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CFP: ASIS&T 2026 Panel on Generative AI, Disinformation, and the Global Information Ecosystem
by Maria Haigh 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

Dear colleagues, I am putting together a panel for the *ASIS&T 2026 Annual Meeting* (November 6–10 in Bangkok, Thailand) and am seeking 3–4 co-panelists to join the proposal. Panel Title: *Crossing the Boundaries of Truth: Generative AI, Disinformation, and the Global Information Ecosystem* Panel Overview: Aligned with the ASIS&T 2026 theme, *“Crossing Boundaries: Advancing Global Dialogue and Well-being through Information Research and Practice,”* this panel explores the multifaceted intersection of artificial intelligence and disinformation. The rapid advancement of generative AI has fundamentally altered the creation and circulation of deceptive narratives, allowing them to cross geographic, linguistic, and cultural boundaries with unprecedented speed. We will discuss how the information science community can collaborate to steward information integrity. I am seeking diverse perspectives that touch upon (but are not limited to): - *The Technological Boundary:* Deepfakes, large language models (LLMs), and algorithmic amplification in scaling disinformation. - *The Sociocultural Boundary:* How AI-generated disinformation exploits cognitive vulnerabilities and impacts public trust across diverse communities. - *The Policy and Ethical Boundary:* Cross-regional governance, ethical AI development, and the challenges of regulating borderless synthetic media. - *The Institutional Boundary:* Strategic approaches for libraries, archives, and educators to build public resilience through AI literacy and proactive information stewardship. Submission Information: If you are researching AI, disinformation, media literacy, or related topics and are interested in joining this panel, please send me a brief description (150–200 words) of your proposed perspective by *Thursday, April 2, 2026*, so we have enough time to finalize the proposal. *Note: All listed panelists must commit to registering and attending the conference in person in Bangkok.* Please feel free to forward this to colleagues or doctoral students who might be a good fit. I look forward to collaborating! Best regards, *Maria Haigh* Associate Professor, mhaigh(a)uwm.edu School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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WEBINAR APR 15 – The Data Center Frontier
by Joly MacFie 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

[image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/20467>REGISTER <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9817741161164/WN_3o1CLCr2R1y-CG3JQ7FWGg> | ADD TO CALENDAR <https://addcal.co/e/9q4fo2f858zx> | PERMALINK <https://isoc.live/20467> On Wednesday April 15 2026, at 10:00 PDT (17:00 UTC) the Natural History Museum <https://thenaturalhistorymuseum.org/> hosts a virtual roundtable ‘The Data Center Frontier <https://thenaturalhistorymuseum.org/events/the-data-center-frontier/>‘. The session brings together Indigenous land defenders, scholar-activists, and grassroots organizers to examine how the rapid expansion of AI and cloud infrastructure is driving new waves of fossil fuel dependence, mineral extraction, land dispossession, and environmental injustice. Far from the immaterial “cloud” promised by Silicon Valley, data centers are vast, resource-intensive industrial facilities whose growth is reshaping landscapes, energy systems, and political struggles across North America. Drawing lessons from Indigenous-led fights against pipelines, mining projects, and other forms of extractive infrastructure—as well as successful campaigns to block data centers—speakers will share insights from the frontlines of the data center frontier and explore how movements across sites and issues can build durable solidarities in the face of a rapidly expanding digital-industrial regime. SPEAKERS Jordan B. Kinder (Métis): Red Natural History Fellow / author of “Petroturfing: Refining Canadian Oil through Social Media” (2024) Krystal Two Bulls (Oglala Lakota/Cheyenne) – Executive Director, Honor the Earth Thea Riofrancos – Scholar / author of “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism” (2025) Vivek Bharathan -Technologist, No Desert Data Center / Coalition organizer / MediaJustice Data Center Fellow -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Report Launch on Youth Financial Well-being in Digital Economy - April 1
by Lana Swartz 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

