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ACM GoodIT'24: Special Track on Educating for a Sustainable Digital Future -- Last Call for Papers
by Announce 06 May '24

06 May '24

*** Last Call for Papers *** ACM 4th International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT''24) Special Track on Educating for a Sustainable Digital Future https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/goodit2024/ ( *** Submission Deadline: 17 May 2024 ***) SCOPE Exploring the development of our digital future requires a comprehensive examination of both individual and societal consequences. Placing excessive emphasis on individual gains, a common practice in individualistic societies for many years, has hindered the ability to grasp the complex dynamics and forward-thinking mindset essential for the sustainability of a contemporary society. The evolving landscape of technology and the ongoing digital advancements have paved the way for creative applications in the field of education, allowing us to adapt to the ever-changing circumstances. When shaping a new approach for Information Systems and Information Technology education, it is crucial to emphasize the significance of individuals as key stakeholders and integral members of the wider community, while also recognizing the pivotal role of collaboration. In this track, we are searching for papers employing innovative technology and approaches to educate the future generation towards world equality, collegiality, inclusion and a more cooperative learning for a sustainable digital future. Values which are emphasized in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which overall aim towards creating a more equitable, sustainable, and peaceful world. This track is particularly relevant to IS/IT educators and those creative IT practitioners who care about developing a sustainable digital future. TOPICS Potential topics for papers include (but are not limited to): • Sustainable and innovative education technologies and practices • Universal access to quality education • The new role for IS/IT in society and education and the value of information and knowledge • The role of cooperative learning for life-long learning and societal developments • Digital transformation: opportunities and challenges for education, work, and society • Digital learning environments: Innovations and trends • Equality, diversity, and inclusion in education, work, and society • The use of large language models and generative AI in education • New topics and domains in IT-enhanced education We hope to attract the interest of IS/IT educators and those creative IT practitioners who care about developing a sustainable digital future. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please refer to the instructions on the conference web site: https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/goodit2024/submission-of-papers/ . All accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library . IMPORTANT DATES • Submission deadline: 17 May 2024 (AoE) • Notification of acceptance: 8 July 2024 • Camera ready: 19 July 2024 TRACK CHAIRS • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Vasso Stylianou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus CONTACT DETAILS Vasso Stylianou, stylianou.v(a)unic.ac.cy

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VIDEO / TRANSCRIPT - Scott Bradner – A History of the Internet
by Joly MacFie 06 May '24

06 May '24

*** ISOC.LIVE is free community webcasting support service sponsored by the the Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) - Big thanks to our May 2024 funder Vint Cerf *** 50 years ago this week, in May 1974, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn published their paper '*A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication* <https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos561/papers/cerf74.pdf>' which launched IP/TCP, thus pretty much kickstarting the Internet. We may see a lot of celebratory media over the coming weeks. I am taking the opportunity to plumb the ISOC LIVE archive for some historical material, starting with this talk, at Harvard in 2019, by Scott Bradner. Note that it is titled 'A history of the Internet' with an accent on the 'A', as there are many histories. This is a fresh edit and transcription. Scott Bradner himself, this week, has a fresh book out '*Forks in the Digital Road* <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/forks-in-the-digital-road-978019761…>' (Oxford University Press), a reading of which would very much flesh out the content of this presentation. [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/scottbradner>*Scott Bradner <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bradner>* presentation ‘*A History of the Internet <https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2019-02-05/history-internet>*‘ at the *Berkman Klein Center <https://cyber.harvard.edu/>* in Boston, on *February 5 2019*. A veteran of ARPANET and the IETF, among Scott Bradner’s many roles are Internet Society Trustee from 1993 to 1996 and secretary of the Board of Trustees from 2003 to 2016. This talk provides a history of the reasons for and the technology of the Internet. It also presents some of the reasons that the Internet has had such an impact and some of the challenges that may cause the Internet of tomorrow to be significantly less revolutionary than the Internet to date. *VIDEO <https://archive.org/details/scott_bradner_history_of_the_internet> | AUDIO <https://archive.org/download/scott_bradner_history_of_the_internet/scott_br…> | TRANSCRIPT <https://archive.org/download/scott_bradner_history_of_the_internet/scott_br…>* | *SLIDES <https://archive.org/download/scott_bradner_history_of_the_internet/scott_br…> * *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10981/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Real-Time Intelligent Systems 2024
by ijwa dline.info 04 May '24

