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CFP Book on Everyday Democracy: Building Resilience Against Polarization and Radicalization
by Pernilla Severson 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Dear AOIR community, Digital media, internet-connected and automated scholarly work is warmly invited to this CFP, a shared space where academics and practitioners explore various aspects of everyday democracy, particularly in the context of polarization and radicalization. By examining how everyday democracy interacts with these processes, this book aims to provide new insights into how democratic resilience can be built in the face of polarization and radicalization. Through a broad approach encompassing various societal systems and institutions, the book explores the complexities and nuances of these challenges, offering a deeper understanding of everyday democracy and its potential to mitigate the risks of polarization and radicalization. Read more below or at http://lnu.se/en/research/research-projects/project-the-book-everyday-democ… . Interested chapter contributors are welcome to propose chapters that showcase the wide spectrum of research on polarization and radicalization in relation to democratic values. Examples of topics chapters can address in the three respective categories that form the framework of the book, include but are not limited to the following: 1. Collaborative Forms: • How participatory governance initiatives, such as citizen assemblies or deliberative practices, can foster democratic resilience against polarization and radicalization • The role of digital platforms and open government practices can play in promoting dialogue, common understanding and a cohesive society • Ways in which citizen professionalism and public-work democracy can foster everyday democratic engagement that counters radical ideologies and polarization • How collaborative action research methodologies can facilitate depolarization and democratic discourse • Avenues for interdisciplinary approaches (e.g. politics, sociology, and science) to enhance the effectiveness of everyday democracy in counteracting radicalization 2. Interaction Cases: • Cities where shared governance of public spaces foster democratic engagement and challenge local extremism or exclusion • Art and cultural institutions, or local libraries, engaging e.g. marginalized youth in democratic processes • Schools where democratic practices have been implemented, making use of e.g. participatory decision-making and curriculum design • Everyday democratic practices in cities or local communities facing different types of crises (such as inequality, climate change, or migration) • NGOs and community-led fact-checking initiatives aiming to counter microradicalization • Lessons learned from the Dialogue to Change Approach (also known as Dialogue to Action) • The contribution by makerspaces, graffiti, and other art forms in contributing to everyday democratic engagement in polarized communities 3 Research-Based Explorations: • How media and social media shape everyday democratic discourse, both promoting polarization and offering platforms for counter-radicalization and democratic engagement • The democratic potential of local histories and urban movements to reclaim public spaces for equity and inclusion • The impact of popular culture—music, films, and literature—on shaping public perceptions of democracy and radicalization, both positively and negatively • The role of speculative thinking and conspiracy theories in fostering or deepening political polarization • Commonalities and differences in approaches to de-radicalization across diverse global contexts • Feminist perspectives on authoritarian populism as seen through the boundary work in everyday life Submission guidelines If you are interested in contributing to this project, please submit an extended abstract (max. 500 to 750 words) of your proposed chapter and a short biographical note (max. 150 words) by 22 November 2024, to everydaydemocracy(a)lnu.se. Chapter submissions and further editorial and peer reviews will be carried out via a publishing platform. The extended abstract must clearly state the intended analytical goals and empirical/theoretical coverage of the proposed chapter while clarifying how the proposed chapter addresses central themes of the edited volume. If possible, indicate which category your chapter is best suited for, i.e. as Collaborative Forms and Scholarly Approaches, Interaction Cases or Research-Based Explorations. Please include up to five indicative references you plan to use in your chapter. While these references might change along the way, they are useful to avoid potential overlaps among contributors. The targeted academic publisher will be chosen after the selection of abstracts is finalized. All chapters submitted should be original works and must not be under consideration by other publishers. Important dates Deadline for extended abstracts: 22 November 2024 Notification of accepted chapter proposals: 29 November 2024 Initial chapter draft: 10 January 2025 Editorial review feedback: 17 January 2025 Deadline for full submissions: 20 February 2025 Peer review: March-April 2025 Submission of revised chapters: 16 June 2025 Expected publication year: Winter 2025/Spring 2026 Editors Pernilla Jonsson Severson, Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies, Department of Media and Journalism, Linnaeus University, Sweden Contact: pernilla.severson(a)lnu.se Emma Ricknell, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Linnaeus University, Sweden Contact: emma.ricknell(a)lnu.se Contact information Please contact Pernilla Jonsson Severson at pernilla.severson(a)lnu.se if you have any questions regarding the chapter proposal. -- Pernilla

