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WEBCAST OCT 8 – IPNSIG Academy: Interplanetary and Relativistic Distributed Computing
by Joly MacFie 08 Oct '25

08 Oct '25

*LIVESTREAM <https://youtu.be/IX9mVzEqzR8>* | *PERMALINK <https://isoc.live/19737>* [image: ISOC LIVE] On *Wednesday October 8, 2025*, at* 2pm-3pm EDT* (18:00-19:00 UTC) the *Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group <https://ipnsig.org/>* (IPNSIG) presents an IPNSIG Academy Keynote ‘*Interplanetary and Relativistic Distributed Computing*‘. *Siddhartha Jayanti <https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddhartha-jayanti-a31b27271/>* will examine interplanetary distributed systems, such as the Interplanetary Internet, and the Global Positioning System (GPS) which are subject to the effects of Einstein’s theory of relativity. In this talk, we will formulate a unified computational model for relativistic and classical distributed computing systems and study the relationship between properties of distributed algorithms deployed on the two types of systems. *SPEAKER* *Siddhartha Jayanti* – Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Dartmouth College) *MODERATOR* *Ginny Spicer –* IPNSIG -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Book launch: Influencer Creep, by Sophie Bishop (University of Leeds)
by Ludmila Lupinacci 08 Oct '25

08 Oct '25

Hello everyone I’m delighted to invite you to Dr Sophie Bishop's book launch at the University of Leeds (UK), on Wednesday 19 November (3.45-5pm). Please note that this will be taking place in-person, and that all are welcome. Sophie Bishop’s book ‘Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture’ (University of California Press) draws from in-depth ethnography and interviews with influencers and professional artists. Bishop argues that looking to the shifts within influencer culture can help us understand contemporary changes to labour conditions, compensation and representation within art worlds. Early praise for the book includes “those in the art world will find plenty to chew on” (Publishers Weekly) and “both a page turner and thorough academic study” (Professor Thomas Poell, UVA). This event will bring Sophie Bishop in conversation with professional illustrator and communications coordinator for the Association of Illustrators, Marianna Madriz and Dr Eirini Boukla (School of Design, University of Leeds). It will be followed by a drinks reception. Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025 Time: 3:45pm – 6pm Location: School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds – LT G.12, Clothworkers Building North Event page: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/3576/influencer-creep-how-optimisation…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fahc.leeds…> Contact <mediaresearchsupport(a)leeds.ac.uk<mailto:mediaresearchsupport@leeds.ac.uk>> for any further information. Preorder the book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/influencer-creep/paper Best wishes, Ludmila Dr Ludmila Lupinacci Lecturer in Digital Media Deputy Director of Research and Innovation School of Media and Communication University of Leeds Website<https://ludmilalupinacci.com/> | Bluesky<https://bsky.app/profile/ludludlud.bsky.social> | Mastodon<https://aoir.social/@ludmila> | Scholar<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fIoradwAAAAJ&hl=en>

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Requesting AI and Social Robotics Syllabi
by Jason Archer 08 Oct '25

