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[Call for Papers] TikTok Cultures in Korea (9 September 2024)
by Faye Mercier (Student) 16 Jul '24

16 Jul '24

[Call for Papers] TikTok Cultures in Korea The TikTok Cultures Research Network is calling for submissions for our 10th event ‘TikTok Cultures in Korea’, to be held online via Zoom on 09 September 2024. In recent years the digital platform of TikTok has emerged as a transformative global phenomenon, reshaping digital media landscapes and cultural dynamics worldwide. This is particularly evident in South Korea (hereafter Korea). Renowned for its strong digital infrastructure and advanced technology, Korea has demonstrated a dynamic intersection of TikTok and its cultural landscape. Initially, TikTok was colloquially referred to as a ‘Chinese short video app’ (Piao, 2021) and faced resistance from Korean society and the government. This complicated its entry into a Korean market that proudly favored domestic goods and services. Despite these initial tensions, TikTok has since introduced a new vernacular in pop culture to stimulate the country’s digital economy (Abidin & Lee, 2023), drive technological innovations (Lee, 2023), and foster youth engagement (Cho, 2022; Shafie, 2021). Specifically, in tandem with the country’s developed digital infrastructure, TikTok has seamlessly integrated into Korea’s digital ecosystem and expanded its influence, as seen in the sectors like music streaming services (Park et al., 2023) and e-commerce (Lee 2023; Piao 2021). Beyond Korea's borders, TikTok has facilitated the cultural export of Korean products globally, including the proliferation of K-pop and the broader Hallyu phenomenon through TikTok memes and K-pop TikTok dance challenges (Abidin & Lee, 2023; Oh, 2022). Influencers and their followers also occupy TikTok as a space for cultural exchange and hybridity, engaging with international trends while highlighting unique elements of Korean heritage. This includes showcasing culinary traditions, providing language tutorials, offering geopolitical insights, and featuring travel content that celebrates Korea's rich cultural tapestry (Vazquez-Calvo, 2023). Moreover, TikTok resonates deeply with Korean-related youth, reflecting and shaping national, cultural, social, and economic dynamics in line with Korea's vibrant digital landscape (Baek, 2023). Beyond entertainment and trends, TikTok fosters involvement in and dissemination of news, social movements, and political discourse relevant to Korea (Coscarelli, 2020). It provides a digital arena for civic engagement, activism, and discussions on social issues, serving as a catalyst for shaping public opinion and mobilizing communities around social and political causes (Cho, 2022; Shafie, 2021). Nonetheless, on TikTok pressing issues are also witnessed, such as the commodification and fetishization of Korean cultures and the emergence of sensitive topics and growing tensions between Koreans and non-Koreans, exemplified by movements like #cancelKorea, which demands attention (Madarang, 2020). Against this backdrop, this one-day online symposium aims to investigate the dynamic intersection of TikTok and Korea, examining the profound implications of TikTok in relation to the country’s unique positionality in today’s mediascape. It seeks to explore the multifaceted role of TikTok in Korea, as well as Korean cultures on TikTok, offering a platform for scholars to examine the platform’s diverse impacts on nation, culture, society, and economy. We are particularly interested in original case studies, frameworks, and approaches developed by junior, under-represented, and under-privileged scholars, as well as decolonial perspectives that prioritize research from and by the margins/marginalized in the Asia Pacific and Global South. By integrating these dynamics, we aim to contribute nuanced insights and foster scholarly dialogue that deepens our understanding of the evolving mediascape driven by TikTok within Korean contexts. We invite submissions of original research, theoretical papers, case studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives in the fields of social science and humanities. Selected papers will be considered for a peer reviewed edited collection. As such, we are only able to accept original, previously-unpublished abstracts. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: * TikTok and evolving digital media landscape in Korea (e.g. platformization, digital economies) * Hallyu (Korean wave) and TikTok (e.g. practice, economy, culture, celebrity) * Transnational cultural hybridity and exchange on TikTok * Korean internet vernaculars and genres on TikTok * Korean politics, activism, and social movements on TikTok * Geocultural specificities of Korean TikTok and methodological notes (e.g. TikTok algorithm, meme templates, etc.) * Challenges, issues, tensions arising from the above Submissions comprise a 250-word abstract and 100-word bio and should be sent to TikTokCultures(a)gmail.com<mailto:TikTokCultures@gmail.com> by 1700hrs (GMT+8) 5 August 2024. Notifications will be sent on 12 August 2024. For enquiries please contact TikTokCultures(a)gmail.com<mailto:TikTokCultures@gmail.com>. For more information visit TikTokCultures.com<http://TikTokCultures.com>. Key Dates: * 05 August 2024: Abstracts and biographies due * 12 August 2024: Notifications of acceptance * 09 September 2023: TikTok Cultures in Korea Symposium We look forward to receiving your submissions. Prof Crystal Abidin, Janey Umback, Faye Mercier, Dr Jin Lee TikTok Cultures Research Network (est. 2020), housed at Curtin University References Abidin, C., & Lee, J. (2023). K-pop TikTok: TikTok's expansion into South Korea, TikTok Stage, and platformed glocalization. Media International Australia, 188(1), 86-111. Baek, B-y. (2023). K-dramas, beauty, food to maintain popularity on TikTok in 2024. The Korea Times. 7 December. https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2024/07/129_364666.html Cho, M. (2022). Anonymous, QAnon, Tik-tok teens, K-pop fans. NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies, 11(1), 169-193. Coscarelli, J. (2020). Why Obsessive K-Pop Fans Are Turning Toward Political Activism. The New York Times. 25 June. https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE|A627547667&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r…<https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA627547667&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it…>. Lee, J., & Abidin, C. (2022). Oegugin Influencers and pop nationalism through government campaigns: Regulating foreign‐nationals in the South Korean YouTube ecology. Policy & Internet, 14(3), 541-557. Lee, Y. J. (2023). Language learning affordances of Instagram and TikTok. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 17(2), 408-423. Lee, Y. K. (2023). Marketing Position Analysis of Short-Form Video Platform Through Sns Big Data Analysis: Focus on Tiktok, Shorts, and Reels in Republic of Korea. Shorts, and Reels in Republic of Korea. Madarang<https://interaksyon.philstar.com/author/catalinamadarang/>, C. R. (2020). A deep dive into #CancelKorea trend and why it could be problematic. Interaksyon. 10 September. https://interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2020/09/10/176665/a-deep… Oh, C. (2022). K-pop dance: fandoming yourself on social media. Routledge. Park, S., Jo, H., & Kim, T. (2023). Platformization in local cultural production: Korean platform companies and the K-pop industry. International Journal of Communication, 17, 22. Piao, Y. (2021, October). Study on the spread of Chinese short video in South Korea against the background of cross-cultural communication. In 2nd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2021) (pp. 325-330). Atlantis Press. Shafie, T. (2021). Beyond Slacktivism: The cases of K-pop fans and Tiktok teens. International journal of social science research, 9(2), 147. Vazquez-Calvo, B., Duarte-Marti, S., & Zhang, L. T. (2023). Commenting on learning Korean on TikTok and YouTube. Interactive Learning Environments, 1-18.

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RIP Barry Wellman
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 14 Jul '24

14 Jul '24

As many of you know, Barry Wellman was my doctoral advisor, mentor, co-author, co-editor and great friend. To others he was the founder of the International Network for Social Network Analysis and brought the social network method and perspective to the study of the online interaction at a time when it was called computer-mediated communication and had yet to become Internet research. He was a keynote in the first AoIR conference, and a prolific author and contributor to internet research, studying ‘the net’ as a network and influencing so many that followed. His publication list is long and influential as can be seen on google scholar. What you can’t see from such a list of papers is the influence on those of us who were in the right place at the right time to work and learn with him. When you look at his co-author list, you are seeing a depth of engagement, support, mentorship and friendship in the social network of Barry’s ‘academic children’ including those of us in academic careers and those in industry and government positions – and, his ‘academic grandchildren’ as we followed his example of collaboration. Barry embraced the new network of publication venues for CMC, new media, and internet research, including an early issue of the very new Journal of Computer Mediated Communication with its very new idea of open access, and journals New Media and Society, and Information, Communication and Society. Over his life, Barry never let up on his research. His intense research collaborations included many doctoral students and fellow researchers including his wife Beverly Wellman. His network carries on but we have all lost a lot with his passing. /Caroline Caroline Haythornthwaite chaythor(a)syr.edu Professor Emerita, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University Professor Emerita, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign https://haythorn.wordpress.com/

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 240, Issue 13
by Dr. Rhiannon Bury 12 Jul '24