04 May '24

Sixth International Conference on Real-Time Intelligent Systems (RTIS 2024) Tien Giang University My Tho (near Ho-chi-Minh) Vietnam October 17-19, 2024 www.socio.org.uk/rtis Springer Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) The International Conference on Real-time Intelligent Systems (RTIS) has traveled from Beijing, China (2016), to Ho-Chi-Min, Vietnam. The sixth edition will take place at Tien Giang University. Over the last few years, real-time intelligent computing has radically transformed the human lifestyle. Research on real-time intelligent systems is multi-disciplinary, exploiting concepts from diverse areas such as big data processing, computational intelligence, location-based services, recommendation systems, and multimedia processing. In today’s highly dynamic environment, analysing data in real-time is necessary to understand how systems process data, reason the outputs, and anticipate trends in intelligent computing. To this end, this conference will serve as a platform to manifest the ongoing research in the field. Thus, RTIS welcomes theoretically grounded, methodologically sound papers that address aspects related to topics, such as: Artificial Intelligence and Data mining Streaming data, streaming engines Trace-based intelligent real-time services Adaptive vision algorithms Location-based services Intelligent Robotic Systems Collaborative Intelligence Data capture in real-time Data quality and cleansing Intelligent Data Analysis Intelligent Database Systems Knowledge representation and reasoning Intelligent information fusion Large Language Models, cognitive methods, sequential inference, data mining, pattern/behavioral analysis, Big Data systems and applications for high-velocity data Intelligent Information Systems Privacy and security in Intelligence Software Engineering Solutions Intelligent Soft Computing Real-time multiprocessor systems Internet of Things Architectures for Intelligence Real-time distributed coding Smart services and platforms Real-time modelling user information needs Wireless Communication Real-time intelligent communication Real-time intelligent network solutions Mobile Smart Systems Broadband Intelligence Cloud Computing and Intelligence Collaborative Intelligence Analysis in domains such as energy, sensors Decision support systems in real-time Multi-agent Intelligent Systems Multilingual information access Recommendation systems Real-time intelligent alert systems Real-time remote access systems Intelligent Transportation Systems Autonomous systems (incl. autonomous vehicles and drones) Distributed systems Cloud/edge computing/fusion Defence/security, robotics, aerospace, intelligent transportation Mining/Manufacturing Environmental monitoring Critical Real-time Applications Real-time noise removal systems Event-driven analytics Intelligent Fuzzy Systems Machine translation in real-time OLAP for real-time decision support Crowdsourcing and crowd intelligence Submission, proceedings Papers must be submitted online through OpenConf. Author instructions and LaTex2e (preferred) and Word macro files are available on the submission page. Submitted papers should be at most 14 pages (long papers) and 8 pages (short ones), including figures, tables and references (in the Springer template). Authors of accepted papers are required to transfer their copyrights. For a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors MUST register for the conference by the camera-ready submission deadline with a full registration. Springer’s Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) (https://www.springer.com/series/15179) will publish the accepted papers and be indexed in SCOPUS, EI Compendex, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, and SCImago. All the papers published in the series are submitted for consideration in the Web of Science. Important Dates Submission of papers: August 05, 2024 Notification: September 01, 2024 Camera-ready: October 01, 2024 Registration: October 01, 2024 Conference Dates: October 17-19, 2024 Honorary Chair Vo Ngoc Ha, Tien Giang University, Vietnam General Chairs Le Minh Tung, Tien Giang University, Vietnam Martín LÓPEZ-NORES, University of Vigo, Spain Program Chairs Nguyen Hoang Vu, Tien Giang University, Vietnam Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India & UK Dion Goh Hoe Lian, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Co-Program Chairs Duong Van Hieu, Tien Giang University, Vietnam Ricardo Rodriguez-Jorge, Technological Centre Ceit, Spain Pavel Losket, Zhejiang University-University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Institute, China Organizing Chair Cao Nguyen Thi, Tien Giang University, Vietnam Publicity Chair Beniysa Mohsin, LTI laboratory, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Morocco Paper submission at https://socio.org.uk/rtis/paper-submission/ Contact- stm(a)socio.org.uk

