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post-doc in financial technologies, cultures, and wellbeing
by Lana Swartz 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

Hello AOIR friends! I am recruiting a post-doc to work with me on a project on young people's (aged 18-25) financial cultures, literacies, technologies, and well-being in the digital environment. Please see call for post-doc below. Deadline is rolling. Ignore the the "five references" bit for now. I am not able to field substantive question, but I can answer clarifying ones. Nevertheless, though may be better answered by the HR manager references in the ad. I believe that remote work is not available as the fellow is expected to actively participate in the program community. Please apply and share with your networks! Best, Lana https://virginia.phenompro.com/us/en/job/R0067193/Postdoctoral-Research-Ass… The University of Virginia’s Grand Challenge on Digital Technology and Healthy Youth Development is seeking highly qualified applicants for two two-year Postdoctoral Research Associate positions. We are inviting applicants for post-doctoral fellows who would support a project related to the Grand Challenge’s focus on digital technology and youth (ages 11-25) mental health. The Grand Challenge aims to foster a collaborative, interdisciplinary community conducting cutting edge research about both the impact of digital technology on healthy and unhealthy youth development, and its potential to advance intervention and prevention solutions. Projects aligned with this Grand Challenge advance understanding of the role of digital technologies in healthy development, and the ways that generation and dissemination of digital mental health programs can help address the youth mental health crisis. Post-doctoral fellows will have a primary position with one of the two research teams listed below, with specific responsibilities as assigned by the faculty mentor(s) on a Grand Challenge related project. Postdoctoral fellows will also receive interdisciplinary mentoring and professional development through the Grand Challenge and may have the opportunity to collaborate on other Grand Challenge affiliated projects, as well as to potentially develop their own projects. A.) Dr. Brent Kitchens seeks a postdoctoral research associate to join a team of experienced researchers investigating the impacts of misinformation and other aspects of online information quality on mental health and other outcomes for young adults. This research is focused on 1) defining aspects of online information quality, 2) understanding their impacts on young adults through experiments or other primary data collection interfaces, and 3) analyzing information consumption behaviors of young adults utilizing propriety observational clickstream and search data from a large panel of internet users. Outcomes of this research are intended to potentially include academic publications and conference presentations, grant proposals, science communication to lay audiences, proposed interventions, and policy recommendations. As this research at the intersection of digital technology, information media, and youth mental health is transdisciplinary, the position is open to candidates with a Ph.D. (at time of start) from a range of relevant research backgrounds and interests in one or more of these areas. Quantitative skills (analytics and/or statistics) would be valued, but we are also open to candidates with a more qualitative research background. The position offers a unique opportunity to bridge technical innovation with societal needs, shaping future policies and interventions to support healthy youth development in the digital age. B.) Dr. Lana Swartz seeks a postdoctoral research associate to join her team, Exploring Youth Financial Well-being in the Digital Environment. Young people face a challenging and rapidly changing environment of financial tools, choices, and information. Consumer financial services apps offer new opportunities but also predatory inclusion. Financial influencers promise to help young people navigate this landscape but are also driven by the attention economy. Generative AI promises to add to the complexity. This research investigates young people’s (age 18–25) experience of their financial lives and how that experience informs their financial attitudes and practices. In this context, how should we think about the future of financial literacy and financial wellbeing? This project seeks a post-doctoral fellow to assist in conducting and managing this research project. The ideal candidate will have qualitative research experience, such as interviews, online ethnography, and analysis of socio-technical systems; experience working with diverse populations of young people; interest in digital financial youth cultures and research experience digital life more broadly; a Ph.D. in communication, media studies, information studies, sociology, anthropology, or adjacent fields. In your application, please indicate which research team you would like to be considered to work with and indicate your skills and experiences that prepare you to work on their affiliated project. Ideal candidates for this position must demonstrate: Research interests in issues of adolescent development and mental health, impact of digital technology on adolescent health and well-being, potential use of digital technology as a tool to promote adolescent mental health. The ability to synthesize a research literature. The ability to knowledgably apply qualitative and/or quantitative research methods. The fellowship includes a 12-month salary ($60,000-$65,000 based on experience) and benefits for up to 2 years. Postdoctoral fellows funded by the Grand Challenge will be expected to participate in the Grand Challenge community, including works-in-progress meetings, professional development activities, and programming including trainings, conferences, and other events. Qualifications: Education: Applicants have earned a Ph.D. by August, 2025. The discipline of the Ph.D. is open but focus of the applicant’s scholarship should be related to healthy youth development and digital technology. Required Experience and skills: Conducting applied or translational research related to digital technology and youth mental health Specific skills will differ based on needs of individual research projects but may include: quantitative and/or qualitative data management, quantitative and/or qualitative data analysis, grant writing, research team management Specific experiences will differ based on needs of individual research projects but may include experiences with: data collection via wearable devices, design and use of digital apps aimed at youth, data collection in schools or other youth-serving settings, lab-based data collection, digital ethnography, implementation science, large scale secondary data sets Preferred experience and skills: Experience with interdisciplinary, collaborative research. Experience supervising and mentoring research assistants. The ability to collaborate with and lead a team of undergraduate and graduate researchers. For more information on the benefits available to postdoctoral associates at UVA, visit postdoc.virginia.edu and hr.virginia.edu/benefits. To Apply: Please apply through the UVA job board and search for R0067193. Internal applicants must apply through their UVA Workday profile by searching 'Find Jobs.' Complete an application online with the following documents: CV Cover letter, please indicate your skills and experiences that prepare you to work on the affiliated project. Upload all materials into the resume submission field, multiple documents can be submitted into this one field. Alternatively, merge all documents into one PDF for submission. Applications that do not contain all the required documents will not receive full consideration. References will be completed via UVA’s standardized process SkillSurvey. Five references will be requested via SkillSurvey during the final phase of the interview process. For questions about the application process, please contact Michele Jarman, Academic Recruiter. For more information about UVA and the Charlottesville community please visit UVA Charlottesville and Beyond and Embark. The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician’s Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, and family medical or genetic information.

