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WEBCAST NOV 26 – ICANN81 Readout – Highlights & Take-Aways from the Annual General Meeting
by Joly MacFie 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

This has just started REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3ZaeSzk [image: ISOC LIVE] <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=1994ea96293273f6ab77a91…> On *Tuesday November 26, 2024*, at *16:30-18:00 CET* (15:30-17:00 UTC), *eco – Association of the Internet Industry <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=66e67de99fa8cd984f2e479…>* and *ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=e18b8cab841bce96b9b16bc…>* will jointly host '*ICANN81 Readout – Highlights & Take-Aways from the Annual General Meeting <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=d24eb7f851841594ccb3b70…>*'. Speakers from different constituencies of the ICANN community will provide an overview of the highlights and key take-aways of the hybrid *ICANN81 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=89c0938a7ddb2fa6cc18821…>* meeting in Istanbul from their respective constituencies. *SPEAKERS* *Nicolas Caballero*, Chair of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) *Jordan Carter*, Vice Chair of the ccNSO Council *Greg DiBiase*, Chair of the GNSO Council *Philippe Fouquart*, Chair of the ISPCP *Joanna Kulesza*, Vice Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) *Ram Mohan*, Chair of the SSAC *HOSTS* *Christopher Mondini*, Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement & Managing Director, Europe, ICANN Org *Thomas Rickert*, Director Names & Numbers, eco – Association of the Internet Industry *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/eco-icann81 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=99e5e52b0941ae8fe2682e2…>* *PARTICIPATE VIA GOTOWEBINAR https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5031705395129504343 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=d24eb7f851841594ccb3b70…>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see *ISOC.LIVE <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=1994ea96293273f6ab77a91…>* ) *TWITTER #icann81 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=9b4cb19a9a5e9b336acc939…> @eco_EN @ICANN @rmohan123* *#icann81 MASTODON <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=b5cb18b8b59cad1d5f479a9…> | BLUESKY <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=b01a98bb6adecead5b567de…> | INSTA <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=3e317939704b95cb298a1e7…>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=cab4ee9de59e468303444e6…>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=9435c175c2c6d5ce1b193da…>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=db0b9ccc1afa6f184ef461e…>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/eco-icann81 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=8433ab75631fb21f0624814…> *(when available) *** ISOC.LIVE is a free community webcasting support service sponsored by the the Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) - ISOC LIVE is currently unfunded - if you would like to become a monthly sponsor - contact support(a)isoc.live *** - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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interview with European Center for Populism Studies
by Paul Levinson 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Video and transcript of European Center for Populism Studies interview with me last week about social media, Musk, and freedom of expression https://www.populismstudies.org/professor-levinson-elon-musk-must-choose-be… -- PL

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4y postdoc position in critical AI studies
by JOBIN Anna 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Hello all, I am recruiting a postdoc to join our "PerformingAI" project team at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and encourage AoIRistas to apply. No disciplinary pre-requisits beyond a phd in social sciences (broadly defined). German and/or French skills strongly preferred. It is not a remote position but comes with flexibility and great working conditions. More detailed information in the job ad and below: https://human-ist.unifr.ch/en/news/news/32103/ ***** As part of the international research project "Performing Artificial Intelligence—Governance, Agency, Action: an Interdisciplinary Inquiry", funded by the SNSF, the Institute Human-IST (Dr. Anna Jobin) at the University of Fribourg invites applications for a Postdoctoral Position (70-80%; extendable up to 4 years). The overall research project is dedicated to the discursive, situational, aesthetic, and material constitution of AI. The team of Dr. Anna Jobin will focus on discursive performativity in the area of AI policy, with the future postdoc having some