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Reminder: Open Discussion with AoIR 2025-27 Executive Committee Candidates
by AoIR Association Coordinator 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

As a reminder, the discussions are currently open for any member of AoIR to ask the candidates questions. AoIR holds a period before voting during which members are invited to ask questions of the candidates. To see their statements and to ask them questions, please log in to the AoIR membership system at members.aoir.org. If you’re not a member, now would be a great time to join, or renew your membership, so that you can participate in discussions with the candidates and vote in the election. *Only people who are active members on 21 April 2025, midnight, GMT-5 will be able to vote.* To log in, you need to know the email address that you used to register as a member, and your password. Log on to https://members.aoir.org. (If you’ve forgotten your password, you can follow the on-screen instructions to have a new one emailed to you. If you’ve forgotten the email you used to register, please contact Association Coordinator at AC [@] aoir.org) Once you’ve logged in, you’ll find the candidate statements under Members -> Elections -> Candidate Statements, and you’ll see a link there for the discussions as well. Each discussion includes a Reply function that enables you to participate. Log in and get to know the candidates, and please return to vote! Voting will open on 22 April 2025, and close on 29 April 2025. We use an online voting system, and will send out information about how to vote when the voting period opens. In addition to voting for members of the new Executive Committee, this year we are bringing to the membership’s approval AoIR's new Political Statement Policy and Process that will enable members to put forward statements that they wish to see adopted by AoIR. You can read the Political Statement Policy and Process here (https://aoir.org/politicalstatementandprocess/) My sincere thanks to all the candidates for their willingness to serve, and their desire to make AoIR even better. Many thanks in advance also to all of our AoIR members (and soon-to-be-members!) for your participation in the election process. Nik John President, AoIR Graduate Student Representative - James Epps Graduate Student Representative - Lynrose Jane Genon Graduate Student Representative - Beatrys Rodrigues Secretary - Nathalie Schäfer Open Seat - Luke Heemsbergen Open Seat - Anna Jobin Open Seat - Elisabetta Locatelli Open Seat - Admire Mare Open Seat - Noel Packard Open Seat - Rebecca Scharlach Open Seat - Meg Jing Zeng Treasurer - Robert W. Gehl Vice President - Andra Siibak

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Postdoc position: chatbot for public communication of science
by Stephen Carradini 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