08 Oct '25

Sorry for cross-posting. Andrea Guzman and I are recirculating a call for syllabi. If you have not already submitted and your syllabi/course fits the criteria below, please consider submitting. Thanks! Communication and media research is expanding to include artificial intelligence and robotics, and this broadening of the study of communication also has extended to the classroom. Scholars who are integrating AI and/or Social Robotics into their courses are invited to participate in the Human-Machine Communication Syllabus Project by Andrea L. Guzman, Northern Illinois University, and Jason Archer, Michigan Technological University. The purpose of the project is two-fold: First, we aim to study how scholars are conceptualizing artificial intelligence, social robotics, and/or related technologies and incorporating them as subjects of study and tools for learning within higher education. Second, we want to offer scholars the opportunity to voluntarily share and access these syllabi to support education in this emerging area. For the study, we are seeking syllabi for courses that focus primarily on AI, social robotics, related technologies, and their applications as well as courses in which at least some of the content covered is dedicated to some aspect of these areas. To support teaching and learning, we are also creating a public repository of the syllabi submitted for this project. We are asking submitters whether they would like their syllabi to be included in a publicly accessible online location to assist others in the development of related courses. Inclusion of an individual’s syllabus in the public repository is completely voluntary and does not affect their ability to participate in the research project. The researchers will destroy all syllabi not included in the repository after the completion of the research project. The repository will be made publicly available at a future date when all syllabi have been received and reviewed. The deadline to submit your syllabi to the project is Oct. 20th, 2025. Please follow all directions on how to submit to the project that can be found below and at https://andrealguzman.net/hmcsyllabusproject. You can also contact the researchers directly: Andrea L. Guzman, alguzman(a)niu.edu, Jason E. Archer, jearcher(a)mtu.edu. Thank you. Andrea & Jason Participation Instructions Required: All syllabi submitted to the project must include the following. If the syllabi do not already include some of the information, then please add this information at the top. 1. University name 2. Course title 3. Department/School in which the course is offered 4. Indicate whether the course is for undergraduate (associate, bachelor’s), graduate (master’s, PhD), or both 5. Date: The term in which the course is being or was last taught (i.e. Spring 2024). 6. Course description 7. Course objectives/outcomes 8. Reading list identifying all readings AND/OR course schedule including all readings 9. Be written in English or translated into English by the author There is no limit to the number of syllabi an individual can submit. For recurring courses, submit ONLY the most recent version of the syllabus. Participants do NOT have to format the syllabi a certain way or remove extraneous information from the syllabi; although, they may want to remove personal or sensitive information if submitting to the public repository. Voluntary Inclusion in Public Repository The format of the public repository will be dependent upon the number of syllabi received. Possible distribution options include a folder in Google Drive or a dedicated page on an existing website. All syllabi to be included in the repository will be posted “as is” and will be available to the public (i.e. anyone on the internet). Participants voluntarily submitting to the repository are responsible for removing any information they do NOT want shared publicly such as their name, contact information, office/student-meeting hours, links to online learning systems, policies, etc. The syllabi of participants who do not want to contribute to the repository will be stored separately and only be available to the researchers. Syllabi will be deleted once the project is completed. Syllabi submission: To participate, please e-mail your syllabi to hmcsyllabusproject(a)gmail.com. In your e-mail, please indicate whether you want your syllabi shared publicly via the online repository. The deadline to participate in the project is Oct. 20th, 2025. -- Jason E. Archer Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Technologies Director, Communication, Culture, and Media Department of Humanities <https://www.mtu.edu/humanities/> Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Culture and Technology <https://www.mtu.edu/circt/> <https://www.mtu.edu/circt/> Michigan Technological University Website: jasonearcher.com

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Adrian Mackenzie and Anna Munster Book Launch Event (Online and In-person)
by Thao Phan 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

*ANU Event: Adrian Mackenzie and Anna Munster Book Launch Event (Online and In-person)* 🗓️ Thursday 30 October, 4 - 5:30pm 📍(in-person) Auditorium, RSSS Building, 146 Ellery Cres, Acton ACT 2601 💻 (online) Register to receive Zoom link to livestream 🔗 Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/1000platforms-deepaesthetics-booklaunch <https://events.humanitix.com/1000platforms-deepaesthetics-booklaunch> Join us for a special event celebrating the launch of two important new books by two leading Australian theorists of computational culture—*Professor Adrian Mackenzie (ANU) and Professor Anna Munster (UNSW).* The event kicks off with an in-conversation between the authors as they discuss the politics, aesthetics and infrastructures of contemporary digital life—from platform economies to machine learning systems. The conversation will be followed by drinks in the RSSS Foyer. Organised by the Computational Culture Lab + School of Sociology at the ANU. *About the books* *1000 Platforms* by Adrian Mackenzie (ANU) In today’s digital world, platforms are everywhere, shaping our social and cultural landscapes. This groundbreaking book shows how platforms are not just technical systems, but complex networks involving diverse people, practices and values. It explores a wide range of digital platforms, using insights from science and technology studies, anthropology, sociology and cultural theories to offer fresh perspectives on how platforms, media and devices function and evolve. Blending ethnographic work with technical analysis, this is essential reading for anyone wanting a deeper understanding of the digital age. *DeepAesthetics: Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning* by Anna Munster (UNSW) Computation has now been reconfigured by machine learning: those technical processes and operations that yoke together statistics and computer science to create artificial intelligence (AI) by furnishing vast datasets to learn tasks and predict outcomes. In DeepAesthetics, Anna Munster examines the range of more-than-human experiences this transformation has engendered and considers how those experiences can be qualitative as well as quantitative. Drawing on process philosophy, Munster approaches computational experience through its relations and operations. She combines deep learning—the subfield of machine learning that uses neural network architectures—and aesthetics to offer a way to understand the insensible and frequently imperceptible forms of nonlinear and continuously modulating statistical function. Attending to the domains and operations of image production, statistical racialization, AI conversational agents, and critical AI art, Munster analyzes how machine learning is operationally entangled with racialized, neurotypical, and cognitivist modes of producing knowledge and experience. She approaches machine learning as events through which a different sensibility registers, one in which AI is populated by oddness, disjunctions, and surprises, and where artful engagement with machine learning fosters indeterminate futures. *About the authors* *Adrian Mackenzie* is Professor of Sociology at the Australian National University. He is a leading scholar of science and technology studies, media and cultural studies, and social and cultural theory. His current interests focus on network and computational media, digital sociology and innovation in data-related methods. He is the author of Machine Learners: Archaeology of a Data Practice (MIT Press, 2017), Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures (MIT Press, 2010), Cutting Code: Software and Sociology (Peter Lang, 2006) and Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed (Continuum, 2002). *Anna Munster* is Professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of New South Wales and author of An Aesthesia of Networks: Conjunctive Experience in Art and Technology and Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics.

