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Attention, Perception and Machine Vision: Videos from King's events
by Joanna Zylinska 09 Feb '24

09 Feb '24

Dear All, I wanted to let you know that recordings from two recent events organised by the Centre for Attention Studies (part of the Digital Futures Institute at King’s College London) are now available online: ATTENTION! This is a playlist of 13 lightning talks on the topic of attention, by King’s scholars from different disciplines. Presented from a variety of disciplines – from literature, philosophy, education and digital humanities through to psychology, neuroscience, politics and business – the talks are an attempt to map the new field of Attention Studies. This is a field where academic research meets a wider socio-ethical obligation to figure out what it means to live well, with and through technology. You can watch them all here: [1]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU0ka4iPReX6BKqCwKn3VJhwjxy2I XgzN How Humans and Machines See the World The event explored the following questions: Can machines see? What does it mean for humans to endow machines with the capacity for seeing? But do we actually understand how humans see the world? And is there even a ‘we’ that does the seeing? The speakers included: Paula Gortázar (Westminster), Daniel Chávez Heras (King’s), Leonardo Impett (Cambridge) and Joanna Zylinska (King’s). Watch the recording: [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CtwWBqE_Aw&ab_channel=King%27sDigit alFuturesInstitute Best, Joanna -- Joanna Zylinska Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice Director (Interim) of the [3]Centre for Attention Studies King's College London Department of Digital Humanities NEW BOOK: [4]The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI (MIT Press, open access) [5]Website [6]IG research notebook References 1. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU0ka4iPReX6BKqCwKn3VJhwjxy2IXgzN 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CtwWBqE_Aw&ab_channel=King'sDigitalFuturesInstitute 3. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/centre-attention-studies 4. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546836/the-perception-machine/ 5. http://www.joannazylinska.net/ 6. https://www.instagram.com/joanna.zylinska/

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Workshop Announcement "Perspectives on Hybrid Human–AI Systems. Bringing Together Interdisciplinary Approaches"
by Libuše Hannah Vepřek 09 Feb '24

09 Feb '24

******************************** Apologies for cross-posting ******************************** Dear colleagues and list members, We would like to draw your attention to the interdisciplinary workshop "Perspectives on Hybrid Human-AI Systems. Bringing Together Interdisciplinary Approaches" which will take place from April 10 to 12, 2024, in Munich, Germany. The workshop will bring together researchers, experts, and individuals interested in hybrid human-AI systems to discuss how different disciplines understand and address these hybrid systems, and how these individual perspectives can contribute to an interdisciplinary understanding of the collaboration between humans and machines. The full abstract is available below. We look forward to presentations from cultural and social anthropology, sociology, philosophy and ethics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computer science, and media informatics by (in alphabetical order) Christoph Bareither (University of Tübingen) Anne Dippel (University of Jena) Steven Dorrestijn (Saxion University of Applied Sciences) Orit Halpern (TU Dresden) Catholijn Jonker (TU Delft) Gertraud Koch (University of Hamburg) Pietro Michelucci (Human Computation Institute) Rainer Mühlhoff (University of Osnabrück) Albrecht Schmidt (LMU Munich) Roanne van Voorst (University of Amsterdam) The complete program, including the Lightning Talk panels, can be found at https://www.ekwee.uni-muenchen.de/vkee_download/hhais-workshop_program_shor… For further information visit: https://www.ekwee.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/hybrid-human_ai…. Participation is free of charge. Registrations are accepted until *March 15, 2024*, by email at hhais-workshop(a)ekwee.uni-muenchen.de. Questions can be directed to Libuše Vepřek: libuse.veprek(a)uni-tuebingen.de Note: Due to a limited number of places and for sustainability reasons, we ask for a binding registration with a 30 Euro deposit, which will be refunded after the conference. Our experience has shown that often participants register but then do not show up, leading to a significant over-preparation of food and other resources that ultimately go to waste. With this practice, we aim to avoid this as much as possible. If registered guests do not show up, the money will be donated to a social or cultural project. Johannes Moser, Leonie Thal und Libuše Hannah Vepřek Perspectives on Hybrid Human-AI Systems. Bringing Together Interdisciplinary Approaches  Johannes Moser, Libuše Hannah Vepřek, and Leonie Thal  The research fields of /Human Computation/ and /Hybrid Intelligence/ investigate how the capabilities of humans and computers can be combined in novel ways, thereby overcoming the limitations of today’s strictly computational /Artificial Intelligence/ systems, and yielding the ability to address problems that neither can solve on their own. Such hybrid human–AI systems are of interest to several scientific disciplines, including computer science, philosophy, sociology, design, and cultural anthropology, as they not only enable new computational and engineering capabilities while posing interesting new problems on their own but also influence societies on a structural level and our everyday life at the micro level. They elicit questions on the human–AI relations in these hybrid systems that are ethical, judicial, social, cultural, logical, algorithmic, practical, and material in nature. This workshop brings together scholars, experts, and interested parties with an interest in hybrid human–AI systems to learn how different disciplines understand and approach these systems. The aim is to discuss how each discipline can contribute to an interdisciplinary understanding of the collaboration of humans and machines in such hybrid systems. With this workshop, we want to spark new conversations between different disciplines, addressing, among others, the following questions: * How does human computation and hybrid intelligence relate to pursuits of and discourses on /Artificial General Intelligence/ / /Strong AI/? * How can we grasp human-technology and societal relations unfolding within these systems? * How is trust established and (re)negotiated in such systems? * What forms of ethics arise in and with hybrid human-AI systems? * What are the unique perspectives of the different disciplines, and how can these inform one another? * How can we arrive at understandings that consider the disciplines’ different approaches and modes of reasoning? * How can we work together on these topics?  The workshop is organized as part of the research project “Playing /in the Loop/: New Human-Software Relations in Human Computation Systems and their Impacts on the Spheres of Everyday Life” funded by the German Research Foundation. The Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, and the Münchner Vereinigung für Volkskunde e.V. provide additional funding for the workshop.  April 10–12, 2024 Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation Südliches Schloßrondell 23 80638 Munich, Germany. -- Libuše Hannah Vepřek, M.A., M.Sc. Pronomen / Pronouns: sie, ihr / she, her Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft Universität Tübingen Burgsteige 11 72070 Tübingen

