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Illustrations-Production Networks of AI and its associated costs
by mohammad.anwar＠ed.ac.uk 25 Jun '26

25 Jun '26

Dear AOIR community, Very pleased to launch the first series of ten illustrations depicting the production<https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23production&origin=…> networks of AI<https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23ai&origin=HASH_TAG…> and the associated socio<https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23socio&origin=HASH_…>-ecological<https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23ecological&origin=…> costs<https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23costs&origin=HASH_…>. These illustrations also capture the core themes of our ongoing research at the Planetary AI<https://www.linkedin.com/company/planetary-ai/> network. Illustrations are available Here<https://planetaryai.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Planetary-AI-Costs-of-AI…> for download. These were developed by Njung'e Wanjiru<https://njungewanjiru.com>, a celebrated visual artist based in Addis Ababa and Nairobi, whose work captures, archives, and transforms diverse forms of knowledge<https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23knowledge&origin=H…>, perspectives, ideas, and technology<https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23technology&origin=…>. His practice sits at the intersection of design<https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23design&origin=HASH…>, illustration<https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23illustration&origi…>, and social impact projects, engaging with themes of nature, heritage, representation, and accessibility. We are extremely grateful to the UK Research and Innovation<https://www.linkedin.com/company/uk-research-innovation/> and Royal Society of Edinburgh<https://www.linkedin.com/company/royalsoced/> for funding this work. The series is done in collaboration with Techworker Community Africa<https://www.linkedin.com/company/techworkercommunityafrica/>, a Nairobi based NGO advocating and fighting for the rights of human workers behind AI. Incredibly grateful to workers, lawmakers, activists, and scholars, whose ideas and words eventually shaped our own understanding of where AI is heading and how we can create a different world. Let us know what you think. To learn more about our project and research, visit: planetaryai.net <https://planetaryai.net/> Amir, Beatrice and Srravya (on behalf of the wider Planetary AI team). Dr. Mohammad Amir Anwar, SFHEA Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), University of Edinburgh Co-Chair, Critical African Studies Twitter: @ibalilebali New UKRI Project: Planetary AI<https://planetaryai.net/> Latest Publications * ?<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6231338>The Technopolitics of Data Centres in the Age of AI<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6231338> (2026) * Worker power in self-organised networks<https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624251369063> (2025) * Value Chains of AI<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4997122> (2024) The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th? ann an Oilthigh Dh?n ?ideann, cl?raichte an Alba, ?ireamh cl?raidh SC005336.

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AI-Futures-Keynote-Prof. Paola Ricaurte and Prof. Nick Couldry-Planetary AI-Edinburgh
by mohammad.anwar＠ed.ac.uk 25 Jun '26

25 Jun '26

Dear All, On 16th June 2026, we hosted Prof. Paola Ricaurte (Moneterrey) and Prof. Nick Couldry (LSE) for the AI Futures keynote. Their keynote challenged the prevailing idea that AI is inevitable and that spaces for alternative ways of thinking, designing and developing our futures in the world of AI are shrinking. We are making the recording of this event available for everyone: https://planetaryai.net/ai-futures-keynote-16th-june-2026/ Recordings from previous events at the Planetary AI network are available on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PlanetaryAI-uoe Looking forward to hearing your views and if anyone would be interested to learn more about our project and get involved in our activities, please do reach out. Best Amir Dr. Mohammad Amir Anwar, SFHEA Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), University of Edinburgh Co-Chair, Critical African Studies Twitter: @ibalilebali New UKRI Project: Planetary AI<https://planetaryai.net/> Latest Publications * ?<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6231338>The Technopolitics of Data Centres in the Age of AI<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6231338> (2026) * Worker power in self-organised networks<https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624251369063> (2025) * Value Chains of AI<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4997122> (2024) The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th? ann an Oilthigh Dh?n ?ideann, cl?raichte an Alba, ?ireamh cl?raidh SC005336.

