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INFRAHealth 2023//CfP Demo and Poster//Deadline extended 25.06.2023
by Aal, Konstantin 09 Jun '23

09 Jun '23

***apologies for cross-posting*** Call for *Posters & Demos*: *INFRAHealth 2023: Digital Health Ecologies and Sustainable Infrastructures* Siegen, Germany, 11-12 September, 2023 Website: https://infrahealth.eusset.eu/ Dear colleagues! INFRAHealth explores the latest trends, best practices, and cutting-edge research in Infrastructures and Infrastructuring for Healthcare. INFRAHealth is a conference of the EUSSET Society (European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (https://www.eusset.eu/) The presentation of posters and demos is a novel element of the INFRAHealth conference. For presenters as well as recipients, the poster & demo session provides a lively environment for getting in touch with late-breaking research, preliminary results, innovative ideas, and early-stage student research. At a special session during the conference authors are given the opportunity to showcase their research to interested delegates, as well as involving them in discussions about their work, exchanging ideas, providing feedback, and sharing work-in-progress. Posters provide a great opportunity for presenting research results visually supported and offering key ideas to conference visitors. Demos may be submitted in various kinds: These may be research prototypes or commercial products, but we also strongly invite low-fi prototypes, such as paper mock-ups etc. In addition, the demo session will also provide space for exhibiting innovative material that has been developed in the context of the deployment of (user-centred) research methods, such as, e.g. innovations in story boards, personas, and other material which helped fostering creativity in a design process. Authors are invited to submit posters and demos addressing topics which include, but are not limited to: * Opportunities and challenges in the design and development of personal health data infrastructures * Good and bad practices in designing and using personal-health data infrastructures * Personal data flows in connected devices and context-related use of technologies * Digitalization of health service delivery, e.g., caring at home, robotics, AI, conversational agents, exergames, digital twins * Digital support for informal caregivers, for instance, for information, access to professionals or reaching out to peers or supporting associations * Digital support for ad hoc needed emergencies, for example, self-supporting elderly people living at home suddenly in need of health services * Digital support for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, critical perspectives on novel pandemic-related data infrastructures * Digital infrastructures that are instantiated when needed but otherwise non-intrusive or in the background awaiting their need * Integration of healthcare and data sharing across organizational units, professions, etc. * Question of digitalization – the risks and implications of depriving individuals of offline choices * Digital solutions to issues of privacy and security * Support for self-management of health through digital infrastructures * Digital access to complex health-related information by non-expert citizens * Digital infrastructures for the visualization of healthcare data * Emotional and social intelligence in infrastructures and healthcare * Responsible use of AI-enabled decision-making in healthcare and welfare services Submission information: Both submission categories (posters and demos) require the submission of a short paper (3-5 page maximum excluding references, figures, and a 150 word max. abstract). The paper should explicitly state the contribution and originality of the work, making it clear how it differs from significant prior work. A full literature review is not required. For the demo submission, the University of Siegen is happy to provide vast support for setting up the demo. Please specify the exhibition requirements (e.g. exceptional power (V), dimensions and footprint of exhibit (cm), lighting conditions, etc.). University of Siegen will provide the usual equipment (power strip (220V), WiFi, table, screen, poster board), and is happy to organize further equipment if needed (e.g. projector). Please feel free to contact claudia.mueller(a)uni-siegen.de<mailto:claudia.mueller@uni-siegen.de> when you plan a demo submission. All submissions will be single-blind and reviewed by two reviewers. Accepted Poster and Demos will be published in the EUSSET Digital Library (https://dl.eusset.eu/) Submission must be uploaded to easychair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=infrahealth2023 Important dates: Poster and Demo Submission Deadline: 07. June 2023 Author Notification: End of June 2023 Best regards, Elisabeth Raß & Claudia Müller Poster & Demo Chairs -- Konstantin Aal Research assistant and PhD student pronouns: he/him/his Information Systems and New Media SFB 1187 "Medien der Kooperation" University of Siegen Kohlbettstr. 15, 57072 Siegen Raum. US-E-102 Tel. +49 (0)271 / 740 3383 Mob. +49 (0)176 / 30 780 007 http://www.uni-siegen.de/fb5/wirtschaftsinformatik/index.html.en?lang=en

