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[CALL FOR DEMOS AND POSTERS] IEEE WoWMoM 2023, June 12-15, 2023, Boston, Massachusetts, EXTENDED DEADLINE: March 31, 2023 (FIRM)
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) June 12-15, 2023, Boston, Massachusetts, USA CALL FOR DEMOS AND POSTERS https://coe.northeastern.edu/Groups/wowmom2023/call_for_demos.html Submission Due Date: March 31, 2023 (FIRM) Notification Date: April 7, 2023 Camera-ready version: April 15, 2023 Conference Dates: June 12-15, 2023 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE AND OVERVIEW Welcome to the 24th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks. IEEE WoWMoM 2023 is soliciting original and previously unpublished research works addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems and applications. Wireless networking technologies are continuously evolving and have become a critical part of modern life, be it for communication services, media distribution, or sensing and actuation services within the Internet of Things (IoT) context. Appropriate resource management, applications design, and architectural networking paradigms are necessary to provide users with high quality experience in multimedia communication and services. Edge computing and data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are becoming essential tools to cope with the increasing diversity of connected devices and the plethora of new data-intensive and latency-sensitive applications requested by end-users. At the same time, the interoperability among IoT environments (including wearable computing and sensors), the network edge, and the cloud are evolving towards an edge-cloud continuum that is expected to support a wide range of application domains and services in a more smooth and efficient manner. In this context, providing rich sets of measurements for characterizing, detecting, and understanding the behavior of such complex systems is of paramount importance. IEEE WoWMoM 2023 takes a broad view and seeks papers describing innovative research contributions to the field of mobile and wireless networking and applications. We solicit papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. We also welcome practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field trials, or real deployments. You are invited to submit a poster and/or demo related to the following topics of interest: SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST * 5G/ 6G networks for mobile and multimedia services * AI-assisted and data-driven networking in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Authentication, authorization, accounting for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Behavior-aware human-centric multimedia networks * Communication technologies and services for MTC * Connected vehicles: networking issues and services * Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Context-awareness in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * IoT-edge-cloud continuum for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking and services * Energy efficiency for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) multimedia networks * Internet/Web of Things * Localization, tracking, and mobility management and services * Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks * Mobile big data networking and services * Mobile social networks * Modeling, analysis, and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Network traffic characterization and measurements * Participatory, mobile, and urban sensing * Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning * Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) enabled multimedia networks * Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning * Seamless inter-networking and self-organization * Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and slicing for wireless and mobile networks * System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences * Trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Virtual mobile infrastructure * Wearable Computing * Wireless multimedia systems, services, and applications We particularly encourage the following types of submissions: * Demos of the research related to accepted IEEE WoWMoM papers * Demos and posters from student authors related to their research topics within the IEEE WoWMoM topics of interest * Demos from experts from industry and academia showing the state-of-the-art within IEEE WoWMoM topics of interest * Posters showing results of a work-in-progress paper SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers must be submitted electronically as a PDF file through the conference management system, at: Poster submission: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30201 Demo submission: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30200 Please note: All posters/demos will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. All poster/demo submissions will be handled electronically. Posters/demos that do not comply with the Submission Guidelines will be rejected without review. All posters/demos should be submitted electronically in PDF and be no longer than 3 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format including tables, figures and references. Papers exceeding 3 pages will not be accepted. All accepted abstracts will appear in the proceedings. The demos and posters should include the prefix "DEMO:" and "POSTER:" in the title of the submitted paper, respectively. Download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Poster title must start with "Poster:" and Demo title must start with "Demo:" At least one author of each accepted poster/demo is required to register to the conference and present. Only registered and presented posters/demos will be published in the conference proceedings. Accepted posters/demos will be included in the IEEE WoWMoM 2023 Proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. Demos must show how the user can interact with the device/concept. IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission Due Date: March 31, 2023 (FIRM) * Notification Date: April 7, 2023 * Camera-ready version: April 15, 2023 * Conference Dates: June 12-15, 2023 POSTER AND DEMO CHAIRS Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA ) Uichin Lee (KAIST, South Korea) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Vice Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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Registration Open For ICA Post-Conference: Novel Directions In Media Innovation And Funding
