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CFP: Social Media, Religion, and Culture edited Volume
by Dheepa Sundaram 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

Hi AOIR friends! Apologies for cross-posting. Please see the below CFP for an edited volume titled Social Media, Religion, and Culture (under contract with Routledge Press) Social Media, Religion, and Culture Call for Papers Editors: Dheepa Sundaram, University of Denver (dheepa.sundaram(a)du.edu) Cindy Tekobbe, University of Illinois-Chicago (ctek(a)uic.edu) Timeline: Submit a 300-word abstract and title by Dec 16, 2024. Also include name and affiliation (if any). Submit Proposals here: https://forms.gle/kqMWtHwBnN3Xd6ef7 Selected authors will be notified by January 10, 2025. 4000 word essays should be submitted to authors by July 31, 2025. Peer-review of chapters is available upon request. Full CFP and Description of the Volume: https://www.smrce.org/social-media-religion-and-culture-open-access Overview: Social media platforms are the modern public square, supporting and fostering publics and counterpublics (Castells 1996; Warner 2001). Networked counter/publics, as social technologies (Marres 2017), both reflect analog spaces and provide digital contact between ideologies, religious practices, political thought, and cultures. This volume delves into the cultural production apparatus of social media (Bourdieu 1983; Baym 2010). It also builds on earlier work on social media, religion, and digital culture, including conceptualizations of internet religion (Cowan and Hadden 2000; Basher, 2004; Hoover, 2006), religion, media, and branding (Einstein 2007) and digital religion and new media (Helland, 2002; Campbell, 2010, 2013), digital rituals and games (Wagner 2013; Campbell and Grieve (2014), religious authority online (Hoover 2016) and more recently, digital religion and third space (Echchaibi and Hoover 2023). Digital cultural studies and new media have progressed to consider how identity and intersectional politics impact digital spaces such as histories and imaginaries of software (Chun 2013); race, media, technology (Nakamura 2000, 2002, 2007, 2011; Browne 2015; Benjamin 2019a; Noble 2018; Buolawini 2023), digital iterations of gender and sexuality (O’Riordan and Phillips 2007; Cardenas 2022) and internet activism, social justice networks, and digital surveillance (Jackson, Bailey, and Welles 2020; Benjamin 2019b, 2024, Browne 2024). We are seeking contributions for our volume on social media, religion, and culture, with a focus on scholars/scholarship of the global south. This volume seeks to bring together “religion” and “culture” as broad, discursive fields within social media specifically and digital platforms more generally to understand how publics, communities, and meaning-making mechanisms are formed, how they interact with the analog world, and how the affordances of social media enable new iterative aspects of canon, praxis, and affinity. In this sense, “religion” includes institutional and non-institutional spiritual, devotional, and canonical traditions and beliefs, as well as, more broadly, the communities of practice that form in social media spaces. We engage the term “culture” to mean the affinities that form within social media spaces, which include narratives of belonging, spiritual connections, activism, political imagination, shared histories and stories, traditional teachings of identity, and other practices that serve to knit together communities. Potential topics include (but are not limited to): The role of AI in cultural production and/or religious identity AI, technosalvationism, and/or technolibertarianism AI, capitalism, and culture AI, labor, and religion Religion/Culture, brands, and social media Religion/Culture, identity, and social networks, platform moderation Religion, ethnonationalism, and social media Digital hate cultures and social media LGBTQIA+ activism, religion, and social media; particular interest in Transgender communities, identities, solidarities, activism and social media Black religions, cultures, and social networks Areligious, agnosticism, atheism, and “nones” and social media Race/Racialization, religion/culture, and social networking Anti-caste activism, publics, social networks, and solidarities Islamophobia and social networks Indigenous sacred spaces, rituals, communities and social networks Religious traditions, rituals, cultural practices, identities, communities, publics, and social networks. Religious affinity groups on social media platforms Social media, fascist politics, religion/culture Religion, environmentalism, identity and social media Intersections of social media and democracy Social media, memes, and identity Social media activism and affinity groups Social media, Indigenous cultures and communities, and identity Publics, counterpublics, and micropublics on social media Social media devotional publics and networks Global gurus and cultural influencers Meaning-making mechanisms and social media Social media cultural production Intersections between social media, religion, and capitalism Social media art and activism Digital canons and social media Social media and political religion Indigenous art, social media platforms, and commerce Virality, social media, and cultural movements Please contact Dheepa Sundaram (dheepa.sundaram(a)du.edu) and Cindy Tekobbe (ctek(a)uic.edu) with any questions. We look forward to receiving your proposals! Thank you! With best wishes, Dheepa and Cindy Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her/hers)<https://www.mypronouns.org/> Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Affiliate Faculty-IRISE Affiliate Faculty-Gender and Women's Studies Sturm Hall 269 303.871.2888 University of Denver Cheyenne and Arapaho Territories Co-chair, North American Hinduism Unit, American Academy of Religion Website: g<http://digitaldarsanparty.com/>lobalizingdharma.com<http://lobalizingdharma.com/> Twitter: @themodsisyphus

