, security and privacy for sensitive user groups, security and privacy in emerging augmented reality (AR) and IoT platforms, and online mis/disinformation. She is the recipient of a Consumer Reports Digital Lab Fellowship, an MIT Technology Review "Innovators Under 35" Award, an Emerging Leader Alumni Award from the University of Texas at Austin, a Google Security and Privacy Research Award, and an NSF CAREER Award. She serves on the USENIX Security and USENIX Enigma Steering Committees. Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2022, 24 – 28 April, 2022 Catamaran Resort Hotel & Spa, San Diego, California, and online. ABOUT NDSS The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security. The target audience includes those interested in practical aspects of network and distributed system security, with a focus on actual system design and implementation. A major goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security technologies. https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ #NDSS #NDSS22 #NDSS2022 #InternetSecurity #MADWeb -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): First Call for Special Track Proposals
by Announce Announcements 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

*** First Call for Special Track Proposals *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ AIM AND SCOPE 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 and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. ESOCC 2023 will host Special Tracks as part of its program. Special Tracks provide a space where ESOCC participants can discuss, e.g., topics relevant to Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing even if not explicitly mentioned in ESOCC’s topics of interest (cf. https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/call-for-papers/) early-stage research ideas and/or results, or demonstrate industry-ready tools and research prototypes. Special Tracks may be driven by research interests, needs from specific application domains, or aim at bringing together practitioners and researchers from the area of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. Proposals for special tracks should indicate the title of the Special Track, its aims and scope (150-300 words), the Special Track chair(s), and the tentative members of the track’s PC. Please email your proposals as a PDF file to the PC chairs of ESOCC 2023, Florian Rademacher (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) and Jacopo Soldani (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it). Special Tracks will be selected for ESOCC 2023 using a lightweight review process. IMPORTANT DATES • Special Track Proposal Submission: February 26th, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: March 5th, 2023 (AoE) ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION Chairs of accepted Special Tracks can devise a Call for Papers for their track, which will be published on ESOCC 2023 website, together with the provided information on the track (title, aims and scope, PC). The Call for Papers for their track will then be disseminated alongside that of ESOCC, and submissions will be handled through the EasyChair of ESOCC, which will include a special track link. Papers accepted for Special Tracks will be included in the main conference proceedings of ESOCC 2023, published by Springer in the LNCS series. Special Track chairs, presenters, and participants will be required to register through the ESOCC 2023 registration page. In case of any questions related to the Special Tracks, please do not hesitate to contact the Program Chairs. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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best article I've read so far about Tik Tok
by Paul Levinson 25 Dec '22

25 Dec '22

Best article by far I've read about Tik Tok -- I'm going to assign it to my students in the upcoming Spring semester https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/magazine/tiktok-us-china-diplomacy.html #TikTok @nytimes -- PL It's Real Life <https://vocal.media/fiction/it-s-real-life> -- free, new alternate history short story about The Beatles & WFUV, now being made into a radio play

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Invitation to interdisciplinary PhD program; Assistantship available
by Dan Suthers 24 Dec '22

24 Dec '22

Aloha Air-L, We invite applications to the Communication and Information Sciences PhD program at the University of Hawaii. Founded in 1986, this is one of the first interdisciplinary programs of its kind in the country. It is sponsored by four units across three colleges: Information and Computer Sciences (College of Natural Sciences) the School of Communications and department of Library and Information Science (College of Social Sciences), and Information Technology Management (College of Business). The program is structured for interdisciplinary experience across these fields. Curricular focus areas and faculty research expertise currently include Communication & Information Theories, Community Engagement, Data Science, Digital Business Transformation, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Policy & Planning, and Social Informatics (including Social Media studies). Applicants must have a Master's degree in one of the above fields or a related field. Please see https://www.hawaii.edu/cis/, in particular the Prospective Students section. Applications are due February 1st for fall admissions. The program has an opening for a graduate assistant in Fall 2023, which has relatively light duties, a stipend, tuition waiver and benefits. Additionally, CIS students often find teaching assistantship positions in the constituent departments (see links below). Some international students receive support from the East-West Center, https://www.eastwestcenter.org/. Students interested in a more technical degree might also consider the ICS Computer Science graduate programs (https://www.ics.hawaii.edu/academics/graduate-programs/) Students who have not yet earned an MS might consider the ICS MS program, Communications or other programs in the new School of Communication and Information (https://sci.manoa.hawaii.edu/programs/) Information Technology Management (https://shidler.hawaii.edu/itm/about) or Library and Information Science (https://www.hawaii.edu/lis/) Best wishes to all for the New Year! Dan Suthers Professor and Graduate Program Chair, Information and Computer Sciences Chair, Communication and Information Sciences PhD Program University of Hawaii at Manoa ICS Department: http://www.ics.hawaii.edu/ CIS Program: https://www.hawaii.edu/cis/

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Research position in Technology & Society
by Gilda Seddighi 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

Hello AOIR We currently have a vacancy for a research position in Technology & Society at Western Norway Research Institute. Would you be interested in working in an exciting, inter-disciplinary research environment, collaborating closely with stakeholders in society and business? If so, this research position at Western Norway Research Institute in Sogndal may be right for you. https://www.vestforsk.no/en/vacant-research-position-inter-disciplinary-fie… Best wishes Gilda Seddighi, PhD Seniorforsker/ Senior Researcher (+) 47 400 65 705 *http://www.vestforsk.no <http://www.vestforsk.no/>* https://corenetcost.eu/ <https://corenetcost.eu/>

