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CFP: ICA 2024 Panel on Digital Queer Cultures, Intimacies, and Movements in the Asia-Pacific | Deadline: October 15
by Han, Woori 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

Call for Presenters: ICA 2024 Panel on Digital Queer Cultures, Intimacies, and Movements in the Asia-Pacific | Deadline: October 15 We invite presenters to submit paper abstracts for a panel for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Studies Interest Group<https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/LGBTQ_CFP> at the International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference<https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ica24> held on June 20-24, 2024 in Gold Coast, Australia. Digital Queer Cultures, Intimacies, and Movements in the Asia-Pacific Chairs/Organizers: Woori Han, Exeter University and Michelle Ho, National University of Singapore Digital media in the Asia Pacific region are a contested site for local expressions of global cultural and political flows, troubling and rewriting the narratives of modernity and development, the nation-state, and gendered and sexual norms. Especially in recent years, we have witnessed, for example, the cases of digital counterpublics, proliferation of LGBTQ media representations, digital intimacies, and the advent of trans-exclusionary feminisms. This panel bridges queer digital studies with queer Asian studies and queer Pacific studies, to explore how media and technology intersect with and change the ways in which gendered and sexed bodies, practices, and desires in the Asia-Pacific have been constructed. Possible topics may include but aren’t limited to: * Digital queer and transgender activism, resistance, and solidarity * Digital queer and trans communities and intimacies on gaming, dating apps, and social media platforms * LGBTQ representation in media * Digital embodiment and gendered bodies and their intersections with queerness, race/ethnicity, and disability * Technology-facilitated (sexual) violence, (gender-based) abuse, and other forms of digital harms experienced by LGBTQ persons * Anti-LGBTQ hate, backlash, and discourse on social media platforms * Queer and trans indigenous virtual world-building and online cultures, such as in the Pacific Islands Interested presenters should email a 400-word abstract, including a working title for your paper, and short author bio to Woori Han (W.Han(a)exeter.ac.uk<mailto:W.Han@exeter.ac.uk>) by Sunday October 15, 2023. Graduate students and junior scholars are especially welcome to join us. There may also be an opportunity for a special issue or edited volume to come out of this conference. Woori Han Ph.D. (office hours: Thursday 11:30-12:30 pm and Friday 12:30-1:30pm) Lecturer in Media and Communications Department of Communications, Drama and Film Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences University of Exeter

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Undergraduate Summer Workshop at Syracuse University’s iSchool
by Jeff Hemsley 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

Please share this widely. Syracuse University's School of Information Studies (iSchool) invites interested undergraduates to apply to our nine-week residential research experience in 2024, funded by the National Science Foundation. Undergraduates from all social science disciplines are welcome to apply to this summer 2024 experience at the Syracuse campus in beautiful upstate New York. Successful applicants will receive $6,000 in stipend funding plus free meals and housing. Syracuse University's iSchool has excelled for more than 25 years at providing education for students interested in technology and its impacts on industry, education, health, the environment, and other sectors. The research experience includes learning about text analysis, conducting a social science research project using data provided by professors, and opportunities for professional development and mentoring. Successful applicants will receive $6000 in stipend funding plus free meals and housing. Undergraduate students from colleges and universities other that Syracuse University are eligible for this funding.  Applicants can not yet have graduated by Summer of 2024. Visit our website for more information and to fill out the online application form: https://ischool.syr.edu/paid-research-experience Jeff Hemsley

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Call for Abstracts, Law & Society Association: Translating human rights in the digital age
by Sara Leila Margaret Davis 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

