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new book - Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist imaginaries and the politics of digital technologies
by Elisabetta Ferrari 19 Nov '24

19 Nov '24

Hello Air-Listers, I’m happy to announce that my book "Appropriate, negotiate, challenge: Activist imaginaries and the politics of digital technologies" is out today from University of California Press. >From the back cover: Activists use digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and organize for social change. But these big corporate digital platforms are also used to spread disinformation, racism, and abuse. Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge investigates the relationship between activism and technology, focusing on how activists think and talk about technology’s role in social change and what this tells us about the politics of digital technologies. Researching movements in Italy, Hungary, and the United States, Elisabetta Ferrari examines how leftist activists construct technological imaginaries that appropriate, negotiate, and challenge Silicon Valley’s vision of technology. She argues that these imaginaries reflect and shape the politics of social movements: they matter for how activists think about their political possibilities. Ultimately, Ferrari centers the political and imaginative work that activists need to perform in order to navigate the politics of mainstream digital technologies. "A fresh and innovative approach to connecting technological imaginaries with social movements. Elisabetta Ferrari uses canonical influences to reinvent how we approach the question of mobilization. This book is a compelling and inspiring take on how mobilization becomes digitally remediated."—Zizi Papacharissi, author of After Democracy: Imagining Our Political Future "A timely book that renews and deepens discussions on digital technologies and social justice activism. Moving beyond hype around social media, Ferrari skillfully offers empirically rich and conceptually rigorous insights on activists' imaginaries as well as the value of media technologies for activism and possibilities for creating change. A must-read for everyone interested in media and social movements."—Tina Askanius, Professor in Media and Communication Studies, Malmö University "Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge is bold and imaginative scholarship. Ferrari provides fresh perspectives and rich data, illustrating how activist movements grapple with and ultimately make sense of the digital technologies they deploy. You will learn a lot from this book."—David Karpf, author of The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy Elisabetta Ferrari is an AIAS-AUFF Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. www.ucpress.edu/books/appropriate-negotiate-challenge/ All my best, Elisabetta Elisabetta Ferrari, Ph.D. AIAS-AUFF Fellow Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University eferrari(a)aias.au.dk https://elisabettaferrariphd.com/ pronouns: she/her

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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Job at Michigan State University
by Rabindra Ratan ♬ 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

Hi All, I’m excited to announce that the Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University is hiring one Advanced Assistant, Associate or Full Professor. We invite applicants who complement and expand our dynamic and interdisciplinary faculty. Our department is home to a range of faculty from different disciplines and supports an array of research areas, including human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, rural computing, game studies and design, and the relationships between technology and policy, health and wellness, and society. Candidates should contribute to or expand one or more of these areas, through the use of computational and/or quantitative approaches. Full details on the position are available here: https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/521080/assistantassociatefull-professor-t… Any questions can be directed to our search chair, Amanda Cote < acote(a)msu.edu>. Thanks, Robby p.s. If you know anyone applying for PhD programs who is interested in avatars, virtual meetings, XR, and human-ai interaction, please feel free to send them this advice on applying to our program/my lab (SPARTIE Lab <https://www.spartie.org/robbys-advice/interested-in-phd-with-robbyspartie-l…> ). ____ ___ __ _ Rabindra (Robby) Ratan Associate Professor and AT&T Endowed Chair Director, SPARTIE Lab, Department of Media & Information Michigan State University Visiting Scholar, Virtual Human Interaction Lab Stanford University ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ ‾‾‾‾‾ ‾‾‾ ‾

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Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World (Palgrave) book launch, THIS THURSDAY 21st November, 16-17.30 (GMT) (online)
by Sam Hind 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

