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CFP 4S 2025, (Un/Re)Making Gendered Platforms
by Zhou, Nini 05 Jan '25

05 Jan '25

Dear everyone, We are now calling for submission to our panel "(Un/Re)Making Gendered Platforms" at 4S 2025 (September 3-7, 2025, Seattle WA). This traditional open panel curates a set of research presentations to discuss how digital platforms become gendered through different processes. The aim is to show how platforms are shaped by economic and political factors, human labor, and power structures in different contexts, while also exploring the potential social and cultural consequences of these dynamics. Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 January 2025 To submit, please go to the 4S submission page and select Open Panel #78 "(Un/Re)Making Gendered Platforms" https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_s…<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_se…> Abstract: Digital platforms have never been a gender-neutral space, not only in the sense that they bring different experiences to people of different gender identities, but also because it has been structured in gendered ways—no matter it’s the gender imbalance existing in technology design teams, the gender-specific target audience segmentation, or third-parties’ involvement in reinforcing gender norms. Its gendered structures have also been further complicated by users’ actions. Instead of accepting gendered platforms as a default design, we encourage presentations to think of platforms as a cultural form that embodies larger social and political structures. We hope to initiate a discussion that investigates the gendering of platforms in various processes, including but not limited to technological design (such as binary data coding and algorithm design), audience segmentation, content censorship, business models, and platform-mediated digital identity construction. Aside from looking into the structures, we also encourage presentations to discuss the legitimacy and potential consequences of platforms being gendered. We pledge for rigorous discussions on questions including but not limited to: What does it mean to be gendered? Would it provide more possibilities, or does it reinforce the exclusion or the separation? Also, what political or economic consequences could it bring to our world and how could we deduct such a causality? In short, we call for efforts that examine the evidence, mechanisms, and potential social consequences of the gendering processes of digital platforms. By bringing together cases of specific platforms from different political, cultural, and historical settings, we wish to contribute to clarify how digital platforms become gendered without overgeneralizing or oversimplifying the processes, how analyses of the gendering of platforms could help us to understand broader social and political structures in different contexts, as well as provide the opportunities to look into marginalized cases, which are likely to provide alternative solutions. If you have any questions, please contact: Nini Zhou, University of Illinois, niniz2(a)illinois.edu<mailto:niniz2@illinois.edu> Weiting Du, University of Illinois, wd12(a)illinois.edu<mailto:wd12@illinois.edu>

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19th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE 2025): Fourth Call for Papers
by Announce 05 Jan '25

05 Jan '25

*** Fourth Call for Papers *** 19th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE 2025) July 14-16, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/tase2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) OVERVIEW TASE 2025 aims to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry with interest in the theoretical aspects of software engineering. Modern society is increasingly dependent on software systems that are becoming larger and more complex. This poses new challenges to current software engineering methodologies that need to be enhanced using modern results from theoretical computer science. We invite submission of research papers on topics covering all theoretical aspects of software engineering, including those describing applications of theoretical computer science in industrial applications and software engineering methodologies. TOPICS OF INTEREST Authors are invited to submit high quality technical papers describing original and unpublished work in all theoretical aspects of software engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Software engineering, including: ■ Software processes and workflows ■ Software architectures and design ■ Software product lines ■ Requirements engineering ■ Model-driven software engineering ■ Software testing and quality assurance ■ Software safety, security and reliability ■ Reverse engineering and software maintenance ■ Component-based software engineering ■ Feature-oriented programming ■ Program synthesis ■ Use of AI and large language models in software engineering Formal methods and theoretical computer science, including: ■ Deductive verification ■ Model checking ■ Theorem proving, decision procedures, SAT and SMT ■ Specification languages ■ Program logics and calculi ■ Formal languages and automata theory ■ Run-time verification and monitoring ■ Integration of formal methods ■ Formal methods for AI systems, and vice versa Programming language design and technology, including: ■ Formal semantics ■ Abstract interpretation and program analysis ■ Language paradigms, including object-oriented, functional, declarative, etc. ■ Type systems and behavioral typing ■ Compiler design ■ Domain-specific languages Tools and application areas, including: ■ Software tools putting theory into practice ■ Cyber-physical, embedded, and real-time systems ■ Distributed and concurrent systems ■ Semantic web and web services ■ Service-oriented programming and cloud computing ■ Quantum circuits and programs ■ Cryptographic algorithms SUBMISSION Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 16 pages (excluding bibliography) for long papers and 6 pages (excluding bibliography) for short papers in LNCS format. Submissions should be made through the TASE 2025 submission page, handled by the Easy Chair conference management system. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tase2025 The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue in the journal Science of Computer Programming (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/science-of-computer-programming) IMPORTANT DATES ■ Abstract Submission: Feb 1, 2025 (AoE) ■ Paper Submission: Feb 7, 2025 (AoE) ■ Author Notification: April 1, 2025 (AoE) ■ Camera-ready Versions and Author Registration: May 1, 2025 (AoE) ORGANISATION General Chair ■ George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs ■ Philipp Rümmer, University of Regensburg, Germany ■ Zhilin Wu, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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JOB: Research Associate, Digital and Cyberspace Policy - Council on Foreign Relations
by Joly MacFie 04 Jan '25

