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as you pack your bags, toss in some offerings to our Shrine to Lost Data
by Annette Markham 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

AoIR Friends! Conference Attendees! Do you have some old floppy disks, zip drives, dumb smartphones, or other weird and wonderful carriers of unreadable data? If you’re packing your bags to come to AoIR in Montreal, we invite you to bring some of this ’stuff’ to donate** material to the Museum of Random Memory’s Shrine to Lost Data. What’s the Museum of Random Memory? It's a series of experiments in the public sphere to explore and critique everyday practices of creating future memories through digital archiving. At AoIR, we’re holding one of these exhibitions — which includes a Shrine to Lost Data — as an experimental session. On Friday, Oct 12, between 4-8:00 p.m., you can bring your offering to The Shrine !!! Meanwhile, over the next few days, we’ll be gathering your stories, images, and sounds, which we’ll use in Friday’s event to remix, remediate, recycle, or otherwise mess around with, to focus on the connections between the elusive materiality of data storage, personal memory, digital decay, dispreservation, and data loss. ALSO at this session, you’ll get to enjoy a live show by the fabulous DJ Ripley (AKA Larisa Kingston Mann, who will be remixing some of the audio pieces that have been donated by conference-goers in the next few days. You’ll see a flyer in your AoIR conference bag to learn more about this event, but for now, it's time to dig into your cupboards, look in the back of your drawers, take the lid off the shoebox, clear the cobwebs from the corners of your garage, or otherwise find some things to donate to our Shrine. See you soon in Montreal! Annette on behalf of the MoRM team, including Larisa Mann, Gabriel Pereira, Ramona Dremljuga, Mórna O’Connor, Justin Lacko, Elyzabeth Holford, Dalida Maria Benfield, Sarah Schorr, Sava Saheli Singh, Erin Macleod, Kat Tiidenberg, Elizabeth Whitney, and Ann Light. With many thanks to Foulab Montreal Hackerspace, Stef Duguay, and Concordia University. Learn more on https://www.larisa-mann.com/ https://futuremaking.space/morm http://museumofrandommemory.com **if you want it back afterwards, that’s entirely possible, but why would you?

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by Alessandra Spremolla 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

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The shifting paradigm of higher education
by Dr. Patrick Blessinger 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

Dear Colleagues, If you like, please share new article: The shifting paradigm of higher education <http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20181003100607371> http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20181003100607371 <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttp://www.universityworldnews.co…> -- *Dr. Patrick Blessinger* Published Books <https://www.amazon.com/Patrick-Blessinger/e/B009R10ZQM> University World News <http://www.universityworldnews.com/search.php?query=blessinger&type=all&mod…> Higher Education Tomorrow <http://www.patrickblessinger.com/> UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab <http://en.unesco.org/inclusivepolicylab/users/patrick-blessinger> St. John's University, New York City <http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/bio/patrick-blessinger-edd> Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education <http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=jar…> Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning <http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/books/series.htm?id=2055-3641>

