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Reminder: Inference - Critical Approaches to Visual Generative AI workshop, Sheffield, April 2024 (abstract deadline extended deadline - 22 January)
by Tim Highfield 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

Dear all, Happy new year! I just wanted to remind you about the one-day workshop on Critical Approaches to Visual Generative AI that will be held in Sheffield in April 2024 by the Data, AI, and Algorithms in Society hub of the University of Sheffield's Digital Society Network. The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to midnight on 21 January 2024 (i.e. the end of Sunday 21 January, UK time), so you still have time to submit something if you are interested in participating! Submissions might consider the following topics, and additional subjects are also encouraged: - Visual AI and identity - Commercial applications of visual AI - The inequalities/biases of visual AI - The harms of visual AI - Visual AI and user behaviour - Visual AI and play/humour - The legal implications of visual AI - Visual AI imaginaries - Visual AI and mis/disinformation - Theoretical approaches to Visual AI - Visual AI as/and art - Visual AI and labour - Economies of visual AI - Visual AI and geopolitics/colonialism and colonial logics The workshop will be held on 22 April 2024 in Sheffield. For more information and to submit, please visit: https://bit.ly/inferenceworkshop If you have any questions, please email Kate Miltner at k.miltner(a)sheffield.ac.uk Many thanks, Tim. -- *Dr Tim Highfield | *Pronouns: he, him, his Lecturer in Digital Media & Society Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield C435, The Wave 2 Whitham Road Sheffield S10 2AH Director, Digital Society Network: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/social-sciences/research/digital-society *Latest writing* Highfield, T., & Miltner, K.M. (2023). '‘Platformed solidarity: examining the performative politics of Twitter hashflags’. *Convergence*. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13548565231199981 Highfield, T. (2023). 'BeReal Now: Digital temporal authenticity on BeReal'. *Flow*, *29*(4): http://www.flowjournal.org/2023/02/bereal_now_temporal_authenticity/ *Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures* <http://timhighfield.net/research/instagram/> (with Tama Leaver and Crystal Abidin; Polity, 2020) *Social Media and Everyday Politics* <http://timhighfield.net/research/social-media-and-everyday-politics/> (Polity, 2016) timhighfield.net / @timhighfield <http://twitter.com/timhighfield>

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Methodology recommendations for platform analysis
by Jacob Johanssen 07 Jan '24

07 Jan '24

Dear colleagues, I am looking for recommendations for qualitative methods / approaches to the analysis of social media platforms which focus on both content and structures / features / affordances of the platform. rather than mixed methods, I am wondering if colleagues have developed something more integrative. Many thanks! Best wishes, Jacob

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Re: [Air-L] Methodology recommendations for platform analysis
by Mel Stanfill 06 Jan '24

06 Jan '24

And also, read André! Brock, André. 2018. “Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis.” New Media & Society 20 (3): 1012–30. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816677532. Mel Stanfill, PhD Associate Professor Texts & Technology / English University of Central Florida http://www.melstanfill.com

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Free opportunity for higher education faculty! Run a Wikipedia assignment this term!
by Helaine Blumenthal 05 Jan '24

05 Jan '24

🎓 Opportunity for Educators! Enhance Your Course with Wikipedia Assignments 🌐 In Fall 2022, a student's Wikipedia article on the Independent state legislature theory gained over 100,000 views before its Supreme Court review in June 2023. This is just one of hundreds of examples of how students shape public knowledge on key issues. In an era of rampant misinformation, enhancing our students' media literacy, research, and writing skills is crucial. Wiki Education is here to help! Join us for one of our no-cost workshops to equip educators with tools for integrating Wikipedia assignments into their curriculum. ✅ Improve students' critical thinking ✅ Contribute to factual, neutral public knowledge ✅ Impact: Over 700 courses, 12,000 students, and millions of words added to Wikipedia annually. 📅 Dates: Jan. 5th, 8th, 12th, 13th, 14th, or 15th 🔗 Register at wikiedu.org/webinars Let's collaborate to empower the next generation of informed citizens! -- Helaine Blumenthal,Ph.D. (she/her) Senior Program Manager Wiki Education helaine(a)wikiedu.org teach.wikiedu.org <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikiEducationFoundation/>, Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/company/wiki-education-foundation/>