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ICWL 2023 (22nd International Conference on Web-based Learning)
by Elvira Popescu 09 Jun '23

09 Jun '23

================================================================== ICWL 2023 22nd International Conference on Web-based Learning http://icwl-sete.au/ICWL.html 26-28 November 2023 Sydney, Australia ================================================================== ICWL is an annual International Conference on Web-based Learning, founded by the Hong Kong Web Society. The first ICWL was held in Hong Kong in 2002. Since then, ICWL has been held in Australia (2003), China (2004, 2008, 2010, 2015, 2020), Hong Kong (2005, 2011), Malaysia (2006), United Kingdom (2007), Germany (2009, 2019), Romania (2012), Taiwan (2013), Estonia (2014), Italy (2016), South Africa (2017), Thailand (2018), Macao (2021) and Spain (2022). The 22nd ICWL will be held on November 26-28, 2023 at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. It will feature a technical program of refereed papers selected by the international program committee, and keynote addresses offered by eminent scholars. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Assessment in e-learning * Informal Learning in the Workplace * Cloud-based Learning * Computer Support for Intelligent Tutoring * Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning * Deployment, Organization and Management of Learning Objects * Design, Model and Framework of e-Learning Systems * Digital libraries and Web corpora for e-learning * E-Learning Metadata and Standards * E-Learning Platforms and Tools * Game-based Learning and Serious Games * HTML5 Web-based Learning * Human Factors and Affective Computing for Learning * Informal Learning in the Workplace * Intelligent Learner and Group Modelling * Intelligent Tools for Visual Learning * Learning Analytics * Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) * Mobile, Situated, and Blended Learning * Open educational resources (OER) * Pedagogical Issues * Personal Learning Environments (PLE) * Personalized and Adaptive Learning * Security and Privacy of Web-based Learning * Semantic Web and Ontologies for e-Learning * Virtual environments and 3D graphics for e-learning * Web 2.0 and Social Learning Environments * Web-based Learning for Oriental Languages Learning PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================== Authors are invited to submit original papers reporting on research results or novel applications in technology-enhanced learning. Submissions will be handled through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwl2023. Papers for submission should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guidelines ( http://www.springer.com/de/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…) Formats for the submissions are either Full Paper (12-15 pages) or Short Paper (6-11 pages), including main content and references. Since the review process will be double-blind, the submitted manuscript should not contain the authors' names, affiliations, or any information that may disclose the authors' identity. All papers should be submitted in PDF format. All accepted papers presented at the conference will be published as a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). IMPORTANT DATES =============== Paper submission: July 7, 2023 Notification to authors: September 1, 2023 Camera-ready submission: September 15, 2023 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ======================= General Co-Chairs * Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia * Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania Program Committee Co-Chairs * Haoran Xie, Lingnan University, Hong Kong * Chiu-Lin Lai, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan * Wei Chen, Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS, China Steering Committee Representatives * Qing Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong * Rynson W.H. Lau, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Workshop Co-Chairs * Luigi Laura, International Telematic University Uninettuno, Italy * Robin Braun, University of Technology Sydney, Australia * Nana Jin, Shenzhen University, China Publicity Co-Chairs * Ivana Marenzi, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany * Minjie Hu, Wellington Institute of Technology, New Zealand * Junjie Wu, Shenzhen Technology University, China Local Organization Co-Chairs * Huan Huo, University of Technology Sydney, Australia * Md Rafiqul Islam, Australian Institute of Higher Education, Australia Web Chair * Kaize Shi, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Inviting Submissions for Journal of Environmental Media
by Patrick Brodie 09 Jun '23