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Call for Chapters: Handbook on Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence
by sahana udupa 09 Feb '24

09 Feb '24

Dear all, *Call for chapters* *Handbook on Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence* Edited by Sahana Udupa, Michiel Baas and Peter Hervik We are pleased to invite chapter contributions for the upcoming handbook on “Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence” (contracted with Edward Elgar Publishing, London). The handbook is designed as a comprehensive collection of anthropological studies on AI, covering empirical, methodological, theoretical and reflexive works emerging within the discipline of anthropology. We welcome submissions that may include original ethnographic fieldwork, conceptual or theoretical developments, methodological discussion or a combination of these. Authors are invited to send an extended abstract (1200 words) that engage with any of the topics below: - Anthropology and the post-human: Genealogies and current debates - AI in the majority world - Critical studies of AI: Coloniality, race, gender, sexualities - Regulation, governance and politics - AI in everyday life (care work, health, finance, farming and other fields of application) - Art, creativity, and imagination - Ethnographies of AI developers, labs and developer spaces, coding practices - Geek/hacker communities, resistance and activism - Anthropological methods with, around or against AI - Ethics and AI - Disinformation and extreme speech - AI and the anthropocene (environment, cosmologies, multispecies anthropology) - Speculative musings - what do futures with or without AI look like? What is anthropology’s stake in defining the future course of AI? - AI, anthropology and human consciousness Please email the abstracts with a brief bio to ai4dignity(a)ethnologie.lmu.de before 20 March 2024. Please feel free to contact us using the above email ID if you have any questions. Shortlisted abstracts will be invited to submit full chapters (6000 words, including references). Full chapters are due by 31 October 2024. The handbook will feature original contributions which are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Best wishes *** Sahana Udupa | Professor of Media Anthropology | LMU Munich PI, ERC Consolidator Grant, Contentious Speech on Small Platforms Selected publications: https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/SahanaUdupa

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Reminder: CFP - Abstracts Due Feb 29, 2024 - All Things In Moderation
by Venessa Paech 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