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21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2024): Fourth Call for Papers
by Announce 05 Jan '24

05 Jan '24

*** Fourth Call for Papers *** 21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2024) June 10-12, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/icsr2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 12th February, 2024 AoE ***) The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR) is a biannual conference in the field of software reuse research and technology. ICSR is a premier event aiming to present the most recent advances and breakthroughs in the area of software reuse and to promote an intensive and continuous exchange among researchers and practitioners. The guiding theme of this edition is Sustainable Software Reuse. We invite submissions on new and innovative research results and industrial experience reports dealing with all aspects of software reuse within the context of the modern software development landscape. Topics include but are not limited to the following. 1 Technical aspects of reuse, including • Reuse in/for Quality Assurance (QA) techniques, testing, verification, etc. • Domain ontologies and Model-Driven Development • Variability management and software product lines • Context-aware and Dynamic Reuse • Reuse in and for Machine Learning • Domain-specific languages (DSLs) • New language abstractions for software reuse • Generative Development • COTS-based development and reuse of open source assets • Retrieval and recommendation of reusable assets • Reuse of non-code artefacts • Architecture-centric reuse approaches • Service-oriented architectures and microservices • Software composition and modularization • Sustainability and software reuse • Economic models of reuse • Benefit and risk analysis, scoping • Legal and managerial aspects of reuse • Reuse adoption and transition to software reuse • Lightweight reuse approaches • Reuse in agile projects • Technical debt and software reuse 2 Software reuse in industry and in emerging domains • Reuse success stories • Reuse failures, and lessons learned • Reuse obstacles and success factors • Return on Investment (ROI) studies • Reuse in hot topic domains (Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Virtualization, Network functions, Quantum Computing, etc.) We welcome research (16 pages) and industry papers (12 pages) following the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icsr2024) Submissions will be **double-blindly** reviewed, meaning that authors should: • Omit all authors’ names and affiliations from the title page • Do not include the acknowledgement section, if you have any, in the submitted paper • Refer to your own work in the third person • Use anonymous GitHub, Zenondo, FigShare or equivalent to provide access to artefacts without disclosing your identity Both research and industry papers will be reviewed by members of the same program committee (check the website for details). Proceedings will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes for Computer Science (LNCS) series. An award will be given to the best research and the best industry papers. The authors of selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version (containing at least 30% new material) to a special issue in the Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier). More details will follow. IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract submission: February 12, 2024, AoE • Full paper submission: February 19, 2024, AoE • Notification: April 8, 2024, AoE • Camera Ready: April 15, 2024, AoE • Author Registration: April 15, 2024 AoE ORGANISATION Steering Committee • Eduardo Almeida, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil • Goetz Botterweck, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland • Rafael Capilla, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain • John Favaro, Trust-IT, Italy • William B. Frakes, IEEE TCSE committee on software reuse, USA • Martin L. Griss, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Oliver Hummel, University of Applied Sciences, Germany • Hafedh Mili, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada • Nan Niu, University of Cincinnati, USA • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Claudia M.L. Werner, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Co-Chairs • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus • Lidia Fuentes, University of Malaga, Spain

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Call for Submissions // 4S/EASST Amsterdam // Panel 370 // Live from the Frontlines: The Mediation of Armed Conflict Through Online Platforms
by Sarah Rüller 05 Jan '24

