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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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Re: [Air-L] Final call for papers
by Scott MacLeod 07 Mar '26

07 Mar '26

Greetings Harry and AoIR colleagues, Greetings from the SF Bay Area near Berkeley and Stanford. Just beginning part 2 of my "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" book (Academic Press at World University and School, 2026, forthcoming) on the global university and World University and School, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and planned in all 200 countries, and in their main languages for free-to-students' Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high sch / similar (for 16-19 year olds), AA / AS, and Master's degrees - and wiki schools for people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning in all 7159 known living languages. In a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, World University and School is seeking to facilitate highest quality free universal education from home, and in seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - for a variety of reasons. Much of MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School will also grow in a #RealisticVirtualEarth and think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, and with TensorFlow AI and STEM field sites, and classrooms etc too; and please see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article "Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI" #WorldUniversityInSchool updated March 2, 2024 - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learn… - where he mentions a realistic virtual earth for the first time other than WUaS that I know of. Might I give as a paper the first chapter in Part 2 of my "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" book (possibly in 2026, or 2027) at 2026 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety), which will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, from July 13th-15th? You'll find a Google Docs' link here in World University and School's 12/15/25 Weekly Business Meeting Agenda item A to the first 8 chapters for my book - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2025/12/brooks-range-ak-m-121… - for which I'm happy to share permissions, if you or AoIR researchers might be interested. World University and School's OPEN Weekly Business Meetings are loosely conducted in the Manner of Friends / unprogrammed Quakers Monthly Business Meeting ... and I'm wondering too Harry Dyer, with your somewhat Quaker last name (re Friend Mary Dyer in the 1650s) whether you might have Quaker ancestry that even informs your Digital Sociology research and related academic querying. (I've also lived for 2 full years studying in Edinburgh, Scotland -where I became a member of the RSOF Religious Society of Friends in 2004 - and would be interested in sharing my "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" book in Scotland, for example; Harry Dyer, do you have Friendly Quaker affinities by any chance?). Here's the very beginning of free Scotland World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland (from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States) planned in English, Scottish Gaelic, and the Scots languages, eventually accessible from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages and as LLMs too ... and check out the Academic Subjects here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (planned in all 7159 known living languages) and for their MIT OCW courses, eventually for credit for free WUaS degrees re these versions of OpenCourseWare - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ & https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/ with an invitation to begin a wiki WUaS subject too about something you love to teach and learn about, or something you have expertise in, and in your languages. How best to proceed please? Might it be possible to share this paper via a video component to the 2026 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety)? Thanks, Scott Scott GK MacLeod "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" book (forthcoming in 2026, Academic Press at WUaS) - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YJg2icBhxEj7eSiSoiN2mgusX4PK1cQfZRFPRdw… - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/12/brooks-range-ak.html https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2025/12/brooks-range-ak-m-121… Also https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/society%20and%20information… (in daily blog) https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university (in daily blog) PS M 1/19/26 Recording of free best STEM #CClicensed #OCW #wikiWUaS @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSNewsAndQA #WUaSWeeklyBusinessMeeting11926 re #FreeWUaSdegrees building on #MITOCW in 7 languages - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ - in all ~200 countries, and in their main languages, emerging from M 1/19/26 Rec of #OCW #wikiWUaS @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress -https://youtu.be/dUvelVaMvXI using 1/12/26 Agenda & News https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/01/roggeveld-mountains-s… -https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/01/roggeveld-mountains-sa.html -https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/videos ~ https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2013660275015397650 https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2013660414098448657 https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2013660359018582333 Vid pic https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2013661337151557721 https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2013661277927907599 https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2013661210433012179 https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2013661148458230001 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottgkmacleod_cclicensed-ocw-wikiwuas-activ… https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scott-macleod-4691a011a_cclicensed-ocw-wikiw… https://www.linkedin. com/posts/world-university-and-school_cclicensed-ocw-wikiwuas-activity-7419437891094913025-EEdY ~ PPS my notes - Harry Dyer - University of East Anglia https://share.google/LrVTjaRXW9DKg5z2A Harry T Dyer | Digital Sociology and Theory https://share.google/spIVxeHzbCgIBizFT Harry.T.Dyer(a)uea.ac.uk -- Scott MacLeod - World University books <http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity> Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2026, forthcoming) Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd <https://scottmacleodpiobaireachdscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/> (2022) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand (Berkeley) - Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually <https://www.amazon.com/Light-Float-Sit-Watsu-Virtually/dp/0578834685> (2021) Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune <https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/t…> (2020) Order Book #4 To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual reality <https://www.amazon.com/Dance-Pools-Virtually-different-Springs/dp/0578625490> (2019) Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss <https://www.amazon.com/Winding-Road-Rainbow-Harbin-Wandering/dp/0578435187> (2018) Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry <https://www.amazon.com/Haiku-ish-Other-Loving-Harbin-Poetry/dp/0692049037> (2017) Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography <https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Harbin-Ethnography-Counterculture-Clothing-Opt…> (2016) - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook - Scott GK MacLeod Founder, President, CEO & Professor at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, World University & School (WUaS) - USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516 1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, wiki https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects, https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_Univers… World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch 2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress (o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod(a)worlduniversityandschool.org (m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod(a)gmail.com World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - - scottmacleod.com - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod - https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1815700381474689273 - http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod - https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod (all 7,159 known living languages at WUaS) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20univers… IMPORTANT NOTICE: This transmission and any attachments are intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or exempt from disclosure under applicable federal or state laws. If the reader of this transmission is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify me immediately by email or telephone. World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please reply with 'unsubscribe' in the body of the email, leaving the subject line intact. Thank you. On Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 06:44 Harry Dyer (EDU - Staff) via Air-L < air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Dear AoIR community, > > This is a final announcement for paper submissions for the 2026 > International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety), which will > take place in Glasgow, Scotland, from July 13th-15th. As a reminder, the > deadline for extended abstract submissions (1000-1500 words abstracts) is > Monday, January 26, 2026 at midnight (Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time). We > look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you in Glasgow! > > #SMSociety is a biennial gathering of leading social media researchers > from around the world. It is the premier venue for sharing and discovering > new peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research on how social media affects > society. #SMSociety provides participants with opportunities to exchange > ideas, present original research, learn about recent and ongoing studies, > and network with peers. > > The call can be found below: > > https://socialmediaandsociety.org/smsociety-2026/ > > The 2026 conference is co-organized by the Digital Cultures and Economies > Research Hub< > https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/research-at…> > at the University of the Arts London (UAL), the University of East Anglia< > https://www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-centres/critical-cultural-studies-in-educa…> > (UEA), and the hosts at the Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy< > https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/urban-studies-social…> > at Glasgow University. > The conference's three-day program will feature panels and paper > presentations, workshops, tutorials, networking events, and a poster > session. > In keeping with the conference's inter- and transdisciplinary focus, we > welcome both quantitative and qualitative scholarly and original > submissions that crosses disciplinary boundaries and expands our > understanding of current and future trends in social media research across > many fields including (but not limited to): Communication, Computer > Science, Critical Data Studies, Education, Journalism, Information Science, > Law, Management, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy, Public > Administration, Science and Technology, Sociology, Urban Studies, among > others. > > TOPICS OF INTEREST (the list is not exhaustive) > > * Affordances > * AI and LLMs > * Algorithms > * Computational, digital and data methods > * Creators and Influencers > * Cyberbullying, Trolling and Antisocial Behavior > * Digital Education > * Digital Intimacies > * Discourse and Public Opinion > * Health and Wellbeing > * Infrastructures, platformisation and datafication > * Marketing and Promotional Social Media > * Misinformation and Disinformation > * Online and Offline Communities > * Platform Cultures > * Platform Governance and Regulation > * Emerging and Established Social Technologies, Apps and Platforms > * Politics, Policy, and Regulation > * Privacy, Security and Trust > * Social Media Cultures and Everyday Life > * Use and Users > * Vibes, memes and trends > > SUBMISSION DETAILS > > * Submission types and guidelines< > https://socialmediaandsociety.org/submission-types-and-guidelines/>: You > can submit an extended abstract for a paper or poster presentation, and/or > propose a panel, workshop or hands-on tutorial< > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftm_yw8HDDrnuliY7GkhIy4UkebDWviCI… > > > > SUBMISSION DEADLINES > > * Papers (Extended Abstracts): January 26, 2026 (1000-1500 words) > * Panels: February 16, 2026 (2000-3000 words) > * Workshops & Tutorials: February 16, 2026 (2000-3000 words) > * Posters (Extended Abstracts): March 13, 2026 (1000-1500 words) > > ORGANISING EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: > > * Zoetanya Sujon - Reader and the Programme Director for > Communications and Media courses at London College of Communication (LCC), > University of the Arts London, UK > * Harry Dyer - Associate Professor of Education, School of Education & > Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, UK > * Mark Wong - Senior Lecturer and Subject Group Lead of Social and > Urban Policy, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of > Glasgow, UK > * Devina Sarwatay - Presidential Fellow City St. George's, University > of London, UK > * Estaban Morales Velasquez - Assistant Professor / Media and Digital > Cultures Centre for Media and Journalism Studies University of Groningen, NL > * Irida Ntalla - Senior Lecturer in Digital Storytelling at London > College of Communication (LCC), University of the Arts London, UK > * Daniel Jordan - Postgraduate Research Student University of Glasgow, > UK > * Yingwen Wang - Postgraduate Research Student London College of > Communications, University of the Arts London, UK > * Yue Qin - Postgraduate Research Student London College of > Communications, University of the Arts London, UK > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ >

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Communication and Change, Articles published in 2025
by Yu Tian 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

Hi AoIR, Happy 2026! We are pleased to share that 2025 marks a milestone for Communication and Change with 20 peer-reviewed and editorial articles published and several special issues scheduled for publication in 2026! We invite you to take a look. https://link.springer.com/journal/44382 Table of Contents 1. Building a methodological profile for communication’s study of the passive generation of information Huma Rasheed & Robert Holbert 1. Stuck in the middleware with you: the challenges of capitalizing a market-oriented approach to platform governance Blake Hallinan, Omer Rothenstein & Nicholas A. John 1. The end of experimental research as we know it? A perspective on generative artificial intelligence in communication science Jörg Matthes & Sofie Vranken 1. The evolution of agenda-setting research and theory from 1972 to 2025: from newspapers and TV to social media and artificial intelligence David H. Weaver 1. Media History vs. Media Change: ahistoricism, technological determinism, and other problems Otávio Daros 1. A chatbot for the soul: mental health care, privacy, and intimacy in AI-based conversational agents Tamara Kneese, Briana Vecchione & Alice Marwick 1. Using large language models for survey research in communication: opportunities and challenges Sebastián Valenzuela, Stephan Winter & Sebastián Rivera 1. A bias towards neutrality? How LLM guardrail sensitivity affects classification Richard Rogers & Xiaoke Zhang 1. Reimagining AI in Latin America: situated narratives of users, developers, and decision-makers on understanding and governing AI Teresa Correa, Francisca Luco, Mónica Humeres, Dusan Cotoras, Alexandra Davidoff, Yelena Hernández-Estrada, Iñaki Oyarzún-Merino & Claudia López 1. Emerging AI individualism: how young people integrate social AI into everyday life Petter Bae Brandtzaeg, Asbjørn Følstad & Marita Skjuve 1. Communication, change, and the challenge of AI: an introduction to the inaugural issue of Communication and Change James E. Katz 1. Generative AI and its disruptive challenge to journalism: An institutional analysis Seth C. Lewis, Andrea L. Guzman, Thomas R. Schmidt, Bibo Lin 1. Introducing Communication and Change: A journal for empirically grounded communication research and theory James E. Katz 1. 100 years of communication: Change and continuity in inaugural communication journals 1924–2024 Lee Humphreys, Didem Özkul & Stephanie Belina 1. Artificial intelligence as primitive accumulation: Enclosure, extraction, exploitation Graham Murdock 1. Mobile AI: Communication and mobility after the smartphone Gerard Goggin 1. A framework for thinking about and deploying ethics in AI Peng Hwa Ang 1. Extending the self through AI-mediated communication: Functional, ontological, and anthropomorphic extensions Scott W. Campbell, Nicole B. Ellison & Morgan Quinn Ross 1. An ecological approach to debated questions in communication research: Issue competition, media convergence, and AI-generated content Jonathan J. H. Zhu & Tai-Quan Peng 1. Communication and Change: Our Vision James E. Katz, Baohua Zhou, Lei Guo & Jianhua Yao Also, consider submitting your articles in 2026! Submission guidelines： https://link.springer.com/journal/44382/submission-guidelines Submission Website： https://link.springer.com/journal/44382 Social Media Handle: X (previously known as Twitter): @CAC_Springer Bluesky: cacspringer.bsky.social

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WEBCAST JAN 12 – A11yNYC – XR Social Accessibility in Practice: Lessons from Meta Horizon Worlds – Thomas Logan
by Joly MacFie 20 Feb '26

20 Feb '26

[image: ISOC live] <https://isoc.live/19929>*LIVESTREAM <https://youtu.be/9QlSlW8Ni5o>* | *MEETUP <https://www.meetup.com/a11ynyc/events/312254520/>* | *REAL TIME TEXT <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11ynyc>* | *ADD TO CALENDAR <https://addcal.io/e/6isaxytfu6bt>* | *PERMALINK <https://isoc.live/19929>* On *Tuesday January 12, 2026*, at *7:30pm-8:30pm EST* (00:30-01:30 UTC Jan 13), the A*ccessibility NYC Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/>* (A11yNYC) hosts a meetup ‘*XR Social Accessibility in Practice: Lessons from Meta Horizon Worlds <https://www.meetup.com/a11ynyc/events/312254520/>*‘. *Thomas Logan <https://www.linkedin.com/in/techthomas/>* of *Equal Entry <https://equalentry.com/>* will provide a snapshot of XR social accessibility at the beginning of 2026, examining where the industry currently stands through Meta Horizon Worlds and the Quest ecosystem. The meetup will be webcast live via a partnership with the *Internet Society New York Accessibility SIG <https://a11ysig.org/>*. - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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New Book (UK) – Gender & Technology: An Introduction
by Holly Kruse 17 Feb '26

