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#AoIR2023 Plenary Panel • 19 October 2023
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 19 Jul '23

19 Jul '23

We are very happy to announce our Plenary Panel for #AoIR2023: Revolutions– Global Challenges to a “Green Revolution” for the Internet. On this panel critical internet scholars, Nanna Thylstrup and Seryam Avle, will be in conversation with Ingrid Burrington and Vusumuzi Maphosa, two members of a transnational team of researchers, funded by the Internet Society, investigating the processes of digital wasting throughout the tech supply chain from extraction in Greenland, to waste produced from chip fabrication in Taiwan and Silicon Valley, to wastes associated with industrial computing in the US, through to post-consumer discard practices and risks in Zimbabwe. Chaired by Lauren Bridges and Zane Cooper, Co-Principal Investigators of the Internet Society research team, this plenary will interrogate the scale and reach of the internet’s environmental impact, and draw out some pressing questions of material politics facing the field of internet research. More details available here <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/aoir2023keynoteplenary/>. The plenary session will take place at the Sonesta Hotel on 19 October, 2023. As a reminder, the early registration rate deadline for the #AoIR2023 Revolutions <https://aoir.org/aoir2023/> is 1 August 2023. All presenting authors must be registered by 1 August 2023 deadline to be included in the 2023 program. Registration is available here: https://members.aoir.org/event-5288994 In addition, to get AoIR’s discounted rate for the conference hotel, bookings should be made using this link before 26 September: https://book.passkey.com/go/AoIR2023 We look forward to seeing you all in Philadelphia! #AoIR2023 Conference Committee

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Abstracts Due 1 August! Special Issue on AI's Publics, Publicities, and Publications
by Fenwick Mckelvey 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Please apply. Deadline 1 August 2023. Email me if you have any questions. Call below. Great opportunity to publish in a top open-access journal. Edited by Fenwick McKelvey, Joanna Redden, Jonathan Roberge, and Luke Stark (names in alphabetical order) To be published in the open access Journal of Digital Social Research <https://www.jdsr.io/>. Please submit your abstracts here: https://forms.gle/hWQxvuRTWoFhVs3W6 The recent release of so-called “general-purpose artificial intelligence” (GPAI) systems have prompted a public panic that AI-generated fiction is now indistinguishable from fact. General-purpose AI refers to systems “intended by the provider to perform generally applicable functions such as image and speech recognition, audio and video generation, pattern detection, question answering, translation and others” (Artificial Intelligence Act, Council of the European Union, Procedure File: 2021/0106(COD), Title 1, Article 3(1b)). Contemporary technologies referred to as GPAI include OpenAI’s ChatGPT as well as numerous text-to-image generation software such as DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. GPAI systems are already being deployed to support and entrench existing asymmetries of power and wealth. For instance, the online news outlet CNET recently disclosed that it has been publishing stories written by an AI and edited by humans for months (Main, 2023). The current concern over ChatGPT is an important moment in AI’s publicity and publicization (Hansen, 2021), or what Noortje Marres refers to as “material things” acting as “crucial tools or props for the performance of public involvement in an issue” (Marres, 2010, p. 179). Amidst countless opinion pieces and hot takes discussing GPAI, this special issue details how scandal, silence, and hype operate to promote and publicize AI. We seek interventions that question AI’s publicity and promotion as well as new strategies of engagement with AI’s powerful social and political influence. Concern over Generative AI, we argue, is limited by publicity around these systems that has been framed by hype, silence, or scandal (Brennen, 2018, 2018; Sun et al., 2020). Publicity refers to the relations between affected peoples and matters of shared concerns (Barney, 2014; Marres, 2015, 2018). Historically, these relations have been mediated by the press (Schudson, 2008), but GPAI’s coincides with uncertainty about journalism’s status and a rise of direct, one-step flow like effects of either citizen-to-citizen or, in the case of ChatGPT, a direct link (Bennett & Manheim, 2006). Scholars have observed that publicity around AI follows several distinct patterns: 1. Hype (Ananny & Finn, 2020; Broussard et al., 2019; Mosco, 2004). This discourse is prominent. Concepts like the fourth industrial revolution and disruption function as self-fulfilling, with the consequence that technology arrives always as good news. The launch of ChatGPT is a hallmark of this hyped mode, fitting into a well-worn mode of a “normative framework of publicity [that is] drained of its critical value, and convert[ed] from a democratic asset to a democratic liability” (Barney, 2008, p. 92). Opening AI to the public, no matter the consequences for society, as in the case of ChatGPT, is portrayed as a good even as this publicization shifts focus to acceptance and inevitability. 2. Silence. If not positive, AI coverage is marked by gaps and aporias, or in effect, closures when aspects of AI remain too uncontroversial to report as well as larger work into the logics of AI imaginaries (Bareis & Katzenbach, 2021). The result is that AI-related issues seldom make the political information cycle, as in the case of ChatGPT’s potential violations of privacy and copyright law, discussed below (Chadwick, 2013). 3. Scandals – or what we refer to as proofs of social transgressions – are a pronounced feature of contemporary technological coverage and governance (Bosetta, 2020; Lull & Hinerman, 1998; McKelvey et al., 2018; Trottier, 2017). Scandals, which we stress do not necessity involve opportunities for public engagement nor democratic praxis, result from a mutually reinforcing relationship between newsrooms looking for easy, high-engagement stories (Blanchett et al., 2022; Cohen, 2015; Dodds et al., 2023) and the affordances of social media, largely functioning as a distraction from other tasks (Hall et al., 2018). 4. Inevitability. AI discourses are dominated by technology firms, government representatives, AI investors, global management consultancies, and think tanks. These voices present a faith in data driven systems to address social problems while also increasing efficiency and productivity (Bourne 2019, Beer 2019). Such discourses are used to reinforce the idea that the increasing use of AI applications across all spheres of life is inevitable, while sidelining or ignoring meaningful engagement with the ways these applications cause harm (Walker 2022). Our special issue seeks interventions focused on: 1. Critical and comparative studies of AI’s publicities with regards to the launch and hype of AI. We particularly welcome papers that focus on cases outside the Global North; 2. Ethnographic, discursive, or engaged research with AI’s public such as AutoGPT, HustleGPT, or other publics forming around the use, misuse or resistance to GPAI; 3. Interventions or reflections on critical practices, such as community engagement and mobilization, futures literacy, or capacity building, for better publicizations of AI de-centering the strategic futuring employed by large technology firms. Please submit an extended abstract (1000 words) by 1 August 2023. Accepted full papers due 1 December 2023. Planned publication Spring 2024.