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International Symposium: Mapping the Global Impacts of Hallyu
by Natalia Grincheva 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Dear colleagues, We cordially invite you to attend the International Symposium: Mapping the Global Impacts of Hallyu <https://datatopower.net/hallyu/symposium>, scheduled for December 6, 2024, in Singapore. This symposium will launch the Hallyu Tracker application, an AI-enabled data visualization tool designed to map the global dissemination of the Korean Wave over the past three decades. By analyzing more than 300 datasets across diverse variables, the application offers a platform for comprehensive exploration of Hallyu's appeal and target export in correlation to consumption patterns in various geographic locations. The Symposium’s Program is here: https://datatopower.net/hallyu/symposium/ . The symposium will bring together scholars from around the world to present and discuss the findings of the interdisciplinary research project on Mapping Global Impact of Hallyu <https://datatopower.net/hallyu>, funded by the Major Research Fund at LASALLE and the Korea Foundation in 2024. While physical attendance is limited, we encourage virtual participation through our YouTube channel. *Please ensure to register for the event by November 24, 2024 by following the link <https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/international-symposium-mapping-the-global-impa…>.* *International Symposium: Mapping the Global Impacts of Hallyu* *Date: *December 6, 2024 *Location: *LASALLE, University of the Arts Singapore *Address:* Smart Library Room, Level 4 Block F, 1st McNally St, Singapore *Symposium Program: *https://datatopower.net/hallyu/symposium/ *Tickets:* https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/international-symposium-mapping-the-global-impa… To stay informed about our latest activities and future events, we invite you to subscribe to our Google group: https://groups.google.com/g/datatopower *Dr Natalia Grincheva*Programme Leader <https://www.lasalle.edu.sg/about/academics/dr-natalia-grincheva>, BA(Hons) Arts Management University of the Arts Singapore & Senior Research Fellow (Hon) <https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/784300-natalia-grincheva>, Digital Studio The University of Melbourne *Academic Profile: https://grincheva.com/ <https://grincheva.com/> *

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19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025): First Call for Paper Submission and Workshop Proposals
by Announce 20 Oct '24

20 Oct '24

*** First 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 Your Parents' Politics: Understanding Young People's Political Expression on Social Media
by Neta Kligler-Vilenchik 20 Oct '24

20 Oct '24

Dear AOIR community, Ioana Literat and I (Neta Kligler-Vilenchik) am happy to announce the publication of our new book, *Not Your Parents' Politics: Understanding Young People's Political Expression on Social Media <https://www.amazon.com/Your-Parents-Politics-Understanding-Communication/dp…>* , with Oxford University Press. Whether we like it or not, social media platforms have become a key space for youth political expression. Yet young people’s engagement with politics on social media looks and feels different from adult conceptions of political expression: it is creative, making inventive use of platform affordances; it is personal, shaped by young people’s experiences and identities; and it is meaningful to young people, as a space to exert their political voice. This book thus argues for the need to consider the potential value of social media, both as a space for young people to experiment with their political voice, and as a window into the political and social concerns on their minds. Grounded in empirical research on three case studies of youth political expression (the U.S. 2016 election, Black Lives Matter, and climate change) on musical.ly, Instagram and YouTube, the book offers insights into the varied ways young people engage with political issues on the social media platforms most popular with youth audiences. On a theoretical level, the book offers a conceptual framework for analyzing how different platforms shape political expression through the interaction between their affordances, norms, and contents. This empirical and theoretically-based investigation sets the stage for a normative discussion, asking how the forms of expressive citizenship identified throughout the book might bolster—or hinder—democratic engagement. Ultimately, the book considers what it means to take youth political expression on social media seriously, and what the stakes are for political socialization and democratic participation. Please ask your library to purchase a copy, or get your own here <https://www.amazon.com/Your-Parents-Politics-Understanding-Communication/dp…> . If you're buying from the OUP website <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/not-your-parents-politics-978019779…>, use this promotion code to get 30% off: ASFLYQ6 Neta will be at AOIR 2024 in Sheffield - please email me ( neta.kv(a)mail.huji.ac.il) if you'd like to hear more about the book. I am also considering a small celebratory get-together at AOIR and will be happy to invite you to it! -- Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Ph.D. (she/her) Associate Professor at the Department of Communication & Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Call for Applications for UMass Amherst Communication PhD Program - Info Session Nov.6th
by Emily West 19 Oct '24