*A reminder: This Thursday* Dear colleagues AIR-L members may be interested in the upcoming event: Sam Hind (University of Manchester) will be in conversation with Alex Gekker (University of Amsterdam) on Thursday 21st November, 16-17.30 (GMT) to launch his new book, Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World<https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1749-1> (Palgrave). The event is supported by the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media<https://www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/>. To sign-up to the (online) event, follow the link: https://www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_eDqtLrOJ5Cl7nNA A Zoom link will be sent prior to the event. Any questions feel free to email: sam.hind(a)manchester.ac.uk. About the book Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World examines the phenomenon of autonomous driving, and the ongoing, complex, costly, and contentious quest to automate driving. Principally organized around the concept of algorithmic decision-making, the book considers how different mapping, sensing, and machine learning (ML)-dependent capabilities are gifted to autonomous vehicles through different kinds of technical work: from computer science students annotating visual data in industry-funded research centres to software engineers designing ‘end-to-end’ ML models at autonomous vehicle start-ups. The book intends to complicate, and question, typical understandings of autonomous driving by going ‘under the hood’, challenging the technological determinism or ‘decisionism’ that advocates offer of an inevitable, fully automated, future. Drawing on seven years of research in a range of empirical contexts, the book will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of science and technology studies, media studies, digital sociology, human geography, and mobilities and transport studies. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-1749-1 - Sam Hind<http://samhind.com> Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Programme Director, MA Digital Media, Culture and Society<https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/masters/courses/list/20641/ma-digital-me…> University of Manchester, UK office hours sign-up: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/SHOfficeHours latest article (2024): from united steel to waymo: industrializing simulation https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-02051-6 latest book (2024): driving decisions: how autonomous vehicles make sense of the world (palgrave) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1749-1 driving decisions book launch (online), 21 Nov (16-17.30GMT): https://x.com/samhind10/status/1849452687655399877

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Platypus call for Contributing Editors
by Kim Fernandes 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

Dear AoIR community, I'm the incoming Managing Editor for Platypus--an STS and anthro of science/tech blog--and we're recruiting new Contributing Editors and Multimodal Contributing Editors for next year. Please find below the call, and feel free to share widely in your networks. If any of you are interested in applying, I'm more than happy to answer any questions if you'd like to reach out to me off-list, too! -- Platypus<https://blog.castac.org/>, the official blog of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing<https://castac.org/> and one of the leading anthropology blogs, invites applications for the positions of Contributing Editor and Multimodal Contributing Editor. We seek motivated scholars who work at the intersection of anthropology and STS, broadly understood. Platypus promotes dialogue on theories, tools, and social interactions that explore questions at the intersection of anthropology and science and technology studies. Through the blog, we aim to build a thriving discourse among a community of scholars concerned about the implications of science, technologized products, and worldviews for human beings and other forms of life. Our approach is interdisciplinary and inclusive. If you’re interested in writing and curating blog posts, and/or are a multimedia/multimodal ethnographer, artist, or practitioner who makes or curates films, photography, comics, music, audiovisual pieces, poetry, or other experimental forms of ethnographic content, we’d love to have you on board. Details for both CE and MCEs: * One-year renewable term, beginning January 1, 2025. * Working with a great team of volunteers from around the world committed to accessibility and inclusivity. * While the topical and geographic area is open, we are especially eager for applications from contributors whose research interests engage with STS in the Global South and those who work with marginalized communities. * We also welcome critical scholarship that engages with issues of inequality, racism, ableism, classism, sexism, homo/transphobia, and other forms of systemic discrimination and marginalization as it intersects with questions of science and technology. * Candidates from outside North America and international scholars are encouraged to apply. * Support for authors needing additional help with English editing is available. * Please note that as CASTAC is an entirely volunteer-run organization, we are unable to offer compensation for these positions. Qualifications: * A professional and/or academic interest in STS and anthropology. * Competence with digital media. * Strong communication and organizational skills. * Capacity to work independently and meet deadlines Responsibilities – Contributing Editor (CE): * Curate 4-5 posts per year from guest authors. * Occasionally author blog posts. * Supervise the editorial and production process. * Complete general and accessibility training modules. * Follow internal publication protocols in a timely manner. * Maintain a high standard of accessibility in blog content. Responsibilities – Multimodal Contributing Editor (MCE): * MCEs will create or curate a minimum of two multimedia/modal blog posts that engage with the anthropology of science and technology and/or STS (examples include this visual storyboard<https://blog.castac.org/2024/06/what-will-be-lost-a-cat-a-man-with-a-horse-…>, this series of audio ethnographies<https://blog.castac.org/2024/02/audio-ethnographies-of-water-from-latin-ame…>, this exploration of biotechnology through a tarot deck<https://blog.castac.org/2024/07/cards-and-codes-spirituality-and-magic-in-t…>, this illustrated narrative piece<https://blog.castac.org/2024/03/bed-time-storytelling/>, and this comic<https://blog.castac.org/2024/09/the-practice-of-not-knowing/>). * Complete general and accessibility training modules. * Follow internal publication protocols in a timely manner. * Maintain a high standard of accessibility in blog content. * We will also accept applications from two-person teams who wish to work together in this position. Application The following application materials should be sent to editor(a)castac.org<mailto:editor@castac.org> by December 5, 2024: * CV * One-page cover letter that outlines the applicant’s interests in relation to the blog’s mission and any related previous experience. For MCE applicants, please also briefly outline at least one potential project. Candidates will be notified by December 9, 2024. For further information about the blog and the position, please visit our website<https://blog.castac.org/> or reach out to editor(a)castac.org<mailto:editor@castac.org>. Warmly (and with apologies for cross-posting), -- Kim Fernandes<http://kimfernandes.com> (they/them/theirs) Data & Society<https://datasociety.net/> and Center for Information, Technology & Public Life<https://citap.unc.edu/> Affiliate Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Information University of Toronto