(apologies for cross-postings) Hello, My lab at Arizona State University is looking to hire a postdoctoral fellow interested in chatbot development (backend and frontend) and public communication of science. The postdoctoral fellow will drive forward the Arizona Water Chatbot (https://azwaterbot.org<https://azwaterbot.org/>) and related technological projects. The Arizona Water Chatbot (or AZ Waterbot) uses a custom-built generative AI tool to deliver curated information about water management, conservation, and conditions to the Arizona public. This fellow will be responsible for providing thought leadership, technical oversight, and community outreach for the project. The fellow will provide thought leadership that allows Waterbot to stay ahead of the curve on water issues, technical issues, and social issues relevant to Waterbot. The scholar will provide technical oversight by leading code development and product managing the Waterbot feature production/maintenance timeline; the scholar will also supervise a research assistant who contributes to Waterbot’s code. The scholar will conduct outreach by interacting in-person and online with local, municipal, state, and regional organizations and agencies to promote use of Waterbot in the Arizona public and integration of the Waterbot into organizations’ websites and services. If you are interested in applying, please apply at Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/166147. If you have questions about the position, I would be happy to answer them off-list. Best, Stephen Carradini 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, 251F 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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[Extended Deadline] CFP Dark and Unethical Visual Politics @ Journal of Visual Political Communication
by Viktor Chagas 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Dear Colleagues Apologies for the cross-posting. This is a kind remind of the call for papers for the special issue on "Dark and Unethical Visual Politics" that I am editing for the Journal of Visual Political Communication. We are extending the deadline to May 31st. The issue is scheduled for publication in early 2026. I warmly invite colleagues to submit their manuscripts. The full CFP can be read here: https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-visual-political-communication#call-… No APC fee is applied to the Journal of Visual Political Communication, except in case authors want to publish their articles on Open Access mode. These policies can be found here https://www.intellectbooks.com/open-access Best regards, Viktor Chagas Fluminense Federal University, Brazil __ Journal of Visual Political Communication CFP “Dark and Unethical Visual Politics” (Early 2026) Visual Politics has gained significant prominence in recent years due to a series of controversial and unethical uses. Framing political actors, depicting contentious or satirical images, whether to build a positive interpretation or to mock authority, has always constituted a strategic and persuasive repertoire for political communication. Historically, the image was often seen as the last threshold for distinguishing facts from fakes. However the digital environment has reconfigured this status, drawing increased attention to malicious uses of images and their relation to spreading mis/disinformation and biased content. This call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of Visual Political Communication welcomes theoretical and empirical contributions concerned with these contested uses. This issue aims to bring together a body of studies focused on visual research challenges and agendas that emphasize images in contexts that are dangerous for democracy and that may pose risks to trust in institutions, threats to socio-environmental justice, or undermine current epistemic regimes, political opponents or minoritized groups. Manuscripts may present reflections on the dark side of visual politics or focus on case studies from different countries and regions. Topics may include, but are not limited to, discussions on: • Ethical and epistemological boundaries of visual political communication • Methodological aspects of investigating unethical uses of images • Generative artificial intelligence images or political deepfakes during elections • Hateful far-right memes, misogynistic and supremacist troll armies, and their political implications • The image serving anti-immigration nationalism and authoritarian populisms • Apocryphal visual campaigns and coordinated slanderous visual attacks • Critical aspects of the visual politics of disinformation as well as historical and scientific denialism • Fabrication of fake images of non-consensual pornography targeting political actors • Problems generated by algorithmic discrimination in the political arena • Cybersecurity issues concerning state visual surveillance, citizen privacy, and abusive biometric recognition • Controversial military use of computer vision in drones and autonomous weapons for human-unsupervised lethal attacks • Alteration of visual evidence to mislead the justice system or create false narratives Full papers must range between 7,000 and 9,000 words and can be co-authored. Illustrations related to the issue's theme are welcomed, as long as ethical limits for discrimination and graphic violence are taken into account and the restrictions of double-blind peer review are considered. Theoretical papers and methodological discussions are welcomed, but preferably in combination with visual material and empirical analysis of imagery. Comparative studies, historical analyses, and case studies using qualitative or quantitative approaches are also invited. The special issue also accepts proposals for curation of images, including photos, illustrations, diagrams, memes, or cartoons that relate to the dark and unethical uses of images, as long as copyright is fully respected. No APC fee is applied to the Journal of Visual Political Communication, except in case authors want to publish their articles on Open Access mode. These policies can be found here https://www.intellectbooks.com/open-access The deadlines are as follows: Submission of manuscripts: from November 30, 2024 – April 30, 2025 *May 31, 2025* Manuscript evaluation: between May–October 2025 Author review (when applicable): October–December 2025 Publication scheduled for early 2026 Questions and queries can be addressed to the guest editor Viktor Chagas by email at viktor(a)midia.uff.br Please submit full contributions to https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-visual-political-communication ___ Guest Editor Viktor Chagas (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil) Co-Editors of the Journal of Visual Political Communication Orla Vigsø (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Bengt Johansson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Darren Lilleker (Bournemouth University, UK) Anastasia Veneti (Bournemouth University, UK) Associate Editor Helena Barbosa (University of Aveiro, Portugal) __ Kind Regards, Viktor Chagas Professor Universidade Federal Fluminense PhD in History, Politics and Cultural Assets viktor(a)midia.uff.br ombudsmanviktor.bio.link CV Lattes <http://lattes.cnpq.br/5832049847796420>, Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F02DKoAAAAAJ&hl=en>, OrcID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1806-6062>, ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Viktor-Chagas> coLAB Research Group <http://colab.uff.br>, #MUSEUdeMEMES <https://museudememes.com.br/>, INCT.dd <https://inctdd.org/> [image: https://twitter.com/ombudsmanviktor] <https://twitter.com/ombudsmanviktor> <https://instagram.com/ombudsmanviktor> <https://www.facebook.com/viktorchagas> <https://github.com/ombudsmanviktor>

