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CfP 4S/EASST AMS | Decomposing
by Selena Savic 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

Dear colleagues, We welcome contributions to the open panel #152, on "Permanent Migration of Records and Digital Representations: Decomposing the Coloniality of Fixed Archival Knowledge <https://www.easst4s2024.net/open-panels/#14198>". The panel explores how post-digital perspectives on digitization can contribute to the refusal and de-instituting of colonial relations in archival practice and institutional knowledge—by discussing the technology’s transformational requirement to recompose different ways of seeing and representing. We appreciate formats as papers, artistic in-outs, workshops, dialogues, or collective contributions. If suitable we would organize one panel session as a roundtable discussion. You will find more information on the panel here: https://www.easst4s2024.net/open-panels/#14198 You are very welcome to submit an abstract of your contribution *until February 12 2024*. You may find all the details on submission requirements here: https://www.easst4s2024.net/callforabstracts/. My colleagues, Flavia Caviezel, Lucie Kolb, Karolina Sobecka, Bernhard Garnicnig and myself look forward to reading your proposals! Best wishes, Selena Savic -- *Dr. Selena Savic* Assistant Professor for Protohistory of AI and Machines in the Arts University of Amsterdam Department of Arts and Culture Amsterdam School for Historical Studies https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/s.savic <https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/s/a/s.savic/s.savic.html>

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Call for nominations for the IJPP Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award (deadline: 28 March)
by Cristian Vaccari 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

Dear colleagues, I am writing to share the call for nominations for the International Journal of Press/Politics 2024 Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award, which honors internationally oriented books published in the last ten years that advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the linkages between news media and politics in a globalized world in a significant way. You can find a description of the award and instructions on how to submit a nomination below. The call for nominations is also available at https://journals.sagepub.com/page/hij/best-book-award-2024. I hope you will consider nominating books that meet the criteria. Please feel free to share the call for nomination with any colleagues you think may be interested in it. All the best, Cristian *** Call for Nominations: The International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award 2024 Nominations are invited for the annual International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award, to be received no later than March 28, 2024. *** Rationale The International Journal of Press/Politics Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award honors internationally oriented books that advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the linkages between news media and politics in a globalized world in a significant way. It is given annually by the International Journal of Press/Politics and sponsored by SAGE Publications. The award committee will judge each nominated book based on the following criteria: - the extent to which the book contributes to internationally relevant knowledge; - the significance of the problems addressed; - conceptual and theoretical innovation; - strength of evidence; - clarity of writing; - ability to link journalism studies, political communication research, and other relevant fields of intellectual and scholarly inquiry. *** Eligibility Books written in English and published within the last ten years will be considered. Monographs as well as edited volumes of exceptional quality and coherence will be considered for the award. Books by current members of the award committee are ineligible and committee members will recuse themselves from discussion of books that may entail conflicts of interest, such as books authored by members of their own department or published in a series they edit. Books nominated for previous editions of the award may be nominated again as long as they meet the eligibility criteria. *** Award committee The award committee consists of Cristian Vaccari (Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Press/Politics), Frank Esser (chair of the Political Communication Division of ICA), and Annika Sehl (chair of the Journalism Studies Division of ICA). *** Nominations Nominations should be emailed to Cristian Vaccari (cvaccari(a)ed.ac.uk) by March 28, 2024. Self-nominations are accepted. Nominations should be accompanied by a rationale of 300-500 words, authored by a researcher, that clearly specifies why the book meets the criteria listed above. Please include links to or copies of relevant reviews in scholarly journals if applicable. Arrangements should be made with the publishers of nominated books for one hard copy or e-book (i.e., the full book in PDF form) to be sent by March 28 to each of the three committee members at the following addresses: - Cristian Vaccari, Office 2.13C, Chrystal Macmillan Building, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, 15a George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, United Kingdom. Email: cvaccari(a)ed.ac.uk. - Frank Esser, Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Andreas St 15, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland. Email: f.esser(a)ikmz.uzh.ch - Annika Sehl, Department of Journalism, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Ostenstraße 25, 85072 Eichstätt, Germany. Email: annika.sehl(a)ku.de *** Presentation The award will be presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association and will be announced on the IJPP website. *** Past winners of the award 2023: Gadi Wolfsfeld, Tamir Sheafer, and Scott Althaus, Building Theory in Political Communication: The Politics-Media-Politics Approach (Oxford University Press 2022). 2022: Nikki Usher, News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism (Columbia University Press 2021). 2021: Allissa V. Richardson, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism (Oxford University Press 2020). 2020: Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Jyotika Ramaprasad, and Arnold S. de Beer (Editors), Worlds of Journalism: Journalistic Cultures Around the Globe (Columbia University Press, 2019). 2019: Maria Repnikova, Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2017). 2018: Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril, and Claes H. de Vreese, Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2014). 2017: Katrin Voltmer, The Media in Transitional Democracies (Polity Press, 2013). 2016: Andrew Chadwick, The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power (Oxford University Press, 1st edition 2013). 2015: Rodney Benson, Shaping Immigration News (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Cristian Vaccari, he/him/his ************************* Chair in Future Governance, Public Policy, and Technology, University of Edinburgh Director, MSc Future Governance, Edinburgh Futures Institute Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Press/Politics ************************* Personal website: https://cristianvaccari.com/ Google Scholar profile Mastodon: @cvaccari@mastodon.social