17 Feb '26

My book Gender and Technology: An Introduction, is now available in the UK. (It will be available everywhere else in February.): https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=gender-and-technology-an-i… <https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=gender-and-technology-an-i…>https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=gender-and-technology-an-i… <https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=gender-and-technology-an-i…>8 Publisher Polity describes the book thusly: "In this comprehensive text, Holly Kruse explores how notions of gender and technology have been socially constructed. Organized historically, the book provides a broad overview of global developments in technology and how these technologies have been (ideologically) gendered. Focusing on communication and media technologies and analysing an array of household and workplace devices, the text examines the ways in which they have been considered ‘feminine' or ‘masculine'. These associations, as the text reveals, often have little to do with the complexity of the technology. Rich with historical and contemporary examples – from bicycles and washing machines to the telegraph and the computer - Gender and Technology encourages us to take a closer look at how and why modern technologies are gendered. By understanding the origins of our ideas about gender and technology, we can see how they have and have not changed over time.” With the kindest of blurbs from the best AoIR-istas (*blushing*): "This beautifully written history of technology, presented through the lens of gender, offers an exceptional amount of information and insight. It will delight and inspire both experts and those new to the topic." Nancy Baym, Partner Research Manager, Microsoft Research "A masterclass in unpacking the taken-for-granted, this book traces how technologies are gendered - and how gender is technologized - in ways that shape everything from children's toys to our most intimate relationships with domestic space." Alice E. Marwick, Director of Research, Data & Society (I’ve updated this affiliation) "Critically astute and wide-ranging, this engaging and accessible text reveals the centrality of gender politics within everyday technologies." Kylie Jarrett, University College Dublin While on Polity’s UK site, be sure to check out former AoIR President (and my former exec committee colleague and buddy) Alex Halavais’ new book, An Introduction to Information Studies: Datafying People, Places, and Things. Best wishes, Holly Holly Kruse, Ph.D. Professor Department of Communications Rogers State University 1701 W. Will Rogers Blvd. Claremore, Oklahoma 74017 holly.kruse(a)gmail.com <mailto:holly.kruse@gmail.com> (or hkruse(a)rsu.edu) https://hollykruse.com <https://hollykruse.com/>

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IEEE SMARTCOMP 2026: Final Call for Research Track Papers and Industry Track Papers (Deadline Extended: 16th February 2026)
by h-yonekura+ist 31 Jan '26