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CfP / Transnational Migration to/from China: The Role of Digital Platforms, Publics, and Policies
by Saif Shahin 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Dear colleagues, Mingyi Hou, Sagnik Dutta and I are guest editing a special issue of Chinese Journal of Communication on "Transnational Migration to/from China: The Role of Digital Platforms, Publics, and Policies." The call for papers and submission details are at https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/transnational-migration-t… Please consider submitting your manuscript to this SI if it's an area you study. Please also help us share this call with those who you think might be interested in it. The submission deadline is July 31. Let us know if you have any questions. Best wishes, Saif _____ *Saif Shahin, Ph.D.* Assistant Professor <https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/s-s-shahin> of Digital Culture Director, Digital South Research Lab <https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/humanities/digital-south-lab> Tilburg University, Netherlands Associate Editor <https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/witp20/about-this-journal#editorial-bo…> Journal of Information Technology & Politics Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pzy87iEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao> | ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Saif-Shahin> Recent articles #StopAsianHate as Hashtag Activism <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051241309701> (*Social Media + Society*, 2025) Black Lives Matter Goes Global <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448211057106> (*New Media & Society*, 2024) Platform Affordances and Spiral of Silence <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160791X23002361> (*Technology in Society*, 2024)

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PhD studentship at University of the Arts London (UAL)
by Felipe Soares 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

I invite applications for a PhD studentship at University of the Arts London (UAL) to work on a project on “Understanding social media disinformation and war propaganda through the historical archive”. This project aims to understand contemporary practices of disinformation and war propaganda on social media through comparison with war propaganda from historical archives linked to the First and Second World Wars. This project will broadly explore the following question: How can we better understand and contextualise contemporary practices of war propaganda on social media through the investigation of WWI and WWII historical archives? The PhD student will be based at London College of Communication and work in partnership with the Imperial War Museum Institute. The studentships cover fees at the UK Home rate and a tax-free stipend at the UKRI rate for three years full time or six years part time, pro rata for part-time (2025/26 full time rate £22,780). Students with an ‘overseas’ fee status can apply but will need to cover the difference between the UK and overseas fees rate (2025/26 home rate £6620/overseas £26310), and will be required to reside in the UK until completion of the PhD. Please review the following link for more information about the project and how to apply: https://www.arts.ac.uk/study-at-ual/fees-and-funding/phd-and-mphil-funding/…. The deadline for applications is 12 May 2025. Please feel free to share it with any potential candidates. This email and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this email and/or its attachments you must not take any action based upon them and you must not copy or show them to anyone. Please send the email back to us and immediately and permanently delete it and its attachments. Where this email is unrelated to the business of University of the Arts London or of any of its group companies the opinions expressed in it are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of University of the Arts London (or the relevant group company). Where the sender's signature indicates that the email is sent on behalf of UAL Short Courses Limited the following also applies: UAL Short Courses Limited is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 02361261. Registered Office: University of the Arts London, 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY

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Non-software uses of GitHub
by Jim Herbsleb 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

I’m looking for GitHub repositories that are used for things other than software, especially where users are actively collaborating rather than just putting together static collections. So far, we have found a few books being written, some musical transcriptions being error-checked, and some policy documents maintained online. Does anyone know of any examples of these or other categories? Any pointers much appreciated. Happy to share what we find with anyone interested. Jim ---- Jim Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University http://herbsleb.org/ Google Scholar profile: https://goo.gl/sv3p7l

