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24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking -- ICDCN 2023 -- EXTENDED DEADLINE: 25th July, 2022
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 11 Jul '22

11 Jul '22

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India January 4 - 7, 2023 ICDCN 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Website: https://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/conf/ICDCN23/ The International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN) addresses advances in Distributed Computing and Communication Networks. At its 24th edition, ICDCN is a leading forum for disseminating the latest research results in these fields. Regular Papers should not exceed 10 pages double column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. Regular papers may additionally include a clearly marked Appendix with all the additional details required to validate the results (including technical proofs and experimental results that did not fit in the 10 pages). Short Papers should not exceed 5 pages double column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. All papers must be submitted through the easychair portal using the URL link below: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcn23 Papers describing original research work and practical experiences/experimental results are solicited on topics that include, but are not limited to: Next-generation Networks and Services Ad-hoc, Sensor, PAN and Mesh Networks Backscatter and Ultra-low Power Networks Intent-based Networking and Zero-configuration Networks Information-centric and Content-based Networking Blockchains in Distributed Computing and Networking Cloud Computing and Big Data Processing Cognitive Networking Distributed Algorithms: Design, Analysis, and Complexity Distributed Embedded Systems Distributed Operating Systems and Database Systems Distributed Quantum Computing Edge Computing and Mobile Offloading Energy-efficient and Sustainable Networking Fault-tolerance, Reliability, and Availability of Distributed Systems Formal Methods for Distributed Systems High performance Computing and Grid Computing Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems Internetworking Protocols & Internet Applications Machine Learning in Distributed Computing and Networking Mobile Crowdsensing and Social Networks Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking Overlay and Peer-to-peer Networking and Services Pervasive and Mobile Computing Pricing and Network Economics Scalable Distributed Systems Security, Privacy and Game Theory in Distributed Computing and Networking Self-organization, Self-stabilization, and Autonomic Computing UAV Networks and Mobile Robots Vehicular Networks, Smart Grids and Smart City Applications Extended versions of selected best papers from ICDCN 2023 will be invited for fast track publications in the Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal. The conference will consider awarding Best Paper Awards. Extended Paper submission: 25th July, 2022 Notifications: 3rd October, 2022 Camera Ready Papers: 31st October, 2022 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering 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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EAI WiCON 2022 - 15th EAI International Wireless Internet Conference [Deadline: 17 July 2022]
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 09 Jul '22

09 Jul '22

***Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call For Papers EAI WiCON 2022 - 15th EAI International Wireless Internet Conference https://wicon.eai-conferences.org/2022/ November 17, 2022 Dallas, United States (Online) Submit Paper: https://wicon.eai-conferences.org/2022/submission/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope Wireless technologies, in general, and the Wireless Internet, in particular, became pervasive in our everyday lives. We rely on wireless connectivity for work, social connections, commerce, finance, health, etc. It would be hardly possible for our generation to imagine life without wireless access. WiCON 2022 is the continuation of, and builds upon, the success of the past editions in this series that focus on various aspects of wireless technology. Building on these past successes, the 15th WiCON 2022 aims to tackle the challenges of wireless Internet communications, covering topics ranging from technology issues to new applications, especially focusing on current, novel, and future next-generation wireless Internet technologies, 5G, 6G, IoT, Industrial IoT, Healthcare IoT, and related topics. WiCON 2022 aims to bring together researchers, leading academic scientists to share their experiences and research findings on all aspects of Wireless Internet Communications. It also offers a leading interdisciplinary forum for academics, educators, and practitioners to present and discuss the latest technologies, developments, practical challenges and approaches to Wireless Internet. Prospective authors are kindly encouraged to participate in the conference by sending Full Papers, Work-in-Progress Papers, and Posters of their work. Last but not the least, middleware and platform providers, application developers, and smart object providers are also welcome. WiCON attendees will present novel ideas, exchange points of views, and foster collaborations. Papers, posters, and demos expressing the point of view of middleware and platform providers, smart object providers, application developers, and researchers are particularly welcome. Publication All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library: WiCON Conference Proceedings<https://link.springer.com/conference/wicon?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_medium…>. WiCON proceedings are indexed in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Inspec, and Zentralblatt MATH. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to: * Springer Wireless Networks Journal (WINET) [IF: 2.602 (2021)] All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of: * EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (Open Access) * EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications (Open Access) Additional publication opportunities: * EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series (titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus) CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS EAI WiCON is also accepting short papers (6 to 11 pages in length). Submissions will be evaluated based on their originality, significance of the contribution to the field, technical correctness and the quality of the presentation. The submission should make explicit how the work offers unique and substantial contribution beyond what has already been published or submitted. Submission: https://wicon.eai-conferences.org/2022/call-for-short-papers/?utm_source=se… IMPORTANT DATES * Full Paper Submission deadline: 17 July 2022 * Notification deadline: 31 August 2022 * Camera-ready deadline: 10 October 2022 * Conference date: 17 November 2022 General Chairs * Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Zygmunt Haas, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Technical Program Committee Chairs * Habib M. Ammari, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA * Weili Wu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering 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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Internet Law: Cases and Problems 12th Edition
by James Grimmelmann 09 Jul '22