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Call for Papers: Mobile AI
by Yifan Xu 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, here is a call for papers for the special issue on Mobile AI —————————— Journal: Mobile Media and Communication Special Issue on Mobile AI: Consolidating Mobile Media & Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Guest Editors: Yifan Xu, Adriana de Souza e Silva This special issue aims at exploring the ways AI systems are embedded into mobile communication practices and technologies by investigating the social and cultural implications of mobile AI — specifically how they shape mobile communication and mobility in everyday life. Topics might include, but are not limited to: Mobile AI and the Digital Economy Mobile AI, Creativity, and Labor Mobile AI and Language Affective Mobile AI Power, Agency, and Mobile AI Ethical and Environmental Dimensions Global and Local Mobilizations of Mobile AI The Social Psychology of Mobile AI Submit short commentary papers (up to 3,000, including references) that contextualize and understand the phenomenon beyond the new AI hype by October 31st, 2025. We expect to have all publication decisions made by April 2026. See the full details of the call here: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mobileai Please feel free to share this invitation with collaborators you think would be a strong fit. Thank you Yifan Xu, Ph.D. (she/hers) Center for Transformative Media College of Arts, Media and Design Northeastern University LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/yifanxu10> | Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FoCa8TYAAAAJ&hl=en> yif.xu(a)northeastern.edu

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Call for Papers - Mobile Media & Communication
by Marie Santini 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, We invite you to submit papers for the Special Issue: Messaging Applications and Global Cultures of Mobility in the journal Mobile Media & Communication, an international and interdisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing academic research analyzing the intersection of communication and mobility. This special issue, edited by Rose Marie Santini (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), James Fitzgerald (Dublin City University), Rosana Pinheiro-Machado (University College Dublin), and Débora Salles (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), seeks papers that critically analyze the intersections between messaging applications and practices of mobility in both local and global contexts. Once conceived as simple alternatives to SMS, messaging applications have transformed into multimedia ecosystems central to contemporary life, with uses ranging from real-time tracking to political and economic organization across different cultural contexts. While much of the academic literature emphasizes their risks—such as disinformation, surveillance, and illicit activities—it is equally important to examine their productive potential, from reducing social isolation to integrating businesses and increasing the visibility of marginalized groups. This special issue thus aims to bring together contributions that deepen the understanding of these multiple dynamics and their local and global impacts. The CFP encourages regional and interdisciplinary contributions from scholars at all career stages, to investigate how and why messaging applications intersect with mobility, while analyzing their impacts on individuals, politics, culture, and society. We welcome single-platform case studies as well as comparative analyses of two or more applications, with a special emphasis on contributions from the Global South to ensure geographical and conceptual diversity. We are particularly interested in articles that address topics such as: - Cultures of mobility on messaging applications in the Global North and South; - Messaging applications as tools for real-time political resistance and organized protest; - Messaging applications as sites of (state or private) surveillance; - Differences in cultures of mobility across different messaging applications, within the same territory or across different regions; - The impact of specific business models on mobility within messaging applications; - The use of messaging applications for formal and informal economic activities, and their implications for boundaries between legal/illegal and formal/informal practices; - How messaging applications shape the geographies of commercial activities; - The effects of artificial intelligence integration on new or transformed practices of mobility. Important dates: - Submission of extended abstracts (500–700 words): November 1, 2025 - Notification of accepted abstracts: November 15, 2025 - Submission of first full drafts (8,000 words): March 15, 2026 - Submission of second drafts: July 15, 2026 - Final acceptance: November 15, 2026 Please submit abstracts by November 1, 2025 to: marie.santini(a)eco.ufrj.br and james.fitzgerald(a)dcu.ie Further information is available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/messagingapplications

