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Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus: Academic Vacancy in A.I.
by Announce 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

Department of Computer Science -- University of Cyprus Academic Vacancy in A.I. (Full Professor) The Department of Computer Science (www.cs.ucy.ac.cy) at the University of Cyprus announces one (1) academic position at the rank of Professor in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The position will be filled under XM’s designated chair entitled “The XM Chair in Artificial Intelligence”. The Chair is funded by TP Servglobal Limited, a member of the XM Group (www.xm.com) XM is a leading provider of online investment services internationally. Upon appointment, the Chair's holder will receive a €30,000 research grant from the XM Group, in addition to their initial funding under the University of Cyprus Regulations. This funding will support research development, promotional activities, and collaboration with the XM Group and other relevant international research centers and universities. The Chair's holder will play a key role in advancing teaching and research in Artificial Intelligence, benefiting the academic community, society, and the economy. For this vacancy, a university degree and a PhD title from an accredited university are required. The minimum requirements for the academic rank of a Professor are set in the following web link: https://rb.gy/k3pel In accordance with the applicable legislation, the annual gross salary (including the 13th salary) for full-time employment is: Professor (Scale Α15-Α16) €80.094,70 - €104.114,56. Employee contributions to the various State funds will be deducted from the above amounts. The selected candidate will be expected to teach in both Greek and English within the Department of Computer Science's undergraduate and graduate programs. Therefore, proficiency in both Greek and English is required. Candidates do not need to be citizens of the Republic of Cyprus. Candidates are invited to submit their applications electronically by uploading the following documents in English and in PDF format at the following link: https://applications.ucy.ac.cy/recruitment 1 Cover Letter 2 Curriculum Vitae 3 Copy of ID/Passport 4 Copy of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited University is required 5 Copy of a PhD degree from an accredited University is required 6 Review of previous research work and a brief description of future research projects (up to 3 pages) 7 List of publications 8 Representative publications (up to 3 publications which should be submitted separately). 9 The names and email addresses of three professors from whom confidential letters of recommendation (in English) will be automatically requested upon submission of the application. Letters of recommendation may be submitted up to 7 days following the deadline for submission of applications. It is the responsibility of each candidate to ensure that the references are submitted. In case the letters of recommendation are not submitted on time, the application will not be considered. The deadline for applications is Friday the 4th of July 2025. A more detailed announcement can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/XMChairAI

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Call for Applications: NextGen@ICANN84
by Joly MacFie 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/call-for-applications-nextge… 31 March 2025 ------------------------------ The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is calling for applications <https://webportalapp.com/sp/login_saml/nextgen_prod> for NextGen@ICANN Program <https://www.icann.org/public-responsibility-support/nextgen> participants to attend the ICANN84 Annual General Meeting in Muscat, Oman, 25–30 October 2025. ICANN wants to hear from university students living and studying in the Asia Pacific region who are interested in the future of the Internet and participating in the Public Meeting. If ICANN84 is held virtually, the NextGen@ICANN Program will also be held virtually. What Is NextGen@ICANN? The NextGen@ICANN Program provides opportunities for university students to better understand how ICANN contributes to the technical governance of the Internet and the multistakeholder model. Through an immersive program, participants learn about topics such as the Internet ecosystem, Internet governance, and policy development at ICANN. The program also provides insight into how to engage and contribute to the work that supports the stability, resiliency, and reliability of the Internet. NextGen@ICANN runs in conjunction with ICANN Public Meetings and is geared toward students who are 18–30 years old, living or studying in the region hosting the selected ICANN meeting. Participants are required to attend courses and presentations six weeks before the ICANN Public Meeting. In addition, they are expected to give a 10-minute presentation during the meeting. Experienced mentors support participants throughout the program. The NextGen application window is open 31 March–9 May 2025. Successful candidates will be announced 15 July 2025 on the ICANN website. For more information about the program and to apply, please visit the NextGen@ICANN website <https://www.icann.org/public-responsibility-support/nextgen>. -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST MAR 11 – ISOC Masr – Powering Up Digital Infrastructure
by Joly MacFie 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

