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VIDEO – Taller colaborativo sobre Redes Comunitarias / Workshop Colaborativo em Redes Comunitárias
by Joly MacFie 31 Jul '23

31 Jul '23

Transmitiendo ahora! Vídeo grabado en la reunión del miércoles pasado. Ambas versiones ES y PT. Tenga en cuenta que brevemente donde no se grabó un idioma, hay subtítulos. ¡Quédese hasta el final para ISOC Panamá! Transmitindo agora!Vídeo gravado na reunião da última quarta-feira. Versões ES e PT. Observe que, brevemente, onde um idioma não foi gravado, há legendas. Fique por aqui até o fim para o ISOC Panamá! English subtitles will be available in the archive. [image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/16743%20>Este taller es un esfuerzo conjunto para crear un repositorio de información y herramientas que facilitará la implementación de redes comunitarias en toda nuestra región. Vivimos en una era cada vez más digital y, sin embargo, hay muchas comunidades en Latinoamérica y el Caribe que aún carecen de acceso a internet. Las redes comunitarias son una solución vital para este problema, ya que nos permiten acercar el mundo digital a esas comunidades. Este taller es crucial para mejorar y expandir estas redes. Durante esta sesión interactiva, se discutirán dos preguntas clave: - ¿Cuáles son los 3 principales desafíos al implementar una red comunitaria? - ¿Qué información o recursos son esenciales para implementar una red comunitaria pero aún no están disponibles o accesibles para nuestra comunidad? Este workshop é um esforço conjunto para criar um repositório de informações e ferramentas que facilitem a implementação de redes comunitárias em toda a nossa região. Vivemos em uma era cada vez mais digital e, no entanto, existem muitas comunidades na América Latina e no Caribe que ainda não têm acesso à Internet. As redes comunitárias são uma solução vital para este problema, pois permitem aproximar o mundo digital dessas comunidades. Este workshop é fundamental para melhorar e expandir essas redes. Durante esta sessão interativa, duas questões-chave serão discutidas: - Quais são os 3 principais desafios ao implementar uma rede comunitária? - Quais informações ou recursos são essenciais para implementar uma rede comunitária, mas ainda não estão disponíveis ou acessíveis à nossa comunidade? *PRESENTADORES / APRESENTADORES* 1. *Karen Cruz* (Capítulo Costa Rica) - Desafío Social/Cultural 2. *Luis Martínez* (Capítulo Mexico, Junta Directiva ISOC) - Desafío de sostenibilidad 3. *Alicia Castillo* (Capítulo Venezuela) - Desafío Técnico 4. *Bruna Zanolli* (Rhizomática, Brasil) - Desafío politico/Regulatorio 5. *Daiane Araujo* (Rhizomática, Brasil) - Desafío económico/sostenibilidad 6. *Héctor Matiauda* (Capítulo Paraguay) - Desafío social/Cultural 7. *Adrián López* (Rhizomática, México) - Desafío Técnico 8. *Rachel Gabriela Vazquez* (Capítulo Panamá) - Desafío de carácter natural *ANFITRIONES / HOSPEDEIROS* *Nancy Quiroz*, Internet Society *Christian O'Flaherty*, Internet Society *João Aguiar*, Internet Society *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoc-latam-rd <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoc-latam-rd>* *TWITTER #RedesComunitarias <https://bit.ly/3qjUoqq> @ISOC_LAC @ISOC_CR @IsocMex @ISOC_Venezuela @rhizomatica @IsocPy @ISocPanama @ISOC @ISOC_Community #CommunityNetworks #InternetParaTodos* *SIMULCASTS* *https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live <https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSocietyAmericaLatinayCaribe <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSocietyAmericaLatinayCaribe>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/isoc-latam-rd <https://archive.org/details/isoc-latam-rd>* *Permalink https://isoc.live/16743/ <https://isoc.live/16743/>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Digital Data Processing 2023
by ijwa dline.info 31 Jul '23