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[CFP] Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence Conference (HHAI 2025) - June 9–13, Pisa, Italy
by Chiara Natali 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

-------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS HHAI 2025 - Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence https://hhai-conference.org/2025/ June 9–13, 2025, Pisa, Italy -------------------------------------------------- Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) is an international conference series that focuses on the study of Artificial Intelligence systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying instead of replacing human intelligence. HHAI aims for AI systems that work together with humans, emphasizing the need for adaptive, collaborative, responsible, interactive and human-centered intelligent systems. HHAI systems leverage human strengths and compensate for human weaknesses, while taking into account social, ethical and legal considerations. HHAI 2025 will be held on June 9–13, 2025, in Pisa, Italy, and is the fourth conference in the series. The HHAI field is driven by developments in AI, but it also requires fundamentally new approaches and solutions. Thus, we encourage collaborations across research domains such as AI, HCI, cognitive and social sciences, philosophy and ethics, complex systems, and others. In this fourth international conference, we invite scholars from these fields to submit their best original – new as well as in progress – works, and visionary ideas on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. **Join the HHAI community and keep up with the news:** Website: https://hhai-conference.org/2025/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hhai-conference/ X: https://x.com/hhai_conference Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@hhai IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: January 17th, 2025 Paper submission: January 24th, 2025 Acceptance notification: March 16th, 2025 Camera-ready version: April 13th, 2025 Conference: June 9-13, 2025 LOCATION HHAI 2025 will be an in-person, single-track conference organized in Pisa, Italy. Workshops and tutorials (9-10 June) will be held at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. The main conference (11-13 June) will be held at CNR. TOPICS We invite research on different challenges in Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. The following list of topics is illustrative, not exhaustive: - Human-AI interaction, interpretation and collaboration - Adaptive human-AI co-learning and co-creation - Learning, reasoning and planning with humans and machines in the loop - User modeling and personalisation - Integration of learning and reasoning - Transparent, explainable, and accountable AI - Fair, ethical, responsible, and trustworthy AI - Societal awareness of AI - Multimodal machine perception of real-world settings - Social signal processing - Representations learning for Communicative or Collaborative AI - Symbolic representations for human-centric AI - Human-AI Coevolution - Foundation models and humans - Human cognition-aware AI - Decentralized human-AI systems - Reliability and robustness in human-AI systems - Applications of hybrid human-AI intelligence We welcome contributions about all types of technology, from robots and conversational agents to multi-agent systems and machine learning models. PAPER TYPES In this conference, we wish to stimulate the exchange of novel ideas and interdisciplinary perspectives. To do this, we will accept three different types of papers: - Full papers present original, impactful work (12 pages excluding references) - Blue sky papers present visionary ideas to stimulate the research community (8 pages excluding references) - Working papers present work in progress (8 pages excluding references) Accepted full papers and Blue sky papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Hybrid Human-Machine Intelligence, in the Frontiers of AI series by IOS Press. Working papers can be included in these proceedings, unless the authors request the paper to remain unpublished. REVIEWING PROCESS & SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions of full, blue-sky, and working papers should be original work without substantial overlap with pre-published papers. All submissions should adhere to IOS formatting guidelines. Papers should be written in English and detailed submission instructions can also be found here. **Important** HHAI 2025 will follow a double-blind reviewing process. Thus, submissions must exclude all information that might disclose the authors’ names or affiliations. All studies involving human participants should have received human-research ethics consent from the relevant institutions and mention this in the paper. Work should be submitted in PDF format via Easychair (link to be announced soon). On acceptance, at least one author should attend the conference. A significant contribution is expected from all authors. PROGRAM CHAIRS Chiara Boldrini (IIT-CNR, IT) Luca Pappalardo (ISTI-CNR, IT) Andrea Passerini (University of Trento, IT) Shenghui Wang (University of Twente, NL) CONFERENCE CHAIRS Michela Milano (University of Bologna, IT) Dino Pedreschi (University of Pisa, IT) Stuart Russell (University of California Berkeley, US) Ilaria Tiddi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) CONTACT INFORMATION For questions, you can reach the program chairs at: program(a)hhai-conference.org