04 Jan '25

(FYI) https://careers-cfr.icims.com/jobs/2622/research-associate%2c-digital-and-c… -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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ISOC Paper - A Policy Framework for Internet Intermediaries and Content
by Joly MacFie 04 Jan '25

04 Jan '25

(Essentially "look before you leap") https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2024/a-policy-framework-for-i… Intermediary functions are crucial to the Internet’s existence. This paper provides a framework for understanding Internet intermediary functions and developing policy concerning responsibility for online content without harming individuals’ ability to use the Internet to create content and communicate with each other. We focus on the functions performed by Internet intermediaries to facilitate online communication, such as transmitting, routing, storing, caching, hosting, securing, curating, and moderating content. This focus recognizes that many intermediaries perform multiple functions that raise differing policy issues and that many types of intermediaries offer fundamentally equivalent functions even though their services may appear quite different. Our aim in this paper is to help policymakers understand those functions and develop policy relating to them. Well-designed policies can enhance the availability, diversity, security and privacy of individual participation online. However, poorly crafted policies can weaken Internet security, harm competition, restrict online communication, widen the digital divide, and fragment the Internet. The goal is not to exempt intermediaries from responsibility but to emphasize the critical role of liability protections in enabling individual participation on the Internet. Poorly designed intermediary-focused policies can have detrimental effects on the Internet and communication. Better alternatives, such as existing privacy, consumer protection, and discrimination laws, are often available. https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2025-Policy-Fram… -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Discord data
by Anna Gjika 04 Jan '25

04 Jan '25

Hi all, Has anyone worked with data from Discord? They have the following in their ToS, and I'm curious how folks have dealt with this from a methodological/ ethics review board perspective. Thanks, Anna

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20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025): Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce 04 Jan '25

