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The Synthetic City: Extended Deadline and Keynote Speakers
by Scott Rodgers 01 Jun '23

01 Jun '23

We have two important announcements for the forthcoming conference ‘The Synthetic City: Potential, Politics and Everyday Life<https://syntheticcity2023.wordpress.com/>’, to be held 6-7 September 2023 at Dublin City University, Ireland, hosted by the ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section<https://mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/>. First, we are extending our submission deadline to 12 June 2023 (by midnight anywhere in world). That’s more time to craft your proposals for individual papers, practice-based interventions, and paper or panel sessions! Read the revised call for more details<https://syntheticcity2023.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/>. Second, we are very pleased to announce two fantastic keynote speakers for the conference: Aphra Kerr and Alison Powell. Their details are below, and available at the conference website<https://syntheticcity2023.wordpress.com/keynotes/>. Aphra Kerr Dr Aphra Kerr is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Maynooth University, Ireland. She is a co-PI and science lead within the Transparent Digital Governance strand at the Science Foundation Ireland funded ADAPT Centre for AI and Digital Content Technology, a multi-institutional and multidisciplinary national research centre (2021-2026). She is also PI on two collaborative projects with Dublin City Council and Smart Dublin (2022-2024) which focus on novel applications of digital technologies, including digital twins, in the public sector and for civic engagement. In addition, she is co-PI on the YouGamSI project (2022-2024) which examines gambling marketing on the island of Ireland funded by the HEA North South research programme. Her current research focuses on the design, governance and social impacts of AI across media, games and everyday smart technologies. Her books include Global Games: Production, Circulation and Policy in the Networked Age, Routledge, 2017, and she was associate editor of The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. In 2021 she was invited into the Academy of Europe on the Film, Media and Visual Studies panel. In 2016 she received a Distinguished Scholar award from the international Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA). She was awarded a PhD in Communication Studies (DCU, 2000). For more see Maynooth University work website<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.maynoothuniversity.…>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-aphra-kerr-74b630/> or Twitter @aphrak<https://twitter.com/AphraK>. Alison Powell Dr Alison Powell is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She researches how people’s values influence the way technology is built, and how technological systems in turn change the way we work and live together. Dr Powell’s book Undoing Optimization: Civic Action and Smart Cities (Yale University Press) argues that ‘techno-systemic frames’ of urban smartness shape not only commercial and government interventions but also configure citizen responses. In big data optimised cities, citizenship performs to techno-systemic norms. The book provides a historically grounded critique of smart-city optimisation, while outlining the roots of some new ethics and practices that might transform it. Dr. Powell’s other research includes a project on explanation as governance in complex systems, another on the concept of ‘repairable AI’, and acting as Director of JUST AI, a humanities-led network inviting new ways of thinking about data and AI ethics, supported by the AHRC and in partnership with the Ada Lovelace Institute. For more see LSE work website<https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/alison…> or Twitter @a_b_powell<https://twitter.com/a_b_powell>.

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Survey On How Non-U.S. Students Learn About The U.S.
by Cristina Migliaccio 31 May '23

31 May '23

Dear *Non-U.S. Educated Colleagues*: If you could take a minute to fill out the survey below *before June 7th*, it would greatly assist my lovely niece in her important research! Warmly, Cristina Migliaccio, CUNY Medgar Evers College Hello, My name is Lucy Mahoney and I am a junior at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. My friend Mackenzie and I are working on our final project for our AP US History class. We are going to be comparing how other countries learned about the United States in their schools vs how we learned about it in ours. If you could take 5 minutes to fill out the attached form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSzqW2hORuhPodWlaj9TvAHpYVxsq0niO…>, that would be amazing. Thank you so much for your time and help with our project! Thank you, Lucy Mahoney The United States in Non-US Curriculum <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSzqW2hORuhPodWlaj9TvAHpYVxsq0niO…>

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Join meeting of an international network of researchers
by Janet Salmons 31 May '23

31 May '23

Bringing Ethics into Policy-Making. Register: https://bit.ly/3YhgYeA In times of crisis, policy-makers urgently need advice from researchers. Can such advice take ethical values into consideration? PREPARED is an international network of researchers, funders, policymakers, NGOs, citizens and publishers. (See https://prepared-project.eu/) Join the PREPARED team live at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris when Sage Methodspace Zooms in. We'll be a part of the meeting where colleagues from around the world consider how researchers can influence policy and bring an ethics dimension to the table. There is a seat for you at the table, join this important discussion! Register here: https://bit.ly/3YhgYeA See you online, Janet Janet Salmons, PhD (She/her/hers) Research Community Manager, SAGE MethodSpace www.methodspace.com

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[Deadline Extended] IEEE ICT-DM 2023, Cosenza, Italy - Sept. 13-15, 2023
by Jui-Yi Tsai 31 May '23