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Global Media and China || Hybrid Workshop: Pluralising China-as-Method
by Xiao Han 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

Dear All, *Hybrid Workshop of Global Media and China: Pluralising China-as-Method: Decolonising Cultural Mediations in the Global South* We welcome anyone interested in, for free, online and offline. The *Global Media and China* (http://gch.sagepub.com/) is published by Sage journals with current IF: 2.1. Follow us on: https://twitter.com/GC.ournal <https://twitter.com/GCHjournal>. *Time: 17 January 2024 (Wednesday)* * 4 - 6 pm (Beijing/Hong Kong)/9 -11 am (CET)* *Venue: 5/F Esther Lee Building, The Hong Kong Institute of Asia Pacific Studies, the Chinese * * University of Hong Kong* *Zoom Meeting ID: 946 3221 5904* Organised by: the Sage journal *Global Media and China*; the Hong Kong Institute of Asia Pacific, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. *Chairs:* Professor Anthony Fung (the Chinese University of Hong Kong) Dr Xiao Han (Communication University of China) *Schedule and Speakers:* Part 1 Opening and Introduction Part 2 Main Sessions *Introduction: 'China-as-method' as an epistemological approach?* Speakers: Dr Tommy Tse (The University of Amsterdam); Dr Ling Tung Tsang (The University of Hong Kong); Dr Xiaotian Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) *Panel 1: Re-understanding nationalism and gender politics* Speakers: Dr Ling Tung Tsang (The University of Hong Kong); Ms Qian Li (PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong) & Dr Xiaotian Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University); Ms Fan Xiao (PhD candidate at Hong Kong Baptist University) Moderator: Dr Xiaotian Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) *Panel 2: Envisioning a *Global* China* Speakers: Dr Johanna von Pezold (the University of Amsterdam); Ms Ke Ma (PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam); Mr Pengze Bai (PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong) Moderator: Dr Johanna von Pezold (the University of Amsterdam) *Panel 3: Reimagining '*Digital*' in China* Speakers: Ms Holy Shum (PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong); Dr Tommy Tse (The University of Amsterdam) Moderator: Dr Ling Tung Tsang (The University of Hong Kong) *Part 3: Conclusions* All the best, -- Xiao Han, Research Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication, Communication University of China Managing Editor, Global Media and China ( https://journals.sagepub.com/home/gch)

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CFP for Conference on Children and Youth - consumer culture (due Jan 30)
by Natalie H. Coulter 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

