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Postdoc in Disinfo and AI at University of Urbino
by Fabio Giglietto 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

Dear All, we have just opened a two-year postdoctoral position in my team on the http://veraai.eu/ Horizon project. All the info is at https://mine.uniurb.it/news#h.dje71lf8d3l9. The application deadline is January 23, 2023. If you have any questions or concerns about the job or the application process, please do not hesitate to message me. Best wishes, Fabio Giglietto --- Fabio Giglietto Associate Professor at University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" Mastodon: scholar.social/@fabiogiglietto Google Scholar profile <http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=FmenbcUAAAAJ&hl=en>

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Short TCAT test before setting up my own system - tracking tweet deletion
by asaf n 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

Dear all, I'm hoping to borrow, for a very short time, an operational TCAT server. I want to use it to check the possibility of locating post deletion activity by tracking specific users with it. While this was not my initial plan, the dedicated tool for tracking tweet deletion (Politwoops) has recently broken down and I'm hoping to rely on TCAT as an alternative. I would like to test if that is actually possible before making the effort of setting up my own server. The plan is simply tracking a few accounts I'll be controlling for a day or two, and have them post and delete statuses, checking which have been captured on the TCAT server before deletion. this should not interfere with your server normal activity, of course. If you are able and interested in helping me out, simply send me an email and we'll see from there. Many thanks! Asaf -- Asaf Nissenbaum, PhD Bloom post-doctoral fellow Department of Communication University of Haifa

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Call for Papers: Data Justice conference 19-20 June, 2023
by Lina Dencik 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for our third international Data Justice conference themed: Collective experiences in the datafied society Date: June 19-20, 2023 Location: Cardiff University in Cardiff, UK - There will be some possibilities for remote participation, incl. live streams of plenary sessions and the incorporation of recorded presentations. Host: Data Justice Lab Registration fees: £100 / £75 (early bird) £75 / £50 students (early bird) Data justice has continued to gain traction as a useful framework for engaging with the implications of the growing emphasis on datafication across social and public life. Yet we still struggle with understanding the impacts and ramifications of the rapid turn to data infrastructures on the ground and how people are responding. We are too often limited by speculation or a focus on particular technologies that lack insights from lived experiences. Moreover, when impact and responses are discussed, they are often centred on the individual dimension over the collective one, even as these technologies come to shape and shift the make-up and meaning of communities and groups– and thereby politics. What, then, shall we make of collective experiences in the datafied society? In what ways are people and communities impacted by the growing use of data in society, and what are their responses? How do we study and conceptualise this effectively? What are alternative ways of thinking and organising datafication? And what are the implications for data justice? This two-day conference will explore impacts, lived experiences and forms of resistance in relation to datafication. Hosted by the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) in the UK, it will bring together international scholars, practitioners, activists, and community groups to discuss the meaning and practice of social justice and collective experiences in a datafied society. Speakers include: Mirca Madianou, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Carolina Botero Cabrera, Karisma, Colombia Catherine D’Ignazio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Patrick Williams, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Andrea Quijada, University of New Mexico, US (with Virginia Eubanks) We welcome both paper presentations and 90-minute practical workshops. Please send a 500-word abstract for papers and workshops to DataJusticeLab(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DataJusticeLab@cardiff.ac.uk> by January 30, 2023. -- Professor Lina Dencik Co-Founder Data Justice Lab PI Data Justice: Understanding datafication in relation to social justice (DATAJUSTICE), ERC Starting Grant 2018-2023 PI Advancing Data Justice in the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act, EPSRC Network+ Grant 2021 Co-I Towards Democratic Auditing: Civic Participation in the Scoring Society, Open Society Foundations 2018-2021 School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff CF10 1FS Email: DencikL(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk>, Tel: +44 (0)29 208 75461 Twitter: @LinaDencik Fellow, Center for Media, Data and Society, Central European University

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Job alert: Research Associate (f/m/d) (full time) for software development
by ZeMKI 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