05 Jan '24

Dear colleagues, We are inviting contributions to the open panel 370. “Live from the Frontlines: The Mediation of Armed Conflict Through Online Platforms” for the upcoming EASST-4S 2024, which will take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 16-19 July 2024. Deadline for submission is February 12, 2024. This panel brings together researchers interested in the mediation of wars to discuss media’s influence on current violent conflicts, e.g. the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Palestine war. We explore critical approaches to war and media, with a focus on presenters from conflict regions. Armed conflicts and media technologies are tied together in modern warfare. The rise in the use of social media, owned by large technology platforms, in the ongoing conduct of wars, in their documentation and in influencing different actors in ways that transform warfare, raises many questions. During current wars in Ukraine and Palestine and Israel, new media technologies have been used to sway global public opinion, to expose and document human rights violations, to challenge narratives promoted by legacy media and state actors and to document life under fire or experiences of combatants. At the same time, Social Media platforms are being weaponized - for the spread of disinformation, propaganda and psychological warfare by state and non-state actors. Platform companies are tasked with moderating masses of content, leading to claims of unjust treatment and censorship. We are interested in contributions that address issues such as: • How is social media becoming part of military tactics and used for geopolitical influence (through hacking, bot wars, and the spread of disinformation)? • How is content moderation online weaponized for silencing dissenting voices under the guise of security issues? • The rise of OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) as a mode of investigating truths on the battlefield. • How can STS researchers develop a critical approach and theory towards war and its media technologies? • Actors’ choice of terminology and its implications, also with regard to the spread of narratives online (war, invasion, occupation, military operation, genocide, annexation). • What challenges does this provide in terms of digital and information literacy and connectivity for people who follow the events of war online? • Also, with a view towards more optimistic outcomes - can media technology be used for conflict resolution and how? We ask to center this on scholars from regions under war and conflict, while also inviting others to contribute. Submissions: If you would like to participate in this session, please submit your individual abstract of approx. 250 words and follow the instructions described here: Link to the submission form: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/paper-form/14454 ### The 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) invites panels, presentations, making & doing contributions, and other events that explore the role of STS in making and doing contributions to transformations in an era of grand societal challenges. More information can be found here: https://www.easst4s2024.net/ Please contact us if you have any questions Yarden Skop (yarden.skop(a)uni-siegen.de) Sarah Rüller (sarah.rueller(a)uni-siegen.de) Houda Elmimouni (Helmimo(a)iu.edu) _________________ Sarah Rüller M.Sc. Pronouns (She/Her) Researcher // CRC 1187 - Media of Cooperation PhD candidate // Information Systems and New Media University of Siegen Kohlbettstraße 15 // 57072 Siegen // Room: US-E 103

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CFM: Symbolic Interaction and AI
by Sarina Chen 04 Jan '24

