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New Book on Digital Nationalism and Affective Governance
by Dechun Zhang 05 May '26

05 May '26

Dear Colleagues, I apologize for the cross-posting. I am excited to announce that my book, Digital Nationalism and Affective Governance: Propaganda, Public Sentiment, and Soft Authoritarianism in China (https://www.routledge.com/p/book/9781041308775) will be available for pre-order on May 5 and officially released on May 26. The book investigates how digital propaganda in China operates as a platform-shaped practice under soft authoritarianism, where nationalism functions as a discursive technology that organizes meaning, structures visibility, and channels public affect. Propaganda is no longer purely top-down; it emerges from a dynamic co-production between state narratives, platform affordances, and public emotions. Governance is enacted subtly through emotional guidance, algorithmic visibility, participatory cues, and discursive standardization, while overt censorship persists in the background. At the same time, citizens are active participants: they use nationalist discourse to express identity, perform loyalty, reshape official narratives, and voice critique. In this system, the public and the state co-produce political meaning, creating fragmented yet structured nationalist expressions that circulate within a platformized governance model. This highlights a form of participatory propaganda, where control is affective and publics negotiate legitimacy, belonging, and authority through digital nationalism. While the book focuses on China, it also provides insights into the broader dynamics of digital politics, affective governance, and authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regimes. You can pre-order the book https://www.routledge.com/p/book/9781041308775, 20% Discount with code CISYCDNAG20, and I would be delighted if you share it with colleagues interested in digital politics, digital nationalism, propaganda, online participation, media, governance, and China. I also welcome feedback, discussion, and engagement with anyone working on related topics. Best wishes Dechun

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AIES 2026 invites PC members!
by Petter Ericson 04 May '26

04 May '26

Hi all, Who decides what counts as progress in AI, Ethics, and Society? We invite nominations for reviewers and Senior Program Committee members for #AIES2026, the 9th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, taking place in Malmö, Sweden, October 12–14, 2026: https://www.aies-conference.com/2026/call-for-papers/ If you want to shape the field, not just follow it, nominate yourself or a colleague for AIES2026's (Senior) Program Committee. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLBJwAeGTYjfKkRxyRGbVJQrLAMfJ1sm1… As a Program Committee member, you will uphold rigor, fairness, and interdisciplinary excellence in research, and contribute to defining what “state of the art” means in AI, Ethics, and Society. Happy and grateful for your (self)-nominations! Conference program co-chairs: Aylin Kamelia Caliskan, University of Washington S. Matthew Liao, New York University Mirko Tobias Schäfer, Utrecht University Daniel S. Schiff, Purdue University Conference general co-chairs: Virginia Dignum, Umeå University Petter Ericson, Umeå University -- Petter Ericson Staff Scientist, AI Policy Lab and Responsible AI research group AI Policy Lab | Department of Computing Science Umeå University, Sweden 📧 pettter(a)cs.umu.se 🌐 www.aipolicylab.se

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INNOVADE-Webinar: What Digital Futures Do We (Not) Want? Results from the Futures of Digital Democracy Survey
by Christian Fuchs 04 May '26

04 May '26

INNOVADE-Webinar: What Digital Futures Do We (Not) Want? Results from the Futures of Digital Democracy Survey Tuesday, 26 May, 10:00-11:30 CET Registration: https://innovade-democracy.eu/events/what-digital-futures-do-we-not-want A webinar organized by the EU project INNOVADE: Innovative Democracy through Digitalisation In this seminar, the Paderborn University research team presents some results of the Future of Digital Democracy Survey. The webinar asks: What digital futures do we (not) want? How should future digital society (not) look like? How can we advance digital democracy and weaken digital authoritarianism? Agenda Introduction Kevin Friesch: The Futures of Digital Society: Four Scenarios Joel Museba: The Futures of Digital Democracy Survey’s Methodology Christian Fuchs: What Digital Futures, Digital Society, and Digital Platforms Do We (Not) Want? The Futures of Digital Democracy Survey (FDDS): Results and Policy Implications Discussion Subsribe to the INNOVADE newsletter: https://innovade-democracy.eu/newsletter

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FINAL REMINDER - TOMORROW - Invitation: Webinar on LGBTQ+ Digital Resistance in Hungary (5th May 2026)
by Anna Zsubori 04 May '26

