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NEW ARTICLE on AI, Surveillance, Gamified War and the Discord Leaker
by Dr. Emma Briant 16 Apr '23

16 Apr '23

Dear Friends and Colleagues, I am just writing to share my latest article with you, now out on SpyTalk 'The Air Force Loves War Gamers Like Teixeira: The Discord leaks reveal a digital culture problem that more AI surveillance can’t solve <https://www.spytalk.co/p/the-air-force-loves-war-gamers-like>.’ It looks at the problems with AI insider threat firms like Palantir, as a response to leakers and why the military is recruiting people just like Teixeira… and encouraging them all to bond on Discord where extremists hang out. The piece gives a deep dive on the US military's effort to create an attractive war game culture to pull in young future cyber warriors. I also gave this talk on Contemporary Propaganda and Digital Mercenaries <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmB5wtdD9i8> this week for Kyiv School of Economics. There is an intro in Ukrainian before the lecture in English. And I also was interviewed about Russian influence operations, new technologies and Western responses to the Silicon Curtain podcast <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8O__A37KGo> recently… I hope you find the article an interesting and illuminating read and have a chance to view the talks! You can share the article here on Twitter <https://twitter.com/EmmaLBriant/status/1647486104382078976?s=20>or Mastodon <https://mastodon.online/@emmalbriant/110206990100353022>or LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emmalbriant_the-air-force-loves-war-gamers-l…> . Best wishes, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC Incoming: Associate Professor at Monash University Fellow at Bard College, Human Rights Project Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Speaking agent: Chartwell Speakers <https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/emma-briant/> Book agent: Inkwell Management <https://inkwellmanagement.com/> Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Support my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Mastodon @emmalbriant@mastodon.online Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin “Women are like teabags . We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water.” - Unknown -- Dr Emma L Briant Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC Incoming: Associate Professor at Monash University Fellow at Bard College, Human Rights Project Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Speaking agent: Chartwell Speakers <https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/emma-briant/> Book agent: Inkwell Management <https://inkwellmanagement.com/> Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Support my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Mastodon @emmalbriant@mastodon.online Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin “Women are like teabags . We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water.” - Unknown

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INTERACT 2023: Short extension on deadlines for next round of submissions
by Jose Abdelnour-Nocera 16 Apr '23

16 Apr '23

***** Apologies for any cross-postings ****** Due to a number of requests, we are extending the deadline for the next round of submissions (Short Papers etc) for INTERACT 2023 from April 19 to April 26. The website and PCS submission system will be updated to reflect this as soon as possible. In addition, Posters can have four pages of text for the extended abstract PLUS one page for references. Any questions, please email helen.petrie(a)york.ac.uk<mailto:helen.petrie@york.ac.uk> Information about the conference (to be updated!): https://interact2023.org/

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Fwd: Technolinguistics Conference Final Program May 24-26 - please circulate
by Ilana Gershon 15 Apr '23

