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Teaching Fellow, Digital Media and Culture, CIM Warwick
by Michael Dieter 15 May '23

15 May '23

Hi Air-L, We're looking to hire a Teaching Fellow for our MA programme in Digital Media and Culture, more information is below. Appreciate any forwarding to potentially interested candidates. Cheers, --------------- The Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) at University of Warwick is seeking to appoint a one-year full-time Teaching Fellow to start by mid-September 2023 ideally or by 9 October 2023 at the latest. You will possess experience in teaching in Higher Education and have a background in digital culture, digital media studies and/or social studies of technology appropriate for research-led teaching. You should have completed a PhD in a field related to the above, or have your viva scheduled. You will contribute to our MA Digital Media and Culture programme by teaching on some of our core and option modules. These include: - Approaches to the Digital. - Digital Objects, Digital Methods. - User Interface Cultures. - Media Activism. You will deliver lectures, workshops, seminars and tutorials, and undertake module planning, curriculum development, marking of work and provision of feedback. You will also be available for office hours, monitor student attendance, and participate in moderation and academic integrity processes in accordance with the Centre’s quality assurance practices. All applications must be accompanied by a CV and covering letter and names of two referees. If you have not had the viva for your PhD, at least one of your referees should be a current supervisor. Please direct all informal inquiries to Professor Celia Lury at c.lury(a)warwick.ac.uk. More information is available here: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5062452&ownertype=fair… All the best, -- Michael Dieter

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[CFP] IEEE ICT-DM 2023, Cosenza, Italy - Sept. 13-15, 2023
by Jui-Yi Tsai 14 May '23

14 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: May 16, 2023 - Acceptance notification: July 23, 2023 - Camera ready: August 20, 2023

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Webinar on climate sceptic networks in Germany - Mon 15 May 13.00-14.00 CEST
by Vito Laterza 12 May '23

12 May '23

Dear colleagues, You are warmly invited to the next Engaging Sustainability webinar, next Monday (15 May), 13.00-14.00 CEST (Norway local time) via Zoom. The speaker will be Prof. Alexander Ruser, Director of CeDiT - Centre for Digital Transformation, University of Agder, Norway. Alexander's presentation is titled: Think tanks, populists and the emergence of climate sceptic networks: lessons from Germany You can find a full abstract and other information here: https://www.uia.no/en/events/webinar-think-tanks-populists-and-the-emergenc… <https://www.uia.no/en/events/webinar-think-tanks-populists-and-the-emergenc…> You can get the Zoom details by registering at this page: https://uia.pameldingssystem.no/networks-climate-scepticism-germany <https://uia.pameldingssystem.no/networks-climate-scepticism-germany> The webinar series is hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Agder, Norway. Kind regards, Solomon Kebede and Vito Laterza Engaging Sustainability <https://www.uia.no/engaging-sustainability> webinar series -- Assoc. Prof. Vito Laterza PhD Anthropology (Cantab) Associate Professor Department of Global Development and Planning University of Agder Norway Academic profile www.uia.no/en/kk/profile/vitol <http://www.uia.no/en/kk/profile/vitol> Democracy in Action blog democracy.uia.no <https://democracy.uia.no/> Al Jazeera English www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/profile/vito-laterza-.html <http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/profile/vito-laterza-.html>

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Real-Time Intelligent Systems 2023
by ijwa dline.info 12 May '23

