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Creator & Influencer Studies CFPs
by Jess Rauchberg 11 May '26

11 May '26

Hi all, A friendly reminder that *Creator & Influencer Studies *is accepting submissions for three special issue CFPs: 1. Gender Wars: Misogynoir, the Manosphere, and Content Creation as Black Media Battlegrounds. 2. Creators in Low (Visibility) Places: Reconsidering Visibility and Value in the Creator Economy 3. Health Professionals as Creators and Influencers More information about each CFP can be found here: https://link.springer.com/journal/44538/collections. -- Jess Rauchberg, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Communication Technologies Seton Hall University Associate Editor, *Creator & Influencer Studies * jessica.rauchberg(a)shu.edu www.jessrauchberg.com

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CFP: Risky Milieus - Emerging Biopolitical Economies of Circulation
by Kenneth Werbin 11 May '26

11 May '26

Please circulate widely. Apologies for cross-posting. Risky Milieus - Emerging Biopolitical Economies of Circulation Canadian Journal of Communication – Special Issue Guest Editors: Kenneth C. Werbin, Wilfrid Laurier University, kwerbin(a)wlu.ca<mailto:kwerbin@wlu.ca> Penelope Ironstone, Wilfrid Laurier University, pironstone(a)wlu.ca<mailto:pironstone@wlu.ca> We live in an era in which life itself has become the primary object of governance – measured, visualized, predicted, and optimized through data, media, and communication infrastructures. From algorithmic risk analysis and biometric surveillance to public health dashboards, climate metrics, and platform governance, contemporary power increasingly operates through data that shapes how populations are known, managed, responsibilized, governed, and policed. This call for papers invites scholars to revisit, reinvigorate, and extend Michel Foucault’s (2007) theoretical framework of governmentality into how today’s data-driven political economies are entangled with the governance and securing of the circulation of people, resources, and things amid overlapping crises of health, inequality, climate, technological transformation, and geopolitics. As Foucault (2007) so presciently outlined, modern forms of biopower manage populations through a variety of established and emerging security mechanisms that enable, shape, and secure circulation, optimizing and regulating the movement of people (migration, labour mobility, urban flows), resources (capital, food, goods, services), and things (commodities, information, pathogens, pollutants). Emerging technologies, particularly infrastructures of data, serve as both extensions and intensifications of governmentality, targeting extraterritorial spaces in which “...there are ‘zones of higher’ and ‘zones of lower risk’ and apparatuses of security concern themselves with the thresholds for identifying ‘what is dangerous’ within such milieus of circulation” (ibid, p.61). These ‘risky milieus’, or what Werbin and Shade (2025) have termed ‘biopolitical economies of circulation’, crystallize how “...governmentality and power, in our time, are tightly woven with the materiality of data and how it is stitched with bodies, resources and things in motion. Under these conditions, we must ask and continually assess: Who has access to the population’s data? How are the population’s data used to calculate and secure circulation, mitigate risk, and prevent and police disorder?” (p.766). Recent work has deepened critical engagements with how power over life, death, and data operate in late-capitalist, algorithmic societies. These interventions in data biopolitics and governmentality include theorizations of infopower and the informational person (Koopman, 2019), analysis of algorithmic governance and biopolitical control (Gamez, 2022), thinking about digital enclosures, surveillance capitalism, and the granular biopolitics of securitization (Andrejevic et al, 2024), “practices of interfacing” human and non-human entities (Lipp and Maasen, 2022), “racializing assemblages” (Wehileye, 2014), the biopolitics of settler colonialism (Morgensen, 2011) and gender (Repo, 2016), settler data regimes (TallBear, 2013), Indigenous and other data sovereignties (Rainie et al, 2019; Kukutai and Taylor, 2016; Humel et al, 2021; Walter et al, 2021), “trans data epistemologies” (Stevens and Doğan, 2025), and “queer necropolitics” and homonationalism (Puar, 2017). This call for papers asks researchers to take up and extend discussions of the interrelations between biopolitical economies of