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Survey on HCI methods in academia (please distribute)
by Pierre Fastrez 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

***Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.*** Dear colleagues, We are currently launching a survey on the methods commonly used in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The objective of our study is to measure the extent to which these methods have penetrated academic research in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). Our survey is intended for researchers whose (current or past) research is related to information and communication technology (ICT) or digital technology uses. If you meet this criterion, or know researchers who do, we would be very grateful if you could complete the questionnaire below and share the link within your academic circles. https://limesurvey.uclouvain.be/limesurvey319/index.php/315272?lang=en Completing the questionnaire should take you about 15 minutes. All responses are anonymous. Thank you for your collaboration. Prof. Pierre Fastrez & Prof. Suzanne Kieffer Center for Research in Communication - Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) -- <http://www.uclouvain.be/> Pierre Fastrez <http://www.uclouvain.be/pierre.fastrez> Maître de recherches F.R.S.-FNRS IL&C <http://www.uclouvain.be/ilc> > RECOM <http://www.uclouvain.be/recom> | ESPO <http://www.uclouvain.be/espo> > COMU <http://www.uclouvain.be/comu> Ruelle de la Lanterne Magique, 14 bte 2.03.02 - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Tél. 32 (0)10 47 29 14 - Fax 32 (0)10 47 30 44

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Three Lecturer / Senior Lecturer (Assistant / Associate Prof) Posts at Goldsmiths, University of London
by Mirca Madianou 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

The Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London is hiring three Lecturers / Senior Lecturers (Assistant / Associate Professors) including one on Global Digital Politics - although all posts will be of interest to AoIR members. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (Global Digital Politics): https://jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/l-sl-in-media-communications-and-cultural-s… Closing date for applications: Tuesday 25 April Interview date: weeks beginning Monday 22 May or Monday 29 May Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (Postcolonial Media and Culture): https://jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/l-sl-in-media-comms-cultural-studies-postco… Closing date for applications: Friday 21 April Interview date: weeks beginning Monday 22 May or Monday 29 May Lecturer in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (Culture Industry): https://jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/lecturer-in-media-comms-cultural-studies-cu… Closing date for applications: Tuesday 25 April Interview date: weeks beginning Monday 22 May or Monday 29 May All the above are permanent positions: start date 1 September 2023 Please note the different application deadlines for the three posts. Interviews will take place during the weeks beginning Monday 22 May or Monday 29 May. For further information including job descriptions, person specifications and who to contact for informal discussions about each role, please use the above links or visit https://jobs.gold.ac.uk/job-search.html Professor Mirca Madianou Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6NW UK email: m.madianou(a)gold.ac.uk<mailto:m.madianou@gold.ac.uk> @madianou @madianou@mastodon.social http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/madianou/

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Tik Tok Articles
by Karyn Hollis 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