Dear colleagues, We invite abstracts for our proposed session for the Law and Society Association annual meeting in 2024. Abstracts must be in clear, simple English, max 2000 characters. More info on the conference is here <https://www.lawandsociety.org>. best Meg * *Call for Abstracts* *Translating human rights in the digital age * *Law and Society Association Annual Meetings, Denver, June 6 - 9, 2024* *Sara (Meg) Davis (University of Warwick) and Matt Canfield (Leiden Law School) * Digitization and datafication are at the forefront of expanding inequalities. Scholars have described how they produce new forms of colonialism and capitalism through data extractivism and surveillance (Cohen 2019, Zuboff 2019, Couldry and Mejias 2020); impose barriers to social rights (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health 2023), and amplify racial discrimination (Eubanks 2018, Benjamin 2019). At the same time, digitization is sparking transformative social movements. It is creating new agential capacities for women (Maslen and Lupton 2018) and new forms of solidarity, for instance around women’s rights, sexual orientation and gender identity, and health (Waldman et al 2018; Davis et al 2023) as well as new spaces for mobilization and advocacy (Niezen 2020). This panel invites papers that explore how activists in diverse contexts are mobilizing human rights in relation to data and the digital transformation. While some have critiqued the continuing viability of human rights as a frame for social justice (Billaud 2017, Moyn 2018, Whyte 2019), anthropologists see a new vitality in the diverse ways that human rights are “appropriated, adapted and redefined” to fit a variety of contexts (Merry 2018, Canfield 2022, Goodale 2022). Drawing on diverse field sites and conceptual lenses, including ethnographic (and digital ethnographic) research in and from the Majority and Minority worlds, we seek to understand how activists respond to challenges of digital access, datafication, discrimination, and platform capitalism given increasingly diffuse notions of accountability, privacy, and equality by translating human rights. We ask: How are activists redefining and applying human rights in a rapidly shifting realm where the role of the state, as primary duty-bearer, is frequently nebulous, and where the private sector dominates? What can anthropology and ethnographic methods offer to understanding human rights in the digital age? Please submit abstracts by October 13th to m.c.canfield(a)law.leidenuniv.nl and sara.davis(a)warwick.ac.uk -- *Sara (Meg) Davis, Ph.D.* *Research Associate, *Global Governance Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute *Professor,* Digital Health and Rights, University of Warwick Digital Health and Rights Project <https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/research/research-projects/digital-…> Book: *The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health <https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/uncounted/C0CC81C0F03D1822D05C13EE31FA…>* Ted talk: The Uncounted: The people left out of health data <https://www.ted.com/talks/sara_meg_davis_the_uncounted_the_people_left_out_…>

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CFP: Handbook of Critical Data Studies
by Jasmine McNealy 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

Please consider contributing to our Handbook of Critical Data Studies<https://critical-data-handbook.info/>, to be published by De Gruyter in 2026. This volume will present a comprehensive review of the current state of critical data studies, a field that looks at data as a site of contested meanings and politics. With your help, we aim to bring together a truly global and interdisciplinary set of perspectives from fields including sociology, science and technology studies, information science, human computer interaction, media studies, postcolonial studies, digital humanities, and beyond. The goal is to center the perspectives of critical and marginalized voices, ensuring that issues like race, gender, class and the environment reverberate across the entire handbook. We invite you to submit a 500-700 word abstract proposal of your chapter by Dec 31, 2023. Possible topics include: * Grounding concepts in critical data studies. * Methodologies: what is ‘critical’ about critical data studies? * Critical political economy of data: theories of extraction, production and prediction. * Case studies: looking at specific sectors, locations and examples from daily life. * A critical approach to laws, policies and regulations concerning data. * How to frame resistance from a critical data studies perspective. For more details, see https://critical-data-handbook.info/. To receive updates about this project, please fill out this form.<https://oswego.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_39H86oYiyrr5IsS>

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Social Network Analysis: merging tradition with modern tools and methods
by Alessandro Zonin 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