circulation, governmentality, and data to address our current techno-political reality, addressing questions such as: * How are data used to calculate and secure circulation, mitigate risk, prevent and police perceived threats, and with what consequences? * How do apparatuses of security engage with surveillance and algorithmic capitalism to shape and exploit juridical, social, political, cultural, biological, environmental, and affective economies? * What technologies leverage the flow of data to secure bodies, resources, and things and how do they shape the milieus in which they are articulated? We encourage submissions from scholars investigating emerging biopolitical milieus in areas such as (but not limited to): * Surveillance, management, and apparatuses of control * Environmental and epidemiological risk * Markets, economics, and commodification * Labour and workplace milieus * Migration, immigration, customs, and borders * Mobility, transport, and postal milieus * Platforms and cultural circulation * Data sovereignties * Subjectification, data, and oppression, including overlapping and interdependent systems of race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability * Other relevant areas Proposals of 400- to 600-words should be submitted by 30 June 2026. Please include a title, abstract, preliminary list of relevant references, and a short bio (50 words) for author(s). Authors will be contacted by approximately 15 July 2026. The deadline for full papers (maximum 8000 words in length including references) is 16 November 2026. Acceptance of the proposal does not guarantee publication of the paper. Anticipated Special Issue publication March 2028. Comments, queries, and submissions should be sent to the guest editors at the following email addresses: Kenneth C. Werbin kwerbin(a)wlu.ca<mailto:kwerbin@wlu.ca> Penelope Ironstone pironstone.ca<http://pironstone.ca/> References Andrejevic, M., O’Neill, C., Smith, G., Selwyn, N., & Gu, X. (2024). Granular biopolitics: Facial recognition, pandemics and the securitization of circulation. New Media & Society, 26(3), 1204-1226. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231201638 (Original work published 2024) Foucault, M. (2007). Security, territory, population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–1978 (M. Senellart, Ed.; G. Burchell, Trans.). Palgrave Macmillan. Gamez, P. (2023). Inhuman Hermeneutics of the Self: Biopolitics in the Age of Big Data. Foucault Studies, 34(1), 80–110. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.i34.6939 Hummel, Patrik, et al. "Data sovereignty: A review." Big Data & Society 8.1 (2021): 2053951720982012. Koopman, C. (2019). How we became our data : a genealogy of the informational person. University of Chicago Press. Kukutai, Tahu, and John Taylor, eds. Indigenous data sovereignty: Toward an agenda. Vol. 38. ANU press, 2016. Lipp, B., & Maasen, S. (2022). Techno-bio-politics. On Interfacing Life with and Through Technology. Nanoethics, 16(1), 133–150. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-022-00413-2 Morgensen, S. L. (2011). The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now. Settler Colonial Studies, 1(1), 52–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2011.10648801 Puar, J. K. (2017). The right to maim: debility, capacity, disability. Duke University Press. Rainie, S.C., et al. (2019). Indigenous data sovereignty. The state of open data: histories and horizons (F. Perini, Mor. Rubinstein, S. B. Walker, & T. Davies, Eds.; 1st ed.). Project Muse, 300-319. Stevens, N., & Doğan, A. L. (2025). Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data. Big Data & Society, 12(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517251381694 Swiffen, A. (2025). From European Roots to Settler Soil: Adapting Foucault’s Biopolitics to Canadian Settler Colonialism. Social & Legal Studies, 34(5), 735-752. TallBear, K. (2013). Native American DNA : tribal belonging and the false promise of genetic science. University of Minnesota Press. Walter, M., Lovett, R., Maher, B., Williamson, B., Prehn, J., Bodkin‐Andrews, G., & Lee, V. (2021). Indigenous data sovereignty in the era of big data and open data. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 56(2), 143-156. Weheliye, A. G. (2014). Habeas viscus : racializing assemblages, biopolitics, and black feminist theories of the human. Duke University Press. Werbin, K.C., & Shade, L.R. (2025). Revisiting Governmentality: Collapsing Information Silos and Emerging Biopolitical Economies of Circulation. Canadian Journal of Communication 50(4), 762–776.