31 Jul '23

Third International Conference on Digital Data Processing University of Bedfordshire Luton. UK November 27-29, 2023 Hybrid mode- Virtual/Physical www.socio.org.uk/ddp IEEE CPS will publish the proceedings (Xplore) Data grows voluminously and exponentially with heterogeneity and complexity. A single organisation or industry processes over a few million transactions hourly and stores several petabytes of data. We live in a world of tremendous pressure to analyse and process data more efficiently, where Data analytics can reflect hidden patterns, incomprehensible relationships, intrinsic information relations, and segmentation. Data applications have introduced cutting-edge possibilities in every activity in our life. Thus, studying data and its underlying structure, dynamics of data relations, and newer data technologies is a never-ending process. The literature and research on data management are enormous; they do not sufficiently solve the data processing requirements. Currently, the use of technology and interrelations among information pieces generate gargantuan amounts of data. Many studies tend to develop models and systems to analyse voluminous datasets. Analysing the impact of data leads to application domains on decisions that have a systematic influence. Knowledge generated from data analysis can enable the production of critical information for several domains. Hence this conference reviews and discusses the recent trends, opportunities, and pitfalls of data management and how it has impacted organizations to create successful business and technology strategies and remain updated in data technology. This conference also highlights the current open research directions of data analytics that require further consideration. The proposed conference will discuss topics not limited to Data applications in various domains and activities Data in cloud Real-world data processing Data inaccuracy and reliability issues Data Ecosystem Business Analytics New data analytics techniques Physical and management challenges Privacy and Security Crowdsourcing and Sensing Data modelling Deep learning techniques Data fusion Descriptive analytics, Diagnostic analytics, Predictive Analytics, and Prescriptive analytics Machine learning Network optimization Data in Biomedical Engineering Data in Materials science and mechanics Data handling and applications in domains Wireless Networking Data Management Data of Electronic & Embedded Systems Multi-media Systems Data Artificial Intelligence Models and Systems Data E-Computing Data Renewable Energies Data Publications The IEEE Xplore will publish the DDP papers. Besides modified versions of the papers will appear in the following journals. 1. Journal on Data Semantics 2. Technologies 3. Data Technologies and Applications 4. Journal of Digital Information Management 5. International Journal of Computational Linguistics 6. Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering Important Dates Full Paper Submission: September 10, 2023 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: October 10, 2023 Registration Due: November 10, 2023 Camera Ready Due: November 10, 2023 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos: November 28, 2023 Main conference: November 27-29, 2023 Post-conference proceedings: December 20, 2023 General Chair Ezendu Ariwa, Chair UK& RI IEEE TEMS, UK Program Chairs Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Program Co-Chairs Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico – Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Publicity Chair Hathairat Ketmaneechairat, King Mongkut’s University of Technology, North Bangkok, Thailand Paper Submission: http://socio.org.uk/ddp/paper-submission/ Contact: stm(a)socio.org.uk

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Assistant or Associate Professor of Communication, Media Studies
by Adriana de Souza e Silva 29 Jul '23

