August 2023 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Generative AI and university teaching
by Hamlet Lopez 30 Aug '23

30 Aug '23

Dear colleagues, I want to share with you the English version of a short article published in a Cuban cultural magazine, written in collaboration with Denise Ocampo, on the challenges of tools like ChatGPT and Claude in university education. The main thesis is that generative AI gives us new opportunities to promote critical thinking in our students. The article was written with readers from the Global South in mind. Here is the link to the English version: https://www.datoeneltejado.com/chatgpt_claude_and_the_challenges_of_teachin… Here the link to the original article, in Spanish: http://www.lajiribilla.cu/chatgpt-claude-y-los-desafios-de-la-ensenanza-las… Cheers! -- Dr.C. Hamlet López García Investigador Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural "Juan Marinello" Profesor Universidad de la Habana

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CoE AgeCare's 'Digitalisation, Ageing and Care' research group recruits 1-2 Project Researchers and/or Postdocs, JYU, Finland
by Taipale, Sakari 29 Aug '23

29 Aug '23

1–2 Project Researchers and/or Postdoctoral Researchers, for a fixed term of 1–3 years, starting on October 16th, 2023, or as agreed. The researchers positions are part of Academy of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare), hosted by the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. The researchers contribute to the work of the “New Technologies, Ageing and Care” research group, led by Professor Sakari Taipale. For more details, see job announcements: ENG: https://urly.fi/3cCA FI: https://urly.fi/3cCB Should you have any questions, please contact me directly. The deadline for applications is 13 September, 2023 Best regards, Sakari Taipale, Ph.D. Professor of Social and Public Policy Research Group Leader of CoEAge Care Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy University of Jyväskylä, Finland JYU. MAKING SCIENCE SOCIAL. #JYUnity #JYUnique #JYUWell

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More Than Data: Mixing Methods Summer School of the Collaborative Research Center „Media of Cooperation”
by Pilipets, Elena 29 Aug '23

29 Aug '23

Dear colleagues, Hopefully of interest to some of you located close to Siegen (Germany): Mixing Methods Summer School of the Collaborative Research Center „Media of Cooperation”: More Than Data: Positionality and Situatedness in Digital Media Research (18.09-22.09.2023, University of Siegen, on-site event) Registration is still open! Here are details of the Mixing Methods Summer School<https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/events/more-than-data-summer-school/> “More Than Data: Positionality and Situatedness in Digital Media Research” (organized by the Collaborative Research Center „Media of Cooperation“). Please register here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5LuJJDeWWPn3hRLA1YiuEhMeiersyD5R…>. See the updated schedule<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WaIMGGHtNz4Hf_Vz315dwB9TuIgkrQzcL_SWS9q…>. Situating and positioning oneself as a researcher has a long tradition in feminist and ethnographic methodologies, but how can we rethink the notion of positionality in digital media research when engaging with media through their data? How can we contextualize the data we are working with and acknowledge our own position(s) as researchers? Which voices, perspectives, but also biases do collaborative methods and visualization practices bring about, and how can we reflect them? We suggest that accounting for positionality and situatedness are key aspects of the ethical implications of studying online environments through multimodal data—visual, textual, and numeric. The one-week summer school organized by the Collaborative Research Center, “Media of Cooperation”, University of Siegen, invites graduate students and postdoc researchers interested in the intersections of digital methodologies, data feminism, (visual) social media, and platforms. Our main theme, “More Than Data: Positionality and Situatedness in Digital Research”, encourages conceptual and methodological discussions that challenge the narratives of ‘impartiality’ through experimentations with situated data analysis and visualization. The summer school is practice-based and brings together conceptual inputs, methodological trainings, and sprinted group projects. Through the integration of ethnographic investigations and digital methods, we explore diverse possibilities for reflection of what positionality means in relation to environments equally co-generated by human and non-human actors. We seek to capture the nuances of subjugated knowledge through context-sensitive approaches, providing a collaborative space for rethinking digitally mediated hierarchies, binaries, and biases. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on how different forms of positionality and embodiment can be made visible and critically re-imagined in the process of obtaining, visualizing, and interpreting online-ethnographic and visual platform data. A blend of research practice and critical reflection, the summer school features a keynote by Gabriele Colombo (DensityDesign/Politecnico di Milano) and two practical tracks intended to meet the needs of question-driven positional mapping and ethical data storytelling. Keynote Gabriele Colombo<https://publicdatalab.org/people/gabriele-colombo/>: “Unfolding data: lists, catalogues, supercuts and other visual formats for digital research” Track 1: Mapping the Misappropriation of Images of Trans Bodies (with Aikaterini Mniestri) Track 2: #letztegeneration meets #klimakleber: Mapping TikTok Imaginaries of Climate Activism and Climate Change Denial (with Elena Pilipets<https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/medienwissenschaft/personal/lehrende/pilipet…> and Julia Bee<https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/medienwissenschaft/personal/lehrende/bee_jul…>) Note that this is an on-site event only; The event is self-catered. Participation is free. Please register here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5LuJJDeWWPn3hRLA1YiuEhMeiersyD5R…>.