Dear AoIR folks Please take look at the conference and share with your networks. There is lots of room at the CTC for scholarship on young people and digital cultures, social media, digital technologies etc. Natalie CHILD AND TEEN CONSUMPTION 2024 11th Interdisciplinary Conference on Child and Teen Consumption October 16 -18 2024, York University, Toronto, Canada PLAYING WITH BORDERS The 2024 edition of the Child and Teen Consumption Conference will be held in Toronto (Canada) and will be hosted by York University, October 16-18, 2024. The theme of the 11th Child and Teen Consumption Conference is Playing with Borders. The borders and boundaries of young people’s cultural worlds are messy and in flux, especially in the spaces of consumer culture, digital culture and media culture. From the borders between the analog and the digital, the authentic and the branded, the global and the local, play and labour to, food and fun, young people contest, resist, negotiate, push and play with the boundaries in the between. We invite research and approaches that interrogate the concepts and definition of children’s and teens “play”, and how young people themselves “play” in mediated and digitized spaces. This theme is dedicated to the critical study of issues relevant to child and teen consumption, with methods and perspectives drawn from across the humanities and qualitative social sciences. We welcome applications from any discipline, department, or field. We are especially eager to receive applications that approach such questions from critical perspectives that centre marginalized selves: queer, trans, feminist, crip, antiracist, abolitionist, decolonial, Indigenous, diasporic, transnational, and so on. Presentations may examine a variety of topics including, but not limited to: * Branding and marketing of young people * Children and sustainability (SDG) * Children’s mediated cultures * Children’s rights and justice * Climate change * Consumer culture * Consumer desires * Digital literacies * Digital technologies * Disability and play * Families and consumer culture * Food cultures * Gender and/or race in consumer culture * Global migration * Historical approaches to consumption and play * Identities and consumer culture * LGBTQIA2+ youth * Material cultures * New methodologies in children and consumption * Play and Fun * Poverty and Scarcity * Policy on marketing and advertising * Social media practices and cultures * Sociology of food * War, poverty and food insecurity for children Submission process: Applications will undergo an interdisciplinary evaluation: a paper from a disciplinary background will be evaluated by researchers from other disciplines. Applications are due 30 January 2024. Successful applicants will be notified by the beginning of March 2024. Applications can be submitted here. https://www.yorku.ca/events/ctc2024/applications/ About the Association: The Child and Teen Consumption Conferences address a wide range of topics linking childhood and adolescence with consumer environments in different social and institutional contexts. This forum aims to be a meeting place for scholars and practitioners to examine different issues affecting children for better or for worse, such as media, technology, privacy, climate change, social exclusion, and SDGs, from diverse disciplinary perspectives including psychology, sociology, communication, anthropology, history, education sciences, and law. Since the beginning, the Child and Teen Consumption Conferences promote original research on how children interact with the market and society, and how they construct their identity and relationships with peers, family members, brands and organizations. More information on the CTC community can be found here: https://mshs.univ-poitiers.fr/childandteenconsumption/ Since 2004, previous conferences have been held every two years in countries such as France, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Spain and Scotland. Contact person & email for CTC 2024 enquiries: Email: childrenandteen(a)yorku.ca<mailto:childrenandteen@yorku.ca> Conference Co-chairs: Natalie Coulter, York University Kisha McPherson, Toronto Metropolitan University Conference Coordinator Marion Tempest Grant Natalie Coulter, PhD (she/her) • Associate Professor • Director of the Institute for Research on Digital Literacies (IRDL) Communication and Media Studies • YORK UNIVERSITY Toronto ON, Canada Twitter: @nhccommstudies https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/ncoulter/ Latest publications: “Let’s go make some videos”: Post-Feminist Digital Media on Tween-Coms<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/15274764221150162> Hey Siri”: Virtual Assistants Are Listening to Children and Then Using the Data<https://theconversation.com/hey-siri-virtual-assistants-are-listening-to-ch…> Child Studies Meets Digital Media: Rethinking the Paradigms<https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351004107-1/child-s…>. 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CFP Special Issue for New Media & Society: "Contextual Complexities of Violence on Digital Platforms"
by Tom Divon 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