19 Oct '24

The Department of Communication at UMass Amherst, home to leading researchers in the areas of Culture and Social Interaction, Performance Studies, Film Studies, and Media Culture and Technology, invites applications for its Ph.D. program. The application deadline is January 2nd, 2025 for Fall 2025 admission. Our program offers five years of funding for part-time assistantships in teaching and research, and includes unionized employment with health, dental, and vision insurance. We encourage applications from MA and BA students who demonstrate excellence in research. Our prominent faculty and curious students research media, technology, and social interaction at global, national, institutional, group, and interpersonal levels. Our mission is to research, teach, and do outreach rooted in an understanding of communication as the primary process through which persons, societies, and cultures are formed and changed. Our recent Ph.D. alumni are now working in leading universities in the US and across the world. Join us for an Information session on Zoom: Wednesday, November 6th 11:30 EDT. Email Prof. Gonen Dori-Hacohen: gonen at comm.umass.edu, for the Zoom link and all questions. ******************************* Dr. Emily West (she/her) Professor, Graduate Program Director Department of Communication University of Massachusetts Amherst ewest(a)comm.umass.edu<mailto:ewest@comm.umass.edu> www.emilywestphd.com<http://www.emilywestphd.com/> Fall Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:30-12:30, Thursdays 12-2 ILC S324 or on Zoom by request To reserve a timeslot, make an appointment here<https://calendar.app.google/hiwqVzZiUbgGBEsJ9>. Publications: Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/buy-now> (2022) The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture, 2nd edition<https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Advertising-and-Promot…> (with Matthew P. McAllister) (2023)

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CFP: ‘Taking seriously the unserious in resistance — the subversive force of pop culture in authoritarian/socialist/non-Western states’ Panel at BISA 2025 and IPSA 2025
by Colin Yang 18 Oct '24

18 Oct '24

Hi all, Please see below the CFP for our proposed panel to be submitted to 2025 BISA (British International Studies Association<https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0>) and IPSA (International Political Science Association<https://www.ipsa.org/events/congress/seoul2025>) annual conference and share with your networks! Thank you! Best wishes, Colin CFP: ‘Taking seriously the unserious in resistance — the subversive force of pop culture in authoritarian/socialist/non-Western states’ Panel at BISA 2025 and IPSA 2025 Call for Papers: My fellow PhD colleagues and I are putting together a panel for submission to the 2025 BISA (British International Studies Association<https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0>) in Belfast and IPSA (International Political Science Association<https://www.ipsa.org/events/congress/seoul2025>) annual conference in Seoul. We are inviting scholars who are exploring themes related to any forms of pop culture, and their potential and implications for social movement, activism and resistance in the context of non-western countries and societies, to join our panel we plan to submit to both conferences. Based on our common research interests and the theme of both conferences, our provisional title for the panel is: Taking seriously the unserious in resistance — the subversive force of pop culture in authoritarian/socialist/non-Western states. We'd like to explore how various forms of popular culture—such as vlogs, music, theatre, television, and more— can serve as a subversive force against ideological and political oppression in restrictive, non-liberal societies in non-violent, individual, 'everyday', tacit, and creative ways. Our aim is to emphasise the importance of taking these cultural forms seriously in political and International Relations (IR) studies, beyond their traditional perception as mere entertainment. Our topics currently range across queer digital vlog culture in China, the consumption of foreign pop music in North Korea and former East Germany, and the censorship of anti-Kremlin protest musicians in Russia. If you are interested in contributing to our effort in forming this panel and potentially sharing your research to bring more attention to the power of pop culture and entertainment in Politics and IR studies, please submit your paper title and a 300-word abstract along with a short introduction about yourself including your full name, affiliation and position to y.yang(a)bristol.ac.uk<mailto:y.yang@bristol.ac.uk> and sonja.nicholls(a)bristol.ac.uk<mailto:sonja.nicholls@bristol.ac.uk> by 27th October, 2024. Warm regards, Colin and Sonja