Hi AOIR friends! Launching this report next week. Would love to see some of you there. And if you can't make it but are interested in these topics, please reach out! Best, Lana Report Launch Webinar *Lana Swartz (co-moderator) Max Brichta (co-moderator)* *Joshua Bold Dorothy C. Kelly Taylor Nelms* *Wednesday, April 1, 2026 1:00-2:00pm (Eastern) via Zoom* Young adults are coming of age in a financial environment that is markedly different from that of previous generations: digital, fast-paced, and increasingly shaped by platforms and AI. This webinar will explore five key domains transforming young people’s financial lives: the hustle economy, finfluencers, online financial communities, new forms of credit and lending, and high-risk retail investing and gambling. *Learn More & Register <https://dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/fling-report-launch/>* The session will be recorded for those who cannot attend live - make sure to register to receive notification when the video is available to view. *Co-hosted by UVA’s **Digital Technology for Democracy Lab <https://dtdlab.virginia.edu/>** and **Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment (TYDE) <https://tyde.virginia.edu/>* *Copyright © 2026 UVA's Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, All rights reserved.* You can *update your preferences <https://virginia.us7.list-manage.com/profile?u=09f35f7898d7e6784e2f84fa7&id…>* or *unsubscribe from this list <https://virginia.us7.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=09f35f7898d7e6784e2f84fa…>* .

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RECORDING - eco - ICANN85 Readout – Highlights & Take-Aways from the Community Forum
by Joly MacFie 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

[image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/20366> VIDEO <https://youtu.be/FzYepVkWGhU> | AUDIO <https://archive.org/download/eco-icann85/eco-icann85.mp3> | RECAP <https://www.patreon.com/posts/153980908/> | ARCHIVE <https://archive.org/details/eco-icann85> | PERMALINK <https://isoc.live/20366/> On March 18, 2026, eco – Association of the Internet Industry <https://www.eco.de/> and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers <https://www.icann.org/> (ICANN) jointly hosted ‘ICANN85 Readout – Highlights & Take-Aways from the Community Forum <https://www.eco.de/event/icann85-readout-highlights-take-aways-from-the-com…>‘. Speakers from different constituencies of the ICANN community provided a summary of the main points and key takeaways from the hybrid ICANN85 meeting in Mumbai. SPEAKERS Elizabeth Bacon – Chair, RySG / TCCM Nicolas Caballero – Chair, GAC Jordan Carter – Member, ccNSO Council Philippe Fouquart – Chair, ISPCP Frederic Taes – Chair, EURALO Susan Payne – Chair, GNSO Council Sarah Wyld – Vice-Chair, RrSG HOSTS Gabriella Schittek – Stakeholder Engagement Director, Nordic & Central Europe – ICANN Org Thomas Rickert – Director Names & Numbers, eco – Association of the Internet Industry Lars Steffen – Director International, eco – Association of the Internet Industry -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Paula Bialski joins CaMP reading group tomorrow
by Ilana Gershon 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

Dear Colleagues, I am so pleased to announce that there will be a CaMP reading group with Paula Bialski as the featured author tomorrow -- March 27th -- Friday at noon east coast time. Paula Bialski offers us chapter 2 and the introduction for context. Please read as much as you can, but do feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to read everything. The readings can be found here: Chapters 1 and 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A3Y74RNqmkKYWqLzHC1hsLoAtZDyUlnk/view?usp=… The meeting will be at noon to 1 pm east coast time - Friday, March 27th and can be reached by clicking on this Zoom link: https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698 <https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698> Looking forward to seeing you all virtually, Ilana Press blurb: Contrary to much of the popular discourse, not all technology is seamless and awesome; some of it is simply “good enough.” In *Middle Tech*, Paula Bialski offers an ethnographic study of software developers at a non-flashy, non-start-up corporate tech company. Their stories reveal why software isn’t perfect and how developers communicate, care, and compromise to make software work—or at least work until the next update. Exploring the culture of good enoughness at a technology firm she calls “MiddleTech,” Bialski shows how doing good-enough work is a collectively negotiated resistance to the organizational ideology found in corporate software settings. The truth, Bialski reminds us, is that technology breaks due to human-related issues: staff cutbacks cause media platforms to crash, in-car GPS systems cause catastrophic incidents, and chatbots can be weird. Developers must often labor to patch and repair legacy systems rather than dream up killer apps. Bialski presents a less sensationalist, more empirical portrait of technology work than the frequently told Silicon Valley narratives of disruption and innovation. She finds that software engineers at MiddleTech regard technology as an ephemeral object that only needs to be good enough to function until its next iteration. As a result, they don’t feel much pressure to make it perfect. Through the deeply personal stories of people and their practices at MiddleTech, Bialski traces the ways that workers create and sustain a complex culture of good enoughness.