🗓️* Upcoming webinar. Wed, Oct 18 · 5 - 7pm CEST* 👉 In an age where technology is evolving at a rapid pace, the tools and methodologies we use to understand and interpret the vast digital landscape are crucial. Traditional ways of analyzing social interactions with the lenses of network analysis are being complemented—and in some cases, replaced—by innovative approaches. 📘 This webinar aims to bridge the gap between traditional and cutting-edge methodologies. We will dive deep into online conversation analysis, spotlighting the synergy of *social media scraping*, *generative AI tools* like ChatGPT, and the comprehensive capabilities of *Gephi* for *network* *visualization*. 🔗 Enroll Here: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/social-network-analysis-merging-tradition-with-… <https://www.eventbrite.it/e/social-network-analysis-merging-tradition-with-…> *Please apply the discount code AIRONLY to enroll with a 10% discount. I hope to e-meet you soon.* Cheers -- Alessandro Zonin Digital Data Stories <https://digitaldatastories.it>

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21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2024): First Call for Papers
by Announce 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

*** First 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: January 22, 2024, AoE • Full paper submission: January 29, 2024, AoE • Notification: March 8, 2024, AoE • Camera Ready: March 22, 2024, AoE • Author Registration: March 22, 2024 AoE ORGANISATION Steering Committee • Eduardo Almeida, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil • Goetz Botterweck, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland • Rafael Capilla Sevilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 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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IGP Summit today
by Joly MacFie 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

The Institute of Global Politics is a new thing at SIPA at Columbia University, co-headed by Hillary Clinton. They are holding their inaugural summit today, While not specifically Internet Governance oriented, there are sessions on the global economy, and AI. The latter (at 16:45 UTC) includes Maria Ressa, co-chair of the UN IGF Leadership Panel, Marietje Schaake, now of Stanford Cyber Policy, and Tim Wu, coiner of Net Neutrality. Program: https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/igp-inaugural-summit-livestream Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livestream-inaugural-summit-of-the-institute-o… YouTube: https://youtu.be/i13cbOcNWIE: -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CfP Special Issue on the Role of Teachers in Preventing and Intervening in Bullying
by Sinan Aşçı 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

Dear colleagues, I am writing to share a CfP for a special issue of International Journal of Bullying Prevention. Please find more details below. ### *Special Issue Call for Papers: The Role of Teachers in Preventing and Intervening in Offline and Online Bullying* Guest Editors Prof Lucy R. Betts, Nottingham Trent University, UK (Guest Editor, International Journal of Bullying Prevention) Dr Peter J.R. Macaulay, University of Derby, UK (Managing Editor, International Journal of Bullying Prevention) Key Dates - 500‐word expression of interest / abstract due: Friday 17th November 2023 - Invitations to submit full-length manuscript for the special issue released: Friday 8th, December 2023 - Full‐length manuscript submission due: Monday 15th April 2024 Please note that invited authors to submit a full‐ length manuscript should follow the submission guidelines set out by the International Journal of Bullying Prevention. Submitted manuscripts should be between 6,000 and 9,000 words. Special Issue: Message from the Editors Bullying, both offline and online, continues to pose significant challenges to the wellbeing and development of students in educational settings. As these behaviours remain a problem in the school environment, it becomes increasingly important to explore the vital role that teachers play in addressing and mitigating the problem (Brochado et al., 2017). Traditional bullying, involving physical, verbal, and relational harassment, and cyberbullying, which takes place through digital communication channels, both have far-reaching consequences for students' mental and emotional health, academic performance, classroom concentration, and overall school climate (Betts et al., 2017; Boulton & Macaulay, 2023; Mark & Ratliffe, 2011; Wolke et al., 2017). Teachers are uniquely positioned to make a meaningful impact in combatting these behaviours, both in and out of the school environment (Myers & Cowie, 2019; Veenstra et al., 2014; Yoon & Bauman, 2014). Despite this, research suggests that teachers feel unprepared to address bullying in the school environment, with inconsistent management strategies and views (Campbell et al., 2019; Macaulay et al., 2018; 2021). These different perceptions create challenges for the reporting and addressing of these incidents, understanding the most pressing correlates and consequences, and ascertaining how best to proceed with anti‐bullying interventions that directly or indirectly involve educators. The nature of bullying has become more dynamic, nuanced, and difficult to identify/monitor, and so schools should take a whole‐school approach to prevent different acts of bullying (Valle et al., 2020). Such an approach requires the endorsement across all parts of the school team – for example, teachers, senior members of staff, and leaders – working together with the wider community to create an overarching supportive school climate. This special issue will aim to present recent research evidence on the role of teachers in preventing and intervening in traditional bullying and cyberbullying. The aim of this special issue is to bring together and spotlight research that: - Examines the contextual and situational factors that constrain or support teachers in their efforts to prevent and intervene in traditional bullying and cyberbullying incidents. - Details the optimal strategies teachers endorse to manage bullying and cyberbullying situations across different educational settings and populations of students. - Examines the role and views of pre‐service and in‐service teachers on the prevention and intervention of traditional bullying and cyberbullying. - Illuminates how teachers can best work in concert with other major stakeholders to attenuate these issues. Research focusing on other clearly related subtopics may be considered, and will be evaluated based on feasibility, merit, and overall fit with the goals of the special issue and journal as a whole. More information is available on the journal website <https://www.springer.com/journal/42380/updates/26104146>. Regards, ----- *Sinan Aşçı, Ph.D.* Postdoctoral Researcher, Anti-Bullying Center <https://antibullyingcentre.ie/>, Dublin City University / DCU <https://www.dcu.ie/> *Mail Address:* All Hallows Campus (SG04), Drumcondra, Dublin 9, Ireland *E-mail:* sinan.asci(a)dcu.ie; sinanasci(a)gmail.com *Mobile:* +353 (83) 081 8841