freedom in shaping the analysis of AI governance. Your tasks: * Collaboration on the research project * Publications and conference participations (national and international) * Further academic activities within the team's areas of focus * General supervision, coordination, and administrative work Your profile: * Recently completed doctoral studies in a social science discipline (especially sociology, political science, communication science, STS) * Strong interest in the research topic; interest in interdisciplinarity and theory development; reflexivity regarding one's own research practice * Very good knowledge of various research methods and their application * Existing expertise in the areas of AI policy and/or Swiss political processes is advantageous * Excellent time management, ability to take initiative, and work independently * Very good English skills in speaking and writing, good knowledge of German or French (passive knowledge of the other language is an advantage) We offer * Interdisciplinary contemporary research on a current topic in politics and society * A collegial, multilingual work environment with excellent infrastructure * Attractive, flexible working conditions with diverse opportunities for further education Starting date: March 1, 2025, or by agreement Please send your electronic application to Esther Mauron esther.mauron AT unifr.ch. Please include a CV, copies of your diplomas, an existing writing sample in English (article, dissertation chapter, or similar), and a brief outline of your research ideas on the project topic. The selection process begins on December 2, and the position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found. If you have any questions, please contact anna.jobin AT unifr.ch. _____ Dr. Anna Jobin | anna.jobin(a)unifr.ch<mailto:anna.jobin@unifr.ch> Senior Researcher & Lecturer | Digital Society<https://human-ist.unifr.ch/en/studies/master/digital-society-ma-minor-progr…> study advisor HUMAN-IST | University of Fribourg | 1700 Fribourg | Switzerland

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CFP for AI special issue of Imaginations Journal
by Aline Zara 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Dear AoIR community: (sorry for cross-posting!) Call for Proposals: (Re)Imagining AI Interventions///Intervening (into) AI Imaginaries https://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/cfps Deadline: 500-word abstract due January 15, 2025, papers due June 1, 2025 In an age of endless disruption, how do we live with the rapid advances and early analyses of artificial intelligence software, moral panic, and the voracious consumption of already oppressive datasets and social relations? We have already seen some deep scholarly engagement with issues of ethical database scraping and intellectual property violations (Crawford 2021; Delfanti & Phan 2024; Luka & Millette 2018), environmental impacts (Hogan & Lepage-Richer 2024; Valdivia 2023; MIT Technology Review Insights 2023; Torres 2024), and workflow interferences and augmentations (Ahmed et al 2024; Grohmann et al 2022; Khovanskaya et al 2022; Poell, Nieborg & Duffy 2022). How can we imagine and design critical and creative futures (Alcoff 2020; Nakayama & Morris 2015; Tozer et al 2023; Varon & Peña 2021) for artists, activists, scholars, and consumer-worker-citizens considering these latest AI developments? How do we resist (re)colonization impulses (Couture & Toupin 2019; Campbell & Forman 2023; Hampton 2023) in the AI context? Building on recent work (e.g., Chan et al., 2020; Cifor et al, 2019; Coleman 2023; Lewis 2024; Ricaurte Quijano 2021; Stinson & Vlaad 2024), how can we imagine rebuilding… revisualizing… repairing… refusing… the world(s) we live and work in? In this issue, we want to explore a range of critical framings and interventions that understand AI as the latest wave of technological change that may be able to help or hinder us in our weird and sometimes wonderful daily grind(s), rather than as a totalizing and inevitable replacement of human existence. In this call, we seek accounts and theorizations of research and everyday projects that carry with them a critical analysis of or intervention into the enigmatic promises of AI imaginaries. But we aim to make a larger socio-cultural contribution. We seek to critically imagine and design insightful, sustainable and joyful futures in the context of ubiquitous digital demands and possibilities, including the recent explosion of AI in our work worlds and everyday lives. This special issue will bring together submissions across arts, humanities, visual culture, and media fields of study as well as feminist STS, critical disability, knowledge media design, research-creation, world-building and futurisms studies. We aim to generate provocations, approaches, and examples that can address the renewed racialized, gendered, colonial, economic, and