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Penn State TT Positions
by Cotter, Kelley 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

Dear AoIR colleagues, I'm happy to share that the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State is hiring across multiple areas. See links and additional details below. Social and Organizational Informatics We seek senior scholars (tenured associate or full professor) interested in the complex interactions between the human, social, cultural, political, organizational, economic, and/or technical factors fundamental to the use of information technologies. We invite humanistic and/or empirical approaches using qualitative, quantitative, and/or mixed methods that generate impact for theory and practice. https://ist.psu.edu/IST-tenured-hiring Human Centered AI We seek scholars with demonstrated expertise in specific applications of artificial intelligence (AI) that support human goals, needs, and/or values. Candidates with expertise in designing and developing novel techniques such as human-AI collaboration, human-robot interaction, or generative AI to advance knowledge are encouraged to apply. https://ist.psu.edu/HCAI-tenure-hiring Climate Informatics/AI We are interested in candidates who bring interdisciplinary approaches to a broad set of topics in climate research, including (but not limited to): hybrid physics-based and/or data-driven machine learning approaches to climate modeling; multi-scale, multi-fidelity, and/or multi-modal climate modeling; remote sensing; AI prediction of climate risks and/or adaptation strategies; carbon footprint of AI technologies; game theoretic modeling of actors in climate change; networked systems for incentivizing climate action; behavioral interventions; climate technologies for the developing world; intersections of climate justice and informatics; connected technologies; crowdsourced funding of capital-intensive climate projects; and/or new metrics for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Emphases on other interdisciplinary climate topics not mentioned above are welcome. https://ist.psu.edu/ClimInfo-tenure-hiring Security and Privacy We seek scholars with expertise in areas such as, but not limited to: the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), security, and privacy; organizational and human factors of security and privacy including ethics, policy, and data governance; cybercrime, cyberfraud, and digital forensics; the systems aspect of security and privacy; and other emerging topics such as cryptography and quantum computing. https://ist.psu.edu/SecPriv<https://ist.psu.edu/SecPriv-tenure-hiring>-tenure-hiring<https://ist.psu.edu/SecPriv-tenure-hiring> All the best, Kelley -- Kelley Cotter, PhD she, her, hers Assistant Professor College of Information Sciences & Technology Pennsylvania State University kcotter(a)psu.edu<mailto:kcotter@psu.edu> | www.kelleycotter.com<http://www.kelleycotter.com/>

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Cfp: Alt Tech Platforms: Into the Mirror Worlds of Reactionary Digital Media
by Eugenia Siapera 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