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COMPTEXT 2025 - Call for Papers, deadline: January 15, 2025
by Aytalina Kulichkina 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

Dear AoIR Community, We are pleased to share the Call for Papers, Panels, and Data Presentations for COMPTEXT 2025 in Vienna on April 24-26, 2025. https://www.comptextconference.org/7th-annual-comptext-conference-2025/ The submission deadline is January 15, 2025. As usual, an exciting line-up of tutorials is also shaping up for the first day of the conference. Please direct any questions to comptext25(a)comptextconference.org. We are looking forward to meeting you next year at the University of Vienna! Best regards, Lina on behalf of the organisers

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Fwd: Reminder & Deadline Extension: Call for Contributions & Invitation: 18th Interdisciplinary Workshop “Privacy, Data Protection & Surveillance”, 10 December 2024, Berlin
by André Ramiro 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

Dear members, FYI ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jörg Pohle <joerg.pohle(a)hiig.de> Date: Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 12:01 PM Subject: Reminder & Deadline Extension: Call for Contributions & Invitation: 18th Interdisciplinary Workshop “Privacy, Data Protection & Surveillance”, 10 December 2024, Berlin To: Jörg Pohle <joerg.pohle(a)hiig.de> Dear participants in past workshops, I would like to remind you of our call for contributions for and invitation to our 18th interdisciplinary workshop “Privacy, Data Protection & Surveillance”, which will take place on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin *CfP and registration*: https://www.hiig.de/en/events/xviiith-interdisciplinary-workshop -privacy-data-protection-surveillance/ *Extended Deadline*: Monday, November 25, 2024 *Date and location* 10 December 2024 12:00pm – 6:00pm Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Französische Str. 9 10117 Berlin *Call for contributions* With this workshop, we want to offer particularly young researchers the opportunity to present and discuss current research work from the very broad and diverse research field of privacy, surveillance, and data protection in an interdisciplinary environment. We welcome article and dissertation projects, theoretical and empirical work, analyses as well as proposed solutions from all disciplines – and it may explicitly be work in progress. In addition to the discussion of open research questions, the workshop will particularly focus on the critical reflection of the participants’ own research premises, school(s) of thought, and discipline(s). Personalisation, whether of advertising, content, products, or medicine, is a growing trend – or perhaps hype – across many areas, claiming to focus on addressing individual needs, preferences, and behaviours. Whether a trend or hype, what is characteristic of personalization is the need for data on these needs, preferences, and behaviours, along with the constant demand for more and increasingly detailed data. This hunger for data is not the only dark side of personalization. There are public and academic discussions surrounding personalised disinformation and manipulation, echo chambers and filter bubbles, discrimination, and the loss of diversity. How can the undesirable implications of increasing personalisation be addressed in theory and practice? Are these even data-induced implications that can be solved through regulatory, ethical, or practical approaches to data? *Participation* If you are interested in attending the event, please fill in our registration form at the bottom of this page by Monday, November 25 (extended!), 2024 at the latest, indicating whether you would like to attend as a listener or as a speaker. Speakers are asked to provide a title and an extended abstract (approx. 800 words) of the presentation, which should last max. 15 minutes. You are also welcome to provide information about your disciplines, areas of interest, and research interests. Within the general topic, you are completely free to choose your subject and to set a focus for your presentation, even beyond our proposed focus. The workshop program will be sent to all registered participants by December 3, 2024. We are very much looking forward to your participation and contribution. *Timeline* *25 November 2024*: Registration and submission deadline *(extended)* 26 November 2024: Notification to submitters 3 December 2024: Workshop programme *10 December 2024: Workshop* Unfortunately, we cannot reimburse travel or accommodation expenses. If you have any questions, please contact: joerg.pohle(a)hiig.de Please feel free to distribute this CfP in your networks. Kind regards, Jörg -- Recent publications: - Dietrich, M., & Pohle, J. (2024). Robot Design for Social Intervenability. In: *NordiCHI '24: Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction*. https://doi.org/10.1145/3679318.3685392. - Pohle, J., & Hügel, S. (2024), Datenschutz überall – außer in der Praxis? Editorial zum Schwerpunkt. *FIfF-Kommunikation*, 41. Jg., H. 3, S. 29–31. - Pohle, J., Fischbach, R., & Lenk, K. (Hrsg.) (2024), Die gesellschaftliche Macht digitaler Technologien: Zwischen Wellen technologischen Überschwangs und den Mühen der Ebenen. Marburg: Metropolis-Verlag. https://www.metropolis-verlag.de/1565/book.do. - Blanchard, E., Bouhamidi, M., & Pohle, J. (2024), A primer to the nuances of authorisation, authentication, and identification. In: Eynard, J., & Macilotti, G. (eds.), *L’identité numérique en construction. Quels enjeux et quels modèles?*, Luxembourg: Larcier-Intersentia. https://www.larcier-intersentia.com/en/l-identite-numerique-construction-97… . Dr. Jörg Pohle Head of Research Programme | Actors, Data and Infrastructures Project Manager | Global Privacy Governance Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft gGmbH Französische Straße 9 · 10117 Berlin T +49 30 200 760 82 · F +49 30 206 089 60 · www.hiig.de · Twitter <https://twitter.com/hiig_berlin> · Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/hiigberlin/> · LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/school/hiigberlin/> Gesellschaftssitz Berlin | Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg | HRB 140911B | USt-ID DE 291 151 171 Forschungsdirektorium: Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann (Geschäftsführung) · Prof. Dr. Björn Scheuermann · Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schildhauer · Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz | Geschäftsführung: Dr. Karina Preiß -- *André Ramiro* PhD Candidate in Informational and Public Law at Hamburg University. Stanford University's Digital Civil Society Lab Fellow - Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) (24-25). Fellow Researcher at Weizenbaum Institute - "Technology, Power, and Domination" Research Group (23). Visiting Researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society - Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Fellow (22-23). Member of LAVITS - Latin American Network of Surveillance, Technology and Society Studies. Co-Founder of IP.rec - Law and Technology Research Institute of Recife.