04 Jan '24

CFM: Symbolic Interaction and AI Artificial Intelligence (AI), an umbrella term that includes any device capable of emulating or even exceeding human capabilities, emerged as computer technologies became more sophisticated and complex. While AI currently evokes frightened responses associated with human replacement, it has a history of being useful regarding human enterprises. For instance, mathematical analysts have used AI to find patterns in huge sets of data. However, recent rapid developments in AI have utilized the pattern-matching capacity to create words, images, and sounds independent of human intention , often referred to as Generative AI. In 2021, Open-AI introduced Dall-E, a-text-to-image generator that creates artworks after receiving text prompts from users. In 2022, Open-AI unveiled ChatGPT, a computer program designed to simulate conversation with users. After receiving inputs from users, ChatGPT displayed the capacity to provide lifelike answers, including grammatically correct essays that appeared filled with human insight. Also in 2022, Google introduced an AI text-to-video generator that created high-definition videos from text prompts. When considering the above developments, Al has become equated with raw human intelligence, from authoring cogent essays to completing artistic and intricate designs. Most alarming, those who consume information and design feel that they cannot easily discern the difference between a genuine human creation or the work of AI. As mentioned in regard to mathematical analysis, using AI for analytical purposes is not a new phenomenon. Neither is such use restricted to our current day-to-day lives. Before Dall-E, ChatGPT, and the AI video tool, humans have long employed "assisted living," using AI technologies such as Alexa and Siri to create and assist voices, turn on and off appliances, answer short queries, and make transmission of information easier to accomplish. In addition, various AI programs appeared at workplaces that served as useful ways to type, make phone calls, and even to transport people from place to place. One dimension of AI that fascinates students of technology is not only its capacity to simulate human activity, but to learn ways of communicating. Such learning emerges through the use of mathematical systems to find connections in huge data sets. The responses AI generate consist of pattern matching, or a process that connects words, images, and sounds to sequences of subsequent symbols. In effect, AI is powered by large language models in which a bot can ingest huge amounts of data. Such ingestion enables a bot to predict and generate the most appropriate word or symbol to generate. While these chatbots do not duplicate human intelligence in that they lack the capacities to understand the environment around them or distinguish factual from non-factual information, they still represent potential dangers. Their incapacity to duplicate human intelligence becomes a source of intriguing content; the chatbots may churn out wrong or nonsensical information (a phenomenon called " hallucinations") regarded as potential insights. In response to these hallucinations, humans work closely with AI as attendants in various fields including business, medicine, education, journalism, and public safety. Despite the rapid advancement of AI, and the astonishing potential of AI in transforming social life, social scientists have not accumulated much knowledge regarding human-AI interaction. For this reason, it seems crucial to explore the implications of the emergent interaction between humans and AI technologies. *Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 61, Symbolic Interaction and AI*, is devoted to examinations of the implications of utilizing AI in human reflexivity and social interaction. Human Reflexivity and AI: From Dyad to Triad AI, although designed to enhance efficiency and productivity, challenges human reflexivity in ways that we did not anticipate. When typing a sentence, AI accompanies a user in an intellectually intimate fashion by suggesting what is to be typed (specific words or phrases to be used) and flagging misspelled words and grammatical errors. Hence the user not only authors an intended statement but also constantly attends to AI suggestions. AI assisted typing may expedite the typing and enhance the quality of the text. However, the level of reflexivity needed when doing assisted typing seems to be substantial and laborious. AI assisted writing also gives a new definition to single authorship. To further examine the activity of reflexivity and the use of AI, one may examine the interaction of AI with (a) I and Me, (b) Self and Generalized Other, and (c) Self and Other(s) in Symbolic Interaction literature. I, Me, and AI In classic Symbolic Interaction literature, reflexivity is conceptualized as the interaction between the I and the Me. Using AI creates the appearance of a generated I and Me, one that emerges in the creative process. Such emergence leads to question the relationship of the newly formed triad--I, Me, and AI. Specifically, is AI now challenging the authority of me? The question relates to how AI seems to be based on vast (objective) databases, while Me is based on one's experiential (and subjective) socialization. Self, Generalized Other, and AI George Herbert Mead discussed the Self in reference the Generalized Other, especially when engaged in the process of making an existential decision. Currently, however, AI’s emergence on the scene could make AI appear to be more applicable than the Generalized Other. As an immediate (and often forceful) source of correction, AI represents the seemingly reliable patterns found in vast databases, while Generalized Other appears less linked to current technology (and more associated with a less sophisticated process of socialization). As interactionists, we ask, what is the relationship between AI and the Self and AI and the Generalized Other? Are we in the process of confronting a newly formed triad consisting of the Self, Generalized Other, and AI? Self, Other(s), and AI Interactionists have maintained that humans take each other into account when engaging in social interaction. However, the emergence of AI leads to the question of how humans incorporate AI in their interaction with others. Should humans assign more weight to AI than the responses from other human interactants, if after all, AI becomes a more valid and objective source of information? However, while AI may seem as more valid, it could subvert the human’s creative process. Suggestions by AI could actually be a form of second guessing, providing a barrage of useless suggestions. AI could clog a user's creative process, by dispensing warnings or “error signals” that interrupt the flow of human activity. Instead of coming up with new insights, AI can interrupt the reflexivity associated with creativity. Social Interaction and AI Among different forms of interaction with AI, the one that has garnered much attention is the use of AI companions for mental health. Although lacking the distinctly familiar companionship that humans experience with one another, an AI companion exhibits potential for mental health care. AI companions can assist with users’ wellness and provide social support. AI companions work to support mental wellness, first, by allowing a user to describe his/her mood through writing, voice, note, or video. Then, the AI companion would quickly analyze the user's statement for signs of anxiety, depression, or loneliness, and provide a personalized, conversational recommendation for how the user can feel his/her best. Chatbots, designed to provide digital companionship, provide conversations that appear helpful owing to the immediacy of responsiveness. Using the vast exemplary examples of human responsiveness, chatbots effectively (at least seemingly so) display provocative personality traits and conversational flair. In so doing, AI companions allow users to share their feelings and thoughts, provide empathetic language to support them, and help humans deal with loneliness, anxiety, and depression. The AI “therapists” provide a sense of connection, and contribute to users' well-being. Questions to be addressed in this area also include how users develop relationships with AI companions like they do with traditional mental health providers, how trauma is processed using AI companions. Given the vast possibilities associated with the above, we welcome empirical research articles or conceptual papers that analyze and assess how AI is experienced in all human life endeavors. Topics to be addressed include, but not limit to: Mind and AI Self and AI Mental Health and AI Social Relationships and AI Medicine and AI Business and AI Education and AI Public Safety and AI Please send an abstract of no more than 750 words to Shing-Ling Sarina Chen (sarina.chen(a)uni.edu) by March 1, 2024. If the abstract is selected for inclusion, the final manuscript is due September 1, 2024. Looking forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Shing-Ling Sarina Chen Studies in Symbolic Interaction