Dear community members! We are thrilled to share with you this CFP for our Special Issue with New Media & Society devoted to "Contextual Complexities of Violence on Digital Platforms" *Context* The world now seems more fraught with violence than ever, intricately interwoven into the fabric of our contemporary digital ecosystem. The escalating accessibility and ubiquity of digital platforms across the globe have facilitated a corresponding rise in the frequency of violence perpetrated through diverse infrastructural channels. So far, studies have observed a growing prevalence of violence executed on and through digital platforms. For example, research has emphasized that platform affordances like Feeds and DMs provide perpetrators with new avenues to exert control, intimidate, surveil, and harass women (Dragiewicz et al., 2018; Jane, 2014). Others have shown how audiovisual memes can be manipulated to expand and reproduce hate speech (Matamoros-Fernández et al., 2023), along with studies exploring the distressing psychological repercussions experienced by users exposed to content featuring real-world violence (Stubbs et al., 2022). Undoubtedly, digital environments have emerged as spaces that simultaneously sustain and expand intersecting forms of symbolic violence, including racism (Jakubowicz, 2017) and gender inequality (Cepeda, 2018). They have also become battlegrounds for countering and contesting forms of material and cultural violence, such as anti-racist efforts and police accountability (Lamont-Hill, 2018), as well as digital mobilization to advocate for differently-abled individuals (Mann, 2018). Within this broad context, this special issue strives to enhance the understanding of the diverse forms, actors, and perceptions associated with online violence, serving as a crucial stride toward cultivating a healthier digital landscape. Specifically, as advocated by Dwyer (2017), we wish to emphasize the importance of contextualizing violent behavior and content within their respective cultural and historical frameworks. This call for contextualized understandings of violence arises at a time when addressing online harm necessitates a multifaceted approach, encompassing political, technical, and social dimensions, to effectively navigate the intricacies of local cultures. This significance is highlighted by Schoenebeck et al. (2023), underscoring the pivotal role of local culture as the foremost determinant of how individuals perceive violence on digital platforms. In this context, nuanced examinations of digital violence are indispensable for crafting fitting responses to the multifaceted ecologies of violence on social media. Therefore, our objective in this issue is to compile contributions that explore the impact, reach, and various manifestations of online violence as experienced and perceived within specific sociocultural contexts. Underlying the goal of this call for papers is a desire to engage with scholars who are exploring violence on digital platforms as a cultural experience (Cover, 2022) that reinforces or resists existing power structures (Marwick, 2021; McCosker, 2014). Our call welcomes scholars to delve into the stickiness of mediated violence (Zelinzer, 2023), encouraging contributions on how online harm can serve as vehicles for both productive and destructive forces within contemporary cultures. We especially encourage interdisciplinary contributions that go beyond definitional or methodological issues around violence on digital platforms and emphasize its social, political, and ethical implications (Jane, 2015) on a global scale, with a particular emphasis on non-Western contexts. Accordingly, we invite submissions that address topics including, but not limited to, the following: ● Perceptions, experiences, and actors involved in the symbiotic relationship of offline and digital violence within various sociocultural contexts. ● Perceptions, experiences, and actors involved in algorithmic violence enacted within specific communities and contextual settings. ● Perpetuation and amplification of symbolic violence through digital platforms. ● Networked violence centered around attacking and revealing the identity of digital personas (e.g., doxxing as a form of violence exacted on minoritized individuals). ● Collective mobilization and contestation to counter material and symbolic violence on digital platforms. ● Escalating endorsement of violence as a method for collective mobilization. ● Digital resistance of platform and algorithmic bias. *Information for authors* Potential contributors should submit a 1,200-word abstract (excluding references), a 100-word bio, and the corresponding author's contact information to the guest editors. Feel free to consult the special issue editors about your article ideas and potential angles or approaches. After the abstracts have been selected, authors will be invited to submit a full paper. Please note that acceptance of an abstract does not guarantee publication, given that all papers will go through the journal’s peer review process. *Abstract structure* The extended abstract should present a coherent narrative on online violence while highlighting how the authors respond to the special issue call. It must emphasize the distinctive contributions of the study and provide an introduction to the empirical case study being explored. Furthermore, the abstract should outline the research methods employed and provide a clear indication within the findings section of the current stage of the work, whether it is still to be completed, in development, or at the writing phase. Extended Abstract submission: April 1, 2024 Invited submission notification: May 1, 2024 Full paper submission: November 1, 2024 See the full CFP here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1MxAt0j72EYvJZ-HnTDoM6-kkWNjF6jst For any inquiries, please feel free to contact the editorial team at violenceondigitalplatforms(a)gmail.com -- *Tom Divon* Media & Culture R*esearcher* Dept. of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC, Herzliya Tel: +972-547-532681 [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/TomDivon>[image: Instagram] <https://www.instagram.com/divon.tom/>[image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/tom.divon> *Publications*: Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231157607>. Playful Publics on TikTok: The Memetic Israeli-Palestinian War of #CHALLENGE <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366530633_Playful_Publics_on_TikTo…> . #JewishTikTok: The JewToks' Fight against Antisemitism <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359548581_JewishTikTok>. Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 seconds? <https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/2022/03/24/can-you-lear…> PERFORMING DEATH AND TRAUMA? PARTICIPATORY MEM(E)ORY AND THE HOLOCAUST IN TIKTOK# POVCHALLENGES <https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/12995> visit my web! https://tomdivon.com/

