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DigiLabour Book Talks 2024
by Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

Hi there! I would like to invite you to two online book talks in April on the DigiLabour YouTube<https://youtube.com/digilabour> <https://youtube.com/digilabour> channel 1. Beyond Racial Capitalism: Co-operatives in the African Diaspora April 10, 12PM EST (GMT-4) with Caroline Hossein, Sharon Wright Austin, Kevin Edmonds, Salewa Olawoye-Mann and Silvane Silva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C956sZQFVMU Book Description: Knowledge-making in the field of alternative economies has limited the inclusion of Black and racialized people's experience. In Beyond Racial Capitalism the goal is close that gap in development through a detailed analysis of cases in about a dozen countries where Black people live and turn to co-operatives to manage systemic exclusion. Most cases focus on how people use group methodology for social finance. However, financing is not the sole objective for many of the Black people who engage in collective business forms; it is about the collective and the making of a Black social economy. Systemic racism and anti-Black exclusion create an environment where pooling resources, in kind and money, becomes a way to cope and to resist an oppressive system. This book examines co-operatives in the context of racial capitalism-a concept of political scientist Cedric J. Robinson's that has meaning for the African diaspora who must navigate, often secretly and in groups, the landmines in business and society. Understanding business exclusion in the various cases enables appreciation of the civic contributions carried out by excluded racial minorities. These social innovations by Black people living outside of Africa who build co-operative economies go largely unnoticed. If they are noted, they are demoted to an “informal” activity and rationalized as having limited potential to bring about social change. The sheer determination of Black diaspora people to organize and build co-operatives that are explicitly anti-racist and rooted in mutual aid and the collective is an important lesson in making business ethical and inclusive. 2. Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power April 17, 12PM EST (GMT-4) with Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z-rihSLw_8 Book Description: Algorithms are all around us, permeating more and more aspects of our daily lives. While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, Algorithms of Resistance shows how people can resist algorithms across a variety of domains. Drawing from rich ethnographic materials and perspectives from both the Global North and South, authors Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré explore how people appropriate and reconfigure algorithms to pursue their objectives in three domains of everyday life: gig work, cultural industries, and politics. They reveal how forms of algorithmic agency and resistance are endemic and mundane and how the platform society is a contested battleground of contrasting forces. Bonini and Treré begin by outlining their key theoretical framework of moral economies. This framework argues that algorithms exist on a continuum. At its two extremes are two competing moral economies: the user moral economy and the platform moral economy. From here, Algorithms of Resistance chronicles the various inventive ways that individuals can work to achieve agency and resist the ubiquitous power of algorithms. Casting a wide net with a diverse range of case studies, Bonini and Treré reveal the moral imperative for all of us—from delivery drivers to artists to social movements—to resist algorithms. Turn on the bell notification on YouTube and see you there! best, Rafael -- dr. Rafael Grohmann Assistant Professor of Media Studies Department of Arts, Culture and Media<https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann> Faculty of Information<https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/rafael-grohmann/> University of Toronto Leader, DigiLabour<https://digilabour.com.br/> Principal Investigator, Fairwork<https://fair.work/> Brazil<https://fair.work/> International Experts Coordinator, Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab<https://pwill.eu/>

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WEBCAST MAR 26 – ISOC Nigeria – About Universal Acceptance
by Joly MacFie 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

Just started. REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/499EorG [image: ISOC LIVE] <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=3d02104af4d908c21c83d1d…> On *Tuesday 26th March, 2024*, at *11:00 WAT* (10:00 UTC) the *Internet Society Nigeria Chapter <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=76ef137efa8f909d6287d6e…>*, in celebration of *Universal Acceptance Day <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=f38dae804cb96c7087357f4…>*, hosts a webinar themed '*About Universal Acceptance* <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=8fd2e46111497877dc87d3e…> '. *HOST* *Engr. Kunle Olorundare*, President, ISOC Nigeria *SPEAKER* *Nabil Benamar*, Vice Chair, Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) *MODERATOR* *Dr. Adebunmi Akimbo*, Vice President, ISOC Nigeria *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoc-ng-ua <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=152d37b69f3adbd4ae48e04…>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/498fZCH <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=8fd2e46111497877dc87d3e…>* *REAL TIME TEXT (*see*ISOC.LIVE <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=3d02104af4d908c21c83d1d…>)* *TWITTER #UADay #UAday2024 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=95f2e9e1aa795c094d5125e…> #isocng #Internet4All @aareakinbo @oj_kunle @NABILBENAMAR6 @UASGTech* *MASTODON #UAday2024 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=790d49b5cfd90cfc919cffb…>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=428f0738db8cf35efb90a68…>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=f20d459e6162165bb078386…>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=19c53a9e62c57120b08e2bc…>* (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/isoc-ng-ua <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=1a0a8d61ccf1e8e13756a47…>* Permalink https://isoc.live/17512 -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Participants needed for survey on understanding social media in the daily lives of autistic young people
by Jessica Aiston 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