12 Jul '24

I remember Barry well from those early AOIR days. His work on early internet community ties was important to my doctoral research on online fan communities. RIP Barry. Rhiannon *** Rhiannon Bury, PhD (she/her they/them) Professor, Women's and Gender Studies Athabasca University 1 University Drive Athabasca, Alberta Canada T9S 3A3 1-866-376-9802 (toll free Canada and US) rbury(a)athabascau.ca ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> Sent: July 12, 2024 1:48 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 240, Issue 13 CAUTION: External email. Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe. If you suspect this is a phishing or fraudulent email, report it using the "Phish Alert" button. Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.a…<http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. RIP Barry Wellman (Jeremy Hunsinger) 2. Re: RIP Barry Wellman (Peter Joseph Gloviczki PhD) 3. Assange (Dr. Emma Briant) 4. Re: RIP Barry Wellman (Charles M. Ess) 5. Call for Chapters: Electronic Shaman: Nam June Paik, Shamanism, and Emerging Media (Joonseong Lee) 6. Barry Wellman (Nicholas John) 7. Special issue CfP: Digital Transformations in Asian Politics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications for Democracy (Dechun Zhang) 8. Re: Call for Papers: Colloquium "Rethinking the digital virtual as a regime of action, experience and relationship" (Francesca Musiani) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 18:16:02 -0400 From: Jeremy Hunsinger <jeremy(a)tmttlt.com> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] RIP Barry Wellman Message-ID: <CALCDE-L4FGHTeGTz7mypedNkoWrsAovMzw=shNbutfmJRMmnXQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" There is more info from other places, but Barry passed. He made many contributions to the field and he will be missed by many. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:41:18 -0500 From: Peter Joseph Gloviczki PhD <pj-gloviczki(a)wiu.edu> To: Jeremy Hunsinger <jeremy(a)tmttlt.com> Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] RIP Barry Wellman Message-ID: <CAFYqUjxo3CQDkupOqeBiABnBOJLqLmLzHj3R8pcLen_aJhWkRg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Thank you, Jeremy, for letting us know. Barry was generous. He Zoomed with my Studies in New Media students at Coker College in (about) 2014. That broad, engaging spirit is what I will remember most about him. Peter [image: email graphic] <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiu.ed…<http://www.wiu.edu/>> *Peter Joseph Gloviczki, Ph.D.*Professor Program Coordinator, Broadcasting & Journalism School of Communication and Media Western Illinois University 1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455 309-298-2623 (office) Schedule a meeting via Calendly: https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalendly.…<https://calendly.com/pj-gloviczki/30min> On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 5:17?PM Jeremy Hunsinger via Air-L < air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > There is more info from other places, but Barry passed. He made many > contributions to the field and he will be missed by many. > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2…<http://aoir.org/> > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.a…<http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.o…<http://www.aoir.org/> > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:38:33 +1000 From: "Dr. Emma Briant" <teflpolsoc(a)gmail.com> To: MECCSA(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, AOIR <Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Assange Message-ID: <CABj7ASu7e2L51_a5XVnGGgNJ8MJ1ftLt4=F_NE-W1X4NKZrZvw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Dear Colleagues, I have responded to a recent article <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crike…<https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/06/28/julian-assange-journalist-definition-w…>> in Crikey 'Yes, Julian Assange is a journalist' by Johan Lidberg Head of Journalism at Monash University with my own counter-argument: 'Reader reply: I?ve experienced state-backed hacks. Assange?s ?journalism? is dangerous.' https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crike…<https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/11/julian-assange-journalism-state-sponso…> I thought you might find it interesting. Best wishes and thanks for taking a look, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC Associate Professor at Monash University Fellow at Bard College, Human Rights Project Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Speaking agent: Chartwell Speakers <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chart…<https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/emma-briant/>> Book agent: Inkwell Management <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Finkwellma…<https://inkwellmanagement.com/>> Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Support my Patreon: https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patre…<https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant> Website: https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emma-b…<http://www.emma-briant.co.uk/> Sign up for my Newsletter <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Femma-brian…<http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>>! Follow me on Mastodon @emmalbriant@mastodon.online Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin ?Women are like teabags . We don?t know our true strength until we are in hot water.? - Unknown ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:40:14 +0200 From: "Charles M. Ess" <c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] RIP Barry Wellman Message-ID: <9cc22334-2017-4779-831b-fdd7f7e45943(a)media.uio.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Yes, exactly. Thanks for the notification, Jeremy. - c. On 12/07/2024 00:16, Jeremy Hunsinger via Air-L wrote: > There is more info from other places, but Barry passed. He made many > contributions to the field and he will be missed by many. > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2…<http://aoir.org/> > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.a…<http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.o…<http://www.aoir.org/> -- Professor Emeritus University of Oslo <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hf.uio…<http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>> 3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now available: <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitybook…<http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428>> ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 23:40:43 -0700 From: Joonseong Lee <cloudrift1008(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Call for Chapters: Electronic Shaman: Nam June Paik, Shamanism, and Emerging Media Message-ID: <CAHfEm1za2Lfb2CY-kDjRX95t24a5p7+_--r0jW_8dH_4YtVs8w(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Call for Chapters: Electronic Shaman: Nam June Paik, Shamanism, and Emerging Media On July 20, 1990, Korean-born video artist Nam June Paik (NJP) held a shamanic ritual in Seoul, Korea, commemorating his close friend Joseph Beuys, a German-born avant-garde artist. The performance was titled *Nam June Paik + Shaman Exorcism Rite + Joseph Beuys? Memorial Service *(Jans, 2018). Through the ritual, Paik became a ?medium,? a shaman ?who connects the past with the future through reincarnating spirits and mourning for the other? (Cheon, 2009, p. 234). On January 29, 2007, a year after NJP?s passing, Kim Keum-Hwa, the renowned national shaman of the time, performed a shamanic memorial ritual for Paik in Seoul and resurrected him in spirit (Cheon, 2009, pp. 270-278). According to the memoir of Shigeko Kubota, NJP?s life partner, NJP took considerable pride in Korea?s cultural heritage of shamanism. NJP?s view on shamanism was more than performing or participating in shamanic rituals. He believed the core of Korean shamanism to be communication, so shamans should facilitate communication between/among or through beings. For him, Korean shamanism was the beginning of the world, as it allows humans to communicate with Heaven (or God). NJP?s emphasis on ?an information-age realization that what is made is less important than how it is received? (Zinman, 2019, p. 82) makes clear how his works and vision are based on his belief in shamanism as communication. There are numerous publications on NJP?s life and works, but only a few in English on NJP?s video art works and shamanism, which is an important aspect of NJP?s oeuvre. Mina Cheon (2009), Young-Cheol Lee (2012), Wook Steven Heo (2018), and Mi-Jung Kang (2019) are among the authors with published work on these themes. Jung-Jin Park?s work (2010), although written in Korean, provides valuable and thorough insights into NJP?s world from the perspective of Eastern philosophy. The edited volume Electronic Shaman: Nam June Paik, Shamanism, and Emerging Media will focus on various interrelationships among NJP?s works and shamanism in emerging media contexts. The volume also attempts to illuminate NJP?s works in relation to dark shamanism and neoliberalism. Potential topics and themes might include but are not limited to the following: *Topics/Themes* - NJP?s works, shamanism, new materialism - NJP?s works, shamanism, Internet of Living Things (IoLT) - NJP?s works, shamanism, electromagnetic spectrum - NJP?s works, shamanism, social media - NJP?s works, shamanism, Artificial Intelligence (AI) - NJP?s works, dark shamanism - NJP?s works, (dark) shamanism, neoliberalism Please email abstracts of approximately 500 words to Joonseong Lee jlee(a)csusm.edu as a Word document by Sept. 15, 2024. In your abstract, please be sure to include a short bio for all authors of no more than 200 words. *Timeline* Sept. 15, 2024 - Chapter proposals (abstracts) due Oct. 1, 2024 - Decisions announced Mar. 1, 2025 - Full chapter draft due (expected full chapter length 6,000?8,000 words) *References* Cheon , Mina. Shamanism + Cyberspace. NY: Atropos press, 2009. Heo, Wook Steven. ?The Influence of Shamanism on Nam June Paik's Video Art.? Moving Image Technology Studies, vol. 28, 2018, pp. 95-113. Jans , Rachel. ?Nam June Paik: Kinship, Collaboration, and Commemoration.? San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Aug. 2018, https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfmom…<https://www.sfmoma.org/essay/nam-june-paik/> . Accessed July 7 2024. Kang, Mi-Jung. ?The Sound of Shamans in the Works of Nam June Paik and Early Korean Video Artists.? ScienceOpen.com, Aug. 2019, https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scien…<https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.18>. Accessed July 7 2024. Lee , Young-Cheol. ?The Founder of Video Art Nam Jun Paik and Shamanism.? TK-21 La Revue, 2012, https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tk-21…<https://www.tk-21.com/TK-21-LA-REVUE-No15-24?lang=fr#The-Founder-of-Video-A…>. Accessed July 7 2024. Park, Jung-jin. Reading Nam June Park?s Video Art by Kut: from Neo-shamanism to Eco-feminism, Seoul: Koreanstudies Information Service (KIS) (in Korean), 2010. Zinman, Gregory. "This Script is Not Final, and is Subject to Changes: Nam June Paik between Page and Screen." We Are in Open Circuits: Writings by Nam June Paik, edited by Hanhardt, John G, et al, The MIT Press, 2019, pp. 73-85. Joonseong Lee, Ph.D. Professor of Communication Department SBSB 2128 California State University San Marcos, CA 92096-001 Email: jlee(a)csusm.edu Office ph: 760.750.4134 https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.csusm…<https://www.csusm.edu/profiles/index.html?u=jlee> ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:17:12 +0300 From: Nicholas John <n.john(a)mail.huji.ac.il> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Barry Wellman Message-ID: <CAN=3fvrd=A5Ey-vt__XQq5oX11ag9f8Bx7yWX_CUo0XVGTcBmA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" The Association of Internet Researchers is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Barry Wellman <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipe…<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Wellman>> on July 9, 2024. Barry was pioneering social network analysis in the late 1970s before many people had heard of the internet, and his many contributions and collaborations are amongst the most important foundations of Internet Studies. Barry was a keynote speaker at AoIR?s first conference, subsequently served on the AoIR Executive Committee, and by 2004 was already reflecting back <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.…<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444804040633>> on the formation of Internet Studies as a coherent area. He was a keen collaborator and treasured colleague by many in the AoIR community and academia more broadly. AoIR extends their condolences to Barry?s partner, Bev, his family, friends and many, many colleagues and collaborators. He will be missed; his legacy lives on. An online condolence book <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbenjamins…<https://benjaminsparkmemorialchapel.ca/ServiceDetails?snum=139365&fg=0&fbcl…>> is available for those wishing to leave a personal message or reflection. ____________ Nicholas John Associate Professor President, Association of Internet Researchers Department of Communication and Journalism The Hebrew University of Jerusalem @nik@aoir.social nicholasjohn.huji.ac.il ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 07:23:03 +0000 From: Dechun Zhang <Dominic199563(a)outlook.com> To: "'Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org'" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Special issue CfP: Digital Transformations in Asian Politics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications for Democracy Message-ID: <CY5P223MB0515D22D5AFF4DE9546DF885B6A62(a)CY5P223MB0515.NAMP223.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Apologies for the cross-posting! Dr. Justin Chun-ting Ho (University of Amsterdam) and Dechun Zhang (Leiden University) are organizing a special issue titled "Digital Transformations in Asian Politics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications for Democracy" in the Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia. This special issue is looking for contributions on various topics related to digital politics in Asia (please see the CfP for more details: https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.goo…<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.goo…>)<https://drive.google.com/.../1RHP8c.../view> In our modern society, digital technologies, social media platforms, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools have become integral components of our daily lives, deeply embedded in our activities, with Asia at the forefront of this evolution. China leads globally in internet usage and mobile subscriptions, and is emerging as a leader in AI. India is renowned for its IT services industry encompassing software development, outsourcing, and IT consulting. Japan has a long-standing reputation as a pioneer in science and technology, while Korea excels in technological innovation. Singapore is a leader in e-government, Taiwan dominates global microchip manufacturing, and several other Asian countries are making significant strides in technological advancements. The transformative impact of digital technologies on digital politics is a contentious issue. Scholars argue that information communication and technologies (ICTs) can either undermine democracy through manipulation and control (Christensen, 2011; Golumbia, 2009) or enhance it by increasing access to information and facilitating idea exchange (Palmer & Perkins, 2012; Yang, 2009). Asia, with a strong potential for developing digital technology, exemplifies these debates. For example, China utilizes internet technology for political censorship and (nationalist) propaganda, while Chinese netizens employ various tactics to evade censorship and engage online. Taiwan has been lauded for employing digital tools in pandemic management, and Hong Kong protesters utilize mobile apps for organizing. Japanese political entities actively engage voters via social media, and South Korea's robust digital infrastructure shapes its political communication landscape. In this sense, this special issue aims to contribute to our understanding of how technology shapes the political landscape in Asia. It offers insights into managing the challenges of technology while harnessing its potential for positive or counter-democratic outcomes, while also exploring how these technologies can lead to positive (or counter) democratic outcomes. The Research Topic welcomes both empirical studies using qualitative, quantitative, computational, and mixed-methods approaches (inclusive of descriptive and causal studies); and theoretical pieces that have direct applications to digitalization and political landscape. Our special issue is interested in conceptual, methodological, and empirical studies. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Digital Censorship and Resistance * Political Propaganda * Political Campaigns and Election * Digital Tools in Crisis Management * AI and misinformation * Digital Governance and Digital citizenship * Regulation of Digital Platforms * Mobile Technologies in Social Movements * Cybersecurity and Political Stability * Digital Divide and Political Inequality * Digital Literacy and Political Empowerment * Ethics and Privacy in digital technologies Please submit your 500-word abstract (maximum) in English to both Dechun Zhang (d.zhang(a)hum.leidenuniv.nl<mailto:d.zhang@hum.leidenuniv.nl>) and Justin Ho (j.c.ho(a)uva.nl<mailto:j.c.ho@uva.nl>), with the subject line including "JCEA Special Issue.? Proposed Key Dates: * Abstract Submission: November 12, 2024 * Notifications about invitations to submit full papers: December 20, 2024. (Invitations to submit a full paper do not guarantee final publication, as full manuscripts will undergo the journal?s usual peer review process). * Submission of full paper: June 15, 2025 * Expected publish date: December 10, 2025 (Winter issue) If you have any question, please contact guest editor Dechun Zhang (d.zhang(a)hum.leidenuniv.nl) ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:47:44 +0200 From: Francesca Musiani <francesca.musiani(a)gmail.com> To: air-l <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Call for Papers: Colloquium "Rethinking the digital virtual as a regime of action, experience and relationship" Message-ID: <CAO+5PHWSewLmrZ7fHdnNRiJ9PYotVBEHCF3-kCj0fTyQ3DK9ZQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Dear colleagues, With apologies on behalf of C?line Borelle, I am sending an addendum to yesterday's message, containing the submission guidelines, as she had not included them in the translation of the call: Submission conditions This colloquium, scheduled for 28 January 2025 at the EHESS, is organized in the framework of the "Digital detox" project led by C?line Borelle and Elsa Forner and funded by DREES. It aims to bring together empirically grounded contributions in one or more of these areas. Proposals for papers should be one page in length (i.e. about 4,000 characters excluding references), include a title, and state the topic, research methods, and main findings. They should be submitted by September 6, 2024 to the following addresses: celine.borelle(a)orange.com elsa.forner(a)gmail.com annesylvie.pharabod(a)orange.com Authors will receive a response by the end of September. Scientific and Organizing Committee C?line Borelle (SENSE, Orange and CEMS, EHESS-CNRS-INSERM) Elsa Forner (CEMS, EHESS-CNRS-INSERM) Anne-Sylvie Pharabod (SENSE, Orange) On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 3:21?PM Francesca Musiani < francesca.musiani(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On behalf of C?line Borelle: > > > Dear colleagues, > > As part of the DREES-funded project "Digital Detox", we are pleased to > organize a one-day colloquium on "Rethinking the digital virtual as a > regime of action, experience and relationship". > > The event will take place on January 28, 2025 at the EHESS (Paris). It > will open with a lecture by Lisa Messeri, Professor of Anthropology at Yale > University, on her recently published book *In the land of the unreal. > Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles*. > > Paper proposals must be submitted by September 6, 2024. > > Please find below the full call and submission details. > > We are looking forward to hearing from you! > > C?line Borelle for the Scientific and Organizing Committee > > > ---- > > > > *Rethinking the digital virtual as a regime of experience, action, and > relationship * > > C?line Borelle (SENSE, Orange et CEMS, EHESS-CNRS-INSERM) > > Elsa Forner (CEMS, EHESS-CNRS-INSERM) > > Anne-Sylvie Pharabod (SENSE, Orange) > > > According to Gilles Deleuze (1995), the virtual can be defined as that > which is entirely real but not actual, that which does not exist in a > concrete, tangible way. A concept first developed in philosophy, it began > to be used in the field of computer technology in the late 1980s, notably > through the term ?virtual reality?, coined by engineer Jaron Lanier to > describe interaction with a simulated environment (Woolley, 1992). Since > then, it has expanded to become a means of investigating digital > applications in general (Woolgar, 2002). In particular, the virtualization > made possible by digital technologies has been the subject of anxious > questioning. Digital uses have been seen by some as symptomatic of an > attraction to the virtual that would take precedence over the real > (Jaur?guiberry, 2000; Turkle, 2011) or at least be able to compete with it, > including the risk of a pathological social withdrawal of the individual > (Piotti, 2021). > > > This call, on the contrary, invites us to free ourselves from any > normative goal in order to question the process of virtualization, which is > constantly fed by technological developments and oriented towards the > extension of the ?immersive web paradigm? in its perceptual, narrative and > social dimensions (Boullier, 2008). More specifically, it proposes an > empirically grounded study of forms of digital virtualization, i.e. the > dematerialized situations produced by the use of digital technologies. The > aim is to explore the ways in which these virtual situations engage people > and contexts, opening up possibilities of simulation, anonymity and > distance. > > Without adopting a technical determinist perspective, since ?the virtual > does not depend on a technical apparatus to exist? (Proulx and Latzko-Toth, > 2000, p. 103)1, this call aims to take a fresh look at the forms of > virtualization made possible by digital technologies: from the > mediatization of interpersonal exchanges on the Internet to acting in > environments that are at least partially simulated thanks to what are now > called "immersive" technologies (virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed > reality), not to mention interactions with technical devices equipped with > artificial intelligence (social robots, chatbots, online avatars). > > > Human-machine interaction is a distinct field of research at the > intersection of engineering, cognitive science, psychology, and ergonomics. > Several social science traditions can also be mobilized to think about the > simulation of human interactions with artificial beings (Borelle, 2018). > This call therefore proposes to focus more specifically on activities > performed by humans in virtual environments, drawing attention to > situations in which bodily involvement is not obvious and can be > questioned. This choice stems from the desire to work on the notion of the > virtual by taking seriously the specificities of the system of engagement > it authorizes. > > While the ?material turn? in the social sciences has enabled digital > infrastructures to be brought to light, the thrust of this appeal is to > argue that digital technologies have also opened up the possibility of > engaging with dematerialized situations. The salutary questioning of the > idea that the digital world proceeds from a suspension of physical and > social constraints has led to the abandonment of the notion of the virtual > in most social science research. Our hypothesis is that this abandonment > has been too radical, and that this notion can usefully characterize > registers of action, orders of experience, and relational dynamics > specific to the digital context. > > > Therefore, this call proposes to reopen this notion by unfolding it as a > regime of experience, action, and relation. > > Based on the synthesis proposed by Marcus Doel and David Clarke (1999), > Serge Proulx and Guillaume Latzko-Toth (2000) distinguish three approaches > to the relationship between the real and the virtual. In the first two > approaches, which are based on normative thinking, the virtual is opposed > to the real. On the optimistic side, the virtual is seen as a way of > "solving" the imperfections of the real. It allows a wealth of > possibilities to be explored. On the pessimistic side, the virtual is > subordinated to the real in a logic of 'representation'. It is seen as a > degraded copy of reality. Putting these two normative approaches in > historical perspective, it seems that we have moved, in the words of Serge > Proulx, from the "sublime" to the "ersatz". The currently dominant > narrative of the history of digitization is characterized by this dynamic > of disenchantment, from a founding techno-enthusiasm to a resurgence of > critique (Bellon, 2019; Alexandre et al., 2022). > > > The sociology of uses has developed by abandoning the normative > perspective in favor of a descriptive approach, which aims to understand > the virtual in its hybridization with the actual. This is the third > approach identified by Serge Proulx and Guillaume Latzko-Toth (2000). > Numerous studies have sought to challenge the opposition between the > virtual and the real, to emphasize that digital experiences are framed by > the same social mechanisms as experiences of co-presence, and to show the > interactions between the deployment of online and offline activities. The > topic of ?virtual communities?, for example, has generated a wealth of > literature along these lines, from the work of Howard Rheingold (1995) to > work on the revitalization of a leisure activity such as knitting through > its online sharing (Zabban, 2016). > > > Sociology and anthropology have taken an interest in forms of online > sociability, particularly in comparing the rules of online and offline > interaction. Several studies have examined interactions in simulated > virtual reality environments (Schroeder, 2002), in online forums > (Beaudouin, 2016), in persistent games (Bainbridge, 2010), or in relation > to an ?imagined audience? on social networks (boyd and Ellison, 2007). > These studies highlight the reconfiguration of forms of collaboration and > conventions, between netiquette (Hambridge, 1995) and playful > experimentation (Pharabod, 2021). The sociology of use has also focused on > investigating forms of ?online visibility? (Cardon, 2008), the ways in > which we present ourselves on personal pages (Licoppe and Beaudouin, 2002), > blogs (Paldacci, 2006), social networks (Georges, 2009), and online games > (Auray, 2004), in particular by looking at the issue of the digital double. > > > > This work has thus invested the digital world as a new medium for > constructing the social, the collective and the self. In doing so, the > focus on the entanglement between online and offline activities has led > sociology to gradually abandon the notion of the virtual. The normative > disqualification of the virtual was compounded by the deconstruction of its > analytical scope. In the end, sociology has done little to study the > digital virtual as such, not only as a new medium but also as a new > territory, a perspective outlined by geographical approaches to the spatial > dimension of online phenomena (Perrat, 2020). The few works that have set > out to study ?the virtual for its own sake? (Boellstorff, 2008, on Second > Life) focus on persistent games, ?modes of inhabiting virtual worlds? > (Lucas, 2018), the experience of a ?techno-trance? (Triclot, 2016), or the > virtual funeral as a ?lived spiritual event? in World of Warcraft (Servais, > 2012). > > > The field left open has been taken over by other disciplines that have > mobilized this notion of the virtual and taken on the task of studying it > as such. Psychoanalysis has taken an interest in the metamorphoses of the > ego in the virtual age (Godart, 2016; Alcon Andrades and Tordo, 2023). > Experimental psychology has dealt with the assessment of cognitive skills, > such as the ability to drive, using virtual simulation (Milleville-Pennel > et al., 2010), or with the way people invest in their avatar, in particular > by measuring the "Proteus effect", which refers to the fact that an > individual's behavior in virtual worlds is modified by the characteristics > of his or her avatar (Szolin et al., 2022). From a multidisciplinary > perspective, a number of studies in the information and communication > sciences extend this line of inquiry to the embodiment of avatars (Amato > and Per?ny, 2013; Beaufils and Berland, 2022) and, more broadly, to the > determinants of immersive experience in the use of digital devices (Bonfils > and Durampart, 2013). Design has also taken an interest in the changes in > perception under virtual conditions (Vial, 2013). > > > The aim of this call is to take a sociological look at the digital virtual > as a mode of action, experience, and relationship. The aim is to take a > fresh look at the relationship between the real and the virtual, as well as > other pairs of terms that are often embedded in the analysis of their > articulation: real/false, simulated/authentic, fictitious/effective. The > results of sociological studies that have documented and analyzed > arrangements with reality through forms of fiction, trickery or even lies > (see, for example, Hennion and Vidal-Naquet, 2012, on the ethics of care) > could usefully be put to the test in an investigation of virtual > situations. This call for papers aims to bring together contributions that > investigate the design, engagement, and regulation of virtual situations. > As other disciplines place great emphasis on the perceptual dimension of > engagement, especially in immersive situations, we propose to explore other > dimensions as well: spatiality, temporality issues, modulations of social > sanctions, contextual plasticity, and reduction of material costs. > > > This call for proposals is structured around three axes, organized around > different modalities of articulation between the real and the virtual. > > 1. Virtual training > > This axis concerns situations in which people train to act, to make a > gesture, to forge or perfect a way of doing things, in virtual > environments. These situations are characterized by challenging the > boundary between the real and the virtual by focusing on the transposition > of the virtual to the non-virtual. Here, virtual simulation is set up as a > means, with the horizon of action located outside the virtual. The > challenge is to consider the specificities of ?technical repetition? in the > Goffmanian sense (Goffman, 1991) in a digital environment. Virtual training > involves suspending the test of action in a physical environment, often a > collective one. We can think of the design of virtual reality exposure > therapy (TERV) to treat