Dear all, Eight days left to submit your abstract for our Special Issue on Alt Tech platforms. More details below and in this link <https://digitalpolicy.ie/call-for-abstracts-sp-on-alt-tech-platforms/>. Marc and I are eagerly awaiting your contributions! Warmly, Eugenia and Marc ---------------- *Alt Tech Platforms: Into the Mirror Worlds of Reactionary Digital Media* *Deadline for abstract submission: November 30th* *Word count: 500 words* *Guest editors: * *Eugenia Siapera, University College Dublin* *Marc Tuters, University of Amsterdam* *Please send your abstracts to **AltTechNMS(a)gmail.com* <AltTechNMS(a)gmail.com> While much scholarly attention in recent years has been focussed on giant social media platforms' responsibility to police their content, a potentially more consequential development has been less well noticed: the systematic creation of a whole set of parallel, though much less regulated, online worlds. As platforms have taken a more aggressive stance towards content moderation, following successive misinformation scandals, ‘deplatformed’ content producers have migrated to 'Alt-Tech' platforms (Rogers, 2020), that have emerged as a critical infrastructure for reactionary movements from the alt-right to anti-vaxers (Donovan et al., 2019, Birchall & Knight 2023), whose politics are driven less by politicians than by ‘media-of-one’ creators (DiResta 2024) and ‘ideological entrepreneurs’ (Finlayson, 2023). In order to theorize these dynamics and accurately track them in a fluid and changeable informational ecosystem, we see the need for conceptual and methodological innovation. Drawing from Naomi Klein's (2023) study of online political realignment in the aftermath of the pandemic, this Special Issue uses the metaphor of ‘mirror worlds’ to consider how Alt Tech platforms seem to offer complete worldviews, ranging from health and wellness to cultural criticism, films, games and sport. Moreover, it is not uncommon to encounter modes of argument in these mirror worlds that reappropriate aspects of ‘left theory’ (Di Leo & McClennan 2023) — despite their political objectives usually being diametrically opposed. We propose the metaphor as a way to think about specific Alt Tech platforms (including Gab, Rumble, 4Chan, Bitchute and Telegram), to consider the dynamics that connect them to mainstream media, to rethink the relationship between the fringe and mainstream (as with the seeming transformation of Twitter/X into an Alt Tech platform following its acquisition by Elon Musk) and to address new and understudied developments (such as the weaponization of AI by extremists).[1] <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#m_-2257793372973777966__ftn1> At its core, the call responds to the challenge to ‘rethink’ and ‘re-contextualize’ political communication studies’ ‘functionalist’ legacy of concepts to empirically study 'disrupted’ 21st C media environments characterised by 'complexity and communication abundance' (Bennett & Pfetsch 2018). To go beyond the linear transmission model of 20th C ‘legacy media’, how do we rethink these disrupted public spheres in more multi-directional, symbolic, ritualistic and above all materialist terms? How do Alt Tech platforms mirror and distort the idealised Habermasian rational public sphere? How are they reflecting back mainstream/liberal and progressive idea(l)s, values, and forms of communication? How are the technologies and infrastructures of Alt Tech constructed, mobilised and used? What are the contours of the ‘mirror worlds’ they generate? What tools, conceptual and empirical, do we need to capture these worlds? And what may be the socio-political repercussions of these ‘mirror-worlds’? We invite contributions that address (but which are not necessarily limited) to: ● Theoretical approaches to Alt Tech, disrupted public spheres and mirror worlds ● Methodologies for tracing narrative flows within and between Alt Tech ● Alt Tech platform walkthroughs and comparative studies ● Alt Tech algorithms, users and publics ● Cross platform ethnographies ● Event-based case studies (e.g. Alt Tech & the 2024 UK anti-migration riots) ● Ideological entrepreneurs and new reactionary digital politics ● ‘Follow the money’: political economic perspectives. ● ‘Do your own research’: amateur, populist social theory ● Alt narratives, beyond mis/disinformation, propaganda & FIMI ● Alt Tech oppositional readings and debunking of mainstream media ● Generative AI development and deployment in Alt Tech platforms *Timeline* ● November 30, 2024: Deadline for submissions ● December 20, 2024: 10-12 abstracts selected for full submission ● April 30, 2025: Deadline for full manuscript submission *References* Bennett, W. L., & Pfetsch, B. (2018). Rethinking political communication in a time of disrupted public spheres. *Journal of communication*, *68*(2), 243-253. Birchall, C. & P. Knight (2023). *Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19*. Routledge Di Leo, J & S. A. McClennen. (2023) *Left Theory and the Alt-Right*. Routledge DiResta, R. (2024) *Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality*. Public Affairs Donovan J, Lewis B, Friedberg B (2019) Parallel ports: Sociotechnical change from the Alt-Right to Alt-Tech. In: Fielitz M, Thurston N (eds) *Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right: Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US*. Bielefeld, Germany, Transcript, 49–65. Finlayson, A. (2023). This is not a critique: Reactionary digital politics in the age of ideological entrepreneurship. *Media Theory*, *7*(1), 28-48. Klein, N. (2023). *Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World*. Knopf Canada. Rogers, R. (2020). Deplatforming: Following extreme Internet celebrities to Telegram and alternative social media. *European Journal of Communication*, *35*(3), 213-229.