Hi Everyone— I just wanted to thank those of you who sent articles analyzing Tik Tok to the listserv. What a goldmine! I’ve got a lot of reading to do! And since quite a few of the articles were written by members of AIR, I was thinking that we should put together an anthology of essays. Anybody up for that? Thanks again, Karyn From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 4:04 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Air-L Digest, Vol 225, Issue 5 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.a…<http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. IAMCR Pre-Conference CfP: Climate Mis/Disinformation (Garcia Sara) 2. Position open for an auditing AI project funded by Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab (Debarun Sarkar) 3. 4-year PhD position in Technology and Social Change at Link?ping University (Julia Velkova) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 12:08:27 +0200 From: Garcia Sara <garcias.sara(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] IAMCR Pre-Conference CfP: Climate Mis/Disinformation Message-ID: <CABV2KWSiKcMjHy+=KPVOE6hWWg+s+TwLMfcVGKx6umpwcDE5=g(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Dear colleagues (apologies for cross-posting), We would like to circulate the CfP for IAMCR's Pre-Conference on *Climate Mis/Disinformation in a Post-Factual Era*. *Call for Papers * Download the Climate Mis/Disinformation in a Post-Factual Era CfP <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiamcr.org…<https://iamcr.org/sites/default/files/final-extended-cfp-disinformation-and…>> for more information. Climate change mis/disinformation is fed through well-funded, transnational interest groups, as well as conservative politicians and social media algorithms. These campaigns are currently changing the contours of political communication and blocking effective action. There is a growing body of literature establishing a connection between the global rise of right-wing populism and climate mis/disinformation (Fraune and Knodt, 2018; Gottenhuber and Mulholland, 2019; Hameleers, 2020). Right-wing leaders around the world have joined vested interests and co-opted climate debates as part of their culture wars. Denialist claims go from logical fallacies, fake experts, and conspiracy theories (Cook, Ellerton and Kinkead, 2018) to the fabrication of fake controversies and asking for unrealistic scientific proof (Hansson, 2017). However, in a context of overwhelming scientific evidence about the climate crisis, clear-cut disinformation and denialism are being combined with mere ?inactivism? (Mann, 2021), recurring to more sophisticated techniques that send deterring and misleading messages (Forchtner and Lubarda, 2022). Big-tech firms play a role in this cycle, functioning without proper climate misinformation policies and amplifying climate mis/disinformation on social media. This pre-conference welcomes theoretical and methodological papers that explore the intertwining between climate change mis/disinformation, populism, and vested interests in a post-factual world. *Date and time* Saturday, 8 July 2023 | 09h00 ? 18h30 *Location* Lyon, France (venue to be confirmed) *Participation and Registration* The pre-conference welcomes original and state-of-the-art contributions that broaden the theoretical and/or empirical understanding of climate change mis/disinformation, populism, and vested interests in a post-factual world as well as a variety of methodological approaches. The conference will have a registration cost of ?30. *Keynote Speakers* ? Anabela Carvalho, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) ? James Painter, Reuters Institute, University of Oxford (UK) *Submission guidelines* - Authors should send a 500-word abstract (excluding references) in English to Sara Garc?a Santamar?a, sgarciasanta(a)uoc.edu - Abstract submission deadline: *14 April 2023* - All abstracts must include the title, full name, affiliation, and contact information. - Decisions on acceptance will be communicated by *30 April 2023.* *Organisers* - Marie Grusell (Associate Professor in Journalism Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Chair, Political Communication Research Section - IAMCR). - Sara Garc?a Santamar?a (Postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain; Vice-Chair, Political Communication Research Section - IAMCR). - Guillermo L?pez (Professor and Head of Department, Faculty of Communication at Universitat de Val?ncia, Spain). - Dolors Palau Samp?o (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Communication at Universitat de Val?ncia, Spain). - Eva Campos (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Communication at Universidad de Valladolid, Spain). *Contact email * Sara Garc?a Santamar?a, sgarciasanta(a)uoc.edu -- Dr Sara Garc?a Santamar?a (she/her) Postdoctoral Researcher Universitat Oberta de Catalunya sgarciasanta(a)uoc.edu UOC Av. del Tibidabo, 39 08035 Barcelona (Spain) Vice-chair of the Political Communication Section, IAMCR https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiamcr.org…<https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/pol> <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiamcr.org…<https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/pol>> -- Latest Publications: Caring Ecologies of the New Right and Left: Populist Performances of Care during the Pandemic. *Media and Communication. * https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2…<https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i4.5842> Politicians ?Stay Home?: Left-Wing Populism and Performances of the Intimate Self on Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fojs.meccs…<https://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/638> (open access) Posing with the People: Food Porn and the Far-Right in a Post-Truth Era. In Contois, E. and Kish, X. (Eds.).* #Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation*. https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.press…<https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=58mye9fd9780252044465> Constructing Collective Identities and Solidarity in Premieres' early Speeches on Covid-19 (with Kranert et al.). https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.natur…<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-021-00805-x> (open access) New Book: *Cuba?s Digital Revolution: Citizen Innovation and State Policy *(with Ted Henken). https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fupf.com%2…<https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683402022> <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fupf.com%2…<https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683402022>> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 12:17:24 +0000 From: Debarun Sarkar <debarun(a)outlook.com> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Position open for an auditing AI project funded by Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab Message-ID: <IA1PR20MB6431E2A7BD27BA6EEE3C09C2B7939(a)IA1PR20MB6431.