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New Book out from MIT Press
by mckelveyf＠gmail.com 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

I am happy to share that my new book is out with MIT Press. *SimPolitics: America?s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers* has been a decade in the making. What started as an interest in hype around technology in the next election became a project tracing how and when computers became applied to political problems in the United States. Over the years, the project has spun out into archives, interviews, emulation, and now a book focused on efforts to model domestic and international politics in the contiguous United States from the late 1950s to early 1990s. I am really proud of the result, and I think it might be relevant for your research and teaching too. I?ve copied the endorsements and the details below. The book will be open access, making it easier to assign and for students to access. You can read more about the book here at the press?s website: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053198/simpolitics/ If you are in the United States, you can use discount codes from Penguin Random House: READMIT20 for 20% off. Link here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/814278/simpolitics-by-fenwick-mcke… If the book might be of interest, I am happy to arrange a virtual or in-person talk or discussion later this Summer or Fall. If you know someone who might be interested in writing a scholarly review or even a review on Amazon or Goodreads, please let me know and I can arrange a digital reviewer copy of the book. Any help to share the book is deeply appreciated. About SimPolitics *How computer models became fundamental to political practice?from winning elections to global affairs?and how we imagine political futures as a computing problem. * For more than six decades, the public has been promised that computers will revolutionize politics, both nationally and internationally. In *SimPolitics*, Fenwick McKelvey traces the entwined history of politics and computers from the 1960s to the late 1980s. He shows how programmers, consultants, academics, political scientists, and peace activists all worked?sometimes in tandem, sometimes not?to build simulations to win campaigns, predict coups, forecast the future, and render politics as legible as a spreadsheet. Drawing on novel archival and historical research, McKelvey recounts the history of efforts to simulate politics by building models of elections, voters, and international relations. Comparing attempts in the United States to simulate domestic electoral politics and international affairs, he reveals the unexamined connections and conflicts between the two projects. His book provides a helpful guide to taking stock of exaggerated claims that AI and technology will fix politics, while presenting the long history of such promised technological fixes. *ENDORSEMENTS * "*SimPolitics* is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how computers have shaped our political imagination?and our democracy. " *?Fred Turner, Stanford University; author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture * "McKelvey artfully demonstrates that the histories of modeling and simulating politics still hold the potential to produce more diverse, more equitable, and more democratic alternatives to what we have now." *?Orit Halpern, Dresden University of Technology; author of The Smartness Mandate * "With rich detail, Fenwick McKelvey's brilliant *SimPolitics* urgently reminds us that we should spend less time worrying about perfecting simulations and more time thinking about their politics." *?Daniel Kreiss, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; author of Platforms, Power, and Politics * ?This incisive analysis of the promise and danger of computerizing human worlds is a must-read for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of simulation and human-machine relations." *?Joy Rohde, University of Michigan; author of Armed with Expertise* ?SimPolitics combines cultural analysis and historical scholarship to trace the rise of computer modelling as a technology that renders political problems computationally tractable. Developed in relation to democratic political participation, McKelvey?s argument has wider relevance for the use of computer modelling and simulation in other sites of algorithmically based prediction. He follows these lines of connection out from domestic to geopolitical domains, looping back in the end to the figurations of agency that inform simulated worlds.? *?Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University; author of Plans and Situated Actions* -- Be good, Fen

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CFM-- Play, Games, and Sociality
by sarina.chen＠uni.edu 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

