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CFP: Digital Geographies 2025, Data Voids, negativity and refusal
by Danielle Hynes 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

With apologies for cross-posting. Please see below a CFP for a Special Session at 4th Digital Geographies Conference, 3-4 November 2025, Lisbon. Data Voids: Understanding Digital Geographies of the Built Environment through Negativity and Refusal Emerging work in cultural geography has called on researchers to consider the (im)potential of 'negative' spaces and affects, asking what can be done with voids, limits and (in)capacities of different kinds (e.g. Bissell et al, 2021). Meanwhile, across media and cultural studies, critical data studies and feminist and political geography there is growing attention to the possibilities of refusal (e.g. James et al., 2023), particularly refusal as a collective and generative response to datafied systems. Both bodies of work are concerned with gaps, absences, silences and negation, though with varied foci and orientations toward action. Our session seeks to bring these literatures into conversation, with a particular focus on digital data and the built environment. The governance of built environments is increasingly informed and narrated through digital data - from 'evidence-based' planning, to the modelling of land/housing markets, and uses of 'proptech' to facilitate investment or discipline tenants, data seem almost as foundational as bricks and mortar. Yet such data are often characterised by absences, gaps and silences. Such absences prompt initiatives to fix, 'free' and/or repurpose the data in order to enhance access and transparency. However, recent work problematises transparency as a universal response to data-driven systems, pointing to refusal and data justice as approaches pursuing a structural shift relative to data harms. The session will seek theoretical and empirical contributions pertaining to questions including, but not limited to: * What might an attention to data voids from the perspective of negative geographies and refusal illuminate? * How do absences of data shape the built environment? * How do acts of refusal in the face of data-driven governance generate meaningful political and spatial alternatives? * How might methodological approaches to data be developed or reconceived through working with refusal and negativity? * How do we reckon with refusal alongside the politics of data suppression? * How do we register what or who is left absent (unbuilt, unseen or unheard) by/through data in its shaping of built spaces? Papers from this session will be considered for a potential Special Issue in a relevant journal. Submit abstracts (max 250 words) by *April 30, 2025* here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfA3KwwzulWPBEubfIyP3ZAsmeGN8KXebD…>, selecting Special Session 8. More information about the conference can be found here<https://ceg.igot.ulisboa.pt/digitalgeographies/>. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by *May 15, 2025*. Session Organisers: Danielle Hynes & Samuel Mutter (National University of Ireland, Maynooth - Data Stories<https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/> project)

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ISOC LIVE- One year out
by Joly MacFie 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

Yes, it was March 31, 2024 that the Internet Society terminated my contract, that funded ISOC.LIVE, on the basis that it was surplus to requirements. This quote struck me this week, coming from someone here is New York,whose job is to interview DOGE'd federal employees, whom the state is actively recruiting * In 1967, a young man asked the writer and monk Thomas Merton how to act in the face of systemic injustice. This was his unconventional reply:* *"Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything."* And it is true, it is not ISOC's mission as much as its community that drives this livestream work. The breadth of that community, dedicated to a common purpose of enabling interpersonal communication, is what attracted me to ISOC in the first place, and continues to inspire... As does one person in particular, Vint Cerf, died-in-the-wool-3-piece-suit people-centric that he is, Big thanks to Vint for being the only ISOC LIVE sponsor thus far, ,funding 5 out of the 12 months. The other 7 months have been maintained out of my rapidly diminishing savings. Not a sustainable option. I still do hold out hope that one day I may change that 'unfunded' tag to "Funded by the ISOC Foundation'. Never say die. Meanwhile, here is a list of just some events that it has been my pleasure to document and share over the past 12 months. Apr 02, 2024 - A11yNYC - A Taste of ReelAbilities New York 2024 <https://isoc.live/17459/> Apr 03, 2024 - IPNSIG Academy Keynote: Chasing Peaceful Innovation Exploring intersections between technical Internet and Lunar governance <https://isoc.live/17561/> Apr 10, 2024 - TikTok AMA: IGP answers your questions about the TikTok ban <https://isoc.live/17618/> Apr 11, 2024 - Internet Society Foundation Research Funding Information Session 2024 <https://isoc.live/17652/> Apr 16, 2024 - The UNs Global Digital Compact: - Considerations on the Zero Draft <https://isoc.live/17656/> Apr 20, 2024 - AFNOG WEBINAR - Packet Analysis Theory & Practical Lab <https://isoc.live/17712/> Apr 23, 2024 - NYC Mesh Org Meetup <https://isoc.live/17730/> Apr 25, 2024 - ISOC Nigeria Girls in ICT 2024 <https://isoc.live/17740/> Apr 30, 2024 - RDRS How to access WHOIS data today <https://isoc.live/17798/> May 02, 2024 - topDNS Best Practice Webinar: A partnership to empower domain name registries to disrupt CSAM <https://isoc.live/17819/> May 08, 2024 - ISOC Tanzania Encryption Seminar for Policymakers <https://isoc.live/17839/> May 15, 2024 - 2024 NARALO/ISOC-NY Universal Acceptance Day <https://isoc.live/17881/> May 17, 2024 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Tools and Techniques <https://isoc.live/17923/> May 20, 2024 - ISOC India Bengaluru Chapter Webinar on Cyber Hygiene: Keeping Your Digital World Clean and Secure. <https://isoc.live/17919/> May 21, 2024 - Lord Renwick Memorial Lecture As If Human: the Regulation, Governance, and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence with Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt <https://isoc.live/17929/> May 25, 2024 - ISOC Mumbai Internet Governance Praxis Series: Introduction to Internet Governance <https://isoc.live/17942/> May 30, 2024 - IPNSIG Academy: Low-cost movable and static wireless sensor node for future Lunar explorations <https://isoc.live/17964/> Jun 04, 2024 - eco - NETmundial+10 recap webinar <https://isoc.live/17987/> Jun 04, 2024 - A11yNYC Leveling the Playing Field: Toward Equivalently Accessible Video Game Worlds <https://isoc.live/17823/> Jun 17, 2024 - DC-IoT Session at EuroDig - IoT deployment for sustainability <https://isoc.live/18051/> Jun 17, 2024 - DCAD Session at EuroDig - The European Accessibility Act: a Model for a More Accessible Digital Europe <https://isoc.live/18047/> Jul 02, 2024 - IPNSIG Academy: LTE/4G for Lunar Surface Communications Luis Maestro <https://isoc.live/18121/> Jul 16, 2024 - A11yNYC - Mobile Accessibility Tools: Camera Switches and More Shafik Quoraishee <https://isoc.live/18021/> Jul 22, 2024 - NARALO - Post ICANN80 Readout <https://isoc.live/18185/> Jul 25, 2024 - ICANN80 - Ghana Readout <https://isoc.live/18192/> Aug 02, 2024 - Uganda Internet Governance Forum (UIGF) 2024 <https://isoc.live/18240/> Aug 10, 2024 - ISOC Mumbai - Digital India: Enhancing Governance or Expanding Surveillance <https://isoc.live/18236/> Aug 13, 2024 - IPNSIG Academy: DTN over Lasercom Relay <https://isoc.live/18247/> Aug 17, 2024 - ISOC Mumbai - Women in Technology Leadership Webinar Reimagining Digital Identity <https://isoc.live/18250/> Aug 22, 2024 - Internet Society Online Safety SIG - Strengthening Online Safety: Encryption, Advocacy, and Global Security Practices <https://isoc.live/18334/> Aug 23, 2024 - Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) 2024 <https://isoc.live/18272/> Aug 29, 2024 - ITIF - Emerging Tech and the Future of Accessibility <https://isoc.live/18308/> Sep 03, 2024 - Pacific Islands Internet Governance Forum (PacIGF2024) <https://isoc.live/18323/> Sep 10, 2024 - A11yNYC - The Dos and Donts of Disability Representation in Media <https://isoc.live/18244/> Sep 11, 2024 - IEEE SA - Pathways to