09 Jul '22

Dear colleagues, The new (12th) annual edition of my casebook Internet Law: Cases and Problems is now available. It covers the core topics of the subject -- jurisdiction, free speech, privacy, online contracts, computer crimes, trademarks, domain names, virtual property, copyright, patents, antitrust, telecom, and platform regulation -- and features extensive questions and problems to prompt discussion. Recent updates in the last few years include extensive new material on content moderation and blockchains. While the book is written primarily for law students, it has been adopted in a number of undergraduate courses, and the teacher's manual contains suggestions for using it with non-law students. The book is available as a DRM-free PDF download with a suggested price of $30 from Semaphore Press at http://semaphorepress.com/InternetLaw_overview.html and in a $67 print-on-demand version at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1943689156. If you are interested in learning more, you are welcome to download a copy for free (use the "freeride" button at the bottom right of the payment page) and to email me offlist for a copy of the teacher's manual. best wishes, James

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New Zoom Link for the IAMCR 2022 Pre-conference on Big Data in Communication Research today
by Jun Liu 07 Jul '22

07 Jul '22

New Zoom Link for the IAMCR 2022 Pre-conference on Big Data in Communication Research today: https://liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/2304061092?pwd=OGlzby9DU3FiaHQ5bjhUdTdZT2… Meeting ID：230 406 1092 Code：iamcr2022#

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Extended Deadline: Call for Papers - Oxford Blockchain, Art & Technology Conference
by Fabienne Saurer 07 Jul '22