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Call for Papers: SSN 2024 - 10th biennial Surveillance and Society/SSN Conference
by Bryce Newell 04 Jan '24

04 Jan '24

Surveillance in an Age of Crisis The 10th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network / Surveillance & Society Conference #SSN2024 28-31 May, 2024 Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law and University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia With a keynote address by Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal and Chief Advisor to the AI Now Institute Call for Papers The world is facing an unprecedented combination of crises: a widening gulf of inequality and contradictions in the capitalist economic system, the intensification of new and existing forms of social injustice, mass mobility and migration on a scale unseen in the past, renewed authoritarianism and multiple attacks on human rights and even the concept of a shared humanity, digital disruption of politics and social relations, psychic and material insecurity, the destruction of our local and global environments, and the potentially catastrophic alteration of the climate which allows life to flourish on this planet. We are entering an age of crisis. But we are also witnessing and enabling a new world struggling to be born. Surveillance has always had an intimate relationship with crisis and transformation. Surveillance appears, spreads and intensifies as a response and an 'answer' to crises. Crises sharpen and focus ordinary problems, practices and technologies of government and social ordering. Crises have shaped the way in which surveillance is understood, developed and implemented at all levels. And finally, surveillance has also helped to shape the very construction, perception and understanding of crises. SSN 2024 asks us all to face this age of crisis and confront the multiple intersections of surveillance in and around it. We call for proposals for papers, panels, doctoral colloquium participation, and other interventions on all aspects of surveillance in these times of crisis. Venue, Accessibility & Streaming The Conference will take place over 3 full days from 29-31 May, 2024, at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. All in-person sessions will be streamed online, and there will also be a dedicated online track with remote presentations for presenters who cannot attend in-person. Keynote Speakers and Special Sessions Keynote speakers and special sessions will be advertised as we develop them, but we can already announce Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal and Chief Advisor to the AI Now Institute, as one of our keynote speakers. Doctoral Colloquium There will also be an associated in-person colloquium for doctoral students on the afternoon before the conference, 28 May. Interested doctoral colloquium participants should indicate their interest in attending the colloquium via the regular conference proposal submission portal. Submissions Please submit your paper, panel or other abstract, from October 31st, via: https://easychair.org/cfp/SSN2024<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/easychair.org/cfp/SSN2024__;!!C5qS4YX3!F…> Deadline: December 31st 2023. David Murakami Wood | University of Ottawa Professor of Critical Surveillance and Security Studies | Department of Criminology Faculty Member | Centre for Law, Technology and Society (CLTS) ––––– Co-editor-in-Chief | Surveillance & Society | http://www.surveillance-and-society.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.surveillance-and-society.org__;!!C5qS…> Interim Director | Surveillance Studies Centre of Canada | http://www.surveillance-studies.ca<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.surveillance-studies.ca__;!!C5qS4YX3!…> Board of Directors | Surveillance Studies Network | http://surveillance-studies.net<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/surveillance-studies.net__;!!C5qS4YX3!Flt…> ––––– twitter: @murakamiwood e-mail: david.mw(a)uottawa.ca<mailto:david.mw@uottawa.ca>