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Livestream: Convivial Code: Vibe Coding, Vectoral Media & AI-Augmented Toolmaking | 14 May
by Dieter, Michael 10 May '26

10 May '26

Dear AoIR colleagues, We are pleased to share details of the livestream for an upcoming hybrid event at the University of Warwick: Convivial Code: The Politics and Pedagogy of Vibe Coding Thursday 14 May 2026 11:00-12:00 BST FAB Media Lab, University of Warwick / Online Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJkPO7IcDBk&list=PLT8RYjoW2HR6adA7QFpy3ubcM… Organised by the Centre for Digital Inquiry (CDI) in collaboration with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM), the event will open with a livestreamed public session on vibe coding, vectoral media and AI-augmented toolmaking. The session will feature a keynote lecture by David Berry (University of Sussex), with responses from Janna Joceli Omena (King's College London) and Bernhard Rieder (University of Amsterdam), followed by discussion. The event asks how conversational and agentic coding systems are changing programming, pedagogy and computational culture. 'Vibe coding' is often presented as a democratisation of software development, making programming more accessible to researchers, students and practitioners without formal computing backgrounds. Yet these systems also raise important questions about dependency, technical literacy, platform power, environmental cost, hidden labour, deskilling and the redistribution of expertise. Taking a cue from Ivan Illich's notion of convivial tools, the event asks what a politics of convivial code might look like today. Can AI-assisted programming support technodiversity and critical technical practice? Or does it risk reproducing and accelerating existing exclusions, concentrations of power and forms of proletarianisation? The public livestream forms part of a wider hybrid workshop at Warwick combining discussion, studio-based experimentation and collective reflection. The day will also contribute toward a short publication on the politics and pedagogy of AI-assisted programming. We warmly invite AoIR colleagues to join us online for the livestream. Best wishes, Dr. Michael Dieter (he/him) | Associate Professor | Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) Director of Postgraduate Teaching | Convenor of MA in Digital Media and Culture Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Inquiry (CDI) Applications open for CIM’s degree programmes: MSc Big Data and Digital Futures<https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/pgdip-msc-big-data-digital…> MA Digital Media and Culture<https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/ma-digital-media-culture/> MASc in Data Visualisation<https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/pgdip-masc-data-visualisat…> PhD Programmes at CIM<https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/phd-programmes/> University of Warwick | Coventry CV4 7AL

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AI Futures seminar - Sebastián Lehuedé - May 12
by Srravya C 08 May '26

08 May '26

Hi everyone, Please join us for the next *AI Futures* seminar by *Dr. Sebastián Lehuedé*, who will discuss his recent research on environmental justice and AI. The seminar is open to all, and will take place online on May 12, 2026 at 1.30 PM BST. Register *here <https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/702b4fe0-8a93-41a6-86ae-d01faafefd…>* ! *Beyond Hubris: In Situ AI and Peasant Ecological Struggles in Colombia* Many 'AI for sustainability' initiatives pursue ambitious goals, such as emissions reduction, yet often fail to address local ecological realities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia, this talk analyses two initiatives: one led by Microsoft in the Amazon and another developed by scientists and peasants in the High Andes. Through this analysis, it traces the emergence of in situ AI, highlighting its capacity to engage with local ecological struggles and address environmental injustices. Nevertheless, questions remain about whether in situ AI can effectively tackle urgent, planetary-scale environmental challenges. *Speaker bio* Sebastián Lehuedé is a Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) in *Ethics, AI and Society* in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. Sebastián’s research focuses on the governance of digital technologies from a global social justice perspective. His current project, *AI’s Nature*, explores the connection between Artificial Intelligence and environmental justice. In this work, he has engaged with urban, peasant and Indigenous communities in Chile and Colombia mobilising against a data centre project, resisting lithium extraction and participating in AI-centred conservationist initiatives. His previous project, *Scientific Data Colonialism*, examined the governance of astronomy data in Chile. Sebastián’s approach combines ethnographic methods, political ecology and decolonial thought. He has also contributed to conceptual development on data friction, digital sovereignty and reflexivity in critical data studies. He holds a PhD in Data, Networks, and Society from the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and received the 2022 Dissertation Award from the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). *AI Futures seminar series* The *Planetary AI <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fplanetary…>* project is hosting the 'AI Futures' seminar series to centre alternative visions and technofutures for more just and equal worlds. We are delighted to engage with leading thinkers for conversations on developing visions for radically different futures: Dr. Jack Stilgoe - February 17 (in-person at Edinburgh, watch the recording *here <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fplanetary…>* ) Dr. Rafael Grohmann - April 14 (online) Dr. Sebastián Lehuedé - May 12 (online - register *here <https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/702b4fe0-8a93-41a6-86ae-d01faafefd…>* ) Dr. Paola Ricaurte Quijano and Dr. Nick Couldry - June 16 (in-person at Edinburgh) -- Best, Srravya *Srravya Chandhiramowuli* Research Fellow, *Planetary AI* <https://planetaryai.net/> project University of Edinburgh

