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REMINDER: Privacy Law Scholars Conference, June 1-2, 2023, Call for Submissions
by Daniel Susser 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

Dear all—apologies for cross-posting! Just a quick reminder that the deadline for abstract submissions for this year’s Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference is January 30th! If you work on privacy or data governance more broadly, I can’t recommend PLSC more highly. Super interdisciplinary (it’s not just lawyers!) and a really wonderful intellectual community. Happy to answer any questions. Best, Daniel -- Daniel Susser Haile Family Early Career Professor Assistant Professor / College of Information Sciences & Technology <http://ist.psu.edu/> Research Associate / Rock Ethics Institute <http://rockethics.psu.edu/> Penn State University www.danielsusser.info <http://www.danielsusser.info/> Begin forwarded message: From: Privacy Law Scholars Conference <info(a)privacyscholars.org> Subject: REMINDER: Privacy Law Scholars Conference, June 1-2, 2023, Call for Submissions Date: January 10, 2023 at 12:00:26 PM EST To: Daniel Susser <daniel.susser(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: Privacy Law Scholars Conference <info(a)privacyscholars.org> View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/5ab64f1564b6/plsc-2021-submit-your-proposal-15105688?e=5…> CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2023 <https://privacyscholars.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=952c0d65ffcd7c05c…> www.privacyscholars.org <https://privacyscholars.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=952c0d65ffcd7c05c…> The Program & Planning Committee of the Privacy Law Scholars Conference invites abstract submissions <https://privacyscholars.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=952c0d65ffcd7c05c…> for the 16th annual conference (PLSC 2023) to be held in person on Thursday and Friday, June 1 and 2, 2023 at the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder, Colorado. What is PLSC? PLSC is a paper workshop conference. It offers no opportunity or obligation to publish. The goal is to provide support for in-progress scholarship related to information privacy law. To do so, PLSC assembles a wide array of privacy law scholars, policymakers, and practitioners who engage in scholarship. Scholars from non-law disciplines—including but not limited to surveillance studies, technology studies, feminist and queer studies, information studies, critical race studies, social sciences, humanities, and computer science—are critical participants in this interdisciplinary field. We follow a format in which a discussant, rather than the author, introduces and leads a discussion on a paper. There are no panels or talking heads; attendees read papers in advance and offer constructive feedback as full participants in the workshop. Having your paper accepted is NOT a requirement for attending and contributing to the conference, and indeed many attendees do not present a paper. What do we mean by “Privacy”? The boundaries of privacy as a discipline are dynamic and contested. Although PLSC emphasizes the law of privacy, concepts from other fields play critical roles in our understanding of privacy and in shaping the law. For example, the following topics have received significant attention at previous PLSCs: the concept of “cyber civil rights”, algorithmic governance and discrimination, police practices such as predictive policing, political/social/cultural dimensions of data-intensive technologies, and privacy’s unique importance to marginalized populations, among many more. Both in the substance of scholarship and in the governance of the PLSC, we are committed to building an anti-racist and anti-subordination scholarly community around privacy law. We are dedicated to incubating scholarship that examines the intersections of technology, law, and policy and its ability to dismantle--or entrench--social hierarchies of all kinds. How to submit an abstract? The EasyChair abstract submission portal is available here <https://privacyscholars.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=952c0d65ffcd7c05c…>. You will be asked to provide your name, institutional affiliation, and contact information, as well as the same information for all co-authors, if applicable. The core of your submission is an abstract of 500-700 words that explains the main contributions of your paper and how it relates to the existing relevant scholarly literature. See below for more information about your abstract. You must then include a bibliography in a separate box; this does not count toward the 500-700 word limit. Note that this is not a list of professional references; it is a bibliography, a list of sources that you are using in your submission. Finally, you must select up to three (3) keywords that apply from a list provided. This is essential to categorize your work and assign appropriate commentators. What should be in my abstract? Your abstract should include enough specific information to enable the PPC to appreciate both the genesis of your project and the nature of its contribution to the field. Your abstract should show your awareness of the existing relevant literatures and explain how your work relates to those literatures, such as how it expands upon them, makes connections between them, or differs from them. A typical law review abstract will generally be insufficient for this purpose. Please note: If your own prior work is part of a literature to which your abstract refers, the abstract should refer to your work in the third person--e.g. “As Smith argued in (2019),” rather than "my/our work published in the XYZ law review" or "my/our work presented at last year's PLSC." PLEASE NOTE: Abstracts that violate this rule and reveal the identity of the author(s) will be rejected. Abstracts that are not accompanied by a bibliography will be rejected. Abstracts that are below 500 words and above 700 will be rejected, as well. There is no option to upload papers or materials. Key dates: Abstracts due: January 30, 2023 by 11:59 PM Eastern time, no exceptions Notification of acceptance: Approximately February 24, 2023 Full workshop paper drafts due: May 12, 2023. Registration: You can register for PLSC 2023 here <https://privacyscholars.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=952c0d65ffcd7c05c…>. PLSC is free for students (including PhD students), post-docs, and junior scholars without travel or research budgets. Hotel Reservations: Our hosts have arranged for sets of discounted hotel rooms in the Boulder area. They will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. All reservations must be made by May 1, 2023. Hotel Boulderado: https://reservations.travelclick.com/13070?groupID=3600155 <https://privacyscholars.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=952c0d65ffcd7c05c…> Hilton Garden Inn Boulder: https://www.my-event.hilton.com/privacylawscholars523/ <https://privacyscholars.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=952c0d65ffcd7c05c…> What if my research is sponsored or funded? In many disciplines, research is funded by grants. Any funding and sponsorship must be disclosed, and there is a space in the abstract submission portal to do so. We will not accept papers that are subject to pre-publication review/veto by a sponsor, or those where the sponsor controls the content of the paper. We require a conflict-of-interest statement on scholarship. Please email info(a)privacyscholars.com <mailto:info@privacyscholars.com> if there are any questions or concerns. PLSC Program Committee Copyright © 2023 Privacy Law Scholars Foundation, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Privacy Law Scholars Foundation Northeastern University School of Law Boston, MA 02115 Add us to your address book <https://privacyscholars.us7.list-manage.com/vcard?u=952c0d65ffcd7c05c4dfbad…> Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://privacyscholars.us7.list-manage.com/profile?u=952c0d65ffcd7c05c4dfb…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://privacyscholars.us7.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=952c0d65ffcd7c05c…>. <http://www.mailchimp.com/email-referral/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…>