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Call for Abstracts: METSTI 2023 Workshop
by Isabelle Dorsch 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Hi internet researchers! Great news! There is still enough time to submit an extended abstract 23rd of July. Moreover, what is very cool, we have Mike Thelwall as keynote speaker! 📢 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 ✍ The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Metrics (SIG/MET), in collaboration with the ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Scientific and Technical Information (SIG STI), is hosting a workshop on Informetric, Scientometric, and Scientific and Technical Information Research. We are inviting contributions to the workshop METSTI 2023, which will be held prior to the 86th ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Kindly go through the following details: Full-day workshop before the ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting Friday, October 27, 2023, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. (BST), London, UK Two-page extended 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 describing empirical or theoretical work related but not limited to the following areas will be invited: - Bibliometric-enhanced information retrieval - Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the science of science - Informetrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics or social media metrics (altmetrics) - New indicators, methods and tools - Open access and open science - Patent analysis - Research evaluation and research integrity - Scholarly or science communication - Science and technology policies - Team Science - Scientific and technical information 📝 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀: - Research presentation | Poster | Tutorial | Panel 📅 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: - Deadline for submission: July 23, 2023 [anywhere on Earth time] - Acceptance decision date: August 8, 2023 - Workshop during the 86th Annual Meeting of ASIS&T: 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 📃 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗖𝗳𝗔: https://lnkd.in/dNYdh8kw We will be grateful if you consider participating in the workshop, distributing the CfA, or telling your colleagues and students about it! Cheers! Isabelle Dorsch