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‘Behind the Scenes’ online talk series, session 13: Robyn Caplan
by J.C. Vieira Magalhaes 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

Dear all, Next Tuesday (26th November), our ‘Behind the Scenes’ online talk series will host Robyn Caplan (Duke University), who will discuss her approach to studying platform governance from multiple empirical perspectives. This is an unmissable opportunity for both established and emerging researchers to hear from one of the most original thinkers in this field. We hope to see many of you there! See the details below and register for free here: https://platform-governance.org/online-talk-series/session-13-robyn-caplan-… João, also on behalf of Christian and Paloma — Time and Date: November 26, 2024, 3-4 pm (CET, Berlin time) Studying Networked Platform Governance: A Multi-Perspective Approach Platform companies, like Facebook, Google, and Twitter have been repeatedly critiqued in the past for their unilateral approach to content governance, and their lack of transparency around the setting and enforcement of content policies. Their importance within the public sphere (van Dijck, 2012) has led scholars like Gillespie (2018) to “share the tools to govern collectively” (p. 212). But there has been little research examining whether, and how, platforms acknowledge the dynamic relationship that often exists within these companies, with their users, and with those on the outside. Understanding these dynamics in the lens of networked governance (Sørenson & Torfing, 2005; Caplan, 2023) enables us to see the ways that interdependence – between platforms, users, governments, media, and other networked actors – shapes the regulation of expression. This talk will be a reflection on Robyn Caplan’s multi-perspective approach to studying platforms, and will highlight the importance of triangulation when it comes to studying networked actors. This talk will give an overview of Caplan’s research (touching on research on platform personnel, media associations, online creators, civil society actors) and will explore the theoretical grounding of using multiple perspectives to study platforms. Presenting Author Robyn Caplan is an Assistant Professor of Tech Policy at Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, and a Senior Lecturing Fellow at the Center for Science and Society. She is a research affiliate at Data & Society Research Institute, where she was a Senior Researcher studying media policy and platform governance. About the Series This talk is part of the series Behind the Scenes – Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research <https://platform-governance.org/online-talk-series/> that invites scholars in this field to share their experiences and views, fostering community exchange about how we can study platform governance in this challenging context. It is hosted by the Lab “Platform Governance, Media, and Technology” (PGMT) at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), <https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/zemki> University of Bremen, and the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies <https://www.rug.nl/research/icog/research/research-centres/centre-for-journ…>, University of Groningen. -- João C. Magalhães Assistant Professor in Media, Politics and Democracy University of Groningen | Centre for Media and Journalism Studies https://jcmagalhaes.com/ Selected publications: Governance by technological design, a critique <https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781800887206/book-part-9781800…>, 2024 (Handbook of Media and Communication Governance) | A history of objectionability in Twitter’s moderation practices <https://academic.oup.com/joc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/joc/jqad015/720476…>, 2023 (Journal of Communication, w/ Emillie de Keulenaar, Bharath Ganesh) | Social media, social unfreedom <https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2022-0040/html>, 2022 (Communications, w/ Jun Yu) | Big Tech, data colonialism and the reconfiguration of social good <https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15995>, 2021(International Journal of Communication, w/ Nick Couldry) | Algorithmic visibility and bottom-up authoritarianism in the Brazilian crisis <http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/4042/>, 2019 (PhD, LSE) | Considering algorithmic ethical subjectivation <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305118768301>, 2018 (Social Media + Society)