29 Jul '23

The Department of Communication at North Carolina State University invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions in Media Studies at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor beginning August 16, 2024. We seek candidates from a broad spectrum of critical, analytical, and methodological approaches. Specific areas of expertise may include, but are not limited to: infrastructure and platform studies, critical data studies (including algorithmic media, big-data analytics, and AI); mobilities and mobile media; game studies; media art; policy, ethics and political economy of media. We especially welcome applicants whose work speaks to the social and ethical implications of media technologies and discourses, for example: social and environmental justice, globalization and coloniality, health disparities, social and economic inequality, and/or inequalities based on race, gender or sexuality. The successful candidate will have demonstrated pedagogical excellence in teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, ability to carry out independent and innovative research published in academic journals and other outlets and experience working with a variety of students. The successful candidate will be expected to seek internal and external research funding and develop collaborative initiatives. Special attention will be given to candidates who can bridge different scholarly traditions and methodological approaches, contribute a diversity of perspectives (including from outside the Global North), and support both of our graduate programs–the PhD Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media and MS program in Communication–through teaching and advising. Tenured and tenure-track faculty members have a teaching load of 2/2, develop courses in their areas of expertise and contribute, through service, to the intellectual life of the Department, the College, the University and the field. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Communication or a related field by August 2024. The Search Committee will begin reviewing applications September 15, 2023. Questions may be directed to Search Committee Chair, Dr. Adriana De Souza e Silva, aasilva(a)ncsu.edu <mailto:aasilva@ncsu.edu>. Applications via the NC State University website: https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/187842 Posting #: PG192764EP Please include: • CV, • cover letter, and • contact information for at least 3 professional references. About the Department: The Department of Communication at NC State is an accomplished community of students, staff members, teachers and researchers with varied intellectual interests in the communication arts and sciences. Through our teaching, research and service, we cultivate responsible, caring and collaborative communication practices for our students, our community partners and the global citizenry. We do this because communication is central to addressing the significant challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century and we are committed to enabling people, organizations and communities to thrive. Our Department’s curricular domains include interpersonal communication; organizational communication; rhetoric; media studies; public relations; media production; and science, health, environment, and risk communication (SHER). We serve approximately 600 undergraduate majors and 100 graduate students. Faculty also teach in the Department’s Master of Science in Communication program and in its interdisciplinary doctoral program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (in partnership with the Department of English). The Department partners with NC State’s Poole College of Management to offer an online graduate certificate in Professional Communication and Managerial Skills and collaborates with multiple initiatives across the university. NC State promotes an integrated approach to problem solving that transforms lives and provides leadership for social, economic and technological development across North Carolina and around the world. NC State’s land grant mission of teaching, research and service is dedicated to the service of North Carolina and its people. Applicants are encouraged to review the institution’s mission, vision and strategic plan, and consider how their background, interest and experience would enable them to support the university. The Search Committee will begin reviewing applications September 15, 2023. About the University: NC State University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, status as an individual with a disability, or status as a protected veteran. Individuals with disabilities requiring disability-related accommodations in the application and interview process are welcome to contact 919-515-3148 to speak with a representative at the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity. If you have general questions about the application process, you may contact Human Resources at (919) 515-2135 or workatncstate(a)ncsu.edu <mailto:workatncstate@ncsu.edu>. Final candidates are subject to criminal & sex offender background checks. Some vacancies also require credit or motor vehicle checks. Degree(s) must be obtained prior to start date in order to meet qualifications and receive credit. NC State University participates in E-Verify. Federal law requires all employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States. _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva, Ph.D. University Faculty Scholar | Professor Dept. of Communication | NC State University www.souzaesilva.com <http://www.souzaesilva.com/> Co-Editor, Mobile Media & Communication <https://journals.sagepub.com/home/mmc> Vice-Chair, ICA Mobile Communication Division <https://www.icamobile.org/> Director, The Networked Mobilities Lab <https://nml.chass.ncsu.edu/> Associate Director, CRDM Ph.D. Program <https://crdm.chass.ncsu.edu/>

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Looking for Right Wing and Extremist Forums for Web Scraping
by Rod Graham 29 Jul '23

29 Jul '23

Does anyone know of a web forum (or even an open-to-the-public Facebook or Reddit page) where Right and Far-Right politics are being discussed? These are remarkably hard to find! I am looking for spaces that have been in operation for at least a few years so I can chart changes over time. Roderick Graham

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Re: [Air-L] Studies on Meta and partisanship
by Marco T. Bastos 28 Jul '23