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Invitation for submissions to a Special Issue on Computational Propaganda from the Global South
by hossein kermani 29 Aug '23

29 Aug '23

Dear Colleagues, Prof. Tabarez Niyazi (National University of Singapore), Prof. Lecheler (University of Vienna), and I are co-editing a special issue on Computational Propaganda from the Global South: Understudies Contexts and Emerging Platforms for Political Communication. We are seeking contributions that deal with the theoretical, empirical, and methodological aspects of the manipulation of minds online and the ways through which non-democratic forces in the Global South employ computational techniques and methods to divide societies, amplify disagreements, create chaos, and replace dialogue with cacophony. The deadline for extended abstracts is September 15th. The full CFP can be found here: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/political-communication-c… do not hesitate to contact me or other guest editors if you have any questions. Best.Hossein Hossein Kermani, PhD MSCA Postdoctoral researcher University of Vienna Department of Communication Kolingasse 14-16, 1090 Vienna, Austria T: +43-1-4277-483 12 https://www.hosseinkermani.comTwitter: @hossein_kermani NEW PUBLICATIONS: Kermani, H. (2023). #MahsaAmini: Iranian Twitter Activism in Times of Computational Propaganda. Social Movement Studies, 0(0), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2023.2180354 Kermani, H., Makou, A. B., Tafreshi, A., Ghodsi, A. M., Atashzar, A., & Nojoumi, A. (2023). Computational vs. qualitative: Analyzing different approaches in identifying networked frames during the Covid-19 crisis. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 1–15. Computational vs. qualitative: analyzing different approaches in identifying networked frames during the Covid-19 crisis | | | | | | | | | | | Computational vs. qualitative: analyzing different approaches in identif... Hossein Kermani Despite the increasing adaption of automated text analysis in communication studies, its strengths and weaknesse... | | |

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WEBCAST AUG 29 – 31: 2023 Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF)
by Joly MacFie 29 Aug '23

29 Aug '23

Down under, they are just settling into the final session of Day 1, already having covered AI, encryption, the future of IG, and then some. There is plenty more to go in the next two days. On *29 - 31 August 2023* the *14th Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum <https://www.aprigf.au/>* (APrIGF) will be held as a hybrid event, online and in Brisbane. APrIGF serves as a platform for discussion, exchange and collaboration at a regional level, and also where possible to aggregate national IGF discussions, ultimately advance the Internet governance development in the Asia Pacific region. All times UTC+10. *AGENDA https://www.aprigf.au/programs <https://www.aprigf.au/programs>* *PLENARY + TRACK 1* *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/aprigf2023 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/aprigf2023>* *TRACK 2* *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/aprigf2023 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/aprigf2023>* *TRACK 3* *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/aprigf2023 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/aprigf2023>* *REAL TIME TEXT* *https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-APrIGF <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-APrIGF>* *https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-APrIGF-3 <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-APrIGF-3>* *https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-APrIGF-4 <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-APrIGF-4>* *TWITTER #APrIGF2023 <https://bit.ly/3styB0m> #aprigf #internetgovernance #netgov #APAC @aprigf_official @isocapac* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>* *https://www.facebook.com/isocapac/ <https://www.facebook.com/isocapac/>* *https://www.facebook.com/aprigf.asia/ <https://www.facebook.com/aprigf.asia/>* *http://bit.ly/aprigf2023video <http://bit.ly/aprigf2023video> *(YouTube) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/aprigf2023 <https://archive.org/details/aprigf2023>* *http://bit.ly/aprigf2023video <http://bit.ly/aprigf2023video> *(YouTube) Permalink https://isoc.live/16830 - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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TT Media Studies position at Rutgers (please share job posting)
by Regina Marchi 28 Aug '23