Dear Colleagues, I hope the New Year has been treating you well. A reminder that the CFP for the second annual All Things in Moderation conference<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/N_v7CP7LAXf0XMGrVUzu1im?domain=allthingsi…> (16-17 May, 2024) closes on Feb 29, 2024. 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS: MODERATION IN TIMES OF CRISIS Proposal deadline: Feb 29, 2024. Papers due May 2024. ATIM is a virtual conference to ensure accessibility and inclusivity. The inaugural All Things in Moderation was held in May 2023 and was a great success, uniting moderation researchers, policymakers and practitioners from around the world around the theme of 'Cultures of Care'. Last years program can be accessed here.<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/MHnQCQnMBZfXPrAEZuP_JwV?domain=events.zoo…> Some speakers for 2024 have been announced (and early-bird tickets are now on sale) –https://bit.ly/ATIM2024 The world is experiencing an age of poly-crises, including increasing environmental disasters, rising refugee numbers and displacement, war and invasion, generational economic inequities, declining social cohesion, a rise in authoritarianism and a decline in democracy, surging online hate, and more. These concerns are deeply interconnected, and, although they impact regions and communities unevenly, they materialise in a wide range of online communities and digital social settings. Humans who moderate are tasked with building or maintain safe, constructive interactions and cultures for diverse purposes - amongst and despite these crises - and in many cases, are leveraging their moderation practices to facilitate empathy and understanding. All Things in Moderation 2024 puts the age of crises under the microscope, and seeks to examine the role and impacts of online moderation in this era, with the goal of generating critical research and promoting greater understanding and visibility of diverse moderation practices. We invite papers and academic contributions for ATIM 2024 that focus on the following and related themes: * Moderation in times of crisis (social, political, cultural, economic, environmental, etc.)  * The impact of war on online communities and moderators  * Moderation as a colonising or decolonising practice  * Moderating online activism  * Moderation as resistance  * Trauma informed approaches to moderation  * The relationships between state actors, platforms and moderators  * How automation and AI is impacting moderation in turbulent times  We welcome proposals for papers or panel (with several papers) exploring any and all aspects of these topics. In particular, we welcome submissions from non-dominant voices in academic or media on these issues, and from the global South. Email Abstracts or Proposals of 300 words with a short biography to venessa.paech(a)sydney.edu.au by February 29, 2024. Final papers are due in May 2024 for summarised presentation at the conference. Organisers plan to pursue a special issue journal based on contributions. Regards, VENESSA PAECH, BFA, MA She/Hers PhD Student | Community in the Age of Machine Culture Department of Media and Communication | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Lecturer: Community Management Phone: + 61 0435 217 315

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ACM MobiHoc 2024: Oct 7-10, 2024, Athens, Greece
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

=========================================================== Our apologizes for multiple copies of this email ============================================================ ACM MobiHoc 2024: Oct 7-10, 2024, Athens, Greece https://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2024/ Call for Papers ACM MobiHoc is a premier conference with a highly selective single-track technical program dedicated to addressing the challenges emerging from networked and distributed systems that must operate in the face of dynamics, ranging from changing user demands to connectivity and resource availability. Examples of such dynamic networks include wired/wireless communication networks, datacenters, Internet-of-Things and sensors, mobile autonomous systems, energy, social, and transportation networks. We encourage work that presents new performance evaluation methods, novel algorithms, or provides fundamental insights for these systems. We are interested both in innovative works in an unexplored and/or emerging topic in the broad area of networks, and in novel findings and/or new insights that build on existing works. The specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Internet-of-Things (IoT), 5G, and next-generation wireless systems * Blockchain, social networks, societal networks, and emerging networked systems * Cloud computing, edge computing, datacenter networks, and distributed computing over networks * Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and virtual Radio Access Networks * Information-centric networking, network caching, and coded caching * Trust, security, and privacy in networks and networked systems * Coded computation and inference in networks * Incentive mechanism and interaction analysis of networked systems, network economics * Big-data analytics, machine learning for networks and networked systems, and network support to machine learning * Modeling, analysis, optimization, and control in computer and mobile networks * Networked and mobile unmanned/autonomous systems * Experimental studies on mobile networks and networked systems * Networked sensing and communication with new medium, e.g., light/acoustic/mmWave * Low power sensor protocols and energy-harvesting systems * Wearables and mobile health Authors can keep their names on their submitted paper, i.e., submissions are not required to be double blind. Authors can also prepare technical reports that are made available on their own websites and on purely archiving organizations such as arXiv.org. However, all submissions must comply with the dual submission policy. Each paper has a chance to submit a one-page rebuttal for the reviews. All submitted papers will be considered for a Best Paper Award. A selected set of papers will be chosen for fast-tracked publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Papers are expected to be direct and specific about their results, contributions, and context. Important Dates March 24, 2024 Abstract Registration Deadline (11:59pm EST) March 31, 2024 Paper Submission Deadline (11:59pm EST) June 6-12, 2024 Rebuttal July 14, 2024 Notification of Acceptance Oct 7-10, 2024 Conference General Chair * Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece TPC Chairs * Javad Ghaderi, Columbia University, USA * Stefan Schmid, Technical University of Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Associate Professor Computer Engineering 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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Innovative Methods Seminar - Using Games as/for Research
by Gemma Milne 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