As can be seen below this session was originally scheduled for March 11, it was postponed until 16:00 UTC today April 7, and is thus just starting. Today's aspect is energy. Even a country like Egypt, with the mighty Aswan Dam, needs to think about how to generate more power! Real Time Text https://bit.ly/3FX4aGC Previous sessions Part 1 - Digital Infrastructure, An Industry Overview - https://isoc.live/18505/ Part 2 - The Politics of Digital Infrastructure https://isoc.live/18729/ [image: isoc live] <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=3621d1a4d5f6c0f926f2b36…> On *Tuesday 11 March 2025* at *22:00 EET* (20:00 UTC) the I*nternet Society Egypt Chapter <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=f115e87e0b5c4bdd84cdeed…>* (Internet Masr ) presents the third in its infrastructure webinar series with a briefing session ‘*Powering Up Digital Infrastructure <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=f9730029343f8040574ab33…>* ‘. *Ahmed Abdel-Latif <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=24bb564c3da5e5915f9891b…>* will will explore the challenges involved in energy policy, explore the sustainability agendas of global players, highlight the renewable energy potential, and even touch on innovative use cases of nuclear energy, all in the scope of data center & AI platforms. *SPEAKER* *Ahmed Abdel-Latif*, MEA Digital Infrastructure Expert *HOST* *Mariam Fayez*, ISOC Egypt *LIVESTREAM https://youtu.be/6GUOfs5yZ6w <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=6aeba4769979f93997ec1a4…> | SIMULCASTS X Live <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=8bcfbab1c8b7de3db770035…> | Twitch <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=e503c2d9d534fc9da1c2cef…> | Facebook Live <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=6744ed73a01852e6736e06a…>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3FaW78Q <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=f9730029343f8040574ab33…>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see ISOC.LIVE <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=3621d1a4d5f6c0f926f2b36…> ) *TWITTER #DigitalInfrastructure <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=2c1588a192d290ee3006edf…> @Internet_Masr | MASTODON <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=7977300dd3ee644be8463f8…> | BLUESKY <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=db1444413815b6289c3cfae…> | INSTA <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=2cd71d5934ca3566a764640…>* *ADD TO CALENDAR <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=ba79e5419959c602126a88e…> | PERMALINK <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=3621d1a4d5f6c0f926f2b36…>* *** ISOC.LIVE is a free webcasting support service for the Internet Society Community - ISOC LIVE is currently unfunded - if you would like to become a monthly sponsor - contact support(a)isoc.live *** -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Re: [Air-L] New Special Issue: Empirical Approaches to Infrastructures for Datafication
by Jennifer Pybus 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

Dear all, Jennifer, Pybus, Stine Lomborg, Alessandro Gandini and Signe Sophus Lai are excited to announce the publication of Empirical Approaches to Infrastructures for Datafication<https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/NMS/current> in New Media and Society, Volume 27 (4)! This Special Issue includes seven diverse theoretical and empirical articles offering novel understanding of datafication, driven by technological infrastructures that deeply permeate the most intimate aspects of human life. The authors and articles on “infrastructures for datafication<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14614448251314396>” include: Birch K, Komljenovic J and Sellar S (2025) Architectures of assetization: Legacy infrastructures and the configuration of datafication in UK higher education<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251314400> Pybus J and Mir M (2025) Tracking menopause: An SDK Data Audit for intimate infrastructures of datafication with ChatGPT4o<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251314401> Nieborg DB and Poell T (2025) Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251314405> Flensburg S, Lai SS and Ørmen J (2025) At the mercy of the objects, we study: Epistemic consequences of proprietary digital research infrastructures<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14614448251314397> Grön K, Ruckenstein M and Chen Z (2025) Nothing is inevitable: The flexibility imaginary in the Chinese platform economy<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251314404> Kaun A and Männiste M (2025) Public sector chatbots: AI frictions and data infrastructures at the interface of the digital welfare state<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251314394> Matamoros-Fernández A and Jude N (2025) The importance of centering harm in data infrastructures for ‘soft moderation’: X’s Community Notes as a case study<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251314399>

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Fully funded PhD studentship for collaborative project with the British Film Institute
by Daniel Chavez Heras 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

