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Three PhD Positions in AI, Digital Culture and Deep Learning
by Tobias Blanke 17 Mar '26

17 Mar '26

Dear all. The new European Research Council-funded Advanced Grant ‘Deep Culture - Living with Difference in the Age of Deep Learning’ invites applications for three fully-funded PhD positions in Amsterdam. Collaborating with two PostDocs, the aim is to realise an ambitious interdisciplinary research agenda on deep learning and culture. Deep learning technologies like ChatGPT have generated a lot of excitement about our new relations with AI but have also provoked much public anxiety. The project coins ‘deep culture’ to describe the global cultural transformations brought about by deep learning, and how culture is key to deep learning. The project will first explore the relations between deep learning and historical-cultural concepts and practices. Secondly, it will work with deep-learning methods to address their limitations for critical analysis. Finally, it aims to foster public understanding of deep learning’s global relations to culture. We are looking for three talented, ambitious PhD candidates who can combine independent research with team collaboration. You will have the opportunity to explore exciting questions of contemporary digital culture and deep learning and contribute to shaping debates about our relations with AI technologies. For further details and a link to apply, please visit: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Three-PhD-Positions-in-AI%2C-Digital-Cultu… All best, Tobias

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Call for applications: Emerging Scholars Program at the Milton Wolf Seminar in Vienna, Austria. April 8-10.
by Smith, Briar R. 13 Jan '26

13 Jan '26

Apologies for cross posting: Applications are now open for the emerging scholars program<https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/milton-wolf-seminar-on-media-and…> at our annual Milton Wolf Seminar in Vienna, April 8-10, 2025. This year's theme is Ouroboros: The Infinite Loop of Media, Democracy, and Diplomacy, and you can take a look at the 2025 agenda and panel descriptions here<https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/milton-wolf-seminar-on-media-and…>. As panel composition is still being finalized, please have a look at last year's full program<https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/milton-wolf-seminar-media-and-di…> for the impressive mix of contributors to the seminar. Each year, 10-12 early career researchers join a mix of senior scholars, journalists, think tank folks, government representatives, and activists for a two-day seminar, and have a chance to present their research while contributing to the seminar through the ample time we reserve for discussion. We also have a fun social program in the evening. Airfare and transportation and lodging and meals are covered. Please visit the website for eligibility information and how to apply<https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/milton-wolf-seminar-on-media-and…>. Deadline is 2/14. Briar Smith Associate Director Media, Inequality & Change Center (MIC) 215-520-0773 (m) 215-573-9218 (o) www.miccenter.org<http://www.miccenter.org>

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DIGITOX seminar Jan 22: Disconnection through media, apps and tech (and Feb 25: Disconnection and the brain)
by Trine Syvertsen 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

Welcome to the international seminar series on connection and disconnection. We continue our seminars in 2025. Details here https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/projects/digital-disconnection/e… NB: Seminars run on Norway time (CET) and are scheduled in different time slots. Contact me for a Zoom link or join the DIGITOX mailing list (below) where the links are published. Upcoming seminars: Jan 22, 2025, 1400-1500 on disconnection through media, apps and tech with Veysel Bozan and Yukun You Feb. 25, 2025 1000 -1100 on disconnection and the brain with Alex Beattie and autors of Detoxing the brain<https://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1896952&dswid=-…> (Ingrid Forsler, Carina Guyard, and Linus Andersson) MORE SEMINARS WILL BE SCHEDULED FOR THE SPRING Best regards, Trine ------ We run two mailing lists, join DIGITOX list for these seminars. DIGITOX MAILING LIST: digitox-info: info from Digitox about our seminar series. To join, write an email to sympa(a)media.uio.no and write subscribe digitox-info in the subject field. To unsubscribe: Write an email to sympa(a)media.uio.no and write unsubscribe digitox-info in the subject field (or let me know that you want to be taken off the list). DISCONNECTION-LIST (general list) disconnection-research: to post information about research, publications, events etc. All members can post. To join: write to sympa(a)media.uio.no and write subscribe disconnection-research in the subject field. DO YOU HAVE A NEW PUBLICATION? OR A CFP? NOTIFY PEOPLE USING THE DISCONNECTION LIST; ALL MEMBERS CAN POST ON THIS LIST ------------------------------------------------------- Trine Syvertsen, professor, IMK, UiO Project: Intrusive media, ambivalent users and digital detox (NFR) Author of Digital detox: The politics of disconnecting (Emerald 2020) New book: The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection (open access, Nordicom, 2024)