Progress: Building Rural Connectivity to Meet the SDGs <https://isoc.live/18288/> Oct 02, 2024 - A11yNYC - Locking in Best Practices Early: Building PACNYC.org Vlado Vince and Natalie Kertes <https://isoc.live/18376/> Oct 08, 2024 - Half-Day Stakeholder Forum - WSIS+20 and the future of Internet Governance <https://isoc.live/18424/> Oct 14, 2024 - Naveed Haq Keynote at IEEE CTU Summit 2024 - Everest Community Network <https://isoc.live/18736/> Oct 14, 2024 - IEEE - Connecting the Unconnected Summit 2024 <https://isoc.live/18440/> Oct 19, 2024 - BSidesNYC 2024 <https://isoc.live/18463/> Oct 24, 2024 - Digital Multilateralism After the UN Summit of the Future <https://isoc.live/18458/> Oct 25, 2024 - New About the Internet Society video <https://isoc.live/18524/> Oct 25, 2024 - Whats in a Joke? Assessing Humor in Free Speech Jurisprudence and Content Moderation <https://isoc.live/18489/> Oct 30, 2024 - ISOC Egypt - Digital Infrastructure:An Industry Overview <https://isoc.live/18505/> Oct 30, 2024 - IPNSIG Academy: Lunar Communications for the Artemis Program <https://isoc.live/18497/> Nov 01, 2024 - Youth at IGF 2024 <https://isoc.live/18518/> Nov 08, 2024 - Unpacking Global Digital Compact | Book launch <https://isoc.live/18565/> Nov 19, 2024 - A11yNYC - How Continuous Accessibility Can Boost Your Accessibility Maturity Andrew Hedges <https://isoc.live/18428/> Nov 22, 2024 - Africa Internet Governance Forum 2024 <https://isoc.live/18576/> Nov 26, 2024 - NYC Mesh Org Meetup <https://isoc.live/18624/> Nov 26, 2024 - ICANN81 Readout Highlights & Take-Aways from the Annual General Meeting <https://isoc.live/18598/> Dec 03, 2024 - i50y EVENT - Celebrating 50 Years of the Internet from a Youth Perspective <https://isoc.live/18636/> Dec 03, 2024 - A11yNYC - Verizon's Accessibility Technology & Innovation Lab Fred Moltz <https://isoc.live/18587/> Dec 04, 2024 - IPNSIG Academy: Space Communications and Networking 101 <https://isoc.live/18645/> Dec 15, 2024 - Global Internet Governance Academic Network (Giganet) Annual Symposium 2024 <https://isoc.live/18689/> Jan 08, 2025 - DIPLO 2025 Forecast: AI and Digital Developments <https://isoc.live/18719/> Jan 13, 2025 - ISOC Masr - The Politics of Digital Infrastructure <https://isoc.live/18729/> Jan 22, 2025 - Manthan: A Stakeholder discussion on the Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 <https://isoc.live/18756/> Jan 23, 2025 - Internet Development Conference 2025, Addis Ababa <https://isoc.live/18750/> Jan 24, 2025 - Ethiopia Peering Day <https://isoc.live/18776/> Feb 04, 2025 - A11yNYC - Older Adults and Digital Inclusion Tom Kamber <https://isoc.live/18700/> Feb 06, 2025 - Beyond WHOIS: Towards a New Framework of Internet Domain Registration Data Disclosure <https://isoc.live/18821/> Feb 07, 2025 - ISOC Bengalaru - Workshop on DNS and DNS Security <https://isoc.live/18815/> Feb 18, 2025 - EURALO Round Table - The New Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) Program, community reflections <https://isoc.live/18873/> Feb 18, 2025 - GigaNet Online 2024 Symposium <https://isoc.live/18859/> Feb 24, 2025 - Pulse Internet Measurement Forum Malaysia <https://isoc.live/18915/> Feb 26, 2025 - International Cybersecurity Norms in the UN and Beyond <https://isoc.live/18935/> Feb 26, 2025 - SELECTED WEBCASTS - APRICOT 2025 Conference <https://isoc.live/18904/> Feb 27, 2025 - Beyond Whois: Filling the Gaps <https://isoc.live/18921/> Mar 04, 2025 - A11yNYC Benchmarking Usability and the Cognitive A11y Frontier <https://isoc.live/18948/> Mar 10, 2025 - NARALO Roundtable - DNS Abuse and AI: Combatting and Enabling Threats <https://isoc.live/18978/> Mar 19, 2025 - ISOC NORGE AGM Keynote: Norways role in the governance of the Internet <https://isoc.live/19024/> Mar 21, 2025 - Encryption Under Threat: - The UKs Backdoor Mandate and Its Impact on Online Safety <https://isoc.live/19040/> Mar 23, 2025 - ISOC Mumbai - Interplanetary Internet Race 2.0 (with Vint Cerf) <https://isoc.live/18961/> Mar 25, 2025 - Free State Foundation 17th Annual Policy Conference <https://isoc.live/19057/> Mar 29, 2025 - NYC School of Data 2025 <https://isoc.live/19086/> -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @ACL - Reminder