09 Jun '23

The Journal of Environmental Media <https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/jem/browse> (JEM)’s new editorial team invites submissions for both full length peer-reviewed articles (7000 words), shorter commentary pieces (1000-2000 words), and book/media reviews (1000-2000 words). JEM offers a scholarly platform to bridge work in environmental studies, social justice, the environmental humanities, social sciences and media and communication studies, focusing on the role of media, and digital media in particular, in our understanding and perception of the environment, environmental politics, and related social issues. It takes a pluralistic and interdisciplinary approach to these topics, soliciting contributions from media, film, and cultural studies, environmental justice, infrastructure and materiality studies, STS, media anthropology, and science, environmental, health and risk communication. Its scope includes a range of environmental issues such as climate change, environmental racism, energy infrastructures, health effects, biodiversity, climate migration, and e-waste. JEM’s new editorial team includes Juliet Pinto and Patrick Brodie (editors), Alix Johnson and Anne Pasek (associate editors), and Lisa Han and Rachel Jekanowski (reviews editors). We are excited to see formally innovative submissions that blur disciplinary boundaries, trouble the line between nature and culture, and surface latent or sidelined conversations and methodologies in the field. We invite scholars working in the arts, industry, or applied fields, as well as academia, to consider placing their research here. JEM is published through Intellect and offers indexing through International Bibliography of the Social Sciences and the option of Open Access publication with a variety of Creative Commons licences. We are pleased, going forward, to also offer Online First availability for all articles in our publication queue. The journal’s editors invite notes of interest and full submissions at jemintellect(a)gmail.com. -- Dr. Patrick Brodie Lecturer/Assistant Professor (Ad Astra Fellow) School of Information and Communication Studies University College Dublin

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Online Talk on Empirical Platform Governance Research: Rebecca Scharlach on "Governing Principles"
by Christian Katzenbach 09 Jun '23

09 Jun '23

Hey everyone, This is a reminder that next week TUE, June 13, at 3pm CEST we are continuing our online talk series "Behind the Scenes – Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research“ with a talk by Rebecca Scharlach on "Governing principles – The promises and challenges of identifying values in social media platform policies“. https://platform-governance.org/online-talk-series/session-2-rebecca-scharl… After our kick-off with Tarleton Gillespie we are now starting into the (roughly) monthly online series. You need to register in order to receive the Zoom link. Please find all details below and vie the link above. Best, Christian Katzenbach ### Session 2: Rebecca Scharlach, Governing principles – The promises and challenges of identifying values in social media platform policies Time and Date: June 13, 2023, 15:00 CEST, Online Registration via this form <https://forms.gle/xq2irQb4mnHkLUcD6> https://platform-governance.org/online-talk-series/session-2-rebecca-scharl… By now, we know that social media platforms are far from being neutral entities. While platforms often signal their commitment to principles such as free expression or transparency in outlets such as press releases, our task is to understand which values they implement in more enduring policies and design choices. In this talk, I will zoom into my work on platform values, focusing on where to look for them and how to identify them. Based on my first Ph.D. paper, “Governing principles: Articulating values in social media platform policies”, written with Blake Hallinan and Limor Shifman (New Media & Society, March 2023), I will reflect on the challenges we faced deconstructing values in the policy documents of Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok. In the discussion, I will focus on future directions for research on platform values and the possible challenges that come along with the current developments of the social media landscape. Rebecca Scharlach <https://www.rebeccascharlach.com/> is a PhD Candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and part of the ERC-funded research project DigitalValues <https://digitalvalues.huji.ac.il/>. Her research investigates the individual and societal implications of social media governance. Reading Scharlach, R., Hallinan, B., & Shifman, L. (2023). Governing principles: Articulating values in social media platform policies. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231156580 About the Series This talk is part of the series Behind the Scenes – Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research <https://platform-governance.org/online-talk-series/> that invites scholars in this field to share their experiences and views, fostering community exchange about how we can study platform governance in this challenging context. It is hosted by the Lab “Platform Governance, Media, and Technology” (PGMT) at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), <https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/zemki> University of Bremen, and the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies <https://www.rug.nl/research/icog/research/research-centres/centre-for-journ…>, University of Groningen. Registration Please register via this form <https://forms.gle/xq2irQb4mnHkLUcD6> shortly with an email-address for the full series or this event only, so that we can share the meeting link with you.

