April 2025 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

2 Disrupting Disruptions Events
by Alexandra Ketchum 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

Announcing 2 special pop up events for Disrupting Disruptions: the Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Tech Speaker and Workshop Series (events 105 and 106 of the series, respectively). Thursday, May 8 (5:00-6:30 PM ET) Dr. Shannon Mattern <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-shannon-mattern-on-case-logics-furnishing-a…> on Case Logics: Furnishing a Bureaucratic Implosion Tuesday, May 27 (6:00-7:30 PM ET) Dr. Oliver Haimson <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1345430060529?aff=oddtdtcreator>on Trans Technologies: Fireside Chat Sign up here for these free, virtual events: <goog_1829825031> https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/p/schedule-of-… To watch videos of past events, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum, visit: https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/p/videos.html

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Berlin - Panel discussion - Prof. Carozza (Meta Oversight board)
by Julian A. Morgan 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

Dear Berlin AoIRers, DynamInt, together with the Weizenbaum Institute, has the pleasure of hosting a panel discussion with Prof. Paolo G. Carozza, Co-Chair of the Meta Oversight Board and Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. This event takes place on the 14th of May at 18h00 at the Walter-Hallstein-Institute Library, Humboldt University Berlin. He will deliver a keynote presentation on the shifts in content moderation policy and enforcement in the United States relative to the approach implemented by the new administration and its impacts on the European legal sphere, titled: "Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression between Oligarchy and Populism: U.S. Legal Shifts, Meta’s Oversight Board and European Futures" Registration and more information here: https://www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/en/lf/oe/rhp/events/cooperations/content-mode… Looking forward to seeing you there! Best, Julian -- Julian A. Morgan (He/Him) julian.morgan(a)hu-berlin.de Ph.D. Researcher & Research Fellow Humboldt-University of Berlin, Juristische Fakultät DFG Graduate School for Dynamic Integration (DynamInt) Affiliate researcher at the University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law (IViR) https://www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/en/lf/oe/rhp/membersnew/doctoral-researchers/… Special section Editor at the Internet Policy Review (IPR) Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) https://policyreview.info/glossary

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CFP: Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack at HICSS
by Yoram Kalman 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

Dear colleague, We invite you to submit your research to the HICSS Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack. This minitrack focuses on the study of communication taking place on digital and social media. Communication is the making of meaning and culture among people, with growing interconnections with a world of human-machine interactions. In mediated form, communication can involve text, emoticons, audio, images, video, virtual or augmented reality, or any combination thereof. The minitrack welcomes research on all forms of digital communication, including interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication, as well as a wide variety of contexts for communication, such as news, politics, entertainment, education, social movements and activism, etc. Additionally, this minitrack attends to the emerging interplay of human-machine communication—as evident, for example, in recent developments of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and the tools they afford for conversation and communication. For further details about the minitrack and its aims, see [1]https://CommunicationHicss.wordpress.com/ This minitrack is part of the Digital and Social Media track of HICSS. The HICSS-58 conference will be held January 6-9, 2026, at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Kohala Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii, USA. Submissions will be accepted until June 15, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. HST. To submit: [2]https://hicss-submissions.org/ The minitrack is the successor of the Mediated Conversation minitrack, which itself was a successor of the Persistent Conversation minitrack (established by Tom Erickson and Susan Herring at HICSS in 1999). The original minitrack was focused on the novelty of conversational persistence. With the prevalence of mediated conversation in contemporary life and a much wider landscape of digital communication that has emerged in recent years, we are called upon to consider a broader field of issues. This minitrack brings together researchers and innovators to explore Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies and their implications; to raise new socio-technical, theoretical, methodological, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic, and social questions; and to suggest new methods, perspectives, and design approaches. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Communication dynamics (from mass to interpersonal to other forms) that shape the development of digital media spaces and their role in public and private life - The role of artificial intelligence in communication, including in areas such as mediated conversation, news, and social media - Ethics of communication, digital conversation, and media technologies: e.g., privacy, safety, deception, freedom of speech, security, and information warfare - Human-machine communication and related forms of conversation (e.g., chatbots) - The role of conversation in understanding the interplay between media producers and media audiences - The dynamics and analysis of large-scale conversation systems (e.g., MOOCs and big data applications) - Methods for analyzing communication, mediated conversation, and media technologies: qualitative, quantitative, data analytics, etc. - Innovation in the intersections of communication, mediated conversation, and media technologies - The dark side of mediated conversation: e.g., hate speech, bullying, information overload - Domain-specific applications, opportunities, and challenges of communication, digital conversation, and media technologies (e.g., in education, healthcare, social movements, government, citizen participation, management, and news media) - Studies of virtual communities and the discourses in digital spaces - Novel properties of platforms as they relate to communication/conversation dynamics - Power dynamics and conversational patterns among social media users - The role of communication, conversation, and media technologies in knowledge management and organizations - Conversation visualizations and analytics - The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack co-chairs: Seth C. Lewis (Primary contact) University of Oregon [3]sclewis(a)uoregon.edu Gina M. Masullo The University of Texas at Austin [4]Gina.Masullo(a)austin.utexas.edu Yoram M. Kalman The Open University of Israel [5]yoramka(a)openu.ac.il -- Yoram Kalman, PhD [6]https://www.kalmans.com Cell: +972 (0)54-574-7375 References 1. https://communicationhicss.wordpress.com/ 2. https://hicss-submissions.org/ 3. mailto:sclewis@uoregon.edu 4. mailto:Gina.Masullo@austin.utexas.edu 5. mailto:yoramka@openu.ac.il 6. https://www.kalmans.com/