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CFP: ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) - July 2025 - Toronto
by Wong, Richmond Y 17 Nov '24

17 Nov '24

ACM COMPASS 2025, hosted at the University of Toronto, invites interdisciplinary research on sustainability with a focus on how computing and moves toward sustainability are embedded in and shaped by specific local contexts—computing in place. Rooted in the broader discourse of sustainability but also open to questioning its prevailing narratives, COMPASS welcomes work that critically examines how technology intersects with social, environmental, and economic systems. This year's theme encourages a deeper, situated perspective on how technological practices emerge as solutions, but also contributors to the complexities they claim to address. COMPASS draws from a wide array of disciplines: computer and information sciences, social sciences, critical geography, environmental studies, economics, climate studies, and engineering. We aim to foster a discussion that interrogates not only the potentials but also the limitations of technology-led interventions in sustainability. This includes research that explores power dynamics, inequality, and extraction—how technology might reinforce or disrupt existing systems. We encourage work from activists, worker advocates, and indigenous scholars, alongside those studying topics such as labour movements, climate adaptation, and the ethics of sustainability practices. COMPASS values research that brings forth the often-unseen political and material consequences of digital infrastructure in shaping futures. COMPASS explicitly promotes multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary research and practice that address key challenges for sustainable societies including, but not limited to, equity, health, education, poverty, accessibility, conservation, climate change, energy, infrastructure and economic growth. We also welcome research on the ethics of technology, especially from a critical perspective, that explores limitations and concerns with technology-led solutions for sustainable societies. COMPASS also has a particular commitment to approaches and research that address the challenges faced by under-represented and marginalized communities. The theme of the conference will be Computing in Place. We also invite submissions that speak to that theme and/or contribute to one or more of the following areas: * Systems and IoT for Sustainable Societies * HCI, Design and Critical Perspectives * AI, ML and Data Science for Sustainable Societies * Development, Economics and Policy * Environment, Sustainability and Climate Change * Technology, Media, and Social Practice ==Papers CFP== In our papers track, we welcome a variety of submission types, including deployment experiences, practitioner reports, user studies, ethnographies, design research, and systems building. We invite contributions from a range of fields, practices, and individuals who may not see themselves as traditionally members of 'computing' disciplines, including the humanities and social sciences, climate and sustainability research, and community advocacy. Accepted papers will be published as a conference proceedings with the ACM. Important Dates for Papers: * Submission site open: January 10, 2025 * Paper Deadline: January 17, 2025 * Notifications: March 21, 2025 * Camera-Ready Completion Deadline: April 7, 2025 Deadlines are anywhere on earth (AoE) time. Please find full information about the call at: https://compass.acm.org/call-for-papers/ ==Late-Breaking Work CFP== Accepted Late-Breaking Work submissions will be included in the ACM Archives and presented during a special posters session at the COMPASS conference. Authors must therefore expand or otherwise significantly modify versions of these works as papers to COMPASS or any other venue. This year, COMPASS is accepting late-breaking work submissions in multiple rounds. Authors who need visas to travel to Canada may consider submitting to the early round. Important Dates for Late-Breaking Work: First Round * Submission Site Open: November 25, 2025 * Submission Deadline: December 1 * Notification to the Authors: January 15 * Camera-Ready Completion Deadline: February 7, 2025 Second Round * Submission deadline: February 28 * Notification to the authors: April 15 * Camera-Ready Completion Deadline: May 7, 2025 Deadlines are anywhere on earth (AoE) time. Please find full information about the call at: https://compass.acm.org/call-for-late-breaking-work/ Richmond Y. Wong Assistant Professor, Digital Media School of Literature, Media, and Communication Georgia Tech Pronouns: he/him/his

