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CfP - ICWSM 2023 Workshop: Mediate - News Media and Computational Journalism Workshop
by Arkaitz Zubiaga 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mediate 2023: Mediate - News Media and Computational Journalism Workshop co-located with ICWSM 2023 Limassol, Cyprus, June 5, 2023 https://digitalmediasig.github.io/Mediate2023/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mediate2023 Papers due: March 27, 2023 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The fourth MEDIATE workshop will be held on June 5, as part of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). The main goal of the workshop is to bring together media practitioners and technologists to discuss new opportunities and obstacles that arise in the modern era of information diffusion. This year's theme is: Misinformation: automated journalism, explainable and multi-modal verification and content moderation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Automated journalism: novel automated and human-in-the-loop solutions for rumour detection/verification, fact-checking, stance classification, evaluation of existing solutions and novel relevant applications. Submitted papers should describe how their advantages would lead to being adopted in practice by journalists and the public (e.g. improved generalisability, ability to provide explanations, reduced bias) and address ethical considerations. - Explainable and Multi-modal verification: explainable rumour verification systems, evidence-based solutions, uncertainty and prediction explainability and general interpretable and transparent AI-systems, as well as multi-modal rumour verification/fact-checking models, sources and data, non-textual and multi-modal features. - Content Moderation: novel content moderation systems for inhibiting misinformation spreading, domain-specific content moderation solutions as well as content moderation systems that showcase generalisability and are interpretable. We invite submissions of technical papers and talk proposals: - Technical papers must be up to 4 pages (short papers) or up to 8 pages (long papers). Technical papers must contain novel, previously-unpublished material related to the topics of the workshop. Accepted papers will be presented orally and will appear in the workshop proceedings. - Talk proposals must be up to 2 pages describing the content of a short talk (the actual length will be determined based on program constraints). Papers must adhere to the ICWSM guidelines ( https://www.icwsm.org/2023/index.html/call_for_submissions.html#guidelines) and be submitted through easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mediate2023) Organizing committee Talia Tseriotou, Queen Mary University of London Dina Pisarevskaya, Queen Mary University of London Elena Kochkina, Alan Turing Institute Marya Bazzi, Alan Turing Institute & University of Warwick Maria Liakata, Alan Turing Institute & Queen Mary University of London Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London Programme Committee TBA All questions about submissions should be emailed to t.tseriotou(a)qmul.ac.uk, d.pisarevskaya(a)qmul.ac.uk and mbazzi(a)turing.ac.uk

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#CFP | Contested Visibilities: Everyday politics and online imaginaries of the body | ECREA DCC, GSC and VC sections
by Ana Marta M. Flores 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

Dear all, We are happy to announce 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 take place at Lusófona University, in Lisbon (Portugal), from 6-8 September 2023. Further information is below. On behalf of the organisation team, Ana Marta M. Flores <http://www.anamartaflores.com/> Communication Officer ECREA DCC section —-------- **CALL FOR PAPERS** 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. 6-8 September 2023, Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal 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. Format 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. **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/2023/02/24/contested-visibilities> **Timeline** * The deadline for submissions 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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WEBCAST FEB 28 – Can Regulators Handle the Mastodons of the World?
by Joly MacFie 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

Not an ISOC webcast, but featuring our own KK in his new role with the Lisbon Council. As far as Masto goes, it seems techpolicy.social <https://techpolicy.social/public/local> is where it's at! <https://isoc.live/16371>On *Tuesday February 28 2023* at *16:00-17:00 CET* (15:00-16:00 UTC) the *Center for Data Innovation <https://datainnovation.org/>* hosts a panel '*Can Regulators Handle the Mastodons of the World? <https://datainnovation.org/2023/02/can-regulators-handle-the-mastodons-of-t…>*'. The last few years have seen tremendous growth in decentralized Internet services, but policymakers have mostly designed Internet regulations for centralized services. Recent laws, including the *Digital Services Act <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act>* and the *Online Safety Bill <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Bill>*, provide more questions than answers on how they would potentially affect decentralized platforms. *PANEL* *Neil Chilson*, Senior Research Fellow for Tech and Innovation, Stand Together *Konstantinos Komaitis*, Non-Resident and Senior Researcher, Lisbon Council *Gina Neff*, Executive Director, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy *MODERATOR* *Kir Nuthi*, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Data Innovation *LIVESTREAM https://www.youtube.com/live/ze_003PRfTw <https://www.youtube.com/live/ze_003PRfTw>* *ASK QUESTIONS VIA SLIDO https://bit.ly/3mfTZTx <https://bit.ly/3mfTZTx>* *TWITTER @DataInnovation #mastodon <https://bit.ly/3xU6N4R> @kirtinuthi @neil_chilson @kkomaitis @ginasue #activitypub #netgov #CoMo #OnlineSafety* *MASTODON #datainnovation <https://mastodon.social/tags/datainnovation> @datainnovation@mastodon.online **@kkomaitis@techpolicy.social* *Permalink https://isoc.live/16371 <https://isoc.live/16371>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023): Fourth Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