28 Jul '23

"But [it] neither affected people's existing political attitudes or polarization." Unless I'm missing something, in order for the study to have found the algorithms to be consequential the participants should have started attending protests or rallies, signing petitions, contributing money to candidates, or trying to convince people to vote. They expected these changes to take place within the 3-month period of the study, which also happened during an election cycle. Participants didn't start giving money to politicians nor started protesting and therefore the algorithm "doesn't affect people's existing political attitudes or polarization." That’s for H3. H1 is based on the “issue polarization scale” that measures attitudes towards immigration, healthcare, unemployment, COVID-19 restrictions et caterva. H2 sets similarly high bars for election knowledge. The study expected significant changes to opinion on immigration or election knowledge within this 3-month period when users were given a respite from the algorithms. Meanwhile they also found that the algorithms increased exposure to uncivil content and removed political content, particularly content from moderate friends and ideologically mixed audiences. And yes, the algorithm was found to dramatically increase time spent on FB and IG. It also seems that these conclusions are drawn from a convenience sample of just over 20K participants. Lastly, removing the algorithms decreased exposure to both cross-cutting and like-minded sources, but the effect on the latter is twice as large as the effect on the former (i.e., the algorithms maximize exposure to like-minded content more so than cross-cutting). And yet, “it neither affected people's existing political attitudes or polarization." Surely I must’ve missed something. -- mtb -----Original Message----- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:39:01 -0400 From: Joly MacFie <joly(a)punkcast.com> To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Studies on Meta and partisanship > From POLITICO's Digital Future Daily <https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily> The article does not link to the studies. Maybe someone could provide? <snip> The studies released Thursday tried to tease out the influence of particular factors, such as Facebook's algorithm for serving up content to users. Two studies published in the journal Science that examined the effects of Facebook?s algorithm and reshare feature during the fall of 2020 found that both features increased user engagement ? but neither affected people's existing political attitudes or polarization. A separate study published in the journal Nature found that reducing users? exposure to sources that echo their existing beliefs didn't affect their political attitudes either. Meta trumpeted the results in a memo circulated ahead of the studies? release: ?Despite the common assertions that social media is ?destroying democracy,?? the company wrote, ?the evidence in these and many other studies shows something very different.? Social media critics ? many of whom have spent years sounding the alarm about the ways it has changed American politics ? suggested the studies were too limited, and too close to Meta itself, to be persuasive, including Frances Haugen, the former Facebook executive who leaked internal company files in 2021, and Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of Accountable Tech, an advocacy group focused on information controls for social media. A fourth study, also published in Science, found that a cluster of news sources consumed by conservatives produced most of the misinformation flagged by the platform?s third-party fact-checking system. (A study co-author, Sandra Gonz?lez-Bail?n of the University of Pennsylvania, declined to provide a list of those sources.) The studies were the result of a collaboration between Meta and 17 outside researchers from universities including Northeastern, Stanford and Princeton. An independent rapporteur tasked with evaluating the collaboration vouched for the soundness of its results, but said its framework gave Meta influence over the ways in which outside researchers evaluated its platforms. ?Meta set the agenda in ways that affected the overall independence of the researchers,? wrote Michael Wagner, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. </snip> Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/27/meta-partisanship-00108553 -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Studies on Meta and partisanship
by Joly MacFie 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

>From POLITICO's Digital Future Daily <https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily> The article does not link to the studies. Maybe someone could provide? <snip> The studies released Thursday tried to tease out the influence of particular factors, such as Facebook's algorithm for serving up content to users. Two studies published in the journal Science that examined the effects of Facebook’s algorithm and reshare feature during the fall of 2020 found that both features increased user engagement — but neither affected people's existing political attitudes or polarization. A separate study published in the journal Nature found that reducing users’ exposure to sources that echo their existing beliefs didn't affect their political attitudes either. Meta trumpeted the results in a memo circulated ahead of the studies’ release: “Despite the common assertions that social media is ‘destroying democracy,’” the company wrote, “the evidence in these and many other studies shows something very different.” Social media critics — many of whom have spent years sounding the alarm about the ways it has changed American politics — suggested the studies were too limited, and too close to Meta itself, to be persuasive, including Frances Haugen, the former Facebook executive who leaked internal company files in 2021, and Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of Accountable Tech, an advocacy group focused on information controls for social media. A fourth study, also published in Science, found that a cluster of news sources consumed by conservatives produced most of the misinformation flagged by the platform’s third-party fact-checking system. (A study co-author, Sandra González-Bailón of the University of Pennsylvania, declined to provide a list of those sources.) The studies were the result of a collaboration between Meta and 17 outside researchers from universities including Northeastern, Stanford and Princeton. An independent rapporteur tasked with evaluating the collaboration vouched for the soundness of its results, but said its framework gave Meta influence over the ways in which outside researchers evaluated its platforms. “Meta set the agenda in ways that affected the overall independence of the researchers,” wrote Michael Wagner, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. </snip> Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/27/meta-partisanship-00108553 -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Run a Wikipedia assignment in Fall 2023 and give your students the digital literacy tools they need today!
by Helaine Blumenthal 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