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CFP: ICA Preconference - Non-Aligned Disruptions: Global Media Histories in the Wake of Decolonization
by Zimanyi, Eszter 18 Oct '24

18 Oct '24

With apologies for cross posting - please see the CFP for our ICA 2025 Preconference, "Non-Aligned Disruptions: Global Media Histories in the Wake of Decolonization," below and share with your networks! Best wishes, Eszter Non-Aligned Disruptions: Global Media Histories in the Wake of Decolonization International Communication Association Preconference: June 12, 2025. Denver, CO Co-sponsored by: Global Communication and Social Change, Communication History Divisions With the emergence of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the 1960s, newly independent nations from across the Global South sought to generate channels and protocols for international collaboration that would bypass centuries-old colonial extractive dynamics. What began as a political project of high level diplomacy soon expanded into an ethos that inspired and guided numerous initiatives in the fields of scientific research, cultural production, architecture, and so on. In short, the Non-Aligned Movement was a major disruptor of the political, economic, and cultural status quo of the mid-20th century, and media and communication practices were key to this disruption. Projects like New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO), Broadcasting Organization on Non-Aligned Countries (BONAC), and Non-Aligned News Agency Pool (NANAP) aimed to reconfigure the international arena of communication, from reimagining networks and technology exchange to forging new collaborative practices to respond to unique and shifting on-the-ground situations of decolonizing countries in the Global South. These projects troubled and challenged established logics of the existing institutional apparatuses and research paradigms they relied on. However, the histories of these disruptions have mostly remained unwritten or been forgotten by contemporary scholarship. This preconference aims to examine the conceptual implications and epistemic challenges that NAM disruptions (as well as other forms of disruptions that emerged in media and communication systems of the Global South and are aligned to the spirit and objectives of NAM) continue to pose for media and communication research. How do we account for the varied projects that were simultaneously initiated in and carried out from locations such as India, Iraq, Algiers and Cuba? How does such a fundamentally transnational character of collaborative initiatives expand our grasp of global media histories? What do we make of institutional collaborations that unsettle our understandings of top-down and bottom-up activities? How should we frame the persistence of racial logics that NAM actors faced in the realm of international media governance? And how do NAM’s failures, alongside the simultaneous persistence of its legacies, trouble existing conceptions of media temporalities? We will bring together scholars who are tackling these and other questions to provide a greater depth and geographical scope to media and communication studies’ understanding of the long history of global connectivity. By centering historical projects of media decolonization, we also aim to advance the field’s contemporary efforts to decolonize and de-canonize knowledge production. This ICA preconference continues from two previous preconferences held in Canada and Australia respectively: “Media and Communication Studies in Global Contexts: A Critical History” and “Repressed Histories of Communication and Media Studies.” The preconference will be organized as a set of four roundtables and we invite submissions that address one of the following roundtable topics: * Develop critical histories of the disruptions and consolidations of media industries in postcolonial and non-aligned contexts, with a particular emphasis on institutional and political economic analysis. * (Re)Assess the role of popular icons in the Non-Aligned Movement (e.g. from Nasser and Nehru to Mariam Makeba and Bruce Lee) across various media forms including but not limited to films and newsreels, radio, television, posters and pamphlets, music. * Consider Non-Aligned media practices as forms of anti-colonial worldmaking and knowledge production, especially in their relation to transnational feminist, queer, disability, and other justice movements. * Explore contemporary re-activations of nonaligned visions in response to renewed pressures to align with or against regimes of power in the context of contemporary geopolitics. Information about submissions Authors should submit an extended abstract of 350-400 words (excluding references) to cargc(a)asc.upenn.edu. In a single PDF, please include: your name, institutional affiliation, email address, title of your proposed presentation, and abstract. The deadline for submissions is December 15th, 2025, 23:59 GMT. Authors will be notified by January 30, 2025 if their abstract has been accepted. Attendance to the preconference has a general USD 50.00 fee. Please note that we will be able to defray registration costs and provide some travel funding for panelists. Organizers: Eszter Zimanyi, University of Pennsylvania Sima Kokotovic, University of Pennsylvania Aswin Punathambekar, University of Pennsylvania Simone Natale, University of Turin Usha Raman, University of Hyderabad Emily Keightley, Loughborough University Jing Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ignatius Suglo, University of Richmond ------------------------------------------------------------ Eszter Zimanyi, Ph.D. Senior Research Manager Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Pronouns: she/her http://www.eszterzimanyi.com Recent Publications Interrogating the Limits of Humanitarian Art: The Uncomfortable Invitations of Ai Weiwei<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/25785273.2022.2094613?journalCo…> Virtually Wandering the Migration Trail<http://10.1353/cj.2022.0032> Humanitarian Immersions<https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47754> Discarded Visions - virtual exhibit<https://www.spectatorjournal.org/>