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Popular Culture Studies Journal: Call for Reviews
by Christopher John Olson 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

The Popular Culture Studies Journal<https://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/> is seeking authors to review works on any aspect of American or international popular culture. Specifically, we are interested in reviews of recent (i.e. published within the last two years) scholarly monographs or anthologies and general interest books examining all areas of popular culture from a variety of perspectives. We will also consider older seminal pieces that deserve a second look. In addition, we are soliciting reviews of films, videos, websites, games, theater, or any other popular works that have been published, released, performed or posted in the last two years. Once again, we will also consider older seminal works that deserve a second look. We only ask that reviews of popular media texts highlight how such works might be used in pedagogical or scholarly situations. If you wish to review a popular media text, you must submit a brief rationale for the relevance of the review. A short paragraph outlining why you think the text is worthy of review in the journal will suffice. Reviews should adhere to the ethos of the Popular Culture Studies Journal and be largely positive with any criticism of the work being constructive in nature. For more information about this journal, please visit the Popular Culture Studies Journal. Written reviews should be roughly 800-1000 words and should be typed, double-spaced with 12-point Times New Roman font. Research and documentation must adhere to The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers and The MLA Style Manual, 8th edition, which requires a Works Cited list with parenthetical author/page references in the text. Punctuation, capitalization, hyphenation, and other matters of style must also follow The MLA Handbook and The MLA Style Manual. If you are interested in submitting any alternative form of review, please contact the reviews editor directly with your proposed format. Guidelines will be determined depending on the proposed format. Reviews should be sent electronically to Christopher J. Olson at olson429(a)uwm.edu with PCSJ Review and the author’s last name in the subject line. Reviews should include both the review and the reviewer’s complete contact information (name, university affiliation, address and email). Reviews should be sent as Microsoft Word attachments in .doc or .docx format, unless an alternative format has been approved by the editor. To be considered for the April issue, reviews must be submitted by February 28th. To be considered for the October issue, reviews must be submitted by August 31st. If you are interested in reviewing for the Popular Culture Studies Journal then please contact the reviews editor at the following address or email: Christopher J. Olson, Reviews Editor Email: olson429(a)uwm.edu Christopher John Olson PhD candidate: Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Office: Curtin 388 Email: olson429(a)uwm.edu Reviews Editor, The Popular Culture Studies Journal<http://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/> Author/Co-Author/Co-Editor Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media<https://www.routledge.com/Normalizing-Mental-Illness-and-Neurodiversity-in-…> (Routledge, 2021) The Greatest Cult Television Shows of All Time<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538122556/The-Greatest-Cult-Television-Shows-of…> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) Convergent Wrestling<https://www.routledge.com/Convergent-Wrestling-Participatory-Culture-Transm…> (Routledge, 2019) 100 Greatest Cult Films<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442208223/100-Greatest-Cult-Films> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498539579/Heroes-Heroines-and-Everything-in-Bet…> (Lexington, 2017) Possessed Women, Haunted States<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498519083/Possessed-Women-Haunted-States-Cultur…> (Lexington, 2016) Making Sense of Cinema <https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/making-sense-of-cinema-9781501320217/> (Bloomsbury, 2016)

