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Global Forum: The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and the Future of Warfare
by Olga Boichak 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

Please join us for a Global Forum that offers a critical reflection on the Russia-Ukraine war and investigates the relationship between warfare and media in this context. *March 1, 6:00pm AEDT* (what time is it for me <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Global+Forum%3A+T…> ?) *Click here <https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZZQroAtCRsi_hYWx5uT3zA> to register for this virtual event.* Ukraine is once again at the epicentre of news due to an unwarranted full-scale military aggression from Russia. After years of influence operations, active measures, and ceasefire violations, followed by failed diplomacy and ineffective sanctions, missiles are once again flying and more boots are on the ground. With hybrid war expanding into the realms of communication and perception, new analytical tools are needed to understand what happened and what is likely to come next. The Global Forum gathers international experts for a critical analysis of the Russian-Ukrainian war and what it represents for the future of warfare. *Global Forum* is a webinar series hosted at the *Centre for International Security Studies <https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/our-research/centres-institutes-and-groups/c…>at the University of Sydney, Australia*. It was created in 2018 to bring together international security experts to explore the most pressing global issues in a critical and timely manner. Past themes <https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/our-research/centres-institutes-and-groups/c…> have included the COVID-19 crisis (2020), digital insecurity (2019) and global uncertainty (2018). The Forum will be recorded and made available on the CISS YouTube channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT52PI0tqRnqmCB7DH0Fy0Q>. Moderator *Professor James Der Derian* is Director of CISS and Michael Hintze Chair of International Security at the University of Sydney. He writes books and produces documentaries on war, peace, media and technology. Speakers *Dr Olga Boichak* is a Lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney. She is a Ukrainian-born media sociologist who has published extensively on the role of digital technologies in the Russian-Ukrainian war and is an editor of the *Digital War Journal.* *Dr William Merrin* is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Swansea University, UK. He is the author of *Digital War: A Critical Introduction* (2018), which offers a comprehensive overview of the impact of digital technologies upon the military, the media, the global public, and the concept of ‘warfare’ itself. *Dr Anthony Szabo* is the Information Warfare Star Shot leader for the Australian Defence Force’s Defence Science and Technology Group. *Bryce Wilson* is a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker from Melbourne, Australia. Bryce has been covering the Russian-Ukrainian war since 2015 and is currently in Ukraine.

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New Book Announcement
by S.J. Min 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

Seong Jae Min (2021/2022). Rethinking the New Technology of Journalism: How Slowing Down Will Save the News. Penn State University Press. e-book: Nov. 2021, hardcopy: Mar. 2022. The frenetic pace of modern life subjected every facet of society, including newsrooms, to cutthroat competitions and relentless pursuit of speed. Journalists today live by the grand discourse of speedy technological innovation, struggling to catch up with new tools. Is technology a vital force in journalism that would make or break the industry’s fate? Shattering the conventional industry wisdom that technology determines journalism’s forms, content, and its ultimate success, this book suggests that, from the printing press to blockchain, technologies’ role in journalism has been overstated. The book calls for a “slow journalism,” a respite from the hectic pace of newswork and incessant innovation, and appreciation of long-term collaboration and reflection that enhance journalism’s core missions and functions in society. Available from Amazon and Google Play Books for a discounted price in March ($9.99 e-book). Descriptions from the Penn State Press: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09248-5.html

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WEBCAST Feb 28 – State of the Net 2022
by Joly MacFie 26 Feb '22