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[FlashLab seminar] "Environment & Digital Technologies" series with Jen Liu (Univ. of Toronto): "Ghosting the Coast: Infrastructural Retreat in Southeast Louisiana" - (April 2, 4-5:30 pm, CET)
by valentingjn 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

Dear colleagues, As part of the 2025-2026 FlashLab seminar season, the first session of our quarterly "Environment & Digital Technologies" series will take place online on Thursday, April 2 (4:00-5:30 pm, CET). We are delighted to welcome [Jen Liu](https://jenliujenliu.com/), Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. She works with the Toronto Climate Observatory and will present a talk drawing on her Ph.D. in Information Science at Cornell University: Ghosting the Coast: Infrastructural Retreat in Southeast Louisiana Abstract: As climate change accelerates, infrastructures are increasingly strained by environmental volatility and political neglect. This presentation introduces infrastructural retreat as a concept to describe the gradual withdrawal, degradation, and abandonment of infrastructure. Drawing on ethnographic and design research in southeast Louisiana, I examine how networked infrastructures, particularly Internet connectivity, are maintained amid overlapping ecological disruption, aging systems, and deep socioeconomic inequality rooted in the region’s petrochemical legacy. I show how practices of infrastructural maintenance, repair, and anticipation shape climate habitability by sustaining or denying connection in shifting coastal landscapes. I argue that infrastructural retreat contributes to and conditions climate displacement, redistributing risk onto communities through degraded service and precarious labor. I conclude by discussing how these insights informed the co-design of a community-based communications network, and what infrastructural retreat reveals about the politics of adaptation and survival on a changing planet. --- Session links and other practical information are available through the seminar mailing list. You can subscribe here: flashlab(a)framalistes.org The rest of the season’s program will soon be available on the seminar [website](https://flashlabinfo.wordpress.com/les-seances/). Looking forward to seeing you online! All the best, Assia Wirth & Valentin Goujon. --- Valentin Goujon Doctorant en sociologie médialab, Sciences Po --- Coordinateur du séminaire [FlashLab](https://flashlabinfo.wordpress.com/) et du GdT «[Matérialités du numérique](https://cis.cnrs.fr/materialites-du-numerique/)» Projet de recherche ANR-ORA [Shaping AI](https://www.shapingai.org/) a

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NordiCHI 2026 - Final Call for Submissions
by Laura Havinen 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

Final call for Submissions for NordiCHI 2026 in Vaasa, Finland, October 3-7, 2026 **Apologies for cross-postings** Deadlines are approaching for the following tracks: Research papers, Critiques, Panel Proposals, Arts-based Approaches, and Industry Experience. April 16, 2026: Research Paper abstract and metadata submission April 23, 2026: Research Papers: Full paper, Critiques, Panels, Arts-Based Approaches, Industry Experience Calls for Workshop proposals, Tutorials, Demos, Late-Breaking Work, and Doctoral Consortium contributions are also available. Please see the conference website: https://nordichi2026.org/ Proceedings of the conference will be published in the ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The biannual NordiCHI is one of the key venues for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research in the world, bringing together a global community of researchers, practitioners, students, and industry experts - including you! In 2026, NordiCHI will take place in Vaasa, Finland on October 3-7. The conference is jointly organized by Åbo Akademi University and University of Vaasa. Professor Yvonne Rogers, Professor Mattia Thibault, and Senior Designer and Deputy Professor Pontus Wärnestål will deliver the keynote addresses at the conference. The conference theme is Pulse - exploring the energy that drives us, representing the dynamic highs and calm lows of life, keeping us thriving. Vaasa is known for both its vibrant energy industry as the Nordic energy cluster and the tranquility of its surrounding nature and UNESCO World Heritage site. Our ambition is that the conference energizes through inspiring encounters and opportunities to truly feel the pulse of the HCI field. ======================= Submission deadlines (all AoE): * April 16, 2026: Research Papers: Abstract and metadata * April 23, 2026: Research Papers: Full paper, Critiques, Panels, Arts-Based Approaches, Industry Experience * May 7, 2026: Workshops, Tutorials * May 18, 2026: Late-Breaking Work, Demos, Doctoral Consortium ======================= Join us in Vaasa for an inspiring NordiCHI 2026! Warm regards, Susanne Hägglund and Laura Havinen General Chairs NordiCHI 2026 https://nordichi2026.org/