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CfP: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2023, Santa Fe, New Mexico)
by Robert Jäschke 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

ACM/IEEE JCDL 2023 – June 26 - 30, 2023, Santa Fe, New Mexico https://2023.jcdl.org/ *Rethinking Digital Records* /Exploring new perspectives, challenges, and opportunities for libraries, archives, museums, and galleries/ The notion of what constitutes a digital library has evolved over time. In recent years, the ability to retain a digital record of the volatile world has been of critical importance for ensuring that our collective history is available for posterity. Progressing research and disseminating state-of-the-art advancements in digital libraries are thus of supreme importance to humanity. The annual ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is the primary international event for the inter- and multi-disciplinary community of academics and practitioners in digital libraries coming from computer, information and social sciences, and other related disciplines. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term digital libraries, including notions of managing, operating, developing, curating, evaluating, or utilizing collections of data/information/knowledge in various domains. *Topics* Topics of interest, as they relate to digital libraries, include, but are not limited to: Users and Interactions - Collaborative and participatory information environments - Crowdsourcing and human computation - Human-information interaction - Information visualization - Social networks, virtual organizations and networked information - Social media, community building, and applications - User behavior and modeling Search and Recommendation - AI / Machine learning / Data mining for DLs - Dataset retrieval - Information and knowledge systems - Information retrieval - Knowledge discovery - Natural language processing - Navigational and exploratory search - Personalization and contextualization Digital Libraries in Practice - Digital archiving and preservation - Digital humanities and heritage - Knowledge organization systems in practice - Personal digital information management - Performance evaluation - Policy and law - Privacy and intellectual property - Scientific data management Content and Structures - Data curation and stewardship - Document genres - Extracting semantics, entities, and patterns from large collections - Infrastructure and service design - Linked data and its applications - Research data management - Web and network science *Paper Types and Formats* JCDL 2023 offers two paper submission deadlines: Submissions for research papers (long or short) are due on January 29, 2023. The deadline for late-breaking results and datasets is February 12, 2023. The submission formats are outlined below. *Research Papers* (deadline: January 29, 2023) Authors may choose between two formats: - /Full papers/ have at most 10 pages and report on mature work, or efforts that have reached an important milestone. They will get presentation slots of 20 to 30 minutes. - /Short papers/ have at most 4 pages and highlight efforts that might be in an early stage, but are important for the community to be made aware of; they can also present theories or systems that can be described concisely in the limited space. Short papers will get presentation slots of 10 to 15 minutes. *Late Breaking Results and Datasets* (deadline: February 12, 2023) This comprises submissions falling into the following categories: - /Late breaking results/ present new insights or information about research that was completed after the research paper submission deadline. - /Dataset submissions/ a new category that allow description of relevant research datasets. These need to be either fully publicly available or have to contain a publicly available subset. Late Breaking Results and Datasets submissions should be 2-4 pages and will be allotted a 5 minute presentation slot at the conference. *Submission Guidelines* All submissions must be original works, not previously published or under review for publication elsewhere, in English, in PDF format, and in the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use "sigconf" proceedings template for LaTeX and the Interim Template for Word, https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) Complete papers are required; submissions consisting solely of an abstract or those that are otherwise incomplete will not be reviewed. For all formats, references do not count to the page limit. Submissions are to be made via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl2023 *All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed in a double-blind reviewing process.* *Submissions must be anonymous* and all references to authors' works have to be anonymized. We recommend using services like https://anonymous.4open.science/ to anonymously share code or data. Anonymized works that are available as preprints (e.g., on arXiv or SSRN) may be submitted without citing them. Reviewers will be instructed not to actively look for such preprints, and finding such a preprint does not clash with our submission policies. All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings and will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for, and present the work at the conference on-site in Santa Fe. In case of traveling restrictions (COVID related or otherwise), an exception may be made to allow authors to present the work remotely. *Calls for workshops and tutorials, posters and demos, and panels will be published separately.* *Submission Deadlines* All dates are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) - January 29, 2023 – Research paper submissions - February 12, 2023 – Late breaking results datasets submissions - Mid-March, 2023 – Notification of acceptance - April 2, 2023 – Final camera-ready deadline for all submissions *Program Chairs* - Anat Ben-David, Open University of Israel - Robert Jäschke, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Mat Kelly, Drexel University *General Chair* - Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory *Contact* For any questions about paper submissions you may contact the program chairs by email to jcdl2023(a)easychair.org. -- Prof. Dr. Robert Jäschke Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & L3S Research Center Hannover < https://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~jaeschkr/ >< +49 (0)30 2093-70960 > < https://weltliteratur.net/ >>>>><<<<< https://dev.bibsonomy.org/ >