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Final call for contributors: The Synthetic City conference, 6-7 Sep 2023, Dublin
by Scott Rodgers 08 Jun '23

08 Jun '23

The extended 12 June 2023 deadline for submissions for ‘The Synthetic City’ (6-7 September 2023 in Dublin, Ireland), exploring the possible implications of artificial intelligence and related digital technologies for urban living and politics, is fast approaching! The conference call for papers, and link to the conference website<https://syntheticcity2023.wordpress.com/>, are below. We’ve already received a good number of submissions, but please consider sharing this call with any colleagues, collaborators or doctoral students who you think would be interested. The Synthetic City Potentials, Politics and Everyday Life 6-7 September 2023 Dublin City University, Ireland Extended abstract submission deadline: 12 June 2023 (midnight anywhere in world) Conference website: https://syntheticcity2023.wordpress.com/ Call for contributors syn·thet·ic, adjective devised, arranged, or fabricated for special situations to imitate or replace usual realities syn·the·sis, noun the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole In less than a year, the release of tools such as the large language model-based chatbot ChatGPT and image generation platforms like DALL-E or Midjourney has given rise to lively discussion and urgent questions around the potential of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) based systems. Debates around AI are a sharp reminder of the deepening interconnections of digital technologies and human life, which are particularly pervasive and tangible – if not always immediately visible – in urban spaces. Already captured through terms such as ‘algorithmic cities’, ‘data-driven urbanism’, ‘code/spaces’ and ‘sentient cities’, urban environments have for some time been understood as emergent venues for various kinds of computational agency, ranging from surveillance systems, delivery apps and neighbourhood social media to automated infrastructures, outdoor advertising and digital art. This conference puts forward the notion of ‘the synthetic city’ as a provocation for thinking through the potentials, politics, and everyday implications of these long-term and more recent developments in digitalising urban life. As the above definitions imply, we intend ‘the synthetic city’ to relate to both synthetic and synthesis: the former captures how AI and related digital technologies might imitate or replace human agency (e.g. with ‘synthetic’ data being used to generate various urban simulations, whether for critical infrastructure, leisure or gaming environments); whereas the latter captures how these same technologies always-already involve combinations of computational and human agency (e.g. unfolding alongside the dynamics of everyday routines, political interests, institutions, and so on). We therefore welcome a range of contributions, exploring both the technologies as such, as well as the broader social, cultural and political contexts of the synthetic city. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * How AI-based applications potentially reshape or restructure urban material spaces and their inhabitation * Artworks or models (e.g. performances, illustrations, mock-ups, simulations) that speculate or envision the near (and far) future of urban living * Virtual and augmented reality in urban design and art * The impacts of machine learning and predictive modelling on urban planning and design * Smart cities, the Internet of Things and platform urbanism * The changing relationships between automation processes (including robotics) with urban services and labour * The ethics and governance of synthetic urbanism * Counterculture and protest movements questioning and contesting the digitalisation of cities * Algorithmic mediations of public participation and collaboration in urban/neighbourhood life * How automated content production tools reshape how fields such as journalism, graphic design, filmmaking, music (and more) might relate to and tell stories about cities * How digital platforms help to transform how urban environments and daily life is navigated and mapped * The political potential of reappropriating and repurposing digital media and automated systems * Withdrawal and disconnection from the synthetic city We welcome work-in-progress contributions as well as finished works, encompassing research into both current and future developments, with empirical, theoretical, or methodological focus, and from a broad spectrum of disciplines (e.g. communication and media studies, sociology, human geography, urban studies, or science and technology studies). Participants can submit one of three types of submissions: 1. Individual papers: Please submit an abstract (250-300 words), biographical statement (50-75 words) and contact information for all authors. 2. Practice-based interventions (e.g. screenings, illustrations, performances, installations) exploring the conference themes more experimentally. Please submit an abstract (250-300 words) and a biographical statement (50-75 words) alongside contact information for all authors. The abstract should describe the scope of the project as well as equipment, space and time needed (as relevant). 3. Paper of panel session: Please submit an abstract (250-300 words) describing the overall theme of the session. In the case of a paper session, this will be followed by an abstract (250-300 words), biographical statement (50-75 words) and contact information for the author(s) of each paper. In the case of a panel discussion, please provide biographical statements (50-75 words) and contact information for all panellists. Abstracts must be submitted by 12 June 2023 (by midnight anywhere in world) to mediacity.twg(a)gmail.com<mailto:mediacity.twg@gmail.com>. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 23 June 2023.