[Apologies for cross-posting!] Hey everyone, I'm organising another 'Innovative Methods seminar' as part of the University of Glasgow’s College of Social Science Digital Society & Economy Interdisciplinary Research Theme - I'd love to invite you all! The sessions are online - more details on our February event below, hope to see some of you there. Cheers, Gemma -- Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/innovative-methods-seminar-using-games-asfor… Date: Friday February 23rd, 1pm-2pm About the Innovative Methods Seminar series: Our workshops run for 50 min. each with time for presentation and Q&A. We will have one speaker per each event and all events will be hosted online, via Zoom. Every speaker will share their digital methodology/methods and the project in which the methodology was applied or developed, with a particular focus on the innovative aspects of that methodology, including benefits, challenges, ethical dimensions, challenges, etc. The audience for these workshops are members of the Digital Society and Economy Interdisciplinary Research Theme, including peer scholars and doctoral students. Abstract: We all play games, whether consciously for entertainment and education, or in interacting with digital systems that increasingly ‘gamify’ modern society, hinting towards an unseen future ‘metaverse’. However, how may we further use video games and simulations as research tools? University of Glasgow Games and Gaming Lab runs or hosts different cross-college projects promoting research into games themselves, but also into finding new ways of translating research and data into game form, or using games as innovative research tools. Whether modelling space missions or gaming the effects of generative AI, what are some possibilities and challenges posed by games? Equally, how may our uses of ‘history’ in such games critically change our ways of approaching future simulations? About our speaker: Dr Timothy Noël Peacock is a Lecturer in History and War Studies and Co-Director/founder of the University of Glasgow Games and Gaming Lab (UofGGamesLab). He leads up to 35 researchers, interns and programmers as Principal Investigator for funded research and educational cross-disciplinary innovation projects. His research ranges across nuclear history, space history/security, games and wargaming, to AI and politics, including the socio-political and military impacts of new technologies. -- Gemma Milne PhD researcher, University of Edinburgh School of Social & Political Science Science & Technology writer & broadcaster Co-host of the Radical Science<https://www.sciencedisrupt.com/> podcast Twitter: @gemmamilne<https://twitter.com/gemmamilne> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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4S/EAST panel - Historicizing state quantification in disciplinary and control societies
by Nemer, David (dn6nn) 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

Hello everyone, I would like to invite you to submit your abstract to the panel that we are organizing. Historicizing state quantification in disciplinary and control societies Luke Stark (Western University) Melissa Adler (University of Western Ontario) David Nemer (University of Virginia) https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/14425 Short Abstract: Numerical techniques and technologies used to inscribe and circulate differences—racial, gendered, class, caste-based, and others—are everywhere in disciplinary and control societies. This panel interrogates the history of these quantitative mechanisms of power, and the ways they have been resisted. Long Abstract: Numerous thinkers (including Fanon, Foucault, Deleuze, Crenshaw, Hartman, Freire, and others) have theorized the ways in which the political arithmetic of the capitalist state and its agents has prompted the development of numerical techniques and technologies to inscribe and circulate differences—racial, gendered, class, caste-based, and others—about populations intended for exploitation and dispossession. In this panel, we aim to further interrogate the history of these quantitative, statistical, and inferential mechanisms of power. >From the Enlightenment calculation of early American enslavers to the contemporary deep learning transformations of artificial intelligence (AI) practitioners, and even the human infrastructures that transmit disinformation through messaging apps, numbers have never been neutral nor free from narrative. This panel will focus on the continuities in thinking and practice around the use of numbers as a tool of oppression across both space and time, and the often-nuanced strategies of resistance and cooption that progressive social movements have deployed in response. Some of the questions we hope to see addressed by the panel include the following: • How have historical discourses and ideologies of inequality, oppression, and supremacy prompted, shaped, and refined quantitative or technical metrics and mechanisms of scientific or social differentiation? • How have the developers of these metrics and techniques drawn on transnational or global circuits of oppression? • What are examples of such technical metrics and mechanisms being developed in an overtly oppressive context and then laundered into more general scientific practice? How have professional fields such as medicine, statistics, and psychology grappled with or ignored these historical genealogies? • How have people and communities targeted by such numerical mechanisms resisted, responded, refused, and coopted these technologies? What have been the results of such encounters, and what lessons can contemporary groups dedicated to opposing unfreedom take from these historical examples? -- David Nemer, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Media Studies Faculty Affiliate, Department of Anthropology Interim Director, Latin American Studies Program University of Virginia Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center Visiting Scholar, Institute for Rebooting Social Media Harvard University http://dnemer.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.dnemer.com_&d=DwMGa…> https://twitter.com/DavidNemer<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_DavidNemer…> Books: Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press, 2022), winner of the Marcel Roche Book Award. - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/technology-oppressed<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mitpress.mit.edu_books…> Tecnologia do Oprimido (Editora Milfontes, 2021) - https://editoramilfontes.com.br/loja/Tecnologia_do_oprimido<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__editoramilfontes.com.b…> Favela Digital: The other side of technology (GSA, 2013) - http://favela-digital.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__favela-2Ddigital.com_&d…>