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Social media editor, Discourse, Context & Media
by Caroline.Tagg [she/her] 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

Dear all, The Discourse, Context & Media editorial team are looking for a Social Media Editor to develop, implement and evaluate the journal’s social media presence across a range of platforms. The role would involve working with the team to: * develop a social media strategy with the aim of increasing the journal’s visibility and reach * oversee, plan and create content across selected social media sites, including alerts for new articles, issues, special issues and Editor’s Choice articles * manage and facilitate social media communities by responding to social media posts, initiating discussions, and developing the journal’s brand * monitor and analyse engagement and performance, as well as tracking competitor activity, and provide monthly reports for the team. * join the monthly editorial team meetings online. Please see the website for more information about the DCM editorial team and the journal’s aims and scope: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/discourse-context-and-media As the journal’s Social Media Editor you become a member of the editorial team and would be involved in the journal’s development and strategy. In addition you would be listed on the journal masthead as one of the editorial team. This position comes with a modest honorarium, and full access to ScienceDirect and SCOPUS. The typical term of this sort of editorial agreement would be for two years, with options of renewal. If you are interested in being considered for this role, please send your CV and a paragraph detailing what you would bring to the role and how you would benefit from it (max. 200 words) to Caroline Tagg (caroline.tagg(a)open.ac.uk<mailto:caroline.tagg@open.ac.uk>) by Friday 17th February 2023. We look forward to hearing from you. The DCM Editorial Team Best wishes, Caroline Dr Caroline Tagg (she/her), SFHEA Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics Associate Head of Research and Scholarship, LAL, WELS Secretary of the British Association of Applied Linguistics<https://www.baal.org.uk/> Editor-in-Chief of Discourse, Context & Media<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/discourse-context-and-media> School of Languages and Applied Linguistics (LAL) Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) L1, Stuart Hall, The Open University Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Staff webpage: http://www.open.ac.uk/people/ct7565 caroline.tagg(a)open.ac.uk<https://ouca.open.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=W4D2PJ-1XWVyIjeEtG0A0xUJxin5fOL…> @carotagg Current project: Mobile conversations in context (MoCo<https://wels.open.ac.uk/research/moco>), 2021-2022, funded by a British Academy mid-career fellowship. Recent publications: Mobile Messaging and Resourcefulness: a post-digital ethnography <https://www.routledge.com/Mobile-Messaging-and-Resourcefulness-A-Post-digit…> (2022), by Caroline Tagg and Agnieszka Lyons, Routledge. Message and Medium: English language practices across old and new media<https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/562535> (2020), edited by Caroline Tagg and Mel Evans, de Gruyter Mouton. Take a look at A Multilingual Decameron: Stories of a different world<http://wels.open.ac.uk/news/new-book-published-multilingual-decameron> – a collection of stories written by Open University students during the pandemic – available in print from Amazon<https://www.amazon.co.uk/Multilingual-Decameron-Stories-Different-World-ebo…> or downloadable for free from books2read<https://books2read.com/b/bwdZ29> or the Kindle store.