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Call for Papers – Special Issue on AI, Algorithmic Media, and Digital Governance (Global Media and China)
by Dechun Zhang 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a forthcoming special issue titled “AI, Algorithmic Media, and Digital Governance: Power, Control, and Technological Transformation,” to be published in the journal Global Media and China. The accelerating integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into digital infrastructures represents a profound transformation in contemporary media environments and governance systems. AI-driven platforms, algorithmic recommendation systems, and automated content moderation increasingly shape how information circulates, how public discourse is structured, and how political authority is exercised across different societies. These developments raise important questions about algorithmic governance, digital sovereignty, media regulation, and the broader political implications of AI-mediated communication. This special issue seeks to advance interdisciplinary scholarship examining the evolving relationships between AI technologies, media systems, and governance practices. We welcome contributions that critically explore how algorithmic systems influence media production, platform governance, public communication, and political power across diverse institutional and geopolitical contexts. We invite empirical, theoretical, and methodological contributions from scholars working in communication and media studies, political science, digital governance, sociology, science and technology studies, and related disciplines. Submissions may focus on China, or adopt comparative and transnational perspectives. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: • Algorithmic governance, digital statecraft, and political authority • AI-driven propaganda, information manipulation, and computational misinformation • State-led AI governance and digital surveillance regimes • Platform politics and the political economy of algorithmic systems • Public perceptions of AI and the politics of digital rights • AI infrastructures, technological sovereignty, and global asymmetries in digital power • Smart cities, Internet of Things systems, and algorithmic governance in public administration Key dates Abstract submission deadline: 20 May 2026 Notification of invitations for full papers: 1 June 2026 Full paper submission deadline: 30 October 2026 Please submit an abstract of up to 500 words to the guest editors with the subject line “GMAC Special Issue Submission.” Guest Editors: Dechun Zhang, University of Copenhagen (dezh(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:dezh@hum.ku.dk>) Weiai Xu, University of Massachusetts Amherst (weiaixu(a)umass.edu<mailto:weiaixu@umass.edu>) Han Lin, Soochow University (linhan741(a)gmail.com<mailto:linhan741@gmail.com>) Full details of the Call for Papers can be found here: https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/GCH/Algorithmic%20Media_C… We would greatly appreciate it if you could circulate this call among colleagues, research groups, and academic networks who may be interested. Thank you for your attention, and we look forward to receiving your submissions. Best regards, Dechun ________________________________ Dechun Zhang, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher at Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen Author of Digital Nationalism and Affective Governance: Propaganda, Public Sentiment, and Soft Authoritarianism in China <https://www.routledge.com/9781041308775> (Routledge, 2026) Managing Editor of Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jceasia.org/__;!!NVzLfOphnbDXSw!Fs30wWO…> Editor of Asia Pacific Viewpoint<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678373>, Sage Open<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/SGO> & Global Perspectives in Communication<https://academic.oup.com/gpc> and Social Media Editor of Journal of Visual Political Communication<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-visual-p…> Affiliated Researcher at the Leiden Asia Centre<https://leidenasiacentre.nl/people/dechun-zhang/?portfolioCats=82%2C100%2C9…>, Leiden University ORCID: 0000-0002-2284-2378<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2284-2378> Web: https://www.dechunzhang.com/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dechunzhang.com/__;!!NVzLfOphnbDXSw…>

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Second Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