Dear Association of Internet Researchers, I am sharing this message again because the closing date has changed. I am a postdoctoral researcher at Queen Mary University of London, working on the project Autism in Affinity Spaces<http://autisminaffinityspaces.org/>. The project aims to explore how young autistic people communicate in online spaces dedicated to intense interests and how social media groups can be improved so they better support the needs of autistic users. We are currently running an initial survey about social media usage, particularly in relation to areas of intense interests. The survey is open to anyone in the UK, who is aged 16-26, and identifies as autistic (an official diagnosis is not a requirement to take part). We particularly welcome participation from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic groups as well as people who identify as non-speaking or low-speaking, as these groups are currently under-represented in autism research. The survey has been developed with autistic young people and should take approximately 10-20 minutes to complete. The closing date for the survey is 24th of May 2024. After the survey, you can register your interest in taking part in the next stage of research, which will involve interviews and linguistic analysis of your social media posts. To take the survey, visit: https://qmulbusiness.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4SDZuBAW5QHHKHc Best wishes, Jessica Aiston

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IEEE SmartGridComm 2024, 17–20 September 2024, Oslo, Norway, Deadline: April 10, 2024
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 24 Mar '24

24 Mar '24

The Organizing Committee is pleased to invite your participation in the 15th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, Control and Computing Technologies (IEEE SmartGridComm 2024)- to be held on Sept. 17-20, 2024, in Oslo Norway. This conference aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, government institutions, and regulators with background in communications, energy, control, signal processing, analytics and information systems to exchange ideas, explore enabling technologies and share experiences related to smart grids. More information about both conferences can be found on the website https://sgc2024.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/ TECHNICAL PROGRAM Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers using EDAS (https://edas.info/N31593 ) under the track “SmartGridComm 2024”) on all aspects of communications, control and computing technologies for smart grids covered by the following five technical symposia: 1. Symposium on Data Analytics and Computation: https://sgc2024.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/authors/cfp-symposium-data-analytics… 2. Symposium on Cyber Physical Security https://sgc2024.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/authors/cfp-symposium-cyber-physical… 3. Symposium on Control and Operations https://sgc2024.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/authors/cfp-symposium-control-and-op… 4. Symposium on Communications and Networking https://sgc2024.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/authors/cfp-symposium-communication-… 5. Symposium on Power Line Communication (PLC) and its Applications https://sgc2024.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/authors/cfp-symposium-power-line-com… Important Dates for technical Symposia: * Abstract Submission Date: April 3, 2024 * Full Paper Submission Date: April 10, 2024 * Notification of Acceptance Date: June 3, 2024 * Final Paper Submission Date: June 24, 2024 Conference Date/Venue: Sept. 17-20, 2024, Oslo, Norway Papers should follow the standard two-column IEEE format. The page limit is 6; authors can choose to include a 7th page in their initial submission, for a $100 fee. Both the page limits include the references. Call for Workshops, Tutorials and Technical Panel Sessions on relevant topics can be found below: Call for Workshop Proposals https://sgc2024.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/authors/call-workshop-proposals Call for Tutorial Proposals https://sgc2024.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/authors/call-tutorial-proposals Call for Technical Panel Sessions https://sgc2024.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/authors/call-technical-panel-sessions Conference Committee General Co-Chairs: * Yan Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway * Andrea M. Tonello, University of Klagenfurt, Austria * Gianfranco Chicco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Program Co-Chairs: * Sabita Maharjan, University of Oslo, Norway * Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA * Celimuge Wu, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan * José Antonio Cortés Arrabal, University of Malaga, Spain Workshop Co-Chairs: * Fei Gao, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), France * Marco Levorato, University of California, Irvine Industry Track Co-Chairs * Anil Mengi, Devolo AG, Germany * Maziar Nekovee Tutorial Co-Chairs * Christian Wietfeld, TU Dortmund, Germany * Hans-Peter Schwefel, Aalborg University, Denmark * Zhu Han, University of Houston, USA Publication Chair * Kun Wang, Fudan University, China Student Video Competition: * Yushuai Li, University of Oslo, Norway Publicity co-chairs * Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA * Wen Sun, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China * Kiran Raja, NTNU, Norway * Changqing Luo, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA * Sokol Kosta, Aalborg University, Denmark * Yongxu Zhu, Warwick University, UK Financial Chair * Bruce Worthmann, ComSoc Web Chair * Shiliang Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway Symposiums and Symposiums Chairs * Data Analytics and Computation * Phuong H. Ha, University of Tromso, Norway * Qun Zhou Sun, University of Central Florida, USA * Elena Mocanu, University of Twente, Netherland * Control and Operation * Yuan Wu, University of Macau * Sambeet Mishra, University of South-Eastern Norway * Kai Strunz, Technische University Berlin, Germany * Communication and Networking * Soufiene Djahel, University of Huddersfield, UK * Poul Einar Heegaard, NTNU, Norway * Chau Yuen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada * Cyber Physical Security * Biplab Sikdar, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Ruilong Deng, Zhejiang University, China * Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada * Subhash Lakshminarayana, University of Warwick, UK * Power Line Communications and its Applications * Thokozani Shongwe, University of Johannesburg, South Africa * Tao Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Associate Professor Computer Engineering Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab’s News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” ~ Aristotle