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IEEE WoWMoM 2019: call for workshops
by Andrea Passarella 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS at IEEE WoWMoM 2019 20th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2019) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 9-12, 2019 - Washington DC, USA SCOPE AND OVERVIEW The IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2019), now in its 20th edition, is a premier forum for networking, software systems, and multimedia research in the wireless/mobile area. The WoWMoM organizing committee invites proposals for full-day or half-day workshops affiliated with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to provide a platform for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than at the conference itself. All WoWMoM workshops are expected to enable stimulating discussions of state-of-the-art, emerging, visionary, and perhaps controversial topics. Workshops should be organized to promote lively interaction. Workshop proposals are solicited in all areas and topics pertaining to wireless mobile and multimedia networking, and workshops addressing emerging research directions in these areas are highly welcome in particular. Accepted WoWMoM 2019 workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. We expect all accepted workshops to adhere to a common paper submission and reviewing schedule, as outlined in the dates indicated below. Workshop co-chairs will be interacting with organizers of accepted workshops to ensure a high quality workshop program. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Each workshop proposal must include at least the following fields: The full name of the workshop and its intended acronym. The names, addresses, and a short bio (up to 200 words) of the organizers (up to three, from at least two different institutions). A brief description (up to 1 page) of the technical issues that the workshop will address, and the reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time. Some consideration on the communities/groups it intends to attract should be included. The names and affiliations of at least ten program committee member candidates. The planned format of the workshop (full-day/half-day) as well as a tentative schedule that demonstrates the strategy to facilitate lively discussions and the involvement of the attendees. The names of potential keynote speakers, if a keynote speech is included in the planned format of the workshop. If applicable, a description of past versions of the workshop, including dates, organizers, numbers of submitted and accepted papers, number of attendees. A tentative call for papers. A description of the planned activities for disseminating information about the workshop (e.g., CfPs) and the workshop web site. Workshop proposals must be submitted in PDF format on or before October 26, 2018 by e-mail to the WoWMoM 2019 workshops co-chairs, using ''WoWMoM2019 Workshop Proposal'' in the subject line. To request further information or submit a workshop proposal, please direct your message to: wowmomwschairs2019(a)gmail.com IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline for proposals: October 26, 2018 Workshop organizer notifications: November 16, 2018 The following dates for workshop schedules are strongly recommended: Papers due by: March 11, 2019 Paper selections due by: April 15, 2019 Camera Ready by: April 29, 2019

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Call for Participation: #eurocss 2nd European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science
by Weller, Katrin 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

2nd European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science Euro CSS 2018: Bias and Discrimination ----------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ----------------------------- Venues: Cologne Marriott Hotel and Maternushaus, Cologne, Germany Dates: December 5-7, 2018 Website: http://symposium.computationalsocialscience.eu Register here: https://bit.ly/2xFPBkT ** Registration Close Date: November 21, 2018** For enquiries: css.eurosymposium(a)gmail.com<mailto:css.eurosymposium@gmail.com> PROGRAM The Euro CSS is an interdisciplinary symposium that brings together researchers from a diverse range of disciplines to contribute to the definition and exploration of the societal challenges in Computational Social Science, with the focus on bias and discrimination this year. The program features: • 24 accepted talks • 38 accepted posters • Keynotes by Sara Hajian (NTENT), Christo Wilson (Northeastern University) and more • 1st Euro CSS Dataset Challenge • Doctoral Consortium • Science Slam at Die Wohngemeinschaft (you can still submit short proposals for presentations to garcia(a)csh.ac.at<mailto:garcia@csh.ac.at> until November 1, 2018) Preliminary schedule here: http://symposium.computationalsocialscience.eu/2018/#schedule The Symposium series is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. TICKETS The registration fee is €50. It covers the participation fee and coffee breaks for the pre-symposium day (December 5, 2018) as well as participation fee, coffee breaks and lunch for the two main symposium days (December 6-7, 2018). On the pre-symposium day, lunch at own expenses will be available at the venue. To secure a place for the pre-symposium day, don’t forget to register early – a number of free registrations be given on a first come, first served basis. ORGANIZERS Symposium Chairs: Katrin Weller (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Markus Strohmaier (RWTH Aachen University & GESIS) Doctoral Consortium Mentors: Sandra González-Bailón (Annenberg School for Communication & Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences) Jürgen Pfeffer (Technical University of Munich & Carnegie Mellon University) Dataset Challenge Chairs: Fabian Flöck (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Juhi Kulshrestha (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Science Slam Chairs: David Garcia (Complexity Science Hub Vienna and Medical University of Vienna) David Brodesser (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Organizing Committee: Katrin Weller (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Markus Strohmaier (RWTH Aachen University & GESIS) Luca Maria Aiello (NOKIA Bell Labs) Frank Schweitzer (ETH Zurich) David Garcia (Complexity Science Hub Vienna and Medical University of Vienna)