*** With apologies for cross-posting *** Dear AIR listers I'm pleased to share with Humanist readers this fully funded PhD studentship opportunity to explore promotional screen culture in the BFI National Archive<https://www.bfi.org.uk/bfi-national-archive> through computational methods. The selected student will join the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh> in October and will be supervised in collaboration with the head of data and digital preservation at the BFI. This studentship is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships scheme (CDP). The studentship is open to international applicants. Deadline to apply is 13 June 2025. More details and application: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/funding/from-narratives-of-value-to-valu… Please consider circulating this opportunity to your students and networks. For questions, contact: Daniel Chávez Heras<https://movingpixel.net/> Lecturer in Digital Culture and Creative Computing Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London

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The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025): Third Call for Papers
by Announce 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

*** Third Call for Papers *** The 16th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graphs (ICKG 2025) November 13-14, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ickg2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by IEEE ***) (*** please note the change of conference and important dates! ***) The annual IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graph (ICKG) provides a premier international forum for presentation of original research results in knowledge discovery and graph learning, discussion of opportunities and challenges, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. The conference covers all aspects of knowledge discovery from data, with a strong focus on graph learning and knowledge graph, including algorithms, software, platforms. ICKG 2025 intends to draw researchers and application developers from a wide range of areas such as knowledge engineering, representation learning, big data analytics, statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining, knowledge visualization, high performance computing, and World Wide Web etc. By promoting novel, high quality research findings, and innovative solutions to address challenges in handling all aspects of learning from data with dependency relationship. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society. Awards, including Best Paper, Best Paper Runner up, Best Student Paper, Best Student Paper Runner up, will be conferred at the conference, with a check and a certificate for each award. The conference also features a survey track to accept survey papers reviewing recent studies in all aspects of knowledge discovery and graph learning. At least five high quality papers will be invited for a special issue of the Knowledge and Information Systems Journal, in an expanded and revised form. In addition, at least eight quality papers will be invited for a special issue of Data Intelligence Journal in an expanded and revised form with at least 30% difference. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Foundations, algorithms, models, and theory of knowledge discovery and graph learning • Knowledge engineering with big data. • Machine learning, data mining, and statistical methods for data science and engineering. • Acquisition, representation and evolution of fragmented knowledge. • Fragmented knowledge modeling and online learning. • Knowledge graphs and knowledge maps. • Graph learning security, privacy, fairness, and trust. • Interpretation, rule, and relationship discovery in graph learning. • Geospatial and temporal knowledge discovery and graph learning. • Ontologies and reasoning. • Topology and fusion on fragmented knowledge. • Visualization, personalization, and recommendation of Knowledge Graph navigation and interaction. • Knowledge Graph systems and platforms, and their efficiency, scalability, and privacy. • Applications and services of knowledge discovery and graph learning in all domains including web, medicine, education, healthcare, and business. • Big knowledge systems and applications. • Crowdsourcing, deep learning and edge computing for graph mining. • Large language models and applications • Open source platforms and systems supporting knowledge and graph learning. • Datasets and benchmarks for graphs • Neurosymbolic & Hybrid AI systems • Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation SURVEY TRACK Survey paper reviewing recent study in keep aspects of knowledge discover and graph learning. In addition to the above topics, authors can also select and target the following Special Track topics. Each special track is handled by respective special track chairs, and the papers are also included in the conference proceedings. • Special Track 01: KGC and Knowledge Graph Building • Special Track 02: KR and KG Reasoning. • Special Track 03: KG and Large Language Model • Special Track 04: GNN and Graph Learning • Special Track 05: QA and Graph Database • Special Track 06: KG and Multi-modal Learning. • Special Track 07: KG and Knowledge Fusion. • Special Track 08: Industry and Applications SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Paper submissions should be no longer than 8 pages, in the IEEE 2-column format, including the bibliography and any possible appendices. Submissions longer than 8 pages will be rejected without review. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality, originality, significance, and clarity. For survey track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with “Survey:”, followed by the actual paper title. For example, a paper entitled “A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph”, should be changed as “Survey: A Literature Review of Streaming Knowledge Graph”. This is for the reviewers and chairs to clearly bid and handle the papers. Once the paper is accepted, the word, such as “Survey:”, can be removed from the camera-ready copy. For special track paper, please preface the descriptive paper title with “SS##:”, where “##” is the two digits special track ID. For example, a paper entitled “Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning”, intended to target Special Track 01 (Machine learning and knowledge graph) should be changed as “SS01: Incremental Knowledge Graph Learning”. All manuscripts are submitted as full papers and are reviewed based on their scientific merit. The reviewing process is single blind, meaning that each submission should list all authors and affiliations. There is no separate abstract submission step. There are no separate industrial, application, or poster tracks. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in the online submission system. No email submission is accepted. To help ensure correct formatting, please use the style files for U.S. Letter as template for your submission. These include LaTeX and Word. SUBMISSION LINK https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2025/ickg25/ IMPORTANT DATES • Paper submission (abstract and full paper): June 20, 2025 (AoE) • Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 5, 2025 • Camera-ready, copyright forms and author registration: September 20, 2025 • Early (non-author) registration: October 10, 2025 • Conference dates: November 13-14, 2025 ORGANISATION Conference and Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Conference Co-Chair • Dan Guo, Hefei University of Technology Program Chairs • Cesare Alippi, Università della Svizzera italiana • Shirui Pan, Griffith University Local Organising Vice Chair • Irene Kinlanioti, National Technical University of Athens Finance Chair • Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus Steering Committee Chair • Xindong Wu, Hefei University Of Technology