26 Feb '22

ISOC Live are pulling our location production kit out of COVID storage for this one. It's been a long time! Sorry no captions, but there will be some on the archive later in the week. Annually attracting over 600 attendees, the State of the Net Conference provides unparalleled opportunities to network and engage on key policy issues. It is also the only Internet policy conference with over 50 percent of Congressional staff and government policymakers in attendance, making it the perfect setting to explore important, emerging trends. ISOC Live posted: "On Monday February 28 2022 from 10am-5:15pm EST (14:00-00:15 UTC) the Internet Education Foundation presents the 2022 State of the Net (SOTN) conference in Washington DC. SOTN is America's premier Internet policy conference and this year speakers include" [image: isoc.live] <https://isoc.live/15213>On *Monday February 28 2022* from *10am-5:15pm EST* (15:00-00:15 UTC) the *Internet Education Foundation <https://www.neted.org/>* presents the 2022 *State of the Net <https://www.stateofthenet.org/>* (SOTN) conference in Washington DC. SOTN is America's premier Internet policy conference and this year speakers include *Senator Ed Markey* (D-MA), *Rep. Michael McCaul* (R-TX), White House Chief Scientist *Denice Ross*, and Comcast EVP for Public Policy / Digital Equity *Broderick Johnson*. The livestream is provided via a partnership with the *Internet Society Washington DC Chapter <https://isoc-dc.org/>.* *LIVESTREAMS* *PLENARY + BREAKOUT 1* *https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sotn2022 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sotn2022>* *BREAKOUT 2* *https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/sotn2022 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/sotn2022>* *BREAKOUT 3* *https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/sotn2022 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/sotn2022>* *AGENDA https://sotn22.sched.com/ <https://sotn22.sched.com/>* *TWITTER #SOTN2022 <http://bit.ly/SOTN2022> @netedfound @isocdc* *ARCHIVES* *https://archive.org/details/sotn2022 <https://archive.org/details/sotn2022>* *https://www.youtube.com/sotndc <https://www.youtube.com/sotndc>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/15213/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Call for papers- Digital Governance andTranscultural Communications:values and strategies in an era ofneo-globalisation, digitalisationand platformisation
by Yik Chan Chin 26 Feb '22

26 Feb '22

Dear All, We invite submissions of proposals for the IAMCR 2022 Beijing preconference on 8 July 2022, entitled "Digital Governance and Transcultural Communications: values and strategies in an era of neo-globalisation, digitalisation and platformisation" organised by School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University In partnership with IAMCR’s Public Service Media Policies Working Group. The conference will be in hybrid online and in person mode, with locations in the XJTLU, Suzhou, China and the University of Sydney, Australia. Registration is free, and will open online on 1st March, 2022. *Abstracts between 300 and 500 words are requested and must be submitted via emails to Dr. Rui Wang at wrui(a)bnu.edu.cn <wrui(a)bnu.edu.cn> or Dr. Yik Chan Chin at yik-chan.chin(a)bnu.edu.cn <yik-chan.chin(a)bnu.edu.cn>. The deadline for submission of proposals is 10 March, 2022, at 23.59 UTC. * We intend to publish a special issue in an English journal based on the selected papers from this preconference. The detailed CfP is attached in this email. And the website for the preconference and CfP is: *https://iamcr.org/beijing2022/digital-governance <https://iamcr.org/beijing2022/digital-governance>* _________________________ IAMCR 2022 Beijing pre- conference 8 July 2022 Digital Governance and Transcultural Communications: values and strategies in an era of neo-globalisation, digitalisation and platformisation This one-day hybrid preconference aims to explore policy and governance strategies emerging from the development and use of digital communications technologies and their impacts on transcultural communications, with a focus on the themes of neo-globalization, digitalisation and platformisation. It seeks to address some fundamental questions that may help in strengthening digital governance approaches and facilitating safe, productive and inclusive transcultural communications: -  What are the critical contests around digital governance of transnational and transcultural communications platforms? How do they exemplify difference in values and ethics between key stakeholders? -  What are the crucial components of digital governance strategies, and how are these evolving in light of platformisation? -  How can existing institutional, and largely national, models of communications governance adapt to this new context? To what extent are new, international models of governance addressing transcultural communications?  What are the best practice examples of new digital governance modalities working in the public interest? How might these benefit public institutions, such as public service media? The preconference will consist of a keynote speech and four panels, drawing on speakers from both inside and outside China, from developed and developing countries. These panels will include discussions on: -  Digital governance of the metaverse -  Governance of digital communications market access, standards and structures -  Governance strategies for safe, inclusive digital transcultural communications -  Digital governance and public service media in an era of platformisation Thank you! Best wishes, Yik Chan ---- Recent Articles: Chin, Yik Chan and Li, Ke, A Comparative analysis of Cyber Sovereignty Policies in China and the EU (August 6, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3900752 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3900752 <https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3900752> Yik Chan Chin (2020) Internet governance in China: the network governance approach in Dragan Pavlicevic and Zhengxu Wang (eds.) Social Relations and Political Development in China: Change and Continuity in the 'New Era', London: Routledge. Yik Chan Chin (2018) Legitimation of Media Regulation in China, Chinese Political Science Review. --------- Dr. Yik Chan Chin Associate Professor School of Journalism and Communication Beijing Normal University Beijing, P. R. China Email: yik-chan.chin(a)bnu.edu.cn https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yik_Chan_Chin http://ssrn.com/author=1377946