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Call for Demo Proposals: VR/AR for Learning Showcase at IEEE TALE 2018 (Australia, 4-7 December)
by Lee, Mark 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for Demo Proposals VR/AR FOR LEARNING SHOWCASE Special Track on XR & Immersive Environments @ IEEE TALE 2018 Wollongong, NSW, Australia (close to Sydney) 4–7 December 2018 Proposal submission Form: https://goo.gl/forms/UPoS5DMPlSgTciZU2 Proposal submission Deadline: 22 October 2018 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Proposals are being solicited for project demos to be presented as part of a VR/AR for Learning Showcase that will take place at IEEE TALE 2018 in Wollongong, Australia, in conjunction with the Special Track on XR and Immersive Learning Environments (http://tale2018.org/xr) TALE is the IEEE Education Society's flagship Asia-Pacific conference, catering to researchers and practitioners with an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education as well as those interested in the innovative use of digital technologies for learning, teaching and assessment in any discipline. The target audience of the conference is diverse and includes those working in the higher education, vocational education and training (VET), K-12, corporate, government, and healthcare sectors. The XR and Immersive Learning Environments Special Track at TALE 2018 is being organised in cooperation with the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN at http://immersivelrn.org) The VR/AR for Learning Showcase will take place on either 5 or 6 December 2018. A station will be allocated to each project for the duration of the Showcase, and conference attendees will be encouraged to visit the stations to view/experience the projects. Showcase presenters must register for and attend the conference, and must be prepared to bring along to the conference venue their own hardware and any other equipment that is required for their demo. They will be responsible for setting up and tearing down their stations, and are expected not only to be present at their stations to run their demos and interact with visitors during the Showcase, but also to participate in other presentations/sessions that are part of the Special Track. Proposals may be submitted at https://goo.gl/forms/UPoS5DMPlSgTciZU2 any time before 22 October 2018. Notification of acceptance or otherwise will be on or before 29 October 2018.

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Job: Associate Director of the Design Cultures & Creativity Program at Univ of Maryland
by Jason Farman 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