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Last Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
by Announce Announcements 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

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

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Workshop Tomorrow: Learn how you and your students can make Wikipedia more equitable this term!
by Helaine Blumenthal 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '23

Join Wiki Education tomorrow January 10 at 9 AM Pacific for an info session on how you and your students can help make Wikipedia a more equitable and inclusive space. Click here to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sfu-opzMjGtGfk0V9RkKEyBPe8drK3u… The deadline to run a Wikipedia assignment in Winter/Spring 2023 is approaching. Sign up to run your free Wikipedia project by Jan. 16 and do your part to ensure that accurate knowledge is available to all! Visit teach.wikiedu.org to sign up and find out more about the program. There are never any fees to run a Wikipedia assignment, and Wiki Education provides robust support to ensure that you and your students learn the ins and outs of Wikipedia editing. Only faculty teaching courses at post-secondary institutions in the U.S. or Canada are eligible. Wikipedia is by definition never complete, but you and your students can ensure that it's up-to-date, accurate, and above all, representative of the full scope of human experience! Best, Helaine -- Helaine Blumenthal,Ph.D. (she/her) Senior Program Manager Wiki Education teach.wikiedu.org <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/> Twitter <https://twitter.com/WikiEducation?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7C…>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikiEducationFoundation/>

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Panel: "Transformation of the policy and regulatory agendas of emerging technologies" / ICPP6 / Call for abstracts
by Maria Paula Angel Arango 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '23

***Call for Abstracts*** Are you conducting research on the regulatory agendas of AI and emerging technologies? Submit your paper proposals for the ICPP6 (6th International Conference on Public Policy) panel "Transformation of the policy and regulatory agendas of emerging technologies." You can find the description of the call for papers for the panel here: https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icpp6-toronto-2023/panel-list/1… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icp…> Below, you will find the main rules of the call and some conference details: The conference: The event will be a hybrid event and will take place in Toronto on 27-29 June 2023. In-person panels (like ours) will allow for in-person and virtual presentations. Conference website: https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icpp6-toronto-2023/17 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icp…> The paper proposal: 300-500 word abstract in English, explaining your project, your research question, your methodology, and how it fits with the panel's research questions. Proposals should be submitted via the conference platform: https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icpp6-toronto-2023/paper-add/17 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icp…> Registration fee: You can find the different registration fees here: https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icpp6-toronto-2023/conferenceFe… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icp…> Deadlines: January 31st, 2023 is the deadline for paper proposals. The selection of panel proposals will be announced on February 15th, 2023. All key dates can be found here: https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icpp6-toronto-2023/17 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icp…> Please share this call for papers with colleagues that may be interested in submitting a paper proposal! María Angel Ph.D. Candidate | Research Assistant | Fulbright Grantee School of Law | Tech Policy Lab University of Washington, Seattle (202) 913-5398 | mpangel(a)uw.edu

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CFP: Re-Shaping AI, May 2023 in Montreal Canada. Due in 2 weeks
by Fenwick Mckelvey 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '23

Please share widely – Due 18 January 2023 On behalf of our international Shaping AI team, please consider applying to our symposium on Re-Shaping AI in Montreal. Details below, apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ol-0DwCaXKWUQclBY-EE49g8gqlbpYrCIDU87mf6ol… <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.goog…> *Call for Submissions* 21st-century AI is very much in its formative stage: It is still unsettled, and is continually being both stabilised and contested by diverse sets of actors: from technologists, startup founders and global companies to policy makers, journalists, and civil society. For some, AI is being positioned as a fix to our social problems, which in turn will change how we live, communicate, work and travel. Others raise substantive concerns that these developments might reinforce inequality, exacerbate the opacity of decision-making processes, and ultimately question human autonomy. We are thus living in a time when the infrastructures and institutions of our everyday lives are being (re)built at the hands of techniques which already elude popular and professional understanding; but while the controversies about the specific pathways to be taken are still visible, we can already perceive elements of closure and institutionalization. Our symposium invites contributions from an international audience to interrogate the shaping of AI. Building on an international collaboration between research teams from Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Canada <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shapi…>, we invite presentations that pursue critical engagements with AI’s media representations, policy framings, and scientific debates. Crucially, we also invite epistemic reflections in how we are all Shaping AI, including practice-based research or research-creation. The symposium runs from May 23-24 at the Milieux Institute <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmilieux.c…> at Concordia University <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conco…> in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Presentations in person are encourage. Remote participation will be available. We encourage submissions along these following themes: 1. Global, Local, and Frictions of AI governance 2. AI Cultures 3. Media representations of AI 4. Ethics, a Techno-Solution to AI Controversies? 5. Reflexivity and Positionality in AI Labs / Scenes / Collaborations 6. Research Methods after AI 7. Mapping AI Publics 8. Skill Sharing on AI Engagements 9. AI in and through Artistic Practice Admissions will be guided by our desire to broaden our critical cases around shaping AI, encouraging submissions outside EU and Anglocentric contexts. Student submissions are welcome. The symposium’s format encourages discussion with presentations capped at 10 minutes to ensure ample time for discussion. Submissions due 18 January 2023. Abstracts 500 words or less.