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DCOSS-IoT 2025 -- Tuscany (Lucca), Italy, June 9 to 11 -- Call for Papers
by Leivadeas, Aris 18 Oct '24

18 Oct '24

* Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies.* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 21st Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2025) Tuscany (Lucca), Italy June 9 to 11, 2025 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * The DCOSS-IoT series of events are always technically co-sponsored by IEEE, and Proceedings are published by IEEE Xplore. The 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2025) will be held in Tuscany (Lucca), Italy. The conference is always co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and by the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP). The conference was previously known as DCOSS. Starting in 2023, the event is broadening its scope beyond sensor networks to include smart systems in general and the Internet of Things (IoT). The updated name is "Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things" (DCOSS-IoT). In the last few years, we have witnessed significant growth in the use of IoT and distributed sensor systems in several application areas, including smart transportation, smart energy systems, smart homes and buildings, smart healthcare, and environmental monitoring. For smart sensor systems to truly become useful and pervasive, we need to address several research challenges, including the tight integration of sensing and machine intelligence, reliable and efficient networking, interoperability and scalability, the need for dependable autonomy, interaction with humans, and important aspects of security, privacy and trust. DCOSS-IoT focuses on issues arising in the entire IoT and networked sensor systems stack, covering aspects of high-level abstractions, models and languages, communication technologies, novel algorithms and applications, system design approaches and architectures, and tools for simulated and real deployments. Potential authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts demonstrating recent advances in theoretical and experimental research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Artificial Intelligence for IoT * Machine learning and data mining for IoT and Smart Systems * Smart healthcare to combat epidemics * Edge and fog computing: distributed computing models from sensor to cloud * Machine intelligence in distributed sensor systems and real-time analytics * Novel communication paradigms (e.g., 5G/6G, VLC, DSA) for IoT and Smart Systems * Cyber-Physical Systems * IoT and Smart Systems for Smart and Connected Communities * Autonomous systems: closing the loop between sensing and actuation * Time and location management * Robustness, resilience, and dependability of IoT and smart systems * Security and privacy in IoT and Smart Systems * Performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability * Mobile and human-centric sensing * IoT and Smart Systems for social computing * Interoperability, heterogeneity and scalability * Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based sensing/communications/networking * Social sensing and crowd sensing techniques, applications, and systems * Complex systems comprising wearable, robotic and/or fixed sensor systems * IoT and Smart Systems for emerging and developing economies * Green and environmentally friendly IoT (low power, harvesting, energy management) * Sensors and Robots for Internet of Intelligent Things * Design and implementation of real-world applications and systems * Approaches, tools, and experience of deployment and operation * Interdisciplinary applications of IoT and Smart Systems * Smart healthcare and digital epidemiology * Smart agriculture * Smart infrastructures * Smart cities * Smart energy, transportation, and water distribution systems * Smart factories * Smart workspace Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts demonstrating current research on distributed smart systems and IoT related to the aforementioned topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 X 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available on: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html All submissions should be written in English and have a maximum of eight (8) printed pages, including figures and references. Two (2) additional pages at 100$/page for supplementary material only (such as theorems, proofs, implementation details) are allowed. Starting 2023, DCOSS-IoT follows a double-blind review process. As a result, authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions. Although submission is double-blind, the existence or availability of non-anonymous preprints (on arXiv or other preprint servers) will not lead to your paper being rejected. Reviewers will be instructed not to look for such preprints actively but encountering them will not constitute a conflict of interest. Papers that do not meet the size, formatting, and anonymization requirements will not be reviewed. We require each paper to be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted through the EDAS submission system. *** Special Issue and Best Paper Awards *** DCOSS-IoT 2025 will announce a best paper award and a best poster/demo award. Extended versions of selected best papers from DCOSS-IoT 2025 will be included in a Special Issue of the Computer Networks (COMNET) Journal. *** Important dates *** * Abstract Registration Deadline: January 20, 2025 * Paper Submission Deadline: January 27, 2025 * Acceptance Notification: March 28, 2025 * Camera Ready Deadline: April 15, 2025 *** Key Organizers *** * Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs: * Dario Pompili (Rutgers University, USA) * Jennifer Simonjan (Technology Innovation Institute - TII, UAE) * Zhi Sun (Tsinghua University, China) * General Chairs: * Francesco Betti Sorbelli (UNIPG, Italy) * Cristina M. Pinotti (UNIPG, Italy) * Steering Committee Chair: * Sotiris Nikoletseas (University of Patras and CTI, Greece) Please visit the DCOSS-IoT 2025 website<https://dcoss.org/> for more information. Aris Leivadeas | Associate Professor Department of Software and IT Engineering École de technologie supérieure | University of Quebec 1100, rue Notre-Dame Ouest, office A-3415 Montréal (Québec) H3C 1K3 Tel. 514 396-8860 | etsmtl.ca<http://etsmtl.ca/> Find us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/etsmtl> - Twitter<http://twitter.com/etsmtl> - YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/user/etsmtl> - LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/school/etsmtl/>