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'Digital Storytelling: An Introduction' Book Publication Announcement
by Leah Henrickson 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

Just dropping in to let you all know that my latest book is now out (in the UK - Americans and e-book readers will need to wait until November)! 🎉 Digital Storytelling: An Introduction is my effort to historicise and expand the field. It's a textbook that teachers can build upon for their own digital storytelling and media courses, but it's also a reflection on the world's chaos and the meanings we make from it. Professor Hanna Meretoja has called the book 'a lucid guide to what is at stake when we engage in and with digital storytelling. It offers valuable critical tools, and its historically informed and intellectually rigorous yet accessible approach is much needed.' Professor Jay David Bolter has said that the book 'brings to bear a wide range of work from media studies to the cognitive and social sciences to develop [a] framework for creative expression in the medium of the digital. This concise and readable text is sure to be an indispensable resource for beginning and advanced students as well as creative practitioners.' Whether you're a student, teacher, researcher, or lifelong learner, I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it. For more information about the book, and to order a copy (exam copies available), please visit https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=digital-storytelling-an-in…. ______________________________ Dr Leah Henrickson (she/her) Lecturer in Digital Media and Cultures School of Communication and Arts University of Queensland | St Lucia QLD 4072 | Australia Room 302 | Joyce Ackroyd (37) +61 (0)7 334 68255

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now available for pre-order / Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook
by Lori Emerson 21 Nov '25

21 Nov '25

Dear all, At long last, my beloved book, Other Networks:A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is officially available from Anthology Editions for pre-order here<https://shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898-lori-emerson-other-networks-a-r…>! Sadly, despite publishing many beautifully designed art books, the publisher won’t be around for much longer which means there are only 1000 copies available of Other Networks. If you think you’d like a copy, consider pre-ordering as soon as you can manage it. With deep gratitude to my editor Mark Iosifescu<https://iosifescu.biz/>, book cover designer Robert Beatty<https://robertbeattyart.com/>, and interior book designer Ella Gold<https://ellagold.com/>, Other Networks catalogs 80+ networks that preceded or existed outside of the internet. It is also an educational project that comes out of my belief that we are all capable both of understanding networks from the past and of building alternative networks for the future; a love letter to experimental art and technology; and a liberatory guide for escaping the corporate present. The design brilliantly both recalls the long history of telecommunications networks (exemplified by late 19th century/early 20th century telegraph and telephone manuals) and rewrites that same history to now have a more global perspective and to include more women; Black, Indigenous, and People of Color; and artist experiments with/on these pre-internet networks. Below is the table of contents. I have also posted on my blog excerpts from or expanded versions of entries on microbroadcasting<https://loriemerson.net/2024/09/21/the-history-of-microbroadcasting-and-how…>, barbed wire fence phones<https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-tel…>, and imaginary networks<https://loriemerson.net/2025/01/04/brief-notes-toward-activating-the-potent…>. Sincerely, Lori (Emerson) **** Chronological List of Networks<https://loriemerson.net/2024/03/15/chronological-list-of-networks-in-other-…> Chronological List of Network Experiments<https://loriemerson.net/2024/03/15/chronological-list-of-network-experiment…> Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Wireless Networks: Sound Networks [1] Drums [2] Whistling Air Networks [3] Fire or Smoke Signals [4] Pneumatic Tubes [5] Skywriting Water Networks [6] Hydraulic Semaphore Optical Networks [7] Flag Signaling [8] Optical Telegraph [9] Infrared Communication [10] Signal Lamp [11] Heliograph [12] Photophone [13] Ultraviolet Communication [14] Laser Communication [15] Visible Light Communication Radio Networks [16] Amateur Radio [16.1] Radiotelegraphy [16.2] Radioteletype [16.3] Amateur Television [16.4] Hellschreiber [16.5] Earth-Moon-Earth Communication [16.6] Amateur Radio Satellite [16.7] Amateur Packet Radio [17] Radio Broadcast [18] Pirate Radio [19] Radiofax [20] Two-Way Radio [21] Pager [22] Meteor Burst Communication [23] Slow Scan Television [24] Project West Ford [25] Pirate Television [26] Packet Radio Network [27] Microbroadcast [28] Software Defined Radio [29] Wi-Fi [30] Bluetooth Microwave Networks [31] Microwave Radio-Relay [32] Communications Satellite Wired Networks: Electrical Wire Networks [33] Electrical telegraph [33.1] Electrical Printing Telegraph [33.2] Image Telegraph [33.3] Fire Alarm Telegraph [33.4] Pantelegraph [33.5] Telephonic Telegraph [34] Telephone [35] Wired Radio [36] Telautograph [37] Telefacsimile [38] Videophone [39] Telex Barbed Wire Networks [40] Barbed Wire Telegraph [41] Fence Phones Hybrid Networks: [42] Library [43] Book [44] Postal System [44.1] Pigeon Post [44.2] Projectile Post [44.3] Balloon Mail [44.4] Pony Express [44.5] Airgraph and V-Mail [44.6] Email Letter [45] Sneakernet [46] Radio Broadcast Network [47] Broadcast Television [48] Cable Television [48.1] NABU [49] Cellular Network [50] Time-Sharing Network [51] Teletext [52] Videotex Imaginary Networks: [53] Necromancy [54] Pasilalinic-Sympathetic Compass [55] Telephonoscope [56] Telepathy [57] Ley Lines [58] Mundaneum [59] World Brain [60] Memex [61] Faster-Than-Light Communication Networks [62] Project Xanadu [63] Metaverse [64] The Clacks [65] Pandoran Neural Network [66] Cosmic Internet -- “I use technology in order to hate it properly.” — Nam June Paik Lori Emerson | KF0LCB | she/her/they/them Associate Professor | Associate Chair Graduate Studies | Director, Media Archaeology Lab Media Studies Department | University Colorado Boulder Traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook<https://shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898-lori-emerson-other-networks-a-r…> Mastodon<https://post.lurk.org/@loriemerson> | Bluesky<https://bsky.app/profile/loriemerson.net> | loriemerson.net<http://loriemerson.net/> | mediaarchaeologylab.com<http://mediaarchaeologylab.com/>