31 Jan '26

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. We appreciate your help in contributing & forwarding this call for papers to your colleagues. ====================================================================== Final Call for Research/Industry Papers: IEEE SMARTCOMP 2026 ====================================================================== **** Deadline Extended: 16th February 2026 **** --------------------------- SMARTCOMP 2026, the 12th edition of the premier conference on smart computing, will be held in Messina, Italy, from 22nd to 25th June 2026. https://smartcomp2026.unime.it/ Smart computing is a multidisciplinary domain enabled by advances in sensor-based technologies, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, edge computing, big data analytics, machine learning, cognitive computing, ambient intelligence, and artificial intelligence. Applications of smart computing can be found in diverse societal domains, including transportation, energy, environmental protection, smart and connected communities, healthcare, industrial systems, precision farming, and entertainment. Algorithmic and systems advancements in edge, fog, or cloud computing, mobile and pervasive computing, sensor networking, and social computing are accelerating such innovation while expanding its influence in everyday ways of living. SMARTCOMP 2026 welcomes novel, cutting-edge, and creative research contributions. Authors should discuss the importance, timeliness, and significance of their work as well as limitations, implications, future opportunities, and open research directions. Main Research Track: SMARTCOMP 2026 solicits papers that address the core challenges of smart computing, focusing on the design and development of scalable, dependable systems, and on leveraging computing technologies to enhance resource sustainability and enhance the sustainable quality of human life. Topics of interest include – but are not limited – to the following: - Emerging Smart Computing Paradigms - Algorithms for Smart Computing - AI and Machine Learning in Smart Computing - Mobile and Ubiquitous Smart Systems, Wearable Computing and IoT - Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems - Cloud, Edge, and Fog-based Smart Computing Platforms - Data Engineering and Analytics for Smart Computing - Distributed Sensing, AI, and Computation - Middleware for Smart Systems - Novel Communication Paradigms in Smart Computing - Low Power Communication and Computing for Smart Systems - Social Computing and Smart Systems - Quantum Computing in Smart Systems - Security, Privacy, and Trust in Smart Computing - Fairness and Socio-technical Aspects of Smart Computing - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Smart Computing - Novel applications of Smart Computing in emerging and high-potential fields (e.g. Smart Communities, Health, Industry, Transport, Energy, Space, Agrifood, ...) Industry Track: The industry track will provide a forum to discuss novel ideas and emerging results, present innovative applications and tools, and bring about novel research questions, approaches, and directions with an industry focus. The conference industry track draws upon many industrial applications such as transportation, energy, environmental protection, resource management, healthcare, security, banking, entertainment, and social media. An important criterion for papers to be submitted to the Industry Track is the clear industrial association, either in the form of an extensive evaluation of research results in industrial use cases or the active participation of industry representatives as co-authors. Accepted papers will be published as part of a separate section of the main conference proceedings that highlights the Industry relevance of the submission. Industry Track Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Smart Cyber-Physical Systems for Energy, Water, Agriculture, Transportation, Healthcare, Banking Infrastructure, and Smart Communities - Security, Privacy, and Economics of Smart Environments - Human-Centric Smart Environments for Health, Entertainment, and Social Interaction - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Smart Computing Systems - Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) and Intelligent Edge Systems - Smart and Connected Communities across Cities - Emerging Smart Computing Paradigms - Sustainable Smart Computing Paradigms - Middleware, Platforms, and Tools for Smart Systems - Quantum Computing Applications in Smart Systems Important Dates: - Paper Submission: 16th February 2026 (Extended) - Acceptance Notification: 15th April 2026 - Camera Ready: 22nd April 2026 - Conference: 22nd to 25th June 2026 All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth. Submission Guidelines: Paper submissions must be no longer than 8 pages, including references and formatted using the two-column IEEE proceedings template. All submitted papers following these requirements will be peer reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. All presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference will be in-perso,n and no virtual or remote presentations will be permitted. Accepted papers must be presented in person by one of the authors under full registration. Failure to meet this requirement will result in the exclusion of the paper from the final proceedings, the conference program, and the IEEE Digital Library. Authors of accepted papers are responsible for obtaining an Italian visa, if required, in a timely manner so as to meet the above expectations. The conference applies a single-blind review process. Submit your research paper here: https://smartcomp2026research.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=34461 Submit your industry paper here: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=34459 One additional page for the camera-ready version can be purchased after the paper review and selection. BEST PAPER AWARD and Editorial Follow-Ups: The authors of the best paper in the main research track will receive an award in recognition of their contribution to the field. Extended versions of selected high-quality papers accepted to the main conference will be considered for publication in Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal (IF: 3.5) Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs - Daniela Nicklas (University of Bamberg, Germany) - George Roussos (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Industry Track Co-Chairs: - Sunyanan Choochotkaew (IBM, Japan) - Valeria Tomaselli (ST Microelectronics, Italy) Contact Information： For any questions about the conference, please contact the TPC Co-Chairs at: smartcomp26-tpc-chairs.mobi(a)uni-bamberg.de We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you in Messina, Italy, in June 2026! Sincerely, --------- Haruki Yonekura Publicity and Social Media Co-Chairs, IEEE SMARTCOMP 2026 https://smartcomp2026.unime.it/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/ieee-smartcomp/ Graduate School of Information Science and Technology The University of Osaka, Japan Mobile Computing Laboratory

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): First Call for Replications and Negative Results
by Announce 31 Jan '26