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Looking for an independent computer engineer/researcher to join a team of interdisciplinary researchers working on an auditing AI project funded by Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab Rank and title: Full stack developer/tech lead/computer scientist/engineer/researcher Discipline: Full stack developer, computer science Mode of work: Part-time/remote/flexible Period: 1st June 2023 ? 31st Dec 2023 (7 months) Joining: 1st June 2023 Salary: USD 1,571.4 per month (~INR 1,25,000 per month) (invoiced monthly or quarterly as per preference). There is also a contingency fund for attending international conferences. The work contract will be signed with the University of Notre Dame. We are looking for a full-stack developer to join our team of two independent researchers for a seven-month assignment for the Audit4SG project. The project is funded through a grant by the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab at the University of Notre Dame. Grant and project description link.<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechethic…<https://techethicslab.nd.edu/call-for-proposals/>> Job Description The full-stack developer will work in a team with two domain experts and a designer to develop a proof-of-concept web tool which will build off a knowledge graph/ontology that the domain experts will develop. The responsibility of the developer will be to overlook the transition of the ontology into a proof-of-concept web tool that can query the ontology. They will also coordinate with the designer concerning technical matters of design assets. About the Project The project, Audit4SG: Toward an Ontology of AI Auditing for a Web Tool to Generate Customizable AI Auditing Methodologies for AI4SG, is being led by two principal investigators, Cheshta Arora, PhD (ORCID<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Forcid.org…>), and Debarun Sarkar (ORCID<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Forcid.org…>). Both are independent social science researchers based out of Bengaluru, India. The project aims to develop an ontology of auditing AI, which will be used to build an auditing web tool. The target users of the tool are external AI auditors of AI4SG (AI for Social Good), who will be able to generate customizable AI auditing methodologies. Along with the custom AI auditing methodology generated by the user, the tool will provide the user with a report card noting the pros and cons of the chosen AI auditing methodology. The web tool will be a proof of concept whose underlying ontology will contribute to the field of relational ethics in AI auditing that can account for diverse interests, multi-directional processes, multi-scalar networks of actors, institutions, data, algorithms, infrastructure, values, and knowledges. For heuristic purposes and based on the team?s domain expertise, the project will limit itself to three domains of AI4SG: economic empowerment, education, and equality and inclusion. Experience Application is open to both formally trained or self-trained individuals who can demonstrate the required skills and self-driven initiatives. Skills * Familiarity with front and back-end web development: HTML/CSS/Python/JavaScript/SQL etc. * Knowledge of or familiarity with OWL2/RDF and/or SPARQL is an advantage. * Communication skill is essential to be able to converse across disciplines. (Note: We are not asking for English language skills but for someone interested in communicating/exchanging difficult concepts across disciplines). The team can speak and understand Bengali, English, Hindi and Punjabi. * Academic writing skills are preferred but not necessary. We hope to co-author HCI papers with the engineer. * Interest in the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) or AI ethics is an advantage. Expectations As independent researchers, we work on our rhythm and routine. We do not believe in micromanaging as a team and believe in demonstrating work through output rather than the hours put in. As a developer, you would be catching up with the team on a weekly or fortnightly meeting depending on the intensity and the nature of the work. The developer should be self-driven, able to manage their work themselves, and meet deadlines as needed. Contact for Application Please send in your CV with a cover letter mentioning any relevant portfolio details or links to previous work, including any academic texts (if any). In the cover letter please mention why you would like to join the project. Address the email to both, Cheshta Arora, cheshtaarora[at]outlook[dot]in (ORCID<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Forcid.org…>) and Debarun Sarkar debarun[at]outlook[dot]com (ORCID<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Forcid.org…>). Use the subject line: ?Application for Audit4SG?. We will review the applications on a rolling basis till 15th April until we find someone suitable. Please apply at the earliest for a faster response. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 15:04:28 +0000 From: Julia Velkova <julia.velkova(a)liu.se> To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] 4-year PhD position in Technology and Social Change at Link?ping University Message-ID: <MM0P280MB01522499A49D4D159049A5088B939(a)MM0P280MB0152.SWEP280.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Dear colleagues, We have currently an opening for a fully funded, 4-year PhD position in Technology and Social Change related to my ProFutura Scientia project "When Communication Networks Come to Die - Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Infrastructural Dismantling". The project explores the politics and experiences that arise when communication networks (such as internet infrastructure, platforms, software, data or other kinds of media infrastructure) age, get dismantled or abandoned, and the cultural, political, historical and societal implications of these processes for different actors. The position is located in Link?ping, Sweden at a vibrant, international and interdisciplinary department. Relevant backgrounds for this position include an MA in anthropology, media- and communication studies, STS or related fields. Deadline 2nd of May. Please share! https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fliu.se%2F…<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fl.faceboo…><https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/21686> All the best, Julia ? Julia Velkova, PhD Associate Professor Technology and Social Change | Media and Communication Studies Co-chair DATA LAB<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjuliavelko…<http://juliavelkova.org/data-lab/>> Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change Link?ping University Tel: +46 13 28 40 25 web: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.juliav…<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.juliav…><http://www.juliavelkova.org/> ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2…<http://aoir.org/> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.a…<http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.o…<http://www.aoir.org/> ------------------------------ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 225, Issue 5 *************************************