07 Jul '22

Please note our extended deadline: 15 July OxBAT 2022 [Oxford Blockchain, Art & Technology Conference] Blockchain Art and NFTs: Spreading the Wings of Encounter Call for Papers NFTs represent the democratic ideals of blockchain technology and its introduction of a system based on decentralised power while the blockchain itself offers an additional novel medium for blockchain-native art. However, the recent explosion of NFTs has led to much controversy in public, ranging from admiration to astonishment and condemnation, and the intensity of the industry’s commercial success has eclipsed its aesthetic, creative and social potential. The inaugural Oxford Blockchain, Art, and Technology (OxBAT) conference will be held on 26–28 September, 2022 at the University of Oxford. As the first multi-disciplinary conference on the aesthetic, social, and philosophical perspective on blockchain art, it will bring together art historians, artists, social scientists, curators, blockchain developers, and more in an open forum. The focus will be on encouraging interaction and networking between those interested in studying or working in this space. We are currently seeking submissions for proposed talks from any of the aforementioned fields. We will accept submissions from anyone with or without an academic/institutional affiliation as long as academic standards are met, as the aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and industry professionals. We welcome critical perspectives on blockchain technology and NFTs. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: [ART] NFTs / programmable art / blockchain as a medium * Aesthetics * Programmable art; intersections between code and image * Blockchain as an artistic medium * Generative art, AI art * Seriality, scarcity, rarity, gambling * Valuation (monetary and artistic) * Art versus collectibles * Anti-NFTs * Historical perspectives on art and technology [INDUSTRY] production / market / curation / community * Collector’s perspectives * Role of ‘traditional’ galleries and museums * Curatorial models * Online communities * Economics * DAOs * Practicality (short talks about experience) [IMPACT] intersections between art / technology / society * Utopian vision of blockchain technology / web3 / internet art * Internet and Web3 culture * Inclusivity, equity, democracy * Climate change and energy * Technology (Software, design, marketplaces, possibilities and limitations) * Digital assets and society Proposals for presentations must be submitted by 15 July, and should consist of a title and abstract of no more than 250 words. Speakers may present about their academic research, professional experience, or an artistic project. All abstracts will be subjected to anonymous peer review. If accepted, authors may choose to present in-person or virtually. Presentations may take the form of a short talk (15 minutes), or a poster. Some speakers may be allocated to roundtable discussions to facilitate interaction between speakers. All proposals may be submitted here: https://oxbat.web.ox.ac.uk/ Any questions can be directed to oxbat.conference(a)gmail.com<mailto:oxbat.conference@gmail.com>

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Vacancy: Senior Research and Teaching Associate / Postdoc in Societal Implications of the Internet
by Noemi Festic 07 Jul '22

07 Jul '22

Dear community members, The Media Change & Innovation Division (Prof. Dr. Michael Latzer) at the Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich invites applications for an open position as senior research and teaching associate / postdoctoral researcher (80-100%). Start of employment: October 1, 2022 (or upon agreement). The Media Change & Innovation Division studies societal implications of digitalization and the internet, algorithmic selection and AI in everyday life, dataveillance and privacy, governance of media change, digital inequalities, and digital well-being (see https://mediachange.ch/publications/ for the division’s recent publications). Further information and application details: https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/senior-research-and-teaching-associate-p… Review of applications starts immediately, but the position will remain open until a qualified candidate is found. Please contact Dr. Moritz Büchi (m.buechi(a)ikmz.uzh.ch) for questions.

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Call for Shared Task Participation: Multilingual Protest Event Detection, CASE @ EMNLP 2022
by ali hürriyetoglu 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