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WEBCAST NOV 26 – ICANN81 Readout – Highlights & Take-Aways from the Annual General Meeting
by Joly MacFie 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

This has just started REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3ZaeSzk [image: ISOC LIVE] <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=1994ea96293273f6ab77a91…> On *Tuesday November 26, 2024*, at *16:30-18:00 CET* (15:30-17:00 UTC), *eco – Association of the Internet Industry <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=66e67de99fa8cd984f2e479…>* and *ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=e18b8cab841bce96b9b16bc…>* will jointly host '*ICANN81 Readout – Highlights & Take-Aways from the Annual General Meeting <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=d24eb7f851841594ccb3b70…>*'. Speakers from different constituencies of the ICANN community will provide an overview of the highlights and key take-aways of the hybrid *ICANN81 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=89c0938a7ddb2fa6cc18821…>* meeting in Istanbul from their respective constituencies. *SPEAKERS* *Nicolas Caballero*, Chair of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) *Jordan Carter*, Vice Chair of the ccNSO Council *Greg DiBiase*, Chair of the GNSO Council *Philippe Fouquart*, Chair of the ISPCP *Joanna Kulesza*, Vice Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) *Ram Mohan*, Chair of the SSAC *HOSTS* *Christopher Mondini*, Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement & Managing Director, Europe, ICANN Org *Thomas Rickert*, Director Names & Numbers, eco – Association of the Internet Industry *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/eco-icann81 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=99e5e52b0941ae8fe2682e2…>* *PARTICIPATE VIA GOTOWEBINAR https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5031705395129504343 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=d24eb7f851841594ccb3b70…>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see *ISOC.LIVE <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=1994ea96293273f6ab77a91…>* ) *TWITTER #icann81 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=9b4cb19a9a5e9b336acc939…> @eco_EN @ICANN @rmohan123* *#icann81 MASTODON <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=b5cb18b8b59cad1d5f479a9…> | BLUESKY <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=b01a98bb6adecead5b567de…> | INSTA <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=3e317939704b95cb298a1e7…>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=cab4ee9de59e468303444e6…>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=9435c175c2c6d5ce1b193da…>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=db0b9ccc1afa6f184ef461e…>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/eco-icann81 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=8433ab75631fb21f0624814…> *(when available) *** ISOC.LIVE is a free community webcasting support service sponsored by the the Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) - ISOC LIVE is currently unfunded - if you would like to become a monthly sponsor - contact support(a)isoc.live *** - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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interview with European Center for Populism Studies
by Paul Levinson 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Video and transcript of European Center for Populism Studies interview with me last week about social media, Musk, and freedom of expression https://www.populismstudies.org/professor-levinson-elon-musk-must-choose-be… -- PL

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4y postdoc position in critical AI studies
by JOBIN Anna 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Hello all, I am recruiting a postdoc to join our "PerformingAI" project team at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and encourage AoIRistas to apply. No disciplinary pre-requisits beyond a phd in social sciences (broadly defined). German and/or French skills strongly preferred. It is not a remote position but comes with flexibility and great working conditions. More detailed information in the job ad and below: https://human-ist.unifr.ch/en/news/news/32103/ ***** As part of the international research project "Performing Artificial Intelligence—Governance, Agency, Action: an Interdisciplinary Inquiry", funded by the SNSF, the Institute Human-IST (Dr. Anna Jobin) at the University of Fribourg invites applications for a Postdoctoral Position (70-80%; extendable up to 4 years). The overall research project is dedicated to the discursive, situational, aesthetic, and material constitution of AI. The team of Dr. Anna Jobin will focus on discursive performativity in the area of AI policy, with the future postdoc having some freedom in shaping the analysis of AI governance. Your tasks: * Collaboration on the research project * Publications and conference participations (national and international) * Further academic activities within the team's areas of focus * General supervision, coordination, and administrative work Your profile: * Recently completed doctoral studies in a social science discipline (especially sociology, political science, communication science, STS) * Strong interest in the research topic; interest in interdisciplinarity and theory development; reflexivity regarding one's own research practice * Very good knowledge of various research methods and their application * Existing expertise in the areas of AI policy and/or Swiss political