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4-year PhD position in Technology and Social Change at Linköping University
by Julia Velkova 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, We have currently an opening for a fully funded, 4-year PhD position in Technology and Social Change related to my ProFutura Scientia project "When Communication Networks Come to Die - Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Infrastructural Dismantling". The project explores the politics and experiences that arise when communication networks (such as internet infrastructure, platforms, software, data or other kinds of media infrastructure) age, get dismantled or abandoned, and the cultural, political, historical and societal implications of these processes for different actors. The position is located in Linköping, Sweden at a vibrant, international and interdisciplinary department. Relevant backgrounds for this position include an MA in anthropology, media- and communication studies, STS or related fields. Deadline 2nd of May. Please share! https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/21686<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fliu.se%2Fen%2Fwork-at-liu%2Fva…> All the best, Julia — Julia Velkova, PhD Associate Professor Technology and Social Change | Media and Communication Studies Co-chair DATA LAB<http://juliavelkova.org/data-lab/> Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change Linköping University Tel: +46 13 28 40 25 web: www.juliavelkova.org<http://www.juliavelkova.org>

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Position open for an auditing AI project funded by Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab
by Debarun Sarkar 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

Looking for an independent computer engineer/researcher to join a team of interdisciplinary researchers working on an auditing AI project funded by Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab Rank and title: Full stack developer/tech lead/computer scientist/engineer/researcher Discipline: Full stack developer, computer science Mode of work: Part-time/remote/flexible Period: 1st June 2023 – 31st Dec 2023 (7 months) Joining: 1st June 2023 Salary: USD 1,571.4 per month (~INR 1,25,000 per month) (invoiced monthly or quarterly as per preference). There is also a contingency fund for attending international conferences. The work contract will be signed with the University of Notre Dame. We are looking for a full-stack developer to join our team of two independent researchers for a seven-month assignment for the Audit4SG project. The project is funded through a grant by the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab at the University of Notre Dame. Grant and project description link.<https://techethicslab.nd.edu/call-for-proposals/> Job Description The full-stack developer will work in a team with two domain experts and a designer to develop a proof-of-concept web tool which will build off a knowledge graph/ontology that the domain experts will develop. The responsibility of the developer will be to overlook the transition of the ontology into a proof-of-concept web tool that can query the ontology. They will also coordinate with the designer concerning technical matters of design assets. About the Project The project, Audit4SG: Toward an Ontology of AI Auditing for a Web Tool to Generate Customizable AI Auditing Methodologies for AI4SG, is being led by two principal investigators, Cheshta Arora, PhD (ORCID<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-7783>), and Debarun Sarkar (ORCID<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6873-4727>). Both are independent social science researchers based out of Bengaluru, India. The project aims to develop an ontology of auditing AI, which will be used to build an auditing web tool. The target users of the tool are external AI auditors of AI4SG (AI for Social Good), who will be able to generate customizable AI auditing methodologies. Along with the custom AI auditing methodology generated by the user, the tool will provide the user with a report card noting the pros and cons of the chosen AI auditing methodology. The web tool will be a proof of concept whose underlying ontology will contribute to the field of relational ethics in AI auditing that can account for diverse interests, multi-directional processes, multi-scalar networks of actors, institutions, data, algorithms, infrastructure, values, and knowledges. For heuristic purposes and based on the team’s domain expertise, the project will limit itself to three domains of AI4SG: economic empowerment, education, and equality and inclusion. Experience Application is open to both formally trained or self-trained individuals who can demonstrate the required skills and self-driven initiatives. Skills * Familiarity with front and back-end web development: HTML/CSS/Python/JavaScript/SQL etc. * Knowledge of or familiarity with OWL2/RDF and/or SPARQL is an advantage. * Communication skill is essential to be able to converse across disciplines. (Note: We are not asking for English language skills but for someone interested in communicating/exchanging difficult concepts across disciplines). The team can speak and understand Bengali, English, Hindi and Punjabi. * Academic writing skills are preferred but not necessary. We hope to co-author HCI papers with the engineer. * Interest in the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) or AI ethics is an advantage. Expectations As independent researchers, we work on our rhythm and routine. We do not believe in micromanaging as a team and believe in demonstrating work through output rather than the hours put in. As a developer, you would be catching up with the team on a weekly or fortnightly meeting depending on the intensity and the nature of the work. The developer should be self-driven, able to manage their work themselves, and meet deadlines as needed. Contact for Application Please send in your CV with a cover letter mentioning any relevant portfolio details or links to previous work, including any academic texts (if any). In the cover letter please mention why you would like to join the project. Address the email to both, Cheshta Arora, cheshtaarora[at]outlook[dot]in (ORCID<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-7783>) and Debarun Sarkar debarun[at]outlook[dot]com (ORCID<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6873-4727>). Use the subject line: ‘Application for Audit4SG’. We will review the applications on a rolling basis till 15th April until we find someone suitable. Please apply at the earliest for a faster response.