04 May '26

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. --- You are warmly invited to join us for an upcoming webinar featuring Mariann Filó (activist, psychologist & Budapest Pride organiser), Ádám András Kanicsár (activist, journalist & social media expert), and Joci Márton (Roma LGBTQ+ activist) on Hungarian LGBTQ+ citizens' use of social media. This event is chaired by Dr Anna Zsubori and draws on research conducted during her British Academy-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Loughborough University. --- Sites of Hostility and Resistance: Navigating the Digital LGBTQ+ Public Sphere in Hungary 📅 Date: 5th May 2026 🕠 Time: 5pm-7.30pm (UK time) 📍 Registration: This event is FREE to attend, but registration is essential. To book your place, please email: a.zsubori(a)lboro.ac.uk<mailto:a.zsubori@lboro.ac.uk> 🎤 About the event: Various digital media platforms in illiberal contexts function as a complex double-edged sword. In Hungary, they often act as additional channels for illiberal attitudes, amplifying state-sponsored negative sentiments. Yet, these same spaces remain vital for the expression of liberal views and resistance. This session explores this tension, focusing on how social media spaces have become sites of both systemic hostility and profound resistance for LGBTQ+ communities in Hungary. We will be joined by Hungarian guest speakers who will discuss the lived reality of navigating this digital environment. The discussion will cover the online and offline consequences of the regime’s anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, as well as the state-encouraged harassment. Beyond victimisation, our speakers will highlight the diverse strategies of resistance, exploring how marginalised groups utilise digital media to build counter-narratives, maintain community safety, and challenge the illiberal status quo. The session features a panel of individuals at the forefront of this struggle, including activists, journalists, and individuals with direct lived experience of digital victimisation. By bringing together those who document these harms and those who experience them, this webinar aims to provide a nuanced understanding of how political communication in an illiberal regime translates into real-world harm, and how resistance persists in the face of structural exclusion. This webinar will be of interest to academics across communication, digital media, gender and LGBTQ+ studies, human rights, and political science, as well as non-academic audiences interested in the lived realities of LGBTQ+ minorities and their digital experiences. 💸 The event is supported by the British Academy and Loughborough University. Looking forward to seeing you there! Also, feel free to circulate this invitation! All the best, Anna Dr Anna Zsubori, FHEA<https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/communication-media/staff/anna-zsubori/?fb…> (she/her) British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow<https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships/past-a…> Participant of the inaugural British Academy Elevate Programme, 2025/26 Cohort<https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/early-career-researcher-network/british…> School of Social Sciences and Humanities Loughborough University Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK E: a.zsubori(a)lboro.ac.uk<mailto:yl304@le.ac.uk>

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Third Call for Papers (Industry Track)
by Announce 01 May '26

01 May '26

*** Third Call for Papers (Industry Track) *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ The ISSRE Industry Track gathers industry representatives as well as researchers from, within or in collaboration with industry to discuss software reliability, quality assurance as well as experiences and lessons learned. This year we will bring experiences from self- made tools, usage of AI, generative AI and machine learning in relation to software reliability. Industry track papers are expected to be of interest to software development professionals, as well as to anyone researching or working in the area of software reliability, software quality, and process improvement groups, with concrete relevance to industrial problems and practical applications. All presenters of accepted papers will be required to attend the conference in person. Participating in the conference would give a chance to meet and discuss with a wide selection of researchers and other industry experts in the area. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the software development lifecycle, from an industrial and practitioner-oriented perspective. Ask yourself this: Is the work grounded in real-world systems, operational experience, or industrial practice, and does it address reliability or dependability concerns? If it is, you have found the right conference track. For a more detailed list check out the detailed topics list for the research track on this site. • Use cases, practical experiences, lessons learned, improvement programs in reliability or dependability. • Foundations of reliability and dependability, including process, technology, methods, metrics and lessons learned. • Design for reliability or dependability, failure and incident case studies, including experiences in security, testing, verification, and related practices in the field. • Reliability in AI-driven and autonomic systems or AI techniques used for Reliability Engineering. • Software reliability in any system domain. • Trustworthiness, security, and Responsible Software Engineering. • Human-centric focus on reliability and dependability. • Adoption of reliability standards, measurements and similar experiences. We look for papers with good evaluation, honest data, new insights and practical experiences that can be used to help others. We also encourage submissions reporting negative results, unexpected outcomes, and lessons learned from real-world practice. Submission Guidelines and Instructions We invite three kinds of submissions to the Industry Track: • Enlightening Talk or Tool Demo: 1-2 page abstract (OR a Power Point presentation OR a video for a tool demo). • Short paper: 4-pages (including references). • Full paper: 6-pages (including references). All the submissions will be reviewed by members of the Industry Track Program Committee. Accepted papers (with an abstract) will be included in the ISSRE Supplemental Proceedings and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore. Papers are submitted via Easy Chair https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 . Submissions must adhere to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines (for more Information, please refer to the relevant part on the conference website: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/industry-track/) Note that: • A paper must include the title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words, and up to 4 keywords. Thus, submissions are not anonymous. • Reviewers will use the abstract during the bidding process for peer-review. Thus, the abstract should state the paper goals clearly, along with the means used to achieve them. • The first page is not a separate page, but is a part of the paper (i.e., it has technical material in it). Thus, this page counts toward the total page budget for the paper. • Symbols and labels used in the graphs should be readable as printed, without requiring on-screen magnification. • Limit the file size to less than 15 MB (for Video’s – provide a live link). Papers that exceed the page limits specified, on topics not in the scope of ISSRE, or that do not follow the formatting guidelines will be rejected without review. Authors of accepted papers will have the chance to present their work at ISSRE 2026. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the conference and to give the talk, if the paper is accepted. Best Paper Awards The Industry Program Chair will select three candidates among top-ranked papers presenting and motivating novel and disruptive ideas that address problems relevant for industry. Selection will be based on the reviewers’ feedback, novelty and potential impact of the results. The final selection of the best paper will be done by the audience attending the presentation of the candidate papers. Eligible papers must be (1) full papers accepted to the industry track, and (2) co-authored by at least one author whose primary affiliation is in Industry. Important Dates (AoE) • Abstract Submission Deadline: June 28, 2026 & July 3, 2026 • Paper Submission Deadline: July 5, 2026 & July 12, 2026 • Notification to Authors: August 12, 2026 • Camera Ready Papers: August 19, 2026 • Enlightening Talks or Tool Demos (without abstract; not to appear in the proceedings): August 15, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline (Industry Track): August 19, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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Comic Book Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, Vol. 2, with Argentine Federation of Tech Co-ops
by Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann 30 Apr '26