by Hermida, Alfred 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Friends Registration is now open<http://bit.ly/3mroHt8> and the preliminary program <https://journalisminnovation.ca/2023/02/27/program-conference2023/> is available for the ICA post-conference, Novel Directions in Media Innovation and Funding. This is a two-day conference bringing together scholars, journalists, and students to analyze the impact of journalism funding and policy in different national contexts, consider innovative and successful funding solutions, and examine the role of digital news start-ups and peripheral actors in reshaping journalism. Key information: * The conference runs from May 29, 6.00 – 8:30 pm and May 30 from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm, 2023 * The conference will be held at the Gladstone House <https://www.gladstonehouse.ca/> at 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto, which is a short ride by streetcar from the location of ICA 2023 * Queen Street West is a hub of Toronto’s best restaurants, cafés, independent boutiques, street art and galleries * Registration fees<http://bit.ly/3mroHt8>: CAD$75 for academics and professionals, and CAD$25 for students, including evening canapés, breakfast, lunch and snacks * The conference will feature a variety of sessions, including a keynote, research breakfast, and table talks, to foster generative discussions Confirmed speakers include: * Hanan Badr, Universität Salzburg, Austria * Rodney Benson, New York University * Diana Bossio, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia * Hossein Derakhshan, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, UK * Terry Flew, University of Sydney, Australia * Rick Harp, MediaIndigena * Aske Kammer, Roskilde University, Denmark * Hadiya Roderique, University of Toronto, Canada * Vinita Srivastava, Executive Producer + Host, Don’t Call Me Resilient, and Senior Editor, Culture and Society, The Conversation Canada * … and more Questions? Get in touch with organizers Mary Lynn Young and Alfred Hermida at journalisminnovationlab(a)gmail.com<mailto:journalisminnovationlab@gmail.com>

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The 5th International Geomedia Conference EXTENDED CPF DL MARCH 31
by Anna Rantasila 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

CFP EXTENDED DL MARCH 31 "Digital Geographies of Hope" The 5th International Geomedia Conference Tampere, Finland, 20-22 September 2023 In the current world of precarity, uncertainty and violence, digital media technologies and datafication have produced complex new forms of spatial and temporal connections, interactions and power dependencies. Digital media technologies are immersing in growing areas of urban environments, everyday practices and experience. Increasingly digital and data driven media technologies are used to surveil, control, track, sensor, and manage everyday life and mobilities. New automated systems, from location tracking to facial recognition and language detection systems, have profoundly shaped migration and border practices. Data driven systems of surveillance and automated decision making have further enforced racialized inequalities, poverty categorizations, discrimination and algorithmic oppression. At the same time, new avenues of hope arise in the everyday connections, intimacy, care and comfort. Digital media, as everyday infrastructure, may operate as a fragile bridge to sociality, imagination and joy, creating pathways to new forms of solidarity, resistance and witnessing. Digital technologies of community building, counter-mapping, artistic interventions and collective imagination explore original technologies to enhance both spatial and data justice. New intersectional and decolonial theorizations of digital geographies, datafication and AI are needed to provide critique as well as imaginations of alternatives to data universalism. The 5th Geomedia conference explores Digital Geographies of Hope. We invite theoretical and empirical approaches to digital geographies. We encourage critical investigations that seek to identify hope and hopeful constellations in the current digitized world - related to imaginations and appropriations of different media in different places and spaces. The term geomedia captures the conjuncture of mediated and spatial dimensions of the social world. The Geomedia conference, in turn, provides an interdisciplinary arena for research carried out at the crossroads of geography,communication, media, film and cultural studies. It also builds bridges to such fields as urban studies, rural studies, regional planning and tourism studies, media anthropology, critical data studies, STS, gender and race and ethnicity research. The theme will be addressed through invited keynote talks, a plenary panel and film screenings. Participants are also encouraged to submit proposals for paper sessions addressing the conference theme. Keynote speakers: The confirmed keynote speakers include Professor Sarah Elwood, (University of Washington), Associate Professor Sukhmani Khorana (Western