geopolitical power dynamics at play in the AI context. Topics may include but are not limited to: - The ways in which the notion of “self” slithers in the AI context, flowing and drifting between materiality and virtuality, including melding together AI capabilities with/around/about prosthetics, digital intimacy, and affect; - Critiquing reactive and derivative predictive models and modes of futurisms and imagining ways of looking that incorporate but go beyond foresight, “for-see,” and socially just world-building opportunities; - How we can create meaning-making with emerging technologies, reversing the notion that technological creators do not know how technology will be used by general publics and vice-versa; - The ways that we are already experiencing AI apathy, as forms of technological fatigue, civic disengagement, or pedagogical frustration; - How AI operates as the latest technological “disruptor” in a digital landscape littered with the debris of its predecessors. For example, how do early adopters and artists harvest the opportunities presented by AI as a society and disciplinary “disruptor” in social and commercialized ways? - Why and how tension is amped up through conflicts generated by open or accessible “democratic” modes of creativity and inclusion and the commercialization impetus of “Creative Industries.” For example, how can the idea of “open AI” and the operations of “Open AI” (the company) be theorized together or separately; - Analysing the specificity of impacts of Generative AI on creativity and visual cultures in/from the Global South, potentially extending into considerations of how industrial structures are being normalized in Global North (minority) forms, reshaped by AI and emergent digital technologies; - The potential for AI to outright kill, or by some means rekindle (sub)cultural literacies, expressions, and formats (fanfiction, social media, video, audio, publishing); - Curatorial critiques and valorizations of AI exhibitions and artistic work, including how some tools limit or support the creative explorations of marginal artists, artistic legacies and narratives; - The effect of AI on creative labour, how systems of cultural production and distribution inevitably privilege capital over creative workers and consumer-worker-citizens, and how active resistance to such privilege can repair and revive these fields of production and distribution Contributions may include: research articles or manifestos (4,000-6,000 words), video essays, multimedia research-creation pieces, and exhibition and book reviews (approx. 1,500 words). Contributions may be in English or French. Email your 500 word abstract by January 15, 2025 and/or enquiries to: Maryelizabeth.luka(a)utoronto.ca Caroline.klimek(a)utoronto.ca Aline.zara(a)mail.utoronto.ca Guest Edited by Mary Elizabeth (ME) Luka, Caroline Klimek, and Aline Zara, University of Toronto. Appel à contributions : (Ré)Imaginer les interventions en IA /// Intervenir dans les imaginaires de l'IA https://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/cfps Date limite : résumé de 500 mots à soumettre avant le 15ème janvier 2025, articles à remettre pour le 1er juin 2025 À une époque de bouleversements incessants, comment cohabitons-nous avec les avancées fulgurantes de l'intelligence artificielle, les analyses préliminaires, la panique morale et la consommation vorace de bases de données déjà oppressives et des relations sociales qui les accompagnent ? Des chercheurs se sont déjà penchés sur des questions profondes telles que le raclage éthique des bases de données et les violations de la propriété intellectuelle (Crawford 2021; Delfanti & Phan 2024; Luka & Millette 2018), les impacts environnementaux (Hogan & Lepage-Richer 2024; Valdivia 2023; MIT Technology Review Insights 2023; Torres 2024), ainsi que les interférences et augmentations dans les flux de travail (Ahmed et al 2024; Grohmann et al 2022; Khovanskaya et al 2022; Poell, Nieborg & Duffy 2022). Comment pouvons-nous imaginer et concevoir des futurs critiques et créatifs (Alcoff 2020; Nakayama & Morris 2015; Tozer et al 2023; Varon & Peña 2021) pour les artistes, activistes, chercheurs et citoyens-consommateurs-travailleurs face à ces dernières évolutions de l'IA ? Comment résistons-nous aux impulsions de (re)colonisation (Couture & Toupin 2019; Campbell & Forman 2023; Hampton 2023) dans le contexte de l'IA ? En s'appuyant sur des travaux récents (par exemple, Chan et al., 2020; Cifor et al, 2019; Coleman 2023; Lewis 2024; Ricaurte Quijano 2021; Stinson & Vlaad 2024), comment pouvons- nous imaginer la reconstruction… la re-visualisation… la réparation… le refus… des mondes dans lesquels nous vivons et travaillons ? Dans ce numéro, nous souhaitons explorer une gamme d'encadrements critiques et d'interventions qui comprennent l'IA comme la dernière vague de changement