28 Aug '23

Dear Colleagues, The Dept. of Journalism and Media Studies is seeking an assistant professor in Media Studies, so please share this posting with talented doctoral students who will graduate this spring, assistant professors or postdocs you know, and listservs you are a member of. Thank you for helping to spread the word! https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/209379 Best, Regina -- Regina Marchi, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Journalism and Media Studies RUTGERS UNIVERSITY School of Communication and Information Affiliated Professor, Dept. of Latino and Caribbean Studies and Rutgers Center for Latin American Studies Office: 4 Huntington St, Rm 104, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 WEBSITE: https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/marchi-regina Regina Marchi is the author of: Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon, revised and expanded 2nd edition (Rutgers University Press 2022)<https://www.amazon.com/Day-Dead-Second-Transformation-Transnational/dp/1978…> <https://www.amazon.com/Day-Dead-Second-Transformation-Transnational/dp/1978…> 🏵 Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism Cambridge University Press 2017<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/young-people-and-the-future-of-news/E7…> written with Lynn Schofield Clark.

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Book announcement: A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY
by Aram Sinnreich 28 Aug '23

28 Aug '23

Hey fellow AoIRistas, Tomorrow (Tuesday, August 29th), my debut novel A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY is out from Solaris Books, and distributed by Simon & Schuster. I wrote it with my sister, the historian Rachel Hope Cleves, under the joint pseudonym R.A. Sinn. It’s a time-travel sci fi story with a whole lot of themes that will be quite familiar to the AoIR crowd. It’s also got an LGBTQ romance subplot. Publishers Weekly gave us a starred review, and we got really positive advance reviews in Scientific American and Library Journal. It’s available in paper, ebook, and audiobook. More info is available here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Second-Chance-for-Yesterday/R-A-Si… I really hope you’ll enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed writing it. Thanks! Aram (apologies for cross-posting)

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CfP: A Toolbox of Feminist Wonder – Theories and methods that can make a difference
by Karin Hansson 28 Aug '23

28 Aug '23

Submit to our one-day workshop exploring feminist theoretical and methodological approaches in CSCW and HCI. In this hybrid workshop at CSCW 2023 (https://cscw.acm.org/2023/) October 15 in Minneapolis, MN, USA, we will revisit our feminist roots, where theory is a liberatory and creative practice, motivated by affect, curiosity, and wonder. The goal of this workshop is to; 1) create an inventory of feminist theories and concepts that have had an impact on our work as designers, educators, researchers, and activists; 2) develop a feminist toolbox for the CSCW community to strengthen our feminist literacy. To participate, submit a 2-4 pages position paper where you suggest one or more feminist theories and methods that have been useful in your previous research. Describe the theory/method and explain how you have used them. As this is a hybrid workshop, notify if you intend to participate online or offline. Use the templates found here: https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/taps-production-… E-mail your submission to: atoolboxofwonder(a)gmail.com<mailto:atoolboxofwonder@gmail.com> Deadline: September 22, 2023 (decision notification: September 28) Information: https://blogg.sh.se/a-toolbox-of-feminist-wonder/ For more information contact Karin Hansson (Karin.hansson(a)sh.se<mailto:Karin.hansson@sh.se>) or Adrian Petterson (a.petterson(a)mail.utoronto.ca<mailto:a.petterson@mail.utoronto.ca>)

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Workshop on Generative AI models
by ijwa dline.info 28 Aug '23