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Contestations.AI 23rd Oct. Live Stream. Transdisciplinary Symposium on AI, Human Rights and Warfare
by Jascha Bareis 18 Oct '24

18 Oct '24

Dear all, I am sharing the information for this live streamed conference on behalf of the organizer Nitin Sawhney. Here goes below. Best Jascha — *Contestations.AI* *Transdisciplinary Symposium on AI, Human Rights and Warfare* *October 23, 2024* The Train Factory, Helsinki Website: https://contestations.ai *About the Symposium* Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data analytics and Automated Decision Making (ADM) are increasingly being used for surveillance, targeting, and autonomous drone warfare, in addition to proliferating misinformation on social media during war and conflicts. Conversely, these technologies are also leveraged for investigation of human rights violations as done by members of Forensic Architecture and Bellingcat. How should researchers, scholars, government actors and civil society engage and act critically to highlight, investigate, and prevent the use of AI-based systems in perpetuating human rights violations and warfare and devise critical policies and practices that mitigate harms to society today? This symposium brings critical perspectives from AI researchers, social scientists, investigative journalists, and scholars in International Humanitarian Law (IHL), human rights, Members of Parliament, and NGOs dealing with these concerns. We will examine these aspects in the context of ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, among others globally, from the role of AI for spreading misinformation in war, to autonomous warfare, and investigative journalism to uncover human rights violations. The symposium will also insert the question of technology into its larger social and political context, particularly examining questions such as the geopolitics of technology, securitisation of the nation state-system, and the role of corporate interests in technologized warfare. Our aim is to encourage inter-disciplinary and critical theorizing on such topics, while developing an action agenda for future research and pragmatic societal outcomes. In addition to talks and panels, the event will showcase experimental works of media artists critically engaging contestations in AI technologies and society. *The symposium takes place just before the United Nations Day on October 24th. >> Nitin >> -- >> Nitin Sawhney, Ph.D. >> Professor of Practice, Aalto University >> CRAI-CIS Research Group >> Department of Computer Science >> Konemiehentie 2, Room B345 >> 02150 Espoo, Finland >> crai-cis.aalto.fi >> nitinsawhney.org >> +358 452708868 > -- > > *Jascha Bareis*(Profile) > <https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/staff_bareis_jascha.php>(Scholar) > <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bf1gf9AAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao>(LinkedIn) > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jascha-bareis-36082523b/> > > Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) > <https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/index.php> > > Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT) > <https://www.kit.edu/english/index.php> > > Research Group Digital Technology and Societal Change(FG DigIT) > <https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/rg_digit.php> > > > *Recent Publications* > > The Trustification of AI. Disclosing the bridging pillars that tie > Trust and AI together. Big Data & Society > <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241249430> > > Technology Hype: Dealing with bold expectations and overpromising, > with M. Roßmann and F.Bordignon.Journal of Technology Assessment in > Theory and Practice > <https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/7073> > > Talking AI into Being: The Narratives of National AI Strategies and > Their Performative Politics, with C. Katzenbach.Science, Technology, & > Human Values <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01622439211030007> > > >