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering: First Call for DC Papers
by Announce 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

*** First Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 8th March, 2024 AoE ***) The CAiSE conference series has a proud track record of running an international Doctoral Consortium affiliated with the event. The CAiSE'24 Doctoral Consortium aims to attract PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications in the Information Systems Engineering field. At the Doctoral Consortium, the participating PhD students will have the opportunity to present their research and to get feedback from an audience of peers and senior faculty in a supportive environment. There will also be discussions tailored to the needs and interests of PhD students. The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to ensure that participating PhD students: • receive constructive and personalized feedback and advice on their research program by dedicated Doctoral Consortium mentors, • provide an opportunity to meet, interact with and learn from established researchers and practitioners in the Information Systems Engineering community, • develop a supportive community of peer scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, • discuss broader opportunities and concerns related to a PhD study and post-PhD pathways. To be eligible for the Doctoral Consortium, the candidate must be a current PhD student within a recognized research institution. We welcome submissions of both late-stage PhD students (having at least 6 months of work after the conference and before their expected completion), and early-stage PhD students (with at least 6 months of work already performed prior to the submission date). WHY SUBMITTING TO THE CAiSE'24 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM? The CAiSE'24 Doctoral Consortium will be attended by renowned academics from the Information Systems Engineering field who will actively participate as mentors for the PhD students accepted to the Doctoral Consortium. The participating PhD students will receive constructive reviews on their submission, as well as personalized guidance by Doctoral Consortium mentors regarding their research program and presentation at the Consortium event. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR proceedings (https://ceur-ws.org/) which are indexed in DBLP. Participants of the CAiSE Doctoral Consortium will be subsequently eligible to submit their PhD thesis (after the degree is granted) for a CAiSE PhD Award. SUBMISSION PROCESS Submissions must be made electronically by the stated deadline via the EasyChair conference system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024 . Each submission should contain (i) a recommendation letter from the student’s PhD advisor, and (ii) a paper describing the research plans and the current status of progress (see more details in the Paper Submission Guidelines section). Submissions must have a single author, but the name of the PhD advisors should be mentioned in the paper (usually in the Acknowledgments section). Submissions should concern original research. All submitted materials must be in English. Attendees must have sufficient proficiency in English for being allowed to participate in the academic discussions of the Consortium. Submissions of both early and late-stage PhD students are welcome. Submissions of early-stage PhD students should concentrate on the selection of the research methods to apply, the realization and contextualization of the relevant literature, the expected pitfalls and ways to mitigate them. Submissions of late-stage PhD students should also include preliminary research results and discuss to some extent conclusions and threats. The recommendation letter from the PhD advisor should include an assessment of the current status of the research, an expected date for the completion of the dissertation, a delineation of the anticipated benefits for the student's participation at the Consortium and details of any submissions associated with the research. PAPER CONTENT AND FORMAT The paper must: • clearly formulate the research questions investigated in the thesis, • identify a significant problem in the field of Information System Engineering, • outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions, • describe the research methods that are applied or proposed and the expected artifacts, • outline the contributions of the applicant’s work to the problem domain and highlight their uniqueness, • present any preliminary results achieved so far (mainly relevant for late-stage PhD students), • conform to the CEURART template using the 1-column layout format (thus, NOT the Springer LNCS format and NOT in multiple column layouts); the most recent template (including Word and LaTeX) can be downloaded from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/index.html, • contain up to 4,000 words (including everything, e.g., references, tables, figures). REVIEW PROCESS Each submission will be reviewed by two members of the Doctoral Consortium Mentoring Board. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness, accuracy, clarity and the expected benefits to the student from participating in the Doctoral Consortium. Acceptance is based on the review outcomes. ATTENDANCE AND REGISTRATION FEE The Doctoral Consortium is held in parallel with the main CAiSE conference on 5-7 June 2024. The presentations and decisions are expected to take place in person, so attendance in the entire Doctoral Consortium is required. To facilitate detailed feedback to the participants, attendance to the Doctoral Consortium is by invitation only, limited to the participants and the Mentoring Board. There is no separate registration fee for participants in the Doctoral Consortium. Participants should register to the main conference by selecting either the “Main conference” option or another option that includes the main conference. IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission: 8th March 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 19th April 2024 • Camera-ready Copy: 26th April 2024 • Doctoral Consortium: 5th-7th June 2024 QUESTIONS AND INQUIRIES Questions about eligibility and other inquiries can be sent to the CAiSE’24 Doctoral Consortium chairs at caise2024_dc(a)easychair.org . MENTORING BOARD • Raimundas Matulevičius, University of Tartu, Estonia • Massimo Mecella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy • Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy • Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland • Hajo Reijers, Utrecht University, the Netherlands • Monique Snoeck, KU Leuven, Belgium • Barbara Weber, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland • Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel • Chiara Di Francescomarino, University of Trento, Italy • Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece