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CfP - Internet Society Foundation Research Grant
by Upasana Hembram 07 May '26

07 May '26

Greetings from the Internet Society Foundation! We would like to invite you to submit your proposals for the Research grant program. The program offers grants up to US$500,000 to support researchers around the world that are examining ideas and innovation that further the long-term goal of a world where people everywhere enjoy affordable, reliable, resilient Internet access and a safe, secure, and trustworthy online experience. Independent researchers, non-profit organizations, and public research institutions worldwide can submit proposals that explore the following thematic areas: Inclusive Internet Greening the Internet Measuring Meaningful Connectivity Trustworthy Internet Independent researchers may receive funding up to US$200,000, while organizations and institutions can receive up to US$500,000. The application period closes at 21:00 UTC on May 22nd, 2026. Internet Society Foundation is committed to open access research, and all funded projects must be published and made freely available to the public. Applications from underrepresented groups in the research community are strongly encouraged. Visit the website to learn more and apply: https://isoc.pub/ResearchGrant We look forward to reading your proposals! Upasana Hembram (she/her) Associate Program Officer Internet Society Foundation

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Conference Digital Cultures of the Caucasus: Queer-Feminist Perspectives
by Christian Pentzold 07 May '26

07 May '26

Dear all, Happy to share this call for a conference on digital cultures of the Caucasus in 2027. All best, Christian *** International Conference Digital Cultures of the Caucasus: Queer-Feminist Perspectives University of Regensburg, Germany, 3–5, 2027 This conference seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in making queer and feminist interventions in digitally mediated cultures of the Caucasus. In this rich linguistic, cultural, and politically diverse space stretching from Dagestan to northwestern Iran and Türkiye, the digital dimension has been an active arena of negotiating agency in the twenty-first century. Multiple diasporas around the world further enrich the complexity of digital imaginaries, participation, and belonging in the Caucasus. We invite contributions from across Cultural Studies, Media and Communication Studies, Literary Studies, Performance Studies, Visual Studies, History, Art History, Gender Studies, and adjacent fields, as well as from outside academia, that critically engage with digital culture, politics, and society in the Caucasus. How do, for instance, regimes of visibility and opacity shape digital cultures across the Caucasus and in the diaspora? How could practices of surveillance, policing, and their contestations inform our analytical approaches to regional digital ecosystems? And how might we conceptualize the “gaze” across geopolitical and cultural terrains? The full CfA can be accessed from here: https://tatianaklepikova.com/cfps/digital-cultures-of-the-caucasus/ <https://linklock.titanhq.com/analyse?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftatianaklepikova.com…> The conference language is English. Please submit an abstract of about 250 words and a short bio of about 100 words (as one document) by July 15, 2026, to the organizers at all three email addresses: tatiana.klepikova(a)ur.de <mailto:tatiana.klepikova@ur.de>; christian.pentzold(a)uni-leipzig.de <mailto:christian.pentzold@uni-leipzig.de>; ilgar.seyidov(a)atilim.edu.tr <mailto:ilgar.seyidov@atilim.edu.tr> Notes of acceptance will follow in August. Our discussions at the conference will be based on internally pre-circulated papers (under this format, we include academic contributions as well as essay reflections on artistic practice). Participants will need to submit their papers of 2,000 words by January 31, 2027, to enable enough time for everyone to read each other’s work. Following the conference, we will invite select authors to further develop their contributions for an edited volume in a peer-reviewed book series. The conference will be held in person in Germany. The organizers have secured limited funding to support travel costs and cover accommodation for participants, with priority given to early-career researchers, scholars based in the region, and practitioners. We recognize that personal and professional situations may vary and are open to considering hybrid participation in exceptional cases. If you are unable to participate in person, please note this information in your submission. For any questions, please reach out to Tatiana Klepikova at tatiana.klepikova(a)ur.de <mailto:tatiana.klepikova@ur.de> Conference organizers: Tatiana Klepikova University of Regensburg | Research group on Queer Literatures and Cultures under Socialism Christian Pentzold Leipzig University | Department of Communication and Media Studies Ilgar Seyidov Atılım University | Department of Public Relations and Advertising *** — Professor Dr. Christian Pentzold Geschäftsführender Direktor | Managing Director Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft | Department for Communication and Media Studies Universität Leipzig | Leipzig University Nikolaistrasse 27-29, D-04109 Leipzig christian.pentzold(a)uni-leipzig.de https://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/institut-fuer-kommunikations-und-medienw…

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Hiring a post doc (36 months+) in governance of emergent tech - HPI/Oxford
by Sandra Wachter 07 May '26

07 May '26

Are you interested in ethical, legal, and social aspects of AI, generative AI and other emerging technologies? Do you care about the impact of AI on misinformation, free press, academia and science, the future of work and climate change ? Would you like to work on tech policy issues? Come and work with me, Sandra Wachter <https://hpi.de/en/research/research-groups/technology-and-regulation/> (HPI/Oxford) at the Hasso Plattner Institute & Brent Mittelstadt and Chris Russell at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. https://tinyurl.com/556jty8t Application deadline is *June 18, 2026* If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.

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Invitation to attend (online): Talk by Chris Salter (ZHdK): “Sensing Immersion: Video passthrough, bodily technologies and sense coupling in co-extensive reality” (19 May, 4-6 pm CEST)
by van Geenen, Daniela 07 May '26