12 May '23

Fifth International Conference on Real-Time Intelligent Systems October 09-11, 2023 University of Bedfordshire, UK Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems by Springer https://www.springer.com/series/15179 Earlier conferences took place in Taipei, Taiwan (2018); Casablanca, Morocco (2017); Beijing, China (2016). The 5th RTIS will take place at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Over the last few years, real-time intelligent computing has radically transformed the human lifestyle. Research on real-time intelligent systems is multi-disciplinary, exploiting concepts from diverse areas such as big data processing, computational intelligence, location-based services, recommendation systems, and multimedia processing. In today’s highly dynamic environment, analysing data in real-time is a must to understand how systems process data, reason the outputs, and anticipate trends in intelligent computing. To this end, this conference will serve as a platform to manifest the ongoing research in the field. Thus, RTIS welcomes theoretically grounded, methodologically sound papers that address aspects related to topics, such as: Artificial Intelligence Techniques Artificial Intelligence and Data mining Streaming data, streaming engines Trace-based intelligent real-time services Adaptive vision algorithms Location-based services Intelligent Robotic Systems Collaborative Intelligence Processing Intelligent Databases Data capture in real-time Data quality and cleansing Intelligent Data Analysis Intelligent Database Systems Big Data systems and applications for high-velocity data Intelligent Information Systems Privacy and Security in Intelligence Software Engineering Solutions Intelligent Soft Computing Real-time multiprocessor systems Internet of Things Architectures for Intelligence Real-time distributed coding Smart services and platforms Real-time modelling user information needs Wireless Communication Real-time intelligent communication Real-time intelligent network solutions Mobile Smart Systems Broadband Intelligence Cloud Computing and Intelligence Collaborative Intelligence Analysis in domains such as energy, sensors, Expert Systems Smart Life Systems Decision support systems in real time Multi-agent Intelligent Systems Multilingual information access Recommendation systems Real-time intelligent, alert systems Real-time remote access systems Intelligent Transportation Systems Critical Real-Time Applications Hybrid Intelligent Systems Real-time noise removal systems Event-driven analytics Intelligent Fuzzy Systems Machine translation in real time OLAP for real-time decision support Crowdsourcing and crowd intelligence Submission, proceedings Papers must be submitted online through OpenConf. Author instructions and LaTex2e (preferred) and Word macro files are available on the submission page. Submitted papers should be within 14 pages (long papers) and eight pages (short ones), including figures, tables and references. Authors of accepted papers are required to transfer their copyrights. For a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors MUST register for the conference by the camera-ready submission deadline with full registration. The proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems by Springer. Extended versions of the conference papers will be considered for publication in the below journals. Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE) Future Internet https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet Data https://www.mdpi.com/journal/data (For Data and Future Internet, the discounted APC is applicable, which is 50%) Journal of Digital Information Management Journal of Intelligent Computing Venue The venue is the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Important Dates Full Paper Submission: July 20, 2023 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 15, 2023 Registration Due: September 15, 2023 Camera Ready Due: September 15, 2023 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos: October 08, 2023 Main conference: October 09-11, 2023 Post-conference proceedings: October 25, 2023 General Chairs Ricardo Rodriguez-Jorge, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University , Czech Republic Martín LÓPEZ-NORES, University of Vigo, Spain Program Chairs Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India Workshop/Special Issues Chair Ezendu Ariwa, University of Warwick, UK Contact: stm(a)socio.org.uk

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Research Associate, Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University
by Brandon Boatwright 11 May '23

11 May '23

Good afternoon, everyone, We are hiring a full-time *Research Associate* position in the Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University. The job description can be found below, along with a link to apply. Happy to field any questions you or your colleagues / students might have about the position. ## Clemson University’s Social Media Listening Center (SMLC) is recruiting a full-time Research Associate to begin August 15, 2023. The SMLC is an interdisciplinary lab that utilizes cutting edge technology to listen, measure, and engage in online conversations across various digital and social media platforms. Its mission is to empower students and faculty from across the university to leverage the power of analytics and computational social science to better understand how information spreads, resonates, and performs. The ideal candidate for this position will work alongside the SMLC Director and staff to support research endeavors across the university through data collection, grant writing, and collaborative research projects with faculty from diverse backgrounds and disciplines. The candidate will engage in project management, data analysis, and manuscript preparation for publication in scientific journals. The candidate will have an outstanding opportunity to collaborate with accomplished scholars across the College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences, which encompasses seven academic units, including Communication; Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management; Political Science; Psychology; Public Health Sciences; Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice; and a School of Nursing. The college is also home to twelve centers and institutes. *Qualifications and Necessary Skills:* - MA (required) or PhD (preferred) in communication, information science, computer science, computational social science, or related field. - Experience in harvesting and managing large databases, particularly (but not exclusively) from major social media platforms. - Analysis experience using quantitative methods and research techniques. - Experience analyzing data using computational linguistic techniques (NLP; sentiment analysis, etc.), network science (social and/or semantic), machine learning, etc. - Ability to independently identify external funding opportunities and write grantsDemonstrated capacity for interdisciplinary scholarship. The Research Associate will be appointed for a two-year, time-limited position with the potential for renewal based on performance. *Deadline to submit applications is July 1, 2023.* Clemson University offers a competitive salary and attractive benefits package. Clemson University is an R1 Carnegie institution that is currently No. 30 in the US News and World Report ranking of the nation’s top public universities. The campus is located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains near outstanding year-round recreational opportunities. Link to apply: https://www.clemson.edu/careers/index.php -- *BRANDON C. BOATWRIGHT, Ph.D. *CLEMSON UNIVERSITY Assistant Professor & Director, Social Media Listening Center Department of Communication 305C Daniel Hall 864.656.1567 clemson.edu/communication <https://www.clemson.edu/cbshs/departments/communication/> College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences Building People and Communities