31 Jan '26

*** First Call for Replication and Negative Results *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ The Replications and Negative Results (RENE) Track has been introduced in the software engineering community for a while and received overwhelmingly positive feedback. This year, we establish this track at ISSRE and invite researchers to (1) replicate results from previous papers and (2) publish studies with important and relevant negative or null results (results that fail to show an effect, yet demonstrate the research paths that did not pay off). We also encourage the publication of the negative results or replicable aspects of previously published work. For example, authors of a published paper reporting a working solution for a given problem can document in a “negative results paper” other (failed) attempts they made before defining the working solution they published. • Replication studies. The papers in this category must go beyond simply re- implementing an algorithm and/or re-running the artifacts provided by the original paper. Such submissions should at least apply the approach to new data sets (open-source or proprietary). A replication study should clearly report on results that the authors were able to replicate, as well as on the aspects of the work that were not replicable. • Negative results papers. We seek papers that report on negative results. We seek negative results for all types of program comprehension research in any empirical area (qualitative, quantitative, case study, experiment, etc.). For example, did your controlled experiment not show an improvement over the baseline? Even if negative, results obtained are still valuable when they are either not obvious or disprove widely accepted wisdom. Evaluation Criteria Both Replication Studies and Negative Results submissions will be evaluated according to the following standards: • Depth and breadth of the empirical studies • Clarity of writing • Appropriateness of conclusions • Amount of useful, actionable insights • Availability of artifacts • Underlying methodological rigor. A negative result due primarily to misaligned expectations or due to lack of statistical power (small samples) is not a good submission. The negative result should be a result of a lack of effect, not a lack of methodological rigor. Most importantly, we expect replication studies to clearly point out the artifacts upon which the study is built, and to provide the links to all the artifacts in the submission (the only exception will be given to those papers that replicate the results on proprietary datasets that can not be publicly released). Submission Instructions Submissions must be original, in the sense that the findings and writing have not been previously published or under consideration elsewhere. However, as either replication studies or negative results, some overlap with previous work is expected. Please make clear in the paper the overlap with and difference from previous work. All submissions must be in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines: (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates) Authors are strongly encouraged to print the PDF and review it for integrity (fonts, symbols, equations, etc.) before submission, as defective printing can undermine a paper’s chance of success. By submitting to the ISSRE RENE Track, authors acknowledge that they are aware of and agree to be bound by the IEEE Plagiarism FAQ. In particular, papers submitted to the RENE track must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for ISSRE 2026. Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of scientific ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. To check for double submission and plagiarism issues, the chairs reserve the right to (1) share the list of submissions with the PC Chairs of other conferences with overlapping review periods and (2) use external plagiarism detection software, under contract to the IEEE, to detect violations of these policies. Submissions to the RENE Track can be made via the ISSRE RENE track submission site： https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 . Submission Length: The ISSRE RENE Track accepts submissions of two lengths: (1) New replication studies and new descriptions of negative results should have a length of up to 10 pages, plus 2 pages which may only contain references. (2) Negative results documented during the preparation of previously published work by the authors should be described in up to 5 pages, plus 1 page, which may only contain references (e.g., as previously mentioned, authors of a published paper can document negative results they obtained while working on it, such as methodologically sound solutions that did not work). Important note 1: Both types of papers (replication and negative results) will be included as part of the main conference proceedings. Important note 2: The RENE track does not follow a double-anonymous review process. Publication and Presentation Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will receive further instructions for preparing the camera-ready versions of their submissions. If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to have a full registration for ISSRE 2026, attend the conference, and present the paper in person. All accepted papers will be published in the conference electronic proceedings. The presentation is expected to be delivered in person, unless this is impossible due to travel limitations (e.g., related to health or visa). Details about the presentations will follow the notifications. The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the IEEE Digital Libraries. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Purchases of additional pages in the proceedings are not allowed. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission deadline: July 5, 2026 • Notification of acceptance: August12 29, 2026 • Camera-ready copy submission: August 19, 2026 • Author registration deadline: August 19, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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Applied Rhetoric Symposium deadline extended - Submission site now LIVE!
by Stephen Carradini 30 Jan '26