Deadline Extended! The deadline to run a Wikipedia assignment in Fall 2023 is now September 15! 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 <https://wikiedu.org/webinars/>one of our upcoming workshops to learn more about this unique pedagogical opportunity. Click here <https://wikiedu.org/webinars/> to register for a session. The next one will be Tuesday, August 8 at 12 PM Pacific. Drop in for Office Hours! If you just have some questions or want help getting started, drop into one of our upcoming Office Hours where Wiki Education staff will be available to help . * August 3 at 12:00 PM Pacific. Click here <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAud-2grT0oG9zC1TmG3J8AjFy04m3T_K…>to join. 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. Empower your students to become public scholars this year! -- 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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Open Faculty Position: Sociology and Tech Ethics
by Nicole McAlee 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

Hello all, Please find below information about a job posting at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, IN, USA: *Open Faculty Position: Sociology and Tech Ethics* *The Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for an open-rank (tenure-track or tenured) position set to begin in the fall of 2024. Seeking a candidate who studies the effects of technology on society, the department is particularly interested in scholars who conduct empirical work informed by sociological theory on the implications of technology for inequalities in the areas of racial-ethnicity, the criminal justice system, health, labor markets, education, politics, media, and other areas. Sociology will be the home department for the position, but it will also bring an affiliation with the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center (ND TEC). **Learn More About the Position <https://techethics.nd.edu/news-and-events/news/open-faculty-position-depart…>* Questions can be directed to David Gibson at dgibson1(a)nd.edu. Many thanks, Nicole -- *Nicole McAlee* Program Manager Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab 204 O'Shaughnessy Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556

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CfP: Tech work and its discontens
by Gnisa, Felix (ITAS) 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