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CfP HICSS Minitrack on "Cybercrime" reminder
by Piotr Siuda 11 May '23

11 May '23

Dear Colleagues This is just a reminder that there is only one month left to submit your work to the Cybercrime minitrack (second edition) at the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2024 (https://hicss.hawaii.edu) planned for January 2024. If you are interested in submitting the detail are given below, and you can also find the CfP here: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-57/internet-and-the-digital-economy/?fbclid… -- Research of the Internet as a site for communication and networking has focused mostly on legal practices. Recent years have nevertheless seen a significant increase in cybercrime, including illegal commerce being conducted on various platforms. In the public eye, much of it is associated with the non-indexed Dark Web, but research tells us that it is likewise present on many clear web sites and being conducted via numerous social media and instant messaging services. Rarely a day goes by without cybercrime being reported in the media. Examples include online trading in narcotics and other illicit goods and services, the hijacking of individual accounts and organizational systems, extortion, exit scams, fake investments in cryptocurrencies and even blatant information manipulation for financial gain. This minitrack aim is to give insights and develop a theoretical and practical understanding of issues related to cybercrime without excluding any methodological approaches. We welcome conceptual, theoretical, empirical and methodological papers that enrich our understanding of illegal online practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Cybertrespass (e.g., unauthorized system access) Cyberdeception and cybertheft (e.g., online fraud, identity theft) Exploitation imagery (e.g., child sexual exploitation materials) Cyberviolence (e.g., cyberstalking, cyberbullying) Cyberterrorism (e.g., different intrusions, building extremist networks) Trading in illicit goods and services online The use of the Dark Web as a marketplace or information sharing environment Using social media and instant messaging services for illicit trading Ransomware Phishing and scamming Cryptomarkets and cryptocurrencies Information manipulation for commercial gain Dark Web deception, risk, security, and privacy Differences between legal and illegal online trading Regional differences in cybercrime Investigative techniques and methods for cybercrimes SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Author Instructions: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ Cybercrime minitrack website: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-55/internet-and-the-digital-economy/#cyberc… IMPORTANT DATES: April 15, 2023: Paper submission begins (through HICSS systems: https://hicss-submissions.org/) June 15, 2023: Paper submission deadline (11:59 pm HST) August 17,2023: Notification of acceptance/rejection September 22, 2023: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication October 1, 2023: Deadline for at least one author for each paper to register for the conference MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS: Piotr Siuda (Primary Contact) Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland piotr.siuda(a)ukw.edu.pl Tuomas Harviainen Tampere University tuomas.harviainen(a)tuni.fi Robert W. Gehl York University rwg(a)yorku.ca Juho Hamari Tampere University juho.hamari(a)tuni.fi -- *Piotr Siuda* (PhD, Professor of Media Studies) piotrsiuda.com Institute of Social Communication and Media Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland *Recent papers:* -- *The Problematic nature of evaluating esports' "genuineness" using traditional sports' criteria: In-depth interviews with traditional sports and electronic sports journalists,* *Leisure Studies*. *--** Broken promises marketing. Relations, communication strategies, and ethics of video game journalists and developers: the case of Cyberpunk 2077, **Games and Culture*, https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231173479 *-**-** Darknet imaginaries in Internet memes: the discursive malleability of the cultural status of digital technologies*, *Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication*, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmac023

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King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence, London
by Joanna Zylinska 11 May '23