technologique, capable de nous aider ou de nous gêner dans notre quotidien étrange et parfois merveilleux, plutôt que comme un remplacement totalisant et inévitable de l'existence humaine. Dans cet appel, nous sollicitons des récits et des théorisations de projets de recherche et du quotidien qui portent une analyse critique ou une intervention sur les promesses énigmatiques des imaginaires de l'IA. Notre objectif est toutefois de faire une contribution socioculturelle plus large. Nous souhaitons imaginer et concevoir des futurs perspicaces, durables et joyeux dans le contexte des exigences et possibilités numériques omniprésentes, y compris l'explosion récente de l'IA dans nos mondes professionnels et quotidiens. Ce numéro spécial réunira des contributions dans les domaines des arts, des sciences humaines, de la culture visuelle et des médias, ainsi que des études féministes en STS, des études critiques du handicap, de la conception des médias du savoir, de la recherche-création, de la construction de mondes et des études du futurisme. Nous visons à générer des provocations, des approches et des exemples qui peuvent aborder les dynamiques de pouvoir racialisées, genrées, coloniales, économiques et géopolitiques renouvelées à l'œuvre dans le contexte de l'IA. Les sujets abordés peuvent inclure, mais ne sont pas limités à : - Les manières dont la notion de “soi” se glisse dans le contexte de l'IA, entre matérialité et virtualité, incluant la fusion des capacités de l'IA avec/à propos des prothèses, de l'intimité numérique et de l'affect ; - La critique des modèles prédictifs réactifs et dérivés, et l'imagination de modes de regard qui incorporent mais dépassent la prévoyance, la “pré-vision” et les opportunités de construction de mondes socialement justes ; - La façon dont nous pouvons créer du sens avec les technologies émergentes, en inversant l'idée selon laquelle les créateurs technologiques ne savent pas comment la technologie sera utilisée par les publics et vice-versa ; - Les manières dont nous éprouvons déjà une apathie à l'égard de l'IA, sous forme de fatigue technologique, de désengagement civique ou de frustration pédagogique ; - La manière dont l'IA fonctionne comme le dernier “disrupteur” technologique dans un paysage numérique jonché des débris de ses prédécesseurs. Par exemple, comment les premiers utilisateurs et artistes exploitent-ils les opportunités présentées par l'IA en tant que “disrupteur” sociétal et disciplinaire, de manière sociale et commercialisée ? - Pourquoi et comment les tensions sont amplifiées par les conflits générés par les modes créatifs “démocratiques” ouverts ou accessibles et l'impulsion de commercialisation des “industries créatives”. Par exemple, comment l'idée d'“open AI” et les opérations d'“Open AI” (l'entreprise) peuvent-elles être théorisées ensemble ou séparément ? - Les analyses portant sur la spécificité des impacts de l'IA générative sur la créativité et les cultures visuelles dans/de la région du Sud Global, potentiellement en étendant les considérations sur la manière dont les structures industrielles sont normalisées dans les formes (minoritaires) du Nord Global, remodelées par l'IA et les technologies numériques émergentes ; - Le potentiel de l'IA à anéantir ou, d'une manière ou d'une autre, raviver les littératies, expressions et formats (fanfiction, réseaux sociaux, vidéo, audio, édition) (sous-)culturels ; - Les critiques curatoriales et les valorisations des expositions et travaux artistiques liés à l'IA, y compris la manière dont certains outils limitent ou soutiennent les explorations créatives des artistes marginalisés, des legs artistiques et des récits ; - L'effet de l'IA sur le travail créatif, comment les systèmes de production et de distribution culturelle privilégient inévitablement le capital au détriment des travailleurs créatifs et des citoyens- consommateurs-travailleurs, et comment une résistance active à ce privilège peut réparer et raviver ces champs de production et de distribution. Les contributions peuvent inclure : des articles de recherche ou des manifestes (4 000-6 000 mots), des essais vidéo, des pièces de recherche-création multimédia, et des critiques d'exposition et de livre (environ 1 500 mots). Les contributions peuvent être rédigées en anglais ou en français. Envoyez votre résumé de 500 mots avant le 15ème janvier 2025 à : Maryelizabeth.luka(a)utoronto.ca Caroline.klimek(a)utoronto.ca Aline.zara(a)mail.utoronto.ca<mailto:Aline.zara@mail.utoronto.ca> Numéro dirigé par Mary Elizabeth (ME) Luka, Caroline Klimek, et Aline Zara, Université de Toronto. Works Cited/Bibliographie: Ahmed, I., Mim, J., Nandi, D., Khan, S., Dey, A. (2024). Impacts of Text-to-Image Generative AI Tools on Digital Image-making Practices in the Global South. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641951 Alcoff, L. M. (2020). Lugones's World-Making. Critical Philosophy of Race 8 (1-2), 199-211. Campbell, M.V. & Forman, M. (2023). Hip Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production. Intellect. Chan, L., Hall, B., Piron, F., Tandon, R., & Williams, L. (2020). Open Science Beyond Open Access: For and with communities, A step towards the decolonization of knowledge. Ottawa, Canada: Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s IdeaLab Cifor, M., Garcia, P., Cowan, T.L., Rault, J., Sutherland, T., Chan, A., Rode, J., Hoffmann, A.L., Salehi, N., Nakamura, L. (2019). Feminist Data Manifest-No. Retrieved from: https://www.manifestno.com/. Coleman, B. (2023). Reality Was Whatever Happened : Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds. Berlin: K. Verlag. Couture, S., & Toupin, S. (2019). What does the notion of “sovereignty” mean when referring to the digital? New Media & Society, 21(10), 2305-2322. https://doi-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/10.1177/1461444819865984 Crawford, K. 2021. Atlas of AI. New Haven: Yale University Press. Delfanti, A., & Phan, M. (2024). Rip It Up and Start Again: Creative Labor and the Industrialization of Remix. Television & New Media, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/15274764241227613 Grohmann, R., Pereira, G., Guerra, A., Abilio, L. C., Moreschi, B., & Jurno, A. (2022). Platform scams: Brazilian workers’ experiences of dishonest and uncertain algorithmic management. New Media & Society, 24(7), 1611-1631. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221099225 Hampton, L. M. (2023). 'Techno-Racial Capitalism: A Decolonial Black Feminist Marxist Perspective', in Jude Browne, and others (eds), Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data, and Intelligent Machines (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Nov. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192889898.003.0008. Hogan, M., & Lepage-Richer, T. (2024). Extractive AI. Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy. https://www.mediatechdemocracy.com/climatetechhoganlepagericher. Khovanskaya, V., Tandon, U., Arcilla, E., Hussein, M. H., Zschiesche, P., & Irani, L. (2022). Hostile Ecologies: Navigating the Barriers to Community-Led Innovation. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW2), 1-26. Lewis, J. E. (2024). The future imaginary. In T. J. Taylor, I. Lavender III, G. L. Dillon, & B. Chattopadhyay (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of CoFuturisms. New York: Routledge. Luka, M.E., & Millette, M. (2018). (Re)framing Big Data: Activating Situated Knowledges and a Feminist Ethics of Care in Social Media Research. Social Media + Society, 4(2).https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118768297 MIT Technology Review Insights. (2023). “Sustainability starts with the data center,” https://wp.technologyreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MIT_Hitachi_FNL_…. Nakayama, T.K., & Morris, C.E., III. (2015). Worldmaking and Everyday Interventions. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 2(1), v-viii. <https://muse.jhu.edu/article/575372> https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/575372. Poell, T., Nieborg, D. B., & Duffy, B. E. (2022). Platforms and cultural production. Cambridge: Polity. Ricaurte Quijano, P. (2021). Reimagining AI. Feminist AI. https://feministai.pubpub.org/pub/reimagining-ai Stinson, C., & Vlaad, S. (2024). A feeling for the algorithm: Diversity, expertise, and artificial intelligence. Big Data & Society, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231224247 Torres, E. P. (2024, June 24). AI doomers have warned of the tech-pocalypse - while doing their best to accelerate it. Salon. https://www.salon.com/2024/06/24/ai-doomers-have-warned-of-the-tech-pocalyp… Tozer, L., Nagendra, H., Anderson, P. and Kavonic, J. (2023). Towards just nature-based solutions for cities. In Nature-Based Solutions for Cities, eds., T. McPhearson, N. Kabisch, & N. Frantzeskaki, pp. 29-47. Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376762.00011. Varon, J. & Peña, P. (2021). Building a Feminist toolkit to question A.I. systems. Why is A.I. a Feminist Issue? Retrieved from https://notmy.ai/news/algorithmic-emancipation-building-a-feminist-toolkit-…. -- Aline Zara (she/they) PhD student, Faculty of Information University of Toronto aline.zara(a)mail.utoronto.ca<mailto:aline.zara@mail.utoronto.ca>

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Call for Papers AI-Imaginations