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*Invitation to VOX-Pol workshop on 'Tackling Online Extremism in Southern Asia'
by Miraji Hassan Mohamed 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Dear AoIR colleagues, I trust you are doing well. On behalf of VOX-Pol <https://voxpol.eu/> I would like to invite all interested colleagues and your students to join us in our upcoming VOX-Pol workshop on '*Tackling Online Extremism in Southern Asia <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvoxpol.eu…>*', which will be held online via Zoom Webinar on 15 January 2024 from *13:00 - 14:30 (GMT)*. Our panellists: Ms Munira Mustaffa, Mr. Janeen Fernando and Mr. Hari Prasad will share their insights on the digital extremist landscape in South and Southeast Asia and the challenges and responses to tackling online extremism. To register for the workshop, please email m.h.mohamed(a)swansea.ac.uk and you will receive a zoom link. Please feel free to reach out should you have any questions. Kind regards, Miraj -- Dr. Miraji Mohamed Postdoctoral Researcher - Tech Against Terrorism Europe (TATE) project School of Law and Government Dublin City University Dublin 9 -- * *Séanadh Ríomhphoist/Email Disclaimer* *Tá an ríomhphost seo agus aon chomhad a sheoltar leis faoi rún agus is lena úsáid ag an seolaí agus sin amháin é. Is féidir tuilleadh a léamh anseo. <https://sites.google.com/view/seanadh-riomhphoist>* *This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. Read more here. <https://sites.google.com/view/dcu-email-disclaimer>* * -- <https://www.facebook.com/DCU/> <https://twitter.com/DCU> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/dublin-city-university> <https://www.instagram.com/dublincityuniversity/?hl=en> <https://www.youtube.com/user/DublinCityUniversity>