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WEBDIFFUSION 4 AVRIL – Le Forum sur la Gouvernance de l’Internet en République Démocratique du Congo (FGI RDC) 2025
by Joly MacFie 06 Apr '25

06 Apr '25

Début à 09H00 WAT (08:00 UTC) <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=bbed56ba902216d57440bf9…> Le *vendredi 4 avril 2025* la 5 ème édition de *Forum sur la Gouvernance de l’Internet en République Démocratique du Congo <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=745e5644f625a24b03c727f…>* (FGI RDC) se tiendra dans la Centre CEPAS Gombe, Kinshasa. Cette année, le FGI RDC est placé sous le thème principal : « *Renforcer la Gouvernance Numérique pour un Internet Ouvert et Sécurisé en RDC* ». Les sessions seront retransmises par* ISOC.LIVE <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=bbed56ba902216d57440bf9…> *pour le compte du *Chapitre de la RDC de l’Internet Society <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=805491bf258aa572605a278…> * (ISOC-RDC). AGENDA (Toutes les heures WAT = UTC+1) *Master of Ceremony: Sony Ngandu* *09H00 MOTS D’OUVERTURE* *Arséne Tungali* - Secrétaire Exécutif du FGI RDC *Augustin Kibassa-Maliba* - SE Ministre des PT-N, Mr *Hon. Ompeta Emmanuel* - Président de la sous-commission Télécoms (AN RDC), *Hon. Vital Kamerhe* - Président de l’Assemblée Nationale, *10H00 Accés, Accessibilité à Internet gage de l'inclusion numérique : Les défis et les* *avancées en RDC* *Francois-Xavier Kabemba* - Directeur Général, FAST CONGO *Tony Munongo* - Conseiller PTNTIC, Primature RDC *Rosette Tshinguta* - Ambassadrice du numérique et Membre du Réseau des Acteurs du numérique en RDC *Deborah Bilau* - Membre du DRC Youth IGF Modératrice : *Prosper Ntetika* - Expert en droit du numérique / Président de Law and Technologies *12H30 Cadre légal des télécommunications et du numérique en RDC : entre harmonisation et mesures d’application* *Myriam Mvuny* - Senior Legal & Regulatory, Francophone Africa, Csquared *Hon. Ayobangira Safari* - Député National / expert en Télécoms *Elly Kayembe Mulaya* - Avocat spécialiste des questions de cybercriminalité *Brozeck Kandolo* - Président de Droit-numerique.cd et Doctorant en Droit du numérique (Université de Nantes) - Zoom Modératrice : *Munia Kaza* - Juriste et experte en protection des données *14H30 Les technologies du moment (dont l'intelligence artificielle) face à la cyber sécurité : quels sont les défis en RDC ?* *Henri-Christin Longendja* - Secrétaire Exécutif, Collectif 24 *Alain Kilapi -* Président du Réseau des Acteurs du Numérique en RDC *Eric Mutonj* - Expert en Telecoms et TIC - Consultant International *Prof. Dede Aliango Marachto* - Enseignante à UPC / Directrice du Centre de Recherche interdisciplinaire en Développement (CRIDESS-UPC) Modérateur : *Serge Lumuna Ngole* - Expert en Télécommunications, Conseiller et membre Sous-Commission PTN, à l’Assemblée Nationale *16H00 Réception des recommandations pour le développement de l'internet en RDC* Modérateur : *Athanase Bahizire* - Coordonnateur de l'École sur la Gouvernance de l'Internet en RDC *16H30 MOTS DE CLOTURE* *Arséne Tungali* - Secrétaire Exécutif du FGI RDC, Mr. *Christian Katende* - Président du Collège de l'ARPTC *LIVESTREAM <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=b1a392c65fa77bc8a7aa83c…>| SIMULCAST X Live <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=63c9415f510d0d1bd028cdd…> | PERMALINK <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=bbed56ba902216d57440bf9…>* *TWITTER #FGI_RDC2025 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=9f852522ce13e00898ac951…> #RDC #IGF | MASTODON <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=db0cb3df48d46b8f9f5957a…> | BLUESKY <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=08fb7ca855426ba527c69a0…> | INSTA <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=11687e027aaa94ddba50de6…>* *** ISOC.LIVE est un service de support de webcasting gratuit pour la communauté Internet Society - ISOC LIVE n'est actuellement pas financé - si vous souhaitez devenir un sponsor mensuel - contactez support(a)isoc.live ** * -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Exposing the Dangerous Militarization of AI - New Series!
by Noel Packard 05 Apr '25