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CfP: Workshop "AI x Crisis: Tracing New Directions Beyond Deployment and Use" (deadline May 30) | Aarhus Conference 2025
by Yang, Tianling 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, We are excited to invite you to join our 1-day and in-person workshop "AI x Crisis: Tracing New Directions Beyond Deployment and Use", which will be held at Aarhus Conference 2025 and will take place on either August 18 or 19, 2025. This workshop focuses on the costs of AI, referring to the human and natural toll of AI systems, such as labor exploitation, environmental degradation, and perpetuated social inequality. Costs acknowledge the inherent and inevitable trade-offs in the development and use of AI systems, emphasizing the disproportionate burdens experienced in infrastructuring, improving, and maintaining AI and the need to account for and engage with various actors, especially those from the Majority World that tend to be overlooked in WEIRD (i.e. Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) conceptions of AI ethics. We invite position papers (2-4 pages, excluding references) on various forms of AI-related costs, and critical engagement with methods to approach and address these costs. Please see below for workshop themes and topics. Important details - Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/ai-x-crisis-new-directions/home - Date & Location: August 18 or 19, 2025, in Aarhus, Denmark - Submission Deadline: May 30, 2025 (AoE) - Submission Form: https://airtable.com/appfFR3NOD1StylcL/pag9zGOv8bZiEiGl8/form - Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2025 (AoE) We are looking forward to your submissions! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at tianling.yang(a)tu-berlin.de. We would also appreciate it if you could share this invite with interested colleagues and networks. Best Regards, Tianling Yang (along with workshop co-organizers Srravya Chandhiramowuli, Jana Pannier, Camilla Salim Wagner, Julian Posada, Alex Taylor, Rafael Grohmann, and Milagros Miceli) **Themes and Topics** We invite position papers (2-4 pages, excluding references) that engage with the guiding questions and topics below and welcome further perspectives. Guiding questions: - What different types of costs of AI are there? - How can research communities meaningfully engage with AI-related costs? Topics of Interest - Human labor in AI production and use: What types of labor are integral to AI pipelines? What are their contexts, conditions, and characteristics? What types of costs arise from these labor practices? - Infrastructures of computing: What are the consequences of the increasing and structural dependence on AI-related infrastructure controlled by tech giants? - Environmental costs of AI: How can we measure, quantify, track, and visualize the environmental impacts the AI sector brings? How can we conceive of climate justice given the uneven distribution of benefits and environmental impacts in AI development and use? - Alternative methods to engage with AI-related costs: What are the theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and empirical cases to strengthen negotiation, resistance, and re-imagining of AI costs and futures?

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The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): First Call for Papers and Workshop & Tutorial Proposals
by Announce 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