military post-traumatic stress syndrome (Brandt, > 2013), and the uses of TERV to treat phobias (Klein and Borelle, 2019; > Forner , 2020) and addictions (Borelle and Forner, 2024); the use of > virtual reality to acquire soft skills in the context of training (the art > of the pitch, for example, see Faustin Barbe's thesis in progress) or job > search (see the interview training tool used by P?le emploi); learning > technical gestures in the medical context (the use of augmented reality in > surgery), in the fields of design and architecture (modeling spaces in > virtual reality), or even in the military (the use of simulators to train > fighter pilots, Dubey and Moricot, 2016); raising awareness of personal > attacks through experiences from different points of view, in the justice > system (use of virtual reality in cases of domestic violence) and in the > fight against gender discrimination, ordinary sexism and sexual harassment > (see the start-up Reverto, specialized in VR tools dedicated to human > rights). > > 2. Experimenting the virtual > > This axis brings together situations in which the virtual is the horizon > for action. The virtual is invested for its own sake, as an end in itself. > The challenge is to analyze the way in which people play with the > boundaries between the virtual and the real, maintaining the vagueness in > order to experience its richness. In the field of beliefs, we can think of > digital religious practices (Campbell and Evolvi, 2019) or the reception of > online clairvoyance (Gilliotte and Guittet, 2023). In terms of affective > and sexual relationships, we can think of the consumption of online > pornography (Pailler and V?ros, 2017) or camsex (B?liard et al., 2021) > and pairing with avatars (Giard, 2021). In the realm of cultural and > leisure practices, we can think of online museum visits (Bernon, 2023), > virtual tourism, the experience of a symphony concert in augmented reality > (Laurent, 2023), and the use of the Pokemon Go application (Berry and > Vansyngel, 2021). In the world of consumption, we can think of visiting an > apartment in virtual reality (Ivanov and Rejeb, 2017) or the shopping > experience in virtual reality (Bettaieb, 2018). In terms of the > relationships that the living have with the dead, we can think of online > spiritualism (Georges, 2013), practices that consist of keeping the > deceased virtually alive (Julliard and Quemener, 2018), and the digital > experience of mourning one's child through "mamanges" and "papanges" > (Ruchon, 2015). In the field of mental health, we can think of therapy > experiments with avatars or online chatbots (the first ELIZA chatbot, > created by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966, was designed to simulate a Rogerian > psychotherapist). > > 3. Framing the virtual > > This axis covers the activities involved in framing the virtual, from its > design to its institutional regulation. We can look at how designers think > about virtual situations, how their practices have changed with > technological developments (see, for example, the history of virtual > reality headsets outlined by Michaud, 2017), how they envisage the > transposition of the real to the virtual and vice versa, how they > concretely deal with issues such as imitation2, realism and > verisimilitude (Suchman, 2016), or immersion, incarnation and digital > doubling (Messeri, 2024), and how these practices give rise to debates. 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Hi- I'm up to participate. Thanks Karyn Karyn Hollis, PhD Director, Cultural Studies Program Villanova University Villanova, PA 19085 ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2024 7:49:45 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Air-L Digest, Vol 240, Issue 12 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.a…<http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Trust Games - Annotation Tasks (Shulman, Stu) 2. Call for Papers: Colloquium "Rethinking the digital virtual as a regime of action, experience and relationship" (Francesca Musiani) 3. Re: Trust Games - Annotation Tasks (F vandenboom) 4. Re: Trust Games - Annotation Tasks (H?seyin ?z??nar) 5. Re: Trust Games - Annotation Tasks (Ruth Tsuria) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 08:38:18 -0400 From: "Shulman, Stu" <stu(a)texifter.com> To: AoIR mailing list <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Trust Games - Annotation Tasks Message-ID: <CAAtQ8JRJovGiA2J4gSO0-bu6a3TLMtZP-zy2053q52-GSqf=iw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Trust Games I am looking for collaborators to help prepare a free educational online game suitable for secondary and collegiate classrooms focused on whether content is trustworthy or not. Please contact me if you want to be a part of this effort. It might operate something like the "Which Face is Real" application, but might be used instead for identifying and discussing untrustworthy accounts on Twitter as a gamified learning module for classes this fall. I have most of the pieces ready, but I am not an expert in games. I'd like to form an ad hoc team and have this operational for September and October of 2024. My goal is to offer an IRB-compliant game platform that generates usable research results and better informed student discussions in advance of the U.S. election in November. Annotation Tasks I have a new set of annotation tasks related to planning for the game development. I need motivated undergraduates willing to label batches of Tweets under conditions that test core features of gamification in labeling, starting with speed and accuracy. In addition to getting paid more for being the fastest/most accurate labelers, students will see some remarkable datasets that have historical significance. If you know Jr. or Sr. undergraduates in the US or Canada with a >3.9 GPA, tell them to send me a resume. Thanks AoIR! -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics* ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:21:20 +0200 From: Francesca Musiani <francesca.musiani(a)gmail.com> To: air-l <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Call for Papers: Colloquium "Rethinking the digital virtual as a regime of action, experience and relationship" Message-ID: <CAO+5PHUC_jLOfZCC=4m4Y7nLFzsc+g3+dt1zAE5pjymR1eeJng(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On behalf of C?line Borelle: Dear colleagues, As part of the DREES-funded project "Digital Detox", we are pleased to organize a one-day colloquium on "Rethinking the digital virtual as a regime of action, experience and relationship". The event will take place on January 28, 2025 at the EHESS (Paris). It will open with a lecture by Lisa Messeri, Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, on her recently published book *In the land of the unreal. Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles*. Paper proposals must be submitted by September 6, 2024. Please find below the full call and submission details. We are looking forward to hearing from you! C?line Borelle for the Scientific and Organizing Committee ---- *Rethinking the digital virtual as a regime of experience, action, and relationship * C?line Borelle (SENSE, Orange et CEMS, EHESS-CNRS-INSERM) Elsa Forner (CEMS, EHESS-CNRS-INSERM) Anne-Sylvie Pharabod (SENSE, Orange) According to Gilles Deleuze (1995), the virtual can be defined as that which is entirely real but not actual, that which does not exist in a concrete, tangible way. A concept first developed in philosophy, it began to be used in the field of computer technology in the late 1980s, notably through the term ?virtual reality?, coined by engineer Jaron Lanier to describe interaction with a simulated environment (Woolley, 1992). Since then, it has expanded to become a means of investigating digital applications in general (Woolgar, 2002). In particular, the virtualization made possible by digital technologies has been the subject of anxious questioning. Digital uses have been seen by some as symptomatic of an attraction to the virtual that would take precedence over the real (Jaur?guiberry, 2000; Turkle, 2011) or at least be able to compete with it, including the risk of a pathological social withdrawal of the individual (Piotti, 2021). This call, on the contrary, invites us to free ourselves from any normative goal in order to question the process of virtualization, which is constantly fed by technological developments and oriented towards the extension of the ?immersive web paradigm? in its perceptual, narrative and social dimensions (Boullier, 2008). More specifically, it proposes an empirically grounded study of forms of digital virtualization, i.e. the dematerialized situations produced by the use of digital technologies. The aim is to explore the ways in which these virtual situations engage people and contexts, opening up possibilities of simulation, anonymity and distance. Without adopting a technical determinist perspective, since ?the virtual does not depend on a technical apparatus to exist? (Proulx and Latzko-Toth, 2000, p. 103)1, this call aims to take a fresh look at the forms of virtualization made possible by digital technologies: from the mediatization of interpersonal exchanges on the Internet to acting in environments that are at least partially simulated thanks to what are now called "immersive" technologies (virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality), not to mention interactions with technical devices equipped with artificial intelligence (social robots, chatbots, online avatars). Human-machine interaction is a distinct field of research at the intersection of engineering, cognitive science, psychology, and ergonomics. Several social science traditions can also be mobilized to think about the simulation of human interactions with artificial beings (Borelle, 2018). This call therefore proposes to focus more specifically on activities performed by humans in virtual environments, drawing attention to situations in which bodily involvement is not obvious and can be questioned. This choice stems from the desire to work on the notion of the virtual by taking seriously the specificities of the system of engagement it authorizes. While the ?material turn? in the social sciences has enabled digital infrastructures to be brought to light, the thrust of this appeal is to argue that digital technologies have also opened up the possibility of engaging with dematerialized situations. The salutary questioning of the idea that the digital world proceeds from a suspension of physical and social constraints has led to the abandonment of the notion of the virtual in most social science research. Our hypothesis is that this abandonment has been too radical, and that this notion can usefully characterize registers of action, orders of experience, and relational dynamics specific to the digital context. Therefore, this call proposes to reopen this notion by unfolding it as a regime of experience, action, and relation. Based on the synthesis proposed by Marcus Doel and David Clarke (1999), Serge Proulx and Guillaume Latzko-Toth (2000) distinguish three approaches to the relationship between the real and the virtual. In the first two approaches, which are based on normative thinking, the virtual is opposed to the real. On the optimistic side, the virtual is seen as a way of "solving" the imperfections of the real. It allows a wealth of possibilities to be explored. On the pessimistic side, the virtual is subordinated to the real in a logic of 'representation'. It is seen as a degraded copy of reality. Putting these two normative approaches in historical perspective, it seems that we have moved, in the words of Serge Proulx, from the "sublime" to the "ersatz". The currently dominant narrative of the history of digitization is characterized by this dynamic of disenchantment, from a founding techno-enthusiasm to a resurgence of critique (Bellon, 2019; Alexandre et al., 2022). The sociology of uses has developed by abandoning the normative perspective in favor of a descriptive approach, which aims to understand the virtual in its hybridization with the actual. This is the third approach identified by Serge Proulx and Guillaume Latzko-Toth (2000). Numerous studies have sought to challenge the opposition between the virtual and the real, to emphasize that digital experiences are framed by the same social mechanisms as experiences of co-presence, and to show the interactions between the deployment of online and offline activities. The topic of ?virtual communities?, for example, has generated a wealth of literature along these lines, from the work of Howard Rheingold (1995) to work on the revitalization of a leisure activity such as knitting through its online sharing (Zabban, 2016). Sociology and anthropology have taken an interest in forms of online sociability, particularly in comparing the rules of online and offline interaction. Several studies have examined interactions in simulated virtual reality environments (Schroeder, 2002), in online forums (Beaudouin, 2016), in persistent games (Bainbridge, 2010), or in relation to an ?imagined audience? on social networks (boyd and Ellison, 2007). These studies highlight the reconfiguration of forms of collaboration and conventions, between netiquette (Hambridge, 1995) and playful experimentation (Pharabod, 2021). The sociology of use has also focused on investigating forms of ?online visibility? (Cardon, 2008), the ways in which we present ourselves on personal pages (Licoppe and Beaudouin, 2002), blogs (Paldacci, 2006), social networks (Georges, 2009), and online games (Auray, 2004), in particular by looking at the issue of the digital double. This work has thus invested the digital world as a new medium for constructing the social, the collective and the self. In doing so, the focus on the entanglement between online and offline activities has led sociology to gradually abandon the notion of the virtual. The normative disqualification of the virtual was compounded by the deconstruction of its analytical scope. In the end, sociology has done little to study the digital virtual as such, not only as a new medium but also as a new territory, a perspective outlined by geographical approaches to the spatial dimension of online phenomena (Perrat, 2020). The few works that have set out to study ?the virtual for its own sake? (Boellstorff, 2008, on Second Life) focus on persistent games, ?modes of inhabiting virtual worlds? (Lucas, 2018), the experience of a ?techno-trance? (Triclot, 2016), or the virtual funeral as a ?lived spiritual event? in World of Warcraft (Servais, 2012). The field left open has been taken over by other disciplines that have mobilized this notion of the virtual and taken on the task of studying it as such. Psychoanalysis has taken an interest in the metamorphoses of the ego in the virtual age (Godart, 2016; Alcon Andrades and Tordo, 2023). Experimental psychology has dealt with the assessment of cognitive skills, such as the ability to drive, using virtual simulation (Milleville-Pennel et al., 2010), or with the way people invest in their avatar, in particular by measuring the "Proteus effect", which refers to the fact that an individual's behavior in virtual worlds is modified by the characteristics of his or her avatar (Szolin et al., 2022). From a multidisciplinary perspective, a number of studies in the information and communication sciences extend this line of inquiry to the embodiment of avatars (Amato and Per?ny, 2013; Beaufils and Berland, 2022) and, more broadly, to the determinants of immersive experience in the use of digital devices (Bonfils and Durampart, 2013). Design has also taken an interest in the changes in perception under virtual conditions (Vial, 2013). The aim of this call is to take a sociological look at the digital virtual as a mode of action, experience, and relationship. The aim is to take a fresh look at the relationship between the real and the virtual, as well as other pairs of terms that are often embedded in the analysis of their articulation: real/false, simulated/authentic, fictitious/effective. The results of sociological studies that have documented and analyzed arrangements with reality through forms of fiction, trickery or even lies (see, for example, Hennion and Vidal-Naquet, 2012, on the ethics of care) could usefully be put to the test in an investigation of virtual situations. This call for papers aims to bring together contributions that investigate the design, engagement, and regulation of virtual situations. As other disciplines place great emphasis on the perceptual dimension of engagement, especially in immersive situations, we propose to explore other dimensions as well: spatiality, temporality issues, modulations of social sanctions, contextual plasticity, and reduction of material costs. This call for proposals is structured around three axes, organized around different modalities of articulation between the real and the virtual. 