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[Call for Papers] 1st Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems on Social Media
by ROSS Bjorn 25 Feb '22

25 Feb '22

Call for Papers 1st Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems on Social Media Co-located with ICWSM 2022, 6 June 2022, Hybrid format - Atlanta, Georgia (US) and online https://neatclass-workshop.github.io/ The automatic or semiautomatic analysis of textual data is a key approach to analyse the massive amounts of user-generated content online, from the identification of sentiment in text and topic classification to the detection of abusive language, misinformation or propaganda. However, the development of such systems faces a crucial challenge. Static benchmarking datasets and performance metrics are the primary method for measuring progress in the field, and the publication of research on new systems typically requires demonstrating an improvement over state-of-the-art approaches in this way. Yet, these performance metrics can obscure critical failings in current models. Improvements in metrics often do not reflect improvements in the real-world performance of models. There is clearly a need to rethink performance evaluation for text classification and analysis systems to be usable and trustable. If unreliable systems achieve astonishing scores with traditional metrics, how do we recognise progress when we see it? The goal of the Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems on Social Media (NEATCLasS) is to promote the development and use of novel metrics for abuse detection, hate speech recognition, sentiment analysis and similar tasks within the community, to better be able to measure whether models really improve upon the state of the art, and to encourage a wide range of models to be tested on these new metrics. Recently there have been attempts to address the problem of benchmarks and metrics that do not represent performance well. For example, in abusive language detection, there are both static datasets of hard-to-detect examples (Röttger et al. 2021) and dynamic approaches for generating such examples (Calabrese et al. 2021). On the platform DynaBench (Kiela et al. 2021), benchmarks are dynamic and constantly updated with hard-to-classify examples, avoiding overfitting a predetermined dataset. However, these approaches only capture a tiny fraction of issues with benchmarking. There is still much work to do. For the first edition of the workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems (NEATCLasS) we welcome submissions discussing such new evaluation approaches, introducing new or refining existing ones, promoting the use of novel metrics for abuse detection, sentiment analysis and similar tasks within the community. Furthermore, the workshop will promote discussion on the importance, potential and danger of disagreement in tasks that require subjective judgements. This discussion will also focus on how to evaluate human annotations, and how to find the most suitable set of annotators (if any) for a given instance and task. The workshop will solicit, among others, research papers about * Issues with current evaluation metrics and benchmarking datasets * New evaluation metrics * User-centred (qualitative or quantitative) evaluation of social media text analysis tools * Adaptations and translations of novel evaluation metrics for other languages * New datasets for benchmarking * Increasing data quality in benchmarking datasets, e.g., avoidance of selection bias, identification of suitable expert human annotators for tasks involving subjective judgements * Systems that facilitate dynamic evaluation and benchmarking * Models that perform better at hard-to-classify instances and novel evaluation metrics such as AAA, DynaBench and HateCheck * Bias, error analysis and model diagnostics * Phenomena not captured by existing evaluation metrics (such as models making the right predictions for the wrong reason) * Approaches to mitigating bias and common errors * Alternative designs for NLP competitions that evaluate a wide range of model characteristics (such as bias, error analysis, cross-domain performance) * Challenges of downstream applications (in industry, computational social science, computational communication science, and others) and reflections on how these challenges can be captured in evaluation metrics Format and Submissions The workshop will take place as a full-day meeting on 6 June. Participants will be invited to trial an innovative format for paper presentations: presenters will be given 5 minutes to describe their research questions and hypotheses, and a group discussion will start after that. Then, presenters will be given 5 more minutes to describe their method and results, followed by a new group discussion about the interpretation and implications of such results. In the afternoon there will be collaborative group activities to bring researchers together and collect ideas for new evaluation approaches and future work in the field. We will discuss how we can organise competitions when there are multiple evaluation metrics and benchmarking datasets are dynamic. We invite research papers (8 pages), position and short papers (4 pages), and demo papers (2 pages). Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this workshop. Submissions will be evaluated by the program committee based on the quality of the work and its fit to the workshop themes. All submissions should be double-blind and a high-resolution PDF of the paper should be uploaded to the EasyChair submission site (link TBD) before the paper submission deadline. All papers must be submitted, and formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style. Authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to publish their papers through workshop proceedings by the AAAI Press. Submission instructions will be uploaded to the workshop web page in due course: https://neatclass-workshop.github.io/ Timeline * Submission link: TBD – see https://neatclass-workshop.github.io/ * Papers submission deadline: March 27, 2022 * Paper acceptance notification: April 10, 2022 * Final camera-ready paper due: April 17, 2022 * Workshop Day: June 6, 2022 Organisers Björn Ross, University of Edinburgh Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Lectureship in Digital Politics
by Adi Kuntsman 25 Feb '22