15 Apr '23

Dear interested persons, We are delighted to invite you to the international workshop:*Technolinguistics in Practice: Socially Situating Language in AI Systems * *May 24–26, 2023, University of Siegen, Germany* *Keynotes: Paul Kockelman, Michael Castelle and Ilana Gershon* Conference hosted by the Collaborative Research Center “Media of Cooperation” https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/veranstaltungen/#technolinguistics-i… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/veransta…> *Day 1: Wednesday, 24.05.2023 | Machinic Agents and Interactions * 14:00–14:30 Conference Opening 14:30–15:45 Keynote Paul Kockelman Who Do We Talk to When We Talk to Machines? Linguistic Anthropology in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 16:00–17:30 Session 1 Becoming a Conversational Agent User: Interaction with an “Automated Operator” in Phone Information Service Alisa Maksimova What Was the Smart Speaker? David Waldecker, Axel Volmar, Tim Hector and Christine Hrncal 17:45–19:15 Session 2 How Human Interaction Can Inspire Convivial Language Technology Andreas Liesenfeld and Mark Dingemanse Frameworks as Infrastructures of Conversational AI Marcus Burkhardt and Susanne Förster *Day 2: Thursday, 25.05.2023 | NLP Structures and Ideologies* 10:00–11:15 Keynote Michael Castelle Text as Task: A Guide to the Transformer Architecture and its Language Ideologies 11:30–13:00 Session 3 From “Natural” to “Culturally Grounded” and “Socially Anchored“: Examining the Notion of Language in NLP Christoph Purschke, Alistair Plum and Catherine Tebaldi What Python Can’t Do: Language Ideologies in Programming Courses for Natural Language Processing Joseph Wilson 14:15–15:45 Session 4 Pragmatics in the History of NLP Evan Donahue Understanding the Limitations of Large Language Models Ole Pütz and Steffen Eger 16:15–17:45 Session 5 Indexing Semantic Association Tyler Shoemaker Machine Learning as Semiotic Mediation Yarden Skop and Siri Lamoureaux *Day 3: Friday, 26.05.2023 | Sociocultural Contexts* 10:00–11:15 Keynote Ilana Gershon ChatGPT: Genre, Scale, Animacy 11:30–13:00 Session 6 Reconfiguring the Regimentation of Multilingualism: From National Epistemology to Global Surveillance Britta Schneider Voice Diagnostics and Stress Monitoring: Infrastructuring and Automation of Health Data Tanja Knaus and Susanne Bauer 14:15–15:45 Session 7 ConMan: Stories from a Cooperative Anthro-computational Approach to the Study of Conspiracy Theories Alistair Plum, Catherine Tebaldi and Christoph Purschke Abstracting Away: ‘Speakers’ and Minoritised Communication Ideologies Alicia Fuentes-Calle 16:15–17:00 Session 8 It Is a Match: Language, AI-Powered Matchmaking and the Politics of Employability Alfonso Del Percio 17:00–18:00 Wrap-Up & Discussion on Follow-Up Publication and Project Planning Registration: Attending the conference is free. We kindly ask guests to register via technoliguistics(a)sfb1187.uni-siegen.de Conference Website https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/veranstaltungen/technolinguistics-in… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/veransta…> Location Campus Unteres Schloss Building C, Room 109 Unteres Schloss 3 57072 Siegen The conference is funded by the DFG – German Research Foundation.

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Run a Wikipedia assignment this summer and change the world one word at a time!
by Helaine Blumenthal 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

If you're teaching a course this summer, consider running a Wikipedia Assignment <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/>! Taking on a new project can be daunting, but as one of our instructors wrote, “It is much more fulfilling for students to see their research efforts out in the world, for everyone’s benefit, rather than writing a paper which sits on my desk.” Help your students engage in work that's authentic and satisfying and that does real good in the world! To learn more about teaching with Wikipedia, sign up here <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApdeCupzwtEtNVaIWYtWTV6d-frza2C8…> to attend an upcoming workshop. IF you're ready to take the plunge, login at dashboard.wikiedu.org <https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/> to submit your course today! Remember, Wiki Education support is fully funded, and there are never any fees to run a Wikipedia assignment! I hope we can work with you and your students over the summer or in a coming term! Best, Helaine -- 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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Tenured/tenure track position available: Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy McGill University
by Carrie Rentschler, Prof. 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