Hi AoIR, My program at the University of Maryland, College Park, is hiring an Associate Director! Please consider applying or passing this job along to people who would be a great fit for the position. The Design Cultures & Creativity Program is an interdisciplinary program, with students drawn from 45 different majors on campus. The Associate Director position is a professional-track faculty job with administrative responsibilities. I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the job or the program! Best, Jason -- Jason Farman, Ph.D. Director, Design Cultures & Creativity Program Associate Professor of American Studies Faculty Member, Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland, College Park http://www.jasonfarman.com <http://www.jasonfarman.com> http://twitter.com/farman New Book Out Fall 2018: Delayed Response < http://jasonfarman.com/delayedresponse/> *ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, DESIGN CULTURES & CREATIVITY PROGRAM* *All applicants MUST apply at the following website, NOT via email submission:* - https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/64078 *PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:* Design Cultures & Creativity (DCC) is a living-learning program in the Honors College at the University of Maryland, College Park. DCC fosters an open, collaborative, and social environment that encourages students to explore the relationship between emerging media, society, and creative practices. We are passionate about emerging technologies and their impact on the world; but even more importantly, how our contributions to emerging technologies can change the world. DCC students are innovative thinkers and makers who engage in research and collaborative projects on topics as varied as identity, connectivity, social justice, art, design, and all things creative in an era when digital media links us on a scale unprecedented in human history. *POSITION DESCRIPTION: * The Associate Director is a full-time, 12-month position that provides academic, instructional, and administrative support to the Design Cultures & Creativity (DCC) Program in the Honors College at the University of Maryland. We are seeking a passionate, creatively-minded, well organized academic professional, a person with vision and skill as an administrator, a gifted teacher with a passion for undergraduate education, and an interdisciplinary scholar that can bridge creative practice with research. The successful candidate must be self-motivated, driven, and an interdisciplinary thinker/maker able to wear many hats. Core components of the position include development of innovative curriculum and experiential programming, strategic planning, classroom instruction, and advising of first- and second-year students in an active living and learning academic environment. Administrative, advising, and program management duties are also an important component of this position. In addition, candidates should be extremely comfortable with a range of new technologies and approaches to project development. Candidates should be able link emerging technologies with social implications relating to identity such as gender, race, class, and sexual orientation. Candidates should show a strong commitment to teaching and mentoring a diverse student population; candidates who have experience working with a diverse range of faculty, staff, and students and who can contribute to the climate of inclusivity are encouraged to identify their experiences in these areas. *RESPONSIBILITIES:* The AD will teach a 1-2/semester course load as well as direct related co-curricular programming. Some of the topics of these courses can be tailored to fit the Associate Director’s areas of interest and expertise. Previous courses have included: Mobile Media Design and Culture; Time-Based Media; Art and Environmental Practices; Digital Storytelling; Expanded Cinema; Gender, Race and Labor in the Digital World; Human-Centered Design; and Digital Media and Political Activism. Additional responsibilities include logistical and organizational support for program events and activities; coordination and implementation of annual student recruitment; planning and coordination of the DCC annual Capstone Fair and Exhibition; coordination of guest artist and guest faculty engagements; administration of office tasks; scheduling and implementation of periodic advising sessions with program students; work with scheduling officers in the College of Arts and Humanities as well as the Honors College to develop course offerings. Since this position involves a large amount of student contact, candidates must feel comfortable and enjoy working with university applicants, admitted undergraduates, and their families. *Minimum Qualifications:* - Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree in relevant field - Degree conferral date no later than November 1, 2018 - At least 1 year teaching experience at college/university level - Administrative skills appropriate for daily program operations such as: event planning, budget and finance management, scheduling, recruitment, and student advising. - Hands-on skills in digital media. Areas of particular interest include: 3D printing or other forms of digital fabrication, digital design and architecture, video/film, human-computer interaction, gaming, virtual reality, and mobile development/app design. - Excellent written, oral, computing and presentation skills, as well as enthusiasm, strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate in person and via email with all levels of program constituents which include students, graduate students, campus faculty and staff, administrators, alumni and off campus community partners. *SALARY: * Commensurate with experience *TO APPLY:* Applicants should submit a cover letter describing their qualifications and interests, a current C.V., and three letters of reference. Finalists will be asked to submit evidence of teaching excellence and a portfolio of digital projects. For best consideration, submit materials *by October 26, 2018*. *Apply via:* - *https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/64078 <https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/64078>* Anticipated start: December 2018. Posting Date: 10/05/2018. Closing Date: Open Until Filled. Best Consideration Date: 10/26/2018. *Campus/College Information:* Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the flagship institution in the University System of Maryland. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world. *Diversity Statement:* The University of Maryland, College Park, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, creed, marital status, political affiliation, personal appearance, or on the basis of rights secured by the First Amendment, in all aspects of employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.

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CFP AAG 19: Gendering the Smart City: Towards just and feminist urban futures
by Ryan Burns 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