1. Virtual training This axis concerns situations in which people train to act, to make a gesture, to forge or perfect a way of doing things, in virtual environments. These situations are characterized by challenging the boundary between the real and the virtual by focusing on the transposition of the virtual to the non-virtual. Here, virtual simulation is set up as a means, with the horizon of action located outside the virtual. The challenge is to consider the specificities of ?technical repetition? in the Goffmanian sense (Goffman, 1991) in a digital environment. Virtual training involves suspending the test of action in a physical environment, often a collective one. We can think of the design of virtual reality exposure therapy (TERV) to treat military post-traumatic stress syndrome (Brandt, 2013), and the uses of TERV to treat phobias (Klein and Borelle, 2019; Forner , 2020) and addictions (Borelle and Forner, 2024); the use of virtual reality to acquire soft skills in the context of training (the art of the pitch, for example, see Faustin Barbe's thesis in progress) or job search (see the interview training tool used by P?le emploi); learning technical gestures in the medical context (the use of augmented reality in surgery), in the fields of design and architecture (modeling spaces in virtual reality), or even in the military (the use of simulators to train fighter pilots, Dubey and Moricot, 2016); raising awareness of personal attacks through experiences from different points of view, in the justice system (use of virtual reality in cases of domestic violence) and in the fight against gender discrimination, ordinary sexism and sexual harassment (see the start-up Reverto, specialized in VR tools dedicated to human rights). 2. Experimenting the virtual This axis brings together situations in which the virtual is the horizon for action. The virtual is invested for its own sake, as an end in itself. The challenge is to analyze the way in which people play with the boundaries between the virtual and the real, maintaining the vagueness in order to experience its richness. In the field of beliefs, we can think of digital religious practices (Campbell and Evolvi, 2019) or the reception of online clairvoyance (Gilliotte and Guittet, 2023). In terms of affective and sexual relationships, we can think of the consumption of online pornography (Pailler and V?ros, 2017) or camsex (B?liard et al., 2021) and pairing with avatars (Giard, 2021). In the realm of cultural and leisure practices, we can think of online museum visits (Bernon, 2023), virtual tourism, the experience of a symphony concert in augmented reality (Laurent, 2023), and the use of the Pokemon Go application (Berry and Vansyngel, 2021). In the world of consumption, we can think of visiting an apartment in virtual reality (Ivanov and Rejeb, 2017) or the shopping experience in virtual reality (Bettaieb, 2018). In terms of the relationships that the living have with the dead, we can think of online spiritualism (Georges, 2013), practices that consist of keeping the deceased virtually alive (Julliard and Quemener, 2018), and the digital experience of mourning one's child through "mamanges" and "papanges" (Ruchon, 2015). In the field of mental health, we can think of therapy experiments with avatars or online chatbots (the first ELIZA chatbot, created by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966, was designed to simulate a Rogerian psychotherapist). 3. Framing the virtual This axis covers the activities involved in framing the virtual, from its design to its institutional regulation. We can look at how designers think about virtual situations, how their practices have changed with technological developments (see, for example, the history of virtual reality headsets outlined by Michaud, 2017), how they envisage the transposition of the real to the virtual and vice versa, how they concretely deal with issues such as imitation2, realism and verisimilitude (Suchman, 2016), or immersion, incarnation and digital doubling (Messeri, 2024), and how these practices give rise to debates. We can also interrogate the activities involved in regulating the boundaries between the virtual and the real, and in framing engagement in virtual activities and relationships, especially in situations where the consequences of the virtual on the real are the subject of both a problematization and a construction of modes of reparation. 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Le web dans nos pratiques et relations *sociales, Paris, Armand Colin, p. 37-57. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:07:23 +0000 From: F vandenboom <f.vandenboom(a)hotmail.com> To: "Shulman, Stu" <stu(a)texifter.com>, AoIR mailing list <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Trust Games - Annotation Tasks Message-ID: <AM9P193MB195342BC3846897CFCE7FEF39EA52(a)AM9P193MB1953.EURP193.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Stu Count me in ! I use and am also developing several cardbased games on ai as part of my practice based research on anticipatory ai governance so would love to collaborate Best Freyja Sent from Outlook for Android<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faka.ms%2F…<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Shulman, Stu via Air-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2024 9:38:18 PM To: AoIR mailing list <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Trust Games - Annotation Tasks Trust Games I am looking for collaborators to help prepare a free educational online game suitable for secondary and collegiate classrooms focused on whether content is trustworthy or not. Please contact me if you want to be a part of this effort. It might operate something like the "Which Face is Real" application, but might be used instead for identifying and discussing untrustworthy accounts on Twitter as a gamified learning module for classes this fall. I have most of the pieces ready, but I am not an expert in games. I'd like to form an ad hoc team and have this operational for September and October of 2024. My goal is to offer an IRB-compliant game platform that generates usable research results and better informed student discussions in advance of the U.S. election in November. Annotation Tasks I have a new set of annotation tasks related to planning for the game development. I need motivated undergraduates willing to label batches of Tweets under conditions that test core features of gamification in labeling, starting with speed and accuracy. In addition to getting paid more for being the fastest/most accurate labelers, students will see some remarkable datasets that have historical significance. If you know Jr. or Sr. undergraduates in the US or Canada with a >3.9 GPA, tell them to send me a resume. Thanks AoIR! -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics* _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2…<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2…><http://aoir.org/> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.a…<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.a…><http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.o…<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.o…><http://www.aoir.org/> ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:05:41 +0200 From: H?seyin ?z??nar <huseyinozcinar(a)gmail.com> To: F vandenboom <f.vandenboom(a)hotmail.com> Cc: AoIR mailing list <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org>, "Shulman, Stu" <stu(a)texifter.com> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Trust Games - Annotation Tasks Message-ID: <CAHui0KsRD-LLFGYKFTu6=4fmH-iFepi05Ka9f9M6ts2+k5JJWA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" The topic is also of interest to me and I will be very happy to cooperate. H?seyin ?z??nar Pamukkale University Denizli/Turkey 11 Tem 2024 Per, saat 17:17 tarihinde F vandenboom via Air-L < air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> ?unu yazd?: > Hi Stu > Count me in ! I use and am also developing several cardbased games on ai > as part of my practice based research on anticipatory ai governance so > would love to collaborate > > Best Freyja > > Sent from Outlook for Android<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faka.ms%2F…<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>> > ________________________________ > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Shulman, Stu > via Air-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2024 9:38:18 PM > To: AoIR mailing list <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Trust Games - Annotation Tasks > > Trust Games > > I am looking for collaborators to help prepare a free educational online > game suitable for secondary and collegiate classrooms focused on whether > content is trustworthy or not. Please contact me if you want to be a part > of this effort. It might operate something like the "Which Face is Real" > application, but might be used instead for identifying and discussing > untrustworthy accounts on Twitter as a gamified learning module for classes > this fall. I have most of the pieces ready, but I am not an expert in > games. I'd like to form an ad hoc team and have this operational for > September and October of 2024. My goal is to offer an IRB-compliant game > platform that generates usable research results and better informed student > discussions in advance of the U.S. election in November. > > Annotation Tasks > > I have a new set of annotation tasks related to planning for the game > development. I need motivated undergraduates willing to label batches of > Tweets under conditions that test core features of gamification in > labeling, starting with speed and accuracy. In addition to getting paid > more for being the fastest/most accurate labelers, students will see some > remarkable datasets that have historical significance. If you know Jr. or > Sr. undergraduates in the US or Canada with a >3.9 GPA, tell them to send > me a resume. > > Thanks AoIR! > > -- > Dr. Stuart W. Shulman > Founder and CEO, Texifter > Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics* > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2…<http://aoir.org/> > <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2…<http://aoir.org/>> > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.a…<http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> > <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.a…<http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org>> > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.o…<http://www.aoir.org/> > <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.o…<http://www.aoir.org/>> > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2…<http://aoir.org/> > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.a…<http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.o…<http://www.aoir.org/> > ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:49:40 +0000 From: Ruth Tsuria <ruth.tsuria(a)shu.edu> To: H?seyin ?z??nar <huseyinozcinar(a)gmail.com>, F vandenboom <f.vandenboom(a)hotmail.com> Cc: AoIR mailing list <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Trust Games - Annotation Tasks Message-ID: <BL0PR01MB4962F26B51866FC5BB60E42DF3A52(a)BL0PR01MB4962.prod.exchangelabs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-9" I'd love to join as well! Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts College of Human Development, Culture, Media Seton Hall University, NJ, USA Keeping Women in Their Digital Place (2024, Penn State University Press) Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture (Brill) For more publications: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fworks.bep…<https://works.bepress.com/ruth-tsuria/> -----Original Message----- From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of H?seyin ?z?inar via Air-L Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2024 1:06 PM To: F vandenboom <f.vandenboom(a)hotmail.com> Cc: AoIR mailing list <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Trust Games - Annotation Tasks The topic is also of interest to me and I will be very happy to cooperate. H?seyin ?z??nar Pamukkale University Denizli/Turkey 11 Tem 2024 Per, saat 17:17 tarihinde F vandenboom via Air-L < air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> ?unu yazd?: > Hi Stu > Count me in ! I use and am also developing several cardbased games on > ai as part of my practice based research on anticipatory ai governance > so would love to collaborate > > Best Freyja > > Sent from Outlook for > Android<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnam12.saf… > F%2Faka.ms%2FAAb9ysg&data=05%7C02%7Cruth.tsuria%40shu.edu%7Ce6745582b9 > 1b46ef515208dca1cc2a5a%7C51f07c2253b744dfb97ca13261d71075%7C1%7C0%7C63 > 8563145488969367%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV > 2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=tHl%2FnUO%2BX > XBbEOVjHciZspJsqj4JEJrJRC0ooMa3ki0%3D&reserved=0> > ________________________________ > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Shulman, > Stu via Air-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2024 9:38:18 PM > To: AoIR mailing list <air-l-aoir.org(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Trust Games - Annotation Tasks > > Trust Games > > I am looking for collaborators to help prepare a free educational > online game suitable for secondary and collegiate classrooms focused > on whether content is trustworthy or not. Please contact me if you > want to be a part of this effort. It might operate something like the "Which Face is Real" > application, but might be used instead for identifying and discussing > untrustworthy accounts on Twitter as a gamified learning module for > classes this fall. I have most of the pieces ready, but I am not an > expert in games. I'd like to form an ad hoc team and have this > operational for September and October of 2024. My goal is to offer an > IRB-compliant game platform that generates usable research results and > better informed student discussions in advance of the U.S. election in November. > > Annotation Tasks > > I have a new set of annotation tasks related to planning for the game > development. I need motivated undergraduates willing to label batches > of Tweets under conditions that test core features of gamification in > labeling, starting with speed and accuracy. In addition to getting > paid more for being the fastest/most accurate labelers, students will > see some remarkable datasets that have historical significance. If you > know Jr. or Sr. undergraduates in the US or Canada with a >3.9 GPA, > tell them to send me a resume. > > Thanks AoIR! > > -- > Dr. Stuart W. 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Data Analytics in Biomedicine
by ijwa dline.info 12 Jul '24