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Co-Production Research opportunity! We are looking for Internet Researchers to help us understand memes better (vouchers and authorship available)
by Giovanni Schiazza 03 May '24

03 May '24

Dear AoIR email list, Please find below a co-production research opportunity! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-Production Research opportunity! We are looking for Internet Researchers to help us understand memes better (vouchers and authorship available) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am Giovanni Schiazza, a PhD student in Nottingham, studying memes. I am trying to collaboratively develop concepts of memes today, operationalisation, and computational approaches to analysing internet memes. These conceptualisations of memes will help to ‘build’ a proof of concept for an internet meme tool that uses real-life aggregated meme data! I am inviting meme researchers, makers, and experts to share their opinions and views on memes, research, ethics, computational approaches to memes, or anything else they would like to discuss regarding this project. Specifically, AoIR researchers will be perfect for this co-production study. The engagement rounds are topically different, but their common thread is internet memes and internet research. As internet meme research is highly multidisciplinary, we are recruiting researchers from different backgrounds and disciplines to build a tool that will be helpful to a range of researchers, regardless of their methods or disciplines. This is where AoIR researchers can help us! You can participate in the study even if memes are not your primary research, as you will have topical expertise in interdisciplinary internet research. We are also recruiting people with real-life experience making and consuming memes (meme experts and connoisseurs), who will help us update the conceptualisations of Internet memes to be closer to today's memes. Please complete the survey to indicate your interest in participating in workshops or interviews! You will receive a £25 voucher for participating in a 2h workshop or £10 for 1h interview. You can also be a named or anonymous co-production author or acknowledgement as part of co-production. Survey link: https://nottingham.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cTH1yVmGV2z1Cf4 Would you like more information before signing up? go here https://www.giovannischiazza.com/memetic-scholar-click-here Don't want to read the long text? that's fine; I made a video: https://youtu.be/Qp1M-yFoJTg?si=e9DjyRsdRAV_m If you know of anybody who might be interested in this type of research, please forward this message to them 😄 Thank you for your time. Best Wishes, Giovanni Giovanni Schiazza MSc (he/him) Horizon CDT PhD Postgraduate Researcher Horizon EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training, Computer Science Building, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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Representology Live Conference
by Panayiota Tsatsou 03 May '24

03 May '24

Representology Live Conference Representology Live conference invites submissions on all aspects of diversity and the media. The event is hosted by the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) and it takes place at Cardiff University on the 27th of June 2024. Submissions to representology(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:representology@cardiff.ac.uk> The organisers especially encourage contributions addressing the theme of Media and Representation: Ideas for Changing the World. This includes, but is not limited to, papers addressing themes such as: * Promoting change in media * Media futures: tackling organisational biases * Youth and the media - creating diverse careers * Creating diversity in media leadership Confirmed keynote speakers include Sir Lenny Henry and Dr David Dunkley Gyimah (co-founder of Representology) The conference fee is £50 (£30 for students), which includes a buffet lunch and tea/coffee breaks and networking drinks at the end of the conference. Please do not submit more than one abstract as first author, with no more than two abstracts in total. The deadline for abstracts (250 words maximum) is April 12th, 2024. Abstracts should be submitted online via email Should you have any questions, please contact us at representology(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:representology@cardiff.ac.uk>