*** Fourth Call for Papers *** 7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023) September 13-15, 2023, 5* St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/ Submissions due: May 1, 2023 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS; Best Paper Award sponsored by Springer with 300 EUR) “Internet for Survival”: How the effective and democratic evolution of the Internet towards an infrastructure/ecosystem supporting resilience and equality depends on deeply intertwined considerations rooted in technological, social and economic sciences. INSCI is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scholars and practitioners at the intersection of technological, social and economic sciences seeking to learn how the Internet can be used to make our world a better place. Its insights are expected to create a better understanding of this complex socio-technical system we call “Internet”, for instance to inform political decisions on the technological priorities for public funding and to drive a more sustainable and equitable development of the innovation and social ecosystems it supports. INSCI welcomes fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research, including policy- oriented studies and works offering technological solutions, that investigate the role of Internet for sustainable development, social and economic resilience, collective intelligence, reliable information processing and protection, and, more generally, for a holistic understanding of societal transformations, governance shifts and innovation quests. INSCI welcomes works done in interdisciplinary teams that may include computer scientists, sociologists, policy makers, economists, designers and artists, or complex system scholars, among others, preferably uniting expertise from social, economic and technical sciences. This kind of work is expected to close the gap between societal / economic impact and requirements and technological developments, seen as both drivers and consequences of each other. Thus, INSCI 2023 welcomes submissions to a wide range of topics including but not limited to the following list. TOPICS Green, Sustainability, and Innovation • The challenges of Responsible Research and Innovation on Internet solution • The technological, social and economic benefits of Transnational and Inter-Cultural Projects • Internet solutions supporting Environmental policies related to Climate Change • Green Computing in a holistic perspective: trade-offs of computing power, social benefits, economic and environmental impacts (e.g. blockchains) • Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Novel Platforms for alternative distributed economic models • Distributed environmental awareness: creating a collective consciousness of environmental issues and possible solutions at individual and collective level. Collective intelligence, sensing and action • Energy optimisation from from networked production to shared consumption, relying on top-down and bottom-up approaches • Networks for circular economy models: conceiving and putting in place platforms and solutions effectively supporting circular and social economy models, collaborative making, art and creativity. Enabling Technologies, Applications and Infrastructures • Social implications of Reinforcement Algorithms, Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems • Feasibility and social /economic aspects of Algorithms for mediation content • Data Sovereignty and inclusion aspects of Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing • Recommender, Adaptive and Context Aware Systems: design, social and inclusion aspects, feasibility and adoption • Networking and Wireless Systems as enablers: inclusion, health, privacy and pervasiveness aspects • People-driven Internet Technologies and Applications, including Collaborative Platforms & Social Search, Open Data and New Interfaces Societal Structures • How will Internet of Things change Society and interaction models • Digital Competences and Participation • Virtual Communities and Behavioural Patterns: how are they affected by the technological platforms being used • Knowledge, Education, Technology Enhanced Learning, and Societal Web Impact on Internet Evolution • Offline and Online Human Behaviour with Emphasis on Social Media and Online/ER/ VR Interactions Digital Politics and Governance • Internet and Political Participation • Online Political Freedoms in Policing and in Effect: Regional and Local Perspectives, technological impacts and requirements • Citizen Involvement into Decision-Making: Platforms, Actors, and Experiences • Political Discussions Online: Issues and Groups Behind Them, technical and collaborative solutions to moderate them • E-governance Practices of Today’s Authorities across the world • Internet regulation: Security vs. Openness Free Communication Patterns and Democracy • Freedom of Speech Online: a Contested Area of Policing • Algorithms as New Total Communicative Power • Extremist and Radical Talk Online and Policies or socio-Technical solutions to counteract it • Universal Internet Freedoms vs. Dark Web • Participatory Democracy and Budgeting: citizens’ involvement in democratic processes, for more equal and inclusive resource allocation • Cognitive, Psychological Aspects and Incentive Mechanisms for online Engagement, Collaboration and