25 Feb '22

Please spread the word – Lectureship inDigital Politics, full time, permanent contract. We have a small but growingand very exciting area of digital politics: two Masters programmes, a PHDprogramme, annual online winter and summer schools and even a blog supported byour student interns https://digitalpoliticsmanmet.bloggi.co/ Further details below and here: https://manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/.../lectur.../4677/description/ ** This is a 1.0 fte permanent lectureship in DigitalPolitics. Digital Politics is an area of growing strength for the department ofHistory, Politics and Philosophy at Manchester Met and the successful applicantwill join our expanding team to teach units on digital politics andpolitical communication on the MA in International Relations and GlobalCommunications, the MSc Digital Society, and our undergraduate programmes.Other responsibilities will include the supervision of undergraduate andpostgraduate dissertations and acting as a personal tutor. The successful candidatefor this post will be an expert on the impact of digital technologies oncontemporary politics and/or international relations. The ability to teachquantitative research methods is also desirable, though not essential. You will hold a good first degree and a doctorate in a relevant subject area. The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at ManchesterMetropolitan University is a unique environment where Humanities, Languages andSocial Sciences sit alongside the Manchester School of Art and the ManchesterFashion Institute. Student experience is at the heart of everything we do. Weare proud to offer state-of-the-art facilities, including digital and technicalworkshops, studios and gallery spaces designed to enhance learning andcollaboration. Situated within the Arts & Humanities Faculty, TheDepartment of History, Politics and Philosophy brings together the expertise ofover 50 academic staff. The Politics and International Relationsteam are a highly professional and collegiate group who have been proactivein establishing innovative programmes of study to serve the needs of a 300+undergraduate and postgraduate student population. Our staff have a variety ofresearch specialisms beyond digital politics including US foreign policy, theEU, political philosophy, civil society and social movement studies, energypolitics, and critical approaches to international relations. It is expected that the post-holder will join and makea contribution to one of the Faculty's research centres, ideally theResearch Centre for Applied Social Science (RCASS). The successful candidateshould accordingly have a successful research record commensurate with theircareer stage. The anticipated start date for the successfulapplicant is August 2022. Dr AdiKuntsman, Reader in Digital Politics Programme Leader, MA inInternational Relations and Global Communications and MSc inDigital Society Coordinator, PhDpathway in Digital Politics Department of Politics | Manchester Metropolitan University Geoffrey Manton Building| Manchester | M15 6LL| Web | Online office hours (term time only): Tuesday 3-4pm or by appointment- please email to arrange Digital Politics Blog Selectedpublications --Environmentalmedia amidst the COVID-19 pandemic --Time,militarisation and the information bomb: a tribute to Paul Virilio --Optingout of Digital Health --Theparadox and continuum of digital disengagement --DigitalMilitarism

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Only few days left! CfP and WS - UNITOPIA Digital Transformation as Democratic Moment
by Maddalena Vivona 25 Feb '22

25 Feb '22

Dear colleagues, The University of Graz is organizing a Conference on Digital Transformation as Democratic Moment for young scholars and early career researchers. The Conference, organized in cooperation with the ARQUS Alliance, aims to provide young researchers with an opportunity to present their work to a larger community and will be accompanied by keynotes from well-known researchers, workshops on different topics focusing on interaction, knowledge creation and networking, and transfer events. Deadline: 3rd of March, 2022 Kind Regards, Maddalena Vivona