Sydney University) and Professor Payal Arora (Erasmus University Rotterdam). Abstract submissions: Geomedia 2023 welcomes proposals for individual papers as well as thematic panels by March 31 in English through the conference submission system: https://www.lyyti.in/geomedia2023cfp Individual paper proposals: The authors submit abstracts 250-300 words. Accepted papers are grouped by the organizers into sessions of 5 papers each according to the thematic fitting. Thematic panel proposals: The panel chair submits a single pdf document proposal consisting of 4 individual paper abstracts (200-250 words) along with a general panel presentation of 200-250 words . Suggested paper areas include, but are not limited to: * Affect and emotions * Art and event spaces * Cinematic geographies * Cosmopolitanism * Datafication and AI * Decoloniality * Digital activism and spaces of resistance * Digitalized work/labour * Disconnection research * Everyday communication geographies * Epistemologies and methodologies of geomedia * Geographies of media and culture industries * Geographies of news * Geomedia futures * Historical perspectives of geomedia * Home and belonging * Infrastructures of digital media * Lifestyle and tourism mobilities * Locative and spatial media * Material geographies of media * Media ecologies * Mediatization and space * Migration and media * Mobility and governance * Power geometries and mobility capital * Representations of space and place * Solidarity and social justice * Surveillance and spatial control * Urban and rural media spaces Conference timeline December 2022: Submission system opens March 10th 2023: Deadline for thematic panel and individual paper proposals May 12th 2023: Notes of acceptance and registration opens Conference website: https://events.tuni.fi/geomedia2023/ Contact: Geomedia2023(a)tuni.fi<mailto:Geomedia2023@tuni.fi> Organizers and venue: The conference is hosted by the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication at Tampere University, Finland. It is organized in collaboration with the Centre for Geomedia Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. For the organizers: Kaarina Nikunen, Professor of Media and Communication Research at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication, Tampere University, Finland André Jansson, Professor in the Department of Geography, Media and Communication and Director of the Centre for Geomedia Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden Cornelia Brantner, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Media and Communication and Coordinator of the Centre for Geomedia Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden Local organizing committee: Kaarina Nikunen, Asko Lehmuskallio, Anne Soronen, Saara Särmä, Sanna Valtonen and Kaisa Tiusanen Kaarina Nikunen Professor of Media and Communication Research Faculty of Information Technology and Communication 30014 Tampere University Finland kaarina.nikunen(a)tuni.fi<mailto:kaarina.nikunen@tuni.fi> +358-40-1904094 https://www.tuni.fi/fi/kaarina-nikunen Nikunen, K. (2021) Ghosts of White Methods? Challenges of Big Data Research in Exploring Racism in Digital Context. Big Data & Society Oct 7 2021 https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211048964 Andreassen, R., Kaun, A. & Nikunen, K. (2021) Fostering the data welfare state: A Nordic perspective on datafication. Nordicom Review 42(2):207-223. https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0051 Recent book: Media Solidarities: Emotions, Power and Justice in the Digital Age (SAGE 2019)<https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/media-solidarities/book253882>

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Participants Needed: UIC Research Study on Online Harassment and Social Media
by Caitlyn Lackey 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Hello All, The UIC Social Media Lab is in need of about 15 more participants for a qualitative research study investigating the intersection of online harassment and algorithms on social media. Please pass this study information along to whoever you can. Attached is the study info that can be shared in classrooms and on social media. Thank you! Cait ___________________ *Participants Needed: **UIC Research Study on Online Harassment and Social Media* Have you ever encountered online harassment or nasty comments or posts in your feed? Have you ever been the target of online harassment, cyberbullying, or found yourself caught up in online toxicity? Have you ever received unwanted attention online? The UIC Social Media Lab wants to know more about the effects of social media platforms and their design, and we need your help and voluntary participation to learn more! *You are eligible to participate, if you are:* - Between the ages of 18 to 60 - An active user of at least ONE social media platform (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, etc.) - A witness, victim, or perpetrator of online harassment, cyberbullying, and online toxicity on social media *What you’ll do: * - Complete a welcome survey, which will take at most 3 minutes. If we think you are eligible to participate in the interview, we will invite you for an interview. - Complete an interview via Zoom, which will take about 30-60 minutes. Your decision whether or not to participate will not affect your current or future relations with the university or your grades in any University of Illinois Chicago course. If you decide to participate, you are free to withdraw at any time without affecting that relationship. *We will provide a compensation of $20 Amazon gift card if participants complete the interview portion of the research study. * *Get started via **this link: * https://uic.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1UgosG8UwV0K8jc If you think of anyone who might be interested in participating in this study, please pass this info on. If you have any questions, please email to Cait Lackey at clackey(a)uic.edu. -- Cait Lackey, M.A. PhD Student & Teaching Assistant Department of Communication University of Illinois Chicago