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ACM MobiHoc 2024 - Oct. 14-17, 2024 Athens, Greece
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 24 Mar '24

24 Mar '24

********** Our apologizes for multiple copies of this email ********** Call for Papers - ACM MobiHoc 2024: Oct 14-17, 2024, Athens, Greece https://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2024/ ACM MobiHoc is a premier conference with a highly selective single-track technical program dedicated to addressing the challenges emerging from networked and distributed systems that must operate in the face of dynamics, ranging from changing user demands to connectivity and resource availability. Examples of such dynamic networks include wired/wireless communication networks, datacenters, Internet-of-Things and sensors, mobile autonomous systems, energy, social, and transportation networks. We encourage work that presents new performance evaluation methods, novel algorithms, or provides fundamental insights for these systems. We are interested both in innovative works in an unexplored and/or emerging topic in the broad area of networks, and in novel findings and/or new insights that build on existing works. The specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Internet-of-Things (IoT), 5G, and next-generation wireless systems * Blockchain, social networks, societal networks, and emerging networked systems * Cloud computing, edge computing, datacenter networks, and distributed computing over networks * Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and virtual Radio Access Networks * Information-centric networking, network caching, and coded caching * Trust, security, and privacy in networks and networked systems * Coded computation and inference in networks * Incentive mechanism and interaction analysis of networked systems, network economics * Big-data analytics, machine learning for networks and networked systems, and network support to machine learning * Modeling, analysis, optimization, and control in computer and mobile networks * Networked and mobile unmanned/autonomous systems * Experimental studies on mobile networks and networked systems * Networked sensing and communication with new medium, e.g., light/acoustic/mmWave * Low power sensor protocols and energy-harvesting systems * Wearables and mobile health Authors can keep their names on their submitted paper, i.e., submissions are not required to be double blind. Authors can also prepare technical reports that are made available on their own websites and on purely archiving organizations such as arXiv.org. However, all submissions must comply with the dual submission policy. Each paper has a chance to submit a one-page rebuttal for the reviews. All submitted papers will be considered for a Best Paper Award. A selected set of papers will be chosen for fast-tracked publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Papers are expected to be direct and specific about their results, contributions, and context. Important Dates April 7, 2024 Abstract Registration Deadline (11:59pm EST) April 14, 2024 Paper Submission Deadline (11:59pm EST) June 20-26, 2024 Rebuttal July 28, 2024 Notification of Acceptance Oct 14-17, 2024 Conference General Chair * Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece TPC Chairs * Javad Ghaderi, Columbia University, USA * Stefan Schmid, Technical University of Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Associate Professor Computer Engineering Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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ACM GoodIT'24: Special Track on Educating for a Sustainable Digital Future -- First Call for Papers
by Announce 24 Mar '24

