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Tomorrow! (un)Stable Diffusions
by Fenwick Mckelvey 22 May '23

22 May '23

Hi all Please share widely. Tomorrow! May 23, please join us for a two-day international symposium on AI's publics, publicities, and publicizations at Milieux Institute, Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. We have had an unprecedented interest so we've opened a waitlist. If you've registered and don't plan to attend, please cancel your ticket on Eventbrite to make space for others. (un)Stable Diffusions May 23 to May 24, 9am to 5pm EST Online and in person at Milieux Institute EV Building, 1515 Saint-Catherine St W Montreal Quebec Details: https://machineagencies.milieux.ca/unstable-diffusions/ Registration is free to attend in person and online. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/unstable-diffusions-tickets-547903402827 Description 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, 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 event is hosted at the Milieux Institute at Concordia University by the Machine Agencies Research Group and is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Take care Fenwick

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CFP: HCI for Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation - IFIP WG 13.8 Workshop @ Interact 2023
by Jose Abdelnour-Nocera 22 May '23

22 May '23

2nd Call for papers This IFIP WG 13.8 workshop on HCI for Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation will take place preceding INTERACT2023, in York, UK, on 28 or 29 August 2023 (TBC). Online attendance will be allowed. https://ifipwg138.wordpress.com/hci-democracy/ Motivation This workshop will explore and discuss how Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as a field of knowledge and practice can contribute to develop platforms for digital democracy and participation. These issues are mainly seen at two levels: (1) the optimal design of the digital environment of citizen participation platforms, and (2) explore how HCI can contribute to the development of new trends in Political Science, such as e-democracy. The practice of designing digital platforms for citizen participation and democracy could benefit greatly from a multidisciplinary sociotechnical approach that incorporates into design reflection on issues of democratic theory and practice, legal and political science. Researchers have sought to articulate design patterns and evaluation tools for these platforms with general perspectives on the democraticity of the processes they sustain. But citizen participation systems give rise to specific problems related to usability and user experience. The user is both the institution, company, formal, and informal collective, as well as the subjects that interact with these platforms. This workshop proposes a multidisciplinary exploration and discussion about design of digital platforms for citizen participation and democracy, including issues such as the necessary digital and technological resources, typology of tools that allow communication (to share knowledge), create community (to find and integrate individuals into a collective) and cooperation between individuals (to achieve common community goals), legality of the decisions taken in these platforms or subjective trust in their general function. The target audience for this workshop includes researchers and practitioners from different disciplines working on topics related to Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation in HCI. Early-stage researchers and PhD students are also encouraged to submit work-in-progress papers. Topics of Interest We look for position papers trying to answer one or more of the following questions: How can different approaches towards sociotechnical and interaction design pro-mote or undermine democratic participation? What are the best design patterns and requirements that lead to effective platforms for Digital Democracy and Participation? How can digital democracy platforms be evaluated? What are the best tools and methods to support communication, community formation and deliberation in democratic processes? Design thinking and innovation: how the design process should be led by democratic requirements and not by technology affordances? How to identify forms of democracy and associated practices through the presenta-tion of relevant case studies. How to identify and assess the nature and type of citizen participation in the pro-cess of design of these platforms. Workshop Objectives In this workshop, we understand the above issues as sociotechnical in nature and aim to trace the cultural and political dynamics that drive the design of this type of platforms. More concretely, we solicit position papers that help us fulfil the following objectives: To help develop a framework of HCI to be applied in e-democracy and participatory processes. Collect examples and experiences of digital democracy platforms. Collecting examples and experiences that show that the field of HCI can be beneficial in the design and development of digital platforms for citizen decision processes Formulate a research agenda for future work on digital democracy research on HCI. Expected Outcomes The workshop will produce a research agenda for studying the optimum development of digital platforms for e-democracy processes through a HCI lens, and how best to understand and analyze them. The aim with this research agenda is to stimulate further research interest and provide direction for critical research on HCI apply to design digital participatory platforms. In addition, extended versions of the workshop papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS series as a volume collecting papers from the INTERACT 2023 workshops and in a special issue in the Interacting with Computers journal. Submission Procedure Please submit your position paper of four pages in the INTERACT 2021 proceedings format to Jose Abdelnour-Nocera at abdejos[at]uwl.ac.uk Deadline: 31st of May 2023 Notification of Acceptance: 8th of June 2023 Each submission will be reviewed by two reviewers from the larger IFIP TC13.8 community. Participation in the workshop requires an accepted position paper. Organizing Committee The workshop is organized by IFIP TC13 WG13.8 – Interaction Design for International Development. The organizers are: José Abdelnour Nocera is professor in Sociotechnical Design and Head of the Sociotechnical Group for Innovation and User Experience at the University of West London. He is the current Chair for IFIP TC13 WG13.8 and the British Computer Society Sociotechnical Specialist Group. His interests lie in the sociotechnical and cultural aspects of stakeholder diversity in systems design. Estela Peralta is Senior Lecture in Design Engineering at the University of Sevilla (Spain). Her research focuses on development smart environment and products adapted to the human factor, considering biomechanical, cognitive, and environmental aspects, for any type of population, including people with special needs Lene Nielsen is associate professor at IT university Copenhagen (Denmark). She current research democratically owned enterprises, their use of technology, and the way they govern the business. As member of Forum on IT and Cooperative Governance (FITCG) she researched democratic entrepreneurship for the Danish Parliament that resulted in suggestions for new legislation to further cooperatives in Denmark. Juan José Gómez Gutiérrez is Lecturer in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the University of Sevilla (Spain). His research focuses on art and politics, including critical urban theory, cultural policies, the high and the low in art and hegemony. Professor José Abdelnour Nocera School of Computing and Engineering Head of Sociotechnical Group for Innovation and User Experience University of West London St Mary’s Road, Ealing – London W5 5RF