At the University of Bremen, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research/ Department 9 - Cultural Studies - in the ZeMKI Lab "Datafication and Mediatization" of Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp has a vacancy from 1.3.2023, subject to funding approval, for a Research Associate (f/m/d) for Software Development – pay group 13 TV-L – full time for a period of 3 years. The temporary position is within the framework of a project for the validation and further development of the molo.news platform (https://molo.news) We are looking for a person (f/m/d) who will further develop the backend of the molo.news platform on the basis of their own and research in the project team on participatory approaches (co-creation) and who would like to work in a committed team that deals with the latest media change (including automation and datafication of communication, pioneer journalism, pioneer/developer communities). Tasks: • Independent research-based development of the backend of molo.news in Django • Research on and implementation of automation of tagging in molo.news based on machine learning • Implementation of a location feature for molo.news • Independent development of a monetisation tool for freelance journalists (incl. user management and payment interface) • Product ownership frontend • Collaboration in co-creation workshops in a geographically dispersed project with locations in Bremen, Hamburg and Leipzig and neighbouring cities and communities. Recruitment requirements: • Completed relevant academic degree (M.A., M.Sc., Magister, Diplom) • Experience in backend development • Experience in Python • Experience in project management • Experience in software development • High level of commitment and initiative • Ability to work in a team, meticulous and reliable • Willingness to participate in academic self-administration • If possible: o Experience in software development in the journalistic field o Experience in Machine Learning The University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of women in science and therefore explicitly invites women to apply. Severely disabled applicants will be given priority if they have essentially the same professional and personal qualifications. Applications from people with a migration background are welcome. Questions should be addressed to Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (andreas.hepp(a)uni-bremen.de) The deadline for applications is January 31, 2023, quoting the reference number A361/22. Applications have to be sent to University of Bremen Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) FAO Ms. Heide Pawlik PO Box 33 04 40 28334 Bremen or via e-mail as PDF to: heide.pawlik(a)vw.uni-bremen.de In addition to a covering letter outlining the motivation, the application should be accompanied by a curriculum vitae, final certificates and the final thesis or other publications, if applicable. Download the full job advertisement here: https://www.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/fachbereiche/fb9/zemki/docs…

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Second Call for PhD Symposium Applications
by Announce Announcements 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

*** Second Call for PhD Symposium Applications *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE The Euro-Par PhD Symposium is a welcoming and supportive forum for PhD students to present their work, meet and interact with peers, and to receive constructive feedback about their work from experts in the Euro-Par community. The program will feature technical presentations by PhD students, and discussions in panel and open formats. Contributions accepted to the PhD Symposium will appear in the Euro-Par companion proceedings. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS We invite submissions from PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies. Applicants must be officially enrolled in a PhD Program at the time of submission, and each submission MUST be backed by an endorsement from the official PhD adviser(s). Required submission files are as follows: 1. Proposal (in Springer LNCS format, no longer than 6 pages with references) including: • Title of work, author and affiliation • Abstract of the work • Brief description of work being/planned to be done, including the problem being addressed, the research methodology, and preliminary results (if any) 2. Adviser Statement of Support on institutional letterhead (no longer than 2 pages), including: • Declaration that the applicant is their PhD student, and the length of time of this relationship • Confirmation of support for applicant’s participation • The applicant's expected academic contributions • The level of work that has been achieved by the student (in the course of or before the PhD work) • How the student will prepare for the event • How the student plans to attend the event (i.e. in person or online) • How travel and accommodation costs are to be met, if planning to attend in person • The expected impact of attending the event on the student's work REGISTRATION STUDENTSHIPS We are happy to announce that we can cover the registration fees of 15 student attendees; 15 awards will be funded by the Euro-Par Foundation. To qualify, you should be a PhD student studying Informatics and Computing Science at the time of the event. On top of the above specific criteria for each studentship, the following criteria will be used: • Explicit recommendation by the advisor(s) is paramount, as awards will be given based on the strength of the advisor(s) letter • Priority will be given to in-person attendees Successful applicants may be asked to undertake some tasks to assist the running of Euro-Par 2023. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The submission consists of: • Proposal: A manuscript that address item 1 of the call -- see above. • Adviser letter: A statement of support from the applicant's adviser(s) as described in the call. Both elements are to be submitted together as a single PDF to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2023 REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS The symposium committee members will review the submitted applications based on originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference. Submitted documents that do not meet the above requirements might be rejected without a review. All submitted proposals will be checked for originality by Springer iThenticate (proposals which show an insufficient originality might be rejected without a review). IMPORTANT DATES • Submission: May 20, 2023 (AoE) • Notification: July 1, 2023 • Camera-Ready: July 15, 2023 PHD SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS • Herodotos Herodotou, University of Cyprus. Cyprus • Demetris Thrihinas, University of Cyprus. Cyprus

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PostDoc Humane AI University of Amsterdam
by Blanke, Tobias 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

Dear all. The Research Priority Area in Humane AI at the University of Amsterdam (https://humane-ai.nl/) has a vacant Postdoc researcher position in Humanities and AI. You will be able to conduct research on Responsible AI from a humanities perspective. The ideal candidate is active in any relevant area within the humanities that can complement our current strengths within AI & Law and AI & Communication Science. As such preference will be given to researchers active in AI & Arts, AI & Philosophy/Logic/Ethics, or AI & Language. But other areas will also be considered. The position is for 18 months. Further details can be found at https://humane-ai.nl/news/postdoctoral-researcher-on-ai-and-humanities/.