Dear colleagues — McGill University is hiring for the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy position in the Faculty of Arts. The Department for the tenured line will be determined at time of hire, based on the field(s) of the candidate. Please apply and share the ad in your networks. If you should have questions about the position, you can write to me at the email below: I’m a member of the hiring committee. Or you may contact the hiring committee chair, Prof. Andrew Piper, at andrew.piper(a)mcgill.ca<mailto:andrew.piper@mcgill.ca>. Review of applications will begin after Friday April 21, 2023. The job ad and application portal can be found here: https://mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill_careers/job/Arts-Building… The full job announcement is posted below. —Professor Carrie Rentschler Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy Position Description: The Faculty of Arts invites applications for the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy. Established through a generous gift from a family foundation, the purpose of the Chair is to encourage better understanding of scientific and technological concepts across the general undergraduate student population, undertake research to provide broad and fundamental insights into the crucial importance of science and technology in society, and train graduate students to advance this field of study. The Wolfe Chair will be expected to direct an academic and research program designed to ensure that students become familiar with critical scientific, technological and media concepts and terminology. Candidates from a diversity of fields are encouraged to apply, including but not limited to one or more of the following areas: science and technology studies; history of science and technology; race and technology studies; disability studies; critical data studies; algorithms and society; ethical AI; science communication; technology and media policy; information studies; media studies; communications; digital humanities; and cultural studies of technology. At a time when rapid scientific and technological advances are transforming societies, we view this position as a critical component of the university's responsibility to help students navigate and better understand the implications of technological change. Qualifications and Education Requirements: The successful candidate will ideally have the academic credentials necessary for a tenured appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or, in exceptional circumstances, Full Professor. Advanced Assistant Professors are also eligible to apply. The candidate will be hired into a home department in the Faculty of Arts, based on their field identity and areas of inquiry; as such, the hiring department is not yet determined. Faculty/Department/Unit: Faculty of Arts Job Type: Tenure-track Rank: Associate Professor Salary: Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Posting Period: The position start date is currently scheduled for January 1, 2024. Review of applications will begin on April 21, 2023, and will continue until the position is filled. Required Documents: Complete applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, contact information for three referees, evidence of teaching experience and effectiveness (e.g., sample course syllabi), and two writing samples (of article or chapter length). All materials should be submitted here https://mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Careers/job/Arts-Building/Assoc… For inquiries please contact Andrew Piper, recruitment committee chair at andrew.piper(a)mcgill.ca<mailto:andrew.piper@mcgill.ca> McGill University is located on the unceded territory of Tiohtià:ke, now known as Montréal; the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation are the traditional custodians of these lands and waters. McGill University is committed to equity and diversity within its community and values academic rigour and excellence. We welcome and encourage applications from racialized persons/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as from all qualified candidates with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities. At McGill, research that reflects diverse intellectual traditions, methodologies, and modes of dissemination and translation is valued and encouraged. Candidates are invited to demonstrate their research impact both within and across academic disciplines and in other sectors, such as government, communities, or industry. McGill further recognizes and fairly considers the impact of leaves (e.g., family care or health-related) that may contribute to career interruptions or slowdowns. Candidates are encouraged to signal any leave that affected productivity, or that may have had an effect on their career path. This information will be considered to ensure the equitable assessment of the candidate’s record. McGill implements an employment equity program and encourages members of designated equity groups to self-identify. It further seeks to ensure the equitable treatment and full inclusion of persons with disabilities by striving for the implementation of universal design principles transversally, across all facets of the University community, and through accommodation policies and procedures<https://www.mcgill.ca/hr/benefits/disabilities>. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, accessibilityrequest.hr(a)mcgill.ca<mailto:accessibilityrequest.hr@mcgill.ca>. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Carrie A. Rentschler (she/her) Associate Professor Art History and Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke St. West, W-115 Arts Montreal, QC H3A 0G5 Canada McGill University is located on the traditional unceded territories of the Haudenosaunee.

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CfP: Information, Communication & Society Special Issue, "Platforms, Power and Friction"
by Popiel, Pawel 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