processes is advantageous * Excellent time management, ability to take initiative, and work independently * Very good English skills in speaking and writing, good knowledge of German or French (passive knowledge of the other language is an advantage) We offer * Interdisciplinary contemporary research on a current topic in politics and society * A collegial, multilingual work environment with excellent infrastructure * Attractive, flexible working conditions with diverse opportunities for further education Starting date: March 1, 2025, or by agreement Please send your electronic application to Esther Mauron esther.mauron AT unifr.ch. Please include a CV, copies of your diplomas, an existing writing sample in English (article, dissertation chapter, or similar), and a brief outline of your research ideas on the project topic. The selection process begins on December 2, and the position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found. If you have any questions, please contact anna.jobin AT unifr.ch. _____ Dr. Anna Jobin | anna.jobin(a)unifr.ch<mailto:anna.jobin@unifr.ch> Senior Researcher & Lecturer | Digital Society<https://human-ist.unifr.ch/en/studies/master/digital-society-ma-minor-progr…> study advisor HUMAN-IST | University of Fribourg | 1700 Fribourg | Switzerland

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CFP for AI special issue of Imaginations Journal
by Aline Zara 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Dear AoIR community: (sorry for cross-posting!) Call for Proposals: (Re)Imagining AI Interventions///Intervening (into) AI Imaginaries https://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/cfps Deadline: 500-word abstract due January 15, 2025, papers due June 1, 2025 In an age of endless disruption, how do we live with the rapid advances and early analyses of artificial intelligence software, moral panic, and the voracious consumption of already oppressive datasets and social relations? We have already seen some deep scholarly engagement with issues of ethical database scraping and intellectual property violations (Crawford 2021; Delfanti & Phan 2024; Luka & Millette 2018), environmental impacts (Hogan & Lepage-Richer 2024; Valdivia 2023; MIT Technology Review Insights 2023; Torres 2024), and workflow interferences and augmentations (Ahmed et al 2024; Grohmann et al 2022; Khovanskaya et al 2022; Poell, Nieborg & Duffy 2022). How can we imagine and design critical and creative futures (Alcoff 2020; Nakayama & Morris 2015; Tozer et al 2023; Varon & Peña 2021) for artists, activists, scholars, and consumer-worker-citizens considering these latest AI developments? How do we resist (re)colonization impulses (Couture & Toupin 2019; Campbell & Forman 2023; Hampton 2023) in the AI context? Building on recent work (e.g., Chan et al., 2020; Cifor et al, 2019; Coleman 2023; Lewis 2024; Ricaurte Quijano 2021; Stinson & Vlaad 2024), how can we imagine rebuilding… revisualizing… repairing… refusing… the world(s) we live and work in? In this issue, we want to explore a range of critical framings and interventions that understand AI as the latest wave of technological change that may be able to help or hinder us in our weird and sometimes wonderful daily grind(s), rather than as a totalizing and inevitable replacement of human existence. In this call, we seek accounts and theorizations of research and everyday projects that carry with them a critical analysis of or intervention into the enigmatic promises of AI imaginaries. But we aim to make a larger socio-cultural contribution. We seek to critically imagine and design insightful, sustainable and joyful futures in the context of ubiquitous digital demands and possibilities, including the recent explosion of AI in our work worlds and everyday lives. This special issue will bring together submissions across arts, humanities, visual culture, and media fields of study as well as feminist STS, critical disability, knowledge media design, research-creation, world-building and futurisms studies. We aim to generate provocations, approaches, and examples that can address the renewed racialized, gendered, colonial, economic, and geopolitical power dynamics at play in the AI context. Topics may include but are not limited to: - The ways in which the notion of “self” slithers in the AI context, flowing and drifting between materiality and virtuality, including melding together AI capabilities with/around/about prosthetics, digital intimacy, and affect; - Critiquing reactive and derivative predictive models and modes of futurisms and imagining ways of looking that incorporate but go beyond foresight, “for-see,” and socially just world-building opportunities; - How we can create meaning-making with emerging technologies, reversing the notion that technological creators do not know how technology will be used by general publics and vice-versa; - The ways that we are already experiencing AI apathy, as forms of technological fatigue, civic disengagement, or pedagogical frustration; - How AI operates as the latest technological “disruptor” in a digital landscape littered with the debris of its predecessors. For example, how do early adopters and artists harvest the opportunities presented by AI as a society and disciplinary “disruptor” in social and commercialized ways? - Why and how tension is amped up through conflicts generated by open or accessible “democratic” modes of creativity and inclusion and the commercialization impetus of “Creative Industries.” For example, how can the idea of “open AI” and the operations of “Open AI” (the company) be theorized together or separately; - Analysing the specificity of impacts of Generative AI on creativity and visual cultures in/from