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CFP: Practicing Digital Ethnography, edited book
by Devin Proctor 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

Hello fellow AoIR-ers! Please see the Call for Submissions below for a book I am editing, under contract with Routledge. The call is specifically for short case studies of research that involves digital ethnographic methods. It's shaping up to be a great volume, so if you've got recent research that fits, I hope you submit it! Devin— *** *Call for short chapters: edited book, Practicing Digital Ethnography * *Routledge invites submissions of short chapters for an edited volume, Practicing Digital Ethnography.* Are you engaged in—or have you recently undertaken—ethnographic fieldwork that intersects with digital technologies? Are you using digital technologies to present your work in a novel way? If so, please consider submitting a fieldwork reflection to the upcoming edited volume, *Practicing Digital Ethnography,* under contract with Routledge*. *We are looking for interdisciplinary case studies, anecdotes, and methodological interventions drawn from current research in the realm of digital ethnography. *About the Book * *Practicing Digital Ethnography* seeks to introduce undergraduate students (and the general public) to the practices, theories, and complications of ethnographic fieldwork in the contemporary digital landscape. The book will be based in rigorous theory and method but written in approachable language. In addition to its main chapters—authored by a mixture of established and junior scholars—this volume will include short, *2,000 word “Case Studies”* to provide examples in a real-world fieldwork setting. Because the volume should reflect digital research in a global sense, scholars and work representing marginalized cultural or geographic groups are especially encouraged to contribute. And because these case studies should reflect contemporary innovative research, we also particularly invite graduate students engaged in research and early career academics, as well as digital practitioners from outside the academy, to submit abstracts. These can include ethnographic fieldwork of many types: - “offline” cultural use of Internet technologies; - “online” meaning-making in digital spaces; - ethnography within virtual worlds; - the effects of wearable digital technologies; - ethical conundrums faced researching the digital; - studies using big data to analyze cultural practices; - studies analyzing linguistic and semiotic patterns of Internet use; - research engaging with multiple intersecting digital platforms; - research with/about AI and/or algorithmic logics; - work using GIS technologies to track social practices; - ethnographic video games and/or interactive narratives; - ethnographic work as/on digital art or installations; - any of the multitude of other ways the ethnographic and digital can inform each other. *Submission Procedures:* 1. From *now *until* November 1, 2023*—Please send a short abstract (100-200 words) describing the fieldwork, along with a few sentences of author(s) bio information with the subject line “Case Study Submission” to dproctor2(a)elon.edu. 2. *November 15, 2023—*Authors will be notified about the status of their proposals. 3. *April 1, 2024—*Full case-studies (2,000 words) are expected to be submitted. Please direct submissions, and any questions, to the volume’s editor, Dr. Devin Proctor, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Elon University, at dproctor2(a)elon.edu. -- Devin Proctor (he/him) devinproctor.com {╯*_*}╯︵ ┻━┻