*** First Call for Papers and Workshop & Tutorial Proposals *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17-20 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026 The 33rd edition of the IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2026) invites high-quality submissions of papers describing original and unpublished research results. We encourage submissions describing various types of research, including empirical, theoretical, and tool-oriented studies. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of the submissions should be of direct interest to the software analysis, evolution, and reengineering community (including researchers, practitioners, educators). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • AI for Software Engineering and Software Engineering for AI (see note below); • Generative AI and LLM applied to analysis, evolution and reengineering of software; • Software Analysis, Parsing, and Fact Extraction; • Software Maintenance and Evolution, Evolution Analysis; • Software Reverse Engineering and Reengineering; • Program Comprehension; • Software Architecture Recovery and Reverse Architecting; • Program Transformation and Refactoring; • Mining Software Repositories and Software Analytics; • Software Visualization; • Software Reconstruction and Migration; • Program Repair; • Software Release Engineering, Continuous Integration and Delivery; • Software Tools for Software Evolution and Maintenance; • Human factors and legal aspects in the context of Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering • Empirical studies on all the above topics; • Education related to all of the above topics. Papers involving AI must either (a) concern a software system as a whole, or a subsystem, and not simply its AI or ML component, (b) consider software engineering artifacts, (c) target a novel context for a software engineering task, or (d) study human, social, socio-technical, and organizational aspects in the development of AI-intensive software systems (see also “Scoping Software Engineering for AI: The TSE Perspective”, 10.1109/TSE.2024.3470368). Other papers may fit more AI- or ML-specialized venues instead. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process and will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. Submissions must be original, not published, accepted, or under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in PDF format and conform to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines. • Research Track: Submissions should not exceed 12 pages (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only). • Industrial Papers Track: Submissions should not exceed 12 pages (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only) for full papers; talk proposals should not exceed 2 pages. • Short Papers and Posters Track: Submissions should not exceed 6 pages (including all text, figures, references, and appendices); posters should not exceed 2 pages. • Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track: Submissions should not exceed 6 pages (with the last 1 page reserved for references only). • Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track: Submissions should not exceed 5 pages for appendices to conference submissions or previous work and should not exceed 12 pages for new reproducibility studies and new descriptions of negative results (with the last 2 pages reserved for references only). • Tool Demo Track: Submissions should not exceed 5 pages. • Journal-First Papers Track: Submissions should not exceed 1 page (for the main submission). • Registered Report Track: Submissions should not exceed 7 pages (with the last 1 page reserved for references only). Important Note: Research, Short Papers and Posters, ERA, and RENE Tracks follow a double- anonymous review process. SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE Authors of selected research papers accepted at SANER 2026 will be invited to submit revised, extended versions of their manuscripts for a special issue featured by Springer’s Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE). The best papers from the conference will be awarded. CALL FOR WORKSHOPS In SANER 2026, we solicit proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshops can be full or half-day and should highlight a specific topic of interest related to software analysis, evolution, and reengineering. We encourage workshop organizers to include activities that provide their participants with a true workshop experience. All workshops will tentatively be scheduled for the first day of the conference (March 17, 2026), the day before the main conference. Should you be interested in joining SANER, please keep the deadlines below in mind. Submission Instructions Proposal submission: By 20th August, 2025 AoE, the workshop proposal (in the form of call for papers) should be submitted to the workshops EasyChair page: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026 . The submission could be a PDF file (no more than two pages) or a public link to a call for papers webpage. The call for papers should include: • a workshop title, • a description of the workshop topic and scope, • an indication of whether the workshop will take ½ day or a full day, • a link to the workshop website, • and the contact information. The website should be live and include (at least) the following information: the topic of the workshop, its scope, list of topics of interest, names of the organizing committee members and their affiliations, types of submissions and the important dates as follows (all dates are 23:59h AoE): • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: 14 January, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 Evaluation Criteria The proposals will be evaluated by the workshops track chairs based on the novelty of the workshop topic, its importance to the field, as well as the composition of