Apologies for cross posting. FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CASE-2022 Shared Task: Multilingual Protest Event Detection ================================================ We invite you to participate in the CASE-2022 Shared Task 1: Multilingual Protest Event Detection. The task is being held as part of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2022). This is a continuation of the shared task CASE 2021 Hürriyetoğlu et al. (2021) [1]. The training set is the same as CASE 2021. But the evaluation phase will include data from additional languages in CASE 2022. Please see the workshop website for further details: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2022/ & Contact address: ali.hurriyetoglu(a)gmail.com Important Dates ================================================ Training data available: please follow instructions on the repository of the task: https://github.com/emerging-welfare/case-2022-multilingual-event. You will obtain the test data for CASE 2021 as well, with a Codalab page ( https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/31639) available to obtain a score for your predictions. New test data available: September 15, 2022 Test end: September 25, 2022 System Description Paper submissions due: October 2, 2022 Notification to authors after review: Oct 09, 2022 Camera-ready: Oct 16, 2022 Workshop period @ EMNLP: Dec 7-8, 2022 Motivation ================================================ Event extraction has recently attracted a lot of attention in the NLP community, as well as among political and social scientists: It has emerged as a robust technology for identifying the most important information inside media streams. At the same time, it provides a basis for quantitative assessment of the political situation in the World. Event extraction has long been a challenge for the natural language processing (NLP) community as it requires sophisticated methods for detection and classification of events: machine learning, syntactic and semantic parsing, event ontologies, event co-reference resolution, acquisition of language resources, grammar learning, terminology learning, temporal and spatial reasoning, and other algorithmic approaches (Pustojevsky et al. 2003; Boroş, 2018; Chen et al. 2021). Social and political scientists have been working to create socio-political event (SPE) databases such as ACLED, EMBERS, GDELT, ICEWS, MMAD, PHOENIX, POLDEM, SPEED, TERRIER, and UCDP following similar steps for decades. These projects and the new ones increasingly rely on machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), and NLP methods to deal better with the vast amount and variety of data in this domain (Hürriyetoğlu et al. 2020). Automation offers scholars not only the opportunity to improve existing practices, but also to vastly expand the scope of data that can be collected and studied, thus potentially opening up new research frontiers within the field of SPEs, such as politically-motivated violence and social movements. Automated approaches, however, suffer from major issues like bias, generalizability, class imbalance, training data limitations, and ethical issues that have the potential to affect the results and their use drastically (Lau and Baldwin 2020; Bhatia et al. 2020; Chang et al. 2019). SPEs are varied and nuanced. Both the political context and the local language used may affect whether and how they are reported. Therefore, all steps of information collection (event definition, language resources, and manual or algorithmic steps) may need to be constantly updated, leading to a series of challenging questions: Do events related to minority groups are represented well? Are new types of events covered? Are the event definitions and their operationalization comparable across systems? This workshop aims at finding answers to these questions as well. Inspiring innovative technological and scientific solutions for tackling these issues and quantifying the quality of the results. Task Overview ================================================ The task consists of four subtasks relevant to Event Causality Identification: Subtask 1: Document classification ⇒ Does a news article contain information about a past or ongoing event? Subtask 2: Sentence classification ⇒ Does a sentence contain information about a past or ongoing event? Subtask 3: Event sentence coreference identification ⇒ Which event sentences (subtask 2) are about the same event? Subtask 4: Event extraction ⇒ What is the event trigger and what are its arguments? Participants may design mono- or multilingual solutions that work on a single, multiple, or all subtasks concurrently. Participants are also allowed to combine annotations for either task. Additional datasets can be utilized for training or validation purposes. The systems developed for one or more