Call for Manuscripts: Play, Games, and Sociality G.H. Mead discussed his well-known versions of play and the game in the context of development, as necessary activities regarding the pragmatic and empathic orientations of the self to others. However, his notion of sociality, which delves into the temporal connection between past, present, and future, is connected to the importance of emergence and novelty. Implicitly, Mead's notion of sociality accentuates the importance of play and games as processes that "break on through" the present, creating serendipitous futures and transforming stale versions of the past. In effect, play and games are neither confined to a linear development of role-taking abilities nor events that occur apart from the everyday experiential realities that make up our life courses. Rather, play and games not only become useful activities that contribute to self-awareness and awareness of others, but also serve as foundational activities connected to shared pasts, shared futures, and varieties of shared foci. Volume 67 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction, edited by Michael Katovich, invites manuscripts that explore how human interaction is initiated, maintained, and transformed through playful dynamics. By linking classical foundations with contemporary digital and physical playgrounds, this volume aims to map the evolving landscapes of modern sociality. In light of the aforementioned foci, we invite submissions that build upon the following insights contributing to our understanding of play, games, and sociality. Some potential examples would include, but are not limited to, the following topics: Play and games as cooperatively governed and separate from everyday lived experience Play as safely disruptive and potentially constructive Play and games as localized systems of shared storytelling The professionalization of play Play and games linked to contemporary technology and various ways of experiencing selves Play as created by and through identification with subcultural games and experiences Playful foundations of the self Play and games as linked to socialization For all interested, please send an abstract of no more than 750 words to Shing-Ling Sarina Chen (sarina.chen at uni.edu) by September 1, 2026. If an abstract is selected for inclusion, the deadline of completing the manuscript is May 1, 2027. Studies in Symbolic Interaction is a peer-reviewed bi-annual global book series published by Wiley Publishing. Thank you very much for your consideration. Looking forward to hearing from you. Shing-Ling Sarina Chen Studies in Symbolic Interaction **************************************************

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CFM--Symbolic Interaction and Migrants
by sarina.chen＠uni.edu 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

Call for Manuscripts: Symbolic Interaction and Migrants Many countries have created and adopted policies that close their doors to asylum seekers and migrants. Far right electoral gains In European countries, for instance, have created the political climates capitalizing on fear and anxiety. In the U.S., large-scale community raids and sweeps in "sanctuary cities" rapidly accelerated shortly after President Trump's January 2025 inauguration. Large-scale ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids occurred across multiple U.S. regions, targeting both worksites and residential communities. The raids included a widespread campaign, named Operation Metro Surge, that deployed over 3,000 agents entering into established refugee communities in Minneapolis. This Operation drew national attention when ICE agents shot and killed two individuals, and spurred protests across the country. Civil Rights activists also criticized ICE for engaging in discriminatory practices, including racial profiling. Activists emphasizing constitutional rights also expressed concerns regarding the absence of due process. Religious leaders have stood in stark contrast against the hard-lined crackdown of migrants in the U.S. Across the country, citizens aligned themselves with the stance of the religious leaders, forming grassroots organizations to aid migrants. Despite the criticism from the religious leaders and the grassroots oppositions from volunteer groups across the U.S., the U.S. Senate recently passed a $70 billion bill to fund President Trump's immigration crackdown in support of the Trump administration's dogmatic immigration stance. This stark contrast regarding opinions on migrants will, in all probability, continue throughout the remaining years of Trump's administration. Given the fact that opinions on immigration in the U.S. as well as in other countries share similar polarizing debates, Volume 66 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction provides a spotlight on the contrast between legal, civil, and religious claims and a political party's opposition to such claims. Research topics to be explored include, but not limited to, Migrants and economy Migrants and education Migrants and national security Migrants and crimes Migrants and social integration Migrants and identities Migrants and solidarity Migrants and families Migrants and mental health For all interested, please send an abstract of no more than 750 words to Shing-Ling Sarina Chen (sarina.chen at uni.edu) by August 1, 2026. If an abstract is selected for inclusion, the deadline of completing the manuscript is March 1, 2027. Studies in Symbolic Interaction is a peer-reviewed bi-annual global book series published by Wiley Publishing. Thank you very much for your consideration. Looking forward to hearing from you. Shing-Ling Sarina Chen Studies in Symbolic Interaction

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10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @EMNLP: Submission Deadline Extension
by a.calabrese＠ed.ac.uk 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