07 May '26

Dear colleagues, Please feel welcome to attend the following talk (online): Talk by Chris Salter (ZHdK): “Sensing Immersion: Video passthrough, bodily technologies and sense coupling in co-extensive reality”<https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/events/talk_-by_chris_salter_en/> Date: Tuesday, 19 May 2026, 4-6 pm CEST Location: University of Siegen, CRC Media of Cooperation, Herrengarten 3, AH-A 217/18 Online: Webex (link is sent upon registration) Please register here: https://my.liberaforms.org/talk-registration-sensing-immersion The introduction of worn mixed reality devices such as the Meta Quest 2 or the Apple Vision Pro marks an important shift towards re-centering virtual experience back onto the human body as a mediator between self, others and the world. Yet, as optical sensing technologies and their associated algorithms transform virtual reality headsets into camera-based sensing systems that “passthrough” the outside world to the wearer using live video technology, wearers increasingly must navigate two spaces simultaneously: a computationally shaped and at the same time, still phenomenally experienced physical world. This is in marked contrast to virtual reality, which has historically ignored the physical world together with the complex ways in which human bodies make sense of its affordances for perception. Taking up Saker and Frith’s description of co-extensive space (2022), we argue that we can only perceptually grasp such mediated experience through what is called “sense making” – in which an entanglement between human and machine sensing is seen as essential for understanding joint forms of meaning making. Such “participatory sense making” as a tight sensory coupling between human and machine sensing is in marked contrast to suggesting that machine sensing is either wholly responsible for world making on the one side (data extraction) or, privileging the human or biological as the unique site of sensory cognition, on the other. Chris Salter is Professor for Immersive Arts and Director of the Immersive Arts Space at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). He is also Professor Emeritus, Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal and former Co-Director of the Hexagram network for research-creation in arts, cultures and technology and Co-Founder of the Milieux Institute at Concordia. He studied philosophy and economics at Emory University and completed his PhD in theatre studies with research in computer music at Stanford University. His artistic work has been seen all over the world at such venues as the Venice Architecture Biennale, Barbican Centre, Berliner Festspiele, Wiener Festwochen, Grand Palais Immersif, MEET Center, ZKM, Kunstfest Weimar, Musée d’art Contemporain, Muffathalle, EXIT Festival and Vitra Design Museum, among many others. He is the author of three monographs, all published by the MIT Press: Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance (2010), Alien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making (2015) and Sensing Machines (2022). Best wishes Daniela van Geenen | PhD Candidate | Project A03 “Navigation in Online/Offline Spaces” | CRC Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen Special issue “Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research” (Convergence): https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/cona/30/1 Geenen, D. van, Es, K. van, & Gray, J. W. (2023). Pluralising critical technical practice. Convergence. Special Issue “Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research”, 13548565231192105. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565231192105 Chao, J., Geenen, D. van, Gerlitz, C., & Vlist, F. N. van der (2024). Digital methods for sensory media research: Toolmaking as a critical technical practice. Convergence. Special Issue “Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research”, 30(1), 236–263. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565241226791 Burkhardt, M., Geenen, D. van, Gerlitz, C., Hind, S., Kaerlein, T., Lämmerhirt, D., & Volmar, A. (Eds.). (2022). Interrogating Datafication: Towards a Praxeology of Data. transcript. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5561-2/interrogating-dataficati… Geenen, D. van, & Kaerlein, T. (2022). Modalitäten von Kritik in Praktiken des Urban Sensing. In A. Beinsteiner, N. Grünberger, T. Hug, & S. Kapelari (Hg.) (Eds.), Ökologische Krisen und Ökologien der Kritik (pp. 89–108). innsbruck university press. https://www.uibk.ac.at/iup/buch_pdfs/oekologische-krisen_mwb/10.15203-99106… See also: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1346-3253