30 Apr '26

Hi there, In the context of May Day, DigiLabour/University of Toronto and Argentine Federation of Tech Worker Co-ops (FACTTIC) launch Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, Volume 2, the second issue in a comic series that highlights experiences of worker collectivities across Latin America who are expanding the meanings of technologies. Read it here: - English: https://digilabour.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Other-Tech-Worlds-Are-… - Spanish: https://digilabour.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Other-Tech-Worlds-Are-… - Portuguese: https://digilabour.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Other-Tech-Worlds-Are-… About the comic Imagine a constellation of Argentine tech cooperatives: each one shining on its own, but far more powerful when they connect and work together. That is FACTTIC. In this second volume of Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, readers are introduced, through a fantastical narrative rich in visual metaphor, to how cooperativism and tech development grounded in the solidarity economy are transforming Argentina. Sit in on assemblies where values such as diversity, democracy, innovation, queer technologies, communication, and equality are held in common. Discover projects born from cooperation between cooperatives, including concrete initiatives like IA4Coops, an artificial intelligence proposal made by cooperatives, for cooperatives. This is a story about the power of cooperating to build fairer technologies. About the project Other Tech Worlds Are Possible uses the comic format to share artistic narratives of worker collectivities across Latin America who are expanding the meanings of technology while struggling for social justice. These stories celebrate the power of political, social, technological, and artistic imagination to tell different stories about technology, beyond the ideology of Silicon Valley. The first volume, produced in collaboration with the Tech Sector of the Homeless Workers' Movement in Brazil<https://digilabour.com.br/comic-book-other-tech-worlds-are-possible-with-ho…> (MTST), showed how technologies are also built from the territories, critically, creatively, and as part of the struggle for housing and social justice The project is supported by the University of Toronto, through the UTSC Departmental Research Fund awarded to the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, and by the SSHRC Insight Development Grant for the Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP) project. Credits * Script and research: Natália Sierpinski * Illustration, lettering, and layout: Germana Viana * Coordination and editing: Rafael Grohmann * Co-production and review: FACTTIC * Collaborators: Cecilia Muñoz Cancela (Código Libre), Laura Arcuri (Animus), Elena Ficher (ALT) https://digilabour.com.br/comic-book-other-tech-worlds-are-possible-vol-2-w… best, Rafael -- dr. Rafael Grohmann Assistant Professor of Media Studies Department of Arts, Culture and Media<https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann> Faculty of Information<https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/rafael-grohmann/> University of Toronto Leader, DigiLabour<https://digilabour.com.br/> Research Associate, University of Oxford<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/rafael-grohmann/> Founding Editor, Platforms & Society<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS> Principal Investigator, Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP)<https://digilabour.com.br/worker-owned-intersectional-platforms-woip/> Co-Lead, Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF)<https://criticaldigitalmethods.ca/creative-labour-critical-futures/> Researcher, AI Policy Observatory for the World of Work<https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/ai-policy-observatory-for-the-wor…> Senior Fellow, Massey College<https://www.masseycollege.ca/> Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society<https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/> <https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/>