Dear colleagues, we are happy to invite you to submit papers for a special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation on tech worker and political mobilization in the tech industry. The deadline for submissions is November 30th. For further information see the link and call below: https://wolg.wordpress.com/special-issues/call-for-papers-tech-work-and-its… All best, Felix Gnisa Call for papers: Tech work and its discontents The expansion of tech companies in recent decades has changed the role and perception of their workforces. With the growing market power of corporations such as Amazon, Google and Tencent, the figure of the software engineer has received much attention. From industry narratives to pop culture, software engineers and other IT employees are portrayed as (generally male) techno-prodigies enabling futuristic endeavours such as the automation of work or artificial intelligence (Daub, 2020). However, the shiny figure of the tech or software employee has stood in striking contrast to the surging number of warehouse workers, platform gig workers or content moderators - often subsumed under the term 'digital workers' - who mostly toil under precarious conditions for these same companies (Irani, 2015; Huws, 2019). To date there has been no generally agreed definition of what kind of labour the term 'tech work' actually refers to, representing something of a lacuna in the literature. While some scholars only label highly qualified workers in the tech sector as 'tech workers' (eg Dorschel, 2022, Selling/Strimling 2023), others stress the commonalities of IT workers across sectors (eg Ziegler, 2022). Both perspectives raise the question what role and power tech workers effectively hold within current capitalist economies, and how their ambivalent class position materializes in the workplace (Roy 2021). Research in the traditions of workers' consciousness studies and class theory has shown that the conception of 'tech work' is important for comprehending workers' self-understanding, subjectivities and culture in relation to their actual class position. In addition to this more analytical debate, there have also been major shifts in the image and material reality of tech work in the context of the recent economic crisis, the rise of authoritarian politics and struggles over the regulation of platforms and of AI. Even the higher-paid layers of the tech industry have faced a series of conflicts, protests and unionisation campaigns (Tarnoff, 2020; Jaffe, 2021; Tan & Weigel, 2022). More and more employees in the industry now deliberately refer to themselves as tech workers, signalling a shift towards a more class-conscious self-understanding. Large parts of the tech workers' movement also emphasise how their efforts are tied to the struggles of low-income service workers in the industry (Tarnoff, 2020). Currently tech workers' organisation has evolved around typical labour issues (working time, fair pay and health or safety issues), but also around feminist, anti-fascist and socialist demands. From feminist organising at the Google walkouts of 2019 to organising against climate change, racism and border regimes, a variety of issues have come up. Furthermore, tech workers have questioned the social effects of digital technology and thereby also their role as technical professionals in reproducing social inequality. All of these issues are raising important questions relating to the debate between traditional trade union issues versus more political issues (social justice and common good) as well as the relationships between white collar workers and unions in tech (Rothstein, 2022). Such developments have stirred a range of questions. From the dynamics and specificities of tech workers' organisation, the question whether tech work has become 'proletarianised' (Steinhoff, 2022), to the defining characteristics of 'tech', its corporations and workers. The current rise of labour conflicts in the industry also raises questions about its labour history (Haeyoung, 2021), about the relation to trade unions and about possible emancipatory horizons for the field and beyond. Another important dimension concerns the ways in which these issues are shaped by mobility patterns and migration regimes (Xiang, 2011; Amrute, 2016). The call In this special issue, we want to examine these aspects and address the following questions: § How should we understand the field of 'tech' and its terminology (tech work, tech company, tech industry)? How is this terminology suitable for understanding current configurations of capitalism and its dynamics, especially in regard to its underpinning workforce? § How have the working and employment conditions of tech workers changed in recent years? To what extent are these workers benefiting from workplace privileges or being affected by insecure contracts and poor working conditions? § What have been the impacts on tech workers of the crisis in the tech industry and associated layoffs? § How have tech workers around the world been organising in recent years? How can the debate between traditional trade union issues versus more political issues (social justice and common good) be understood? What are the relationships between white collar workers and unions in tech? § What is the composition of the tech workforce? What are its gendered aspects and what impacts do they have? How does the role of software engineers and other tech workers differ in various parts of the world? How do mobility patterns and migration regimes (visa policies, entry barriers) shape the work, self-understanding and organising of tech workers? § Which attitudes, orientations and collective forms of consciousness do tech workers develop as wage earners, professionals and political subjects? How are these linked to forms of organisation and interest politics? § How have ideologies and the production of subjectivity in the tech industry changed? What are the continuities and ruptures of 'Californian Ideology' (Barbrook/Cameron 1996)? Have they changed since the rise of new right-wing movements around the world and their entanglements with tech firms? § Which emancipatory perspectives on tech work arise from the current conflicts around labour in the field and beyond? We welcome articles from a range of disciplinary perspectives including (but not limited to) labour sociology, organisation studies, political economy, social anthropology, economic geography, policy analysis and gender studies. Articles may draw on the authors' original quantitative, qualitative or theoretical research but must demonstrate a clear contribution to knowledge and go beyond mere literature reviews. The editors This special issue will be edited by Felix Gnisa, research assistant at Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Valentin Niebler, doctoral researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin, Sandra Sieron, research assistant at Humboldt University of Berlin and Helene Thaa, research assistant at University of Basel. The Journal Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation is an independent, international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, founded in 2006. For more information please see https://wolg.wordpress.com<https://wolg.wordpress.com/> All submitted articles are subjected to double-blind peer review. Deadline and Guidelines The deadline for submissions is November 30th, 2023. The article should be no longer than 6,000 words (excluding footnotes and bibliography). Articles should be submitted in two forms: an anonymised version in which all references to the authors' institution and publications are omitted; and a full version including the authors' titles and institutional affiliations. Articles should be sent to the editor: ursulahuws(a)analyticapublications.co.uk<mailto:ursulahuws@analyticapublications.co.uk> --- Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) Institute for Technology Assessment and System Analysis (ITAS) Research Group Digital Technology and Social Change (DIGIT) M.A. Felix Gnisa Graduate Research Assistent Karlsstraße 11 76021 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 721 608-22265 Mail: felix.gnisa(a)kit.edu<mailto:felix.gnisa@kit.edu> KIT - The Research University in the Helmholtz Association --- Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) Institute for Technology Assessment and System Analysis (ITAS) Research Group Digital Technology and Social Change (DIGIT) M.A. Felix Gnisa Graduate Research Assistent Karlsstraße 11 76021 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 721 608-22265 Mail: felix.gnisa(a)kit.edu<mailto:felix.gnisa@kit.edu> KIT - The Research University in the Helmholtz Association