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19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025): Second Call for Paper Submission and Workshop Proposals
by Announce 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

*** Second Call for Paper Submission and Workshop Proposals *** 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025) September 15-19, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecsa-2025 (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European software architecture conference, providing researchers, practitioners, and educators with a platform to present and discuss the most recent, innovative, and significant findings and experiences in the field of software architecture research and practice. The 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025) will be held from September 15 to 19, 2025. ECSA 2025 is planned as an in-person conference taking place in the beautiful city of Limassol (Cyprus). SCOPE The theme for ECSA 2025 is “impactful software architecture”. The software architecture discipline has had a critical role in shaping robust, scalable, and maintainable systems. We are interested in learning about software architecture principles and practices, emergence trends and case studies highlighting strategic architectural choices that can lead to enhanced performance, improved collaboration, and long-term sustainability. The overarching question is how these architectural principles and practices, both well-established and emerging, are making an impact in real-world systems, and how that impact is being felt across various domains, from enterprise systems to more novel areas like, e.g., AI-driven or autonomous applications? The Program Committee of the 19th European Conference on Software Architecture seeks submissions of original and unpublished high-quality papers describing fundamental and applied research; new methods, approaches, and processes; novel applications; education and training in software architecture; and experience reports on all topics related to software architecture. We particularly encourage papers that demonstrate that diversity in gender, culture, religion, country, etc. are key factors for success and innovation in software architecture. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Foundational principles of software architecture • Relationship of requirements engineering and software architecture • Quality attributes and software architectures • Architecture practices for secure, explainable, and trustworthy software • Architecture design and analysis • Architecture description languages and meta-models • Architecture verification and validation • Management of architectural knowledge, decisions, and rationale • Architecture patterns, styles, and tactics; reference architectures • Architecture viewpoints and views • Architecture conformance • Software architecture virtualization and visualization • Architecture-centric process models and frameworks • Software architecture and agile, incremental, iterative, and continuous development • Component-based models and deployment; middleware • Software architecture and system architecture • Software tools and environments for architecture-centric software engineering • Ethics, cultural, economic, business, social, human, and managerial aspects of software architecture • Architecture and technical debt • Architecting for sustainable and environment friendly systems • Applying AI and LLMs in software architecture and architecting for AI and LLM intensive systems • Software architecture education • Cross-disciplinary approaches to software architecture • Architectures for reconfigurable and self-adaptive systems • Architectural concerns of autonomic systems • Software architecture applied to new and emerging areas, such as the cloud/edge, big data, blockchain, cyber-physical systems, IoT, autonomous systems, systems-of-systems, energy- aware software, quantum computing, AI-enabled systems • Empirical studies, systematic literature reviews, and mapping studies in software architecture • Diversity, equity, and inclusion in activities related to software architecture PAPER SUBMISSIONS ECSA 2025 seeks four types of papers for the research track: • Research papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) which describe novel contributions to software architecture research (submissions should cover work that has a sound scientific/technological basis and has been validated) • Education and training papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that address methodologies, experiences and best practices for teaching and training software architecture • Experience reports (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that cover innovative implementations, novel applications, insightful performance results and experience in applying software architecture research advances to practical situations and systems • Short papers (max. 8 pages in LNCS style) that present novel and preliminary work-in- progress or challenges in a topic of software architecture research, education, and training. Submissions must have a sound basis, but not necessarily be validated in full. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. All contributions must be original, not published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere. Contravention of this concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of ethics, and appropriate action will be taken in all such cases. Plagiarism checking will be conducted and any paper reporting more than a 20% match with published work will be desk-rejected. To note is that research papers, education and training papers, and experience reports that are rejected in their categories may be re-evaluated as short papers only if the committee decides on rejection of the full paper on the basis that it presents preliminary work. The research track of ECSA 2025 supports an Open Science policy. We encourage all contributing authors to disclose (anonymized and curated) data/artifacts to increase reproducibility. Note that sharing research artifacts is not mandatory for submission or acceptance. Upon submission to the research track, authors are required: • To make their artifacts available to the program committee (via a link to an anonymous repository) and provide instructions on how to access this data in the paper; or • To include in the paper an explanation as to why this is not possible or