Hi All, Apologies for cross-posting! Please see the below call for abstracts for a special issue of Information, Communication & Society on "Platforms, Power and Friction" that Krishnan Vaseduvan and I are editing, and please circulate within your networks: Technology platform companies, from Amazon to Uber, require the constant flow of user data to maximize profits and fuel their growth. The dependency of their expanding business models on datafication (Mejias & Couldry, 2019) creates incentives for platform companies to remove any and all frictions that impede their accumulation of capital. For instance, scholarship draws attention to the ways platforms remove frictions by employing user-friendly design to obscure user data surrender and by opposing policies that may regulate or disrupt data flows. Frictions denote oppositional and counter-forces, which can slow down processes, reorient and produce movement (e.g., Tsing, 2005), or bring it to a halt. In the context of platform capitalism, frictions in domains as different as technical platform (re)design, gig labor organizing, and information infrastructure and digital market regulation, can manifest as democratic counterforces responding to, shaping, and contesting platform logics that intermediate and sometimes undermine democratic processes. As a theoretical construct, "frictions" draw attention to the outsized, but contestable power that platform companies wield over communication, civic action, labor and more broadly, democracy. We invite paper abstracts that theorize friction, including as a cultural, socio-technical, and political economic phenomenon, in the following contexts: * Platforms as intermediaries of and actors within key democratic processes * Global and local politics of data and platform governance * Specific domains of platform regulation, including speech, data, and competition * Labor power and politics in the gig economy * Platform feature design, including in areas like content moderation and data collection * Platformization of media industries, particularly with respect to local production * Infrastructural politics, including data centers, warehouses, and cloud infrastructures * Environmental and climate politics related to platform infrastructure and data flows We seek empirical studies examining friction from a broad range of theoretical frameworks including (but not limited to) critical political economy, digital studies, feminist studies, critical race studies, cultural studies, media studies, and platform studies. We encourage submissions from a diverse set of methodological approaches including qualitative, ethnographic, mixed methods, as well as quantitative approaches. Studies about friction from underrepresented regions and/or about social groups underrepresented in research are especially encouraged. Format and Process: The special issue will include eight full-length original articles (7,000 words). For the initial submission we request that interested authors submit a 300-word abstract and short 100-word bios for each author. Submissions should specify the theoretical/methodological approach of the study and also how it resonates with the special issue on friction. Selected authors will be invited to submit a full manuscript, which will undergo an initial review by the guest editors. Papers that meet the special-issue submissions standards will then undergo a full blind-review process by Information, Communication & Society. Selected papers are not guaranteed publication in the special issue. Timeline: * Abstracts due - May 15, 2023 * Notification of acceptance of proposals - May 23, 2023 * Deadline for full papers - August 25, 2023 * Peer review - August to December 2023 * Anticipated publication - mid-2024 Interested authors should send their submissions and author bios to the special issue guest editors: Pawel Popiel (ppopiel(a)asc.upenn.edu<mailto:ppopiel@asc.upenn.edu>) and Krishnan Vasudevan (kvasu(a)umd.edu<mailto:kvasu@umd.edu>). Editors: Pawel Popiel is a George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. His work focuses on the political economy and regulation of digital media and communication technologies. His work has been published in journals like Information, Communication & Society, Policy & Internet, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Journal of Digital Media & Policy, and in edited books. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Krishnan Vasudevan is an assistant professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Krishnan's critical scholarship on design, labor practices and journalism has been published in New Media & Society, Journalism Studies and other reputable publications. His 2022 documentary feature, One Driver, One Mic about taxi driver activism, was an official selection at the 2023 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and will be distributed through Collective Eye Films. Pawel Popiel, PhD George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/pawel-popiel https://pawelpopiel.com/

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PROPEC/FAPESP/UFS No. 02/2023 PUBLIC NOTICE – Selection Process of Post-Doctoral Fellowship
by Regulação UFS FAPESP 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