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Call for Papers: IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), Deadline: March 16, 2023 (FIRM)
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

=============================================================================================================== ================================================================================================================ IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, June 26-30, 2023 https://smartcomp.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ https://twitter.com/IEEESmartComp Paper Submission: 3.16.23 ================================================================================================================ ================================================================================================================ SMARTCOMP 2023 is the 9th edition of the premier conference on smart computing. Smart computing is a multidisciplinary domain based on the synergistic influence of advances in sensor-based technologies, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, edge computing, big data analytics, machine learning, cognitive computing, ambient intelligence, and artificial intelligence. Applications of smart computing can be found in various societal domains, including transportation, energy, environmental protection, smart and connected communities, healthcare, banking, industrial systems, entertainment, and social media. Algorithmic and systems advancements of cloud computing, mobile and pervasive computing, sensor networking, and social computing are taking smart computing to a new level while improving our ways of living. SMARTCOMP 2023 welcomes novel, cutting-edge, and creative research. Authors are encouraged to discuss the importance, timeliness, significance of their work, as well as limitations, potential future extensions, and open research directions. Topics SMARTCOMP 2023 solicits submissions that address the fundamental questions of smart computing, namely how to design and build scalable and reliable smart computing systems, and how to use computing technology for resource sustainability to improve the human experience. Topics of interest include---but are not limited to---the following: Emerging Smart Computing Paradigms Evaluation Studies and Datasets of Smart Environments Algorithms for Smart Computing AI and Machine Learning in Smart Computing Security, Privacy, and Trust in Smart Computing Smart and Usable Security and Privacy Fairness and Socio-technical Aspects of Smart Computing Middleware for Smart Systems Mobile and Ubiquitous Smart Systems Cloud, Edge, and Fog based Smart Computing Platforms Data Architectures and Analytics for Smart Computing Computing for Smart and Connected Communities Smart Green Computing Distributed Sensing and Computation Social Computing and Smart Systems Wearable Computing and IoT Architectures and Software for Smart Computing Novel Communication Paradigms (e.g., 5G/6G, VLC, DSA) in Smart Computing Contact-free Sensing Backscatter Communicating Smart ComputingÂ Platforms Quantum Computing in Smart Systems Interdisciplinary Approaches to Smart Computing Applications of Smart Computing: - Healthcare and Digital Epidemiology - Agriculture - Smart Cities - Power Systems - Transportation - Water Distribution - Manufacturing - Workspaces Important Dates (All Deadlines are Anywhere on Earth) Paper Submission: March 16, 2023 (FIRM) Acceptance Notification: April 18, 2023 Camera-ready Submission: May 10, 2023 Industry Track Papers Registration: March 9, 2023 (FIRM) Industry Track Papers Submission: March 16, 2023 (FIRM) WiP/Demo/Poster Submission: April 01, 2023 PhD Forum Submission: April 29, 2023 Conference: June 26-30, 2023 The conference is planned as an in-person event in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The organizers will monitor the public health situation and may make adjustments if necessary. Paper Submission Guidelines Paper submissions must be no longer than 8 pages (the page count limit includes the references list) and formatted according to the two-column IEEE proceedings template. IEEE provides corresponding formatting templates at IEEE proceedings template. Authors should use the conference mode of the template, i.e., LaTeX users must use the conference option of the IEEEtran document class. Papers must be submitted electronically as a single PDF file on US Letter size paper (not A4), with all fonts embedded (PDF-A standard complies with this), through EDAS. All submitted papers that conform to these guidelines will be subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. All presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Journal Fast Track Extended versions of selected high-quality papers accepted by IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023 will be considered for publication in Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal (IF: 3.453). Program Chairs Aron Laszka, Pennsylvania State University, USA Stephan Sigg, Aalto University, Finland Contact Information For any questions about the conference, please contact the TPC Co-Chairs at smartcomp2023(a)list.aalto.fi<mailto:smartcomp2023@list.aalto.fi> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Vice Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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Upcoming Book Talk by Aynne Kokas on "Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty"