desirable; and • To indicate why they do not intend to make their data or study materials publicly available upon acceptance, if that is the case While sharing research artifacts is not mandatory for submission or acceptance, authors are required to include a Data Availability statement after the Conclusions section in a section named "Data Availability". This statement should explain whether or not data and/or artifacts are available or how they could be accessed (or not). Upon acceptance, papers with Open Science artifacts (e.g., data, tools, etc.) will be invited to upload their artifacts into the ECSA Zenodo community (https://zenodo.org/communities/ecsa) to make them accessible and visible to the ECSA community. Sharing artifacts via the ECSA Zenodo community is required for authors to be eligible for the best Open Artifact award. All contributions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Page limits include figures and references. Contributions need to be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair to the ECSA 2025 Research Track: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025. Please select the “Research Track” in EasyChair for your submission and click "Continue". The proceedings will be published by Springer as part of the LNCS series. We also plan to organize a Journal Special Issue on the theme of ECSA 2025 and to invite authors of selected papers to submit an extended version of their research. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops and tutorials held in conjunction with ECSA 2025. Workshops and tutorials will be held on September 15-16, 2025 (right before the main conference on September 17-19, 2025). ECSA workshops allow researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore innovative software architecture (scientific or engineering) ideas and challenges at an early stage. Topics of interest are, but are not limited to: • Software Architecture challenges for AI- and ML-based Systems • Software Architecture challenges for Self-Adaptive Systems • Software Architecture challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems • Software Architecture challenges in Big Data and Cloud Computing • Software Architecture challenges in IoT-based Systems • Software Architecture challenges in DevOps and MLOps • Software Architecture challenges in Blockchain Engineering • Software Architecture challenges in Quantum Software • Quality-of-service (QoS) measurements of Software Architectures • Privacy and Security in Software Architectural Design • Context-aware, Autonomous, and Smart Architectures • Sustainability in Software Architectures • Software Architecture Erosion and Architectural Consistency • Technical Debt in Software Architecture Design • Architecting the Digital Twin • Continuous Architecting • Agile Software Architecting • Human Aspects of Software Architecting • Software Architecture Assessment • AI assisted Software Architecting • Agile Modeling All proposals must conform to a maximum of 8 pages following the LNCS format (see below), including references, appendices, and figures. The proposal must include the following information in the order specified: • Workshop title and acronym • Contact information for the workshop organizers (name, affiliation, email) and the main contact • Abstract (up to 200 words) for the ECSA 2025 website (if the workshop is accepted) • Motivation and Objectives ○ Relevance of the workshop to the field of software architecture ○ Anticipated goals and outcomes (e.g., open research problems to pursue, validation objectives, empirical studies) • Format ○ Workshop format (e.g., paper presentations, keynotes, breakout sessions, panel-like discussions) and plans for generating discussions ○ Duration - half day, one day or two days ○ Preliminary workshop schedule ○ Special services, logistic and/or equipment constraints • Participation ○ Target Audience and expected background ○ Plans regarding the mix of industry and research participation ○ Expected minimum and maximum number of workshop participants ○ Plans for participant solicitation and dissemination • Submission ○ Types of contributions (e.g., extended abstracts, position papers, research papers, etc.) and their estimated number. ○ Review and evaluation process deciding about the acceptance of submissions ○ Program committee, including tentative and already committed members ○ Strategy for the proceedings • Organizers ○ Brief description of each organizer’s background, including relevant past experience in organizing conferences and workshops ○ Brief organizers’ bios • Previous editions ○ Where and when the workshop has been offered previously, the past numbers of submitted and accepted papers, numbers of attendees ○ Number of registered attendees and websites of previous editions (if any) • Draft Call-for-Papers (1 page) Submissions must follow the LNCS style (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) All proposals should be submitted before the submission deadline (see below) using the online submission site: EasyChair ECSA 2025 Workshop track (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025) ECSA 2025 will use a single review process for workshop proceedings. For accepted papers, the minimum number of pages for each workshop paper is 8 and the maximum is 16 pages in the LNCS format. The proceedings of the workshops will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES Main Conference • Abstract submission: March 14, 2025 • Paper submission: March 21, 2025 • Notification: May 9, 2025 • Camera-ready paper: June 23, 2025 Workshops • Workshop proposals: February 15, 2025 • Workshop proposals notification: March 7, 2025 • Workshop papers abstracts: May 12, 2025 • Workshop papers submission: May 19, 2025 • Workshop papers notification: June 20, 2025 • Workshop papers camera-ready: June 27, 2025 • Workshop dates: September 15-16, 2025 Early/Author registration for all accepted contributions: June 27, 2025 All dates are 23:59h AoE (Anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chairs • Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland • Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groeningen, The Netherlands Program Co-Chairs • Nour Ali, Brunel University London, UK • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Pisa Workshop Co-Chairs • Tommi Mikkonen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland • Jennifer Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