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Real-Time Intelligent Systems 2023
by ijwa dline.info 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth International Conference on Real-Time Intelligent Systems (RTIS 2023) October 09-11, 2023 University of Bedfordshire, Luton. UK (Hybrid mode- Physical/Virtual) www.socio.org.uk/rtis Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems by Springer https://www.springer.com/series/15179 Earlier conferences took place in Taipei, Taiwan (2018); Casablanca, Morocco (2017); Beijing, China (2016). The 5th RTIS will take place at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Over the last few years, real-time intelligent computing has radically transformed the human lifestyle. Research on real-time intelligent systems is multi-disciplinary, exploiting concepts from diverse areas such as big data processing, computational intelligence, location-based services, recommendation systems, and multimedia processing. In today’s highly dynamic environment, analysing data in real-time is a must to understand how systems process data, reason the outputs, and anticipate trends in intelligent computing. To this end, this conference will serve as a platform to manifest the ongoing research in the field. Thus, RTIS welcomes theoretically grounded, methodologically sound papers that address aspects related to topics, such as: Artificial Intelligence Techniques Artificial Intelligence and Data mining Streaming data, streaming engines Trace-based intelligent real-time services Adaptive vision algorithms Location-based services Intelligent Robotic Systems Collaborative Intelligence Processing Intelligent Databases Data capture in real-time Data quality and cleansing Intelligent Data Analysis Intelligent Database Systems Big Data systems and applications for high-velocity data Intelligent Information Systems Privacy and Security in Intelligence Software Engineering Solutions Intelligent Soft Computing Real-time multiprocessor systems Internet of Things Architectures for Intelligence Real-time distributed coding Smart services and platforms Real-time modelling user information needs Wireless Communication Real-time intelligent communication Real-time intelligent network solutions Mobile Smart Systems Broadband Intelligence Cloud Computing and Intelligence Collaborative Intelligence Analysis in domains such as energy, sensors, Expert Systems Smart Life Systems Decision support systems in real time Multi-agent Intelligent Systems Multilingual information access Recommendation systems Real-time intelligent, alert systems Real-time remote access systems Intelligent Transportation Systems Critical Real-Time Applications Hybrid Intelligent Systems Real-time noise removal systems Event-driven analytics Intelligent Fuzzy Systems Machine translation in real time OLAP for real-time decision support Crowdsourcing and crowd intelligence Submission, proceedings Papers must be submitted online through OpenConf (https://www.socio.org.uk/rtis/paper-submission/) Author instructions and LaTex2e (preferred) and Word macro files are available on the submission page. Submitted papers should be within 14 pages (long papers) and eight pages (short ones), including figures, tables, and references. Authors of accepted papers are required to transfer their copyrights. For a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors MUST register for the conference by the camera-ready submission deadline with full registration. Springer will publish The proceedings in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems. Extended versions of the conference papers will be considered for publication in the below journals. Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE) Future Internet https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet Data https://www.mdpi.com/journal/data (For Data and Future Internet, the discounted APC is applicable, which is 50%) Journal of Digital Information Management Journal of Intelligent Computing Venue The venue is the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Plenary speakers Professor Eric Atwell, Professor of Artificial Intelligence for Language School of Computing, University of LEEDS, UK Professor Wang Department of Electrical and Software Engineering University of Calgary, Canada Karthick Prasad Gunasekaran Amazon Web Services, USA Important Dates Full Paper Submission: August 05, 2023 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 31, 2023 Early-bird Registration: September 20, 2023 Late Registration: September 30, 2023 Camera Ready Due: October 15, 2023 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos: October 08, 2023 Main conference: October 09-11, 2023 Post-conference proceedings: November 15, 2023 General Chairs Ricardo Rodriguez-Jorge, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University , Czech Republic Martín LÓPEZ-NORES, University of Vigo, Spain Program Chairs Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India Workshop/Special Issues Chair Ezendu Ariwa, University of Warwick, UK www.socio.org.uk/rtis Contact: stm(a)socio.org.uk

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26th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2023), November 19-22, 2023, Tampa, Florida, USA, Deadline: July 23, 2023
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