11 May '23

Dear All, Please find below some information about King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence. There’s also an exhibition accompanying the festival, which is now on at the Arcade in Bush House. Free and open to all. Best, Joanna *** King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence Dates: 24 May – 28 May 2023 Location: King's College London The King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence brings together speakers, exhibits, performances, demos and screenings in an exciting programme of events between 24 and 28 May 2023. The general public are invited to join academics, students, alumni and King’s cultural and industry partners to find out more about developments in artificial intelligence technologies, and the challenges and opportunities that arise from them. View the programme here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/series/festival-of-artificial-intelligence Public Talks Public Talks & Panel Discussion: The King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence Opening Panel, Professor Michael Luck, 24 May 2023 Public Talk: Fairy Tales of AI and Cybersecurity - Professor Luca Vigano, 24 May 2023 Public Talk: The Law and Ethics of Generative AI - Professor Dan Hunter, 25 May 2023 Public Talk: The Digital Future of Surgery – Cost, Connectivity and Artificial Intelligence - Professor Prokar Dasgupta, 25 May 2023 Public Talk: AI Art: On Human and Machine Creativity - Professor Joanna Zylinska, 26 May 023 Public Talk: How deep (learning) is your love? - Dr Kate Devlin, 27 May 2023 Discussions and Debates Academic Workshop: AI and the Visual: Art, Science and Human Bias, 24 May 2023 Screening & Q&A: The First, 26 May 2023 Screening & Q&A: GROUPTHINK: Art, AI & the Internet of Neurons, 27 May 2023 Discussion: AI & Art Salon, 26 May 2023 King's Exhibition: Bringing the Human to the Artificial Date and Time: 10.00 – 18.00, 2 May – 30 June 2023 Location: The Arcade, Bush House, Strand Campus Bringing the Human to the Artificial, a new exhibition presented by the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence, showcases cutting-edge research from across the university exploring the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on different aspects of our lives. Presented in collaboration with King's Culture, Bringing the Human to the Artificial features multiple perspectives on AI at King's, across social sciences, law, arts, humanities, security, science, engineering and health. Visitors are encouraged to explore the exhibits, and to consider a society enriched by these technologies and the challenges they present. A launch event took place in the Arcade on 3 May. -- Joanna Zylinska Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice King's College London Department of Digital Humanities http://www.joannazylinska.net

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WEBCAST MAY 10-11: 2023 Gambia National Internet Governance Forum
by Joly MacFie 11 May '23

11 May '23

Day 2 is just starting. Recordings of Day 1 can be found on the livestream link. [image: isoc.live] <https://isoc.live/16540%20>The *9th Annual Gambia National Internet Governance Forum <https://igf.gm/>* will be held on *Wednesday-Thursday May 10-11 2023*, with the theme ‘*Building Economic Reliance and Digital Sovereignty in the Gambia Context*’. The Internet Governance Forum serves to bring people together from various stakeholder groups as equals, in discussions on public policy issues related to the Internet. The Forum is organized to represent all key stakeholders in the Gambia through a National Steering Committee coordinated by the *Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy* <https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070229588702> (MOCDE). The livestream is provided by the *Internet Society Gambia Chapter <https://www.facebook.com/isocgambiachapter/https://www.facebook.com/isocgam…>* . *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/gmigf2023 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/gmigf2023>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/gmigf2023 <https://bit.ly/gmigf2023>* *AGENDA: https://archive.org/download/gmigf2023/gmigf2023_agenda.pdf <https://archive.org/download/gmigf2023/gmigf2023_agenda.pdf> *(GMT = UTC) *TWITTER #gmigf2023 <https://bit.ly/3plTitD> @gambia_forum @isocgm #TheGambia #Gambia #IGF* *SIMULCASTS_* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc>* *https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/ <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/>* *https://www.facebook.com/gambiaigf/ <https://www.facebook.com/gambiaigf/>* *https://www.facebook.com/isocgambiachapter/ <https://www.facebook.com/isocgambiachapter/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/gmigf2023 <https://archive.org/details/gmigf2023>* *Permalink https://isoc.live/16540 <https://isoc.live/16540> * - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Webinar - Humane Conversation – A Call for (Global) South to North Methodological Approaches in Critical AI Studies
by MATHIAS FELIPE DE LIMA SANTOS 11 May '23