05 Apr '25

*Announcing the Launch of **Military AI Watch**,**Acclaimed Journalist Peter Byrne’s 10-Part Exposé Revealing the Militarization of AI* A new series, *Military AI Watch <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=67f041af0e0f944728229daa&u=htt…>*, reveals the dangers of developing artificial intelligence (AI) for military use. Investigative journalist Peter Byrne shows how Silicon Valley, corporate media, the Department of Defense, the banking industry, and scientific institutions all intersect in the effort to militarize AI. The public has been largely kept in the dark about these efforts, which present potentially disastrous consequences for the world, while promising a financial bonanza to wealthy investors. Corporate media has pumped out rosy but false narratives about the potential of AI, while critical information about its military uses rarely reaches the public—*until now*. Byrne has spent the last two years conducting in-depth research for this series and is at work on a database of selected AI weapons companies and their investors. This collaboration between Project Censored and Peter Byrne sheds unsparing light on an issue that has profound public impact and has been under-reported for too long. *Silicon Valley’s Plan to Conquer the World With AI Weapons* <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=67f041af0e0f944728229daa&u=htt…> The first article in the series, titled “One Ring to Rule Them All,” explores how Silicon Valley tech companies are partnering with the Department of Defense to develop AI weapons systems. Read “One Ring to Rule Them All” here! <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=67f041af0e0f944728229daa&u=htt…> For the rest of the year, we'll be publishing monthly installments in the series. Make sure to bookmark this page <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=67f041af0e0f944728229daa&u=htt…> to read the rest! For nearly fifty years, Project Censored has been at the forefront in the fight against censorship and the effort to promote news literacy. This collaboration with Peter Byrne continues our mission to expose stories that corporate media ignore. Your support <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=67f041af0e0f944728229daa&u=htt…> makes original investigative series, like *Military AI Watch*, possible.