24 Mar '24

*** First 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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Conference announcement
by Lynn Clark 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

ECREA Preconference, Young people and news: Breaking boundaries across Europe 23rd September 2024 Free participation for ECREA members. 20€ for non-members. Please submit abstracts (min 200 max 300 words) with title, name, affiliation, short bio and email address to youthandnews.ecreapreconf24(a)gmail.com<mailto:youthandnews.ecreapreconf24@gmail.com> Social media has dramatically changed the ways that people of all ages encounter and engage with news. But young people in particular are drivers of the move from traditional to social media as sources for news (Newman et al., 2023). Research has found that those who follow news via social media are less likely to learn about a diverse set of general political views than those who follow traditional news media (Shehata and Stromback 2018). A lack of exposure to diverse political views reinforces ideological and affective polarization (Kubin & von Sikorski 2021). Additionally, young people are also more likely than adults to exhibit low levels of trust in the political system and in media, and earlier research has established a relationship between low levels of trust in politics and media and a heightened vulnerability to believing disinformation (Zimmermann & Kohring 2020). Does this then make young people more susceptible to disinformation campaigns that are propagated through social media? This question is particularly relevant in contexts of Eastern and Central Europe, where Russian-backed media have amplified false claims in ways that undermine European policies, leading to heightened tensions around refugee, asylum seeking and immigrant communities throughout Europe (Zelekauskaite, 2022). How can and should these and other communities across Europe address issues of disinformation, crucially important in the ways that Europe approaches questions of citizenship and civic engagement, as today’s young adults and their patterns of news consumption and political participation are giving shape to the future. Pre-conference website (URL): https://cicant.ulusofona.pt/activities-and-outreach/conferences/115-ecrea-c… For any queries, please contact the organising committee: youthandnews.ecreapreconf24(a)gmail.com<mailto:youthandnews.ecreapreconf24@gmail.com> The conference is endorsed by Audience and Reception Studies and Children, Youth and Media sections.

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ICA Mobile Communication Pre-Conference Registration Now Open!
by Adriana de Souza e Silva 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

Colleagues, The program for the 19th Annual ICA Mobile Pre-Conference "Mobilizing Communication Rights for Humans, More-than Humans, and Beyond" is now available and registration is now open! The pre-conference will take place at Hota (Home of the Arts) in Gold Coast, Australia, on Wednesday, June 19th, 2024. All attendees must register. Please share the program and registration link below with your institutions, students, personal and professional networks. https://www.icamobile.org/preconference Sincerely, Adriana _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva, Ph.D. University Faculty Scholar | Professor Dept. of Communication | NC State University www.souzaesilva.com <http://www.souzaesilva.com/> Co-Editor, Mobile Media & Communication <https://journals.sagepub.com/home/mmc> Vice-Chair, ICA Mobile Communication Division <https://www.icamobile.org/> Director, The Networked Mobilities Lab <https://nml.chass.ncsu.edu/> Associate Director, CRDM Ph.D. Program <https://crdm.chass.ncsu.edu/>