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce 07 May '26

07 May '26

*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ Objectives ISSRE strives to be the conference that appeals to both researchers and practitioners. To that end, we invite proposals for workshops to co-locate with the Symposium and provide additional opportunities for collaborating and exchanging information. The workshops aim at discussing research developments and challenges at an early stage. ISSRE welcomes workshops that explore new ways to provide and assess software reliability, safety, and security. We also seek workshops that deal with the provision of reliable, safe, and secure software and systems in fast-growing, transformative application domains. Appropriately defined workshop proposals have the following characteristics: • They offer researchers a forum to exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas at an early stage before maturation that would warrant conference or journal publication. • They attract practitioners and researchers to working sessions to discuss and make progress toward solutions to current and future problems in engineering high assurance software and systems. • They focus on collaborative discussions and information sharing between researchers and industry practitioners. Recurring Workshops Workshops affiliated with ISSRE in previous years with good organization and numbers of participants are pre-approved. Their organizers do not need to submit a new workshop proposal. Their organizers are kindly asked to inform the workshop chairs about returning the workshop to ISSRE in 2026. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the software development lifecycle, and are not limited to: • Primary dependability attributes (i.e., security, safety, maintainability) impacting software reliability • Secondary dependability attributes (i.e., survivability, resilience, robustness) impacting software reliability • Reliability threats, i.e. faults (defects, bugs, etc.), errors, failures • Reliability means (fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance, fault forecasting) • Machine Learning and AI-based approaches for enhancing reliability of systems • Reliability, threads and biases of AI-based software systems, in particular Large Language Models • Data-related reliability and vulnerability issues and risks • Learning-based models of software systems, threads, and reliability estimates • Automated debugging and program repair • Metrics, measurements and threat estimation for reliability prediction and the interplay with safety/security • Reliability of software services • Reliability of open source software • Reliability in networks softwarization • Reliability of Software as a Service (SaaS) • Reliability of software dealing with Big Data • Reliability of model-based and auto-generated software • Reliability of software in artificial intelligence based software systems • Reliability of software within specific types of systems (e.g., autonomous and adaptive, green and sustainable, mobile systems) • Reliability of software within specific technological spaces (e.g., Internet of Things, Cloud, 5G/6G, edge-to-cloud computing, Semantic Web/Web 3.0, Virtualization, Blockchain) • Normative/regulatory/ethical spaces pertaining to software reliability • Societal aspects of software reliability Proposal Submissions Workshop proposals should include information about the proposed organizing committee and address the following questions: • Workshop length: Half day or one full day • Workshop style: papers, panels, posters, workgroups • Outline of themes and goals of the workshop • How will you solicit participation (call for workshop papers, invitation only, etc.) • Desired/estimated number of participants • Organizing committee members and their past experience Submissions need to be performed via Easy Chair, selecting the appropriate track for workshop proposals. The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 . Proposal Evaluation Workshop proposals will be evaluated by the ISSRE 2026 Organizing Committee. The criteria include the alignment with the ISSRE charter, relevance to the larger ISSRE community, and the strength and experience of the organizing team. Logistics The conference will be “in presence” with all presenters of accepted papers expected to attend the conference physically in Limassol, Cyprus. Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop proposal deadline: May 14, 2026 • Workshop proposal notification: May 21, 2026 • Workshop paper submission deadline: July 20, 2026 (NOTE: This date is only indicative – please refer to individual workshop webpages for information about deadlines) • Workshop paper notification to authors: August 10, 2026 • Camera ready papers: August 17, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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Re: [Air-L] ARPANET resurrection update and possible significances?
by Charles Melvin Ess 06 May '26