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Guest Talk on Digital Sovereignty, 25 May, 2-4 pm
by Esther Laufer 22 May '23

22 May '23

Dear all, You are warmly invited to attend the hybrid talk held by our guest speaker Professor Jamal Shahin (Vrije Universiteit Brussels/ University of Amsterdam) on 25 May, 2-4 pm. If you want to attend on site or remote via Webex, please register at kolleg(a)cais-research.de >From reifying to rarifying: reasons to avoid digital sovereignty (and reasons why we should talk about it) Abstract With all of the attention being paid to policies of digital sovereignty, politicians risk giving the concept a reified quality -- and in turn, so do those who study it. By turning it into something tangible and measurable, the risks of conflict along territorial lines also become very prominent on our global digital network. As we spend this week pinning down the concept of digital sovereignty into a concrete 'object' of academic study, I will argue that we risk to lose the value of the term. Rather than reifying the nebulous concept into a tangible, measurable object of study, I would argue that we need to rarify the term, that is: make it (even) "less dense and solid". The richness in understanding the discourses, practices, and norms of digital sovereignty help us understand how policymakers wish us to interact with the digitally-mediated world. As closure, I will support the argument that claims that we need to set out a research agenda that is not discipline creating, but discipline transcending.

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CFP; AI Special issue
by Feona Attwood 22 May '23