*** Submission Deadline Extension *** We invite paper submissions to the 10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on the 29th of October at EMNLP 2026. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates * Registration deadline for mentorship programme: April 10, 2026 * Notification of mentor/mentee match: April 25, 2026 * Submission due: June 26, 2026 July 3, 2026 * ARR reviewed submission due: August 3, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: September 10, 2026 * Workshop: 29th October 2026 Overview Digital technologies have brought significant benefits to society, transforming how people connect, communicate, and interact. However, these same technologies have also enabled the widespread dissemination and amplification of abusive and harmful content, such as hate speech, harassment, and misinformation. Given the sheer volume of content shared online, addressing abuse and harm at scale requires the use of computational tools. Yet, detecting and moderating online abuse remains a complex task, fraught with technical, social, legal, and ethical challenges. The 10th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a diverse range of fields, including but not limited to natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary research, technical and non-technical contributions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. Non-archival papers and civil society reports are also welcome. Topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations in existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful content, especially those in commercial use; * Development of new datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * Novel evaluation metrics and procedures for detecting harmful content; * Analyses of the dynamics of online abuse, its propagation, and its impact on different communities; * Social, legal, and ethical considerations in detecting, monitoring, and moderating online abuse. Special Theme: ?Ten Years of WOAH: Reflecting on Progress and New Frontiers? In its 10th edition, WOAH highlights the theme ?Ten Years of WOAH: Reflecting on Progress and New Frontiers?. Over the past decade, WOAH has become a central interdisciplinary venue for online harms research. As harms and enabling technologies have evolved, the field has moved beyond an early focus on textual hate speech and harassment to address more complex phenomena. Advances in AI and online ecosystems have expanded the scale and diversity of harms. Transformer models, multimodal platforms, and recommendation systems have contributed to the escalation of issues like misinformation, radicalisation, child sexual exploitation, identity-based abuse, algorithmic bias, privacy violations, and AI-mediated harms. Methods tackling this have evolved from monolingual lexicon-based approaches to deep learning, multilinguality, multimodality, interpretability, and interdisciplinarity. Despite this progress, fundamental challenges remain. There is limited consensus on what constitutes ?harm?, how context and thresholds should be defined, or how harms vary across cultures and modalities. These ambiguities affect datasets and models, constrain comparability, and often marginalise affected communities. The past decade also calls for critical self-reflection. Research has frequently prioritised detection, high-resource languages, and narrowly defined phenomena over intervention, global perspectives, and systemic or structural harms, with insufficient attention to user agency, platform incentives, lived experience, and participatory approaches. Finally, ten years of work have underscored that interdisciplinarity is essential for addressing the sociotechnical nature of the phenomenon. Addressing future online harms will require deeper integration across NLP, ML, social sciences, law, policy, and HCI. WOAH 10 seeks to consolidate lessons from the past decade, identify enduring gaps, and connect research, practice, and policy to guide the next generation of work on online harms. Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: https://softconf.com/emnlp2026/woah2026/ The workshop will accept three types of papers. 1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. 2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. 3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. All submissions must use the official ACL style files<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html. WOAH Community We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel ? a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms! Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-g… Contact Info Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers at workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers at workshopononlineabuse.com> Organisers Agostina Calabrese, Cohere Thomas Davidson, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne Urja Khurana, Delft University of Technology Marta Marchiori Manerba, University of Turin Paloma Piot, Universidade da Coru?a Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th? ann an Oilthigh Dh?n ?ideann, cl?raichte an Alba, ?ireamh cl?raidh SC005336.

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KGCSW-SETN 2026: Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop: Call for Papers
by announce＠ucy.ac.cy 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