of these subtasks will be invited to process a news archive to measure the correlation between automatically and manually created event datasets. This task will be referred as Task 2. Please see Guigni et al. (2021) for the similar task we performed last year. You can find the task repository at https://github.com/emerging-welfare/case-2022-multilingual-event, which contains sample data and scripts. Data ================================================ Training data: The training data we use for the Task 1 is the training data for CASE-2021 and consists of English, Portuguese, and Spanish news articles. Please find the detailed description of the data on Hürriyetoğlu et al. (2021), https://aclanthology.org/2021.case-1.11.pdf. Test data: There will be two test sets for Subtask 1. These are i) test data from CASE 2021, which is already available, and ii) new test data for CASE 2022 including new data both in existing and in new languages, e.g. Japanese, Urdu, Mandarin, and Turkish. The test data for subtasks 2, 3, and 4 will be the same as CASE 2021 test data for subtasks 2, 3, and 4 respectively. Evaluation ================================================ The F1-macro score on predictions for test data in each language will be calculated separately for Subtasks 1 and 2. The subtask 2 will be evaluated using F1-macro. Subtask 3 will be evaluated using scorch - a python implementation of CoNLL-2012 average score for the test data ( https://github.com/LoicGrobol/scorch) Finally, we will use CoNLL-03 evaluation script (https://github.com/sighsmile/conlleval) for subtask 4. The new test data for subtask 1 may be utilized to improve performance on these subtasks. The evaluation will be managed on a Codalab page. Participants will submit their scores and the highest performing submission will be used for ranking teams. There will be a limit on the number of submissions that can be performed. After the test deadline, an additional Codalab page will be set for additional scoring. Participation ================================================ Please send your team name and the participation form that is on https://github.com/emerging-welfare/case-2022-multilingual-event/blob/main/… to ali.hurriyetoglu(a)gmail.com. We will share the CASE-2021 data with you right away and notify you when the CASE-2022 evaluation data is ready. Publication ================================================ All participating teams will have the opportunity to submit their system description papers to be considered for publication in the workshop proceedings published by ACL Anthology. The papers should be submitted on http://softconf.com/emnlp2022/case2022. Organization ================================================ Ali Hürriyetoğlu, KNAW Humanities Cluster, DHLab, the Netherlands Erdem Yörük, Koc University, Turkey Hristo Tanev, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (EU JRC), Italy Osman Mutlu, Koc University, Turkey Vanni Zavarella, Italy Reyyan Yeniterzi, Sabanci University, Turkey Fatih Beyhan, Sabanci University, Turkey Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo, Brazil Fırat Duruşan, Koc University, Turkey Yaoyao Dai, UNC Charlotte, United States Aaqib Javid, Koc University, Turkey Benjamin Radford, UNC Charlotte, United States Kalliopi Zervanou, Leiden University, the Netherlands Milena Slavcheva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Niklas Stoehr, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Guillem Ramirez, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Shaina Raza, Public Health Ontario and University of Toronto, Canada Farhana Ferdousi Liza (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom Tadashi Nomoto, National Institute of Japanese Literature, Japan Alaeddin Selçuk Gürel, Huawei, Turkey YiJyun Lin, University of Arizona, U.S.A & National Taiwan University, Taiwan Tiancheng Hu, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Onur Uca, Mersin University, Turkey Fiona Anting Tan, Institute of Data Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore Hansi Hettiarachchi, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom References ================================================ [1] Giorgi, S., Zavarella, V., Tanev, H., Stefanovitch, N., Hwang, S., Hettiarachchi, H., ... & Hurriyetoglu, A. (2021, January). Discovering black lives matter events in the United States: Shared task 3, In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2021) (pp. 218-227). ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL. URL: https://aclanthology.org/2021.case-1.27/ [2] Hürriyetoğlu, A., Mutlu, O., Yörük, E., Liza, F. F., Kumar, R., & Ratan, S. (2021, August). Multilingual Protest News Detection - Shared Task 1, CASE 2021. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE 2021) (pp. 79-91). URL: https://aclanthology.org/2021.case-1.11/