12 Jul '24

CALL FOR PAPERS First Workshop on "Data Analytics in Biomedicine" (held in conjunction with IEEE DDP2024) Fourth International Conference on Digital Data Processing Yeshiva University. New York, US 30 September – 01 October 2024 https://socio.org.uk/ddp/workshop/ CALL FOR PAPERS The exponential growth of data generated from various textual sources presents both a challenge and a huge opportunity. A key challenge lies in effectively managing and extracting valuable insights from this vast amount of unstructured and heterogeneous data. To address this issue, advanced data analytics techniques, ranging from data and text mining to semantic network analysis and recent advancements in large language models (LLMs), have become indispensable tools for researchers and practitioners. This is particularly relevant in the realm of biomedicine, where text mining has shown the ability to enable researchers to uncover hidden patterns, trends, and associations that would otherwise remain buried in the vast amount of health-related textual data, for instance, research articles, clinical reports, and electronic health records (EHRs). On the other hand, semantic network analysis, which focuses on understanding the structure and dynamics of networks formed by entities and their interconnections derived from text mining processes, can facilitate a deeper understanding of the complex interrelationships within biomedical data. By analyzing properties like centrality, modularity, and community structures, researchers can identify key nodes and critical pathways in biological networks, predict disease associations, and explore the functional organization of biological systems. The integration of text mining, semantic network analysis, and large language models offers a powerful approach to enhancing the ability to generate new hypotheses and insights and supporting the development of more effective diagnostics, treatments, and interventions. The workshop represents an opportunity to explore the latest advancements in data analytics and text mining in biomedicine. Attendees will gain insights into developing more interpretable models, handling large-scale biomedical datasets, and implementing scalable solutions for real-world healthcare applications. Moreover, the workshop is highly relevant because it has the potential to significantly improve the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of biomedical interventions through advanced data analytics. TOPIC OF INTEREST We invite submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: Novel techniques and measures for assessing textual data quality and handling data integration. Advanced text mining techniques for biomedical data Construction and analysis of semantic networks in biomedicine Case studies on integrated text mining and semantic network analysis Applications of LLMs in biomedicine Data analytics in precision medicine Text-driven approaches to drug discovery Interpretable or scalable data analytics approaches Application of Data Analytics and network science in Narrative Medicine Computational methods for disease modeling and prediction Ethical considerations in biomedical data analytics Multimodal biomedical data analytics Future trends and challenges in biomedical data analytics PROGRAM The workshop will take place on (To Be Announced). The program has yet to be made available. The Venue is Yeshiva University, New York. PAPER SUBMISSION, REGISTRATION AND PUBLICATION The submissions should follow the IEEE template. Please refer to socio.org.uk/ddp/paper-submission/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission of Papers: July 31, 2024 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 25, 2024 Camera-ready: September 25, 2024 Registration: September 25, 2024 Conference Dates: September 30- October 01, 2024 Post-Conference Proceedings Release: November 15, 2024 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Chiara Zucco, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Marianna Milano, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED) Marzia Settino, University of Calabria, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Maria Chiara Martinis, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Giuseppe Agapito, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Pietro Cinaglia, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Ilaria Lazzaro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy -----------

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Call for Papers: Colloquium "Rethinking the digital virtual as a regime of action, experience and relationship"
by Francesca Musiani 12 Jul '24