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CfP: Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”
by Christian Strippel 10 Nov '25

10 Nov '25

Dear colleagues, On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of ELIZA, the chatbot introduced to the public by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966, Magnus Rust <https://medienwissenschaft.philhist.unibas.ch/en/persons/rust-magnus/> (University of Basel) and I are editing a Special Issue for publication in the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS) next year. With this Special Issue, we aim to bring together interdisciplinary perspectives that examine ELIZA’s historical, technical, and societal significance, while reflecting on its legacy for current and future developments in AI. You can find all the information about this Special Issue in the Call for Papers: https://ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wjds/announcement/view/8 We would highly appreciate it if you would consider submitting suitable work and/or forwarding the Call for Papers to interested colleagues. Thank you very much! Best regards, Christian (Strippel) -- Abstract Sixty years ago, Joseph Weizenbaum introduced ELIZA, one of the first computer chat programs, which became a landmark in the early history of Artificial Intelligence. Although ELIZA relied only on simple keyword detection and predefined response templates, it sparked the so-called “ELIZA effect,” enabled the first automated chatbot exchanges on the ARPANET, and is still regarded as a precursor to today’s systems such as ChatGPT. At the same time, ELIZA marked the beginning of Weizenbaum’s critical engagement with AI research and its societal implications. On the occasion of its 60th anniversary, this Special Issue seeks to explore the historical, technical, and societal significance of ELIZA from an interdisciplinary perspective. It aims to relate this legacy to current developments in generative AI and robotics, and to ask what—if anything—there is to celebrate six decades after ELIZA. Individual submissions to the special issue could cover, but are not limited to, the following topics: Automating of Psychotherapy. How have psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists actually used computers and text-based programs in their work over the past few decades? What imaginaries are mobilized and produced in these applications? Authoring AI. What genealogies follow ELIZA, not as a psychotherapist, but as an author and co-pilot in the writing of all kinds of texts? What successes and failures have been celebrated in this history of human-machine interaction? Commercializing AI. How were “expert systems” and other commercial AI tools received by the industry? What changes did they bring it for employees and workers? What does AI mean for the future of work in factories and offices? Anthropomorphizing of AI. What does the humanization of chatbots and other computer programs mean for our perception of AI? How does it shape our expectations of such technologies? How does it affect our image of humans? Mythologization of AI. How have AI myths developed since the 1950s? Why are dystopian accounts of AI so particularly successful? Why do we listen to the developers of AI when it comes to critically assessing the technologies they have helped build? Gendering of AI. How has the gendering of AI, robots, and chatbots evolved since ELIZA? What can we learn about our society from it? What impact does it have on the use and social consequences of such technologies? Key Dates Abstract submission deadline: November 17, 2025 Invitation of full papers: December 1, 2025 Full Paper submission deadline: April 6, 2026 Notification of acceptance and reviews available: July 6, 2026 Paper revision deadline: October 5, 2026 Issue release: November–December 2026 For inquiries about the special issue, please contact the guest editors (christian.strippel(a)weizenbaum-institut.de <mailto:christian.strippel@weizenbaum-institut.de>, magnus.rust(a)unibas.ch <mailto:magnus.rust@unibas.ch>). -- Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin (Germany) Group Lead "Weizenbaum Panel" and "MethodsLab" https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/portrait/p/christian-strippel/ https://panel.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/ https://methodslab.weizenbaum-institut.de/ Recent Publications: – Ethics of Data Work: Principles for Academic Data Work Requesters <https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/media/Publikationen/Weizenbaum_Discussio…> – Weizenbaum Report 2025: Political Participation in Germany <https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wr/6.1> – Data, archives, and tools: Introducing new publication formats on infrastructures and resources <https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-023-00806-7> – “The Boundaries are Blurry…”: How Comment Moderators in Germany See and Respond to Hate Comments <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1461670X.2021.2017793> – From Insult to Hate Speech: Mapping Offensive Language in German User Comments on Immigration <https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3399>