CALL FOR PAPERS: SETN 2026 WORKSHOP KGCSW-SETN 2026: Knowledge Graph Construction Workshop OVERVIEW -------- The workshop on Knowledge Graph Construction is an essential step towards harnessing the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in understanding complex data landscapes. Knowledge graphs stand out as pivotal tools for structuring data, making it interpretable and actionable by AI systems. They enable the representation of data in a form that mirrors human understanding, facilitating more natural interaction between humans and machines. The construction of knowledge graphs embodies the synthesis of various AI disciplines, including natural language processing, machine learning, and semantic web technologies. By organizing this workshop, we aim to foster a collaborative environment where experts and enthusiasts across these fields can converge to share insights, challenges, and breakthroughs. This workshop is held for the second time, following its previous edition at SETN 2024. WORKSHOP FORMAT --------------- Half-day event Location: SETN 2026 Conference (Chania, Crete, Greece) Date: September 9, 2026 TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ FOUNDATIONS & TECHNICAL TOPICS: 1. Foundations of Knowledge Graphs 2. Knowledge Extraction and Integration 3. Machine Learning, Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs 4. Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Knowledge Graphs 5. Knowledge Graph Construction Tools and Technologies 6. Scalability and Performance Optimization APPLICATION AREAS: 1. Healthcare and Life Sciences 2. Security and Cybersecurity 3. Finance and Economics 4. Human-computer interaction / Conversational agents 5. E-Commerce and Retail 6. Smart Cities and IoT 7. Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities 8. Environmental Science and Sustainability SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------- PAPER TYPES: - Full papers: 6-10 pages - Short papers: 2-4 pages SUBMISSION PLATFORM: EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setn2026 (Select "SETN 2026 Workshop on Knowledge Graph Construction") REVIEW PROCESS: - Double-blind peer review - At least 2 reviewers per paper - Evaluation criteria: technical quality, relevance, originality, novelty, significance, and clarity PUBLICATION: - All accepted papers will be included in the SETN 2026 Conference Proceedings - Published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - Available through the ACM Digital Library - Special issue planned for all accepted workshop papers AUTHOR REQUIREMENTS ------------------- For papers to be included in the proceedings and presented at the conference: * At least one author MUST fully register at SETN 2026 as an "Author" * At least one author is EXPECTED to attend the conference for presentation IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission Deadline: July 13, 2026 (AOE)* Author Notification: July 17, 2026 (AOE)* Workshop Date: September 9, 2026 *AOE = Anywhere On Earth Time Zone (UTC-12) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Maria Papoutsoglou (Chair) School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Email: mpapo(at)csd.auth.gr Georgios Meditskos School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Efstratios Kontopoulos Choreograph Johannes Wachs Center for Collective Learning, Corvinus University Budapest Nick Bassiliades School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Stefanos Vrochidis Information Technologies Institute, CERTH CONTACT INFORMATION ------------------- For questions or inquiries regarding the workshop: Email: mpapo(at)csd.auth.gr ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ---------------------- Workshop Page: https://www.setn2026.tuc.gr/en/program/workshop EasyChair Submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setn2026 ============================================================== SETN 2026 Conference - September 9-12, 2026 Chania, Crete, Greece ==============================================================

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Last Mile for Industry Track Submissions
by announce＠ucy.ac.cy 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