Participation (smart citizenship, e-literacy, participation skills, decision support and recommendations for informed citizens and collective actions) • E-Democracy and E-Participation: risks and opportunities, lessons learnt from currently deployed solutions (e.g. e-voting, Decidim) • Reliable online information: collaborative models and processes to produce/qualify online information (e.g. post-truth Practices Online, filter bubble and fact checking), for health (e.g. vaccination), democracy (international decision-making, political campaigns, opinion and sentiment modelling, governmental censure and influence), economy (product labelling, ethical marketing), safety of online ecosystems (children protection, fake news, digital rebels) • Crowdsourcing: implications, enablers Sustainable Network Economy • Legal, economic, technological and innovation hurdles related to Intellectual Property and the Digital Commons • New Collaborative Markets Analytics • Economic Power of Online Platforms: Expropriation of Digital Labour, Open Data solutions and their applicability • Digital Corporations: World Leaders and Regional Alternatives • Analogous Elites, Technological Precariat • Digital Professions and Reshaping of Online Labour Markets • New decentralised economic models: enabling and sustaining a distributed ecosystem of platforms and solutions intrinsically respectful of privacy, self- disclosure and digital sovereignty • The consumer perspective: unlawful profiling, discrimination and lock-in, automated contracts and warranties Global Access Opportunities • Internet Resilience: Defining/Comparing non-disconnection Technologies, Monitoring Approaches and Internet Governance Models ensuring resiliency and citizens’ empowerment and sovereignty • Global and Local Faces of Today’s Digital Divide • Comparing existing and future Open Distance Education and Life-long Learning Environments on online/Virtual Reality Platforms, Practices Around the World • Global Media Online: Translation and Language Divide • Empowerment of Disabled with New Body Extensions • Post-human and Tech-human Individuals and Societies Data Sharing and Protection • Data Openness vs. User Protection: tech and social aspects of open data policies • Limits of Privacy and Anonymization, their dependance on technological solutions and intended applications • Clouds, Big Data and Data Protection Regulation vs. knowledge sharing and open innovation • Global Tech Powers and Alternative Solutions based on decentralisation • Open Science and Access to Scientific Production: technological enablers, platform governance, economic and innovation aspects IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of Papers: May 1, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Decision: July 1, 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: July 15, 2023 • Author Registration Deadline: July 15. 2023 PAPER REQUIREMENTS All submitted papers must: • Describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere • Be written in English and be submitted in PDF format • Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses • Be formatted according to the Springer’s LNCS format Proceedings template: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html • Contain three to seven keywords characterizing the paper, to be indicated at the end of the abstract • Be submitted via the conference system in EasyChair, using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=insci2023 Full paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). We encourage a length of 12 pages for full papers. The Program Committee reserves the right to accept a submission as a short paper. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding the submission page limits or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. SELECTION All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international Program Committee, with a mix of social, economic and technological expertise. The review process will be single-blind. Selection will be based on: • Degree of interdisciplinarity (between social, economic and/or technical sciences) • Novelty and technical merit • Relevance of the generated insights for the future Internet development The best paper will be sponsored with 300 EUR by Springer. CAMERA-READY Camera-ready submissions should be corrected by following the remarks of the reviewers and submitted using the same submission link in zip format including: • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in pdf format • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in editable sources format • The Consent to Publish signed in ink and scanned to image file PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be presented at INSCI2023 and published in the conference proceedings volume, which will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of selected best papers from the conference will be contacted in order to consider submission of an expanded version of their papers for publication in a special issue to be organised with an accredited journal (under negotiation). ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Vasileios Mezaris, Information Technologies Institute, Greece • Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG CONNECT, Belgium Steering & Program Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/committees/