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Call for Papers – Mobile Media & Communication
by Marie Santini 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, We invite you to submit papers for the Special Issue: Messaging Applications and Global Cultures of Mobility in the journal Mobile Media & Communication, an international and interdisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing academic research analyzing the intersection of communication and mobility. This special issue, edited by Rose Marie Santini (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), James Fitzgerald (Dublin City University), Rosana Pinheiro-Machado (University College Dublin), and Débora Salles (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), seeks papers that critically analyze the intersections between messaging applications and practices of mobility in both local and global contexts. Once conceived as simple alternatives to SMS, messaging applications have transformed into multimedia ecosystems central to contemporary life, with uses ranging from real-time tracking to political and economic organization across different cultural contexts. While much of the academic literature emphasizes their risks—such as disinformation, surveillance, and illicit activities—it is equally important to examine their productive potential, from reducing social isolation to integrating businesses and increasing the visibility of marginalized groups. This special issue thus aims to bring together contributions that deepen the understanding of these multiple dynamics and their local and global impacts. The CFP encourages regional and interdisciplinary contributions from scholars at all career stages, to investigate how and why messaging applications intersect with mobility, while analyzing their impacts on individuals, politics, culture, and society. We welcome single-platform case studies as well as comparative analyses of two or more applications, with a special emphasis on contributions from the Global South to ensure geographical and conceptual diversity. We are particularly interested in articles that address topics such as: - Cultures of mobility on messaging applications in the Global North and South; - Messaging applications as tools for real-time political resistance and organized protest; - Messaging applications as sites of (state or private) surveillance; - Differences in cultures of mobility across different messaging applications, within the same territory or across different regions; - The impact of specific business models on mobility within messaging applications; - The use of messaging applications for formal and informal economic activities, and their implications for boundaries between legal/illegal and formal/informal practices; - How messaging applications shape the geographies of commercial activities; - The effects of artificial intelligence integration on new or transformed practices of mobility. Important dates: - Submission of extended abstracts (500–700 words): November 1, 2025 - Notification of accepted abstracts: November 15, 2025 - Submission of first full drafts (8,000 words): March 15, 2026 - Submission of second drafts: July 15, 2026 - Final acceptance: November 15, 2026 Please submit abstracts by November 1, 2025 to: marie.santini(a)eco.ufrj.br and james.fitzgerald(a)dcu.ie Further information is available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/messagingapplications Best regards, Marie Santini

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Call for papers: special issue on creativity & copyright in the shadow of genAI
by astrid mager 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, we're currently editing a special issue on creativity & copyright in the shadow of genAI for the peer-reviewed journal Innovation. The journal is from the field of organization & management, but we'd like to put together a multi- and trans-disciplinary issue with diverse voices and viewpoints - ideally reaching beyond the Western world! We're organizing an online workshop for discussing paper outlines or ideas on February 27, 2026 (online), but being there is no requirement. More info here: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/creativity-and-copyright-… Please circulate widely & submit an interesting paper! ;) Deadline for full papers is 30 September 2026. Thanks a lot! Best, Astrid

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special issue on creativity & copyright in the shadow of genAI
by astrid mager 07 Oct '25

07 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, we're currently editing a special issue on creativity & copyright in the shadow of genAI for the peer-reviewed journal Innovation. The journal is from the field of organization & management, but we'd like to put together a multi- and trans-disciplinary issue with diverse voices and viewpoints - ideally reaching beyond the Western world! We're organizing an online workshop for discussing paper outlines or ideas on February 27, 2026 (online), but being there is no requirement. More info here: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/creativity-and-copyright-… Please circulate widely & submit an interesting paper! ;) Deadline for full papers is 30 September 2026. Thanks a lot! Best, Astrid

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Job opening: Two tenure-track positions in media technology at University of Florida
by Kun Xu 06 Oct '25

06 Oct '25

Sorry for cross-posting. I am sharing two tenure-track job positions in the broad areas of media technology at the College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida. The Department of Media Production, Management, and Technology (MPMT) at the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications invites applications for one assistant professor position and one associate/assistant professor position with a focus on media technology and/or management, starting August 2026. We are looking for two faculty members who conduct original research that examines the psychological processing, and/or the economic, societal, ethical, and cultural implications of media technologies, including, but not limited to, the following areas: • Entertainment media • Artificial Intelligence (AI)-related technologies, such as social robots, generative AI, recommendation systems, and algorithms • Social media/mobile media/user analytics • Digital culture and strategy • Platform studies • Science and Technology Studies • Law and policy • Media and technology startups, organizations, and industry development Applicants are expected to demonstrate a solid theoretical basis for understanding media technologies and use diverse traditional or innovative methods to analyze and explain media practices and/or media management strategies. The review of applications will begin on October 10 and will continue until the position is filled. You may find more details through the application link here: https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/536997. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions! Kun Kun Xu, Ph.D. Associate Professor in Emerging Technologies Director of Media Effects and Technology Lab & UFCJC Research Lab College of Journalism and Communications University of Florida

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