Dear Air Team, We request wide dissemination of the following Notice: PROPEC/FAPESP/UFS No. 02/2023 PUBLIC NOTICE – Selection Process of Post-Doctoral Fellowship The Coordination of the Graduate Program in Economics at the Federal University of Sergipe, considering the availability of 01 (one) Post-Doctoral fellowship in a project financed by FAPESP - São Paulo Research Foundation, makes public the opening of applications for the selection process of 01 (one) candidate for Post-Doctorate, with a stipend funded by FAPESP - São Paulo Research Foundation – PROPEC/FAPESP/UFS N° 02/2023 PUBLIC NOTICE – Selection Process of Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Submission of applications - From 06/04/2023 to 03/05/2023 until 23:59 Detailed information about the process can be found in the public notice below: Public notice: https://www.sigaa.ufs.br/sigaa/public/programa/noticias_desc.jsf?lc=pt_BR&i… FAPESP Opportunities: https://fapesp.br/oportunidades/5936/ <https://fapesp.br/oportunidades/5936/> Prof. César Ricardo Siqueira Bolaño, PhD Researcher Responsible for the Project UFS/FAPESP

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PhD position in equity in computer science education
by Jill Walker Rettberg 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

The computer science department at the University of Bergen is hiring a PhD student to study equity in computer science education, and I am guessing some people on this list may be or know good applicants. The job comes out of the computer science department’s discovery that women got worse grades on the intro to programming course all first year students in the natural sciences have to take. They looked at the exam, and saw that women score just as well on almost all tasks – but did significantly worse on a question asking them to make a program analysing soccer results, even though the mechanics of what was being asked was the same as other questions asking them to use weather data or other less socially gendered data. This PhD is part of a project the computer science department is putting togther to address this problem. The PhD candidate’s project would involve identifying how to contribute to inclusion in computer science education at the university, e.g. looking at * Analysis of the impact of assessment design with regard to gender differences in: test performance, experiences of study, and identification with the discipline in CS education. * How does difference (e.g. age, ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, class or socioeconomic status, and/or family experience with higher education) affect experiences and outcomes of participating in specific teaching and learning activities or assessments. * Gender differences in the teaching assistants’ practices and interactions within instructional teams. * Accessibility and universal design for learning in computer science. * Investigation and/or comparative analysis of inclusive teaching practices in computer science higher education in Norway / Scandinavia. * Investigation of other equity issues in instruction, such as material-structural access to machines / lab settings, instructional culture, or hidden curriculum in computer science education. You don’t necessarily need an masters degree in computer science to apply, although you would need to have completed a masters degree by August 1, 2023 in either informatics, computer science, a related natural science field or a field related to STEM education. You need sufficient experience with a programming language to contribute to teaching the first-year programming course is a requirement, but they also need someone who has experience with social science/humanities research. Norwegian PhD candidates are employees with a proper salary and are members of the Norwegian welfare system with all its benefits. This will be a four-year contract. Please share widely! Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture University of Bergen http://jilltxt.net

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Updates! #CFP Contested Visibilities | ECREA DCC, GSC and VC sections | Lisbon
by Ana Marta M. Flores 13 Apr '23