by Majsa Storbeck 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Dear colleagues and friends, I hope this email finds you well. I would like to bring to your attention the Call for Papers on the topic of ‘AI-Imaginations’ (see also: attachment): https://www.eur.nl/en/news/call-abstracts-ai-imaginations-future-ai-and-pub… "We need better AI. The goal of this symposium is to envision different approaches from the prevailing paradigm of “law & order,” with its vocabulary of “fighting” and “precautionary thinking.” To find a way forward, we need to create socio-technological imaginaries of “AI to come”: new ways of understanding, envisioning and implementing AI that promotes more equitable, humane, and sustainable societies, in which we focus on empowerment instead of repression. These AI-Imaginations can be used as critical drivers of change in our algorithmic society. To paraphrase sociologist David Lyon: “What might happen if AI were guided by an ontology of peace rather than violence, an ethic of care rather than control, an orientation toward forgiveness rather than suspicion?" The two-day symposium will take place next year, 19-20 June, at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 15th 2025. Would you please circulate the call to colleagues and other interested persons? Many thanks in advance – and all the best! Dutch Surveillance Studies

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[CfP] - Call for Research & Innovation Papers at SEMANTiCS 2025
by Beyza Yaman 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Call for Research & Innovation Papers SEMANTiCS 2025 EU 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 3 - 5, 2025 Important Dates: - Abstract Submission Deadline: April 25 , 2025 - Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2025 - Notification of Acceptance: June 13, 2025 - Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: July 04, 2025 All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12) Submissions will be through Easychair and the submission link will be provided soon. Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2025 EU will be made available open access. Research and Innovation Track The SEMANTiCS 2025 conference is excited to invite submissions for the Research and Innovation Track, welcoming groundbreaking research contributions, innovative solutions, and experimental studies relevant to the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI-enabled semantics. We also encourage submissions at the intersections of these fields with other scientific and applied disciplines, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange and advancement. Papers should present original work that has not been published or is not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions must adhere to the submission guidelines, including reference formatting and any additional documentation as required. Each submission will undergo a rigorous review process, with at least three independent reviews, evaluating the novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical relevance of the work. Topics of Interest SEMANTiCS 2025 calls for submissions of high-quality research papers across a broad spectrum of topics in Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and AI. We are particularly interested in new and emerging trends, especially where semantic technologies intersect with evolving fields such as large language models, explainable AI, and trustworthy data infrastructures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management - Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) - Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with knowledge graph integration, generative model grounding) - Reasoning, Rules, and Policies on RAG - Knowledge Engineering and Management (e.g., knowledge acquisition, extraction, integration, and publication workflows) - Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering - Web agents - Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) - Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Data Quality Management and Assurance - Mathematical and Logical Foundations of Knowledge-aware AI - Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (e.g., text, image, audio fusion in graph structures) - Semantic-Enhanced Data Science Pipelines and Processes - Semantics in Blockchain environments (e.g., traceability, decentralized knowledge representation) - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - Internet of Things (IoT), Stream Processing, and Temporal Data Management (e.g., real-time semantic processing and predictive analytics) - Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems powered by Knowledge Graphs - Provenance and Data Change Tracking (e.g., semantic versioning, data updates in distributed settings) - Semantic Interoperability (e.g., cross-domain standards, mapping frameworks, ontology alignment) - Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases - Robust, Scalable, and Fault-Tolerant Semantic Data Systems (e.g., distributed querying, optimization) - User Interfaces and Usability of Semantic Technologies (e.g., visualizations, intelligent user interaction) - Explainable and Interoperable AI - Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., federated