We welcome submissions for the 2019 American Association of Geographers meeting in Washington, DC April 3-7. This large interdisciplinary conference regularly attracts 6-8,000 attendees across a broad spectrum of disciplinary homes. Gendering the Smart City: Towards just and feminist urban futures Organisers: Ryan Burns, Ayona Datta, Nabeela Ahmed, Max Andrucki The critical smart cities research agenda continues to develop insights into evolving relations between the digital, the urban, and socio-political process. Attention has broadened from taxonomies and ontological questions, to ideal-types and dominant epistemologies, to interrogating the “actually-existing smart city”. This trajectory has brought to the fore variegations and fissures in the politics of the smart city within which elements of social justice can appear, where smart city visions can adapt to and address low-tech infrastructures and where populations can contest the smart city’s often business-friendly, empiricist, governmentalizing, and neoliberal tendencies. Researchers have, indeed, recently illuminated smart city models that might contain necessary conditions for making strides toward more just, accessible and participatory urban life. However, in all this literature, researchers have neglected the underlying gendered dynamics of these processes. Feminist and queer theory can provide productive new ways forward in critiquing smart cities agendas globally. Such theoretical frameworks can illuminate how bodies, subjectivities, labour, aspirations, anxieties, temporalities, in/visibilities, and social time are colonized and silenced in smart cities. From critical GIS to critical data studies, to digital geographies and through creative digital practices, researchers have leveraged these frameworks to show the uneven and gendered impacts that digital technologies have across a range of metrics of difference. Applying these frameworks to smart cities can illuminate the ways new forms of technological urbanism subtend socio-political inequalities, epistemological legitimacies, and sustained social injustices. Even further, doing so may deepen our understandings of how gender, sexuality, race, class and geopolitical power frame the imagination and governance of smart urban futures. To this end, we welcome abstract submissions related to a range of related feminist, queer, and critical theories, that deepen our understanding of smart cities as theory, policy and lived practice. Such topics include, but are not limited to: • Uneven gendered geographies of smart technologies • Hetero-normativity of smart cities • The colonization of bodies and time in smart cities • Spaces and flows of gender and sexuality within the smart city • Materiality and semiotics of gender, subjectivity, bodies in smart cities • Gender and social justice in the smart city • Intersectionality and the digital-urban • Post-colonial and feminist urban futures in the smart city • Situated knowledges and epistemologies in the smart city Please submit paper abstracts to Ryan Burns (ryan.burns1(a)ucalgary.ca<mailto:ryan.burns1@ucalgary.ca>) and Ayona Datta (ayona.datta(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:ayona.datta@kcl.ac.uk>) by October 19th. Cheers, Ryan -- Ryan Burns, PhD Department of Geography Engaging Open Data Research O'Brien Institute for Public Health University of Calgary http://burnsr77.github.io<http://burnsr77.github.io/>

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REMINDER/Deadline 29 Oct. - CfP GIG-ARTS 2019 Salerno: "Europe as a Global Player in Internet Governance" 16-17 May 2019
by Mauro SANTANIELLO 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