31 May '23

[Our apologies for multiple copies of this email] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM) - Cosenza, Italy, 13-15 September 2023 https://ict-dm2023.inria.fr/index.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Track 4: Crowdsourcing and social media for disaster & crisis management https://ict-dm2023.inria.fr/tracks/four.html Scope: Natural disasters like flooding and earthquakes, as well as terrorism attacks and industrial disasters, should be dealt with in a fast and effective manner. In such scenarios, first responders, news agencies and the victims are used to exploit social media as a first “communication channel” to disseminate situational information in a reliable way, reaching a huge pool of users. Similarly, crowdsourcing applications engage user communities in emergency response and disaster management for natural hazards. However, some drawbacks may occur in such social tools, thus limiting authorities and disaster management stakeholders to use social media data to make decisions. As an instance, social media crowdsourcing data should be georeferenced to improve situational awareness, and the positioning error should be very low. In addition, social media data should be merged with other external data sources and authoritative data to establish geographic relationships between the disaster event and social media messages. Also, the dissemination of a message should occur between trusted and reliable nodes, in order to be sure the disseminated information is secure. As a solution, the main goal is to handle a set of learning materials such as methods, tools and guidelines on the use of social media and crowdsourcing in disasters in an effective manner, especially for what concerns security and trustworthiness of data information. So, this track wants to stimulate the scientific community to propose new technical studies that may address different topics such as: - Secure and reliable communications in social media and crowdsourcing for disaster & crisis management - Opportunistic data dissemination in social media and crowdsourcing tools - Network architectures for social media and crowdsourcing - Machine learning techniques in social media and crowdsourcing for disaster & crisis management - Energy harvesting, storage, recycling, and wireless power transfer for social IoTs in disaster and crisis - Fog/edge computing and social IoT convergent services, systems, infrastructure, and techniques for disaster and crisis management - Agile, intelligent, and resilient aerial (swarm) social-inspired communications and control in disaster crisis - Localization and positioning with social IoT in disaster/crisis areas - Social-aware self-organizing network optimization for efficient crowdsourcing in mobile social networks - Security, privacy, and trust in social IoT-assisted disaster/crisis management systems - Disaster/crisis data aggregation, dissemination, collection, and mining via crowdsourcing and social media in multi-hop heterogeneous networks - Crowdsourcing, gamification, and social media incentivization for natural hazard prevention, mitigation, and management - Real-time query processing, data fusion, and event summarization for multi-source disaster data and social media - Big data analysis, AI and machine/deep learning models with Age of Information (AoI) in crowdsourcing and social media analysis - Innovative crowdsourcing applications and social network services for disaster and crisis management Track Chair Anna Maria Vegni, University of Roma Tre, Italy De-Nian Yang, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Important dates Full/short paper submission: June 7, 2023 (extended) Acceptance notification: July 23, 2023 Camera ready: August 20, 2023

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Canadian Game Studies Association 2023 Conference (June 6-9) Canadian Game Studies Association is happening soon. The conference theme is “Sustainable Action/Sustaining Action"
by Gerald Voorhees 31 May '23

31 May '23

Dear Colleagues, The fully online annual conference <https://gamestudies.ca/cgsa-acej-2023-sustainable-action-sustaining-action/>of the Canadian Game Studies Association is happening soon. The conference theme is “Sustainable Action/Sustaining Action,” which both expresses CGSA’s continued commitment to anti-racism and decolonization and signals our concern for the ecological impact of games and academic conferencing. Recorded paper presentations can be accessed now and between June 6-9 there are live discussion panels with paper authors, workshops, and special events including keynotes by *Gabrielle Trépanier-Jobin* (Université du Québec à Montréal) on *“What Ecofeminism and Decolonial Studies Have to Teach Us About Raising Ecological Awareness Though Games,”* and *Alenda Y. Chang* (University of California, Santa Barbara) on sustainably developed games “*Animal, Digital, Vegetable, Mineral: An Unsustainable Guessing Game*.” In all, the conference features 80+ papers, lectures, and workshops from critical, humanities, and social-science approaches (see the online program <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zMX48z2bSML8PfAzBPjGs7VWeFhfCmPFM3N…> for more information and details about workshops, play sessions, and special events). To attend the live panels and gain access to recorded paper presentations, you will need to register for the conference here <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cgsaacej-2023-conference-tickets-423673808767>. Note that you can either become a CGSA member and register for the conference at a discount rate or purchase a non-member conference registration. Black and/or Indigenous students who are members of CGSA can register for the conference for free. We hope you’ll join us for an amazing online conference! ------------------------------ Gerald Voorhees, Ph.D. (he/him) President, Canadian Game Studies Association Associate Professor Department of Communication Arts University of Waterloo 257A ML, Waterloo ON, N2L 3G1 ------------------------------ *I acknowledge that I live and work on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes ten kilometers on each side of the Grand River. *

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Participants needed for survey about Gen Z, gender, and social media
by Alexis de Coning 31 May '23

31 May '23

Hi folks, I'm supervising a first-year student who's investigating Gen Z women's experiences of gender and feminism on social media. We are currently looking for survey participants who are: - between 18 - 25 years old, - reside in the United States, and - identify as women (cisgender and transgender women, as well as non-binary femmes, are all welcome to participate). Please complete the survey if you can, or share it with students/family/friends who meet the eligibility requirements. Participants do not need to identify as feminists to complete the survey. This is a significant learning opportunity for my student who's conducting primary research for the first time. We appreciate any help in spreading the survey and diversifying our responses! Best regards, Dr. Alexis de Coning -- Assistant Professor of Communication Student Senate Faculty Representative she/her/hers