30 Jan '26

The proposal deadline for the 2026 Symposium of the Applied Rhetoric Collaborative has been extended to Feb. 15, 2026! The symposium will be held June 4-5, 2026 in a hybrid format at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, and online. The CFP is copied below, and the submission website<https://mds.marshall.edu/arcsymposium/cfp.html> (https://mds.marshall.edu/arcsymposium/cfp.html) is now live and ready to accept proposals! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Jacob Rawlins at jacob_rawlins(a)byu.edu<mailto:jacob_rawlins@byu.edu>. We hope to see you there! Thanks! ARC 2026 Planning Committee Jacob Rawlins, Roxanne Aftanas, Lenny Grant, Kathryn Northcut, Sara Parks, Matt Sharp, and Stephen Carradini. -- CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Applied Rhetoric Collaborative (ARC) is an interdisciplinary group of scholars who practice, teach, and study applied rhetoric. Applied rhetoric is a rhetorically grounded method for and study of action-oriented research, teaching, and service in live situations that solves problems and achieves positive ends in communities. ARC offers a para-professional space for support, feedback, collaboration, and encouragement to those at any stage of their careers (from students to retirees) who seek to solve problems and achieve positive ends in communities using applied rhetoric. Our summer symposia allow us to examine how rhetoric is enacted in our professional and public spaces. Symposium presentations have covered the realms of applied rhetoric (AR) in healthcare, academic programming, digital spaces, physical public spaces, the media, and the classroom. Topics have been as varied as public memory projects, rhetorical activism, free speech rules, international censorship, and historical legal testimony. Since the symposium began in 2018, the world we live in has dramatically changed in many ways—for better and for worse. Accordingly, ARC sees a need to reconsider how we conceptualize how we “do” rhetorical work in our communities and classrooms. ARC’s fifth summer symposium will continue to build on the foundations laid during our previous meetings, as we come together to further develop and define the ideas of applied rhetoric. To do this, we ask symposium participants to emphasize how people (researchers, teachers, practitioners, activists, leaders, community members, and everyone in between) bring rhetoric into the world. We are interested in diverse works that discuss how we bring rhetoric into the world. Potential topics of interest may include, but are not limited to: * What does it look like for academics to take their knowledge of rhetoric into public spaces? * How can we, as both community members and rhetoricians, be a force for good in the world as we put our rhetoric into action? * How do community members enact rhetoric and rhetorical principles to get things done? * How do rhetorical principles affect ideas, events, and/or outcomes in nonprofit organizations? * How do people enact rhetoric in legal spaces for the good or ill of all involved? * How do academics encourage and enable students to enact rhetoric out in the world, either on their own or as part of an academic enterprise? * How does one learn to do rhetoric out in the world? How does one teach students to do rhetoric out in the world? * How do people enact rhetoric online to affect positive or negative change? How can positive change be further amplified or developed? How can negative change be combated or counteracted? * How do people balance the desire to enact rhetoric out in the world with the other professional and non-professional commitments that they have? The Applied Rhetoric Symposium was built on foundations of collaboration, coordination, networking, and friendship. In the symposium, we seek to embody these concepts by providing community-building opportunities for those who enact and study applied rhetoric. The symposium itself consists of multiple plenary sessions focused on the presentation of scholarly work to an audience of colleagues. The presentations consist of new “works in progress,” concrete results of established research, and/or what we call “Quick Hits—Rhetoric in Practice” (all described below) with ample time to discuss with the audience after each session. FORMATS Works in Progress (30 minutes each) Not a presentation or a workshop, Works in Progress sessions are a time to get feedback on how to finish a project that seems stuck or how to start working on a promising idea that seems overwhelming. Traditional (20 minutes each) You know what we are talking about. Strict time limits, but these presentations will be followed by an extended open discussion after each set of three traditional presentations. NEW THIS YEAR! The Write-to-Publish Track The Write-to-Publish track offers a pathway from conference presentation to peer-reviewed publication in POROI. This track integrates conference vetting with the journal's peer review process. Presentations will be scheduled with Traditional presentations (20 minutes each). See Write-to-Publish CFP below for more information. Quick Hits: Rhetoric in Practice (10 minutes each) A lightning round of sorts in which participants review or critique applications of rhetoric in their work, communities, or society at large. Quick hits will be followed by open discussion sessions. HYBRID DELIVERY We are committed to making the ARC Symposium accessible both in-person and online via hybrid delivery methods. We're still working out the details, but we want to assure all attendees that effective hybrid delivery is a core focus of our planning efforts. CFP: WRITE TO PUBLISH TRACK Track Chairs: Stephen Carradini, Kathryn Northcut Journal Editor: Nathan Johnson Review Process: Double anonymous peer review Track Overview The Write-to-Publish track offers a pathway from conference presentation to peer-reviewed publication in POROI. This track integrates conference vetting with the journal's peer review process. Scope and Theme We welcome submissions that adhere to the conference theme and engage with applied rhetoric of inquiry and its applications across fields, as well as digital humanities approaches to rhetorical analysis, public discourse, and civic engagement. Selected submissions will form a coherent thematic collection that advances scholarly conversations at the intersection of rhetorical inquiry and contemporary applied rhetoric issues. Submission Requirements For Conference Consideration: Submit a drafted manuscript or manuscript proposal of at least 3000 words or equivalent. Multi-modal submissions are welcome. We consider 1 hour of video/audio equivalent to a completed journal article. This first review for the conference counts as a first round of peer review for the journal. Publication Timeline 1. Conference Submission - Conference acceptance serves as first anonymous peer review 2. Revision and review - Conference attendees will offer review and track chairs will work closely with authors for development and revision 3. Publication Submission - Direct submission to POROI content management system 4. Peer Review Process - Second round of anonymous peer review 5. Revision & Publication - Final revisions and publication in a special issue, likely guest edited by an ARC track chair POROI Publication Details Copyright: Creative Commons licensing - authors retain copyright while ensuring open access Archive Policy: Stable, non-mutable version archived in POROI without paywall Multi-modal Options: Audio/video submissions welcome in POROI with open review process Questions? Contact Stephen Carradini<mailto:Stephen.Carradini@asu.edu> and Kathryn Northcut<mailto:northcut@mst.edu>, Track Chairs -- Dr. Stephen Carradini (he, him, his) Associate Professor, Technical Communication School of Applied Professional Studies College of Integrative Sciences and Arts Arizona State University 7271 E. Sonoran Arroyo Mall, 240J (new address) Mesa, AZ 85212-2780 phone: 480-727-3687<tel:480-727-3687> email: stephen.carradini(a)asu.edu<mailto:stephen.carradini@asu.edu> web: https://stephencarradini.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/stephencarradini.com__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!rf…> [https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zJLHMEgd-wNt2j0vol_zLaX85e…]