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CFP: Media-N, "As the World Burns: On Media and Climate"
by Rebecca Uliasz 07 Jun '23

07 Jun '23

Hello all, I wanted to share the call for abstracts for the next issue of Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus Current Open Call Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus invites submissions for a special themed issue: [A cartoon dog in a small hat sits calmly in a wooden chair at a dining table while flames and smoke consume the room.] Image: KC Green. Alt text: A cartoon dog in a small hat sits calmly in a wooden chair at a dining table while flames and smoke consume the room. As the World Burns: On Media and Climate Guest Editors: Corinna Kirsch, PhD (Pratt Institute) and Rebecca Uliasz (Duke University) Deadline for abstracts: Monday, July 31, 2023 For this special issue of Media-N, the editors invite abstracts on topics related to the history, theory, and aesthetics of digital media and climate. We hope to shed light on the long history of digital art and media’s participation in planetary processes connected to climate change, including the challenges posed by new media art’s ongoing culpability and participation in its advancement, and the overarching effects of these actions on social, perceptual, and cognitive registers, both globally and individually. Through this form of eco-criticism, we approach two acute developments faced today, each bearing enormous and unevenly distributed threats to a globalized world: climate change and the proliferation of data-driven technology across nearly every social sphere. We also seek alternatives to climate discourse’s hyper-focus on present-day structures by appealing to deep histories and non-western approaches to the ambiguous interconnection of media and “nature.” In so doing, we see that the relationship between media and climate is not a new situation by any means, nor is it a universal one: the Anthropocene began prior to this century, with geological shifts recorded at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and, even further back, to the European colonization of the Americas. As Andreas Malm has put it, “We can never be in the heat of the moment, only in the heat of this ongoing past.” Questions informing the special issue include: In what ways are new media scholars, activists, and artists engaging with the Earth-altering processes of technology? How have practitioners, scholars, and activists working with digital media illuminated the way agency, subjectivity, and environment is defined and operationalized in diverse geo- and socio-political contexts? What alternatives might be sought through appealing to indigenous and other forms of climate knowledge, cultivated by communities that have long found themselves subjected to colonially-induced climate change? As a method of promoting cross-disciplinary conversation among the new media community, we are seeking project reports, exhibition and event reviews, interviews, and manifestos in addition to formal research papers. Topics of potential interest to the editors include, but are not limited to: * Questions related to weather, climate, and digital infrastructures * Weather and meteorology in media and systems-based practices, e.g., climate control in museums, solar powered art, and media projects with natural radio * Relation between media aesthetics and environmental “injustices,” e.g., eco-fascism and climate-change denialism * Elemental, thermal, atmospheric, infrastructural and other forms of media that aren’t exclusively digital * Non-western and indigenous histories and theories of art, digital media, and the environment * Environmental media and digital or financial capitalism, e.g., blockchain, algorithmic forecasting, and predictive simulations * Climate fiction, futurities, and imaginaries, including multi-species assemblages * Environmental media and digital colonialism and neocolonialism * Labor, subjectivity, and psychic dimensions of environmental media To submit an abstract for consideration, please send 200-300 word abstracts and a condensed (under 5 pg.) CV to the following individuals by Monday, July 31, 2023: * Guest Editor, Corinna Kirsch: corinna.kirsch(a)gmail.com * Guest Editor, Rebecca Uliasz: rebecca.uliasz(a)gmail.com * Interim Executive Editor, Chelsea Thompto: chelsea.l.thompto(a)gmail.com * Executive Editor, Johanna Gosse: johannagosse(a)gmail.com Final Submission Length Guidelines: * Articles: 6,000-8,000 word range * Artist's projects: 4,000-6,000 word range * Interviews and Reviews: 1,000-3,000 word range https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/median/information/authors Please do share with anyone that may be interested in submitting! Sincerely, Becca Rebecca Uliasz/ MFA PhD candidate/ Computational Media, Arts, and Cultures/ Duke University/ rebeccauliasz.com