12 Jul '24

On behalf of Céline Borelle: Dear colleagues, As part of the DREES-funded project "Digital Detox", we are pleased to organize a one-day colloquium on "Rethinking the digital virtual as a regime of action, experience and relationship". The event will take place on January 28, 2025 at the EHESS (Paris). It will open with a lecture by Lisa Messeri, Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, on her recently published book *In the land of the unreal. Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles*. Paper proposals must be submitted by September 6, 2024. Please find below the full call and submission details. We are looking forward to hearing from you! Céline Borelle for the Scientific and Organizing Committee ---- *Rethinking the digital virtual as a regime of experience, action, and relationship * Céline Borelle (SENSE, Orange et CEMS, EHESS-CNRS-INSERM) Elsa Forner (CEMS, EHESS-CNRS-INSERM) Anne-Sylvie Pharabod (SENSE, Orange) According to Gilles Deleuze (1995), the virtual can be defined as that which is entirely real but not actual, that which does not exist in a concrete, tangible way. A concept first developed in philosophy, it began to be used in the field of computer technology in the late 1980s, notably through the term “virtual reality”, coined by engineer Jaron Lanier to describe interaction with a simulated environment (Woolley, 1992). Since then, it has expanded to become a means of investigating digital applications in general (Woolgar, 2002). In particular, the virtualization made possible by digital technologies has been the subject of anxious questioning. Digital uses have been seen by some as symptomatic of an attraction to the virtual that would take precedence over the real (Jauréguiberry, 2000; Turkle, 2011) or at least be able to compete with it, including the risk of a pathological social withdrawal of the individual (Piotti, 2021). This call, on the contrary, invites us to free ourselves from any normative goal in order to question the process of virtualization, which is constantly fed by technological developments and oriented towards the extension of the “immersive web paradigm” in its perceptual, narrative and social dimensions (Boullier, 2008). More specifically, it proposes an empirically grounded study of forms of digital virtualization, i.e. the dematerialized situations produced by the use of digital technologies. The aim is to explore the ways in which these virtual situations engage people and contexts, opening up possibilities of simulation, anonymity and distance. Without adopting a technical determinist perspective, since “the virtual does not depend on a technical apparatus to exist” (Proulx and Latzko-Toth, 2000, p. 103)1, this call aims to take a fresh look at the forms of virtualization made possible by digital technologies: from the mediatization of interpersonal exchanges on the Internet to acting in environments that are at least partially simulated thanks to what are now called "immersive" technologies (virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality), not to mention interactions with technical devices equipped with artificial intelligence (social robots, chatbots, online avatars). Human-machine interaction is a distinct field of research at the intersection of engineering, cognitive science, psychology, and ergonomics. Several social science traditions can also be mobilized to think about the simulation of human interactions with artificial beings (Borelle, 2018). This call therefore proposes to focus more specifically on activities performed by humans in virtual environments, drawing attention to situations in which bodily involvement is not obvious and can be questioned. This choice stems from the desire to work on the notion of the virtual by taking seriously the specificities of the system of engagement it authorizes. While the “material turn” in the social sciences has enabled digital infrastructures to be brought to light, the thrust of this appeal is to argue that digital technologies have also opened up the possibility of engaging with dematerialized situations. The salutary questioning of the idea that the digital world proceeds from a suspension of physical and social constraints has led to the abandonment of the notion of the virtual in most social science research. Our hypothesis is that this abandonment has been too radical, and that this notion can usefully characterize registers of action, orders of experience, and relational dynamics specific to the digital context. Therefore, this call proposes to reopen this notion by unfolding it as a regime of experience, action, and relation. Based on the synthesis proposed by Marcus Doel and David Clarke (1999), Serge Proulx and Guillaume Latzko-Toth (2000) distinguish three approaches to the relationship between the real and the virtual. In the first two approaches, which are based on normative thinking, the virtual is opposed to the real. On the optimistic side, the virtual is seen as a way of "solving" the imperfections of the real. It allows a wealth of possibilities to be explored. On the pessimistic side, the virtual is subordinated to the real in a logic of 'representation'. It is seen as a degraded copy of reality. Putting these two normative approaches in historical perspective, it seems that we have moved, in the words of Serge Proulx, from the "sublime" to the "ersatz". The currently dominant narrative of the history of digitization is characterized by this dynamic of disenchantment, from a founding techno-enthusiasm to a resurgence of critique (Bellon, 2019; Alexandre et al., 2022). The sociology of uses has developed by abandoning the normative perspective in favor of a descriptive approach, which aims to understand the virtual in its hybridization with the actual. This is the third approach identified by Serge Proulx and Guillaume Latzko-Toth (2000). Numerous studies have sought to challenge the opposition between the virtual and the real, to emphasize that digital experiences are framed by the same social mechanisms as experiences of co-presence, and to show the interactions between the deployment of online and offline activities. The topic of “virtual communities”, for example, has generated a wealth of literature along these lines, from the work of Howard Rheingold (1995) to work on the revitalization of a leisure activity such as knitting through its online sharing (Zabban, 2016). Sociology and anthropology have taken an interest in forms of online sociability, particularly in comparing the rules of online and offline interaction. Several studies have examined interactions in simulated virtual reality environments (Schroeder, 2002), in online forums (Beaudouin, 2016), in persistent games (Bainbridge, 2010), or in relation to an “imagined audience” on social networks (boyd and Ellison, 2007). These studies highlight the reconfiguration of forms of collaboration and conventions, between netiquette (Hambridge, 1995) and playful experimentation (Pharabod, 2021). The sociology of use has also focused on investigating forms of “online visibility” (Cardon, 2008), the ways in which we present ourselves on personal pages (Licoppe and Beaudouin, 2002), blogs (Paldacci, 2006), social networks (Georges, 2009), and online games (Auray, 2004), in particular by looking at the issue of the digital double. This work has thus invested the digital world as a new medium for constructing the social, the collective and the self. In doing so, the focus on the entanglement between online and offline activities has led sociology to gradually abandon the notion of the virtual. The normative disqualification of the virtual was compounded by the deconstruction of its analytical scope. In the end, sociology has done little to study the digital virtual as such, not only as a new medium but also as a new territory, a perspective outlined by geographical approaches to the spatial dimension of online phenomena (Perrat, 2020). The few works that have set out to study “the virtual for its own sake” (Boellstorff, 2008, on Second Life) focus on persistent games, “modes of inhabiting virtual worlds” (Lucas, 2018), the experience of a “techno-trance” (Triclot, 2016), or the virtual funeral as a “lived spiritual event” in World of Warcraft (Servais, 2012). The field left open has been taken over by other disciplines that have mobilized this notion of the virtual and taken on the task of studying it as such. Psychoanalysis has taken an interest in the metamorphoses of the ego in the virtual age (Godart, 2016; Alcon Andrades and Tordo, 2023). Experimental psychology has dealt with the assessment of cognitive skills, such as the ability to drive, using virtual simulation (Milleville-Pennel et al., 2010), or with the way people invest in their avatar, in particular by measuring the "Proteus effect", which refers to the fact that an individual's behavior in virtual worlds is modified by the characteristics of his or her avatar (Szolin et al., 2022). From a multidisciplinary perspective, a number of studies in the information and communication sciences extend this line of inquiry to the embodiment of avatars (Amato and Perény, 2013; Beaufils and Berland, 2022) and, more broadly, to the determinants of immersive experience in the use of digital devices (Bonfils and Durampart, 2013). Design has also taken an interest in the changes in perception under virtual conditions (Vial, 2013). The aim of this call is to take a sociological look at the digital virtual as a mode of action, experience, and relationship. The aim is to take a fresh look at the relationship between the real and the virtual, as well as other pairs of terms that are often embedded in the analysis of their articulation: real/false, simulated/authentic, fictitious/effective. The results of sociological studies that have documented and analyzed arrangements with reality through forms of fiction, trickery or even lies (see, for example, Hennion and Vidal-Naquet, 2012, on the ethics of care) could usefully be put to the test in an investigation of virtual situations. This call for papers aims to bring together contributions that investigate the design, engagement, and regulation of virtual situations. As other disciplines place great emphasis on the perceptual dimension of engagement, especially in immersive situations, we propose to explore other dimensions as well: spatiality, temporality issues, modulations of social sanctions, contextual plasticity, and reduction of material costs. This call for proposals is structured around three axes, organized around different modalities of articulation between the real and the virtual. 1. Virtual training This axis concerns situations in which people train to act, to make a gesture, to forge or perfect a way of doing things, in virtual environments. These situations are characterized by challenging the boundary between the real and the virtual by focusing on the transposition of the virtual to the non-virtual. Here, virtual simulation is set up as a means, with the horizon of action located outside the virtual. The challenge is to consider the specificities of “technical repetition” in the Goffmanian sense (Goffman, 1991) in a digital environment. Virtual training involves suspending the test of action in a physical environment, often a collective one. We can think of the design of virtual reality exposure therapy (TERV) to treat military post-traumatic stress syndrome (Brandt, 2013), and the uses of TERV to treat phobias (Klein and Borelle, 2019; Forner , 2020) and addictions (Borelle and Forner, 2024); the use of virtual reality to acquire soft skills in the context of training (the art of the pitch, for example, see Faustin Barbe's thesis in progress) or job search (see the interview training tool used by Pôle emploi); learning technical gestures in the medical context (the use of augmented reality in surgery), in the fields of design and architecture (modeling spaces in virtual reality), or even in the military (the use of simulators to train fighter pilots, Dubey and Moricot, 2016); raising awareness of personal attacks through experiences from different points of view, in the justice system (use of virtual reality in cases of domestic violence) and in the fight against gender discrimination, ordinary sexism and sexual harassment (see the start-up Reverto, specialized in VR tools dedicated to human rights). 2. Experimenting the virtual This axis brings together situations in which the virtual is the horizon for action. The virtual is invested for its own sake, as an end in itself. The challenge is to analyze the way in which people play with the boundaries between the virtual and the real, maintaining the vagueness in order to experience its richness. In the field of beliefs, we can think of digital religious practices (Campbell and Evolvi, 2019) or the reception of online clairvoyance (Gilliotte and Guittet, 2023). In terms of affective and sexual relationships, we can think of the consumption of online pornography (Pailler and Vöros, 2017) or camsex (Béliard et al., 2021) and pairing with avatars (Giard, 2021). In the realm of cultural and leisure practices, we can think of online museum visits (Bernon, 2023), virtual tourism, the experience of a symphony concert in augmented reality (Laurent, 2023), and the use of the Pokemon Go application (Berry and Vansyngel, 2021). In the world of consumption, we can think of visiting an apartment in virtual reality (Ivanov and Rejeb, 2017) or the shopping experience in virtual reality (Bettaieb, 2018). In terms of the relationships that the living have with the dead, we can think of online spiritualism (Georges, 2013), practices that consist of keeping the deceased virtually alive (Julliard and Quemener, 2018), and the digital experience of mourning one's child through "mamanges" and "papanges" (Ruchon, 2015). In the field of mental health, we can think of therapy experiments with avatars or online chatbots (the first ELIZA chatbot, created by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966, was designed to simulate a Rogerian psychotherapist). 3. Framing the virtual This axis covers the activities involved in framing the virtual, from its design to its institutional regulation. We can look at how designers think about virtual situations, how their practices have changed with technological developments (see, for example, the history of virtual reality headsets outlined by Michaud, 2017), how they envisage the transposition of the real to the virtual and vice versa, how they concretely deal with issues such as imitation2, realism and verisimilitude (Suchman, 2016), or immersion, incarnation and digital doubling (Messeri, 2024), and how these practices give rise to debates. We can also interrogate the activities involved in regulating the boundaries between the virtual and the real, and in framing engagement in virtual activities and relationships, especially in situations where the consequences of the virtual on the real are the subject of both a problematization and a construction of modes of reparation. 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Special issue CfP: Digital Transformations in Asian Politics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications for Democracy
by Dechun Zhang 12 Jul '24