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CfP Special issue Pandemic disobedience, Mapping Covid19 Non-Conformities
by Nagy, V. (Veronika) 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

Dear Colleagues at AoIR Comms, This is a kind reminder regarding the deadline of our call for abstracts below. Thank you in advance for your contributions.. Kind regards, Dr. Veronika Nagy Assistant Professor Utrecht University Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology v.nagy(a)uu.nl<mailto:v.nagy@uu.nl> | +31641035072 Newtonlaan 231 3584 BH Utrecht<https://www.google.com/maps/search/Newtonlaan+231+3584+BH+Utrecht?entry=gma…> CALL FOR PAPERS Springer Journal of Critical Criminology Special Issue on Pandemic disobedience, Mapping Covid19 Non-Conformities While some countries are now considering covid-19 an endemic, international and national responses to the pandemic are still characterized by inconsistencies, fuelling social conflicts and civil disobedience. From travel bans on an international level, national lockdowns, accessibility and availability of public places, vaccines and testing, to the spread of disinformation, social media censorship, and discussions on corporate responsibility have led to new types of social division and exclusion in society. These inconsistencies and the different narratives on Covid-19 have been met with diverse responses from individuals, governments, justice systems and the private sector. While some countries cite the ending of the pandemic, others have tightened regulation and introduced punitive measures for non-compliance with transient measures. These in turn have created pockets of individuals and larger collectives to engage in "Covid non-conformities". Recent studies refer to such incentives as `Covid fraud`, cultures of resistance, pandemic disobedience, or corruption of medical professionals, while others identify online criminal networks, that are assisting counterfeiting national Covid regulations and health care markets. However, due to the growing uncertainties and controversial decision-making practices, deviant responses are increasing in all corners of societies. In this special issue such non-conformities are defined from a greater scope as actions, images, initiatives, vernacular, or behaviour, that defy, challenge, or draw into question Covid-19 measures imposed on the local or the international level and which are met with dissenting response. Covid-nonconformities go beyond solely (il)legal conduct, but also include professional and moral deviance. In this special issue we invite contributions that examine the dynamics of deviance and the widening of what constitutes Covid non-conformity, to be published in the Autumn of 2022. We welcome innovative and original research representing interdisciplinary objectives, including cultural, critical theoretical approaches which identify these fault lines in society, as well as the responses to them. Contributions presenting qualitative or empirical inquiries seeking to describe and explore Covid non-conformities are highly encouraged, as well as multidisciplinary research from criminology, criminal justice, media and communication studies, anthropology, sociology, and other humanities disciplines. Topics may include but are not limited to: * Illicit markets, forgery, buying, selling of vaccine passes, PCR test results, medical status documentation, medicines, and treatments * Covid-19 misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, propagation, effects, sources, responses, censorship * Scientific scepticism, professional (mis)conduct, scientific and professional debate, scientific authority, and autonomy * Bioethics, medical ethics, autonomy, and authority in medicine * Access to healthcare, health equity * Stigma, division, social exclusion, victimization, racism, inequality * Travel restrictions, national and international populations, travel and landing bans, designation of high-risk countries * Health status and antisocial and prosocial behaviour * Corporate policing, corporate interests, transparency, access to health and equity * Covid-19 surveillance, law enforcement, document verification, penalties, fines, quarantines * Curtailment of human rights and freedoms * Covid-19 criminalization The Special Issue is edited for the Journal of Critical Criminology. For details please see the link below. Critical Criminology | Home (springer.com)<https://www.springer.com/journal/10612> Timeline: Deadline for Initial Proposals: July 10, 2022 Prospective authors should submit a short article proposal as a Word document or PDF file to v.nagy(a)uu.nl<mailto:v.nagy@uu.nl>. The proposal should describe: * The name and contact information of the author(s), along with a brief bio. * The title of the proposed contribution and the topic the author(s) believe(s) that the contribution best fits under. * An abstract (max 500 words) and 4-7 keywords Potential authors are encouraged to contact the editor to discuss ideas for theme and format. There is no article processing charge. Authors are encouraged to use images but will be required to request permission from copyright-holders when needed. Notification of Acceptance: 20th of July, 2022 Deadline First Drafts: 10th of December, 2022 Peer review completed: 25th of January, 2023 Final Drafts Due: 31th of February, 2023 Editors If prospective authors have more questions, please contact one of the editors below. Veronika Nagy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology in Utrecht (V.Nagy(a)uu.nl<mailto:V.Nagy@uu.nl>) Anna Laskai Ph.D. Assistant Professor at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology in Utrecht (a.e.laskai(a)uu.nl<mailto:a.e.laskai@uu.nl>)

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2022 Nancy Baym Book Award Winner
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