Dear colleagues, As the deadline for abstracts submission is approaching, please find hereafter the updated CFP for the GIG-ARTS 2019 conference: after Paris in 2017 and Cardiff in 2018, we hope to welcome you in Salerno in 2019 to discuss "Europe as a Global Player in Internet Governance"! ========== *GIG-ARTS 2019 – The Third European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies* *16-17 May 2019, SalernoEurope as a Global Player in Internet Governance* *Organised by:*The Internet & Communication Policy Centre / Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences / Università degli Studi di Salerno *Co-Sponsored By:*The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), The ECPR Standing Group on Internet and Politics, The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet), the IAMCR Communication Policy and Technology Section, The ICA Communication Law and Policy Division. *Call for Abstracts - Deadline: 29 October 2018* Although to varying degrees of autonomy, awareness, and effectiveness over time and issues, European institutions have been engaged in internet governance and policy-making since at least two decades. Both the European Union and Europe as a region have generally played a crucial role in shaping the governance of the internet, at the global, regional and national levels. >From a geopolitical perspective, the EU has been one of the early actors advocating for the internationalisation of the DNS system and, more generally, for the enhancement of the multi-stakeholder governance model. >From a normative point of view, EU institutions as well as Member States have deeply affected highly sensitive internet-related issues, such as privacy and data protection, digital market competition, consumers' rights, copyright, e-commerce, content regulation, the right to be forgotten, etc. On the institutional level, some of the most interesting cases of recent constituent policies have emerged from the European Union, leading to the establishment of new agencies such as the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). Beyond the EU, some European intergovernmental organisations, such as the Council of Europe (CoE), have developed structured initiatives to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law on internet governance issues. Further, a number of European initiatives, such as the European Dialogue on internet Governance (EuroDIG) and the Global internet Policy Observatory (GIPO), have facilitated the transfer of ideas, knowledge, policies and institutional arrangements towards other countries and geographic areas. Finally, European NGOs as well as some European internet companies are currently advancing alternative visions and values about the internet and its governance, enriching the set of internet governance approaches as well as available design options. The third edition of the European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies (GIG-ARTS 2019), will be held exactly twenty years after the entry into force of the Amsterdam Treaty and ten years after the Lisbon Treaty, which are milestones in the history of the European integration process, preparing the EU for enlargement and further deepening of competences, and reinforcing the centrality of democratic principles and the protection of fundamental rights as the Union's foundation. After having addressed “Global Internet Governance as a Diplomacy Issue” at its first edition held in Paris in 2017, and "Inequalities in Internet Governance" at the second edition held in Cardiff in 2018, the 2019 GIG-ARTS conference will explore the role of Europe in the global governance of the internet. In particular, the conference will focus on challenges and opportunities, as well as strengths and weaknesses, of European approaches to internet governance and policy-making. In addition to general internet Governance issues and topics, submissions are particularly welcome on the following themes: - European institutions and Member States in internet governance; - The European approach to the multistakeholder governance model; - The role of the European External Action Service in the Global Internet Governance ecosystem; - Internet governance in the European Neighbourhood Policy; - The EU cybersecurity policy; - Extraterritorial effects of European internet policies; - Internet-related geopolitical challenges for Europe; - The EU and internet-related policy transfer; - EU internet policies in a comparative perspective; - Human rights, democracy and the rule of law in European internet policy and instruments; - Privacy and data protection after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); - Global online platforms and EU general policies (labour, taxation, transport,..); - EU strategies and policies on new technologies (AI, robots, blockchains,..); - European good governance values and internet governance; - The Digital Single Market and international trade; - The EU and the management of critical internet resources; - Populist movements and the European internet policy-making; - EU values, European internet companies, and internet design. *Submission Information and Publication Opportunities*Authors are invited to submit their extended abstracts (no longer than 500 words), describing their research question(s), theoretical framework, approach and methodology, expected findings or empirical outcome. Submitted abstracts will be evaluated through a peer-review process. Abstracts and authors’ information should be submitted through the Easychair conference management system at: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2019>*Authors of selected submissions will have the opportunity to submit their full manuscript for publication. *Key dates*Deadline for abstract submissions: 29 October 2018 Notification to authors: 10 December 2018 Programme publication: 21 January 2019 Conference dates: 16 & 17 May 2019 *GIG-ARTS 2019 Committees * *General Chairs *Francesco Amoretti and Mauro Santaniello Internet & Communication Policy Centre, Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno, Italy *Scientific Program Committee* - Eric Brousseau (Université Paris Dauphine, France) - Andrea Calderaro (Cardiff University, United Kingdom) - George Christou (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) - William J. Drake (University of Zurich, Switzerland) - Nanette S. Levinson (American University Washington DC, USA) - Robin Mansell (London School of Economics, United Kingdom) - Meryem Marzouki (CNRS and Sorbonne Université, France) - Teresa Numerico (Università di Roma 3, Italy) - Claudia Padovani (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy) - Elena Pavan (Università di Trento, Italy) - Lorenzo Pupillo (Centre for European Policy Studies, Belgium) - Michèle Rioux (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) - Katharine Sarikakis (University of Vienna, Austria) - Yves Schemeil (Sciences Po Grenoble, France) - Jan Aart Scholte (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) - Jamal Shahin (VUB, Belgium & University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Michele Sorice (LUISS University, Italy) - Joris van Hoboken (VUB, Belgium & University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) *Organizing Committee at University of Salerno*Maria Carmela Catone, Virgilio D'Antonio, Paolo Diana, Domenico Fracchiolla, Stefania Leone, Michele Nino, Nicola Palladino, Diana Salzano *Venue*The conference will be held at the University of Salerno, on the campus of Fisciano. *Conference Registration and Fees* Registration fees are 100€ for regular participants and 50€ for students showing proof of status. The conference fees include a participant kit as well as coffee breaks and meals. *GIG-ARTS 2019 Communication Details* - Website: events.gig-arts.eu | http://www.internetpolicyresearch.eu - Email for information: events(a)gig-arts.eu - Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2019 - Twitter: @GigArtsEU - Hashtag: #GIGARTS19 - Mailing list for updates: http://tinyurl.com/yc7rvxm4 Best wishes, Mauro Santaniello Internet & Communication Policy Centre Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences Università degli Studi di Salerno Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 84084 Fisciano (SA) - Italy E. msantaniello(a)unisa.it W. http://docenti.unisa.it/mauro.santaniello M. +393345217528 Skype: internetpolicy T. twitter.com/webvoodoo