*** Last Mile for Industry Track Submissions *** 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 ISSRE Industry Track gathers industry representatives as well as researchers from, within or in collaboration with industry to discuss software reliability, quality assurance as well as experiences and lessons learned. This year we will bring experiences from self- made tools, usage of AI, generative AI and machine learning in relation to software reliability. Industry track papers are expected to be of interest to software development professionals, as well as to anyone researching or working in the area of software reliability, software quality, and process improvement groups, with concrete relevance to industrial problems and practical applications. All presenters of accepted papers will be required to attend the conference in person. Participating in the conference would give a chance to meet and discuss with a wide selection of researchers and other industry experts in the area. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the software development lifecycle, from an industrial and practitioner-oriented perspective. Ask yourself this: Is the work grounded in real-world systems, operational experience, or industrial practice, and does it address reliability or dependability concerns? If it is, you have found the right conference track. For a more detailed list check out the detailed topics list for the research track on this site. ? Use cases, practical experiences, lessons learned, improvement programs in reliability or dependability. ? Foundations of reliability and dependability, including process, technology, methods, metrics and lessons learned. ? Design for reliability or dependability, failure and incident case studies, including experiences in security, testing, verification, and related practices in the field. ? Reliability in AI-driven and autonomic systems or AI techniques used for Reliability Engineering. ? Software reliability in any system domain. ? Trustworthiness, security, and Responsible Software Engineering. ? Human-centric focus on reliability and dependability. ? Adoption of reliability standards, measurements and similar experiences. We look for papers with good evaluation, honest data, new insights and practical experiences that can be used to help others. We also encourage submissions reporting negative results, unexpected outcomes, and lessons learned from real-world practice. Submission Guidelines and Instructions We invite three kinds of submissions to the Industry Track: ? Enlightening Talk or Tool Demo: 1-2 page abstract (OR a Power Point presentation OR a video for a tool demo). ? Short paper: 4-pages (including references). ? Full paper: 6-pages (including references). All the submissions will be reviewed by members of the Industry Track Program Committee. Accepted papers (with an abstract) will be included in the ISSRE Supplemental Proceedings and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore. Papers are submitted via Easy Chair https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 . Submissions must adhere to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines (for more Information, please refer to the relevant part on the conference website: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/industry-track/) Note that: ? A paper must include the title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words, and up to 4 keywords. Thus, submissions are not anonymous. ? Reviewers will use the abstract during the bidding process for peer-review. Thus, the abstract should state the paper goals clearly, along with the means used to achieve them. ? The first page is not a separate page, but is a part of the paper (i.e., it has technical material in it). Thus, this page counts toward the total page budget for the paper. ? Symbols and labels used in the graphs should be readable as printed, without requiring on-screen magnification. ? Limit the file size to less than 15 MB (for Video?s ? provide a live link). Papers that exceed the page limits specified, on topics not in the scope of ISSRE, or that do not follow the formatting guidelines will be rejected without review. Authors of accepted papers will have the chance to present their work at ISSRE 2026. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the conference and to give the talk, if the paper is accepted. Best Paper Awards The Industry Program Chair will select three candidates among top-ranked papers presenting and motivating novel and disruptive ideas that address problems relevant for industry. Selection will be based on the reviewers? feedback, novelty and potential impact of the results. The final selection of the best paper will be done by the audience attending the presentation of the candidate papers. Eligible papers must be (1) full papers accepted to the industry track, and (2) co-authored by at least one author whose primary affiliation is in Industry. Important Dates (AoE) ? Abstract Submission Deadline: June 28, 2026 & July 3, 2026 ? Paper Submission Deadline: July 5, 2026 & July 12, 2026 ? Notification to Authors: August 12, 2026 ? Camera Ready Papers: August 19, 2026 ? Enlightening Talks or Tool Demos (without abstract; not to appear in the proceedings): August 15, 2026 ? Author Registration Deadline (Industry Track): 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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CFP: Self-Expression, Self-Actualization, and Media Experimentation (SESAME): A Dialogue and Ruminations
by yu.chi＠sjsu.edu 23 Jun '26