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Call for submissions: “The Almanac of Artificial Seasons”
by Marianne Goldin 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

Dear Air-L readers: We are pleased to invite submissions for the forthcoming book “The Almanac of Artificial Seasons”, edited by Delta Ark/World Engines Lab & Ilan Manouach. Please reach out to the editors directly with any enquiries: almanac /at/ echochamber.be. Marianne Goldin Src Material www.srcmaterial.org -- Call for Contributions “The Almanac of Artificial Seasons” Deadline: July 1, 2025 Edited By Delta Ark/World Engines Lab & Ilan Manouach w/ the support of Src Material (Seattle) and Echo Chamber (Brussels) What are the (synthetic, mental, etc) landscapes that emerge from the deregulation of climate, the acceleration of machine learning technologies and trend towards neo-feudalism? The Almanac of Artificial Seasons is a collection exploring the unstable territories emerging at the intersection of these forces. We invite theoretical articles, comics and documentations for artistic projects such as Unreal Engine environments, motion capture performances and interactive narratives, that delve into the shifting landscapes where climate transformation, ai technologies, network (and anti- network) politics and artistic practice converge. To grasp the current changes in climate, acceleration of ML technologies and global trend towards neo-feudalism is to engage with a massive, nonlocal entity—one that is composed of thousands of disparate models, operates on incompatible scales, and is derived from diverse data collection practices and heterogeneous objects. These systems transcend the limitations of human spatiotemporal specificities, rendering any attempt at understanding them from a conventional epistemological distance insufficient. Instead, these phenomena require us to embrace multiple disciplinary perspectives that can collectively capture their intricate dynamics. As climate instability disrupts traditional state functions, decision-making shifts toward automated systems, where predictive analytics dictate migration policies and algorithmic models optimize disaster response—sometimes reinforcing inequalities rather than resolving them. No single field can fully elucidate the layers of interactions and feedback loops present in these dynamics. This anthology (book and site) creates a space for exploring these emerging territories. The works collected here suggest that our future might not just be a story of adaptation or collapse, but of transformation into forms we can barely begin to imagine - some promising, some terrifying, many both at once. – #machinelearing #multiagentsystems #digitalhumans #ecosimulation #environmentalsensing #simulation #unnrealengine #gameengines #motioncapture #manga #comics #conceptualcomics #borne #vandermeer #drownedcities #bacigalupi #blame! #nihei #thebookofkoli #nausicaaofthevalleyofthewind #theskycrawlers #ergoproxy #haibanerenmei #firehunter #horizonzerodawnbutnodinosaurs #cavesofqud #xenogears #hyperlightdrifter #nierautomata #life3.0 #lifeasnooneknowsit #situationalawareness #networkstates #darwinamongthemachines #symbiogensis #technium #warintheageofintelligentmachines #biopunk #postcyberpunk – Submission Requirements: * Short bio (150 words) * Abstract (250 words) * Visual documentation (up to 10 images and/or 1 min. of video) Send to: almanac /at/ echochamber.be Info: https://www.echochamber.be/ – Timeline: * Deadline for abstracts: July 1st, 2025 * Notifications of acceptance: August 1st, 2025 – Editors: World Engines Lab: https://grayarea.org/create/research-labs/world-engines-lab/ Delta Ark: https://delta.center/ Ilan Manouach: https://ilanmanouach.com/ Support from: Src Material: https://www.srcmaterial.org/ Echo Chamber: https://www.echochamber.be/ -- Contact: almanac /at/ echochamber.be