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Reminder: ICA Postconference Digital Sovereignty for Whom? Platforms and Infrastructures in a Global Context
by Olga Boichak 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

Dear Colleagues, A gentle reminder there is a week left to submit your work to our ICA Postconference, *Digital Sovereignty for Whom? Platforms and Infrastructures in a Global Context*, deadline:* 15 February*. This conference will be held at the University of Sydney in a hybrid format. https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA24-DigitalSovereignty Digital sovereignty refers to a countries’ autonomy and control over its digital data, systems and infrastructures. It is a term that has been deployed widely—by liberal states to assert citizens’ rights over the data they produce and by authoritarian states to justify surveilling and controlling their populations. At the same time, flows and forms of digital life offer new constructions of territoriality, governance, and identity, on more personal and humanistic terms. This post-conference brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to assess how new actors, technologies and global power struggles have shaped the discourses, architectures, and practices through which nation-states exercise and experience digital sovereignty. Recent geopolitical crises necessitate a re-thinking of digital sovereignty and its implications for digital policy and international affairs. In contemporary armed conflicts, like in the case of Russia’s war against Ukraine, where battles unfold across all layers of the digital communication spectrum, control over digital data flows has become a key strategic objective. In this context, digital sovereignty can be used to justify policies that facilitate the expansion of state power beyond established territorial borders. At the same time, how critical socio-technical systems are governed and by whom also determines experiences of digital sovereignty. UNESCO's 2023 *Internet for Trust* report calls for the inclusion of diverse perspectives in the global governance of digital platforms. While this recommendation is admirable, it remains unclear how it can be achieved in practice. As we have seen from the last twenty years of internet research, well-meaning governance principles often lack meaningful consultation with the Global South and can be derailed by market forces. Moreover, the continued decentralisation of key internet technologies and postcolonial data practices suggest sovereigns might be reconfiguring away from statist assumptions. By bringing together researchers from diverse jurisdictions, this post-conference aims to explore a range of inclusive and decolonial approaches to digital platform policy and governance, as well as global perspectives on human rights, state power and territoriality under various digital sovereignty regimes. We invite participants to submit a 500-word abstract on topics that fall within the scope of platforms and infrastructure in a global context via email to sicss.admin(a)sydney.edu.au by 15 February 2024. Hosted by the Media & Communications discipline at The University of Sydney and the Critical Digital Infrastructures and Interfaces group at Deakin University, selected participants will be invited to present their work at the post-conference and to submit their papers to a special issue of *Policy & Internet Journal*. *Date* Wednesday, 26 June, 2024 *Location* The University of Sydney/Hybrid Camperdown, NSW *Transportation* The University of Sydney Camperdown campus is located walking distance from Sydney’s central station and CBD. There are numerous hotel and public transport options available around the campus. *This post-conference is organised by:* Joanne Gray (The U of Sydney) Olga Boichak (The U of Sydney) Jonathan Hutchinson (The U of Sydney) Siva Vaidhyanathan (The U of Virginia) Admire Mare (The U of Johannesburg) Luke Heemsbergen (Deakin U) Toija Cinque (Deakin U) We hope to see you there! Olga *Olga BOICHAK*, PhD Senior lecturer <https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/olga-boichak…>, ARC DECRA fellow Director, Computational Social Science Lab <https://computational-social-science.sydney.edu.au/> Early Career Research Network <https://intranet.sydney.edu.au/arts/research/ECR-network.html> coordinator Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences *University of Sydney* @olgarithmic | Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hHzcqw4AAAAJ&hl=en> | olgarithmic.net

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Senior Research and Teaching Associate/Postdoc in Media & Internet Governance, University of Zurich
by Alena Birrer 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