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Workshops on social media, AI and politics
by Ira Solomatina 30 Apr '26

30 Apr '26

Dear colleagues, We at LMU’s Small Platforms research group are organising a series of workshops on the state of social media platforms and AI that may be of interest to your BA and MA students. The workshops will take place in Berlin, London and Nairobi during May and June 2026. We would appreciate it if you could share information about the workshops with your students. A full description is below. Feel free to write me if you have any questions at all. Many thanks! *Relevant dates:* 13–15 May, London @ Goldsmiths 19–21 May, Berlin @ silent green 10–12 June, Nairobi @ British Council All the best, Ira Solomatina, postdoctoral researcher i.solomatina(a)lmu.de Social Media, AI and Politics – An immersive Workshop How do we understand social media and AI as communicators? What have they done to our social and political life? How do we untether ourselves and reflect on what binds us to social media and AI—each day and every instance—of this hypermediated attention economy? Join us for this immersive 3-day workshop where we will deep dive into one of the most important conversations of our time. The workshop features masterclasses, learning seminars, interactive games, and collaborative exercises—to together think through AI and social media. You will create and analyze fakes, play games, participate in lectures, do podcasts and get busy with “data”. Participation is free. No travel bursaries will be offered to participants. Lunch, snacks and drinks will be served on all three days of the workshop. With the participants’ consent, selected discussions and interactive sessions conducted during the workshop can contribute to the facilitators’ ethnographic research on media, technology and society. The consent form will be handed out on the first day of the workshop. Participation is voluntary. All information will be treated confidentially. The workshop is hosted by Center for Digital Dignity, LMU Munich, Germany, and organized as part of the European Research Council Project, SMALLPLATFORMS, Facilitators: Sahana Udupa (Principal Investigator), Ira Solomatina, Job Mwaura, Craig Ryder and Neelabh Gupta (Postdoctoral Researchers), and Bastian Buitkamp (Research Associate). SMALLPLATFORMS (“Beyond the Big Tech: Contentious Speech on Small Platforms”) is a 5-year project (2025-2029) funded by the European Research Council Consolidator Grant. It explores small social media platforms in a cross-cultural context, through fieldwork in Germany, India, Kenya and the UK. Using a critical cultural model, the project explores whether and in what way forms of contentious speech are associated with practices on small platforms and how they differ from dynamics on big platforms. For more information, see https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101122348. Register for Berlin: https://www.small-platforms.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/workshop/social-media-ai-an… Register for London: https://www.small-platforms.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/workshop/social-media-ai-an… Register for Nairobi: https://www.small-platforms.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/workshop/social-media-ai-an…

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4S 2026 Toronto CfA: "Does Generative AI Flip the Script? A Look at Power and Use in Everyday Sociotechnical Practice"
by Gabriel ALCARAS 29 Apr '26

29 Apr '26

Dear colleagues, I would like to share with you a call for abstracts to panel 26 “Does Generative AI Flip the Script? A Look at Power and Use in Everyday Sociotechnical Practice”. We welcome empirical contributions focusing on professional, domestic, or everyday uses of generative AI systems, as well as on situations involving workarounds, limited adoption, or refusal. The panel engages with the notion of the script in STS and the challenges GenAI poses to it, asking how processes of scripting and de-scription are being reconfigured. The panel description is below. Please reach out with any questions at gabriel.alcaras(a)sciencespo.fr. All the best, Gabriel --- *Does Generative AI Flip the Script? A Look at Power and Use in Everyday Sociotechnical Practice* *Gabriel Alcaras, Sciences Po; Donato Ricci, Sciences Po* Open Panel #26 This panel asks whether generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) calls for a rethinking of a foundational STS concept: the script (Akrich, 1992). Drawing on a cinematographic analogy, classic analyses of scripts showed how designers inscribe values and frameworks of action into technical artifacts, which users then perform and reinterpret in practice, much as actors work from a scenario. GenAI calls this tradition into question. Academics from different fields have suggested that it differs in kind from scripted artifacts: computer scientists call them General Purpose Technology (Eloundou et al., 2024), STS scholars emphasize their “task-agnostic” character and the absence of a clearly delimited program of action (Schulz-Schaeffer, 2025), while Labour Process Theorists describe them as a “universal machine,” capable of scriptless absorption of human capacities (Steinhoff, 2024). The study of actual uses and practices is decisive for understanding what becomes of scripts in the era of GenAI. Do scripts still meaningfully structure action? Are they operating through new forms of encoding and prescription? Does GenAI shift the burden of scripting onto users, who must repeatedly specify tasks? Or does its apparent unscripted nature open space for creative or subversive uses? More generally, what does de-scription mean for GenAI? This panel contributes to current STS debates and the 4S Technopower theme by asking whether generative AI reconfigures how power is enacted in everyday sociotechnical practice. We invite empirical contributions that document how these questions unfold across professional, domestic, and everyday uses of GenAI. Papers may focus on concrete enactments of these systems, as well as on situations of limited use, circumvention, or refusal. We particularly welcome studies centered on minority groups or practices. Contributions may also engage with methodological challenges, proposing inventive or participatory approaches that privilege the perspectives of users and workers over dominant accounts aligned with tech firms and corporate hype. The deadline for submitting proposals is April 30, 2026. Submissions can be made via the 4S website at https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_toronto.php <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.4sonline.org_accep…> --- --- Gabriel Alcaras Postdoc Researcher - Ecologies of LLMs Practices (EL2MP) https://ecologiesofllm.medialab.sciencespo.fr/ médialab - Sciences Po