06 May '26

Hi Ulf, And many thanks in turn for the pointer to the CHM. I can only imagine how valuable and enjoyable those live demos must have been for you and your students - lucky you! Even better - especially for those of us not within reasonable travel distance to Mountain View, CA - as Jacob Johanssen helpfully pointed out, it has been possible for some time to interact with a version of ELIZA at <https://sites.google.com/view/elizaarchaeology/home>. In retrospect, moreover, I see that I may not have been as clear as to why I called attention to the possibility of running a version of ELIZA on the reconstructed ARPANET. I meant to highlight ELIZA as a test scenario for getting acquainted with the reconstructed ARPANET project was that interacting with the program gives a new user some experience with the, um, leisurely pace of the communication across the network, along with the (quickly irritating) sounds of the teletype at work, etc. I haven't spent enough time there to see how far / easy it might be to strike up a conversation with someone else online to go still further: so I thought this might be as good a place as any to start with. Clearly: this is the golden opportunity to start up the Association of ARPANET Researchers... ;-) In the meantime: I'm further grateful for these pointers as they prompted me to check further into a particular curiosity I've had for quite some time regarding the ELIZA / DOCTOR programs themselves. As a start, I'm not sure which version of the program is on offer at the elizaarcheology site. Not that it matters much to most of us - but as the terrific paper by Lane et al (including our colleague David M. Berry) explains, Weizenbaum's original 1963 version was written in MAD-LISP - whereas the version that became "the lingua franca of AI" was a clone written in 1966 by Bernie Cosell in LISP (Lane et al, 2025: <10.1109/MAHC.2025.3564095>) The latter version has also been available for some time for those of us lucky enough to have a PiDP-10 sitting on our desk - a Raspberry-Pi driven emulator / replica of the DEC PDP-10 that was used at MIT, among other places, in those days. This also appears to be the version available to the rest of us now via the ARPANET reconstruction project I mentioned: <https://obsolescence.dev/arpanet_home#> when following their first 2026 scenario: SCENARIO 1: MIT-AI DOCTOR === HOST #134 Engaging the latter opens up the same ITS operating system at work in the PiDP-10 instantiation of ELIZA; both invoke LISP alone, etc. So I wonder if the version on elizaarcheology is the Cosell version rather than the more recently discovered (2025) and only very recently reconstructed (2026) Weizenbaum version in MAD-LISP? Perhaps Jacob Johanssen and/or David Berry will know off the tops of their very capacious heads? In any case, kudos to David Berry and his colleagues who further made the Weizenbaum MAD-LISP version available to anyone working in a UNIX-like environment: <https://github.com/rupertl/eliza-ctss?tab=readme-ov-file#readme> (Lane et al, 2025, p. 76) David was also interviewed on the reconstruction of this earliest version here: <https://www.livescience.com/technology/eliza-the-worlds-1st-chatbot-was-jus…> Again, many thanks all around - and happy hacking! - c. On 26/04/2026 15:33, Ulf-Dietrich Reips wrote: > Hello Charles, all: > thank you for the pointer to the