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Deadline closing Friday 6 October! Study-in on AI + Race + Art, Melbourne
by Thao Phan 02 Oct '23

02 Oct '23

Hello AoIR-ists, A reminder that the deadline to apply for the upcoming Study-In on AI + Race +Art closes this Friday 6 October. A free event in Naarm/Melbourne curated by Andrew Brooks (UNSW), Joel Stern (RMIT) and myself (Monash). Details below. Hope to see you there! best, Thao --- *Study-In on AI + Race + Art* *Time & Location (updated!):* —Saturday 2nd December 2023, 10am-6.00pm —VCA Southbank, Naarm/Melbourne *Deadline for applications (updated):* Friday 6 October, 2023, midnight (extended, previously 8 September) *Curated by:* Thao Phan (Monash), Andrew Brooks (UNSW), and Joel Stern (RMIT) *Details on how to apply visit:* https://www.artandaustralia.com/58_1/p143/study-in-on-ai-race-art *About the event:* What is study? For Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, study is a form of sociality. It is a meeting with, a brushing against, a bumping up of people, texts, ideas and things. It is the creation of a mutual and unpayable debt; a debt that is 'without count, without interest, without repayment.' As Moten states: study is what you do with other people. It’s talking and walking around > with other people, working, dancing, suffering, some irreducible > convergence of all three, held under the name of speculative practice. This event is an exercise in precisely this kind of practice. It invites writers, researchers, activists, artists and others together for a day of speculative thinking, talking, listening and experimentation on the topic of AI, race, and art. Terms like ‘AI’ are already associated with speculation—speculative fictions, speculative profits, speculative job losses, speculative risks and harms. Art also finds value in its connection to the speculative—speculative practice, speculative experiments, speculative funding, speculative futures. And critical work on race also productively turns to speculation when the empirical facts of inequity and injustice fail to create social change—speculative world-making and speculative methods to realise racial justice. This event combines these different strands of speculation, holding together disparate threads that may gesture to abstract and indeterminate futures but are all irreducibly historical, political, and situated. It focuses on AI, race and art because these are topics that need to be studied, that must be studied because they have implications on such things as subjectivity, politics, inequality, and aesthetics. It takes the form of a ‘Study-in’, that is, a temporary school that will interrogate AI and race, developing new methods and approaches to study that draw from and feed into artistic methods and strategies. It begins from the proposition that the challenge of understanding race in the contemporary moment requires responses that are equal parts creative, critical, technical, and collective. Through the process of collective study, the event will also build what might be called a speculative curriculum. Here, we take the traces of what Harney and Moten describe as the 'empty shell of what used to be called education' to cobble together a resource that can exceed the time and place of the ‘Study-in’ as an event and can be used by ourselves and others as an occasion for future study. The event is motivated by questions such as: - How are bodies classified, recognised, and operationalised by Artifical Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) systems that are situated within colonial and imperial histories and contexts? - How are group-based differentials—such as race, gender, sexuality—shaped by data-driven technologies and AI systems? - How do these technologies move us beyond understanding race and gender as either purely biological or purely cultural? - And how might contemporary artistic practice help us to experiment, challenge, trouble, blow apart, and piece back together entanglements with technology, embodiment, and difference? The Study-in is a day interrogating these questions and is curated by Thao Phan, Andrew Brooks, and Joel Stern in collaboration with CoVA, Art + Australia, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). *Applications close:* Friday 6 October September, 2023, midnight (extended, previously 8 September) *For more information or to apply, visit: * https://www.artandaustralia.com/58_1/p143/study-in-on-ai-race-art

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