12 Jul '24

Apologies for the cross-posting! Dr. Justin Chun-ting Ho (University of Amsterdam) and Dechun Zhang (Leiden University) are organizing a special issue titled "Digital Transformations in Asian Politics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications for Democracy" in the Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia. This special issue is looking for contributions on various topics related to digital politics in Asia (please see the CfP for more details: https://drive.google.com/.../1RHP8c.../view<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RHP8c-nvszAgAiKTxEVw9KOBBa8UjYkK/view?fbcl…>) In our modern society, digital technologies, social media platforms, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools have become integral components of our daily lives, deeply embedded in our activities, with Asia at the forefront of this evolution. China leads globally in internet usage and mobile subscriptions, and is emerging as a leader in AI. India is renowned for its IT services industry encompassing software development, outsourcing, and IT consulting. Japan has a long-standing reputation as a pioneer in science and technology, while Korea excels in technological innovation. Singapore is a leader in e-government, Taiwan dominates global microchip manufacturing, and several other Asian countries are making significant strides in technological advancements. The transformative impact of digital technologies on digital politics is a contentious issue. Scholars argue that information communication and technologies (ICTs) can either undermine democracy through manipulation and control (Christensen, 2011; Golumbia, 2009) or enhance it by increasing access to information and facilitating idea exchange (Palmer & Perkins, 2012; Yang, 2009). Asia, with a strong potential for developing digital technology, exemplifies these debates. For example, China utilizes internet technology for political censorship and (nationalist) propaganda, while Chinese netizens employ various tactics to evade censorship and engage online. Taiwan has been lauded for employing digital tools in pandemic management, and Hong Kong protesters utilize mobile apps for organizing. Japanese political entities actively engage voters via social media, and South Korea's robust digital infrastructure shapes its political communication landscape. In this sense, this special issue aims to contribute to our understanding of how technology shapes the political landscape in Asia. It offers insights into managing the challenges of technology while harnessing its potential for positive or counter-democratic outcomes, while also exploring how these technologies can lead to positive (or counter) democratic outcomes. The Research Topic welcomes both empirical studies using qualitative, quantitative, computational, and mixed-methods approaches (inclusive of descriptive and causal studies); and theoretical pieces that have direct applications to digitalization and political landscape. Our special issue is interested in conceptual, methodological, and empirical studies. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Digital Censorship and Resistance * Political Propaganda * Political Campaigns and Election * Digital Tools in Crisis Management * AI and misinformation * Digital Governance and Digital citizenship * Regulation of Digital Platforms * Mobile Technologies in Social Movements * Cybersecurity and Political Stability * Digital Divide and Political Inequality * Digital Literacy and Political Empowerment * Ethics and Privacy in digital technologies Please submit your 500-word abstract (maximum) in English to both Dechun Zhang (d.zhang(a)hum.leidenuniv.nl<mailto:d.zhang@hum.leidenuniv.nl>) and Justin Ho (j.c.ho(a)uva.nl<mailto:j.c.ho@uva.nl>), with the subject line including "JCEA Special Issue.” Proposed Key Dates: * Abstract Submission: November 12, 2024 * Notifications about invitations to submit full papers: December 20, 2024. (Invitations to submit a full paper do not guarantee final publication, as full manuscripts will undergo the journal’s usual peer review process). * Submission of full paper: June 15, 2025 * Expected publish date: December 10, 2025 (Winter issue) If you have any question, please contact guest editor Dechun Zhang (d.zhang(a)hum.leidenuniv.nl)

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Call for Chapters: Electronic Shaman: Nam June Paik, Shamanism, and Emerging Media
by Joonseong Lee 12 Jul '24

12 Jul '24

Call for Chapters: Electronic Shaman: Nam June Paik, Shamanism, and Emerging Media On July 20, 1990, Korean-born video artist Nam June Paik (NJP) held a shamanic ritual in Seoul, Korea, commemorating his close friend Joseph Beuys, a German-born avant-garde artist. The performance was titled *Nam June Paik + Shaman Exorcism Rite + Joseph Beuys’ Memorial Service *(Jans, 2018). Through the ritual, Paik became a “medium,” a shaman “who connects the past with the future through reincarnating spirits and mourning for the other” (Cheon, 2009, p. 234). On January 29, 2007, a year after NJP’s passing, Kim Keum-Hwa, the renowned national shaman of the time, performed a shamanic memorial ritual for Paik in Seoul and resurrected him in spirit (Cheon, 2009, pp. 270-278). According to the memoir of Shigeko Kubota, NJP’s life partner, NJP took considerable pride in Korea’s cultural heritage of shamanism. NJP’s view on shamanism was more than performing or participating in shamanic rituals. He believed the core of Korean shamanism to be communication, so shamans should facilitate communication between/among or through beings. For him, Korean shamanism was the beginning of the world, as it allows humans to communicate with Heaven (or God). NJP’s emphasis on “an information-age realization that what is made is less important than how it is received” (Zinman, 2019, p. 82) makes clear how his works and vision are based on his belief in shamanism as communication. There are numerous publications on NJP’s life and works, but only a few in English on NJP’s video art works and shamanism, which is an important aspect of NJP’s oeuvre. Mina Cheon (2009), Young-Cheol Lee (2012), Wook Steven Heo (2018), and Mi-Jung Kang (2019) are among the authors with published work on these themes. Jung-Jin Park’s work (2010), although written in Korean, provides valuable and thorough insights into NJP’s world from the perspective of Eastern philosophy. The edited volume Electronic Shaman: Nam June Paik, Shamanism, and Emerging Media will focus on various interrelationships among NJP’s works and shamanism in emerging media contexts. The volume also attempts to illuminate NJP’s works in relation to dark shamanism and neoliberalism. Potential topics and themes might include but are not limited to the following: *Topics/Themes* - NJP’s works, shamanism, new materialism - NJP’s works, shamanism, Internet of Living Things (IoLT) - NJP’s works, shamanism, electromagnetic spectrum - NJP’s works, shamanism, social media - NJP’s works, shamanism, Artificial Intelligence (AI) - NJP’s works, dark shamanism - NJP’s works, (dark) shamanism, neoliberalism Please email abstracts of approximately 500 words to Joonseong Lee jlee(a)csusm.edu as a Word document by Sept. 15, 2024. In your abstract, please be sure to include a short bio for all authors of no more than 200 words. *Timeline* Sept. 15, 2024 - Chapter proposals (abstracts) due Oct. 1, 2024 - Decisions announced Mar. 1, 2025 - Full chapter draft due (expected full chapter length 6,000—8,000 words) *References* Cheon , Mina. Shamanism + Cyberspace. NY: Atropos press, 2009. Heo, Wook Steven. “The Influence of Shamanism on Nam June Paik's Video Art.” Moving Image Technology Studies, vol. 28, 2018, pp. 95-113. Jans , Rachel. “Nam June Paik: Kinship, Collaboration, and Commemoration.” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Aug. 2018, https://www.sfmoma.org/essay/nam-june-paik/ . Accessed July 7 2024. Kang, Mi-Jung. “The Sound of Shamans in the Works of Nam June Paik and Early Korean Video Artists.” ScienceOpen.com, Aug. 2019, https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.18. Accessed July 7 2024. Lee , Young-Cheol. “The Founder of Video Art Nam Jun Paik and Shamanism.” TK-21 La Revue, 2012, https://www.tk-21.com/TK-21-LA-REVUE-No15-24?lang=fr#The-Founder-of-Video-A…. Accessed July 7 2024. Park, Jung-jin. Reading Nam June Park’s Video Art by Kut: from Neo-shamanism to Eco-feminism, Seoul: Koreanstudies Information Service (KIS) (in Korean), 2010. Zinman, Gregory. "This Script is Not Final, and is Subject to Changes: Nam June Paik between Page and Screen." We Are in Open Circuits: Writings by Nam June Paik, edited by Hanhardt, John G, et al, The MIT Press, 2019, pp. 73-85. Joonseong Lee, Ph.D. Professor of Communication Department SBSB 2128 California State University San Marcos, CA 92096-001 Email: jlee(a)csusm.edu Office ph: 760.750.4134 https://www.csusm.edu/profiles/index.html?u=jlee

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RIP Barry Wellman
by Jeremy Hunsinger 12 Jul '24

12 Jul '24

There is more info from other places, but Barry passed. He made many contributions to the field and he will be missed by many.

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Invitation to participate in a Short Survey on AI and Sci-Fi
by philippj＠hawaii.edu 11 Jul '24

11 Jul '24

Dear AoIR Members, We are conducting a very brief survey on the perception of AI via science fiction, and real-world applications. Your participation matters and we are very grateful for your time and we value your opinion and experience. If you have a few minutes available in your busy lives, please take the survey here: #################### https://bit.ly/ai-sf-survey #################### Note: If you don't have the time to take the survey, it'd be similarly awesome if you could snowball it via your networks. See the attached invitation/recruitment poster and feel free to use it. Whether you decide to take the survey or share it with others, I want to thank you for helping us out! Best Phil ___________________ Phil Jordan, Ph.D. (PI) https://luddy.indiana.edu/contact/profile/index.html?Phil_Jordan

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