querying, link traversal) Applied Semantic Technologies and AI in Real-World Scenarios, such as, but not limited to: - Biomedicine and Health (e.g., Knowledge Graphs for biomedical applications, AI-driven diagnostics, personalized health) - AI for Environmental and Climate Solutions (e.g., semantic modeling for environmental impact, biodiversity knowledge graphs) - Scientific Knowledge Graphs and Open Science (e.g., FAIR data principles, enhanced scholarly communication) - Semantic Technologies in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) - Knowledge Graphs and Hybrid AI for Industry 4.0/5.0 and Predictive Maintenance - Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Preservation - Legal Technology, AI Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance (e.g., AI and legal frameworks, semantic-enabled compliance with the EU AI Act) - Economics and Governance of Data Ecosystems (e.g., data marketplaces, semantic service interoperability, data policy) Submissions will be through Easychair. Stay tuned for the submission link. For Submission Guidelines and Review and Evaluation Criteria please head to the online call for papers: https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep We would highly appreciate it if you could disseminate this call within your network. We look forward to receiving your contributions! Research and Innovation Track Chairs Blerina Spahiu (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT) Mehdi Ali (Lamarr Institute & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Kind Regards, On behalf of the organising committee, Beyza Yaman

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2 open positions: 1x Postdoctoral Researcher, 1x PhD Researcher, please distribute widely
by Monika Palmberger 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Sorry, now with the links (as the hyperlinks did not appear) Dear all, I am very pleased to announce two open positions for a PhD and a Postdoctoral Researcher within the FWF-funded project "Enacting (digital) citizenship from below: A study on care and the uses of digital infrastructure by refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina", which I will be leading at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna 2025-2028. Application deadline: December 9th, 2024 Available positions: Postdoctoral researcher (Job ID: 3285): https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoctoral-Researcher/1142677201/ PhD researcher (Job ID: 3318): https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-Researcher/1142716901/ I would greatly appreciate it if you could share this opportunity with any potential candidates or networks that might be interested. Best wishes, Monika ----------- Dr. Monika Palmberger https://www.monikapalmberger.eu

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2 open positions: 1x Postdoctoral Researcher, 1x PhD Researcher, please distribute widely
by Monika Palmberger 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Dear all, I am very pleased to announce two open positions for a PhD and a Postdoctoral Researcher within the project "Enacting (digital) citizenship from below: A study on care and the uses of digital infrastructure by refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina", which I will be leading at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna 2025-2028. Application deadline: December 9th, 2024 Available positions: Postdoctoral researcher (Job ID: 3285) PhD researcher (Job ID: 3318) I would greatly appreciate it if you could share this opportunity with any potential candidates or networks that might be interested. Best wishes, Monika ----------- Dr. Monika Palmberger https://www.monikapalmberger.eu Latest publications Migrants and New Media: Digital Ethnography, Transnationalism, and Superdiversity. In The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity. 2023. Refugees enacting (digital) citizenship through placemaking and care practices near and far. In Citizenship Studies. 2022. Doing Research at Online and Offline Intersections: Bringing Together Digital and Mobile Methodologies (with Katja Kaufmann). In Media and Communication. 2022. Narratives of Transnational Placemaking. Exploring Migrant Workers’ Hidden Histories through Memory-Guided City Walks. In Narrative Culture. 2022. The Nexus of Anthropology and Narrative: Ethnographic Encounters with Storytelling Practices (with Barbara Götsch). In Narrative Culture. 2022. Special issues Across mobile online and offline spaces: Reflections on methods, practices, and ethics (with Katja Kaufmann). In Media and Communication, 2022. ‘Let me tell you a story‘: anthropological encounters with narrative (with Barbara Götsch). In Narrative Culture, 2022. Book Care across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration (with Azra Hromadzic), Berghahn (Paperback) 2022.