23 Jun '26

Self-Expression, Self-Actualization, and Media Experimentation (SESAME): A Dialogue and Ruminations A symposium at the ASIS&T 2026 Annual Meeting (Bangkok, Thailand) ( https://www.asist.org/am2026/am26/) Sponsors: U.S. West Chapter, SIG-USE Website: https://sesame-asist.github.io/ Background Social media platforms provide opportunities for people to connect not only with others, but also with themselves. Posting to and engaging with social media can be viewed as a form of active self-making - through content creation and content feed curation, people can form better understandings of themselves by constructing and exploring different realities (Takahashi, 2010). In online spaces, the interactions that contribute to identity and personality development are hyper-responsive and hyper-mediated: social feedback is nearly instantaneous and can be amplified by the platform itself, becoming a form of currency that is used, whether consciously or subconsciously, as a component of self-reflective identity formation processes. However, there is tremendous diversity in how people interact with and engage in self-expression using digital media. Some might use video or images, such as creating TikToks or uploading to Instagram; others may vent their frustrations or engage in discussions via text-based media, like Reddit. Some may share stories of health challenges (Chen, 2016; Lundy, 2024), while others focus on professional or personal self-representation (Van Dijck, 2013). Still others see social media as ?civic laboratories? for political expression (Lane et al., 2019). Not all of us produce visible traces of ourselves online; for example, there are yet others who receive and consume information through these social networks and use it to inform their own experiences, perspectives, and understandings of themselves. What stories do we all have to tell? In this symposium, we invite everyone to contribute to a collective exploration of self-making and communication through different forms of media. Relevant considerations include: - How do people express themselves online and contribute to their own online experiences? To what extent do these forms of self-expression change over time? - What are the processes that underlie identity formation and development in online spaces? To what extent are they iterative, dynamic, or even static? - How does the structure and design of social media platforms mediate self-expression online? How have these platform-mediated venues and self-reflective processes changed over time? - What can we gather from the self-expressive content and interactions on social media platforms (e.g. genuine expressions of self vs. formatted, algorithm-minded content vs. reposts/remakes of other users? content)? - What might the future of self-expression online look like, given the general motivations and direction of social media platforms? How do these motivations aid or hinder users in relation to self-expression? - What are the important considerations for information and library science professionals as these platforms evolve? How can information- and behavioral frameworks inform our understanding? About the Symposium & Pre-Symposium Participatory Experience This symposium is an in-person event co-located at the ASIS&T 2026 annual meeting. We seek to bring together researchers, practitioners, and students interested in exploring the intersection of media and self-expression, aiming to welcome a diverse audience of experiences, perspectives and disciplines. No technical expertise or prior formalized experience with research is required. Additionally, we encourage interested attendees to engage in a participatory experience in the timeframe leading up to the workshop, where they will have an opportunity to create their own social media content as a way to engage with self-expressive and self-reflective processes firsthand. This symposium strives to be a venue to discuss existing as well as new work/creations, and foster a collective dialogue. Call for Participation We will accept three different types of submissions. Attendees may also participate in the workshop without engaging in Options A to C below. - Option A (?Demo?): Submit content of your own reflecting Self-Expression, Self-Actualization, and Media Experimentation (SESAME)! If you do not already have content in mind that you want to submit, you can engage in the pre-symposium content creation experience. - Option B (?Reflection?): Submit a summary, introduction, and/or a reflection on your SESAME content creation experiences. For options A and B, detailed submission instructions and the submission link are available via the symposium website: https://sesame-asist.github.io/. - Option C (?Classic?): Participants can submit a short paper or poster on a topic that aligns with the theme of the symposium. Option C should be submitted using the ASIS&T template <https://growthzonecmsprodeastus.azureedge.net/sites/2036/Template-Instructi…>; participants can submit short papers (up to 4 pages not including references) or posters (up to 2 pages not including references). Submit here: https://www.conftool.org/asist2026/. - Option D (?Participant?): Participants can attend the workshop without engaging in any of the options above. Important Dates Submissions due: Option A and B August 10, 2026 Option C August 3, 2026 Notifications: September 3, 2026 For inquiries, contact: asist.us.west at gmail.com. Program Committee Sharon H. Wong Independent Scholar Annie T. Chen University of Washington Maja Krtali? Victoria University of Wellington Alison Day Victoria University of Wellington Yu Chi San Jose State University Hayley Park University of Maryland Mimi Martin University of Washington Ella Zhou University of Washington -- Yu Chi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Information San Jose State University yu.chi at sjsu.edu

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Communication in Media Industry Studies at University of Pennsylvania
by jessa.lingel＠asc.upenn.edu 23 Jun '26

23 Jun '26

The University of Pennsylvania?s Annenberg School for Communication is seeking to fill a tenure-track assistant professor position in Media Industry Studies to begin the fall semester of 2027.?More info below and here: https://apply.interfolio.com/187239 We are seeking a productive researcher, engaged scholar, and committed teacher/mentor who studies critical approaches to media industries and their intersections with media policy, political economy, advertising, and surveillance. The ideal candidate will be familiar with the historical and shifting structural and material conditions transforming the media industries, whether economic, technological, political, legal, regulatory, and socio-cultural factors.?Of notable interest are critical scholars who consider how power operates within these industries and the larger socio-political relationships within which they are embedded.? Jessa Lingel Associate Professor | Annenberg School for Communication<https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/jessa-lingel-phd> Director | Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program<https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/program> Director | Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies<https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/center> University of Pennsylvania | Land Acknowledgement<https://gsc.upenn.edu/resources/diversity#land>

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