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DCOSS-IoT 2024 (Abu Dhabi, April 29 to May 1) - Final Call for Papers
by Leivadeas, Aris 04 Jan '24

04 Jan '24

* Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies.* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * The 20th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2024) Abu Dhabi, UAE - April 29 to May 1, 2024 * The DCOSS-IoT series of events are always technically co-sponsored by IEEE, and Proceedings are published by IEEE Xplore. The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2024) will be held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The conference is always co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and by the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP). The conference was previously known as DCOSS. Starting in 2023, the event is broadening its scope beyond sensor networks to include smart systems in general and the Internet of Things (IoT). The updated name is "Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things" (DCOSS-IoT). In the last few years, we have witnessed significant growth in the use of IoT and distributed sensor systems in several application areas, including smart transportation, smart energy systems, smart homes and buildings, smart healthcare, and environmental monitoring. For smart sensor systems to truly become useful and pervasive, we need to address several research challenges, including the tight integration of sensing and machine intelligence, reliable and efficient networking, interoperability and scalability, the need for dependable autonomy, interaction with humans, and important aspects of security, privacy and trust. DCOSS-IoT focuses on issues arising in the entire IoT and networked sensor systems stack, covering aspects of high-level abstractions, models and languages, communication technologies, novel algorithms and applications, system design approaches and architectures, and tools for simulated and real deployments. Potential authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts demonstrating recent advances in theoretical and experimental research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Artificial Intelligence for IoT * Machine learning and data mining for IoT and Smart Systems * Smart healthcare to combat epidemics * Edge and fog computing: distributed computing models from sensor to cloud * Machine intelligence in distributed sensor systems and real-time analytics * Novel communication paradigms (e.g., 5G/6G, VLC, DSA) for IoT and Smart Systems * Cyber-Physical Systems * IoT and Smart Systems for Smart and Connected Communities * Autonomous systems: closing the loop between sensing and actuation * Time and location management * Robustness, resilience, and dependability of IoT and smart systems * Security and privacy in IoT and Smart Systems * Performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability * Mobile and human-centric sensing * IoT and Smart Systems for social computing * Interoperability, heterogeneity and scalability * Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based sensing/communications/networking * Social sensing and crowd sensing techniques, applications, and systems * Complex systems comprising wearable, robotic and/or fixed sensor systems * IoT and Smart Systems for emerging and developing economies * Green and environmentally friendly IoT (low-power, harvesting, energy management) * Sensors and Robots for Internet of Intelligent Things * Design and implementation of real-world applications and systems * Approaches, tools, and experience of deployment and operation * Interdisciplinary applications of IoT and Smart Systems * Smart healthcare and digital epidemiology * Smart agriculture * Smart infrastructures * Smart cities * Smart energy, transportation, and water distribution systems * Smart factories * Smart workspace Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts demonstrating current research on distributed smart systems and IoT related to the aforementioned topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 X 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available on: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. All submissions should be written in English and have a maximum of eight (8) printed pages, including figures and references. Two (2) additional pages at 100$/page for supplementary material only (such as theorems, proofs, implementation details) are allowed. Starting last year, DCOSS-IoT will follow a double-blind review process. As a result, authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions. Although submission is double-blind, the existence or availability of non-anonymous preprints (on arXiv or other preprint servers) will not lead to your paper being rejected. Reviewers will be instructed not to look for such preprints actively but encountering them will not constitute a conflict of interest. Papers that do not meet the size, formatting, and anonymization requirements will not be reviewed. We require each paper to be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted through the HotCRP submission system. *** Special Issue and Best Paper Awards *** DCOSS-IoT 2024 will announce a best paper award and a best poster/demo award. Extended versions of selected best papers from DCOSS-IoT 2024 will be included in a Special Issue of the Computer Networks (COMNET) Journal. *** Important dates *** * Abstract Registration Deadline: January 8, 2024 * Paper Submission Deadline: January 15, 2024 * Acceptance Notification: March 8, 2024 * Camera Ready Deadline: March 18, 2024 *** Key Organizers *** - Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs: * Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA) * Nathalie Mitton (Inria Lille - Nord Europe) * Enrico Natalizio (Technology Innovation Institute - TII, UAE) - Steering Committee Chair: * Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece - Local Chairs * Jennifer Simonjan (Technology Innovation Institute - TII, UAE) * Michael Baddeley (Technology Innovation Institute - TII, UAE) * Lina Bariah (Technology Innovation Institute - TII, UAE) * Andrew Chopra (Technology Innovation Institute - TII, UAE) Please visit the DCOSS-IoT 2024 website for more information: https://dcoss.org/ Aris Leivadeas | Associate Professor Department of Software and IT Engineering École de technologie supérieure | University of Quebec 1100, rue Notre-Dame Ouest, office A-3415 Montréal (Québec) H3C 1K3 Tel. 514 396-8860 | etsmtl.ca<http://etsmtl.ca/> Find us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/etsmtl> - Twitter<http://twitter.com/etsmtl> - YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/user/etsmtl> - LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/school/etsmtl/>