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CFP: New Media & Digital Cultures
by Mark Nunes 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

*CONCLUSIONS: ON BEYOND THE END* The Working Group on New Media and Digital Cultures invites submissions for the 21st annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA), June 1-4, 2023, at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. As in 2022, we are planning on a hybrid conference that will allow for simultaneous presentation and participation for those unable to join us. Those submitting to the conference can indicate whether they would prefer to present virtually or in person. We hosted eight panels, one roundtable discussion, and one screening last year, and we hope for an equally vibrant and diverse range of presentations this year. The theme for the 2023 CSA Conference is “Conclusions”. We encourage papers, preconstituted panels, roundtables and praxis sessions that interpret this theme broadly through the lens of new media and digital cultures. Topics might include: - Stack Overflow: After the End of the Internet - Splinternet Politics - Compulsory Engagement: “Resistance is Futile!” - Algorithmic Conclusions and Proxy Predictions - Platform Collapse: Evolution and Interference - Irrefutable: Evidence and the Network - The Teleology of Tech - Starting a New Game: Innovation and the Social Adjustment *SUBMISSION PROCESS* All proposals should be submitted through Easy Chair using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csa2023 *Final Deadline for Submissions: January 7th, 2023*. Please prepare all the materials required to propose your session according to the given directions before you begin electronic submission. All program information--names, presentation titles, and institutional affiliations--will be based on initial conference submissions. Please avoid lengthy presentation and session titles, use normal capitalization and standard fonts, and include your name and affiliations as you would like them to appear on the conference program schedule. *REGISTRATION* In order to participate in the conference and be listed in the program, *all those accepted to participate must register before Friday, May 5, 2023*. Registration for the conference and membership in the CSA are now combined transactions. Register here: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MTY5NDU2 Questions should be direct to the co-chairs of the New Media and Digital Cultures working group: Jeff Heydon (jheydon(a)wlu.ca) and Mark Nunes ( nunesm(a)appstate.edu)

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CFP Reminder: The 2nd Plat Gov Research Conference
by Robyn Caplan 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

Hi Everyone! I wanted to send a reminder about the deadline for abstracts for the 2023 Platform Governance Research Network conference (December 19th). You can apply here on EasyChair <https://easychair.org/cfp/PlatGovNet2023>. In keeping with our mission and commitments to this being a *global network, *this will be *a virtual conference with accommodations made to account for multiple time zones *(we make it a lot of fun! I swear!). We're shooting for the moon with the theme for the conference, asking participants to imagine what *trustworthy, sustainable, and democratic platform governance **could *look like. With everything going on with Twitter, and movements over to alternative platforms, this is a good opportunity to think about how new forms of governance and participation can take shape over platforms (while also keeping our focus on making the bigger platforms more accountable). But really, we invite all papers talking about themes related to: - *Empirical studies of platform governance from the micro to the macro,* utilizing a range of qualitative as well as quantitative, experimental, and/or computational methods. - *Policy-oriented analyses of private and governmental efforts to regulate platforms *across the broad categories of online content, competition policy, labour, data protection, and more. - *Conceptual or theoretical insights that highlight gaps in the current public or scholarly conceptions of platform governance*, as well as normatively oriented work that engages with important questions, visions, and notions for/of platform governance going forward. - *The meta-aspects of scholarly work as it relates to major technology platforms,* and the relations between policy, academia, and civil society in the emerging platform governance research and policy landscape. Extended abstracts (800-1000 words) are due December 19th. Accepted submissions will be announced in mid-February.*. * Please circulate the call among your networks! Thank you! - Robyn Caplan https://easychair.org/cfp/PlatGovNet2023 -- Senior Researcher Data & Society Research Institute @RobynCaplan

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Third Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

*** Third 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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Education Data Futures – new publication from the Digital Futures Commission
by Livingstone,S 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear all, On 21 November, the Digital Futures Commission held a virtual launch of its new essay collection, Education Data Futures. This open access collection offers critical, practical and creative reflections identifying exciting possibilities for the beneficial uses of children’s data as well as tackling the exploitative uses (or misuse) of such data. Authors from a wide range of disciplines, from academia to regulators, industry to the third sector have contributed to the collection. Some of the topics covered include: * The financial power brokers behind EdTech * Exploring parental trust in relation to data about their family * How children’s data can be shared safely using existing data protection laws * What EdTech can learn from FinTech * Understanding how disabled children can benefit from education data * What data stewardship could offer education Here are links for: * The full collection of essays - https://educationdatafutures.digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/ * The recording of the launch event and blog - https://digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/blog/education-data-futures-continu… The Digital Futures Commission is an exciting research collaboration of unique organisations that works with innovators, policy makers, regulators, academics and civil society to unlock digital innovation in the interests of children and young people. We focus on three areas: play in a digital world, beneficial uses of education data, and guidance for innovators. Each work stream is informed by the voices of children and underpinned by a research programme and outputs geared toward real world change for children. Read more about the Digital Futures Commission’s work in our blog at https://digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/blog/, and sign up to our mailing list at https://digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/blog/ to receive updates from us. You can find us on social media - look for our hashtag, #DigitalFutures. For further information, or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Cheers, Sonia Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE, FBA, FAcSS, FBPS, FRSA FAW 7.01M, Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science 2 Clements Inn, London WC2A 2AZ UK

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