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Re: [Air-L] Workshop on Generative AI Models
by ijwa dline.info 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

Hi David I do agree. Regulation & Governance is important. As we focus on model generation we left it. However, we will add it. We welcome your submissions. Best regards Simon ________________________________ From: David Levi-Faur <davidlevifaur(a)gmail.com> Sent: 26 July 2023 14:49 To: ijwa dline.info <ijwa(a)dline.info> Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Workshop on Generative AI Models well done. One critical issue is missing from the agenda Perhaps the most important one. Regulation & Governance On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 12:08, ijwa dline.info<http://dline.info> via Air-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> wrote: First Workshop on "Next-Generation Models for Generative AI" (In conjunction with the Third International Conference on Digital Data Processing 2023) University of Bedfordshire, Luton. UK. November 27-29, 2023 https://socio.org.uk/ddp/workshop (IEEE CPS will publish the proceedings, and papers should follow the IEEE template) AI models use billions of parameters to detect and retrieve text and images. The currently available LL models are experimented with for their efficiency, and at the same time, newer models are being developed. There are many challenges associated with generative AI. The pre-training volume and efficiency are a focus. To leverage the training set with comprehensiveness and accuracy, billions of parameters are injected into the LLM. Current GPTs face criticism, and governments issue a caution to their use. For example, Zhuang Rongwen, China’s cyberspace chief, raises concerns over the power of generative AI and pledges to make it ‘controllable'. The agenda for the future Generative AI is not clear. Improved generative tools should be capable of characterising extremist narratives in corpora to reveal different contexts, which may lead to building semantic-rich content for end-users. Testing the current models and their results may contribute to future research. Considering these issues, we framed a workshop to address the theme, Next Generation Models. The workshop themes include but are not limited to the following. Text, Image, Code, Video, 3D models Domain-specific models Compositional generative models Foundation models Energy-based models Deep equilibrium models Impact of Generative AI on Teaching and Learning Knowledge and Semantic Issues in Generative AI Future LLM AI Ethical Issues AI and NLP Embedding in AI Reinforcement learning Data Support and Datasets in AI Standards and Benchmarks Workshop Chairs Gloria Tengyue Li North China University of Technology Beijing China Simon Fong University of Macau Macau Hathairat Ketmaneechairat King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand Important Dates Full Paper Submission: September 10, 2023 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: October 10, 2023 Registration Due: November 10, 2023 Camera Ready Due: November 10, 2023 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos: November 28, 2023 Main conference: November 27-29, 2023 Post-conference proceedings: December 20, 2023 Paper Submission: http://socio.org.uk/ddp/paper-submission/ Contact: stm(a)socio.org.uk<mailto:stm@socio.org.uk> _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ -- My homepage<http://levifaur.wiki.huji.ac.il/>; Maavarim-IL<https://maavarim-il.org/> Regulation & Governance Journal<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1748-5991> Regulation and Governance Theories<https://regulationandgovernance.org/home/webinars/> The Dead Sea Project<https://maavarim-il.org/dead-sea/>

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