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Fwd: Two positions (1 PhD & 1 Postdoc) on "Adolescent Well-Being, Social Inequalities, Digital Media & Computational Methods" at CED/UAB in Barcelona
by Pablo Gracia 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

Dear AOIR colleagues, I would really appreciate it if you could share these* two calls (1 PhD & 1 Postdoc)* to join the ERC-funded DIGINEQ project. Please, encourage talented and motivated MAs & RAs (for the PhD) and PhDs & Postdocs (for the Postdoc) to apply! *Two positions (1 PhD & 1 Postdoc) at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Department of Sociology & Centre for Demographic Studies* Key topics: *Adolescent Wellbeing; Social Inequalities; Digital Media; Computational Social Sciences. * The two positions are opened within the *DIGINEQ *project, funded by the *European Research Council *(PI: Pablo Gracia <https://www.pablogracia-sociology.com/> ). The successful candidates will contribute to develop outstanding research to understand how adolescents’ digital use influences their well-being outcomes (e.g., mental health, academic outcomes) across demographic and socioeconomic groups, using advanced multi-method approaches in the social sciences (e.g., computational social sciences, digital social research). You will join a vibrant research team and centre of scientific excellence at CED <https://ced.cat/en/> and UAB <https://www.uab.cat/en/sociology> <https://www.uab.cat/en/sociology>, in a great city (Barcelona) and very friendly working context! Application deadline: *December 3rd, 2024, 13:00, CET. * *PhD Position:* https://ced.cat/recursos/PhD-ERC_Digineq.pdf *Postdoc Position:* https://ced.cat/recursos/Postdoc-ERC_Digineq.pdf Best, Pablo *Prof. Pablo Gracia* Department of Sociology Autonomous University of Barcelona, UAB Centre for Demographic Studies, CED

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CFP: An S&S Dialogue on "The Surveillant Assemblage" after 25 years
by Bryce Newell 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

Dear Colleagues, We invite expressions of interest of ~400 words to write short (~2000-2500-word) contributions for a special Dialogue section of Surveillance & Society<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveil…> to be published on the 25th anniversary of the publication of “The Surveillant Assemblage” by Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson (link to article<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.1080/00071310020015280__;!!C…>). We invite expressions of interest from surveillance scholars who seek to, for example, respond to the enduring legacy of Haggerty and Ericson’s ideas, critique the concept of the surveillant assemblage as initially proposed and/or as it has been taken up or modified in subsequent surveillance scholarship, propose new perspectives on the concept, or otherwise reflect on the contribution that the concept of the surveillant assemblage has made on contemporary surveillance scholarship. The Dialogue will include an editorial introduction and a closing piece written by Kevin Haggerty in response to the selected contributions. The Surveillant Assemblage has become a classic piece of literature in the surveillance studies field and its main ideas have been adopted, adapted, critiqued, and reframed by scholars over the years since it was published in 2000. In the article, Haggerty and Ericson drew on “the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to suggest that we are witnessing a convergence of what were once discrete surveillance systems to the point that we can now speak of an emerging ‘surveillant assemblage’” (p. 606). They further explained the surveillant assemblage in the following words: “This assemblage operates by abstracting human bodies from their territorial settings and separating them into a series of discrete flows. These flows are then reassembled into distinct ‘data doubles’ which can be scrutinized and targeted for intervention. In the process, we are witnessing a rhizomatic leveling of the hierarchy of surveillance, such that groups which were previously exempt from routine surveillance are now increasingly being monitored” (p. 606). We are hoping to curate a set of critical and reflective position papers from scholars in various parts of the world, including in the Global South and areas not as commonly the focus of surveillance studies research. As such, we will prioritize submissions against those criteria, in addition to excellence and fit with the full set of accepted papers, including presenting a range of views and positions on the subject of the Dialogue. If you are interested in proposing a short paper for inclusion in this discussion, please send the following information as an expression of interest to Bryce Newell (bcnewell(a)uoregon.edu<mailto:bcnewell@uoregon.edu>; please use the subject line: “Dialogue Submission”) on or before the end of day on February 1, 2025: * Your name * Details of your institutional affiliation (if applicable) * Link to your online profile, website, etc., with list of your publications (if available) * A title and 300-400-word abstract for your proposed contribution (proposals should connect to the themes identified above and have a strong normative, critical, and/or argumentative element) We will review proposals and invite a select number of authors to submit full (short) papers. These papers will undergo editorial review prior to final acceptance. We aim to publish the section in the December 2025 issue of Surveillance & Society<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveil…>. Please note that Dialogue pieces are not refereed, but are subject to editorial review and, if (tentatively) accepted, possible requests for revision. We plan to allow authors of accepted papers the chance to read and engage with the other accepted papers prior to publication, to create a real dialogue within the section. We will be selecting only a select number of pieces for inclusion in this special section. We look forward to reading your proposals. Sincerely, Bryce Newell Co-Director, Surveillance Studies Network<https://surveillance-studies.net/> (SSN) Dialogue Editor, Surveillance & Society<https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/index>

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