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New book: Invocational media: Reconceptualising the computer
by Chris Chesher 03 Jan '24

03 Jan '24

New book: Invocational media: reconceptualising the computer Chris Chesher Bloomsbury Invocational Media: Reconceptualising the Computer: Chris Chesher: Bloomsbury Academic<https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/invocational-media-9781501363627/> Invocational Media critiques the sociotechnical power of digital technologies by introducing the concept of invocational media. This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies. Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation. They offer many 'solutions', but only by reducing everything to the same kind of act. They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human. With robotics they invoke material form to act physically and autonomously. People willingly make themselves invocable to surveillance and control by creating their own profiles and marking themselves with biometrics. This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media. Turning away from computational media as "digital" and instead theorizing computers through their capacity to invoke, to call things up and respond, Chris Chesher's Invocational Media provides a staggeringly original perspective on technology that thrillingly reimagines almost all foundations of digital culture. ― Grant Bollmer, Associate Professor of Media Studies, NC State University, USA In a time where we are all mesmerized by the magic of ChatGPT and similar AI technologies, Chris Chesher's book is highly welcomed and timely. Using the concept of invocation and engaging with a wide range of relevant media philosophy, Invocational Media offers an interesting and highly original way to theorize how we design, experience and interact with digital technologies and, more precisely, how they design us. This is an important contribution to the philosophy of media and compulsory reading for everyone puzzled by the mystery of contemporary AI. ― Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna, Austria Just at the moment when the interactive interface is newly ascendant and we thought that all had been said, along comes this gift of a book. Thinking with the generative trope of invocational media, Chesher refigures the power and limits of computation. Invocational Media offers a history of the present of human-computer interaction, and a proposal for how we can rearticulate its future. It will be of interest to anyone engaged with the invocations, avocations and evocations that comprise relations at and through the interface. ― Lucy Suchman, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK --- DR CHRIS CHESHER | Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures Discipline of Media and Communications School of Art, Communication and English | Faculty of Arts THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Rm N222, Woolley A20 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9036 6173 | F +61 2 9351 2434 | M+61 404 095 480 E chris.chesher(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:chris.chesher@sydney.edu.au> https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/chris-cheshe… Recent publications: Chesher, C. (2023) Invocational Media: Reconceptualising the Computer https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/invocational-media-9781501363627/

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