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Inquiry: PhD Opportunities Starting in the Next Year (Data Science / Internet Research)
by Herman Justino 30 Jan '26

30 Jan '26

Dear AoIR colleagues, I’m writing to ask whether anyone is aware of PhD opportunities, advertised or not yet formally posted, starting within the next year, particularly in areas related to internet research, data science, computational social science, or digital culture. I’m currently based in Toronto, Canada, and in the final months of my master’s degree in data science at the University of Colorado Boulder. My background spans applied data analysis, data engineering, and research-oriented projects. My interests sit at the intersection of data-driven methods and the study of online platforms, digital communities, and sociotechnical systems. If you’re supervising PhD students, know of upcoming openings, or would be open to an informal conversation, I’d be very glad to connect. I’m happy to share a CV or additional details if helpful. Thank you for your time and consideration, Herman Justino 📧 herman.justino(a)colorado.edu 🌐 hermanjustino.com 🔗 linkedin.com/in/hermanjustino

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Internet Histories special issue "Interrogating Trust & Safety" CFP | Abstracts due May 1
by Amanda Menking 30 Jan '26

30 Jan '26

CFP for a special issue of Internet Histories: “Interrogating Trust & Safety” with abstracts due May 1. If you have any questions at all, please email us: interrogatingtands(a)gmail.com. See below and https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/interrogating-trust-safet… for more information. > Over the last several decades, digital platforms have increasingly pervaded almost every sphere of our lives (e.g. commerce, dating, health, education, employment, entertainment, networking, communication). Consequently, platform-side Trust & Safety—a professional field dedicated to user safety and platform integrity—has become indispensable. Though largely behind-the-scenes, T&S teams are charged with enhancing the brand perceptions and protecting the user bases of large platforms and startups alike. It’s a unique practice that is both a guarded specialty as well as a matter of public interest. > > But what do we really know about the history of trust and safety (broadly construed) or the development of platform-side Trust & Safety? While related topics have begun to garner more public attention, scholarly work that thoughtfully historicizes the development of the field and/or profession, the role of companies and/or platforms, the nature of the relationships between a variety of stakeholders in the space, the evolving nature of practices, processes, tools, and/or products, and historical precedents for and impacts of regulatory acts is lacking. Given the rapidly evolving nature of the ecosystem and the centrality of work across the whole of the internet—from domain registration to content moderation—we propose a special issue of Internet Histories dedicated to topics directly related to historicizing all aspects of trust and safety: the ecosystem, field, domain, practice, protocols and tools, and profession. We encourage authors to interrogate trust and safety from a range of perspectives, prioritizing academic rigor and historical dimensions. > > Possible topics may include: > > The professionalization of T&S. > Early platform-side T&S teams and operations. > How trust and safety work has evolved across specific regions and geographies. > Histories of T&S beyond content moderation (i.e., other types of products/services such as ride-share, dating, and services apps; online marketplaces; and internet-connected devices). > Various harm/risk areas (e.g., child safety, terrorism/extremism, elections, or mis/disinformation) across decades. > How early T&S addressed technological impacts/affordances for communities in the 2000s, 2010s (before the term became widely adopted). > Origins and evolutions as maintenance or care work. > Gender and the history of T&S work (particularly in areas like child safety or technology-facilitated gender-based violence). > The role of nonprofit organizations and civil society in the shaping of platform-side T&S. > The history of regulatory decisions and their impact on current and future practices. > How, when, and why law enforcement and national security became involved in trust and safety. > The impacts of platform-side T&S on community moderators and managers. > This special issue will explore these questions—and many others—through a range of theoretical frames (for example, postcolonial, genealogical, historical materialist, feminist, STS, organizational development, cybernetic, international relations, disruption and hype cycles, world systems, globalization) and approaches (for example, archival, oral history, historiographic, commodity chain, ethnographic, social network, policy sciences) as proposed by authors. It will also strive to include global, transnational, national, regional, and local histories as well as recognize the complexity of the sociotechnical systems in which trust and safety operates. > > Submission Instructions > Submissions > > Please submit an abstract of a maximum of 500 words no later than 1 May 2026. > Email the abstract to Guest Editors, Amanda Menking and Toby Shulruff (interrogatingtands(a)gmail.com) > > > Timeline > > 1st May 2026: abstracts due > Jun 2026: contributors invited > Apr 2027: submissions due > May-Dec 2027: review and revisions > Jan-Mar 2028: all texts finished > Please note that submission does not imply final publication, as all articles must go through the journal’s usual peer review and editorial process. > ~A. -- Amanda Menking, Ph.D. (she/her) | Research & Programs | Trust and Safety Foundation <https://trustandsafetyfoundation.org/> | Calendly <https://calendly.com/amanda_tsf>

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