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New Open Access Book: Erving Goffman’s 1953 dissertation, Communication Conduct in an Island Community
by Park, David 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '23

mediastudies.press is a scholar-led, nonprofit, no-fee open access publisher in the media, film, and communication studies fields. We are excited to announce the publication of Erving Goffman’s remarkable 1953 dissertation, Communication Conduct in an Island Community: https://www.mediastudies.press/communication-conduct-in-an-island-community Canadian-born Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was the twentieth century’s most important sociologist writing in English. His 1953 dissertation is published here for the first time, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth. The study, based on fieldwork on a remote Scottish island, presents in embryonic form the full spread of Goffman’s thought. Framed as a “report on a study of conversational interaction,” the dissertation lingers on the modest talk of island “crofters.” It is trademark Goffman: ambitious, unconventional in form, and brimmed with big-picture insight. The thesis is that social order is made and re-made in communication—the “interaction order” he re-visited in a famous and final talk before his 1982 death. The dissertation is, as Yves Winkin writes in a new introduction, the “Rosetta stone for his entire work.” It was here, in 360 dense pages, that Goffman revealed, quietly, his peerless sensitivity to the invisible wireframes of everyday life. The book is available online and as a free download in PDF and ePub. A paperback version is also available. https://www.mediastudies.press/communication-conduct-in-an-island-community Communication Conduct in an Island Community appears in the Public Domain series. Scholars interested in proposing volumes in this or other series are encouraged to reach out with a query: https://www.mediastudies.press/queries You can learn more about mediastudies.press, including our operations and OA principles, on our site: https://www.mediastudies.press/about The press is a member of the Open Book Collective and the ScholarLed consortium, and also publishes the History of Media Studies journal. Please contact us at press(a)mediastudies.press

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Four Jobs at Goldsmiths, University of London
by Mirca Madianou 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '23

Happy new year everyone! We are delighted to announce that we currently have four job openings (three Full Professors and one Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer) at Goldsmiths, University of London. One of the Full Prof posts is on Critical Data and AI studies, but all posts may be of interest to AoIR members. Come and join us! The Department of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London seeks to build on our 45-year tradition of critical, creative and impactful research and our outstanding international reputation in the field with four exciting new appointments: Professor of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (Critical Data and AI Studies)<https://jobs.gold.ac.uk/internal/vacancy/professor-of-media-comms-and-cultu…> Professor of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (Critical Race/Feminist Studies)<https://jobs.gold.ac.uk/internal/vacancy/professor-of-media-comms-and-cultu…> Professor of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (Promotional Media)<https://jobs.gold.ac.uk/internal/vacancy/professor-of-media-communications-…> All the above are permanent positions: start date 1 September 2023 (or as soon as possible) Closing date for above applications: Friday 17 February 2023 Interview date: week beginning either Monday 20 or 27 March 2023 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Journalism<https://jobs.gold.ac.uk/internal/vacancy/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-journa…> Permanent position: starts 1 July 2023 Closing date for applications: Monday 6 February 2023 Interview date: week beginning Monday 6 March 2023 For further information including job descriptions, person specifications and who to contact for informal discussions about each role, please use the above links or visit https://jobs.gold.ac.uk/job-search.html Professor Mirca Madianou Deputy Head of Department Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6NW UK email: m.madianou(a)gold.ac.uk<mailto:m.madianou@gold.ac.uk> @madianou @madianou@mastodon.social http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/madianou/

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