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CfP - Conference "Beyond Play" (30.09. - 02.10.2024 / Bremen)
by Lisa Kienzl 03 May '24

03 May '24

Dear colleagues, below you find the CfP for the Conference "Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society" (30 Sept - 2 Oct 2024) at the University of Bremen. Submission Deadline for papers, pre-arranged panels, roundtables, posters is June 15. Best wishes, Lisa ====================================================== Call for Paper Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society (30.09. - 02.10.2024) International conference at the University of Bremen, Germany https://beyondplay2024.org ====================================================== Digital Games and gaming are carriers, accelerators and subjects of change in media culture and society. In this capacity they serve as an interlink between media industries, digital technologies, media cultures, and social practices, making them ideal cases to analyze contemporary transformation processes in the context of (deep) mediatization, digitalization, and datafication. This conference call hence builds on the premise that to understand the significance of digital games and gaming in a deeply mediatized society we need to look beyond play, i.e., the contents of games and the interaction with games alone. We call to go beyond reducing games to mere playing, examining their placement and connection within digital media environments as gamevironments to research how our communicative practices and their contexts transform through games, as well as how these games are reshaped through communicative practices. A perspective that goes beyond play indicates that researching games and gaming also allows for insights into the deepening of the mediatization and datafication of society. It is quite obvious to consider digital gaming a central aspect of the spread of digitalization in virtually all areas of social life: Computer and console games, as well as mobile games, are now an integral part of deeply mediatized lifeworlds across generations. They have become one of the dominant sectors in the media industry in terms of economic relevance and ubiquity. Games and gaming have been catalysts for the emergence of unique media cultures, playing a crucial role in mediatized everyday culture for several generations of players. Game development has become well-established and professionalized, fostering innovative forms of media expression, communication contexts, and peripheral media (e.g., video game journalism, game streaming, fan-fiction, modding). Additionally, under the concept of gamification, principles of gaming and playful elements are increasingly transferred to non-gaming contexts (e.g., health prevention, educational settings). This positions computer games and gaming as a comprehensive subject of research in communication and media studies as well as an indicator for transformation processes in media, culture and society that extend the scope of gaming. ====================================================== We invite submissions that explore the transformative power of digital gaming in deeply mediatized society, how gaming shapes mediatization, digitalization and datafication of society and how games and gaming are conversely shaped by the same processes. We invite conceptual, theoretical and methodological contributions as well as empirical studies from all disciplines. Topics to be addressed include but are not limited to - The transformative power of digital gaming for the proliferation and diffusion of new digital technologies, devices and imaginaries - The transformative power of digital gaming for representation, inclusion and the negotiation as well as transformation of social norms and values - The transformative power of digital gaming for media and communication environments around playing and beyond (e.g., games journalism, game streaming, Let’s plays, reviews and walkthroughs; gamification and language use in non-gaming settings; serious games) - The transformative power of digital gaming for individual and collaborative communicative practices and experiences (e.g., informal learning, co-creation, modding,etc.) - The transformative power of digital gaming in the context of the media manifold (e.g., transmedia storytelling, franchises across multiple platforms and multiple media formats) - Conceptual and methodological challenges and innovations for researching the transformative power of digital gaming in deeply mediatized societies - The impact of digitalization and datafication on digital games and gaming - The transformative power at play in the gaming (related) industries - The transformative power at play in the academic, ethical, and regulatory evaluation of gaming ====================================================== Formats: papers, pre-arranged panels, roundtables This conference welcomes contributions in various formats: - Papers: Normally the paper presenters can expect to have approx. 15 minutes for the presentation and 5-10 minutes for discussion. - Closed panels (120 minutes): we encourage pre-arranged panels. These panels will have 3-4 papers per panel session and probably a critical response. Normally the paper presenters can expect to have approx. 15 minutes for the presentation and 5-10 minutes for discussion. - Roundtables (120 minutes): these are pre-arranged sessions where a group of scholars (usually no more than five) discusses themes/issues of general scholarly interest in front of (and subsequently with) an audience for the duration of a single session. The roundtables should address a topic from an interdisciplinary perspective. While a roundtable can include short (5 minutes) contributions, the aim is to create a lively debate rather than focus on any one presenter. - Poster format: There will be also the possibility to present your work in form of a poster. These posters will be accessible throughout the whole conference and there will a time slot where everybody can present his/her poster. In addition, we are in the middle of organizing the possibility to play the games analyzed and discussed during the conference in a gaming studio which will be accessible throughout the conference. ====================================================== Submission Deadline Abstracts (350-500 words) for all formats should be submitted by email as an anonymized pdf-file no later than 15.06.2024 to beyondplay2024(a)uni-bremen.de. An additional file should include title, four to six keywords, name of author(s), institutional affiliation, and contact details for each author. All submissions will undergo double blind peer review. Authors will be notified of proposal acceptance/rejection until 30.06.2024. ====================================================== The event is hosted by the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research ZeMKI (https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/) at the University of Bremen in Germany and supported by the ECREA Digital Games Research Section (https://ecrea.eu/Digital-Games-Research/) and the International Academy for the Study of Gaming and Religion - IASGAR (https://iasgar.uni-bremen.de) . Additionally, IASGAR is hosting its annual IASGAR Research Day as pre-conference workshop on September 28th in a hybrid form – at site at the University of Bremen, Germany, and online. Exclusively for early-stage researchers, graduate students and doctoral students, the workshop welcomes research on media-centered approaches, perspectives of game developers and publishers, and viewpoints of gamers. Further information: https://iasgar.uni-bremen.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IASGAR_Call_For_App…. Further information: https://beyondplay2024.org and https://beyondplay2024.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CfP_Beyond_Play_2024.… . -- Dr. Dr. Lisa Kienzl (sie/ihr | she/her) Literaturen und Medien der Religion | Lab "Media and Religion" https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/lab-medien-und-religion/lab-media-and-religi… Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- & Informationsforschung (ZeMKI) Institut für Religionswissenschaft und -pädagogik Universität Bremen ** Conference "Beyond Play: The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society ** 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2024https://beyondplay2024.org