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Talk: "Emergent Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models"
by Nicholas Proferes 27 Feb '23

27 Feb '23

Hello all, ASU's interdisciplinary data-science research group, B²C², will be hosting a public Zoom talk --this Thursday (3/2) at 1pm MST-- from Dr. Taylor Webb (UCLA) on emergent analogical reasoning in large language models. The event is free, though registration is required. When: Thursday, March 2nd at 1PM MST (20:00 UTC) Location: Zoom Registration Link: https://asu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrcu-qrDIoH9wsqUB2CW-imRZldf5qIznP Who: Dr. Taylor Webb, UCLA Title: Emergent Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models Abstract: The recent advent of large language models — large neural networks trained on a simple predictive objective over a massive corpus of natural language — has reinvigorated debate over whether human cognitive capacities might emerge in such generic models given sufficient training data. Of particular interest is the ability of these models to reason about novel problems zero-shot, without any direct training on those problems. In human cognition, this capacity is closely tied to an ability to reason by analogy. Here, we performed a direct comparison between human reasoners and a large language model (GPT-3) on a range of analogical tasks, including a novel text-based matrix reasoning task closely modeled on Raven's Progressive Matrices. We found that GPT-3 displayed a surprisingly strong capacity for abstract pattern induction, matching or even surpassing human capabilities in most settings. Our results indicate that large language models such as GPT-3 have acquired an emergent ability to find zero-shot solutions to a broad range of analogy problems. Bio: Dr. Taylor Webb is a postdoctoral scholar in the UCLA Department of Psychology, working with Keith Holyoak, Hongjing Lu, and Hakwan Lau. His research is situated at the interface between cognitive science and AI, with a particular emphasis on using neural network techniques to build cognitive models that are grounded in real-world perceptual inputs. Looking forward to seeing you there, Nicholas Nicholas Proferes, PhD Assistant Professor School of Social and Behavioral Sciences New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Arizona State University

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"Digital Methods for Critical Consumer Studies" Summer School, 2nd edition - Call for applications
by Alessandro Gandini 27 Feb '23

27 Feb '23

Apologies for cross-posting \\ We are pleased to announce the second edition of the “Digital Methods for Critical Consumer Studies” Summer School, which will take place on 24-28 July 2023 at Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy. The DMCCS school The overarching scope of the Summer School is to introduce students to the basic Digital Methods’ concepts, strategies, techniques, and tools, as well as to stimulate them to apply such methodological arrays to consumer-related topics. In doing so, the School aims at fostering students' ‘activist’ attitude towards digital data by encouraging them to take seriously the ethics of digital research as well as the redistribution of the social value of digital data to the public. The main topic of the DMCCS23 will be: “Exploring the nexus among surveillance capitalism, consumer culture, and social media” This year the School will be dedicated to the theme of surveillance capitalism and its nexus with consumer culture. Digital platforms such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. configure as ad hoc ‘surveillance devices’ for systematic data extraction from the mass of users they host – data that are used for explicit business purposes (e.g., targeted advertising, development of AI products and services, etc.). To meet their business purposes, platforms not only need an enclosed space where to monitor, track and predict user behaviour; they need to design spaces where to constrain users’ activities into standardised patterns of action in order to make their behaviours predictable. Social media like Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok seem particularly suited for this purpose, since they provide users with free tools to produce creative content, create communities and express their identities. All these tools are, yet, purposely designed to capture such social-cultural processes, transform them into data points, and convert them into marketing and business products – for a global and emerging socio-economic model that Shoshana Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism. Specifically, this year, we will address surveillance capitalism empirically through three main lines of research: 1. Mapping imaginaries and practices of surveillance capitalism within social media environments 2. Detecting and mapping the standardization of cultural production on social media (e.g., memetic behaviours) 3. Repurposing surveillance methods for social research purposes as well as exposing mechanisms of surveillance itself. Programme The school will be articulated across 5 days. Mornings will be dedicated to teaching activities, which will be managed by the teaching team and teaching assistants. The afternoons will be dedicated to student activities (overseen by teaching assistants). During the last day of the school students will present their work and receive feedback from directors, teaching assistants, keynote speakers, and fellow colleagues. A final discussion will conclude the School activities. Keynote speakers will be Prof Janice De Negri-Knott (University of Bournemouth) and Dr Sophie Bishop (University of Sheffield). Find the detailed programme here <https://dmcs2023.lakecomoschool.org/programme/>. Call for participation Applications should be sent to alessandro.caliandro(a)unipv.it by 15 March 2023. Applications must entail a CV and presentation letter, containing: a) brief bio; b) interests of research; c) motivation to participate in the Summer School. Further information on the programme, fees and accommodation are available at https://dmcs2023.lakecomoschool.org. Best, The School Directors Alessandro Caliandro (Università degli Studi di Pavia; alessandro.caliandro(a)unipv.it) Alessandro Gandini (Università degli Studi di Milano; alessandro.gandini(a)unimi.it) Guido Anselmi (Università degli Studi di Catania; guido.anselmi(a)unict.it) -- Alessandro Gandini Associate Professor of Sociology University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan @afrontiercity