22 May '23

CFP: Artificial Intelligence, Pornography, and Sex Work Guest editors James Mackay and Polina Mackay j.mackay(a)euc.ac.cy; mackay.p(a)unic.ac.cy We invite proposals for a special issue of the journal Porn Studies focused on the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on pornography and sex work. The rapid advancement of AI technology and its increasing influence on these sectors present pressing ethical and societal issues that require further examination. Since 2022, public use of AI has sharply increased, due in no small part to the media attention paid to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Numerous sites and apps, such as MidJourney or DALL- E, now offer AI image generation, transforming a user's written prompt into a recognisable image via an artificial neural network. Such platforms have content moderation policies and guard rails in place to prevent sexual imagery, but that has now led to the creation of a number of websites offering AI porn production. Those sites join a marketplace that already has many companies offering deepfake technology, something that also employs AI to merge porn clips and stills with the faces of celebrities – or, increasingly, with noncelebrities. The promise of AI image generation is something new, however, creating photo-quality images of people that have never existed, as well as photorealistic images of impossible bodies, acts and situations (e.g. realistic furries, aliens, and mutations of the human body). Beyond the image, AIs are also being integrated into sex work, with chatbots such as Replika offering explicit erotic conversations as part of their “virtual companion” service, and reports of sex workers on OnlyFans employing AI to generate automatic responses to subscribers. Finally, the integration of teledildonics and sex robots with artificial intelligence continues apace, with the promise of ever more lifelike interactions. The aim of all this technological advance is clear: a fully customizable pornatorium that escapes the physical limitations of performance and fully realizes the desiring imagination. However, these advancements also raise critical questions about ethics, legality, and the implications for individuals in the industry. The editors would like to stress that we welcome contributions from multiple disciplinary angles. Potential topics could include (but are not limited to): Evaluating approaches to content moderation in mainstream AI image generators and their effectiveness. Ethical and legal challenges associated with the use of AI in pornography and sex work. Implications of AI for sex workers, including potential threats or opportunities. The ethics and legality of AI image creation in pornography, especially given the use of photographs of real bodies in the underlying dataset. The implications of replacing the human element in porn, considering all genders. The exploration of inherent implicit biases (racial / ethnic) in AI image generations. Depictions of AIs in porn and/or sex work in fiction, films, or other media. Impact of AI on the perceptions and consumption patterns of porn users. Implications of AI-generated content for the mental health and well-being, both of consumers and sex work practitioners. Issues of privacy and consent, especially in cases involving deepfakes and non- consensual image generation. Policy and regulatory evolutions needed to address the integration of AI in pornography and sex work. What role do tech companies and AI developers play in mitigating the potential negative consequences of AI applications, particularly the generation of content considered to be illegal? Are there best practices that can be adopted? AI’s potential to contribute to the creation of more ethical, inclusive, and diverse pornography and sex work experiences. Porn’s impacts, both positive and negative, on the development of AI tech. Submissions should initially be in the form of a 300 word abstract, which should be sent to both editors (j.mackay(a)euc.ac.cy; mackay.p(a)unic.ac.cy) no later than Monday 4th August. Accepted papers will be due on March 1st, 2024. All papers will be subject to the journal’s normal peer-review process and are expected to be published online in Fall 2024. We look forward to your contributions as we delve into this critical area of study.

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Managing Complex Computational Challenges
by ijwa dline.info 20 May '23

20 May '23

Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering CALL FOR PAPERS Managing Complex Computational Challenges A huge body of methods for making large-scale simulations and analyses are produced, which are more computationally efficient, enabling a wide range of research to be less time- and memory-intensive. The proposed methods and systems can synthesize domains that integrate many concepts from deep learning, machine learning, AI and other computational techniques. Keeping the scientific value while designing computational approaches that leverage increased computational power is essential. Developing one system identifies a few significant features or facets. However, generating a large model uses innumerable parameters and infinite indicators to bring broad models that analyse multidimensional patterns and function as generic with permissible customisation. The future computational system can build newer interfaces with computers on one side, people, technologies, and domains on the other, and produce modalities. Robust techniques with insights create solution spaces with fewer computational complexities. Advanced big data analytics offer solutions to research questions in many different disciplines. Computational techniques coupled with intelligence are more successful for complex processes in many domains, and the refining activities lead to domain precision. In recent years efficient machine learning models have been recorded that solve many complex issues in other fields. Many approaches in research currently warrant intensive computational methods and have become more inevitable to solve research questions. Research can generate unique and highly objective scalable solutions to the complexity and understanding of how the different propositions can help product possible systems to solve the tasks with domain knowledge. Complexity reduction leads to robustness, structured results, higher accuracy, and resolved issues and is mainly achieved by applying computational methods. The proposed special issue will address many agendas codified in the above description and, more specifically, but not limited to the below themes. Neural models Spatio-temporal data modelling DL approaches to analyse patterns Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory network Data Transfer Framework Data security Data correlational dependencies Knowledge-driven machine learning Information and Systems Intelligence Computational Modelling Intelligent agent-supported processing Intelligent control systems Domain-specific smart models and architectures Complex data and sparse modelling Semantics-induced segmentation and clustering Edge Intelligence The important dates Submission of Papers: May 31, 2023 Acceptance/Rejection Notification: June 30, 2023 Revised version: August 15, 2023 Issue Publication: (will be notified later) Special Issue Editors Pit Pichappan, PhD, Senior Scientist Digital Information Research Labs Chennai. India Ezendu Ariwa, PhD, Professor Warwick University UK Fouzi Harrag, PhD Associate Professor Computer Science Ferhat Abbas University Setif, Algeria For further queries, please contact- pichappan(a)dirf.org For Author guidelines, please visit before submission- https://www.iospress.com/catalog/journals/journal-of-computational-methods-… Submission of papers https://www.socio.org.uk/SIMCCC/openconf/openconf.php