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CFP: Special issue on (un)Stable Diffusions
by Fenwick Mckelvey 07 Jun '23

07 Jun '23

Please circulate widely and consider applying. CFP: (un)Stable Diffusions: General-purpose artificial intelligence’s publicities, publics, and publicizations 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. https://forms.gle/hWQxvuRTWoFhVs3W6

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Wikihistories 2023
by Heather Ford 06 Jun '23

06 Jun '23

For anyone who is interested, our wikihistories symposium will be taking place online tomorrow and Friday (depending on where you are in the world). The event is planned in 3 hour slots across two days at different times to be friendly to different timezones. https://wikihistories.net/2023-conference/ We have an excellent line-up of scholars – some of whom have been studying Wikipedia as a history-maker since its earliest beginnings, and others who are new to Wikipedia Studies. Our two keynote speakers are historians – one of memory studies, and another a historian of Jewish history and the Holocaust who recently published an explosive paper about Wikipedia’s skewed coverage of Polish-Jewish history. Please consider joining us online for the conference by registering on the URL above or joining the project mailing list<https://groups.google.com/g/wikihistories?pli=1>. Conference talks will be available shortly after the conference for those who aren’t able to join us this week. All the very best, Heather --------------------------- Dr Heather Ford Associate Professor and Head of Discipline, Digital and Social Media<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uts.e…> School of Communication<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uts.e…>, University of Technology, Sydney<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uts.e…> (UTS) Chief Investigator: http://wikihistories.net | Project Lead: www.questionmachines.net<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.questi…> Affiliate: UTS Data Science Institute<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uts.e…> | Associate: UTS Centre for Media Transition<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uts.e…> | Acting Co-Director: UTS Centre for Research on Education in a Digital Society<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uts.e…> w: hblog.org<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhblog.org%…> / t: @hfordsa<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitte…> / pronouns: she/her Latest journal article: Heather Ford and Michael Richardson. "Framing data witnessing: Airwars and the production of authority in conflict monitoring.<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01634437221147631>" Media, Culture & Society (2023): 01634437221147631. Latest book: “Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmitpress.…>” MIT Press Latest media: “Friday essay: shaping history – why I spent ten years studying one Wikipedia article<https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-shaping-history-why-i-spent-ten-ye…>” The Conversation University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences PO Box 123. Broadway NSW 2007 Australia I acknowledge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and the Boorooberongal People of the Dharug Nation upon whose ancestral lands our campuses now stand. I pay my respect to Elders past, present and emerging, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for this place. UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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CfP: Social media in Higher Education - What’s happening?
by Mark Carrigan 06 Jun '23