04 Jan '25

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) May 5-7, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2025.persuasivetech.org (*** Workshop proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) In a world in which technology is increasingly present in people’s lives, and changing human behavior and attitudes is often the key to solving many societal and personal problems, studying how technology might be used to influence humans (in their behavior, attitudes and information processing), is paramount. Persuasive Technology is a vibrant interdisciplinary research field, focusing on the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies aimed at influencing people’s attitudes and/or behaviors through persuasion, but not through coercion or deception. The research community aims at enriching people’s lives in various domains such as health and sustainability by supporting people in setting and achieving their own goals, thus helping them change their behavior. The 2025 conference will be hosted in Limassol, Cyprus at the 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina. The previous successful conferences have been organized in Wollongong, Limassol, Eindhoven, Stanford, Oulu, Claremont, Copenhagen, Columbus, Linköping, Sydney, Padua, Chicago, Salzburg, Amsterdam, and Waterloo. The conference series seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working with various topics of persuasive technology. SCOPE The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: • Persuasive systems’ design • Behavior change support systems • Interaction with persuasive systems, interfaces, visualization • Interactive agents in persuasive systems • (Generative) AI for persuasive technology • Tailored and personalized persuasion • Gamification for persuasion • Evaluation and validation of persuasive applications • Fitting methods for development, evaluation and implementation of persuasive systems • Optimizing engagement with persuasive systems • Software architectures and technical infrastructures for persuasive systems • Smart environments, e.g. IoT, and persuasion • Digital Marketing, eCommerce, eTourism and SMART ecosystems • Motivational, cognitive and perceptual factors in persuasive technology • Application domains for persuasive technologies such as safety, healthy living, sustainable behaviors, learning and training, marketing and commerce, work environments, organizations • Positive technology • Humanizing and/or dehumanizing effects of persuasive technology • Values and ethics in persuasive technology • Privacy, perceived security and trust in persuasive technology • Resilience and counter-persuasion • Detecting persuasive strategies in social media posts • Encouraging adherence to safety measures in pandemic situations Questions that we hope to be addressed include, but are not limited to: • How to recognize and demonstrate the real life effects of persuasive technology on people’s attitudes and behaviours? • How to conduct studies that not just show their effectiveness but are also able to explain in more detail why a design or intervention works? • How to design an evaluation study so that it yields insights that are applicable to other designs or interventions? • How theoretical insight can help improve application and/or intervention planning and design? • How can design and intervention studies improve theory? WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Workshops are meant to gather a number of people to work interactively on an emerging topic and exchange ideas. Approved workshops will be announced on the conference website. Workshops will take place during a half- or full-day session before the conference. If you want to organize a workshop, please submit a proposal as a maximum 4-page description in Springer LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) including a description of the topic, motivation, organization (including the list of organizing members, how the organizers will form a program committee), duration of the workshop, expected outcome, and supporting materials (if applicable). Accepted workshop papers will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS (pending approval). Alternatively, the workshop organisers have the option of publishing the accepted papers to their workshops in CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html) Workshop organisers must commit to creating their Call for Papers and their website within one week of the notification. Please email your proposal by January 10, 2025, to the workshop chairs: Wenzhen Xu (wenzhen.xu AT r.hit-u.ac.jp), Rhoda Abadia (Rhoda.Abadia AT unisa.edu.au), and Kaoru Sumi (kaoru.sumi AT acm.org) The organizing committee will review the proposals and communicate the results by January 17, 2025. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop and tutorial proposals: • Submission deadline: January 10, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: January 17, 2025 Workshop papers submission: • Submission deadline: March 1, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: March 15, 2025 • Camera ready and author registration: March 28, 2025 ORGANISATION General Chairs • Evangelos Karapanos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Raian Ali, HBKU, Qatar • Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia Demo, Poster and Artefacts • Ruben Hgouveia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal • Hanne Spelt, Philips, Netherlands Workshops and Tutorial Chairs • Rhodora Abadia, University of South Australia, Australia • Kaoru Sumi, Future University of Hakodate, Japan • Wenzhen Xu, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Doctoral Consortium Chairs • Sriram Iyengar, University of of Arizona, USA • Roberto Legaspi, KDDI, Japan • Shahla Meedya, Australian Catholic University, Australia Proceedings Chairs • Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong, Australia • Kiemute Oyibo, University of York, Canada Society for Persuasion and Technology Steering Committee • Raian Ali – Chair Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar • Luca Chittaro – General Member Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Udine, Italy • Roberto Legaspi – General Member Research Scientist, Collaborative AI Lab, Human-centered AI Laboratories KDDI Research, Inc., Japan • Harri Oinas-Kukkonen – General Member Professor, Information Systems Science and Dean of Graduate School, University of Oulu, Finland • Kiemute Oyibo – General Member Assistant Professor, Interactive Systems Research Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Canada • Khin Than Win – Secretary Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia

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Essay: A linkless internet - Collin Jennings
by Joly MacFie 03 Jan '25

03 Jan '25

https://aeon.co/essays/when-ai-summaries-replace-hyperlinks-thought-itself-… *The web represents the largest assembled repository of collective memory, both in the individual web pages hosted and in the links that allow users to traverse them. How will this repository be supported and developed if users rarely make it past the homepages of Google or ChatGPT?* -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Survey on Researchers' use of social media and algorithmic data
by Beatrice Cannelli 03 Jan '25