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CFP AAG 19: Gendering the Smart City: Towards just and feminist urban futures
by Ryan Burns 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

We welcome submissions for the 2019 American Association of Geographers meeting in Washington, DC April 3-7. This large interdisciplinary conference regularly attracts 6-8,000 attendees across a broad spectrum of disciplinary homes. Gendering the Smart City: Towards just and feminist urban futures Organisers: Ryan Burns, Ayona Datta, Nabeela Ahmed, Max Andrucki The critical smart cities research agenda continues to develop insights into evolving relations between the digital, the urban, and socio-political process. Attention has broadened from taxonomies and ontological questions, to ideal-types and dominant epistemologies, to interrogating the “actually-existing smart city”. This trajectory has brought to the fore variegations and fissures in the politics of the smart city within which elements of social justice can appear, where smart city visions can adapt to and address low-tech infrastructures and where populations can contest the smart city’s often business-friendly, empiricist, governmentalizing, and neoliberal tendencies. Researchers have, indeed, recently illuminated smart city models that might contain necessary conditions for making strides toward more just, accessible and participatory urban life. However, in all this literature, researchers have neglected the underlying gendered dynamics of these processes. Feminist and queer theory can provide productive new ways forward in critiquing smart cities agendas globally. Such theoretical frameworks can illuminate how bodies, subjectivities, labour, aspirations, anxieties, temporalities, in/visibilities, and social time are colonized and silenced in smart cities. From critical GIS to critical data studies, to digital geographies and through creative digital practices, researchers have leveraged these frameworks to show the uneven and gendered impacts that digital technologies have across a range of metrics of difference. Applying these frameworks to smart cities can illuminate the ways new forms of technological urbanism subtend socio-political inequalities, epistemological legitimacies, and sustained social injustices. Even further, doing so may deepen our understandings of how gender, sexuality, race, class and geopolitical power frame the imagination and governance of smart urban futures. To this end, we welcome abstract submissions related to a range of related feminist, queer, and critical theories, that deepen our understanding of smart cities as theory, policy and lived practice. Such topics include, but are not limited to: • Uneven gendered geographies of smart technologies • Hetero-normativity of smart cities • The colonization of bodies and time in smart cities • Spaces and flows of gender and sexuality within the smart city • Materiality and semiotics of gender, subjectivity, bodies in smart cities • Gender and social justice in the smart city • Intersectionality and the digital-urban • Post-colonial and feminist urban futures in the smart city • Situated knowledges and epistemologies in the smart city Please submit paper abstracts to Ryan Burns (ryan.burns1(a)ucalgary.ca<mailto:ryan.burns1@ucalgary.ca>) and Ayona Datta (ayona.datta(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:ayona.datta@kcl.ac.uk>) by October 19th. Cheers, Ryan -- Ryan Burns, PhD Department of Geography Engaging Open Data Research O'Brien Institute for Public Health University of Calgary http://burnsr77.github.io<http://burnsr77.github.io/>

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