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New book: “(Not) kidding: politics in online tabloids”
by kanya＠poczta.onet.pl 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

Dear Air-Listers, I wanted to let you know that my book, (Not) kidding: politics in online tabloids (Brill), is out: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004692688 The book offers an analysis of the 2015-2016 presidential and Brexit campaigns - both articles and user comments - published in major Polish, British, and US online tabloids: Pudelek, Mail Online, and Gawker; in addition, 20 journalists and editors from these outlets were interviewed to understand their work, their newsrooms, and notions of professionalism. This allows to expose the emotional public sphere of comment sections, as well as the key tabloid “(not) kidding” frame: ambiguous, reactive to readers, and shielding online tabloids from accusations of deteriorating democracy. I hope you enjoy the book! Best wishes, Helena More about the book: Often reduced to the role of sensationalist gossipmongers, online tabloids are a vital source of political news for the public. This book offers a deep dive into Pudelek, Mail Online, and Gawker coverage of 2015-2016 political campaigns in Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, where votes led to major populist shifts. Thanks to a close study of news stories, anonymous comments under articles, and interviews with online-tabloid journalists, Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer exposes the emotional public sphere of comment sections, as well as the key tabloid “(not) kidding” frame: ambiguous, reactive to readers, and shielding online tabloids from accusations of deteriorating democracy. Chapter 1 How Did We Get Here? <https://brill.com/display/book/9789004692688/BP000001.xml> Tabloidization of News and the 2015–16 Elections in Poland, UK, and the US Chapter 2 Politicians Are Crooks, Votes Are Rigged, and Other Visions of an (Un)just World <https://brill.com/display/book/9789004692688/BP000002.xml> Chapter 3 Backoffice, or How Online Tabloid Journalists Write on Politics <https://brill.com/display/book/9789004692688/BP000003.xml> Chapter 4 Conclusion <https://brill.com/display/book/9789004692688/BP000004.xml>. Online Tabloid Voices and Democracy Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, Ph.D. (2014), Assistant Professor at Koźmiński University and LSE Visiting Fellow, is a sociologist specializing in everyday culture, democracy, and media, and the author of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz: Marxism and Sociology (Brill, 2018) and Reshaping Poland's Community after Communism: Ordinary Celebrations (Palgrave, 2019). Dr Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer 2017-2025 Visiting Fellow, Department of Media & Communications London School of Economics and Political Science — Assistant Professor, Kozminski University twitter.com/HChSz <http://twitter.com/HChSz> Recent publications: Chmielewska-Szlajfer, Helena, 2024, (Not) kidding: politics in online tabloids, Leiden: Brill, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004692688 <https://brill.com/display/title/69821> Chmielewska-Szlajfer, Helena, 2020, Academics know better (?): scholars and politics in major opinion dailies during the 2015 presidential campaign in Poland, Critical Sociology, 46(7-8), 1267-1281, https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920520907962 <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0896920520907962> Chmielewska-Szlajfer, Helena, 2019, Reshaping Poland’s community after communism: Ordinary celebrations, New York: Palgrave, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78735-0 Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer

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Invitation: Is the internet good for children? - Wed 27 Nov
by Livingstone,S 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

(apologies for cross-posting) Invitation: Is the internet good for children? https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/11/202411271830/Is-the-internet-good-for-… Wednesday 27 November 2024 6.30pm to 8pm (drinks reception to follow) In-person and online public event Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building Public anxiety about children's digital lives and wellbeing is reaching a fever pitch, marking a notable turnaround from the decades-long efforts to ensure children are fully digitally included, literate and empowered. While arguments rage over what's wrong with 'screen time,' 'online harms,' and data-driven forms of exploitation, this lecture hosted by the Digital Futures for Children centre will examine how a children's rights lens can help steer an evidence-based path towards better digital futures for children. Speaker: Professor Sonia Livingstone. Chair: Professor Ellen Helsper All the very best, Sonia Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE FBA Media@LSE and Director, Digital Futures for Children (DFC) centre See www.Digital-Futures-For-Children.net/<http://www.digital-futures-for-children.net/> and www.sonialivingstone.net<http://www.sonialivingstone.net/> PEL.9.01I, LSE, London WC2A 2AE lse-information/campus-map<http://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-information/campus-map> Zoom lse.zoom.us/my/sonialivingstone<https://lse.zoom.us/my/sonialivingstone>

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Opening for N2Women Board Positions
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