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Call for Participation -- IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023, June 26-29, Nashville, Tennessee
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 19 May '23

19 May '23

=================================================================================================================================================================== IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, June 26-30, 2023 https://smartcomp.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ https://twitter.com/IEEESmartComp =================================================================================================================================================================== We invite the research community and industry participants to attend the IEEE Smartcomp 2023 between June 26-June 29. SMARTCOMP 2023 is the 9th edition of the conference and will be held at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, hosted by Vanderbilt University Institute for Software Integrated Systems. This year, the conference program covers four days of stimulating content and presentations including the main conference, four thematic workshops, four keynote talks, two panels, a WiP session, an N2Women event, a PhD forum, as well as tutorials. The full schedule and information of the conference is available at https://smartcomp.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ Keynotes: Archan Misra Vice Provost (Research) and Professor of Computer Science at Singapore Management University (SMU) Reducing the complexity, latency and energy of Inference Execution for edge-based Deep Neural Network Models Liam Pedersen Chief Scientist at Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance Innovation Lab Smart mobility services on the edge Baskar Ganapathysubramanian Joseph C. and Elizabeth A. Anderlik Professor in Engineering and Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University Enabling climate smart agriculture through smart computing Philip V. Orlik Vice President and Director at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Smart Technologies for Smarter Buildings TUTORIALS >From quantum computing to quantum networks Claudio Cicconetti IIT-CNR Algorithms for Optimizing Public Transit Systems Samitha Samaranayake, Cornell Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Vanderbilt PANELS Reports from the Field: Deploying Smart Computing Technology to Meet Diverse Community Needs There is a growing demand for smart computing technologies to meet a range of community needs. This includes sensing systems, Internet of Things devices, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence applications, and more, to inform decision-making and enhance autonomy. A range of smart computing investments, both publicly and privately funded, are underway across the globe. These initiatives seek to address community challenges related to energy and resource usage, transportation and mobility, climate change, health and wellbeing, digital literacy, and more. While demand for these technologies continues to grow, there are significant technical and societal challenges on the pathway from laboratory to real-world deployment. As a result, experiences vary widely from one application/community to another. This panel brings together academic researchers, agency officials, and municipal leaders from both the U.S. and the E.U. to share field experiences deploying smart computing to meet diverse community needs. The panel represents an important step in codifying a set of best practices for translating these technologies from the laboratory to the public sphere. The panel will be moderated by Dr Jason Hallstrom (Florida Atlantic University and National Science Foundation, USA) and Dr. Dirk Pesch (University of College Cork, Ireland) TECHNICAL SESSIONS Session 1: Smart Applications Session 2: Machine Learning for Sensing Session 3: Middleware for Smart Computing Session 4: Computer Vision for Smart Computing Session 5: Networked and Distributed Smart Computing Session 6: Machine Learning for Control WORKSHOPS 7th International Workshop on Big Data and IoT Security in Smart Computing (BITS 2023) 9th Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities (SSC) 8th IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys) International Workshop on Smart Agriculture for the environmental emergency (SmartAgr) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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new CFP on TikTok Creators and Digital Economies
by Zoetanya Sujon 18 May '23