Dear community members, The Media & Internet Governance Division (Prof. Dr. Natascha Just) of the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich invites applications for an open position of Senior Research and Teaching Associate/Postdoc (80%). Start of employment: at the earliest possible / upon agreement. The Media & Internet Governance Division studies media policy and media economics in the convergent communications sector. Alongside research on traditional mass media, the division focuses on Internet Governance and Platform Studies. The successful applicant will work on dedicated topics that align with the division's research program. Further information and application details: https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/senior-research-and-teaching-associate-p… Review of applications starts immediately, but the position will remain open until a qualified candidate is found. Please contact Alena Birrer, MA (a.birrer(a)ikmz.uzh.ch<mailto:a.birrer@ikmz.uzh.ch>) if you have any questions. Alena Birrer, MA Research and Teaching Associate Media & Internet Governance Division Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) University of Zurich Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland Tel. +41 44 635 21 61, www.ikmz.uzh.ch<http://www.ikmz.uzh.ch/>

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Panel at the AECPA Conference
by Ignacio Jesús Serrano Contreras 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

Panel at the AECPA Conference Dear Colleagues. I would like to present the panel I am coordinating at the Political Science Congress organised by the Spanish Political Science Association together with my colleague Dr. Fernández García from the University of Granada. In it we discuss different topics on advances in political science, algorithms and machine learning. If you are interested I share the link and the topics. For more information do not hesitate to write me. Thanks in advance. https://aecpa.es/es-es/avances-en-ciencia-politica-algoritmos-y-machine-lea… GT 4.1 Avances en Ciencia Política: Algoritmos y Machine Learning; una nueva frontera COORDINA: IGNACIO JESÚS SERRANO CONTRERAS (UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA) COMENTA: ANA BELÉN FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA (UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA) Descripción del Panel: La Ciencia Política experimenta una continua evolución, y uno de los campos más prometedores y desafiantes de desarrollo es la integración de metodologías computacionales en la investigación politológica. Este panel tiene como objetivo explorar las últimas tendencias y avances en técnicas de machine learning aplicadas a los ámbitos político, comunicativo y social, proporcionando una visión general de cómo estas herramientas pueden enriquecer y transformar nuestra comprensión de la realidad. Temas a tratar: - Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, Minería de Texto y Análisis de Discurso: Una aproximación multidisciplinar al Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN) que profundiza en el papel interdisciplinario de la ciencia política y la comunicación en el desarrollo de esta área. Se dará especial atención a trabajos que utilicen técnicas de traslación del lenguaje humano al lenguaje de máquina, con enfoques en el estudio computacional de elementos como el discurso político, programas electorales, documentos legislativos y análisis de medios de comunicación. - Análisis de Redes Sociales y Política: Exploración de técnicas de análisis de redes sociales para la extracción y minería de datos. Además, se podrán plantear enfoques teóricos a través de trabajos empíricos para analizar cuestiones como la polarización política o la radicalización en plataformas digitales. - Speech to Text del carácter cualitativo de las entrevistas, debates y noticieros a su cuantificación: Discusión y presentación de técnicas algorítmicas sobre cómo la transcripción automática de discursos políticos puede facilitar el análisis de entrevistas o debates, permitiendo la búsqueda y cuantificación de temas y argumentos clave. - Computer Vision en Política: Presentación de investigaciones que aplican la visión computacional para el estudio de imágenes y videos políticos, incluyendo la detección de sentimientos, así como el análisis del lenguaje no verbal y la identificación de objetos y figuras políticas. - ¿IA?: Un debate multidisciplinar sobre las cuestiones que atañen a la ciencia política en el desarrollo e implementación de modelos computacionales. Objetivos: Este panel tiene como objetivo fomentar la discusión y el intercambio de conocimientos entre académicos, investigadores y profesionales de la Ciencia Política interesados en la aplicación de tecnologías avanzadas como minería de texto, procesamiento del lenguaje natural, computer vision, speech to text y el análisis de redes sociales. Pretendemos destacar las oportunidades y los desafíos de estas tecnologías en el análisis político y promover la colaboración multidisciplinar, además de reflexionar acerca del papel que los algoritmos desempeñan hoy día en los debates teóricos y empíricos. Formato del Panel: El panel contará con presentaciones de expertos en los temas mencionados, seguidas de una sesión de preguntas y respuestas con la audiencia. También se animará a los asistentes a participar activamente en la discusión y a compartir sus propias experiencias en la aplicación de estas tecnologías en la Ciencia Política.

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