Dear N2Women Members, Thank you for being part of our community. Please consider volunteering for the N2Women board! N2Women (http://n2women.comsoc.org/) continues to be a vibrant community of researchers to support women in the networking and communications fields. N2Women is a program that is generously supported by the ACM SIGMOBILE, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE Computer Science TCCC, Google, Meta and others. ***** Are you interested in helping N2Women? ***** We are looking for volunteers to serve on the 2025 N2Women Board. Each member of the Board will have a 2-year term. Why might you want to assist N2Women? 1. The time commitment is VERY small (in most cases). 2. Being on the N2Women Board is a resume/CV builder (especially useful for students/junior researchers). 3. Activities that show a commitment to promoting women in Engineering and Computer Science are valued by several organizations (e.g., NSF's broader impacts). Below are the descriptions of the open Board positions. If you have questions or would like to express interest in a position, DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Instead, apply here: https://forms.gle/wRB4X4ZxUnFg1mMt6 <https://tinyurl.com/n2womenboard2020> *** by December 22nd, 2024 (Sunday!) *** The application asks for a short paragraph about what board position(s) you are interested in and why you are interested in these positions. Please also provide a link to a PDF copy of your CV. We look forward to hearing from you! Best, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou- eirini(a)asu.edu Dola Saha - dsaha(a)albany.edu Membership Co-Chair: The responsibilities of the membership co-chair are listed as follows: * Regularly update and verify the membership contact list to ensure that all the registered emails are up to date, and clean any non-active emails * Oversee the management of the ACM email lists, create new ones (if needed), or sunset non-needed ones, in order to ensure that all the members receive important communications. * Develop initiatives to increase member engagement (especially in coordination with the website co-chairs and the social media co-chairs). * Create an onboarding process for new members to familiarise them with N2Women’s goals, resources, and activities via disseminating information-emails through the mailing lists of N2Women. Website Co-Chair: The responsibilities of the website co-chair are listed as follows: * Regularly update website content to reflect current initiatives, member achievements, and resources, in coordination with the N2Women Board Co-Chairs, Awards Co-Chairs, Fellowship Co-Chairs, Geo-diversity Co-Chairs, and Mentoring Co-Chairs. * Collaborate with other co-chairs to ensure that all sections of the website are current and accurately represent N2Women’s activities. * Implement search engine optimization strategies to increase the visibility of the N2Women website and attract new members. Social Media Co-Chair: The responsibilities of the social media co-chair are listed as follows: * Develop and maintain a content calendar to plan and schedule regular posts to N2Women’s LinkedIn page. * Maintain N2Women YouTube page by regularly posting videos of N2Women Excellence Talks. * Create engaging content (e.g., graphics, articles, videos) that promotes initiatives, events, and member achievements. * Initiate social media initiatives that align with N2Women’s goals, such as celebrating diversity, showcasing member work, or promoting events, by contacting the rest of the Co-Chairs in other roles to receive content. * Post N2Women initiatives (workshops, events, virtual talks) on social media. Geo-diversity Co-Chair: The responsibilities of the geo-diversity co-chair are listed as follows: * Design a geo-diversity program that promotes inclusion and support for women in various geographical regions, especially by contacting local chapters around the world, or regional chapters. * Establish collaborations with local organisations and institutions to enhance the geo-diversity program’s impact. * Implement a feedback mechanism (e.g., surveys through the N2Women website) to assess the effectiveness of the outreach activities and adjust the strategies, if needed. Fellowship Co-Chair: The responsibilities of the fellowship co-chair are listed as follows: * Design and implement a methodology to solicit applications for the N2Women Young Researcher Fellowships. * Organize a committee to review applications. * Draft and send formal emails to applicants regarding application status (received, accepted, declined). * Create a systematic way to maintain and organize fellowship files, including application materials and decisions, and share this information with the N@Women Board Co-Chairs. Mentoring Co-Chair: The responsibilities of the mentoring co-chair are listed as follows: * Develop a systematic approach to match mentors with mentees based on interests, expertise, and goals. * Organize training or workshops for mentors on effective mentoring techniques and program objectives. * Organize monthly talks “N2Women Excellence Talks” involving the N2Women awardees (stars and rising stars), who will act as mentors to the monthly talks attendees. * Collect and share success stories from the mentoring program to inspire participation and highlight its benefits. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Associate Professor Computer Engineering Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab’s News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” ~ Aristotle

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Apply by December 1 to teach with Wikipedia in Spring 2025!
by Helaine Blumenthal 21 Nov '24

21 Nov '24

The spring term deadline is approaching – don’t miss the opportunity to incorporate a Wikipedia assignment <http://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/> and empower your students to make a difference with their coursework! What’s it like for faculty? Professor David-James Gonzales shares <https://wikiedu.org/blog/2024/11/18/helping-students-become-informed-knowle…> how the Wikipedia assignment has become a staple in his courses since 2018. He underscores the robust learning outcomes, increased student motivation, and incredible impact of the assignment – his students’ work has been viewed more than 13 million times! What support do faculty receive for the assignment? Wiki Education provides faculty participants and students with free, wraparound support, including customized plans to fold into their syllabi, comprehensive training modules, digital tools, and guidance from our staff. Apply by December 1 for priority consideration. To apply, visit the dashboard <http://dashboard.wikiedu.org/> to create your Wikipedia account, take the self-paced orientation and create your course page (you can always make changes later). Course pages submitted after Dec. 1 will be accepted as space permits. Questions? We’d love to hear from you. Best, Helaine Blumenthal, PhD -- Helaine Blumenthal,Ph.D. (she/her) Senior Program Manager Wiki Education helaine(a)wikiedu.org teach.wikiedu.org <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikiEducationFoundation/>, Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/company/wiki-education-foundation/>