13 Apr '23

Dear all, We send this email about the ECREA off-year conference "Contested Visibilities: Everyday politics and online imaginaries of the body”, co-organised by the Digital Culture and Communication, Gender, Sexuality and Communication and Visual Cultures sections and their YECREA representatives. The event will now have the keynotes confirmed and information about fees. Contested Visibilities will occur at Lusófona University, in Lisbon (Portugal), from 6-8 September 2023. Further information is below. If you have any questions or need any kind of information, please let us know. On behalf of Contested Visibilities organisation team, Ana Marta M. Flores Ana Marta M. Flores <http://www.anamartaflores.com/> Communication Officer ECREA DCC section —-------- Contested Visibilities: Everyday politics and online imaginaries of the body co-organised by the Digital Culture and Communication, Gender, Sexuality and Communication and Visual Cultures ECREA’s sections and their YECREA representatives. 6-8 September 2023, Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal Contested Visibilities: Everyday politics and online imaginaries of the body While in the early days of the internet, the digital was often seen as purely virtual and detached from the experience of human embodiment, our current online landscape has challenged this view. Social media seems to have awakened the urge to share images of our bodies. These shared visual representations contribute to the creation of individual and collective identities. They are tools of meaning-making and belonging in a highly mediatised world. Their visibility can be part of advertising campaigns, everyday interactions, intimate practices, activist engagement and many other affective practices. These are situated in digital cultures of affect and their inherent normativity is governed not only by social norms but also by the particular possibilities and algorithmic rules of platforms. Contested online environments have also become terrain for contemporary social justice movements and activists who both respond to and use online visual representations for their actions. These hybrid activist practices rely on embodied representations and combine online and offline activities. While online spaces enable important visibility, this visibility also carries risks and raises questions about who prefers not to be visible and what practices of resistance can be adopted. Digital participation is inextricably linked to embodied characteristics (e.g., gender, ethnicity, social class, age, (dis)ability or others). These intersecting identities can shape digital experiences enabling them to both liberate and oppress individuals and communities. Keynote speakers - Daniela Jaramillo-Dent | University of Zurich Daniela Jaramillo-Dent is an internet scholar with research and teaching expertise on migration, digital media, and social justice. Her research has explored algorithmic (in)visibility, minority representation and inequality in digital platforms. She has contributed to and held leadership roles in research projects at the local, national and European levels. She has international teaching experience in fields related to digital inequality, research methods and media literacy and has led teaching innovation projects and training workshops for innovative teaching in Higher Education. - Marloes Geboers | University of Amsterdam Marloes Geboers’ work revolves around the visuality of warfare as produced within and through platforms and their fast-evolving participatory modalities. Her dissertation focused on platform affective affordances and their role in constructing regimes of visibility relating to the Syrian war. Alongside these topics, she authored work on platform-afforded digital violence aimed at journalists. She blends digital methods and automated image analyses in order to study performative expressions that replicate, imitate or subvert propaganda narratives in more or less tactical ways. These user practices shape and are shaped by platform vernaculars that have a profound impact on the way we see and experience war within contemporary media ecologies. Marloes has a background in political science (MA) and journalism (BA), and she has teaching experience in digital methods and the ethics of AI. Katrin Tiinberg | Tallinn University Katrin Tiidenberg works at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School of Tallinn University as a Professor of Participatory Culture. Her research focuses on the hows and whys of people's social media practices, with a particular emphasis on visuality, sex and political participation. The overarching questions she tends to ask are about identity, community, norms and power. She is currently wrapping up a research project on the platformization of sexuality (Rethinking Sexuality) and the role of the internet in young people’s political participation (DigiGen) and has just started a project on visual digital trust (TRAVIS). Call for Papers The conference will include different formats for presentation on topics related to contested visibilities, everyday politics and online imaginaries of the body. We welcome individual submissions for oral presentations, which will