We are excited to announce Catherine Knight-Steele's Digital Black Feminism as the 2022 AoIR Nancy Baym Book Award winner. *Digital Black Feminism* reclaims feminism for Black women and directly intervenes in Internet scholarship. The book is historically informed, considering how Black women have forged forms of resilience -- including through engagements with technology -- prior to the Internet age. It then shifts focus to more contemporary practices, developing provocative metaphors such as the "virtual beauty shop" and devices such as putting contemporary Black feminists on Twitter in conversation with historical figures. Knight-Steele also considers Black influencer cultures and the dangers of commodification of Black women's lives. This book is deeply tied to to AoIR scholarship and pushes our intellectual community forward. Committee members were effusive in their praise for this book. "*Digital Black Feminism* offers an exceptionally liberating perspective in which democratic rights are enhanced by the wide opportunities of the Internet," says Arantxa Vizcaino Verdu. "This book expresses in an innovative and deeply personal voice a unique identity that today concerns women worldwide". Robert Tynes adds, "*Digital Black Feminism* is what we hope for in Internet studies--excellent scholarship, innovative analysis, and salient vision, based on the most dire issues of today." Regarding the dire issues of today, the committee made this selection before the recent retrenchment of reproductive and privacy rights in the United States. We know that Black women in the US and around the world have suffered and been marginalized throughout modernity. The end of abortion access in the US is only a further exacerbation of this marginalization -- Black women's reproductive autonomy in many parts of the world was already highly curtailed before the US Supreme Court decision. Now, many poor women, especially Black women, will suffer even more, not just for lack of access to abortion, but through enhanced surveillance and even more precarious access to healthcare. Enter a book like this. As Knight-Steele writes, "Black women consistently do the *radical* work of calling for the US to make right its promise of democracy.... It is time for the left to understand that the future of politics is women of color." Part of this future needs to be learning from Black women's innovations in the cultural practices of digital media. That can be part of AoIR's future, too. While the committee has strongly endorsed *Digital Black Feminism* as the winner, this was by no means an easy decision. The pool of books submitted for consideration was deep, filled with excellent scholarship relevant to Internet research. It was the committee's privilege to read them. AoIR would like to acknowledge and thank the committee members –- Nancy Baym, Jun Liu, Arantxa Vizcaino Verdu, Weiyu Zhang, Bjorn Nansen, Robert W. Gehl (Chair), Jakob Jensen, Robert Tynes -– for their work in judging this year. The Association also expresses thanks to Michelle, AoIR's Association Coordinator, for routing books all over the world and keeping the committee organized. You can learn more about Catherine Knight-Steele at http://www.catherineknightsteele.com/ and read the introduction to *Digital Black Feminism* here [ http://www.catherineknightsteele.com/uploads/4/5/8/7/45879411/digital_black… ]. You can buy the book here: https://amzn.to/3aifwFG

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WEBCAST JUL 5 – “Splinternet” Virtual Event | Internet Governance Forum Greece
by Joly MacFie 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

This is just starting. KK will moderate, and there will be an introduction from Konstantina Nathanail of IGF Greece. [image: ISOC.LIVE] <https://isoc.live/15572>On *Tuesday July 5th* at *7-8pm EEST* (16:00-17:00 UTC) *Internet Governance Forum Greece <https://igfgreece.eu/>* presents '*Virtual Event about "Splinternet" <https://www.facebook.com/events/1127584878110233>*'.What is the Splinternet? Can a government’s policy or regulation “break up" the Internet? If so, what does “breaking up” the internet even mean?Is it only governmental policies that can potentially ‘splinter’ the internet? What about big technology companies? What is their role? How can the Splinternet disrupt users’ online interactions, and what can we do about it? These and many more questions will be discussed by renowned experts from the field of internet governance. The session will be in English. *PANEL* - *Dr. Milton Mueller*, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology - *Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis*, Internet Policy Analyst - *Dr. Farzaneh Badii*, Founder, Digital Medusa - *Jane Coffin*, Chief Community Officer, Connect Humanity *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfgreece-splinternet <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfgreece-splinternet>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3RoznUz <https://bit.ly/3RoznUz>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3upL2IP <https://bit.ly/3upL2IP>* *TWITTER #splinternet <https://bit.ly/3RdZLjw> @igfgreece @kkomaitis @miltonmueller @farzanehbad @jane_coffin* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/> *(AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/igfgreece/ <https://www.facebook.com/igfgreece/> *(IGF Greece) *https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUV7j10_V-dJviM3fvcpGHg <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUV7j10_V-dJviM3fvcpGHg> *(IGF Greece) *https://www.linkedin.com/company/igfgreece/ <https://www.linkedin.com/company/igfgreece/>* (IGF Greece) *ARCHIVEhttps://archive.org/details/igfgreece-splinternet <https://archive.org/details/igfgreece-splinternet>* *Permalink https://isoc.live/15572 <https://isoc.live/15572>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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