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Univ. Copenhagen - PhD fellowship position (deadline: 19 April 2022)
by Jun Liu 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

Univ. Copenhagen - PhD fellowship position (deadline: 19 April 2022) The Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, invites applications for one 3 year PhD fellowship in Digital Media and Political Contention. The successful applicant will become part of a project that examines the use and appropriation of digital media in political contention like protests, demonstrations, activism, and revolutions in Europe, the United States, and China. See here for more details: https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=155768; and https://tech-in-movement.ku.dk/ best, Jun Jun Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen Karen Blixens Plads 8, DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark ORCID: 0000-0001-6066-4130 The Danish Independent Research Fund’s Research Leader 2021, https://tech-in-movement.ku.dk/

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TIME SENSITIVE: Helping find talented techies to advise the UN on the evolution of the Internet
by Joly MacFie 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

[ via Dave Farber] *[from Mike Nelson]* The UN recently announced a special meeting related to Internet governance to be held in New York City at the end of March. The deadline for nominations for this important UN group considering the future of the Internet Governance Forum (and the future of the Internet) is just days away. *[from George Sadowsky]* A request from the Internet Technical Collaboration Group ( https://www.internetcollaboration.org ): In the past, this group has helped identify representatives of the "Internet technical community" to participate in specific UN activities. Recently, the UN announced creation of an expert group on Internet governance and the UN's role: https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-expert-group-meeting-egm. Note that the deadline for applications to participate is 28 February 2022, 4 days from now. Rather than try to locate suitable individuals to recommend for an expert study group through a participative process, as ITCG has done in the past, the group will consider supporting specific recommendations from individuals and organizations instead. We therefore ask you for help in doing the following: (1) Share this post now with your colleagues who might be suitable experts for this voluntary assignment (2) Note that should anyone nominating themselves wish to request the support of the ITCG, send a note to George Sadowsky ( george.sadowsky(a)gmail.com) or to Elizabeth Oluoch (oluoch(a)isoc.org) before 28 February 2022. - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Seeking documentation on prevalence of employee surveillance technologies
by Luc Cousineau 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

Hello AoIR community, My colleagues from the International Network on Technology, Work, and Family (Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, Xavier Parent-Rocheleau) and I are currently working on a project examining the prevalence of employee surveillance technologies (i.e., "Bossware" like keylogging, random screenshots, webcam monitoring, etc.), and developing a typology of these technologies. While there is some information available from the industry and grey literatures, we are in search of data about the actual use of specific types of employee surveillance technologies. Works like Charbonneau and Doberstein (2020), Mateescu and Nguyen (2019) and Ravid et al. (2020) provide good overviews, but lack specific usage numbers. We are seeking material (published and unpublished) that we can use to assess the prevalence of different types of bossware in different parts of the world and are hoping that this community can point to sources we have not yet identified. The help of this active and positive community is much appreciated. Please reach out with any questions. Luc Cousineau Luc S. Cousineau, Ph.D. (he/him | they/them) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Université du Québec à Montréal's International Network on Technology, Work and Family (INTWAF)<https://intwaf.esg.uqam.ca/> Instructor, University of Waterloo Twitter<http://www.twitter.com/LucCousineau> | Website<https://luccousineauphd.ca/> Newest Publications: 'A Positive Identity for Men'?: Pathways to far-right participation through Reddit's /r/MensRights and /r/TheRedPill in Rise of the Far Right: Technologies of Recruitment and Mobilization<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614926/Rise-of-the-Far-Right-Technologies-of…> "Entitled to everything, responsible for nothing:" Gendered Discourses of Antifeminism, Biological Determinism, and Violence in Two Communities of Reddit's Manosphere<https://riviste.unige.it/index.php/aboutgender/article/view/1274>. In AG About Gender: International Journal of Gender Studies<https://riviste.unige.it/index.php/aboutgender/issue/view/44> The University of Waterloo is on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishnaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. It is situated on the Haldimand Tract, land promised in treaty to Six Nations, which includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. We include this statement in our email signatures, but it is clear that the University itself, nor any level of government in Canada, is committed to actually doing anything about this issue. The very smart Dr. Dan Henhawk<http://umanitoba.ca/kinesiology-recreation-management/faculty-staff/dan-hen…> gave a talk once that made me wonder - What value does this statement have?

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