*** Second Call for Workshop Proposals *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/ Objectives ISSRE strives to be the conference that appeals to both researchers and practitioners. To that end, we invite proposals for workshops to co-locate with the Symposium and provide additional opportunities for collaborating and exchanging information. The workshops aim at discussing research developments and challenges at an early stage. ISSRE welcomes workshops that explore new ways to provide and assess software reliability, safety, and security. We also seek workshops that deal with the provision of reliable, safe, and secure software and systems in fast-growing, transformative application domains. Appropriately defined workshop proposals have the following characteristics: • They offer researchers a forum to exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas at an early stage before maturation that would warrant conference or journal publication. • They attract practitioners and researchers to working sessions to discuss and make progress toward solutions to current and future problems in engineering high assurance software and systems. • They focus on collaborative discussions and information sharing between researchers and industry practitioners. Recurring Workshops Workshops affiliated with ISSRE in previous years with good organization and numbers of participants are pre-approved. Their organizers do not need to submit a new workshop proposal. Their organizers are kindly asked to inform the workshop chairs about returning the workshop to ISSRE in 2026. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the software development lifecycle, and are not limited to: • Primary dependability attributes (i.e., security, safety, maintainability) impacting software reliability • Secondary dependability attributes (i.e., survivability, resilience, robustness) impacting software reliability • Reliability threats, i.e. faults (defects, bugs, etc.), errors, failures • Reliability means (fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance, fault forecasting) • Machine Learning and AI-based approaches for enhancing reliability of systems • Reliability, threads and biases of AI-based software systems, in particular Large Language Models • Data-related reliability and vulnerability issues and risks • Learning-based models of software systems, threads, and reliability estimates • Automated debugging and program repair • Metrics, measurements and threat estimation for reliability prediction and the interplay with safety/security • Reliability of software services • Reliability of open source software • Reliability in networks softwarization • Reliability of Software as a Service (SaaS) • Reliability of software dealing with Big Data • Reliability of model-based and auto-generated software • Reliability of software in artificial intelligence based software systems • Reliability of software within specific types of systems (e.g., autonomous and adaptive, green and sustainable, mobile systems) • Reliability of software within specific technological spaces (e.g., Internet of Things, Cloud, 5G/6G, edge-to-cloud computing, Semantic Web/Web 3.0, Virtualization, Blockchain) • Normative/regulatory/ethical spaces pertaining to software reliability • Societal aspects of software reliability Proposal Submissions Workshop proposals should include information about the proposed organizing committee and address the following questions: • Workshop length: Half day or one full day • Workshop style: papers, panels, posters, workgroups • Outline of themes and goals of the workshop • How will you solicit participation (call for workshop papers, invitation only, etc.) • Desired/estimated number of participants • Organizing committee members and their past experience Submissions need to be performed via Easy Chair, selecting the appropriate track for workshop proposals. The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 . Proposal Evaluation Workshop proposals will be evaluated by the ISSRE 2026 Organizing Committee. The criteria include the alignment with the ISSRE charter, relevance to the larger ISSRE community, and the strength and experience of the organizing team. Logistics The conference will be “in presence” with all presenters of accepted papers expected to attend the conference physically in Limassol, Cyprus. Important Dates (AoE) • Workshop proposal deadline: May 14, 2026 • Workshop proposal notification: May 21, 2026 • Workshop paper submission deadline: July 20, 2026 (NOTE: This date is only indicative – please refer to individual workshop webpages for information about deadlines) • Workshop paper notification to authors: August 10, 2026 • Camera ready papers: August 17, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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New essay article: Over the Quantum Cliff
by Aram Sinnreich 25 Mar '26

25 Mar '26

Colleagues, I’m writing to share a new essay article in the online magazine Broadcast. While some news media have covered the “quantum cliff” (aka Q-Day) from a cybersecurity perspective, Jesse Gilbert and I have instead written about the broader social and cultural consequences of quantum decryption: what will it mean for us to live in a world where decades of our digital secrets are suddenly, and permanently, revealed to the world at large? This is a question we alluded to in our book The Secret Life of Data, but in this article, we take a much deeper dive. https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/quantum-cliff-aram-sinnreich-jesse-gilbe… I look forward to hearing your thoughts! Aram (apologies for cross-posting)

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