be arranged in thematic sessions by the organising team. We also welcome submissions in alternative and creative formats, proposals may include video, audio, images, text, hyperlinks and multimedia that illustrate your reflections in the proposal. We are interested in abstracts that address the complexity of online representations of bodies and/or related visual practices (e.g., producing, perceiving, curating, circulating) through case studies, theoretical, empirical or methodological approaches. We strongly encourage submissions that take an intersectional approach and address embodiment in relation to social factors such as gender, sexuality, age, class, race/ethnicity, disability, and nationality. We are open to contributions from scholars at all career stages (early-career scholars are especially invited to participate), artists, activists, and media producers. We look forward to submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics: * The use of digital media for feminist, queer, anti-racist, anti-ageist, anti-ableist, anti-classist, neurodiversity, or illness-related activism and the returning critique of the normative body; * Reactionary visualities to the above activism and hate speech/imaginaries "against the woke"; * The intertwinement of socio-cultural imaginaries with platform cultures; * Chances and limits of hybridisation of commercial culture, strategies of self-branding and body activism; * Practical experiments with methods attuned to the 'online-groundedness' of social body images (e.g., body-image dominated platforms such as TikTok or Instagram); * Impact of online representation of bodies in various fields such as sports, memory cultures, advertising, fan/pop cultures, etc; * Augmented technologies of filtering, avatars and their significance for identity and meaning-making; * Images shared without consent, images that reproduce stereotypes and resistance by minority communities; * Images produced by media and news organisations as part of their work, which are ultimately criticised for 'othering'/stereotyping communities, and the activism involved; * Online communities as sites of political pedagogy and critique of mainstream/traditional media's stereotyping of the body; * Dialectical dialogues about the body in the online sphere: metadiscourses, beefs, videos about videos, Tiktok reframings; * Gendered and sexua(lised) digital/online representations of embodied diversity, difference and intersectionality; * Critical analysis of the relationships between digital spheres and gendered and sexual(ised) performativity, resistance and defiance; * Representations of bodies in relation to technology and artificial intelligence; Abstracts Please submit your proposal (300-500 words) until 15 May, 23:59 (CET) using the form at <https://bit.ly/ContestedVisibilities> and highlight how your work relates to the conference topic, methods used, and perspectives you would like to bring to the discussion. In addition to the thematic sessions, the conference will also facilitate practical tutorials dedicated to creative/situated/ethical approaches to digital platforms and visual data. Workshop In addition, our YECREA team offers an online pre-conference workshop for early-career scholars focusing on research challenges (ethics, data access, collection, analysis etc.) via Zoom on Monday, 4 September 2023. This event will offer ECRs the opportunity to present their work in progress. If you wish to participate in the ECR pre-conference event, please submit an abstract of 200-300 words at <https://bit.ly/workshopContestedVisibilities>, briefly describing your current project and research challenges, e.g. in regard to research ethics, data collection, access, or analysis. The accepted participants will engage in facilitated peer discussions based on their submissions. Participation in the pre-conference YECREA workshop can be independent of participation in the conference. Please indicate how you would like to participate by 15 May, 23:59 (CET). Participation in the online workshop is free of charge. Fees The fee includes buffet lunches and tea/coffee breaks during the three-day conference. non-members 100€ ECREA members and Lusófona students 80€ Early career Researchers 60€ Registration opens in early July and will be processed via the Eventbrite platform. Organisation This ECREA conference is co-organised by the Digital Culture and Communication, Gender, Sexuality and Communication and Visual Cultures sections and their YECREA representatives. Hosted and sponsored by Lusófona University. The conference is partially supported by funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement Nº 101059460. For questions, please send an email to <ContestedVisibilities2023[at]gmail[dot]com> More info at <https://dccecrea.wordpress.com> and < https://www.ecrea.eu/event-5192002?CalendarViewType=1&SelectedDate=9/13/2023 > Important dates * The deadline for submissions for abstracts is Monday 15 May 2023, 23:59 (CET). * We will notify all contributors if their proposal has been accepted or not by the end of June. * Registration for the conference will be open in early July. * The event will take place on 6-8 September 2023, at Lusófona University Lisbon.