by Agostina Calabrese 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

We invite paper submissions to the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on August 1 at ACL 2025. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates * Submission due: April 18, 2025 * ARR reviewed submission due: May 20, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: June 13, 2025 * Workshop: August 1st, 2025 Overview Digital technologies have brought significant benefits to society, transforming how people connect, communicate, and interact. However, these same technologies have also enabled the widespread dissemination and amplification of abusive and harmful content, such as hate speech, harassment, and misinformation. Given the sheer volume of content shared online, addressing abuse and harm at scale requires the use of computational tools. Yet, detecting and moderating online abuse remains a complex task, fraught with technical, social, legal, and ethical challenges. The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a diverse range of fields, including but not limited to natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary research, technical and non-technical contributions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. Non-archival papers and civil society reports are also welcome. Topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations in existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful content, especially those in commercial use; * Development of new datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * Novel evaluation metrics and procedures for detecting harmful content; * Analyses of the dynamics of online abuse, its propagation, and its impact on different communities; * Social, legal, and ethical considerations in detecting, monitoring, and moderating online abuse. Special Theme: Harms Beyond Hate Speech In its 9th edition, WOAH highlights the theme Harms Beyond Hate Speech. We aim to expand the conversation beyond conventional definitions of harmful content by exploring the nuanced ways online harms manifest—such as technologically mediated inauthentic behavior, the power of technologies to reshape perceptions and opinions, and their potential to incite discrimination, hostility, violence, or even genocide. Additionally, we emphasize the diverse targets affected by such harms and the unique considerations computational interventions demand. To facilitate this exploration, we invite NLP researchers, social scientists, cultural scholars, and practitioners to engage with key issues, including child sexual abuse material, radicalization, misinformation, platform policies, security, and the politics of computational approaches. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, our goal is to deepen understanding of these complex phenomena and advance effective, ethical solutions Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: https://softconf.com/acl2025/woah2025/ The workshop will accept three types of papers: 1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. 2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. 3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. All submissions must use the official ACL style files<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html. WOAH Community We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms! Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-g… Contact Info Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com> Organisers Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Monsoon school on Digitalisation and contested modernities at IIIT-Hyderabad, India
by Rajorshi Ray 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

Dear All I hope you are doing well. I am delighted to inform you that the Human Sciences Research Center, IIIT, is organizing a five-day Monsoon School from *July 21st to July 25th, 2025*, on the theme: *"Digitalization and Contested Modernities."* Please find attached the event poster for your reference. I would greatly appreciate it if you could share it within your networks. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Best Rajorshi Ray Assistant Professor Human Sciences Research Centre IIIT, Hyderabad

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