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Deadline extended CFP AAG 2025: AI and the global climate crisis
by Ryan Burns 17 Oct '24

17 Oct '24

Hi folks, we're looking for a couple more papers to round out this session. Please submit your abstracts by next Thursday, 10/24. Thank you! Ryan CFP American Association of Geographers 2025 (Detroit, MI) Organizers: Ryan Burns (University of Washington Bothell and University of Calgary) and Katherine Harrington (National Science Foundation) The advent of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has undeniable environmental impacts. In training Chat GPT-3, its parent company, OpenAI, used as much water as an average family uses in almost 2 years (DeGeurin 2023) for server cooling and electricity generation, and each 100 words it generates consumes an average of 3 bottles of water (Verma and Tan 2024). Quantifying carbon emissions produced by AI is difficult, but some estimates show that training a transformer model such as GPT-3 emits as much carbon as a single airplane flight from San Francisco to New York City (Patterson et al 2021), and the cumulative use of such models emits as much as 25 times this amount each year (Chien et al 2023). As of 2022, data centers accounted for about 2% of all global energy use, and the raw amount of energy consumed by data centers doubles roughly every 4-8 years (International Energy Agency 2022), leading some tech companies to secure sole access to energy infrastructure such as rebooting Three Mile Island nuclear reactor (Wade and Bass 2024). These staggering figures underscore the potentially dire impacts of AI on the environment in general (Hogan 2024) and, particularly, undermine global attemps to reduce carbon emissions under “net zero” schemes. To invoke Jevon’s paradox, the remarkable growth of generative AI and its future evolutions could offset any gains from efficiency innovations. The effects of AI's environmental implications, of course, go beyond the natural-physical spheres, as communities can be dispossessed of their access to water (Tironi and Albornoz, forthcoming), indigenous groups’ livelihoods can be disrupted (Lally, Kay, and Thatcher 2019), and labor laws and safety norms can be undermined at sites where key technological component materials like silicon and lithium are mined (Arboleda 2020). Taken together, this means that scientists, policymakers, humanists, and climate activists need to take a broad perspective to contend with AI’s growing environmental costs. At the same time, there are many who maintain that AI is the key to addressing the massively complex “wicked problem” of global climate change (Masterson 2024). Many of the most important tasks rely heavily on mathematical and computational decision-making, such as climate modeling and prediction and optimizing resource management, which AI is better suited to do than human cognition alone. There is also the possibility that AI can reduce greenhouse gas emissions of energy production and consumption (Kaack et al 2022) - particularly within urban settings (Townsend 2018) – and some have even suggested that futher research can reduce the water requirements of AI (Li et al 2023). This panel seeks to facilitate the growing, increasingly broad-ranging dialogue on the socio-natural, political-ecological, and environmental implications of AI. We seek to advance geographers’ understanding of the new spatial configurations of politics, resources, knowledge, and economy with which emerging AI trajectories are aligning. And we hope to deepen this conversation in order to work in small ways toward climate justice in this more deeply compromised context. Among other related questions, we encourage submissions of paper abstracts asking: * Is averting the climate crisis, let alone achieving global climate justice, even possible in a world with increasingly resource-intensive AI models and services? How do we conceive of climate justice within this emergent context? * In what ways are the energy, water, minerals, and manufacturing needs of AI reconfiguring spatial political-economies? * How are researchers measuring, qualifying, and theorizing the socio-natural, political-ecological, and environmental impacts of AI development and use? * Do our theorizations of AI’s ecological implications sufficiently adapt to different use cases (e.g., smart cities or medical imaging), models (e.g., generative AI or climate modeling), and sociospatial context? * How is the growth of AI shifting spatial labor relations, particularly with