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IAMCR Pre-Conference CfP: Climate Mis/Disinformation
by Garcia Sara 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

Dear colleagues (apologies for cross-posting), We would like to circulate the CfP for IAMCR's Pre-Conference on *Climate Mis/Disinformation in a Post-Factual Era*. *Call for Papers * Download the Climate Mis/Disinformation in a Post-Factual Era CfP <https://iamcr.org/sites/default/files/final-extended-cfp-disinformation-and…> for more information. Climate change mis/disinformation is fed through well-funded, transnational interest groups, as well as conservative politicians and social media algorithms. These campaigns are currently changing the contours of political communication and blocking effective action. There is a growing body of literature establishing a connection between the global rise of right-wing populism and climate mis/disinformation (Fraune and Knodt, 2018; Gottenhuber and Mulholland, 2019; Hameleers, 2020). Right-wing leaders around the world have joined vested interests and co-opted climate debates as part of their culture wars. Denialist claims go from logical fallacies, fake experts, and conspiracy theories (Cook, Ellerton and Kinkead, 2018) to the fabrication of fake controversies and asking for unrealistic scientific proof (Hansson, 2017). However, in a context of overwhelming scientific evidence about the climate crisis, clear-cut disinformation and denialism are being combined with mere “inactivism” (Mann, 2021), recurring to more sophisticated techniques that send deterring and misleading messages (Forchtner and Lubarda, 2022). Big-tech firms play a role in this cycle, functioning without proper climate misinformation policies and amplifying climate mis/disinformation on social media. This pre-conference welcomes theoretical and methodological papers that explore the intertwining between climate change mis/disinformation, populism, and vested interests in a post-factual world. *Date and time* Saturday, 8 July 2023 | 09h00 – 18h30 *Location* Lyon, France (venue to be confirmed) *Participation and Registration* The pre-conference welcomes original and state-of-the-art contributions that broaden the theoretical and/or empirical understanding of climate change mis/disinformation, populism, and vested interests in a post-factual world as well as a variety of methodological approaches. The conference will have a registration cost of €30. *Keynote Speakers* • Anabela Carvalho, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) • James Painter, Reuters Institute, University of Oxford (UK) *Submission guidelines* - Authors should send a 500-word abstract (excluding references) in English to Sara García Santamaría, sgarciasanta(a)uoc.edu - Abstract submission deadline: *14 April 2023* - All abstracts must include the title, full name, affiliation, and contact information. - Decisions on acceptance will be communicated by *30 April 2023.* *Organisers* - Marie Grusell (Associate Professor in Journalism Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Chair, Political Communication Research Section - IAMCR). - Sara García Santamaría (Postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain; Vice-Chair, Political Communication Research Section - IAMCR). - Guillermo López (Professor and Head of Department, Faculty of Communication at Universitat de València, Spain). - Dolors Palau Sampío (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Communication at Universitat de València, Spain). - Eva Campos (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Communication at Universidad de Valladolid, Spain). *Contact email * Sara García Santamaría, sgarciasanta(a)uoc.edu -- Dr Sara García Santamaría (she/her) Postdoctoral Researcher Universitat Oberta de Catalunya sgarciasanta(a)uoc.edu UOC Av. del Tibidabo, 39 08035 Barcelona (Spain) Vice-chair of the Political Communication Section, IAMCR https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/pol <https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/pol> -- Latest Publications: Caring Ecologies of the New Right and Left: Populist Performances of Care during the Pandemic. *Media and Communication. * https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i4.5842 Politicians “Stay Home”: Left-Wing Populism and Performances of the Intimate Self on Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/article/view/638 (open access) Posing with the People: Food Porn and the Far-Right in a Post-Truth Era. In Contois, E. and Kish, X. (Eds.).* #Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation*. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=58mye9fd9780252044465 Constructing Collective Identities and Solidarity in Premieres' early Speeches on Covid-19 (with Kranert et al.). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-021-00805-x (open access) New Book: *Cuba’s Digital Revolution: Citizen Innovation and State Policy *(with Ted Henken). https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683402022 <https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683402022>