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CFP: networking session/Visual AI politics/politics of visual AI
by Adi Kuntsman 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

Our *Digital Politics Summer School* is celebrating its fifthanniversary! This year, the school is focusing on visual generative AI. We areinviting applications for participation in a networking and co-production session. This sessionis for you if: - Your research focuseson the use of visual generative AI in contexts of politics, violence or socialinjustice- You would like tocollaborate on a jointly produced map of ideas and concepts- You are interested inbeing part of an international research network on the politics of visual AI To be considered, please send a 200 worddescription of your research and a short bio (no longer than 50 words) to digitalpoliticsmanmet(a)gmail.comby 19th May 2025. **Digital Politics Summer School 2025: Visual AIpolitics/politics of visual AI** 23-27 June, online When AI image generators were first popularised in 2023,they were perceived as leading to a new crisis of deepfakes and misinformation,particularly dangerous in cases of reporting war and human suffering, becauseof the dire consequences of war-time misinformation. Many media scholars viewAI as a significant threat, that can lead to a new scale of media manipulation,an erosion of sense of truth, and a crisis of visual evidence. Others suggestthat visual generative AI leads to a new form of synthetic realism and apotentially powerful political storytelling. Between these polarisingapproaches, much remains unexplored when it comes to visual AI politics and thepolitics of visual AI: the biases in representation; the absence of visualdigital and political literacy; the lack of social justice considerations inboth the techno-hype around AI-enabled possibilities and the fears aroundAI-induced harms; and the need for complex and interdisciplinary thinkingaround the rapidly expanding use of AI-generated images in politicallandscapes. This summer school brings together established scholars,early career researchers and PhD students, to learn about, discuss, andexperiment with visual generative AI, combining insights from media andcommunication studies, politics, visual criminology, AI art, and computationalscience. The programme will consist of a keynote by Prof Liv Hausken, aroundtable exploring the politics of visual generative AI, and a workshop onvisual AI tools for academic research with Dr Sam Martin. Further details aboutspeakers, programme and registration links are coming soon, and will be availablehere https://digitalpoliticsmanmet.bloggi.co/visual-ai-politics-politics-of-visu… -------- DrAdi Kuntsman, Reader in Digital Politics Head of Ethics, Faculty of Artsand Humanities Co-Lead, Digital Society Research Group Director, Digital Politics Summer School Department of History, Politics and Philosophy Manchester Metropolitan University Series Co-editor, Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures Latest books: 2024 Digital Technologies, Smart Cities and the Environment:in the Ruins of Broken Promises (with Liu Xin, BristolUniversity Press) 2023 Digital Disengagement: COVID-19, Digital Justice and thePolitics of Refusal (with Sam Martin and Esperanza Miyake,Bristol University Press). 2022 Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement : In Search of the OptOut Button (with Esperanza Miyake, Westminster UniversityPress)

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Call for nominations: 2025 Paul Baran Young Scholar Award
by Joly MacFie 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

2025 Paul Baran Young Scholar Award The Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholars are emerging leaders in information and communications technology, selected from the most promising young researchers around the world for their innovation, leadership, and focus on technology to benefit humanity. The 2025 Young Scholar Award recipients will be honored at the 2025 Marconi Awards Gala, November 13-14 2025. in Los Angeles, CA. Nominations extended through June 15, 2025 NOMINATE A SCHOLAR <https://jswsbvdab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001hazkkmyGsWOwJM4hj4SyDUaBkaYzpkM0KH…> More: https://marconisociety.org/young-scholar-award/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Call for Papers – Special Issue on Semantic Networks for Social Media and Policy Insights
by James Danowski 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