06 Jun '23

*Journal of Interactive Media in Education special collection – call for papers* The Twitter interface famously prompts users to submit content by asking the question, ‘What’s happening?’. Given the recent turmoil surrounding the platform, it is a timely question to reflect back on itself, and social media more broadly. While the relationship between social media and higher education is far from new, the uncertainty around Twitter’s future, and migration to other platforms such as Mastodon, highlights the precarity of relying on corporate infrastructure to support public scholarship. It is against this background of uncertainty and movement between platforms and infrastructures that we launch a call for submissions to a special collection of the the Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME) on the topic of social media in higher education. Within this topic, the scope of the call is broad. We welcome papers, particularly empirical submissions, addressing any current issues in relation to the use of social media in Higher Education or other critical aspects of the relationship between social media and the academy. Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - The academic social media ecosystem – post-Twitter - The role of algorithms in mediating scholarly communication - Professional practice by academics in the post-Twitter era - Social media and research impact - AI and academic social media - New and under-studied social media platforms in the context of higher education, e.g. Mastodon, TikTok - The use of social media in teaching and learning in higher education - Training and supporting academics for social media beyond Twitter If you have an idea for a paper and would like informal feedback or to verify whether it would be in scope, please do feel free to get in touch with the authors by email at klj33(a)cam.ac.uk (Katy). Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the JIME guidelines for submissions. Note that submissions should be no more than 7,500 words in length, including all referencing and citations. To be considered for the special collection, full papers must be submitted by 4th September 2023.Submissions can be made through the JIME website at https://account.jime.open.ac.uk/index.php/up-j-jime/login . Please indicate that your paper is to be considered for the Special Collection when submitting. Please note that we may also ask submitting authors to act as a reviewer for one other submission. Special collection editors: Dr Katy Jordan, University of Cambridge Dr Mark Carrigan, University of Manchester Deadline for submissions: 4th September 2023 (full papers) Provisional publication date: January 2024 markcarrigan.net <http://www.markcarrigan.net/> | @theplatformuni <http://www.twitter.com/theplatformuni/> LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-c-516017123/> | Soundcloud <https://soundcloud.com/mark-carrigan> | Youtube <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCflmX41wlvtXPIhy51Wfonw/videos> | Recent publications <https://manchester.padlet.org/j04936mc/jbob1uin0weo43dh> *I occasionally send e-mail outside of normal hours as my preferred way of balancing multiple commitments. Please don't feel obligated to respond to this e-mail until your own working hours have resumed. *

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mediastudies.press submission window for book manuscripts from 1 June-30 July, 2023
by Park, David 06 Jun '23

06 Jun '23

We at mediastudies.press are happy to announce the opening of our annual proposal window from 1 June to 30 July, 2023. During this date window, authors are encouraged to submit a proposal for review. mediastudies.press welcomes submissions from scholars across media, communication, and film studies. We currently publish in four series: * Media Manifold series — monographs and other book-length works of contemporary media scholarship https://www.mediastudies.press/media-manifold-series * Public Domain series — reprints of neglected classics, in new critical editions anchored by framing introductions https://www.mediastudies.press/public-domain-series * Open Reader series — themed collections of openly licensed, public domain, and linked materials curated and introduced by leading experts https://www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-series * History of Media Studies series — monographs and other original scholarly works centered on history of media, communication, and film studies https://www.mediastudies.press/history-of-media-studies We are small and artisanal by mission, and aim to publish just five books a year. Given the volume of proposals that we receive—and with our production schedule in mind—we maintain an annual proposal window (1 June to 30 July), for the review of manuscripts slated for publication in the following calendar year. You are welcome to send informal queries outside these dates, but our general practice is to only consider proposals within the annual window. Each year, we review proposals with an initial reply by August 15, with the aim to conduct peer review of proposals of expressed interest by the end of September. mediastudies.press is an open-access publisher for the media and communication studies fields. The press is nonprofit and scholar-led. We publish living works, with iterative updates stitched into our process. And we encourage multi-modal submissions that reflect the mediated environments our authors study. Publishing with mediastudies.press is free on principle. Our aim is to demonstrate, on a small scale, an open-access publishing model supported by libraries rather than author fees. Open access for readers, we believe, should not be traded for new barriers to authorship. All our published works are rigorously peer-reviewed, and receive unusual editorial attention. We prioritize discoverability through careful metadata, library records, and directory listings. As a scholar-run operation, our publicity outreach is uncommonly informed by the fields’ intellectual contours. We kindly ask that proposals be submitted as a single PDF, via this URL: https://www.mediastudies.press/proposal-form Proposals should included the following elements, in addition to at least one draft chapter: 1. Proposed title and subtitle 2. A 500- to 1000-word narrative description of the book 3. Short bios of author(s) and/or editor(s) 4. Proposed series (see above) 5. Tentative table of contents, preferably annotated 6. Estimated word-length 7. Multi-modal components, if any 8. Status of the book (i.e., expectation of completion date, the portion now complete) 9. At least one draft chapter If you have any questions at all about the proposal process for books, please contact us at press(a)mediastudies.press<mailto:press@mediastudies.press> Jeff Pooley, director of mediastudies.press Dave Park, associate director of mediastudies.press

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