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copyright when teaching across borders--a survey for you!
by Patricia Aufderheide 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

Good Monday morning (DC time) and thank you again if you already took the short-short survey about your experience teaching across borders (e.g. you have a student in another country; you are coteaching with someone in another country; you're teaching in a branch of your university in another country). I hope you're feeling those waves of gratitude. If you haven't, we are so grateful if you can do that now. Here you go! https://american.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_40jQUf6enq5nUCa Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication (she/they) Living and working on unceded lands of Nacotchtank and Piscataway peoples Founder and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Media & Social Impact American University 4400 Massachusetts Av., NW American University, Washington, DC 20016-8017 McKinley Hall 323 @paufder @cmsimpact cmsimpact.org<http://cmsimpact.org> paufder(a)american.edu<mailto:paufder@american.edu> 202-885-2069 office 240-643-4805 mobile Zoom Office Hours: https://american.zoom.us/j/96788556467?pwd=eFNpa2JMWlZQRm5pT1Z0b3RVUlRXQT09 Reclaiming Fair Use--t<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022637419X?pf_rd_p=d1f45e03-8b73-4c9a-9be…>he second edition is out, with new stories, quizzes and entirely new chapters on the surprising success of fair use in enabling creativity!

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[Last call for papers] 2nd Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems
by Bjorn Ross 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