18 May '23

Dear AoIR colleagues, Delighted to announce a new CFP for an online symposium. Please share with any interested researchers and apologies for cross-posting: TikTok Creators and Digital Economies Symposium Date: Friday 6 October, 2023 Time: 8.00-14.00 (BST) / 16.00-22.00 (AWST) >From new dance challenges to instantly recognisable songs, TikTok is often attributed with producing new global trends. Merging short form video, popular and original music, hashtags, comments, and participatory features like stitching and duets, TikTok provides a platform for ordinary users to consume, create, play and participate in public conversations. Creators benefit from new kinds of visibility and affective economies, yet also complain of shadow bans, seemingly arbitrary limitations on views, and algorithmic personalisation and circulation of content. TikTok follows and disrupts the social media landscape and popular imagination. TikTok’s ‘For You’ feature amplifies the potential for ordinary users to create viral content and its powerful personalised algorithms extend creators’ reach to global audiences and across multiple platforms. TikTok influencers and ordinary creators generate niche communities important for identity expression, community building and visibility, introducing new iterations of symbolic, cultural and economic power (Abidin et al. 2020, Abidin 2020, 2019). TikTok native influencers generate millions of views and leverage virtual, gift, and live-streaming economies, expanding forms of cultural production across platforms (Poell et al 2022, Yesiloglu and Costello 2021). In addition, Bytedance and Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese counterpart, point to significant cultural, geo-political, and economic commonalities and differences in platform governance, as determined in and through national contexts and markets (Kaye et al al. 2022, Zhang 2021). More globally, Bytedance occupies a unique position in the data economy and is at the heart of serious privacy and surveillance concerns, marked by the rise of TikTok bans (Maheshwari and Holpuch 2023). TikTok and Douyin open up new creator practices with serious implications for creative industries, monetisation practices, digital economies alongside governance frameworks encompassing these spheres. All of these factors point to big questions about the relationship between TikTok creators and emerging features of digital economies. While TikTok’s niche creator practices share common features across other social media and digital platforms (Hardy 2022, Sujon 2021), TikTok’s specific approaches to monetisation and affective entrepreneurialism raises questions about what is distinct on TikTok for creator economies. This symposium brings together current work which opens up these dynamics, examining emerging forms of cultural production and also their economic consequences for creators, citizens, consumers, advertisers, and platforms. Submission guidelines We invite papers examining TikTok Creators and Digital Economies, related to but not limited to these themes: - Creator identities and cultures - Storytelling, music and creator discourses - Intimate, relational and affective labour - Virtual gifting and cultural production - Creator academy and creator fund - LGBTQ+ creators - Queerbaiting - Materialities of creation, consumption and circulation - Global, local, national creator contexts and economies - TikTok, ByteDance and Douyin platform ecosystems - Douyin and wanghong - Resilience and precarity - Influencers, celebrity, and virality - Creator business models - TikTok advertising and monetisation - Political and networked economies - Nichification, metrics and metrification - Branded content, paid partnerships and the creator marketplace - Livestreaming and e-commerce - Symbolic power and cultural economies - Attention economy, affective commerce and regimes of visibility - Algorithmic personalisation - TikTok audiences and markets - Platform governance, bans and censorship - Content ownership, copyright and royalties - Geo-politics of short-form video Research students, early career researchers and scholars in and/or or from the Global South and/or underrepresented communities are strongly encouraged to apply. A selection of papers will also be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue tentatively entitled “TikTok Creators and Digital Economies” that will be published in a top-ranked peer-reviewed journal in the field of Media and Communication Studies. For consideration in this symposium, please submit abstracts (up to 250 words) on previously unpublished papers and a short bio (up to 100 words) to DCE(a)lcc.arts.ac.uk. Key dates - Abstracts and biographies submission: *3 July 2023* - Notifications of acceptance: *24 July 2023* - TikTok Creators and Digital Economies Symposium: *6 October 2023* This event is a collaboration between the TikTok Cultures Research Network <https://tiktokcultures.com/> based at Curtin University and the Digital Cultures and Economies Research Hub <https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/research-at…> at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. The event is organized by Zoetanya Sujon <https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/1352-zoetanya-sujon/about>, Sevil Yesiloglu <https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/1819-sevil-yesiloglu>, Irida Ntalla <https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/people/irid…> , Jonathan Hardy <https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/1762-jonathan-hardy>, Yue Qin, Yingwen Wang and Richard Meng. Please email DCE(a)lcc.arts.ac.uk with any questions about this event. *……………………………………………………* *Dr Zoetanya Sujon (she/her)* Programme Director and Reader Designate, Communications and Media Principal Investigator, The DAReS Project - Transforming the Gap: Inclusive Digital Arts and Humanities Research Skills <https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX007510%2F1> *University of the Arts London* London College of Communication Elephant & Castle London SE1 6SB United Kingdom *E* z.sujon(a)lcc.arts.ac.uk *T *@jetsumgerl TikTok Cultures Research Network <https://tiktokcultures.com/about/> *Working pattern: Mon, Tues, Wed for Communication and Media Programme Matters. Thurs and Fri for AHRC project. Book a meeting with me on my calendar <https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/ZoetanyaSujon@artslondon.onmicro…>.* *Latest publications*: Book: (2021) *The Social Media Age <https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-social-media-age/book259859#description>* *.* Sage (2nd edition coming in 2025) (2021) Chapter 17 Disruptive Play or Platform Colonialism? The Contradictory Dynamics of Google Expeditions and Educational Virtual Reality, in Steve Gennaro and Blair Miller (Eds), *Young People and Social Media: Contemporary Children's Digital Culture <https://vernonpress.com/book/1239>**.* Vernon Press, pp. 277-296