the Global South, potentially extending into considerations of how industrial structures are being normalized in Global North (minority) forms, reshaped by AI and emergent digital technologies; - The potential for AI to outright kill, or by some means rekindle (sub)cultural literacies, expressions, and formats (fanfiction, social media, video, audio, publishing); - Curatorial critiques and valorizations of AI exhibitions and artistic work, including how some tools limit or support the creative explorations of marginal artists, artistic legacies and narratives; - The effect of AI on creative labour, how systems of cultural production and distribution inevitably privilege capital over creative workers and consumer-worker-citizens, and how active resistance to such privilege can repair and revive these fields of production and distribution Contributions may include: research articles or manifestos (4,000-6,000 words), video essays, multimedia research-creation pieces, and exhibition and book reviews (approx. 1,500 words). Contributions may be in English or French. Email your 500 word abstract by January 15, 2025 and/or enquiries to: Maryelizabeth.luka(a)utoronto.ca Caroline.klimek(a)utoronto.ca Aline.zara(a)mail.utoronto.ca Guest Edited by Mary Elizabeth (ME) Luka, Caroline Klimek, and Aline Zara, University of Toronto. Appel à contributions : (Ré)Imaginer les interventions en IA /// Intervenir dans les imaginaires de l'IA https://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/cfps Date limite : résumé de 500 mots à soumettre avant le 15ème janvier 2025, articles à remettre pour le 1er juin 2025 À une époque de bouleversements incessants, comment cohabitons-nous avec les avancées fulgurantes de l'intelligence artificielle, les analyses préliminaires, la panique morale et la consommation vorace de bases de données déjà oppressives et des relations sociales qui les accompagnent ? Des chercheurs se sont déjà penchés sur des questions profondes telles que le raclage éthique des bases de données et les violations de la propriété intellectuelle (Crawford 2021; Delfanti & Phan 2024; Luka & Millette 2018), les impacts environnementaux (Hogan & Lepage-Richer 2024; Valdivia 2023; MIT Technology Review Insights 2023; Torres 2024), ainsi que les interférences et augmentations dans les flux de travail (Ahmed et al 2024; Grohmann et al 2022; Khovanskaya et al 2022; Poell, Nieborg & Duffy 2022). Comment pouvons-nous imaginer et concevoir des futurs critiques et créatifs (Alcoff 2020; Nakayama & Morris 2015; Tozer et al 2023; Varon & Peña 2021) pour les artistes, activistes, chercheurs et citoyens-consommateurs-travailleurs face à ces dernières évolutions de l'IA ? Comment résistons-nous aux impulsions de (re)colonisation (Couture & Toupin 2019; Campbell & Forman 2023; Hampton 2023) dans le contexte de l'IA ? En s'appuyant sur des travaux récents (par exemple, Chan et al., 2020; Cifor et al, 2019; Coleman 2023; Lewis 2024; Ricaurte Quijano 2021; Stinson & Vlaad 2024), comment pouvons- nous imaginer la reconstruction… la re-visualisation… la réparation… le refus… des mondes dans lesquels nous vivons et travaillons ? Dans ce numéro, nous souhaitons explorer une gamme d'encadrements critiques et d'interventions qui comprennent l'IA comme la dernière vague de changement technologique, capable de nous aider ou de nous gêner dans notre quotidien étrange et parfois merveilleux, plutôt que comme un remplacement totalisant et inévitable de l'existence humaine. Dans cet appel, nous sollicitons des récits et des théorisations de projets de recherche et du quotidien qui portent une analyse critique ou une intervention sur les promesses énigmatiques des imaginaires de l'IA. Notre objectif est toutefois de faire une contribution socioculturelle plus large. Nous souhaitons imaginer et concevoir des futurs perspicaces, durables et joyeux dans le contexte des exigences et possibilités numériques omniprésentes, y compris l'explosion récente de l'IA dans nos mondes professionnels et quotidiens. Ce numéro spécial réunira des contributions dans les domaines des arts, des sciences humaines, de la culture visuelle et des médias, ainsi que des études féministes en STS, des études critiques du handicap, de la conception des médias du savoir, de la recherche-création, de la construction de mondes et des études du futurisme. Nous visons à générer des provocations, des approches et des exemples qui peuvent aborder les dynamiques de pouvoir racialisées, genrées, coloniales, économiques et géopolitiques renouvelées à l'œuvre dans le contexte de l'IA. Les sujets abordés peuvent inclure, mais ne sont pas limités à : - Les manières dont la notion de “soi” se glisse dans le contexte de l'IA, entre matérialité et virtualité, incluant la fusion des capacités de l'IA avec/à propos des prothèses, de l'intimité numérique et de l'affect ; - La critique des modèles prédictifs réactifs et dérivés, et l'imagination de modes de regard qui incorporent mais dépassent la prévoyance, la “pré-vision” et les opportunités de construction de mondes socialement justes ; - La façon dont nous pouvons créer du sens avec les technologies émergentes, en inversant l'idée selon laquelle les créateurs technologiques ne savent pas comment la technologie sera utilisée par les publics et vice-versa ; - Les manières dont nous éprouvons déjà une apathie à l'égard de l'IA, sous forme de fatigue technologique, de désengagement civique ou de frustration pédagogique ; - La manière dont l'IA fonctionne comme le dernier “disrupteur” technologique dans un paysage numérique jonché des débris de ses prédécesseurs. Par exemple, comment les premiers utilisateurs et artistes exploitent-ils les opportunités présentées par