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EAST/4S 2024 Open Panel - Teaching STS and Critical Science Beyond "The Controversy"
by Zach McDowell 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Now accepting papers for an open panel on teaching STS and Critical Science in July in Amsterdam: Beyond "The Controversy": Making and doing within and beyond for positive transformations. Critical Science and Technology Studies teaching has taught "The Controversy" as a method for learning about the truths and myths around science and technology in our world. This panel seeks to go beyond the controversy model and bring forth papers that discuss the radical, foundational, and productive modes of STS teaching. How do you engage, for instance, processual-relational technologies? How do you make your classroom constructivist or pragmatist? How do you move into producing and doing in the classroom in a manner consistent with the stories that STS tells? How do you incorporate alternative narratives, fictums, or life-worlds into your classrooms? How do we challenge the traditional classroom models through STS? How do we challenge the bureaucratic constructs surrounding that classroom and its developments? We propose a combined panel, uniting papers and discussion into a productive dialogue. We seek papers and presentations from those who wish to speak STS to the power of the university/college classroom in the name of constructive and positive change. We hope to have a panel or two of papers and then a fishbowl discussion including those presenters and the audience, discussing and challenging the STS classroom as the locus of positive transformations spoken of in the CFP. submit here: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/panel/14256 (you may have to login or create an acct. in the upper right corner) Thank you and hope to see you in Amsterdam Zach McDowell and Jeremy Hunsinger -------------------- Zachary J. McDowell, PhD www.zachmcdowell.com New Book out: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality Read online or on Kindle for free <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003094081/wikipedia…>

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering: Second Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

*** Second Call for Workshop Papers *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 26th February, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE is a well-established, highly visible conference series on Advanced Information Systems (IS) Engineering. It covers all relevant topics in the area, including methodologies and approaches for IS engineering, innovative platforms, architectures and technologies, and engineering of specific kinds of IS. CAiSE conferences also have the tradition of hosting workshops in related fields. Workshops are intended to focus on particular topics and provide ample room for discussions of new ideas and developments. CAiSE'24, the 36th edition of the CAiSE series, will host the following workshops. For more information for each workshop please visit the workshops' web sites. CAiSE'24 Workshops • 3rd International Workshop on Agile Methods for Information Systems Engineering (Agil-ISE) https://agilise.github.io/2024/index.html • International Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS24) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS) https://pros.unicam.it/bc4isb4tds/ • 2nd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Modelling for Intelligent Information Systems (HybridAIMS) https://hybridaims.com/ • 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Semantics-driven Systems Engineering https://www.omilab.org/activities/events/caise2024_kg4sdse/ • 16th International Workshop on Enterprise & Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS 2024) https://eomas2024.fel.cvut.cz/ • Digital Transformation with Business Process Mining (DigPro2024) https://digpro.iiita.ac.in/ IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission Deadline: 26th February, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 27th March, 2024 • Camera-ready Deadline: 5th April, 2024 • Author Registration Deadline: 5th April, 2024 Workshop Chairs • João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil • Claudio di Ciccio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy • Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece

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New open access book: Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption
by Minna Aslama 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Dear Colleagues, This new open-access volume may interest you: Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption (Horowitz, Nieminen, Lehtisaari & D'Arma, eds. 2024, Palgrave/Springer) This open-access volume argues that in a functioning democracy, citizens should be equally capable of making informed choices about matters of social importance. This includes citizens accessing all relevant information and knowledge necessary for informed will formation. In today's complex era of digital disruption, it is not enough to simply speak about communication or even digital rights. The starting point for this volume is the need for 'epistemic equality'. The contributors seek to showcase the history and diversity of current debates around communication and digital rights, as precursors for the need for epistemic rights; both as a theoretical concept and an empirically assessed benchmark. The book highlights scholarship via academic case studies from around the world to feature different issues and methodological approaches, as well as similarities in academic and policy challenges across the globe. The goal is to provide an overview of issues that depict challenges to epistemic rights, extract both academic and applied policy implications of different approaches, and end with a set of recommendations for advancing policy-relevant scholarship on epistemic rights. This volume is intended as the first holistic response to an urgent need to address epistemic rights of communication as a central public policy issue, as an academic analytical concept, as well as a central theme for informed public debate. Download your copy here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-45976-4 -- Dr. Minna Aslama Horowitz @aslama https://minnahorowitz.net/

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