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Position in Department of Media Studies, Maynooth University (Ireland)
by Kylie Jarrett 03 May '24

03 May '24

Hi all, there's a permanent position available in my old department in Maynooth University (it's in Ireland). Get applying. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/372385/assitant-profes… Dr. Kylie Jarrett Associate Professor MA Coordinator Department of Media Studies Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare Ireland Editor-in-chief: Dialogues on Digital Society Author: Digital Labor (Polity 2022); Feminism, Labour, and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (Routledge 2016) Co-author: NSFW: Sex, Humor and Risk in Social Media (MIT Press 2019) Google and the Culture of Search (Routledge 2013)

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WEBCAST MAY 2 – topDNS Best Practice Webinar: A partnership to empower domain name registries to disrupt CSAM
by Joly MacFie 02 May '24

02 May '24

** ISOC.LIVE is free community webcasting support service sponsored by the the Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) - Big thanks to our May 2024 funder Vint Cerf ** Second eco webinar this week! REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3UJbQjF Read on blog <https://isoc.live/17819/> or Reader <https://public-api.wordpress.com/bar/?stat=groovemails-events&bin=wpcom_ema…> [image: ISOC LIVE] <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=3594ad78b42cbdd994b00a0…> On *Thursday May 2, 2024*, at *5pm-6pm CEST* (15:00-16:00 UTC) *Public Interest Registry <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=5286169c9884ab647a49555…>* (PIR), *Internet Watch Foundation <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=6cc1f13e4663507b0685a3f…>* (IWF) & eco's *topDNS Initiative <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=cdc78da4f3f5ebe0d4ab19e…>* will host a webinar '*A partnership to empower domain name registries to disrupt CSAM <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=c831973e27583acd11336c2…>*'. The session will introduce a new partnership that will empower all domain name registries to disrupt sites dedicated to the commercial distribution and exploitation of online child sexual abuse material (CSAM), announced in February. The new program includes a pioneering sponsorship agreement whereby PIR will sponsor other registries and registry service providers with free access to two key IWF services, *Domain Alerts <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=ac7635368f9d7a88a015b92…>* and the *Top-Level Domain (TLD) Hopping List <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=de6d95fe77815c3729adfc6…>*. TLD hopping is a practice whereby criminal websites are taken offline only to reappear, often with the same content and name, but under a different top-level domain. With more registries having access to the lists, there will be fewer places for criminals running abuse "brands" to try to register their sites. *SPEAKERS* *Brian Cimbolic*, Chief Legal and Policy Officer, Public Interest Registry (.ORG) *Will Few*, Development Officer, Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) *HOSTS* *Lars Steffen*, Director of International, eco *Thomas Rickert*, Director Names & Numbers, eco – Association of the Internet Industry *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/topdns7 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=31f6810f422105f51ffaa27…>* *PARTICIPATE VIA GOTOWEBINAR https://bit.ly/4dfcBsW <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=c831973e27583acd11336c2…>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3UJbQjF <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=61066bd6ad057be9fbb0940…>* *TWITTER #TopDNS <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=49eeb5c14b6bea41cceda66…> #CSAM @eco_EN @IWFhotline @PIRegistry* *MASTODON #topdns <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=069debc81409081990ab5b4…>* *SIMULCAST CHANNELS* *https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=cead8517cc2653aaf414632…>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=f13707e088a25bb36056651…>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=b3f4f9871574aeb1e39bd3e…>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/topdns7 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=1b3d733e6a5de8bf10a4875…>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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New tripleC Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis
by Christian Fuchs 02 May '24