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CFP: Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack at HICSS
by Yoram Kalman 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, We invite you to submit your research to the HICSS Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack. This minitrack focuses on the study of communication taking place on digital and social media. Communication is the making of meaning and culture among people, with growing interconnections with a world of human-machine interactions. In mediated form, communication can involve text, emoticons, audio, images, video, virtual or augmented reality, or any combination thereof. The minitrack welcomes research on all forms of digital communication, including interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication, as well as a wide variety of contexts for communication, such as news, politics, entertainment, education, social movements and activism, etc. Additionally, this minitrack attends to the emerging interplay of human-machine communication—as evident, for example, in recent developments of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and the tools they afford for conversation and communication. For further details about the minitrack and its aims, see [1]https://CommunicationHicss.wordpress.com/ This minitrack is part of the Digital and Social Media track of HICSS. The HICSS-58 conference will be held January 7-10, 2025, at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Kohala Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii, USA. The submission site opens April 15. Submissions will be accepted until June 15, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. HST This minitrack brings together researchers and innovators to explore Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies and their implications; to raise new socio-technical, theoretical, methodological, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic, and social questions; and to suggest new methods, perspectives, and design approaches. The minitrack is the successor of the Mediated Conversation minitrack, which itself was a successor of the Persistent Conversation minitrack (established by Tom Erickson and Susan Herring at HICSS in 1999). The original minitrack was focused on the novelty of conversational persistence. With the prevalence of mediated conversation in contemporary life and a much wider landscape of digital communication that has emerged in recent years, we are called upon to consider a broader field of issues. This minitrack explores Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies and their implications 1) to raise new socio-technical, theoretical, methodological, ethical, pedagogical, linguistic, and social questions and 2) to suggest new methods, perspectives, and design approaches. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Communication dynamics (from mass to interpersonal to other forms) that shape the development of digital media spaces and their role in public and private life - The role of artificial intelligence in communication, including in areas such as mediated conversation, news, and social media - Ethics of communication, digital conversation, and media technologies: e.g., privacy, safety, deception, freedom of speech, security, and information warfare - Human-machine communication and related forms of conversation (e.g., chatbots) - The role of conversation in understanding the interplay between media producers and media audiences - The dynamics and analysis of large-scale conversation systems (e.g., MOOCs and big data applications) - Methods for analyzing communication, mediated conversation, and media technologies: qualitative, quantitative, data analytics, etc. - Innovation in the intersections of communication, mediated conversation, and media technologies - The dark side of mediated conversation: e.g., hate speech, bullying, information overload - Domain-specific applications, opportunities, and challenges of communication, digital conversation, and media technologies (e.g., in education, healthcare, social movements, government, citizen participation, management, and news media) - Studies of virtual communities and the discourses in digital spaces - Novel properties of platforms as they relate to communication/conversation dynamics - Power dynamics and conversational patterns among social media users - The role of communication, conversation, and media technologies in knowledge management and organizations - Conversation visualizations and analytics - The role of listeners, lurkers, and silent interactions Fast-track journal opportunity: Authors of papers accepted for presentation in the minitrack will be offered the opportunity to submit an extended version of their papers for consideration for fast-track publication in the ACM journal ACM Transaction on Social Computing ([2]https://tsc.acm.org/) Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack co-chairs: Seth C. Lewis (Primary contact) University of Oregon [3]sclewis(a)uoregon.edu Gina M. Masullo The University of Texas at Austin [4]Gina.Masullo(a)austin.utexas.edu Yoram M. Kalman The Open University of Israel [5]yoramka(a)openu.ac.il -- Yoram Kalman Associate professor Department of Management and Economics The Open University of Israel Mobile: +972545747375 [6]http://www.openu.ac.il/Personal_sites/Yoram_Kalman.html References 1. https://CommunicationHicss.wordpress.com/ 2. https://tsc.acm.org/ 3. mailto:sclewis@uoregon.edu 4. mailto:Gina.Masullo@austin.utexas.edu 5. mailto:yoramka@openu.ac.il 6. http://www.openu.ac.il/Personal_sites/Yoram_Kalman.html

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Inquiry Regarding PhD Scholarship Opportunities (Field of Law & Technology)
by Thiago Moraes 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

Dear AirList Colleagues, I trust this email finds you well. I am reaching out to the AirList community as I seek opportunities for PhD scholarships in Law or Public Policy. Currently, I am a PhD candidate enrolled in a joint-degree program between the University of Brasilia (UnB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), focusing my research on the use of *regulatory sandboxes to promote responsible AI innovation*. While I am self-funded and based in Brasilia, I plan to relocate to Brussels in 2025 to continue the latter part of my PhD studies. In anticipation of this move, I am exploring avenues for grants and scholarships that could assist me during my time abroad. While I am aware of the existing funding programs available at VUB, such as FWO and Global Minds, I unfortunately do not meet the eligibility criteria for these opportunities at this stage. Therefore, I am reaching out to the AirList community to inquire whether there are alternative scholarship options or resources that I might be eligible for, considering my research focus and circumstances. I believe the collective knowledge and experience within the AirList community could provide valuable insights and recommendations in this regard. Any guidance or information regarding potential scholarship opportunities or avenues for financial support would be greatly appreciated as I navigate this phase of my academic pursuit. Thank you all for considering my inquiry. I look forward to any assistance or suggestions you may be able to offer. Warm regards, Thiago Moraes

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