03 Jan '25

Hello All, This is an invitation to participate in a study on "Researchers' use of social media and algorithmic data". The aim of this survey is to explore how researchers work with social media and algorithmic data, mapping current research practices and methodologies used to collect, analyse and manage the data. This includes projects where social media and algorithmic data are used alongside other sources of evidence. Link to the survey: https://forms.office.com/e/wVs2QUARRE We expect the survey to take no more than 10 minutes. The survey will remain open until 20 February 2025. All responses will be kept confidential. We would also greatly appreciate your help in sharing this invitation with any colleagues you think could be interested in participating in the study. Thank you in advance for your contribution. Kind regards, Beatrice Cannelli Curatorial and Policy Research Officer | Algorithmic Archive Project Bodleain Libraries Wenston Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX13BG Email: beatrice.cannelli(a)bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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CFP 4S 2025, Indigenous politics of digitalizing extraction
by Ryan Burns 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Hello all, Please see below for our call for abstract submissions to our 4S open panel. Note the deadline at the end of this month. 4S conference date and location: September 3-7, 2025, Seattle WA Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2025 To submit, please go to the 4S submission page<https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_seattle.php> and select Open Panel #38. We note that you may need to create a user account prior to submitting. Panel title Indigenous politics of digitalizing extraction: contradictions, decolonialities, and modes of accumulation Convenors Ryan Burns, rlburns(a)uw.edu Eliot Tretter, etretter(a)ucalgary.ca Dafne da Silva Araujo, dafne.araujo(a)ucalgary.ca Short abstract of fewer than 300 characters The extractive industries are increasingly automated, remote, and digital. Efforts to understand the implications of this socio-technical shift have insufficiently attended to Indigenous lives, epistemologies, and political economies. This panel moderates a dialogue regarding Indigenized impacts of 4th industrial revolution extractivism. Long abstract of fewer than 300 words. Include a brief discussion of its contribution to the field. STS research has long shown that natural resource extraction uniquely impacts Indigenous lives, knowledges, lands, and political economies. Historically, legal orders of colonizers have claimed sovereign rights to land, resources, and ways of knowing over and against the claims of Indigenous peoples. Yet, enrolling colonial subjects in the processes of extraction is increasingly necessary for firms nowadays. As extraction becomes increasingly digitalized – automated, saturated with sensors, guided at all stages by AI, and – extraction’s impacts on Indigenous communities are likely to shift and are not sufficiently considered in the literature to date. During the late 20th century, Indigenous communities increasingly bargained with resource firms to provide laborers and services to what were commonly the remote sites of extraction. These may be “left behind” as work becomes more remote, or alternatively, these jobs may increase as firms are forced to rework other jobs. Still, Indigenous epistemologies may become more incommensurate with digital infrastructures, or corporate financial and investment strategies may find depreciated fiscal benefits for local groups. Further, Indigenous paradigms can help inform and guide a reconceptualization of digital extraction, and highlight the pressing material consequences of research in this area. This panel aims to provide space for researchers thinking about (1) How STS can (re)conceive digitalized resource extraction, particularly in the ways digital infrastructures shape, enclose, and operationalize Indigenous knowledge? (2) How are Indigenous communities, epistemologies, and political economies implicated in the digitalization of extraction? (3) What political strategies show promise toward resisting extractive neocolonialism, empowering Indigenous communities, and doing decolonial research “otherwise”? We seek to platform a dialogue with activists, community members, and scholars working on extraction’s shifting impacts on Indigenous lives, knowledges, and political economies, and the ways in which political strategies may shift accordingly. Please feel free to reach out to me if you have questions about this panel, but questions about the platform, submission process, and conference should be directed to 4s conference staff. With happy new year wishes, Ryan Burns -- Ryan Burns, PhD, FRCGS University of Calgary University of Washington Bothell Vice-chair, Digital Geographies Specialty Group of the AAG https://burnsr77.github.io/ He/his pronouns The University of Calgary is located in southern Alberta on the traditional territories of the Treaty 7 peoples--Blackfoot Confederacy (comprised of the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations). The City of Calgary is also home to the Metis Nation, Region 3. I am privileged, grateful, and indebted to be allowed to work within these lands.

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CFP: 4S Open Panel: TECH/MONEY
by M.R.Sauter 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

hello! apologies for cross posting BUT i am delighted to announce the call for papers for our open panel on the theme of Tech/Money, as part of the 2025 4S conference. the organizers are particularly interested in the work of comm and media studies scholars as related to this theme. Conference date + location: 3-7 September 2025, Seattle WA CFP due date: 31 January 2025 to submit, please go to the 4S submission page and select Open Panel #170 "Tech/Money" https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php 4S 2025/Seattle Open Panel #170: Tech/Money https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_seattle.php ABSTRACT: This open panel is themed on “Tech/Money,” highlighting a materialist, political economy approach to science and technology studies. We seek work that emphasizes an understanding of the role played by money, financing, and business structures in the study of technology and science. Moving beyond an economic analysis, this work should highlight the role of capital and finance’s movements, norms, and infrastructures in animating science and technology, inflecting and directing the performance of these spaces and their own ideologies, imaginaries, and infrastructures. We are interested in exploring the constitutive nature of money, finance, funding, and business models in the development of technologies and technosocial/technopolitical landscapes. Some sub-themes are of particular interest include: temporalities of money, finance, and speculation; imaginaries of risk, particularly financialized risk; the role of the “frontier” (geographic, political, intellectual) in the technocapitalist imaginary and its influence on the practices of firms; the connected lives of “money,” “innovation,” and “science”; and the social meanings of money and markets in science. We hope to engage with a variety of methods in this project, with the particular hope that contributors will strongly engage with the local. Dealing unapologetically with ways in which the global logics of technocapital are often chewed up, altered, and digested by the specificities of the local context provides an opportunity to examine the tensions of resistance, collaboration, collusion, adaptation, and imitations, and enmeshment that often accompany these projects. We are keen on work that engages with the business to business sector, which concretizes and makes visible formerly abstract, hidden, or obscured processes and relationships. We are also interested in work that uses corporate grey materials such as annual reports, financial filings, public consultation publications, and other materials from the cultural circuit of capital, such as expos, conferences, industry publications, and other “in-group” communications. please contact the panel chair with any questions M. R. Sauter, University of Maryland, mrsauter(a)umd.edu -- m.r. sauter he/they assistant professor university of maryland http://oddletters.com/

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