========================================================================================= The 26th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2023) will be held on November 19-22, 2023, in Tampa, Florida, USA. As a global platform aiming at enabling academia-industry-government collaboration in the field of wireless information, WPMC have manifested itself as a unique global annual symposium on wireless techno-business world encapsulating the high-end wireless technologies and the current markets and trends to create future businesses and innovative societies. WPMC 2023 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), and the accepted manuscripts will be included in IEEE xplore. http://wpmc2023.com/ MAIN TOPICS OF INTERESTS WPMC 2023 solicit high-quality manuscripts, and the topics of interests categorized into six tracks include (but not limited to): 1. RF,Optical,Spectrum Technology • Antennas and RF Techniques • Ultra-Wideband, Millimeter-Wave, and Terahertz • Next Generation MIMO and Massive MIMO • Waveforms and Modulation • Channel Modeling and Estimation • Smart Radio Environment • Optical Communication • Visible Light and Wireless Optical Communication • Reconﬁgurable Intelligent Surface • Signal Processing and Integrated Circuits • Spectrum Sharing/Coexistence 2. Wireless Networks • Ad-hoc Networks • Vehicular Networks • 802.11 and Next-generation Wi-Fi • UAVs and Non-Terrestrial Networks • Software Deﬁned Radio and Networks • Networking Architectures for AI • Local 5G/B5G Systems • Data Science and AI for Wireless Networks • Resource Management 3. International Standards, Multimedia, Social Media, Application Services, and Services • Experiments, Prototypes, and Testbeds • Sensing and Localization • O-RAN • B5G and 6G Standardization • Networking Support for Virtual and Augmented Reality • Network Economics • Mobile Social Media and Social Networks • Holographic Communications • Video and Multimedia Coding 4. Wireless Communications Systems • Advanced Modulation Schemes • Cooperative and Relay-aided Communications • Interference Management, Alignment, and Cancellation • Cross-Layer Optimization • Massive Communication and Information Theory • Multiple Access • Equalization, Channel Estimation, Synchronization • Error Correcting Codes • Satellite and Deep Space Communications • ML for Wireless Communications • Game-Theoretic Approaches to Wireless 5. Security and Privacy in Communications • Applied Cryptography for Cyber, Information, and Network Security • Public Key Infrastructures and Authentication Protocols • Communication Privacy and Anonymity • Blockchain Security • Malware Detection and Damage Recovery • Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Firewalls, Packet Filters • Key Management and Credential Management Cloud, Data Center and Distributed Systems Security Quantum Communications and Networks 6. IoT, Sensor Networks, and AI-enabled Networks • IoT and Machine Type Communications • E-health and Mobile Health • Innovative Implanted and Wearable Devices • Bayesian Optimization for Wireless • End-to-end ML over Wireless Channels • Communication-inspired ML • Edge Computing, Edge Intelligence and Fog Networks • Green Communications and Networks • Machine-to-machine Communication • Smart Factory, Smart Community ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS General Chairs Kwang-Cheng Chen (University of South Florida, US) Morio Toyoshima (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) General Vice Chairs Uma Jha (L3Harris Technology, US) Huseyin Arslan (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey) Ryuji Kohno (Yokohama National University, Japan) TPC Chair Shao-Yu Lien (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) TPC Co-Chairs North and South America: Yao Liu (University of South Florida, US) Europe: Neeli Prasad (VehicleAvatar, US) Asia Pacific: Chih-Cheng Tseng (National Ilan University, Taiwan) Workshop Chair Albena Dimitrova Mihovska (Aarhus University, Denmark) Track Chairs RF, Optical, and Spectrum Technology Shih-Chen Lin (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) Qimei Cui (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China) Wireless Networks Kapal Dev (Munster Technology University, Ireland) Jingjing Wang (Beihang University, China) Applications Services and Applications De-Nian Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, US) Wireless Communications Systems Chun-Hung Liu (Mississippi State University, US) Koichi Adachi (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan) Security and Privacy in Communications Pin-Yu Chen (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, US) Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon, France) IoT, Sensor Networks, and AI-enabled Networks Shih-Chun Lin (North Carolina State University, US) Megumi Kaneko (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Keynote Chair Valdimir Poulkov (Technical University–Sofia, Bulgaria) Finance Chair Chu-Hsiang Huang (Qualcomm Inc., US) Publicity Chair Der-Jiunn Deng *National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan) Local Arrangement Chair Zhuo Lu (University of South Florida, US) Tutorial Chairs Yi-Ching Liao (Realtek Inc., Taiwan) Srinivas Katkoori (University of South Florida, US) Publication Chair Ying-Ren Chien (National Ilan University, Taiwan) Registration Chair Chao-Yu Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Website Chair Chih-Yu Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) IMPORTANT DATES Symposium paper submission: July 1, 2023; July 23, 2023 (extended) Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2023 Camera-ready submission: October 15, 2023 Workshop proposal: July 1, 2023 Tutorial proposal: September 1, 2023 SUBMISSIONS Technical papers can be submitted through EDAS using the link: https://edas.info/N30791. Workshop and tutorial proposals can be forwarded to wpmc2023.tampa(a)gmail.com<mailto:wpmc2023.tampa@gmail.com>. Detailed information is available on http://wpmc2023.com/. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Associate Professor Computer Engineering Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab’s News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” ~ Aristotle