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

31 May '23

Third International Conference on Digital Data Processing University of Bedfordshire Luton. UK November 27-29, 2023 www.socio.org.uk/ddp IEEE CPS will publish the proceedings 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 Mohsin Beniysa, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Morocco Paper Submission: http://socio.org.uk/ddp/paper-submission/ Contact: stm(a)socio.org.uk

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Run a Wikipedia assignment in Fall 2023 and help change the world one word at a time!
by Helaine Blumenthal 30 May '23

30 May '23

Amid the tsunami of misinformation flooding the internet, Wikipedia remains a reliable source for those seeking knowledge. Run a Wikipedia assignment this coming academic year, and empower your students to develop an authoritative public voice, become a responsible digital citizen, and tackle misinformation all in one project! Sign up <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApdeCupzwtEtNVaIWYtWTV6d-frza2C8…>to attend one of our upcoming workshops on how to teach with Wikipedia. Also be sure to visit teach.wikiedu.org <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/> to find out how you can get started for the Fall 2023 term! 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. I hope you'll join us in this critical work to make Wikipedia a more accurate, accessible and equitable space for all! -- 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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WEBCAST MAY 30 – IPNSIG Academy Architecture and Governance Workshop
by Joly MacFie 30 May '23

30 May '23

Do you sometimes wish you could have been a fly on the wall when Vint Cerf and pals were scheming out the early Internet. Well, as far as the Interplanetary Internet goes, you can! [image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/16582>On *Wednesday May 30 2023* at *5pm-6pm EDT* (21:00-22:00 UTC) the *Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group <https://ipnsig.org/>* (IPNSIG) presents the *IPNSIG Academy 'Architecture and Governance Workshop'. <https://ipnsig.org/2023/05/26/speaker-bios-for-awg-conference/>* Today, as several initiatives, including the Government, Space Agencies, and the private sector, expand communication capabilities off the planet, to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, it is the time to discuss how a "Common Interplanetary Network Infrastructure" could be realized, which entails the need for Governance - a management structure to support the operation of the infrastructure itself. The IPNSIG *Architecture and Governance Working Group* (AWG) has tackled these important subjects by reflecting on the lessons learned from the Internet's evolution, and from insights provided by our past Academy speakers. This session will examine the progress and prospects in this field. *SPEAKERS* *Yosuke Kaneko* - IPNSIG President *Vint Cerf* - IGF Leadership Panel Chair / IPNSIG Board Member *Marc Blanchet* - IPNSIG AWG Member *MODERATOR* *Jim Schier* - NASA *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ipnsigacademy12 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ipnsigacademy12>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/42pGqAF <https://bit.ly/42pGqAF>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see *ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/16582>*) *TWITTER #IPNSIGacademy <https://bit.ly/3wkSJBq> #DTN #netgov @IPNSIG @vgcerf Yosuke Kaneko @JAXA_en* *Marc BLANCHET Jim Schier @NASA #space * *MASTODON #IPNSIGacademy <https://mastodon.social/tags/IPNSIGacademy> * *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/> *(AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/ipnisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/ipnisoc/>* (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/ipnsigacademy12 <https://archive.org/details/ipnsigacademy12>* Permalink https://isoc.live/16582 - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Introducing the Launch of the Connected Wellbeing Initiative
by Cindy Hau 30 May '23

30 May '23

<https://connectedwellbeing.org> [image: Connected Learning Summit 2023 Graphic] The Connected Learning Alliance <https://clalliance.org> with support from Pivotal Ventures <https://www.pivotalventures.org/> is proud to announce the launch of the Connected Wellbeing Initiative. Social media, online games, and digital media production offer untapped opportunities to build supportive connections that counter marginalization and discrimination. The Connected Wellbeing Initiative <https://connectedwellbeing.org> brings together researchers, designers, educators, and funders to accelerate youth and community-powered innovations for fostering wellbeing in a digitally connected world. We build shared approaches and purpose through an Impact Studio for innovators and free workshops to build capacity and community. The Connected Wellbeing Impact Studio <https://connectedwellbeing.org/impact-studio/> supports early to mid stage innovations that foster youth and community wellbeing through strengths-based, socially-connected, and youth-centered approaches. We offer personalized advising, capacity building opportunities, and cross-sector connections to accelerate impact and build shared purpose. Our free monthly workshops are led by youth and adult experts and will feature deep dives on shared interests, approaches, and concerns in connected wellbeing. The Connected Wellbeing Initiative is powered by a cross-sector advisory board and the team at the Connected Learning Alliance. Visit our website <https://connectedwellbeing.org> to learn more about the Connected Wellbeing Initiative, and sign up for our mailing list to get the latest Connected Wellbeing news delivered to your inbox. <https://clalliance.org.>

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