28 Aug '23

First Workshop on "Next-Generation Models for Generative AI" (In conjunction with the Third International Conference on Digital Data Processing 2023) University of Bedfordshire, Luton. UK. November 27-29, 2023 https://socio.org.uk/ddp/workshop (IEEE CPS will publish the proceedings, and papers should follow the IEEE template) AI models use billions of parameters to detect and retrieve text and images. The currently available LL models are experimented with for their efficiency, and at the same time, newer models are being developed. There are many challenges associated with generative AI. The pre-training volume and efficiency are a focus. To leverage the training set with comprehensiveness and accuracy, billions of parameters are injected into the LLM. Current GPTs face criticism, and governments issue a caution to their use. For example, Zhuang Rongwen, China’s cyberspace chief, raises concerns over the power of generative AI and pledges to make it ‘controllable'. The agenda for the future Generative AI is not clear. Improved generative tools should be capable of characterising extremist narratives in corpora to reveal different contexts, which may lead to building semantic-rich content for end-users. Testing the current models and their results may contribute to future research. Considering these issues, we framed a workshop to address the theme, Next Generation Models. The workshop themes include but are not limited to the following. Text, Image, Code, Video, 3D models Domain-specific models Compositional generative models Foundation models Energy-based models Deep equilibrium models Impact of Generative AI on Teaching and Learning Knowledge and Semantic Issues in Generative AI Future LLM AI Ethical Issues AI and NLP Embedding in AI Reinforcement learning Data Support and Datasets in AI Synthetic Training Datasets Training Synthetic data Standards and Benchmarks AI platforms Workshop Chairs Gloria Tengyue Li North China University of Technology Beijing China Simon Fong University of Macau Macau Hathairat Ketmaneechairat King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand Important Dates Full Paper Submission: September 10, 2023 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: October 10, 2023 Registration Due: November 10, 2023 Camera Ready Due: November 10, 2023 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos: November 28, 2023 Main conference: November 27-29, 2023 Post-conference proceedings: December 20, 2023 Paper Submission: http://socio.org.uk/ddp/paper-submission/ Contact: stm(a)socio.org.uk

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WEBCAST AUG 28 – Australian Internet Governance Forum (NetThing)
by Joly MacFie 28 Aug '23

28 Aug '23

This is a simulcast. NetThing's own livestream is available at https://youtu.be/db3DToFBf2A [image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/16820>On *Monday 28 August 2023* the *Australian Internet Governance Forum <https://netthing.org.au/>* (NetThing) will be held in Brisbane as a Day O event of *APrIGF <https://www.aprigf.au/>*. The theme is "*Co-operation and Collaboration: Australia's commitment to supporting the future of Internet governance*." *PROGRAM https://netthing.org.au/program-1 <https://netthing.org.au/program-1> *(UTC+10) *01 Opening Session* *Welcome from the NetThing Chair* *Annaliese Williams* *Ministerial Address* *The Hon Michelle Rowland MP*, Minister for Communications *NetThing and Identity Digital Indigenous Leaders Internet Governance and Policy Fellowship launch* *Senator Jana Stewart*, Senator for Victoria *02 Keynote Address* *Brendon Dowling*, Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology *03 Forging our Future* *Aurelie Jacquet*, AI governance expert *David Masters*, Head of Global Policy, Atlassian *Brendon Dowling*, Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology *Professor Johanna Weaver*, Director, ANU Tech Policy Design Centre Moderator: *Dr Alexandra Caples*, Director, International Cyber Policy Centre, ASPI *04 Examining the social and economic value of the Internet* *Professor Julian Thomas*, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society *Dr Greg Adamson*, Technical Activities Vice-President, IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology *Ken Walliss*, Executive General Manager Products, NBNCo *Chandni Gupta*, Deputy CEO, The CPRC Moderator: *Keith Besgrove*, Chair auDA General Advisory Standing Committee *05 Meaningful Connectivity* *Daniel Featherstone*, Senior Research Fellow, RMIT *Andrew Williams*, CEO, ACCAN *Dr Paul Brooks*, Director, Internet Australia Moderator: *Holly Raiche*, Policy Chair, Internet Australia *06 Australia’s Internet Resilience Extends Beyond Its Borders* *Terry Sweetser*, Training Delivery Manager, APNIC *Robbie Mitchell*, Senior Communication and Technical Advisor, ISOC Moderator: *George Pongas*, Senior Director, International Registry Policy, GoDaddy *07 Multistakeholder governance for the future – where next and how to get there* *Anriette Esterhuysen*, Internet governance expert and former Chair, IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group *Chris Buckridge*, Internet governance expert *Jordan Carter*, Internet Governance & Policy Director, auDA *Lise Fuhr*, UN Secretary-General’s IGF Leadership Panel Moderator: *Pablo Hinojosa*, Director, Strategic Engagement, APNIC *08 Co-operation and Collaboration: NetThing and our opportunity to support the future of Internet governance* *Sandra Davey*, auDA Board Member *Ian Sheldon*, Director, Internet Governance, DITRDCA *Cheryl Langdon-Orr*, Internet Australia *Paul Wilson*, Director General, APNIC Moderator: *Annaliese Williams*, NetThing Chair *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/netthing2023 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/netthing2023>* *TWITTER #netthing2023 @NetThing_au @auda @isocapac @iaa_limited @aprigf_official #netgov * *ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/pacigf2023 <https://bit.ly/3qP0teV>* Permalink https://isoc.live/16820 - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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