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Call for Papers: IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing, Deadline: January 23, 2023
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing Artificial Intelligent Next Generation (NextG) Integrated Communications and Computing Systems 5-7 June 2023 @ Albuquerque, New Mexico https://hpsr2023.ieee-hpsr.org/ https://twitter.com/ieeehpsr2023 *IEEE HPSR 2023 Organizing Committee is planning for an in-person conference and encourages the authors to participate physically; however, we understand that the pandemic situation is not over yet. Therefore, depending on the situation during the conference time, remote participation and online presentation may be allowed under special circumstances. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next Generation (NextG) Integrated Communications and Computing Systems are envisioned to be characterized by resiliency, security, robustness, adaptability, and autonomy, while being supported by modern communication devices, computing solutions, networks, and systems. New networking technologies and intelligent techniques are needed to efficiently and effectively cope with the intricacy in traffic demands, as well as the heterogeneity of the services and applications requested by the end-users. In parallel, the advent of the Digital Continuum, i.e., device-to-edge-to-fog-to-Cloud continuum, promises to offer low-latency and ubiquitous computation to heterogeneous mobile and Internet of Things devices. A rich array of network services is expected to emerge seeking to realize greater synergy across the various component subsystems of the NextG Integrated Communications and Computing Systems. The main focus of the HPSR 2023 - the 24th edition of HPSR conference - will be to assess how breakthrough changes occurring to NextG Integrated Communications and Computing Systems are affecting areas related to switching and routing, and NextG networks and systems in general. We are soliciting original and thought-provoking works on big data, data analytics, cloud and edge services, and artificial intelligent techniques applied to networking and switching and routing. Works on autonomous networks, 5G/6G, Industry 4.0, social networks, network, cybersecurity, virtualization, and other advanced topics are also welcome. Papers describing original, previously unpublished research, experimental efforts, practical experiences, as well as visionary roadmaps, in all aspects of switching and routing, and NextG networks and systems are solicited. Research works on the following topics, but not limited to, are welcome for submission through the following symposia: Track A: NextG Integrated Communications and Computing Systems Symposium - Application of data analytics to switching and routing - Artificial intelligent routing and resource-allocation algorithms - Behavior-aware human-centric NextG networks and systems - Deep-learning technologies for NextG networks - Digital Continuum -- device-to-edge-to-fog-to-Cloud continuum - Dynamic bandwidth access and management for smart-factory/Industry 4.0 applications - Experimental measurements and testbed implementations - Game theory enabling resource allocation and routing - High performance, programmable networks for the Internet of Things - Integrated access and backhaul technologies - Integrated caching, computation, and communications - Positioning, Navigation, and Timing techniques - Quality of Experience resulting from intelligent routing - Quality of Service Optimization and resource allocation - Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-enabled switching and routing - Switching architectures for NextG applications - Traffic monitoring and modeling applied to switching and routing - Traffic predictions in routing and resource assignment Track B: High-Performance High Functionality Architectures Symposium - Address lookup algorithms, packet classification, scheduling, and dropping - Applications of data science and analysis on high-performance networks - Applications of GPU on network functions - Efficient data structures for networking applications - Future technologies for IoT - High-speed packet processors - ICT enabling technologies for e-health systems - Multiprocessor networks - Nano-communication networks - Network management - Network traffic characterization and measurements -Optical switching and routing -Power-aware switching, bridging, and routing protocols -Routing and resource allocation for Tactile Internet -Switching, bridging, and routing protocols whether wide-area or data centers -Switching support to Extended reality (including virtual, augmented, and mixed reality) -Traffic characterization and engineering -Standardization activities of emerging high performance switching and routing Track C: Autonomous Networks Symposium - Architectures of high-performance switches and routers, with a focus towards reconfigurable pipelines (P4, OpenFlow, etc.) - Blockchain technologies -Computation offloading -Decentralized applications (DApps) -Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) -Economics and pricing -Energy harvesting, storage, recycling, wireless power transfer -Green network monitoring and routing -Intelligent and connected vehicular networks -Medium access control, routing, and path selection -Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks -Mobile social networks and routing -Multi-access edge computing (MEC) -Network and switch slicing -Network performance for Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork (HART) -Physical-layer aspects of switching and routing -Software-defined networking -Space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGIN) Track D: Network Security Symposium -Adversarial machine learning -Applied cryptography for cyber, information, and network security -Attack prediction, detection, response, and prevention -Authentication protocols and key management -Blockchain security -Cloud, data center, and distributed systems security -Future Internet Architecture (FIA) security and privacy -Intrusion detection with artificial intelligent techniques -Malware detection and damage recovery -Network security and privacy protection -NextG networks and Internet security -Security in SDN and networking slicing -Security aspects of social networks -Security in smart grid communications -Security in virtualized network functions built or managed using software-defined networks -Security and privacy in the Age of Information -Trust management in networks through emerging technologies -Virtual Private WANs -Zero Trust Architecture Important Dates: Paper Submission Due: January 23, 2023 Acceptance Notifications: April 3, 2023 Author Registration Deadline: April 24, 2023 Final Version Submission Due: May 1, 2023 General Chair Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA General Co-chair Abdelhamid Mellouk, L'Université Paris-Est Créteil, France TPC Co-chairs Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Northeastern University, USA Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Vice Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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