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New CDT report on Livestreaming and CSEA
by Dhanaraj Thakur 21 Nov '24

21 Nov '24

Hi everyone, We are excited to publish a new research report from the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT <https://cdt.org/about/>) entitled "Real Time Threats: Analysis of Trust and Safety Practices for Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA) Prevention on Livestreaming Platforms <https://cdt.org/insights/real-time-threats-analysis-of-trust-and-safety-pra…>." We examine the range of trust and safety tools and practices that platforms and third-party vendors are developing and deploying to safeguard livestreaming services, with a special focus on CSEA prevention. These are critically important given the impacts on children, parents, and their communities. We identified three main approaches: * Design based approaches — Steps taken before a user is able to stream, such as implementing friction and verification measures intended to make it more difficult for users, or suspicious users, to go live. * Content analysis approaches — Various forms of manual or automated content detection and analysis that can work on video, audio, and text as content is livestreamed. * Signal based approaches - Interventions based on the behavioral characteristics and metadata of user accounts. While they can be useful these approaches raise significant concerns. First, there is a general trend to eschew transparency and clarity in how these systems operate and are deployed, ostensibly to prevent bad actors from circumventing them, but potentially to the detriment of survivors, users, policymakers, and other stakeholders. Second, and related to the first point, it is almost impossible to determine how effective these approaches are, what gaps they leave, whether they result in overmoderation of legitimate content, and how well they serve the needs of all stakeholders. Third, these approaches introduce significant security, privacy, free speech, and other human rights risks that can undermine the safety of the minors that they are meant to protect as well as that of users in general. We conclude with recommendations on how to address these concerns. You can find the PDF of the "Real Time Threats …" report here <https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/CDT-Research-Real-Time-Threats-h…>which includes our policy recommendations to address this problem, or read threads on Twitter <https://x.com/CenDemTech/status/1859629915261247928>, Bsky <https://bsky.app/profile/cendemtech.bsky.social/post/3lbhtxol4t22h>, Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/center-for-democracy-%26-technology_real-tim…>, and Mastodon <https://techpolicy.social/@CenDemTech/113521808366045686>. Please feel free to share and we welcome your feedback. take care, Dhanaraj -- *Dhanaraj Thakur* (he/him) | Research Director Center for Democracy & Technology |*cdt.org <https://cdt.org/>* **dthakur(a)cdt.org | **+1 202 407 8849

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Fulltime Academic Position in Media Analytics
by chamil rathnayake 21 Nov '24

21 Nov '24

Dear colleagues, Please see details of our new post in Journalism, Media and Communications at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. For further details contact Prof. Karen Boyle, Head of Department Humanities or Prof. Lesley Henderson, subject leader for Journalism, Media and Communication. Through the Charlotte Lythe bequest, we are investing in a number of Lythe Lectureships across Humanities to support the development of postgraduate teaching and research programmes and enhance our research excellence. *Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow/Lythe Lecturer in Media Analytics (667119)* Salary Range: Lecturer: £41,421 - £56,921*, Senior Lecturer: £58,596 - £65,814 FTE: 1 FTE (hours required to fulfil duties of post – Happy to Talk Flexible Working) Term: Open-Ended Closing Date: 5-Jan-2025 The department for this vacancy is Humanities - Journalism, Media and Communication. More information on the Strathclyde Global Talent Programme including application requirements can be found on our Strathclyde Global Talent Programme website <https://www.strath.ac.uk/workwithus/strathclydeglobaltalentprogramme/>. For any enquiries, please contact globaltalent(a)strath.ac.uk. The University of Strathclyde is a socially progressive institution that strives to ensure equality of opportunity and celebrates the diversity of its student and staff community. Strathclyde is people-oriented and collaborative, offering a supportive and flexible working culture with a deep commitment to our equality, diversity and inclusion charters, initiatives, groups, and networks. <https://www.strath.ac.uk/professionalservices/accessequalityinclusionservic…> We strongly encourage applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnicity, women, LGBT+, and disabled candidates and candidates from lower socio-economic groups and care-experienced backgrounds. ** Your Fellowship will normally be at lecturer level (exceptionally, at senior lecturer (Grade 9) (£58,596 - £65,814) where you have a strong track record in research leadership) for 5 years, with the expectation that you’ll meet our promotion criteria within that period and be transferred to senior lecturer (or, where you’ve been appointed as a senior lecturer, Reader) level.* *https://strathvacancies.engageats.co.uk/Vacancies/W/3770/0/441671/15019/strathclyde-chancellors-fellow-lythe-lecturer-in-media-and-analytics-667119 <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstrathvac…>* Best Wishes, Chamil Rathnayake Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication University of Strathclyde

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