2nd Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems Co-located with ICWSM 2023, 5 June 2023, Limassol, Cyprus https://neatclass-workshop.github.io/ The automatic or semiautomatic analysis of textual data is a key approach to analyse the massive amounts of user-generated content online, from the identification of sentiment in text and topic classification to the detection of abusive language, misinformation or propaganda. However, the development of such systems faces a crucial challenge. Static benchmarking datasets and performance metrics are the primary method for measuring progress in the field, and the publication of research on new systems typically requires demonstrating an improvement over state-of-the-art approaches in this way. Yet, these performance metrics can obscure critical failings in current models. Improvements in metrics often do not reflect improvements in the real-world performance of models. There is clearly a need to rethink performance evaluation for text classification and analysis systems to be usable and trustable. If unreliable systems achieve astonishing scores with traditional metrics, how do we recognise progress when we see it? The goal of the Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems (NEATCLasS) is to promote the development and use of novel metrics for abuse detection, hate speech recognition, sentiment analysis and similar tasks within the community, to better be able to measure whether models really improve upon the state of the art, and to encourage a wide range of models to be tested on these new metrics. Recently there have been attempts to address the problem of benchmarks and metrics that do not represent performance well. For example, in abusive language detection, there are both static datasets of hard-to-detect examples (Röttger et al. 2021) and dynamic approaches for generating such examples (Calabrese et al. 2021). On the platform DynaBench (Kiela et al. 2021), benchmarks are dynamic and constantly updated with hard-to-classify examples, avoiding overfitting a predetermined dataset. However, these approaches only capture a tiny fraction of issues with benchmarking. There is still much work to do. We welcome submissions discussing such new evaluation approaches, introducing new or refining existing ones, promoting the use of novel metrics for abuse detection, sentiment analysis and similar tasks within the community. Furthermore, the workshop will promote discussion on the importance, potential and danger of disagreement in tasks that require subjective judgements. This discussion will also focus on how to evaluate human annotations, and how to find the most suitable set of annotators (if any) for a given instance and task. The workshop will solicit, among others, research papers about * Issues with current evaluation metrics and benchmarking datasets * New evaluation metrics * User-centred (qualitative or quantitative) evaluation of social media text analysis tools * Adaptations and translations of novel evaluation metrics for other languages * New datasets for benchmarking * Increasing data quality in benchmarking datasets, e.g., avoidance of selection bias, identification of suitable expert human annotators for tasks involving subjective judgements * Systems that facilitate dynamic evaluation and benchmarking * Models that perform better at hard-to-classify instances and novel evaluation metrics such as AAA, DynaBench and HateCheck * Bias, error analysis and model diagnostics * Phenomena not captured by existing evaluation metrics (such as models making the right predictions for the wrong reason) * Approaches to mitigating bias and common errors * Alternative designs for NLP competitions that evaluate a wide range of model characteristics (such as bias, error analysis, cross-domain performance) * Challenges of downstream applications (in industry, computational social science and elsewhere) and reflections on how these challenges can be captured in evaluation metrics Format and Submissions We invite research papers (8 pages), position and short papers (4 pages), and demo papers (2 pages). Detailed submission instructions can be found on the workshop website. The workshop will take place as a half-day meeting on 5 June. We are looking forward to an exciting mix of activities including invited talks, paper presentations and a group discussion. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to trial an innovative format for paper presentations: presenters will be given 5 minutes to describe their research questions and hypothesis, and a group discussion will start after that. Then, presenters will be given 5 more minutes to describe their method and results, followed by a new group discussion about the interpretation and implications of such results. The group discussion to bring researchers together and collect ideas for new evaluation approaches and future work in the field. While we would encourage attending the workshop in person, we are also planning to live stream the workshop on Zoom and record talks to allow as many people as possible to participate. Authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to publish their papers through workshop proceedings by the AAAI Press. Submission instructions will be uploaded to the workshop web page in due course: https://neatclass-workshop.github.io/ Timeline * Submission link: TBD – see https://neatclass-workshop.github.io/ * Papers submission deadline: 17 April 2023 * Paper acceptance notification: 30 April 2023 * Final camera-ready paper due: 6 May 2023 * Workshop Day: 5 June 2023 Organisers Björn Ross, University of Edinburgh (Contact: b.ross(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:b.ross@ed.ac.uk>) Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Amazon The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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10 days to apply: Research Fellow position in memories from HIV
by Jaime García Iglesias 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting. Just wanted to draw your attention to this job opportunity at the University of Edinburgh. It's an exciting opportunity for a 0.8FTE (4 days a week), 28-month contract, Research Fellow in the ESRC-funded "Viral Memories: from HIV to COVID-19 and beyond" led by Dr Jaime Garcia-Iglesias from the Usher Institute. You can find all details about this post in the link below and may direct enquiries to jgarcia6(a)ed.ac.uk https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CYN165/research-fellow Applications close on April 13th. Thanks a lot!

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PhD Student Position MCS Uppsala University
by Amanda Lagerkvist 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

Dear All, We are hiring a PhD Student in Media and Communication Studies within the project AI Design Futures (to be headed by WASP-HS Guest Professor Mark Coeckelbergh) in the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=607229 Kind regards, Amanda Lagerkvist Amanda Lagerkvist Professor of Media and Communication Studies PI of the Uppsala Informatics and Media Hub for Digital Existence<https://www.im.uu.se/research/hub-for-digtal-existence> Dept. of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University Box 513, SE- 751 20 Uppsala Office: +46(0)18-471 1522 Mobile: +46(0)73-660 0574 E-mail: amanda.lagerkvist(a)im.uu.se<mailto:amanda.lagerkvist@im.uu.se> Profile page<https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N7-774> New book: Existential Media: A Media Theory of the Limit Situation (Oxford University Press, 2022<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/existential-media-9780190925567?typ…>) När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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