02 May '24

Thomas, Allmer, Sevda Can Arslan and Christian Fuchs, eds. 2024. Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis. Special Issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 22 (1): 140-433. Full issue: DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1501 ABSTRACT: tripleC’s special issue on “Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis” presents 14 papers and an introduction that contribute to establishing foundations of critical theories and the philosophy of praxis in the light of digital capitalism. In Marxist theory, a theoretical and analytical strand has emerged that is focused on the roles that knowledge, communication, media, digital media, and digital communication play in and beyond capitalism. This special issue is a contribution to this type of Marxian analysis and theory construction. TABLE OF CONTENTS Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis. Introduction to the Special Issue Christian Fuchs, Sevda Can Arslan and Thomas Allmer (140-147) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1498 1. THEORISING DIGITAL CAPITALISM Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective Christian Fuchs (148-196) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1454 The Neofeudalising Tendency of Communicative Capitalism Jodi Dean (197-207) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1460 Digitalisation Today as the Capitalist Appropriation of People’s Mental Labour Friedrich Krotz (208-231) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1477 Capital is Dead. Long Live Capital! A Political Marxist Analysis of Digital Capitalism and Infrastructure Maïa Pal and Neal Harris (232-247) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1431 2. DIGITAL LABOUR AND CLASS Building the Future? Software Workers’ Imaginaries of Technology Helene Thaa, Mirela Ivanova, Felix Nickel, Friedericke Hardering and Oliver Nachtwey (248-264) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1462 Chained to the App: German Bike Couriers Riding into Digital Capitalism Jasmin Schreyer (265-291) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1463 Involution, No Revolution: Technocapitalism and Intern Labour Anthony Fung, Wei He and Feier Chen (292-306) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1455 Tracing Class and Capital in Critical AI Research Petter Ericson, Roel Dobbe and Simon Lindgren (307-328) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1464 Writing Back Against Amazon’s Empire: Science Fiction, Corporate Storytelling, and the Dignity of the Workers’ Word Max Haiven, Graeme Webb, Sarah Olutola and Xenia Benivolski (329-347) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1476 3. DOMINATION IN DIGITAL CAPITALISM Digital Commons for the Ecological Transition: Ethics, Praxis and Policies Sébastien Shulz, Mathieu O’Neil, Sébastien Broca and Angela Daly (348-365) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1456 Understanding Racism in Digital Capitalism. Racialisation and De-Racialisation in Platform Economies, Infrastructural Racism and Algorithmic Opacity Stefania Animento (366-380) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1459 Labouring and Smiling: Re-Imagining Digital Colonialism in Africa, Silicon Valley Big Techs, and the Politics of Prosumer Capitalism in Nigeria Paul A. Obi (381-395) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1451 4. DEMOCRACY, PUBLIC SPHERE AND DIGITAL CAPITALISM Railroad Luxemburg: Rosa Luxemburg’s Theory of Infrastructure and its Consequences for a Public Service Internet Charli Muller (396-412) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1461 On a Potential Paradox of a Public Service Internet Elisabeth Korn and Jens Schröter (413-433) DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1452