Dear colleagues, We invite submissions for the Special Issue *Semantic Networks for Social Media and Policy Insights*, now open for contributions: https://www.mdpi.com/si/239409 This Special Issue focuses on advancing the use of semantic network approaches to analyze social media and inform policy-related research. We welcome manuscripts that engage with these intersections from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Please feel free to share this invitation with any colleagues who may have relevant work seeking a publication venue. We look forward to your submissions! Best regards, James Danowski

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Repost and Correction - Sociology in Turmoil: Teaching and Research Strategies in an Anti-DEI Era
by Rod Graham 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

Dear AOIR Community - *[Earlier today I posted this call for abstracts. After getting some welcome interest, I realized I had used the wrong submission deadlines. See corrected call below.] * We are excited to issue this call for abstracts for Sociology in Turmoil: Teaching and Research Strategies in an Anti-DEI Era. Sociology in Turmoil will feature sociologically informed pieces exploring how members of the sociology community navigate spaces hostile to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). To reach a broad audience, chapters will be between 3,000 and 5,000 words and accessible to academics and laypersons. The editors prefer first-person narratives informed by a sociological imagination. Chapters will align with two central themes: - *DEI Embodied* – These chapters will highlight how diversity is not just an abstract institutional goal but a lived reality—sometimes empowering, sometimes burdensome—as individuals navigate academia. - *DEI Emboldened* – These chapters will explore novel approaches to moving forward in this new era. They can be of resilience, of adaptation, or of strategic action. Contributors are encouraged to share ideas, practices, and policies. Submission Timeline: ● May 4, 2025 – Abstract submission deadline ● June 1, 2025 – Notification of accepted abstracts & request for full manuscripts ● September 30, 2025 – First drafts due ● April 30, 2026 – Final drafts due *See full call for abstracts here. <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VeVTSPdCnR8ZsHWJ1lfPWHStQ8QhyPoe/view?usp=…> * Roderick Graham

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Call for Abstracts - Sociology in Turmoil: Teaching and Research Strategies in an Anti-DEI Era
by Rod Graham 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

As many AOIR members are in sociology or sociology-adjacent Please see the call for abstracts below. We are excited to issue this call for abstracts for Sociology in Turmoil: Teaching and Research Strategies in an Anti-DEI Era. Sociology in Turmoil will feature sociologically informed pieces exploring how members of the sociology community navigate spaces hostile to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). To reach a broad audience, chapters will be between 3,000 and 5,000 words and accessible to academics and laypersons. The editors prefer first-person narratives informed by a sociological imagination. Chapters will align with two central themes: - *DEI Embodied* – These chapters will highlight how diversity is not just an abstract institutional goal but a lived reality—sometimes empowering, sometimes burdensome—as individuals navigate academia. - *DEI Emboldened* – These chapters will explore novel approaches to moving forward in this new era. They can be of resilience, of adaptation, or of strategic action. Contributors are encouraged to share ideas, practices, and policies. Submission Timeline: ● April 15th, 2025 – Abstract submission deadline ● June 1, 2025 – Notification of accepted abstracts & request for full manuscripts ● September 30, 2025 – First drafts due ● April 30, 2026 – Final drafts due *See full call for abstracts here. <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xvZn6XWLYc4hI5V-bwuOzh6mE2gnmmPg/view?usp=…> * Roderick Graham Old Dominion University

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Creative Unconference Events: Registration still open for participants!
by Lyle Skains 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

The annual New Media Writing Prize Unconference is happening 13-14 May 2025, all online (Zoom). The Unconference is full of creative workshops, panels, interactive presentations, performances, and create-a-thons. The full programme is now available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fyZ84xFWf67GMdNZifiD26lL9TvAgqfO-aG… If you’d like to join us, you can register here: https://forms.gle/p3ArD2zDMCZt4pTK8 (You will receive zoom information upon completing your registration.) Note that all registration fees for the Unconference go directly to prize funds for the Interactive Narrative for Social Good category for the New Media Writing Prize — you are funding amazing works in new media writing! Full Unconference information is available at http://newmediawritingprize.co.uk/unconference/ ________________________________ BU is a Disability Confident Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU AccessAble webpages. This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email.

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