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REMINDER - Invitation: Webinar on LGBTQ+ Digital Resistance in Hungary (5th May 2026)
by Anna Zsubori 29 Apr '26

29 Apr '26

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. --- You are warmly invited to join us for an upcoming webinar featuring Mariann Filó (activist, psychologist & Budapest Pride organiser), Ádám András Kanicsár (activist, journalist & social media expert), and Joci Márton (Roma LGBTQ+ activist) on Hungarian LGBTQ+ citizens' use of social media. This event is chaired by Dr Anna Zsubori and draws on research conducted during her British Academy-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Loughborough University. --- Sites of Hostility and Resistance: Navigating the Digital LGBTQ+ Public Sphere in Hungary 📅 Date: 5th May 2026 🕠 Time: 5pm-7.30pm (UK time) 📍 Registration: This event is FREE to attend, but registration is essential. To book your place, please email: a.zsubori(a)lboro.ac.uk<mailto:a.zsubori@lboro.ac.uk> 🎤 About the event: Various digital media platforms in illiberal contexts function as a complex double-edged sword. In Hungary, they often act as additional channels for illiberal attitudes, amplifying state-sponsored negative sentiments. Yet, these same spaces remain vital for the expression of liberal views and resistance. This session explores this tension, focusing on how social media spaces have become sites of both systemic hostility and profound resistance for LGBTQ+ communities in Hungary. We will be joined by Hungarian guest speakers who will discuss the lived reality of navigating this digital environment. The discussion will cover the online and offline consequences of the regime’s anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, as well as the state-encouraged harassment. Beyond victimisation, our speakers will highlight the diverse strategies of resistance, exploring how marginalised groups utilise digital media to build counter-narratives, maintain community safety, and challenge the illiberal status quo. The session features a panel of individuals at the forefront of this struggle, including activists, journalists, and individuals with direct lived experience of digital victimisation. By bringing together those who document these harms and those who experience them, this webinar aims to provide a nuanced understanding of how political communication in an illiberal regime translates into real-world harm, and how resistance persists in the face of structural exclusion. This webinar will be of interest to academics across communication, digital media, gender and LGBTQ+ studies, human rights, and political science, as well as non-academic audiences interested in the lived realities of LGBTQ+ minorities and their digital experiences. 💸 The event is supported by the British Academy and Loughborough University. Looking forward to seeing you there! Also, feel free to circulate this invitation! All the best, Anna Dr Anna Zsubori, FHEA<https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/communication-media/staff/anna-zsubori/?fb…> (she/her) British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow<https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships/past-a…> Participant of the inaugural British Academy Elevate Programme, 2025/26 Cohort<https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/early-career-researcher-network/british…> School of Social Sciences and Humanities Loughborough University Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK E: a.zsubori(a)lboro.ac.uk<mailto:yl304@le.ac.uk>

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query on publishers agreements for AI-related licensing
by Philippa Smith 28 Apr '26

28 Apr '26

Dear AOIR members, I'm curious to know whether any of you have experience with publishers offering you to sign an opt-in agreement for an AI-related licensing concerning your publications with them. This is a new experience for me and while it promises the opportunity for some compensation (royalty payment of 20% of net receipts attributable to my work) as a result of companies wishing to licence publishers' content in the development and provision of generative AI technologies, I've heard differing views about the pros and cons of signing. I'd be interested in any feedback you might offer to help me make my decision. But I am sure that this is also of interest to the wider AOIR community and the future use of their published outputs. Thanking you in advance. Philippa Smith, PhD https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippa-smith-nz/

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