the organizing team. Workshop PC and Submission System No later than mid of September 2025, the workshop PC should have been finalized and the paper submission system should be live. Workshop organizers are free to select EasyChair, HotCRP or any other commonly used paper submission system. The workshop proceedings will be included in a separate section of the conference’s proceedings – the companion proceedings. CALL FOR TUTORIALS The SANER 2026 Workshops & Tutorials track invites practitioners and researchers to deliver insightful tutorials on various topics related to Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering. These tutorials aim to expand the community’s understanding of advanced software engineering topics, valuable tools and technologies, as well as research methodologies. We are soliciting abstracts with the intention of presenting a tutorial in the following categories: 1 - Technical Tutorial: Speakers present the use of a tool or technology that aids the developers in Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering. 2 - Research problem: Speakers provide a general view of the state-of-the-art for a topic related to Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering and further present details of a specific research problem that still needs to be addressed by the community. Submission Instructions The proposal should not exceed one page (with up to one additional page for references) and should outline the talk. Furthermore, it should follow the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title: 24pt, text: 10pt; LaTeX users: \documentclass[10pt,conference] {IEEEtran}). All proposals must be submitted in PDF format through https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026. The submission should include: • Title, • Type of proposal (Technical Tutorial or Research problem), • Names of presenters and their affiliation, • Duration, • Outline of the tutorial talk, • Target audience (e.g., PhD students, early career researchers, all researchers, practitioners), • Learning objectives, • Details on any hands-on activities (e.g., participants using a tool or completing exercises) and the necessary computer specifications, • Preferred dates (please note that date preferences cannot be guaranteed). Evaluation Criteria • Overall quality of the proposal, • Relevance to the SANER audience, • Level of interest they believe the tutorial will attract, • Experience of the presenters, • Avoidance of duplication, in case of multiple tutorials on the same topic. SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026 IMPORTANT DATES (All deadlines are 23:59h "Anywhere on Earth" time) Research Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 9 October, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 16 October, 2025 • Notifications: 9 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 9 January, 2026 Industrial Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Short Papers and Posters Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Early Research Achievement (ERA) Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Reproducibility Studies and Negative Results (RENE) Track • Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 November, 2025 • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Tool Demo Track • Paper Submission Deadline: 17 November, 2025 • Notifications: 19 December, 2025 • Camera-Ready: 14 January, 2026 Journal-First Track • Paper Submission Deadline: 8 December, 2025 • Notifications: 22 December, 2025 Registered Report Track • Submission Deadline: 7 November, 2025 • First Notification (Reviews): 5 December, 2025 • Second Round Submission (Rebuttal & Revised Report): 12 December, 2025 • Final Notification (Stage 1): 22 December, 2025 • Accepted Report to arXiv Submission: 9 January, 2026 Workshop & Tutorial Proposals • Workshop Proposals Submissions: 20 August, 2025 • Workshop Proposals Notification: 27 August, 2025 • Tutorial Proposals Submissions: 12 January, 2026 • Tutorial Proposals Notification: 12 January, 2026 • Tutorial Camera-Ready Version: 16 January, 2026 ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Eunjong Choi, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan • Matthias Galster, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Industrial Chairs • Anne Etien, University of Lille, France • Tushar Sharma, Dalhousie University, Canada ERA Chairs • Mairieli Wessel, Radboud University, Netherlands • Christoph Treude, Singapore Management University, Singapore Short Papers and Posters Chairs • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Sandro Schulze, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany RENE Chairs • Apostolos Ampatzoglou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Sebastian Proksch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Workshop/Tutorial Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy Journal-First Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy • Yuxia Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Registered Report Chairs • Sherlock A. Licorish, University of Otago, New Zealand • Sebastiano Panichella, Zurich University of Applied Science, Switzerland Tool Demo Chairs • Maliheh Izadi, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands • Roberto Verdecchia, University of Florence, Italy Diversity, Inclusion, and Newcomers Chairs • Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy • Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia Proceedings Chair • Raula Gaikovina Kula, Osaka University, Japan Most Influential Paper Award Chairs • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece • Michele Lanza, Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland Sustainability Chair • Maria Papoutsoglou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity and Social Media Chair • Erina Makihara, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