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CFP: HCI for Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation - IFIP WG 13.8 Workshop @ Interact 2023
by Jose Abdelnour-Nocera 13 Apr '23

13 Apr '23

Call for papers This IFIP WG 13.8 workshop on HCI for Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation will take place preceding INTERACT2023, in York, UK, on 28 or 29 August 2023 (TBC). Online attendance will be allowed. https://ifipwg138.wordpress.com/hci-democracy/ Motivation This workshop will explore and discuss how Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as a field of knowledge and practice can contribute to develop platforms for digital democracy and participation. These issues are mainly seen at two levels: (1) the optimal design of the digital environment of citizen participation platforms, and (2) explore how HCI can contribute to the development of new trends in Political Science, such as e-democracy. The practice of designing digital platforms for citizen participation and democracy could benefit greatly from a multidisciplinary sociotechnical approach that incorporates into design reflection on issues of democratic theory and practice, legal and political science. Researchers have sought to articulate design patterns and evaluation tools for these platforms with general perspectives on the democraticity of the processes they sustain. But citizen participation systems give rise to specific problems related to usability and user experience. The user is both the institution, company, formal, and informal collective, as well as the subjects that interact with these platforms. This workshop proposes a multidisciplinary exploration and discussion about design of digital platforms for citizen participation and democracy, including issues such as the necessary digital and technological resources, typology of tools that allow communication (to share knowledge), create community (to find and integrate individuals into a collective) and cooperation between individuals (to achieve common community goals), legality of the decisions taken in these platforms or subjective trust in their general function. The target audience for this workshop includes researchers and practitioners from different disciplines working on topics related to Digital Democracy and Citizen Participation in HCI. Early-stage researchers and PhD students are also encouraged to submit work-in-progress papers. Topics of Interest We look for position papers trying to answer one or more of the following questions: How can different approaches towards sociotechnical and interaction design pro-mote or undermine democratic participation? What are the best design patterns and requirements that lead to effective platforms for Digital Democracy and Participation? How can digital democracy platforms be evaluated? What are the best tools and methods to support communication, community formation and deliberation in democratic processes? Design thinking and innovation: how the design process should be led by democratic requirements and not by technology affordances? How to identify forms of democracy and associated practices through the presenta-tion of relevant case studies. How to identify and assess the nature and type of citizen participation in the pro-cess of design of these platforms. Workshop Objectives In this workshop, we understand the above issues as sociotechnical in nature and aim to trace the cultural and political dynamics that drive the design of this type of platforms. More concretely, we solicit position papers that help us fulfil the following objectives: To help develop a framework of HCI to be applied in e-democracy and participatory processes. Collect examples and experiences of digital democracy platforms. Collecting examples and experiences that show that the field of HCI can be beneficial in the design and development of digital platforms for citizen decision processes Formulate a research agenda for future work on digital democracy research on HCI. Expected Outcomes The workshop will produce a research agenda for studying the optimum development of digital platforms for e-democracy processes through a HCI lens, and how best to understand and analyze them. The aim with this research agenda is to stimulate further research interest and provide direction for critical research on HCI apply to design digital participatory platforms. In addition, extended versions of the workshop papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS series as a volume collecting papers from the INTERACT 2023 workshops and in a special issue in the Interacting with Computers journal. Submission Procedure Please submit your position paper of four pages in the INTERACT 2021 proceedings format to Jose Abdelnour-Nocera at abdejos[at]uwl.ac.uk Deadline: 31st of May 2023 Notification of Acceptance: 8th of June 2023 Each submission will be reviewed by two reviewers from the larger IFIP TC13.8 community. Participation in the workshop requires an accepted position paper. Organizing Committee The workshop is organized by IFIP TC13 WG13.8 – Interaction Design for International Development. The organizers are: José Abdelnour Nocera is professor in Sociotechnical Design and Head of the Sociotechnical Group for Innovation and User Experience at the University of West London. He is the current Chair for IFIP TC13 WG13.8 and the British Computer Society Sociotechnical Specialist Group. His interests lie in the sociotechnical and cultural aspects of stakeholder diversity in systems design. Estela Peralta is Senior Lecture in Design Engineering at the University of Sevilla (Spain). Her research focuses on development smart environment and products adapted to the human factor, considering biomechanical, cognitive, and environmental aspects, for any type of population, including people with special needs Lene Nielsen is associate professor at IT university Copenhagen (Denmark). She current research democratically owned enterprises, their use of technology, and the way they govern the business. As member of Forum on IT and Cooperative Governance (FITCG) she researched democratic entrepreneurship for the Danish Parliament that resulted in suggestions for new legislation to further cooperatives in Denmark. Juan José Gómez Gutiérrez is Lecturer in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the University of Sevilla (Spain). His research focuses on art and politics, including critical urban theory, cultural policies, the high and the low in art and hegemony. Professor José Abdelnour Nocera School of Computing and Engineering Head of Sociotechnical Group for Innovation and User Experience University of West London St Mary’s Road, Ealing – London W5 5RF

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