l'IA en tant que “disrupteur” sociétal et disciplinaire, de manière sociale et commercialisée ? - Pourquoi et comment les tensions sont amplifiées par les conflits générés par les modes créatifs “démocratiques” ouverts ou accessibles et l'impulsion de commercialisation des “industries créatives”. Par exemple, comment l'idée d'“open AI” et les opérations d'“Open AI” (l'entreprise) peuvent-elles être théorisées ensemble ou séparément ? - Les analyses portant sur la spécificité des impacts de l'IA générative sur la créativité et les cultures visuelles dans/de la région du Sud Global, potentiellement en étendant les considérations sur la manière dont les structures industrielles sont normalisées dans les formes (minoritaires) du Nord Global, remodelées par l'IA et les technologies numériques émergentes ; - Le potentiel de l'IA à anéantir ou, d'une manière ou d'une autre, raviver les littératies, expressions et formats (fanfiction, réseaux sociaux, vidéo, audio, édition) (sous-)culturels ; - Les critiques curatoriales et les valorisations des expositions et travaux artistiques liés à l'IA, y compris la manière dont certains outils limitent ou soutiennent les explorations créatives des artistes marginalisés, des legs artistiques et des récits ; - L'effet de l'IA sur le travail créatif, comment les systèmes de production et de distribution culturelle privilégient inévitablement le capital au détriment des travailleurs créatifs et des citoyens- consommateurs-travailleurs, et comment une résistance active à ce privilège peut réparer et raviver ces champs de production et de distribution. Les contributions peuvent inclure : des articles de recherche ou des manifestes (4 000-6 000 mots), des essais vidéo, des pièces de recherche-création multimédia, et des critiques d'exposition et de livre (environ 1 500 mots). Les contributions peuvent être rédigées en anglais ou en français. Envoyez votre résumé de 500 mots avant le 15ème janvier 2025 à : Maryelizabeth.luka(a)utoronto.ca Caroline.klimek(a)utoronto.ca Aline.zara(a)mail.utoronto.ca<mailto:Aline.zara@mail.utoronto.ca> Numéro dirigé par Mary Elizabeth (ME) Luka, Caroline Klimek, et Aline Zara, Université de Toronto. Works Cited/Bibliographie: Ahmed, I., Mim, J., Nandi, D., Khan, S., Dey, A. (2024). Impacts of Text-to-Image Generative AI Tools on Digital Image-making Practices in the Global South. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641951 Alcoff, L. M. (2020). Lugones's World-Making. Critical Philosophy of Race 8 (1-2), 199-211. Campbell, M.V. & Forman, M. (2023). Hip Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production. Intellect. Chan, L., Hall, B., Piron, F., Tandon, R., & Williams, L. (2020). Open Science Beyond Open Access: For and with communities, A step towards the decolonization of knowledge. Ottawa, Canada: Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s IdeaLab Cifor, M., Garcia, P., Cowan, T.L., Rault, J., Sutherland, T., Chan, A., Rode, J., Hoffmann, A.L., Salehi, N., Nakamura, L. (2019). Feminist Data Manifest-No. Retrieved from: https://www.manifestno.com/. Coleman, B. (2023). Reality Was Whatever Happened : Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds. Berlin: K. Verlag. Couture, S., & Toupin, S. (2019). What does the notion of “sovereignty” mean when referring to the digital? New Media & Society, 21(10), 2305-2322. https://doi-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/10.1177/1461444819865984 Crawford, K. 2021. Atlas of AI. New Haven: Yale University Press. Delfanti, A., & Phan, M. (2024). Rip It Up and Start Again: Creative Labor and the Industrialization of Remix. Television & New Media, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/15274764241227613 Grohmann, R., Pereira, G., Guerra, A., Abilio, L. C., Moreschi, B., & Jurno, A. (2022). Platform scams: Brazilian workers’ experiences of dishonest and uncertain algorithmic management. New Media & Society, 24(7), 1611-1631. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221099225 Hampton, L. M. (2023). 'Techno-Racial Capitalism: A Decolonial Black Feminist Marxist Perspective', in Jude Browne, and others (eds), Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data, and Intelligent Machines (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Nov. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192889898.003.0008. Hogan, M., & Lepage-Richer, T. (2024). Extractive AI. Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy. https://www.mediatechdemocracy.com/climatetechhoganlepagericher. Khovanskaya, V., Tandon, U., Arcilla, E., Hussein, M. H., Zschiesche, P., & Irani, L. (2022). Hostile Ecologies: Navigating the Barriers to Community-Led Innovation. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW2), 1-26. Lewis, J. E. (2024). The future imaginary. In T. J. Taylor, I. Lavender III, G. L. Dillon, & B. Chattopadhyay (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of CoFuturisms. New York: Routledge. Luka, M.E., & Millette, M. (2018). (Re)framing Big Data: Activating Situated Knowledges and a Feminist Ethics of Care in Social Media Research. Social Media + Society, 4(2).https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118768297 MIT Technology Review Insights. (2023). “Sustainability starts with the data center,” https://wp.technologyreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MIT_Hitachi_FNL_…. Nakayama, T.K., & Morris, C.E., III. (2015). Worldmaking and Everyday Interventions. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 2(1), v-viii. <https://muse.jhu.edu/article/575372> https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/575372. Poell, T., Nieborg, D. B., & Duffy, B. E. (2022). Platforms and cultural production. Cambridge: Polity. Ricaurte Quijano, P. (2021). Reimagining AI. Feminist AI. https://feministai.pubpub.org/pub/reimagining-ai Stinson, C., & Vlaad, S. (2024). A feeling for the algorithm: Diversity, expertise, and artificial intelligence. Big Data & Society, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231224247 Torres, E. P. (2024, June 24). AI doomers have warned of the tech-pocalypse - while doing their best to accelerate it. Salon. https://www.salon.com/2024/06/24/ai-doomers-have-warned-of-the-tech-pocalyp… Tozer, L., Nagendra, H., Anderson, P. and Kavonic, J. (2023). Towards just nature-based solutions for cities. In Nature-Based Solutions for Cities, eds., T. McPhearson, N. Kabisch, & N. Frantzeskaki, pp. 29-47. Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376762.00011. Varon, J. & Peña, P. (2021). Building a Feminist toolkit to question A.I. systems. Why is A.I. a Feminist Issue? Retrieved from https://notmy.ai/news/algorithmic-emancipation-building-a-feminist-toolkit-…. -- Aline Zara (she/they) PhD student, Faculty of Information University of Toronto aline.zara(a)mail.utoronto.ca<mailto:aline.zara@mail.utoronto.ca>

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Call for Papers AI-Imaginations
by Majsa Storbeck 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Dear colleagues and friends, I hope this email finds you well. I would like to bring to your attention the Call for Papers on the topic of ‘AI-Imaginations’ (see also: attachment): https://www.eur.nl/en/news/call-abstracts-ai-imaginations-future-ai-and-pub… "We need better AI. The goal of this symposium is to envision different approaches from the prevailing paradigm of “law & order,” with its vocabulary of “fighting” and “precautionary thinking.” To find a way forward, we need to create socio-technological imaginaries of “AI to come”: new ways of understanding, envisioning and implementing AI that promotes more equitable, humane, and sustainable societies, in which we focus on empowerment instead of repression. These AI-Imaginations can be used as critical drivers of change in our algorithmic society. To paraphrase sociologist David Lyon: “What might happen if AI were guided by an ontology of peace rather than violence, an ethic of care rather than control, an orientation toward forgiveness rather than suspicion?" The two-day symposium will take place next year, 19-20 June, at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 15th 2025. Would you please circulate the call to colleagues and other interested persons? Many thanks in advance – and all the best! Dutch Surveillance Studies

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[CfP] - Call for Research & Innovation Papers at SEMANTiCS 2025
by Beyza Yaman 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Call for Research & Innovation Papers SEMANTiCS 2025 EU 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 3 - 5, 2025 Important Dates: - Abstract Submission Deadline: April 25 , 2025 - Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2025 - Notification of Acceptance: June 13, 2025 - Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: July 04, 2025 All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12) Submissions will be through Easychair and the submission link will be provided soon. Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available open access. Research and Innovation Track The SEMANTiCS 2025 conference is excited to invite submissions for the Research and Innovation Track, welcoming groundbreaking research contributions, innovative solutions, and experimental studies relevant to the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI-enabled semantics. We also encourage submissions at the intersections of these fields with other scientific and applied disciplines, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange and advancement. Papers should present original work that has not been published or is not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions must adhere to the submission guidelines, including reference formatting and any additional documentation as required. Each submission will undergo a rigorous review process, with at least three independent reviews, evaluating the novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical relevance of the work. Topics of Interest SEMANTiCS 2025 calls for submissions of high-quality research papers across a broad spectrum of topics in Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI. We are particularly interested in new and emerging trends, especially where semantic technologies intersect with evolving fields such as large language models, explainable AI, and trustworthy data infrastructures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management - Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) - Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with knowledge graph integration, generative model grounding) - Reasoning, Rules, and Policies on RAG - Knowledge Engineering and Management (e.g., knowledge acquisition, extraction, integration, and publication workflows) - Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering - Web agents - Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) - Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Data Quality Management and Assurance - Mathematical and Logical Foundations of Knowledge-aware AI - Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (e.g., text, image, audio fusion in graph structures) - Semantic-Enhanced Data Science Pipelines and Processes - Semantics in Blockchain environments (e.g., traceability, decentralized knowledge representation) - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - Internet of