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CfP: Rivista di Digital Politics, Special Issue “Digital Twins”
by Luigi Rullo 02 May '24

02 May '24

CfP: Rivista di Digital Politics (https://www.digitalpolitics.it/) Special Issue “Digital Twins” Contact Information: redazione(a)digitalpolitics.it. Digital Twins One of the most advanced frontiers in Digital Innovation, “Digital twins” affect models and systems for managing, and interacting with, the social and political reality around us. This emerging technology is not limited to representing material entities, whether built or natural, but also extends to processes, organizations, and even people, dynamically reproducing all the characteristics of the represented entity by constantly updating data in real time. The rapid spread of Digital Twins on a global scale stimulates the investigation of new opportunities for the public sector, for innovation, and socio-political design. Indeed, new frontiers in development and research are opening up in a variety of areas, from governance to public administration and from active citizenship to data architecture, necessitating opportunities for systematic insights into the changes that are under way. This issue of the Rivista di Digital Politics/Journal of Digital Politics explores the topic of Digital Twins, proposing to extend the concept beyond its traditional use in industry and engineering, and bring it back to the center of the political and social science research agenda. Indeed, the advent of this technology introduces new ways of conceiving, organizing, and deciding on the horizons of contemporary society and politics, enriching the debate on the changing profiles of digital politics. The new issue of the Journal aims to explore, among others, the following aspects: -History, perspectives, and theoretical approaches to the concept of Digital Twins -Digital Twins in international, national, and private governance strategies -Reframing the role, organizational methods, and purposes of public administration -Improving public services through Digital Twins. Applications and case studies -Digital Twins in policy monitoring, evaluation, and simulation processes -Digital Twins, participation, and citizenship -Digital Twins and related concepts (e.g., metaverse, digital double, avatar, transposition, phygital) -Data architecture and data governance in different policy regimes -Cybersecurity and Digital Twins -Legal and Ethical Challenges This monographic issue welcomes article proposals that explore the topic of Digital Twins from different perspectives, with no particular preference for specific methods of analysis. In particular, establishing a synergy between scholars from different disciplines becomes imperative in order to develop a dialogue that can fully grasp the potential offered. Articles may focus on a particular application of this technology, or discuss the concept of Digital Twins more broadly, intercepting emerging trends and future areas of development and research even from a comparative perspective. Scholars interested in participating are invited to submit an abstract no later than 06/15/2024. The abstract must be within 800 words (including an essential bibliography), plus an introductory note from the author(s) of up to 100 words. All materials and communications regarding the publication should be sent to: redazione(a)digitalpolitics.it. Those who have submitted abstracts will receive a response within two weeks and should eventually submit their contributions by 10/15/2024. Submissions should be between 6 thousand and 8 thousand words, including notes and bibliography. Web Reviews include review articles and articles between 4 thousand and 6 thousand words. Articles can be written in English or Italian. Articles will be anonymously refereed. Contact Information: redazione(a)digitalpolitics.it. Social media: https://twitter.com/rivistaDP https://www.facebook.com/rivistadigitalpolitics

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