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Conference CFP (Cries and Whispers: Podcasting and the Promise of Disruption)
by Gerald Sim 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

Conference Call for Papers Cries and Whispers: Podcasting and the Promise of Disruption Feb 20-21, 2026, Florida Atlantic University Keynote Speaker: Jeremy Morris, PhD (UW-Madison) In the wake of what commentators called “the first influencer election” and the midst of what others term the first “podcasting presidency,” this conference takes stock of this millennial media format. How should we define podcasting, situate it in media and technological history, and assess its claim to be “new” media? For Martin Spinelli and Lance Dann, podcasting represents a “transitional moment in the history of audio making and listening. It is a moment in which marginal, DIY…practices burst into…popular consciousness and are taken seriously as more than just a subset of an older medium.” The claim echoes understandings of digital media more broadly as a disruptive and democratizing form that upends tradition and hierarchies of power. But, is it in fact a more slippery phenomenon, a do-it-yourself (DIY) medium that slides between mainstream and underground, algorithmically propelled across a host of social media sites? This conference aims to platform new research on podcasting that undercuts the countercultural and upstart connotations of DIY and other spreadable practices. Specifically, this conference spotlights the full range of podcasting’s perils and possibilities in light of current controversies. Proposal Deadline: OCTOBER 15, 2025 For full details and link to submission portal, please go to the conference website<https://criesandwhispers2026.wordpress.com>.

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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 ATIC Journal: Artificial Intelligence, Commons, and Collaboration
by Stéphan-Eloïse Gras 30 Sep '25