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WEBCAST JUL 14 – IGF Leadership Panel Press Conference
by Joly MacFie 17 Jul '23

17 Jul '23

Tomorrow, a high level report back from this week's IGF MAG meeting, courtesy of UN TV. [image: UN Web tv] <https://isoc.live/16723>On *Friday July 14 2023* at *09:30 CEST* (07:30 UTC) the *United Nations Office in Geneva <https://isoc.live/16723>* (UNOG) will webcast a press conference about the *Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel <https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-leadership-panel-members>*'s mandate supporting the *IGF <https://www.intgovforum.org/>* and the scope of its activities since the Panel's establishment one year ago. *SPEAKERS* *Vinton Cerf*, Chair, IGF Leadership Panel / VP + Chief Internet Evangelist, Google *Maria Ressa*, Vice-Chair, IGF Leadership Panel / 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate *VIEW ON UNTV https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1g/k1gfi4udno <https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1g/k1gfi4udno>* *TWITTER #igf leadership panel <https://bit.ly/3pMpsPy> #IGF2023 @intgovforum @vgcerf Maria Ressa* *Permalink https://isoc.live/16723 <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps://isoc.live/16723>* -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CFP: “Streaming Diversity?" Journal of Convergence special issue
by Maura Edmond 17 Jul '23

17 Jul '23

Call For Papers: “Streaming Diversity? On and off-screen diversity in an era of automated media culture” Abstracts due 22 Sept 2023 Special Issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies Guest editors: Dr Maura Edmond, Dr Olivia Khoo, Dr Claire Perkins and Dr Verity Trott, from @Gender&MediaLab <https://twitter.com/gendermedialab> in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia. Deadline for abstracts: *22 September 2023* | Expected publication date: August 2024 The unprecedented growth of video-on-demand streaming platforms has brought both new optimism and new complications to concerns around screen ‘diversity’. Without the limitations of linear television, streaming services have far greater capacity for producing and distributing more diverse screen content. Many of the streaming platforms have made high profile public commitments to diversity, such as Netflix’s ‘Inclusion Report’, introducing new policies and commissioning processes intended to support culturally diverse representation and content production. Large global SVODs and smaller region-specific and genre-specific platforms have also launched original series and commissioned content that has been widely marketed as and celebrated for its diverse representations. Together, this has created a popular impression that streaming platforms are improving diversity in terms of both representation and practical opportunities for screen creatives. This special issue of Convergence will critically explore the impacts of video streaming platforms on different dimensions of ‘diversity’. Existing studies on diversity in the screen sector have consistently demonstrated long standing and entrenched inequality regimes affecting women and non-dominant groups, but there remains limited research on how this plays out at the streaming services specifically. Research on SVOD-related impacts have focused instead on understanding how major global companies like Netflix have interacted with existing local screen industries and production ecosystems, affected global distribution and content flows, and created overall regulatory imbalances. We are calling for papers that will examine the impacts of video streaming platforms that extend our understanding of diversity in an era of automated, on-demand video. In keeping with the themes of this issue, we welcome proposals looking at streaming services and experiences outside US contexts. Questions of interest include, but are not limited to: - How is diversity represented and made discoverable via platform features such as the image tiles and categories used in catalogues? - How do recommendation systems understand and operationalise ‘diversity’? - What values and messages about diversity are being communicated by the content commissioned by streaming services? - What are we to make of existing policies and practices intended to support diversity, equity and inclusion at the streaming platforms? - What policy options are there for regulating ‘diversity’? - How do audiences, users and communities engage with streaming platforms to discover, view or value ‘diverse’ content? Please submit a 500-word abstract & 100 word bio by 22 September 2023 to: streamingdiversity(a)gmail.com Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 20 October 2023. Full articles will be due 01 March 2024 No payment from the authors will be required Dr Maura Edmond Senior Lecturer School of Media, Film and Journalism Building B, Room B4.31 Monash University Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia t: +61 3 990 34119 e: maura.edmond(a)monash.edu