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Forthcoming Book - You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem
by Jose Marichal 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Dear AoIR colleagues, Apologies for the self-promotion, but I though some of you might be interested to know that my book "You Must Become and Algorithmic Problem" is available for pre-order with Bristol University Press. https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/you-must-become-an-algorithmic-problem The book addresses the unspoken social contract we have with tech companies. In exchange for reducing the anxiety of an increasingly complex online world, we submit to algorithmic classification and predictability. This reduces incentives for us to become “algorithmic problems.” Instead, we develop algorithmic habits ourselves with dire consequences for liberal democracy. I calls for a reconsideration of the socio-technical contract that insists upon algorithms that promote play, creativity and potentiality rather than classification and reification. Please reach out if you'd like to know more about the book. Warmest regards, Jose Marichal Professor of Political Science California Lutheran University _______________________________________________________________________________________ josé marichal, ph.d. | political science department | california lutheran university | 60 w. olsen road | #3800 | thousand oaks, ca 91360 Book: You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem (Bristol University Press) <https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/you-must-become-an-algorithmic-problem>

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Special issue of Internet Policy Review on content moderation
by Blake Hallinan 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Dear colleagues, The latest issue of the *Internet Policy Review, *edited by Romain Badouard and Anne Bellon, explores the participation of civil society in online content regulation. How can moderation on social networks truly be fair, effective, and inclusive? What role can civil society play in democratizing platform governance? Twelve papers examine these questions through various field studies: ordinary citizen participation in forum moderation, content flagging by organizations (trusted flaggers), fact-checking, advertiser lobbying on platform policies, influencer mobilizations, data activism, ethical design, and alternative platforms. This issue is available in open access. You can find the table of contents below. Best wishes, Blake *Content moderation on digital platforms: Beyond states and firms <https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/introduction-content-moderation…>* <https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/introduction-content-moderation…> *Internet Policy Review, vol. 14, issue 1, 2025* *Introduction to the special issue on content moderation on digital platforms <https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/introduction-content-moderation…>* Romain Badouard <https://policyreview.info/users/romain-badouard>, *Paris-Panthéon-Assas University*, *France* Anne Bellon <https://policyreview.info/users/anne-bellon>, *University of Technology of Compiègne*, *France* *Regulatory intermediaries in content moderation * <https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/regulatory-intermediaries-conte…> Beatriz Kira <https://policyreview.info/users/beatriz-kira>, *University of Sussex* *Article 22 Digital Services Act: Building trust with trusted flaggers * <https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/article-22-digital-services-act> Jacob van de Kerkhof <https://policyreview.info/users/jacobvandekerkhof>, *Utrecht University* *The role of civil society organisations in co-regulating online hate speech in the EU: A bounded empowerment * <https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/co-regulating-online-hate-speech> Barthélémy Michalon <https://policyreview.info/users/barthelemymichalon>, *Sciences Po, Tecnologico de Monterrey* *Framing the role of experts in platform governance: Negotiating the code of practice on disinformation as a case study * <https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/framing-role-experts> Kateryna Chystoforova <https://policyreview.info/users/katerynachystoforova> , *European University Institute* Urbano Reviglio <https://policyreview.info/users/urbano-reviglio>, *European University Institute* *Aspirational platform governance: How creators legitimise content moderation through accusations of bias * <https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/aspirational-platform-governance> Blake Hallinan <https://policyreview.info/users/blake-hallinan>, *Hebrew University of Jerusalem* CJ Reynolds <https://policyreview.info/users/cj-reynolds>, *Hebrew University of Jerusalem* Yehonatan Kuperberg <https://policyreview.info/users/yehonatankuperberg>, *Hebrew University of Jerusalem* Omer Rothenstein <https://policyreview.info/users/omer-rothenstein>, *Hebrew University of Jerusalem* *Stop hate for profit: Evaluating the mobilisation of advertisers and the advertising industry to regulate content moderation on digital platforms * <https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/stop-hate-profit-evaluating-mob…> Steph Hill <https://policyreview.info/users/steph-hill>, *University of Leicester* *Civil society’s role in constitutionalising global content governance * <https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/constitutionalising-global-cont…> Nicola Palladino <https://policyreview.info/users/nicolapalladino>, *University of Salerno* Dennis Redeker <https://policyreview.info/users/dennisredeker>, *University of Bremen * Edoardo Celeste <https://policyreview.info/users/edoardoceleste>, *Dublin City University* *Online advertising, content moderation, and corporate accountability: a civil society perspective * <https://policyreview.info/articles/news/online-advertising-content-moderati…> Alex Rochefort <https://policyreview.info/users/alex-rochefort>, *Boston University* *The case for prosocial tech design governance * <https://policyreview.info/articles/news/prosocial-tech-design-governance> Lisa Schirch <https://policyreview.info/users/lisa-schirch>, *University of Notre Dame* *The realm of digital content regulation as a social space: Sociogenesis of moderation norms and policies on Twitch platform * <https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/digital-content-regulation-soci…> Nathan Ferret <https://policyreview.info/users/nathanferret>, *ENS de Lyon* *Labour pains: Content moderation challenges in Mastodon growth * <https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/content-moderation-challenges> Charlotte Spencer-Smith <https://policyreview.info/users/charlottespencersmith>, *University of Salzburg* Tales Tomaz <https://policyreview.info/users/talestomaz>, *University of Salzburg* *Safer spaces by design? Federated socio-technical architectures in content moderation * <https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/safer-spaces-design> Francesca Musiani <https://policyreview.info/users/francesca-musiani>, *National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)* Ksenia Ermoshina <https://policyreview.info/users/kseniaermoshina>, *National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)* -- Dr. Blake Hallinan (they/them) Senior Lecturer Hebrew University https://www.blakehallinan.com Recent Publications: Aspirational platform governance: How creators legitimise content moderation through accusations of bias <https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/aspirational-platform-governance> (2025) The expression of values on social media: An analytical framework <https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241307035> (2025) Parasocial media: The mass production of intimacy on a Chinese pop idol mobile application <https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624241299954> (2024)

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