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Announcing AoIR2024 • Sheffield • 16-19 October 2024
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 18 May '23

18 May '23

In 2024, we’re going to Sheffield! The Association of Internet Researchers is pleased to announce that the AoIR2024 conference will be held in *Sheffield, UK*, on *16-19 October 2024*. It will be hosted by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, and will take place on the campus of the University of Sheffield. Sheffield is one of the major cities in the UK, yet 60% of it is green space. It’s a city that is safe, affordable, creative and welcoming, and we’re excited to be going back to the UK for the first time since 2012. The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that this is a break from our preferred cycle of holding conferences alternating between North America, Europe, and the ‘Rest of World’. Owing to circumstances beyond our control, the intended 2024 venue turned out to be unfeasible. Given that, AoIR is very grateful to the Sheffield team for stepping up at short notice. In the coming weeks, AoIR will issue a call for conference venue hosts for our 2025 and 2026 conferences, with the firm aim of reestablishing this rotation of locations. More information about Sheffield and our hosts is available here <https://aoir.org/aoir2024/>. Tama Leaver AoIR President

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New Issue: JITP No. 22! General Issue: Looking Again
by Michael Rifino 18 May '23

18 May '23

Issue Twenty-Two: General Issue: Looking Again Issue Editors: Courtney Dalton, Cornell University Benjamin Miller, University of Pittsburgh Michael Rifino, The Graduate Center, CUNY The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is thrilled to announce Issue 22<https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jitp-22>, our latest published issue on CUNY’s instance of Manifold<https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/journals/jitp>! Read peer-reviewed and open-access articles that feature new conversations and deepen existing ones found in our archive, including topics on open-educational resources, surveillance, and extended reality. Issue 22 and our archives are available on Manifold, a free, open-access publication platform. You can also read more about it as a scholarly publishing platform<https://www.upress.umn.edu/about-us/about-manifold>. With all issues, you can collect articles to share and annotate with your students and colleagues. Please consider creating a reading account<https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/signup> and learning more about reading on Manifold.<https://manifoldscholar.github.io/manifold-docusaurus/docs/using/reading_ma…> We hope you will join us! We are still accepting submissions for our Themed Issue: The Liberatory Legacy of bell hooks: Pedagogies and Praxes that Heal and Disrupt<https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-call-for-submissions/section/48f029c…>. Due date: May 31st, 2023! Read Issue 22 today: https://t.co/PTHj31AoXW<https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jitp-22>

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Welcome||Global Media and China ICA Reception, May 27, 9:00-9:00pm
by Xiao Han 18 May '23

18 May '23

Dear Colleagues and Friends, It is with great pleasure that the journal *Global Media and China* ( https://journals.sagepub.com/home/gch) invites you to attend the GMaC Reception to be held on *Sat 27 May from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM in City Hall Room in the Toronto Sheraton*. Please come and enjoy some decent drinks and dialogue. Global Media and China is a SAGE journal and is supported and founded by the Communication University of China. To ensure the best service will be provided, please register here: *https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-media-and-chinas-journal-reception-tickets-637046381877 <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-media-and-chinas-journal-reception-tick…>* We look forward to meeting you in Toronto. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at GMAC2022(a)hotmail.com Thank you! Best, Dr Xiao Han, Associate Professor, Communication University of China Managing Editor, Global Media and China

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