wonderful ARPANET recreation project. > > The computer history musuem (https://computerhistory.org) used to have a > live demo of the original ELIZA, which for us in psychology and > psychotherapy research became very important in both showing how > simulation could inform us about effective ingredients of psychotherapy > and how computers could contribute to mental health. I visited the > museum first in Boston at its original location and some years ago also > in Mountain View. > > The museum provides both very insightful explanations AND the hands-on > experience needed to at least partly make young people understand what > it was like to experience software on pre-Internet computers and the > beginning Internet. The exhibition was very nicely done, I highly > recommend a visit. > > Best wishes from Europe, > ulf > > At 11:12 Uhr +0200 26.04.2026, Charles Melvin Ess via Air-L wrote: >> Hi AoIRists, >> >> As I mentioned in an earlier note to Morten Bay, there is an active >> project to recreate the ARPANET from ca. 1972. You can see the update >> here: >> >> <https://obsolescence.dev/arpanet_home> >> >> Including the chance to log in yourself to one of the now 35 working >> nodes. >> >> One of the documents referenced here is titled >> >> SCENARIOS for using the ARPANET at the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON >> COMPUTER COMMUNICATION, Washington, D.C., October 24-26, 1972 >> >> and is in fact reproduced in the pages giving further instructions on >> logging in - along with 2026 scenarios that might also be fun to play >> with. >> >> One of the available programs from the MIT.AI node is: >> == >> DOCTOR is a LISP program written by Joseph Weizenbaum and described in >> "ELIZA - A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language >> Communication Between Man And Machine" in the Communications of the >> ACM, January 1966. >> DOCTOR simulates a psychiatric interview with a Rogerian psychotherapist. >> == >> (I'll come back to this below.) >> >> I know that ARPANET is central to the work of e.g.,Janet Abbate's >> early history, _Inventing the Internet_ (1999). >> But what I'm asking here, especially of historians who know these >> domains far better than I: >> 1) how far did these early exchanges, so far as they could be followed >> and/or documented - and/or, as at least some study of primary aims, >> practices, affordances, etc. might have been possible - enter into >> early research on CMC? >> 2) Might this reconstruction project, insofar as it grants access to >> "the rest of us," be of possible use / interest for historical / >> current research on CMC and its descendants? >> E.g., I know a great deal has been written about ELIZA - but, to my >> knowledge at least, not with direct access to the working program >> itself. I suspect the working program would give researchers a chance >> to not only become much more familiar with how the program works and >> "behaves," but also to try out hypotheses as to how different sorts of >> engagements, expectations, etc. might be dis/confirmed through >> actually using it? >> >> In any case, to quote the welcome message from the first terminal I >> tried: Happy Hacking! >> >> - charles >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ >> listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > >

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