by Joshua Braun 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Hi All, We're writing to invite you to an upcoming book talk. Aynne Kokas, Associate Professor of Media Studies, C.K. Yen Chair, and Director of the East Asia Center at the University of Virginia will be speaking on her new book, Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/trafficking-data-9780197620502?cc=u…> (Oxford University Press, 2022) here at UMass Amherst. The talk will take place this coming Monday, March 20th from 11am to 12:15pm EST and will be livestreamed on Zoom for anyone who is interested (free registration required). The registration link is here<https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUoce-hqDIiGtLjzd6PH8FPFNQx…> and book details are below. In Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty, Dr. Aynne Kokas looks at how technology firms in the two largest economies in the world, the United States and China, have exploited government policy (and the lack thereof) to gather information on citizens. Kokas argues that US government leadership failures, Silicon Valley's disruption fetish, and Wall Street's addiction to growth have fueled China's technological gold rush. In turn, American complacency yields an unprecedented opportunity for Chinese firms to gather data in the United States and quietly send it back to China, and by extension, to the Chinese government. Drawing on case studies from rapidly growing areas of global media investment like social media apps TikTok, WeChat, and Grindr, and gaming platforms like Fortnite, Trafficking Data explains how China is fast becoming the global leader in internet governance and policy, and thus of the data that defines our public and private lives. This free event is co-sponsored by the UMass Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Journalism Department, the Department of Communication, the School of Public Policy, the Public Interest Technology Initiative, and the Public Engagement Project. All the Best, Josh Braun and Emily West -- Josh Braun, Ph.D. Associate Professor // Journalism Department University of Massachusetts Amherst Mastodon: @josh@sciences.social Distribution Matters series @ The MIT Press https://mitpress.mit.edu/search-result-list/?series=distribution-matters "Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more." William Least Heat-Moon

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CfA Funding for Research Sabbaticals and Cooperations at CAIS
by Esther Laufer 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

The Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) funds innovative projects that deal with the social opportunities and challenges of the digital transformation. We support individual researchers and groups. You want to spend a sabbatical in a vibrant interdisciplinary research community? Become a fellow at CAIS! A fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) releases you from your regular work obligations and opens up new perspectives. As a fellow, you can spend either six or three months in Bochum, Germany. During this period, we will finance your sabbatical leave from work through compensation (e.g. for a substitute). Alternatively, we will pay grants of up to 2.000 € per month. You can invite guests for collaboration and will receive financial support for research expenses. Individual offices and meeting rooms with modern facilities offer optimal working conditions. In addition, we will provide comfortable apartments free of charge. Find out more at https://www.cais-research.de/en/cais-college/fellowships/ You want to boost your collaboration? Bring your group together at CAIS! Working groups bring together experts from different locations to work on joint projects in an inspiring environment. We provide modern meeting facilities for working groups of up to twelve members. In addition, we will cover travel and accommodation expenses. You can spend up to three weeks in Bochum or get together for several shorter meetings. Find out more at https://www.cais-research.de/en/cais-college/working-groups/ Application The next deadline for applications is 30 April 2023. The earliest possible starting date for new fellowships is April 2024. The earliest possible starting date for new working groups is January 2024. You can also combine both programs. Please use the application forms provided on our website. The funding program is open to excellent scholars and practitioners, to all career stages, disciplines and areas of investigation, as well as to pure research and to projects that are more applied in orientation. Further questions? Please contact esther.laufer(a)cais-research.de mailto:esther.laufer@cais-research.de.

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EGOV 2023 Call for Papers
by Noella Edelmann 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Dear All, we look forward to your contributions and seeing you at EGOV 2023, to be held 5-7. September 2023 in Budapest. All details here: https://dgsociety.org/egov-2023/ Tracks: General E-Government and E-Governance Track General e-Democracy & e-Participation Track ICT and Sustainable Development Goals Track Digital Society Track AI, Data Analytics & Automated Decision Making Track Smart Cities (Government, Districts, Communities & Regions) Track Open data: social and technical aspects Track Emerging Issues and Innovations Track Digital and Social Media Track Legal Informatics Deadline for submission: 31.03.2023 Best regards Noella Edelmann Dr. Noella Edelmann, BA, MAS, MSc Senior Research Fellow University of Continuing Education Department of E-Governance and Administration Center for E-Government Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30 3500 Krems, Austria 0043 (0)23732 893 2303

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[+RAIN Film Festival Barcelona] Research on AI Film Narratives 14 June 2023