30 Sep '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the upcoming issue of the *ATIC Journal *dedicated to the theme: *Artificial Intelligence, Commons, and Collaboration*. *Guest Editors:* - *Béa Arruabarrena*, CNAM – DICEN Laboratory - *Stéphan-Eloïse Gras*, CNAM – DICEN Laboratory *Important dates:* - *Deadline for abstract submission:* October 30, 2025 - *Notification of acceptance:* November 30, 2025 - *Full paper submission (30,000–50,000 characters):* April 1, 2026 - *Publication:* Summer 2026 Although the journal publishes in *French*, we welcome *submissions in English*. Further details, including the full call for papers and submission guidelines, are available here (in French): https://www.dicen-idf.org/intelligence-artificielle-communs-collaboratif/ We warmly invite contributions that engage critically with the intersections of artificial intelligence, commons, and collaborative practices. Sincerely, *Stéphan-Eloïse Gras* and *Béa Arruabarrena* Since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the media sphere has witnessed intense debates and passionate interventions from experts and scholars across diverse fields—computer science, linguistics, biology, statistics, ethics, law, among others. Each field feels directly implicated in the spread of so-called “generative” artificial intelligence technologies, which rely on connectionist deep learning techniques. The proliferation of these artefacts, commonly referred to as AI (by metonymy of the sub-discipline they originate from), tends to obscure the material and sociotechnical conditions of their production. Indeed, AI artefacts emerge from an often-overlooked assemblage of multiple computer engineering traditions: systems and network computing, robotics, software engineering, expert systems or symbolic AI, machine learning, and deep learning. The aim of this issue is precisely to analyze the composite and heterogeneous nature of AI artefacts, to take into account the social and organizational dynamics underlying their existence, and to question the very existence and regimes of AI “commons” (i.e., open datasets, models, or weights). Reducing AI to generic objects (as in the case of “general AI”; Julia, 2019), intelligent artefacts (Agostinelli & Riccio, 2023), or nominalist abstractions (Bachimont, 2014) conceals their composite character as well as the collective dynamics and power relations that bring them into being. Conversely, a sociotechnical perspective (Flichy, 2008) reveals that the making of AI artefacts rests on at least three simultaneous processes: (1) the elaboration of a global application perspective; (2) data collection, classification, and processing; and (3) practices and uses. Focusing on “frames of use” draws attention to alignment phases, where artefacts are adjusted for social acceptability or a “license to operate” (Alcantara & Charest, 2023). The sociotechnical approach thus highlights the inseparable social and technical, material and discursive dimensions of information and communication systems. This issue of ATIC calls for critical inquiry into the collective organizations—firms, research laboratories, public or nonprofit bodies, independent initiatives—responsible for the design and development of AI artefacts. In line with Taylor (2011) and from a pragmatic standpoint, attention is directed to the constitution of organizational forms that “make” AI: material operations, products, websites, statements, speech acts, and discursive practices enacted within situated contexts (Cooren, Brummans & Charrieras, 2008; Cooren, 2024). Such an approach also requires investigating the asymmetries resulting from the centralization of design and development in the hands of a few dominant actors, and their consequences for information and communication practices (Ertzscheid, 2023). The fragile “bigger is better” narrative has subjected AI to a purported “law of scale” (Varoquaux et al., 2024), in which the usefulness and performance of systems are conditioned by the sheer size of algorithmic architectures, characterized by trillions of parameters. Similarly, the design, training, and deployment of AI models—today largely dominated by a small number of private actors—limit possibilities for collective appropriation. This hyper-concentration directly conflicts with the logic of digital commons, which rests on openness, sharing, distributed governance, and the empowerment of user communities. AI as currently organized tends to consolidate regimes of exclusive property and unilateral surveillance (Zuboff, 2019), rather than foster co-production and the circulation of knowledge and technological tools. Accordingly, this issue of ATIC invites analysis of AI commons and their sharing regimes: negotiation spaces where AI must serve collective projects (Pene, 2017). Contributions are encouraged to address collaborative dynamics, including emerging forms of collaboration and participatory methodologies enabled by transdisciplinary approaches. Digital commons are defined as collectively produced and maintained digital resources, governed by rules that preserve their shared and collective character (Baudoin, 2023). These involve researchers, citizens, and public institutions confronting the complex challenges of AI commons (Fitzpatrick, 2019). Such an approach views AI artefacts as human productions dependent on collective resources and methodologies, serving a more collaborative economy (Benkler, 2011) grounded in open ecosystems (Bauwens, 2005). Collective, diverse frameworks have demonstrated their capacity to produce and regulate technologies as commons through shared governance. While research has documented the role of major