Things (IoT), Stream Processing, and Temporal Data Management (e.g., real-time semantic processing and predictive analytics) - Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems powered by Knowledge Graphs - Provenance and Data Change Tracking (e.g., semantic versioning, data updates in distributed settings) - Semantic Interoperability (e.g., cross-domain standards, mapping frameworks, ontology alignment) - Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases - Robust, Scalable, and Fault-Tolerant Semantic Data Systems (e.g., distributed querying, optimization) - User Interfaces and Usability of Semantic Technologies (e.g., visualizations, intelligent user interaction) - Explainable and Interoperable AI - Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., federated querying, link traversal) Applied Semantic Technologies and AI in Real-World Scenarios, such as, but not limited to: - Biomedicine and Health (e.g., Knowledge Graphs for biomedical applications, AI-driven diagnostics, personalized health) - AI for Environmental and Climate Solutions (e.g., semantic modeling for environmental impact, biodiversity knowledge graphs) - Scientific Knowledge Graphs and Open Science (e.g., FAIR data principles, enhanced scholarly communication) - Semantic Technologies in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) - Knowledge Graphs and Hybrid AI for Industry 4.0/5.0 and Predictive Maintenance - Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Preservation - Legal Technology, AI Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance (e.g., AI and legal frameworks, semantic-enabled compliance with the EU AI Act) - Economics and Governance of Data Ecosystems (e.g., data marketplaces, semantic service interoperability, data policy) Submissions will be through Easychair. Stay tuned for the submission link. For Submission Guidelines and Review and Evaluation Criteria please head to the online call for papers: https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep We would highly appreciate it if you could disseminate this call within your network. We look forward to receiving your contributions! Research and Innovation Track Chairs Blerina Spahiu (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT) Mehdi Ali (Lamarr Institute & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Kind Regards, On behalf of the organising committee, Beyza Yaman

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2 open positions: 1x Postdoctoral Researcher, 1x PhD Researcher, please distribute widely
by Monika Palmberger 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Sorry, now with the links (as the hyperlinks did not appear) Dear all, I am very pleased to announce two open positions for a PhD and a Postdoctoral Researcher within the FWF-funded project "Enacting (digital) citizenship from below: A study on care and the uses of digital infrastructure by refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina", which I will be leading at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna 2025-2028. Application deadline: December 9th, 2024 Available positions: Postdoctoral researcher (Job ID: 3285): https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoctoral-Researcher/1142677201/ PhD researcher (Job ID: 3318): https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-Researcher/1142716901/ I would greatly appreciate it if you could share this opportunity with any potential candidates or networks that might be interested. Best wishes, Monika ----------- Dr. Monika Palmberger https://www.monikapalmberger.eu

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2 open positions: 1x Postdoctoral Researcher, 1x PhD Researcher, please distribute widely
by Monika Palmberger 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Dear all, I am very pleased to announce two open positions for a PhD and a Postdoctoral Researcher within the project "Enacting (digital) citizenship from below: A study on care and the uses of digital infrastructure by refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina", which I will be leading at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna 2025-2028. Application deadline: December 9th, 2024 Available positions: Postdoctoral researcher (Job ID: 3285) PhD researcher (Job ID: 3318) I would greatly appreciate it if you could share this opportunity with any potential candidates or networks that might be interested. Best wishes, Monika ----------- Dr. Monika Palmberger https://www.monikapalmberger.eu Latest publications Migrants and New Media: Digital Ethnography, Transnationalism, and Superdiversity. In The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity. 2023. Refugees enacting (digital) citizenship through placemaking and care practices near and far. In Citizenship Studies. 2022. Doing Research at Online and Offline Intersections: Bringing Together Digital and Mobile Methodologies (with Katja Kaufmann). In Media and Communication. 2022. Narratives of Transnational Placemaking. Exploring Migrant Workers’ Hidden Histories through Memory-Guided City Walks. In Narrative Culture. 2022. The Nexus of Anthropology and Narrative: Ethnographic Encounters with Storytelling Practices (with Barbara Götsch). In Narrative Culture. 2022. Special issues Across mobile online and offline spaces: Reflections on methods, practices, and ethics (with Katja Kaufmann). In Media and Communication, 2022. ‘Let me tell you a story‘: anthropological encounters with narrative (with Barbara Götsch). In Narrative Culture, 2022. Book Care across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration (with Azra Hromadzic), Berghahn (Paperback) 2022.

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