by GUERRERO SOLE, Frederic 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Dear colleagues, The Department of Communication and the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona are organizing the +RAIN Film Festival, the first European AI film festival to be held on the 14th of June 2023. +RAIN is co-organized with Sónar+D, in collaboration with Runway and CCCB. The festival will be held in the Campus de la Comunicació, in Poblenou (Barcelona), and will consist of 4 different sections, being the RESEARCH conference the first one. This link <https://www.upf.edu/web/rainfilmfest/rain> contains details on the different sections. (https://www.upf.edu/web/rainfilmfest/rain) In the +RAIN RESEARCH conference, we will discuss the intersection and complementarities between AI and media narratives, as well as about critical questions such as authorship, copyright, creativity and ethics. The preliminary conference programme includes the following interventions: 1. Keynote. Joanna Zylinska (King’s College London, UK). *AUTO-FOTO-KINO: On Nonhuman Creativity* 2. Keynote. Andrea L. Guzmán (Northern Illinois University, USA) *Communication and Authorship in an Age of AI: Where does Metaphor End and Reality Begin?* 3. Round table on the topic: *Narratives of AI: current trends and opportunities for film production, new roles in cinema production and the future impact on the media contents industry*. Speakers: Claudia Giannetti, Cristóbal Valenzuela, Víctor Pérez, Víctor Alonso Chair: Jorge Caballero 4. Round table on the topic: *Ethics and authorship in media and film creation in times of AI*. Speakers: Sara Suárez-Gonzalo, Patrícia Ventura, Albert Sabater, Víctor Pérez. (in Catalan) 5. Presentation of the project *Automating Cinema: A Materialist Approach to Creativity in the Age of AI.* Speakers: Pei-Sze Chow and Claudio Celis Bueno (university of Amsterdam) If you are interested in attending the research section of the festival, please send a message to rainfilmfest(a)upf.edu with the subject +RAIN Research Attendance. Official registration will be opened on our website by mid-April. For further information, please contact the coordinators of the session Coloma Ballester (coloma.ballester(a)upf.edu) or Frederic Guerrero-Solé (frederic.guerrero(a)upf.edu) Attendance at the festival is free. After the RESEARCH conference, we will have the opportunity to watch the best AI films presented to our festival, and will discuss them with the authors/creators that will be invited to come to Barcelona. This is the link to the International Call for films generated with AI <https://www.upf.edu/web/rainfilmfest/call>. If you know anyone interested in participating in the Cinema FEST, do not hesitate to forward this message. (https://www.upf.edu/web/rainfilmfest/call) Looking forward to meeting you at the +RAIN Film Festival, Coloma Ballester and Frederic Guerrero-Solé -- *Prof. Frederic Guerrero-Solé*PhD Program Director Faculty of Communication Department of Communication University Pompeu Fabra Roc Boronat, 138, 52.825 | 08018 Barcelona [Tel.] +3493542 2399 frederic.guerrero(a)upf.edu <http://www.twitter.com/guersole> <http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8145-8707> [image: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona]

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HDL call for chapters
by Jack Qiu 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Dear all, We'd like to call for chapter submissions to The Handbook of Digital Labor, which we are editing for the Global Handbooks in Media & Communication Research Series, an initiative under the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), to be published by Wiley. Despite the generic title, we designed this handbook to chart rapidly changing global labor conditions, challenge boundaries between “online” vs “off-line” labor, and be a resource book that addresses key debates surrounding perennial and urgent concerns about labor questions in contemporary capitalism from a global perspective. While this handbook will build on existing work, it stresses the reconceptualization of digital labor in various contexts, connecting them across the sectors and generations, and is intended to contribute to structural analysis and intellectual praxis toward emancipatory movements. This handbook is organized around four themes that are defined historically, technologically, and internationally in the realms of work and control, solidarity politics, pedagogy, and imaginaries: 1. Labor Under Capitalism 2. Digital Technologies, Work and Control 3. Solidarity Politics and the Working-Class Majority 4. Pedagogy, Imaginary and Emancipation In this project, we investigate foundational labor questions as well as emerging and/or persistent patterns of labor and labor organization under new conditions such as digital platforms, automation, artificial intelligence (AI), the ”gig” economy, new divisions of labor, and alternative developments. If you are interested, please email a 200-word abstract to us by April 15, 2023. You may choose to submit your chapter to any of the four themes above, or we can make a decision after reading your abstract. You will be informed about the review and selection result by May 15, 2023. If selected, you will need to submit the full chapter, consisting of 6,000 - 8,000 words by August 15, 2023. Do not hesitate to contact us at jack.qiu(a)ntu.edu.sg We look forward to learning about your work on digital labor issues. Please also help us spread the word. Thank you! Best, Jack Linchuan Qiu, National University of Singapore Shinjoung Yeo, Queens College, City University of New York Richard Maxwell, Queens College, City University of New York -- Jack Linchuan Qiu, Ph.D. Shaw Foundation Professor in Media Technology, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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