regard to its need for minerals, manufacturing, domestic and caring labor in the tech industry, maintenance and repair, and workplace norms? * What are the intersections of AI’s environmental implications with other forms of sociospatial difference such as gender, race, indigeneity, social class, state-sanctioned labor regimes, and dis/ability? * How do we reimagine and rearticulate glimmers of hope in this anxiety-riddled contemporary context? How is resistance being enacted? Where are the limits of AI’s ecological harms? How do we collectively act in strategic ways to end AI’s contributions to climate genocide and the unfolding climate crisis? We encourage submissions of 250-word paper abstracts by October 17, 2024 sent to Ryan Burns (ryan.burns1(a)ucalgary.ca) and Katherine Harrington (katherine_harrington(a)alumni.brown.edu) We will notify of acceptances within a week, and please then be prepared to submit your abstract to the AAG's system by October 31. Works Cited Arboleda, Martín. Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism. Brooklyn, New York: Verso Books, 2020. Chien, A., L. Lin, H. Nguyen, V. Rao, T. Sharma, & R. Wijayawardana. 2023. Reducing the Carbon Impact of Generative AI Inference (today and in 2035). In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems (1-7). https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3604930.3605705 (Last accessed 5/3/2024). DeGeurin, M. 2023. 'Thirsty' AI: Training ChatGPT Required Enough Water to Fill a Nuclear Reactor's Cooling Tower, Study Finds. Gizmodo. https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-ai-water-185000-gallons-training-nuclear-185032… (Last accessed 5/3/2024). Hogan, M. 2024. AI Is a Hot Mess. Training the Archive, 33–54. International Energy Agency. 2022. Electricity 2024: Analysis and forecast to 2026 (Revised version). https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/6b2fd954-2017-408e-bf08-952fdd6211… (Last accessed 5/3/2024). Kaack, L.H., P. Donti, E. Strubell, G. Kamiya, F. Creutzig & D. Rolnick. 2022. Aligning Artificial Intelligence with Climate Change Mitigation. Nature Climate Change 12, 518–527. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01377-7 (Last accessed 5/5/2024). Lally, N., K. Kay, & J. Thatcher. Computational Parasites and Hydropower: A Political Ecology of Bitcoin Mining on the Columbia River. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2019, 1–21. <https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619867608> https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619867608. Li, P., J. Yang, M. Islam, S. Ren. 2023. Making AI Less "Thirsty": Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models. arXiv preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03271 (last accessed 9/20/2024) Masterson, Victoria. 2024. 9 Ways AI is Helping Tackle Climate Change. World Economic Forum: Emerging Technologies. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/02/ai-combat-climate-change/ (last accessed 5/5/2024). Patterson, D., J. Gonzalez, Q. Le, C. Liang, L.-M. Munguia, D. Rothchild, D. So, M. Texier, and J. Dean. 2021. Carbon Emissions and Large Neural Network Training. ArXiv. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.10350 (last accessed 5/3/2024). Tironi, M., & C. Albornoz. Forthcoming. Divergent futures in a damaged territory: The rise of data centers and water controversies in Santiago de Chile. Journal of Urban Technology. Verma, P., & S. Tan. 2024. A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots. Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/18/energy-ai-use-electric… (last accessed 9/20/2024). Wade, W., and D. Bass. 2024. Microsoft AI Needs So Much Power It's Restarting Site of US Nuclear Meltdown. Bloomberg News. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-20/microsoft-s-ai-power-nee… (last accessed 9/20/2024). Best, Ryan -- Ryan Burns, PhD, FRCGS University of Calgary University of Washington - Bothell Associate Editor, GeoJournal Vice-chair, Digital Geographies Specialty Group of the AAG https://burnsr77.github.io/ https://cal.com/rlburns (to request a meeting) He/his pronouns The University of Calgary is located in southern Alberta on the traditional territories of the the Treaty 7 peoples--Blackfoot Confederacy (comprised of the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations). The City of Calgary is also home to the Metis Nation, Region 3. I am privileged, grateful, and indebted to be allowed to work within these lands.

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