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20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) : Fourth Call for Contributions
by Announce 16 Nov '24

16 Nov '24

*** Fourth Call for Contributions *** 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2025) May 5-7, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2025.persuasivetech.org (*** 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. We welcome the following categories of papers and extended abstracts: • Technical papers that introduce novel persuasive technology approaches and solutions alongside evidence of their potential. • Empirical studies which seek to provide evidence and explanation of methods, principles and theories in persuasive systems. • Conceptual-theoretical papers which primarily seek to contribute to the general understanding of the field’s core themes and specificities. • Other papers, e.g. literature reviews or experience reports. 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? SUBMISSION TYPES Regular Papers This format is suitable for original research, which is completed work at the time of submission and, regardless of the length of the paper, is a self-sufficient scientific contribution. Papers can be full papers (12 pages, excluding references) or short papers (6 pages, excluding references) in Springer LNCS format, and describe work not presented, published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Accepted papers will be included in the Springer LNCS conference proceedings and be devoted a timeslot for oral presentation. Selected papers will be invited for submission to Behaviour & Information Technology journal (Taylor & Francis). Extended Abstracts We also welcome extended abstract submissions to showcase the results of already conducted studies where authors do not wish to publish them as regular papers in the conference proceedings but rather present them at the conference for discussions that can shape the final version (that may be submitted elsewhere later). The studies will be also be devoted a timeslot for oral presentation in a special session. Extended abstracts must not be more than 2 pages in CEUR format (including references). Accepted abstracts will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1 column style, see here). Selected papers in this category, based on their quality, level of timeliness and relevance, and completion, will also be invited for submission to Behaviour & Information Technology journal. Poster Presentations This format is suitable for descriptions of smaller studies, project outlines, literature reviews or work-in-progress. Authors should submit a 2-page abstract in CEUR format (1 column style). Accepted posters will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings). Posters will be displayed and presented during a dedicated session of the conference. Demonstrations and Artefacts The Persuasive 2025 track on Demonstrations and Artefact is intended to foster discussion and exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners from academia and industry by demonstrating or presenting hardware and software products or artefacts, including those in virtual settings (e.g., simulation systems, VR, and games), that range from early research prototypes to mature production-ready systems. The contribution should be the result of original, innovative work, including solving novel technical or research problems, and/or creating novel individual or industrial UI/UX. Accepted demonstrations or presentations shall be presented live during the conference. Doctoral Consortium Papers The Doctoral Consortium is a special session of the conference where PhD students can receive advice in a constructive atmosphere. Students present and discuss their research with other PhD students and a panel of established researchers in the area of persuasive technology. Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should submit a 4-page abstract in CEUR format (1 column style) describing their research question, its position with respect to the state of the art, their research plans and methodology, ideas, and results achieved so far. Accepted abstracts will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings) unless opted out by the student. Workshops and Tutorial Proposals Workshops are meant to gather a number of people to work interactively on an emerging topic and exchange ideas. Tutorials are intended to help people attending the conference organize a related scientific meeting on a specific topic or instruct on a specific practice. Approved workshops and tutorials will be announced on the conference website. Tutorials and 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- guidelines), 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 and mode of delivery: in-person/hybrid), expected outcome, and supporting materials (if applicable). Workshop and tutorial descriptions will be included in the adjunct conference proceedings (CEUR Workshop Proceedings) 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 December 01, 2024, to the workshop chairs: Wenzhen Xu (wenzhen.xu(a)r.hit-u.ac.jp) Rhoda Abadia (Rhoda.Abadia(a)unisa.edu.au) and Kaoru Sumi (kaoru.sumi(a)acm.org) The organizing committee will review the proposals and communicate the results by December 15, 2024. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: • Submission deadline: January 03, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: February 15, 2025 • Camera ready submission: February 28, 2025 Workshop and tutorial proposals: • Submission deadline: December 1, 2024 (AoE) • Decision notification: December 15, 2024 Workshop papers, posters, demos, artefacts, and doctoral consortium submission: • Submission deadline: March 1, 2025 (AoE) • Decision notification: March 15, 2025 • Camera ready: March 28, 2025 Registration: • Author registration deadline for the main track: February 28, 2025 • Author registration deadline for the rest of the categories: March 28, 2025 • Early bird registration: April 5, 2025 PUBLICATION Accepted papers of the main track (both Full and Short) will be published by Springer in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (https://www.springer.com/gp/ computer-science/lncs). Workshop and demo descriptions, extended abstracts , abstracts from posters, and doctoral consortium abstracts will be published as an adjunct CEUR proceedings. Extended versions of the best papers and selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit to a special issue on Persuasive Technology 2025 in Behaviour and Information Technology, a Taylor & Francis publication. 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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Event reminder: CCSN launch event tomorrow!
by Zoë Glatt 14 Nov '24