11 May '23

Dear AoIR members, We are organizing a webinar with Dr. Andrea Medrado from the University of Westminster about methodological approaches in critical AI studies. Please see the call below: *#19 Humane Conversation – A Call for (Global) South to North Methodological Approaches in Critical AI Studies with Andrea Medrado and Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos* In this conversation, Dr Andrea Medrado and Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos interrogate ideas of artificial intelligence (AI) for social good, drawing inspiration from Participatory Action Research (PAR) and the work of Latin American thinkers such as Freire and Fals Borda. Medrado presents data from the project and paper “AI for Social Good?” co-authored with Dr Pieter Verdegem. For the project, participatory workshops were conducted in London with a group of students, activists and tech workers. In the paper, Medrado and Verdegem analyse two transversal themes – AI for Social Good? And Decolonial Perspectives of AI – and delve into three concepts – autonomy, empathy and dialogue. They propose a South-North flow and utilise PAR approaches that stem from Latin America. This is an attempt to challenge the ways in which the North’s centrality is taken for granted when it comes to epistemologies, experiences, and pieces of knowledge related to AI. They argue that PAR can not only empower marginalised communities in the Global South; we can also learn more from its application in the Global North, in contexts where people deal with different struggles. Yet, there are constraints in applying PAR. These are related to how scholarship is organised in the Global North, often with the aim to generate top-down impact, which stands in opposition to the open agenda and bottom-up approach of PAR. Still, much can be learned from this research journey. Inspired by Fals Borda’s (2003) “sentipensante” notion, they embrace an “epistle-method-philosophical” approach in which making, thinking and feelings are all combined. Rather than following the AI hype, we argue that more is to be learned from everyday AI stories, which we must tell, listen to and share in pluriversal ways. Dr Andrea Medrado is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster <https://camri.ac.uk/blog/staff/andrea-medrado/> in the UK and a member of CAMRI (The Communication and Media Research Institute). She also worked as an Associate Professor at the Federal Fluminense University in Brazil. Andrea is the Principal Investigator for the project “AI for Social Good?”, funded by UKRI and by the University of Westminster’s Diversity and Inclusion Research Community. She was the Co-I for the “e-Voices Redressing Marginality” Network (Arts and Humanities Research Council, ARHC). She is currently the Vice President of the International Communication and Media Research Association (IAMCR). Her first book “Media Activism, Artivism and the Fight Against Marginalisation in the Global South: South-to-South Communication <https://www.routledge.com/Media-Activism-Artivism-and-the-Fight-Against-Mar…>”, has just been published by Routledge. *Registrations on:* https://humane-ai.nl/events_report/20-humane-conversation-a-call-for-global… We look forward to having you join us in this conversation. Best wishes, *Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos* Postdoctoral Researcher | RPA Human(e) AI <https://humane-ai.nl/> Faculty of Humanities -- ---- É obrigatória a utilização do e-mail @unifesp em todas as correspondências oficiais, institucionais e no acesso aos equipamentos e sistemas da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, conforme a portaria Reitoria n. 1182/2022 <https://sti.unifesp.br/documentos/termos-de-uso-do-email> que define a Política de e-mail institucional da Unifesp. <https://sei.unifesp.br/sei/publicacoes/controlador_publicacoes.php?acao=pub…>

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CFP: ICMAC 2023 - Media Spaces, Cultural Narratives and Creative Industries (Sep 28-30, 2023), Symbiosis, Pune, India
by Ruchi Kher Jaggi 11 May '23

11 May '23

*Call for Papers - International Conference on Media and Communication (ICMAC) 2023 –* *Media Spaces, Cultural Narratives and Creative Industries: (Post) Pandemic Reconfigurations (Sep 28-30, 2023)* *Organized by: Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India* *Deadline for Submissions: July 15, 2023* Contact: icmac2023(a)simc.edu Proposals for presentation are now being accepted for the Third International Conference on Media and Communication (ICMAC) 2023 to be held from 28th to 30th, September 2023. The conference will focus on Creative Industries, in contemporary times, as it reconfigures itself to the changing socio-political and economic environment. The confirmed keynote speakers for the conference are – *Prof. Sahana Udupa*, Professor of Media Anthropology at the University of Munich (LMU), Germany *Prof. Aswin Punathambekar*, Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, USA In the (post) pandemic era, media spaces have made themselves available to individuals and communities, and to the audiences and the industry, like never before. They have allowed for the redefinition of creative industries, reimagination of narratives and blurred the boundaries between media and audiences. In these new ecoscapes, this conference will analyze, evaluate, and deliberate upon these altered mediated spaces and its repercussions on the social sensibilities of the times. The third edition of International Conference on Media and Communication (ICMAC) 2023, being organized by Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Symbiosis International University, seeks to place these important discussions on the mantle. ICMAC 2023 invites academics, research scholars, practitioners and post-graduate students to participate and submit 300–500 word abstracts to the conference, in line with the following tracks – Track I: Narrativizing Culture: Flows, Scapes and Conversations Track II: Streaming Cultures: Platforms, Perspectives, Policies and Peoples Track III: Rearticulating Convergence for Journalism: Theory and Praxis Track IV: From Creative Industry to Creative Economy: The Shifting Paradigms Proposals for poster presentations are invited from post-graduate students and PhD scholars only and proposals for paper presentations are invited from members of the academia and industry. Select papers will be published through proposed reputable journals and as edited texts. The deadline for submission of abstracts is July 15, 2023. All proposals should be submitted through the conference’s database *icmac.simc.edu <http://icmac.simc.edu/>* For details on using the submission database and on the application process, please visit *icmac.simc.edu <http://icmac.simc.edu/>* Thanks and Regards, Ruchi Kher Jaggi, PhD, Professor & Director, Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Dean, Faculty of Media and Communication, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India.

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