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Participate in CrisisFACTS track at TREC-2023
by Hemant Purohit 16 Jul '23

16 Jul '23

CFP: CrisisFACTS at TREC-2023 - http://crisisfacts.github.io You are invited to participate in the second year of the CrisisFACTS crisis summarization and fact extraction track at TREC. This year, we have expanded the track’s event set with ten new crises, for a total of 18 crisis events<https://crisisfacts.github.io/#events>. We invite you to participate by submitting a collection of facts, extracted from data we provide across Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and news articles, for each day of these crisis events. These facts provide daily summaries of crises, as described in the online information space. Submissions are due 1 September (see “Important Dates” for more information), so you have the summer to participate. See http://crisisfacts.github.io for more information on data access and registering with TREC. If you’re looking for a way to apply ChatGPT and related LLMs to a novel problem, look no further, as synthesizing daily summaries of crises from multiple social media streams is an important research topic. Methods developed and evaluated in this context could also be used in other spaces, from news summaries to describing disinformation campaigns, public health campaigns, and a variety of other information tasks. Participants from prior years of CrisisFACTS and its predecessor, TREC-IS, have had good success in getting papers describing their approaches published at the annual Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management<https://iscram.org/> conference. To facilitate participation, we have provided a baseline implementation on GitHub<https://github.com/crisisfacts/utilities/tree/main/01-Baselines>, so you can get started right away! Important Dates Milestone Date Guidelines released 10 May 2023 Submissions Due 1 September 2023 NIST-Assessor Evaluation 5-22 September 2023 Scores returned to participants 29 September 2022 TREC Notebook Drafts Due 7 November 2023 (Tentative) TREC Conference 15-17 November 2023 (Tentative) -- Hemant Purohit, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Sciences & Technology Department Director, Humanitarian Informatics Lab School of Computing, George Mason University Office: 5348 Nguyen Engineering Building https://mason.gmu.edu/~hpurohit

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Ethics of analyzing reader comments to newspaper articles
by Regina Tuma 16 Jul '23

16 Jul '23

Hello dear AOIR colleagues, What are the ethical guidelines for analyzing reader comments to newspaper articles for newspapers behind a paywall? An example would be The New York Times. Reader comments are not accessible unless one is a paid subscriber or unless an article is gifted. Is this similar to Facebook where groups are not public? For context, I have a couple of articles where I want to analyze the reader comments. Hoping to get some insight. Thanks, Regina Sent from [1]Mail for Windows References 1. https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986

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Sign up this weekend to run your Wikipedia assignment this Fall!
by Helaine Blumenthal 14 Jul '23

14 Jul '23

Deadline almost here! The deadline to run a Wikipedia assignment in Fall 2023 is this Monday, July 17! Find out how you can invigorate your course this fall with real world work by visiting teach.wikiedu.org <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/>. Attend an upcoming workshop! Attend one of our upcoming workshops to learn more about this unique pedagogical experience. Click here <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApdeCupzwtEtNVaIWYtWTV6d-frza2C8…> to register for a session. The next one will be this Tuesday, July 18 at 12 PM Pacific. Wiki Education's support is fully funded, and there are no fees to participate. The program is open to post-secondary institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Go beyond the term paper this fall and engage your students in truly impactful work! -- Helaine Blumenthal,Ph.D. (she/her) Senior Program Manager Wiki Education teach.wikiedu.org <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/> Twitter <https://twitter.com/WikiEducation?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7C…>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikiEducationFoundation/>

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