14 Nov '24

Hello all, A reminder that tomorrow is the first instalment of CCSN Chats (9am PT/12pmEST/4pm GMT), an online series from the newly minted Content Creator Scholars Network that brings together researchers, industry experts, and workers in the digital economy to discuss timely issues in Creator Studies. This 90-minute event includes an engaging discussion on the current landscape and future directions of Creator Studies, with the added perspective of an industry insider working with creators. Learn from experts who are at the forefront of this rapidly evolving landscape. You can book a free ticket HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ccsn-chats-academic-and-industry-insights-into… Meet the voices: Jess Rauchberg is an Assistant Professor of Communication Technologies at Seton Hall University. Primarily a humanistic researcher, Rauchberg's Microsoft-funded scholarship investigates the entangled interplay between Western liberal humanism, governance, and cultural production in the creative economy, focusing on disability, race, and ideology. Her award-winning work appears in top media and communication studies journals. Rauchberg is currently working on a book manuscript about shitposting, platform hygiene, and aspirational labor. Brooke Erin Duffy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, where she studies the role of social media platforms in reconfiguring work, employment, and society. Her books include (Not) Getting Paid To Do What You Love (Yale University Press, 2017/2022), Platforms and Cultural Production, with Thomas Poell and David Nieborg (Polity, 2022) and The Visibility Bind: Creators and the Perils of Platform Labor (University of Chicago Press, under contract). David Craig is an Associate Professor of Communication at USC Annenberg, where he conducts research and teaches courses on global and national media industries and creator culture through the lens of political economy, cultural, production, and creator studies. He has published three books and over two dozen articles about the global and Chinese creator industries, whether referred to as social media entertainment or wanghong. Michelle Beaver has been an integral part of the YouTube team since 2010, contributing her expertise in various roles spanning operations and content partnerships across both the United States and EMEA. Currently, she serves as a strategic partner manager within the North America Top Creator team, managing partnerships with YouTube's most successful content creators. Before her tenure at YouTube, Michelle cultivated her career in the music industry, with roles in artist management, touring, and radio. She possesses a strong affinity for pop culture and the creator economy, backed by her master's degree in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths University. We hope to see some of you there! The CCSN Team You can learn more about CCSN on our website: www.ccsn.site<http://www.ccsn.site/> Sign up for our newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/a0251b1f88f0/content-creator-scholars-network-newsletter Become a CCSN member: https://mailchi.mp/c68982b00090/members ________________________ Dr Zoë Glatt www.zoeglatt.com<http://www.zoeglatt.com/> Postdoctoral Researcher: Microsoft’s Social Media Collective Co-Founder: The Content Creator Scholars Network<https://ccsn.framer.website/> Co-Founder: The Digital Ethnography Collective<https://twitter.com/DigECollective> Twitter<https://twitter.com/ZoeGlatt> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/Zedstergal> | Mastodon<https://aoir.social/@ZoeGlatt>

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