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Nominations for 2025 Nancy Baym Book Award now open
by AoIR Association Coordinator 05 Apr '25

05 Apr '25

We are pleased to call for nominations for the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. This award recognizes the best scholarship of the Association of Internet Researchers, and highlights the breadth of work relating to the social and cultural dimensions of networked media. To be eligible for the award: - The book must be authored or co-authored as a monograph and must explore a single topic (edited collections are not eligible). - All of the book’s authors must be current members of AoIR at the time of submission (May 7, 2025). Memberships may be purchased here: https://members.aoir.org/. - The book must have been published between January 1 and December 31, 2024. The books will be reviewed by a committee of Jun Liu, (University of Copenhagen and Committee Chair), Nancy Baym (Microsoft Research), Niki Cheong (King’s College London), Helton Levy (London Metropolitan University), John McNut (University of Delaware), Sarah Murray (University of Michigan), and Robert Tynes (Bard College). Each book should be accompanied by an emailed letter of nomination. Self-nominations are most certainly welcome. The letter of nomination, which must be written by a current member of AoIR, should outline: - How the book contributes to AoIR’s intellectual community. - The book’s unique contributions and overall strengths. - If not a self-nomination, the letter should also include a statement that the nominated author has been contacted prior to its submission and accepts the nomination. Books submitted without a meaningful nomination letter outlining both the strengths of the book and the book’s contribution to the AoIR community to AoIR will not be eligible. We are happy to accept books in either digital or hard copy. If digital, please send a PDF to bookaward [at] aoir.org or write to ask for individual email addresses. Additional nomination details available here: https://aoir.org/2025nbbookaward/ *Please send in all nomination materials by May 7, 2025.*

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WEBCAST APR 4 – Digital Sovereignty and the Open Internet: Can they Coexist?
by Joly MacFie 04 Apr '25

04 Apr '25

The webinar today provides a glimpse into an ongoing vigorous debate in the GigaNet <https://www.giga-net.org/> community. [image: isoc live] <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=febd7f56fdedec7a131dd30…> On *April 4, 2025* at *10:00 EDT* (14:00 UTC) the *Internet Governance Project (IGP) <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=519bdd7cb3f94483ced2b1e…>* in collaboration with the *Quello Center <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=709d54975a3c11c52df46a3…>* host a webinar '*Digital Sovereignty and the Open Internet: Can they Coexist? <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=320cc405ccb1e1f374a6541…>*'. Scholars of differing views to debate what digital sovereignty means, how it is being used as a label, and whether the various interpretations of the term are compatible with the foundational values of the open Internet. Recently, new books and analyses have been published, including the book edited by Min Jiang and Luca Belli, *Digital sovereignty in the BRICS countries <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=a22a3d04bc21d6fbcd5c3d2…>* (Cambridge, 2025), the volume by Johannes Thumfart, *The liberal internet in the postliberal era <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=572d2b679622bb2946b49b9…>* (Springer, 2024), and *a special issue of Policy & Internet <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=ad7b77d476996a700a1d31e…>* on the topic, edited by Julia Pohle, Mauro Santantiello, and Riccardo Nanni. *SPEAKERS* *Anupam Chander* - legal expert on global regulation of new technologies *Julia Pohle* - Co-director, Research Group on Politics of Digitalisation, WZB Berlin Social Science Center *Marília Maciel* - Director, Digital Trade and Economic Security, DiploFoundation. *Milton Mueller* - Director, Internet Governance Project (IGP), Georgia Tech. *Min Jiang* - Professor of Communication Studies, UNC Charlotte Moderator: *Johannes Bauer -* Chair of Media and Information Policy, Quello *LIVESTREAM <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=e6198cd9d050c455f36f1df…> | SIMULCASTS X Live <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=0181b4f2de4b3c4f7891a2b…> | Twitch <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=749994ef846c54d439b21a6…>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=320cc405ccb1e1f374a6541…> | REAL TIME TEXT <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=16e84883458ffff514a12ef…> | PERMALINK <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=7cdaca62bbf2e9b7319f8e6…>* *TWITTER #digitalsovereignty <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=c83bf1ea6b1bab5c6c65fa1…> @IGPAlert @QuelloCenter | MASTODON <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=96e790a257b068731865941…> | BLUESKY <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=9fa182f0d5b4f71b1635365…> | INSTA <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=2e2079b5776e711a7d1da27…>* *** ISOC.LIVE is a free webcasting support service for the Internet Society Community - ISOC LIVE is currently unfunded - if you would like to become a monthly sponsor - contact support(a)isoc.live *** -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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