corporations in the development of open-source projects such as Linux (Broca, 2013), the centrality and ambiguity of open-source artefacts (datasets, models, algorithmic architectures, weights, etc.) in contemporary generative AI calls for renewed attention. Engaging the notion of commons also foregrounds the ethical stakes of AI. Against utilitarian and accelerationist perspectives, which dominate discourses emphasizing efficiency and profitability (Bostrom, 2014; Tegmark, 2017) often at the expense of distributive justice and the most vulnerable (Rawls, 1987), a commons-based ethic, following Haraway (1988), Star (1999), Zacklad & Rouvroy (2022), highlights power relations and social asymmetries. It expands debates toward equity, social justice, and inclusion. Noble (2018) demonstrates how algorithmic biases reflect historical inequalities embedded in data and design choices, while participatory and open research approaches help mitigate systemic biases (Fitzpatrick, 2019). Open-source collectives thus provide concrete examples to examine both the potentials and the limits of this approach. In a similar vein, Floridi (2013) advocates deliberative processes where citizens, developers, regulators, and users co-develop ethical norms responsive to contemporary challenges. Finally, this issue of ATIC, by interrogating AI sociotechnics through the lens of collaboration and commons, invites reconsideration of the status of knowledge, content, and interactions produced by AI. Under what conditions can AI artefacts—language models, generative applications, datasets—be conceived as spaces of creation, collective intelligence, and experimentation, grounded in co-construction, mutualization, and regulation? We invite contributions from scholars across disciplines—information and communication sciences, sociology, anthropology, law, computer science, design—as well as from digital commons practitioners and communities. Submissions may be theoretical or empirical, provided they engage with the ways commons and collaboration reshape the AI landscape. *Suggested Themes* *Axis 1 – Sociotechnical approaches to AI artefacts* Exploring AI as sociotechnical systems by analyzing artefacts, infrastructures, and conditions of implementation. Contributions may address materiality, technical inscriptions, and collective arrangements that render AI operative, as well as issues of access inequalities, invisibilized labor, translation processes, and technological lock-in. Topics may include AI design processes, data corpus construction, language model use, open/expert agent interactions, or shared infrastructures such as Hugging Face, GitHub, and other platforms. Special attention may be given to opacity, standardization, and modularity that support large-scale collaboration, and to tensions between community innovation and dependence on dominant models. *Axis 2 – Collaborative and organizational dynamics of AI* Analyzing AI as organizational, collective, and experimental practice. This includes forms of coordination, cooperation, and governance in the design, development, and use of AI. Topics may cover organizational practices, skills, literacies, participatory AI methodologies, collaborative robotics, or emergent governance of digital commons, platforms, and data. Empirical studies documenting usages, experimental contexts, or organizational innovations are particularly welcome. *Axis 3 – Epistemological, ethical, and political issues* Critical and reflexive perspectives on AI’s knowledge regimes, ethics, and politics. Contributions may focus on discourses and practices around governance and digital sovereignty, the knowledge and norms structuring AI artefacts, or the asymmetries of power arising from data economies, computing infrastructures, or regulation. Submissions may explore resistance, counter-expertise, or citizen mobilizations (e.g., “Slow AI”, Data Detox), situated ethics, or the geopolitics and environmental costs of AI infrastructures. This axis also invites reflection on the conditions for commons-based AI that reshape relations between technology, power, and society. *Submission Guidelines* Submissions should include: - Author identity, institutional affiliation, and title on the first page; anonymized title and text on subsequent pages (doc/odt format). - A clear and explicit title. - An abstract (max. 3,000 characters, excluding references) outlining the research problem, theoretical framework, methodology, and expected results or contributions. - A list of references. *Timeline* - *Submission of proposals (max. 3,000 characters):* October 30, 2025 - *Notification of acceptance:* November 30, 2025 - *Full paper submission (30,000–50,000 characters):* April 1, 2026 - *Publication:* Summer 2026 Although the journal publishes in *French*, *submissions in English are welcome*. *Contact:* beatrice.arruabarrena(a)lecnam.net stephan-eloise.gras(a)lecnam.net revue(a)revue-atic.fr

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Generative AI to support literacy in education: an online talk
by Adi Kuntsman 30 Sep '25

30 Sep '25

Dear all Please join us for this online event, to celebrate the launch of National Literacy Trust’s new report, on the use of gen AI by teachers and young people, to support literacy . Digital Society Research Group will be hosting Irene Picton from the NLT to talk about their report, as part of our AI Literacies events and research. When: 10 October 11am-12noon UK time Where: online The event is free but registration is required. Details here : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/young-people-and-teachers-use-of-generative-ai… Adi

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