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GIG-ARTS 2023 - Deadline Extension to 2 March
by Mauro SANTANIELLO 27 Feb '23

27 Feb '23

Dear colleagues, Following requests received by the organizing committee, we are happy to *extend by 4 days* the GIG-ARTS 2023 deadline for abstracts submission. *New deadline: 2 March 2023. * All details at: events.gig-arts.eu/gig-arts2023 Best wishes, Mauro Santaniello (PhD) *Assistant Professor, Internet Governance and Digital PolicyDirector, Internet & Communication Policy Centre (ICPC)* *Scientific Coordinator, Salerno Winter School on Internet Governance (SWING)* *Associate Research Fellow, The United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS)**Visiting Professor, Sciences Po Grenoble* *Department of Business, Management and Information Systems (DISA-MIS)* *Università degli Studi di Salerno * *Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 84084 Fisciano (SA) - Italy * *E. msantaniello(a)unisa.it <msantaniello(a)unisa.it> * *W. http://docenti.unisa.it/mauro.santaniello <http://docenti.unisa.it/mauro.santaniello>* *Skype: internetpolicy * *T. twitter.com/webvoodoo <http://twitter.com/webvoodoo>*

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twitter update
by Shulman, Stu 27 Feb '23

27 Feb '23

It is proving harder to turn off the Twitter APIs than imagined. Data is still flowing and there remains no clear messaging about the launch of the new regime. It seems that operating Twitter itself depends on the API. Many Twitter researchers already have important but understudied collections. For example, these are my "Top 100" largest datasets: https://tinyurl.com/100LargeDatasets. These 100 curated "medium" datasets total 185 million records. I have about 1,000 smaller datasets collected over the last decade. As just one person in a massive ecosystem of disparate collections, my guess is that across all researchers at all institutions there are more highly relevant, valuable, understudied Twitter datasets than academia can fully parse. This is not to say the fight to keep the data flowing and low-cost or free is unimportant. However, take a quick look at my Top 100 then imagine all the data already stored by the academics (especially in computer science departments) who work at a scale 10X-100X of what I do. The key is to create more accessible repositories so that we can support teaching and research with (please forgive me) the "bird in the hand" and not lose hope over unlimited birds in the bush. To that end, if you see a dataset on the list and you want to study it or teach it (maybe both), that is legal, free, and possible on demand via DiscoverText. ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*

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AoIR 2023 panel on Identities, polarisation and fandom
by Sebastian Svegaard 26 Feb '23

26 Feb '23

Dear colleagues! We are working to put together a panel for AoIR around an intersecting theme of fandom & identity, and polarisation & partisanship. How do people form identities and communities online within, besides and against capitalist economics - and in connection or disconnection with their political values? We currently have 2-3 papers and are looking for more contributors. This is deliberately kept very open, as we are interested in getting a wide range on perspectives, but some rough ideas we had were themes such as: - Capitalist clashes in internet culture - Political fandom/fans - Political communication and identities - Intersections of identities in religions, fandoms and politics - Data collection and media consumption intersecting with identity formation - Everything else that might connect to any of the themes Please get in touch if you already have a paper that would like a home, have an idea for a contribution or connection, or just want to hear details about the other papers involved already. We're more than happy to shift ideas around to build something together. References include: Barnes, Renee. (2022.) *Fandom and Polarization in Online Political Discussion*. Palgrave. [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14039-6](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-03… Catucci, Nick. (2022.) “The Two Americas: The *White Lotus* Fans and *Reacher* Fans” in *The Atlantic.* Miller, Lucy. 2020. "*Wolfenstein II* and MAGA as Fandom." In "Fandom and Politics," edited by Ashley Hinck and Amber Davisson, special issue, *Transformative Works and Cultures,* no. 32. [https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1717](https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.171…. Petersen, L. N. (2022). *Mediatized fan play : moods, modes and dark play in networked communities*. Routledge. [https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351001847](https://doi.org/10.4324/978135100184… (edited) Stanfill, M. and Condis, M. (eds.) (2014.) Special edition of Transformative Works and Cultures on Fandom and/as Labor. [https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/view/16](https:… - - - - - - Sebastian F. K. Svegaard Post-doctoral researcher, Queensland University of Technology PhD Media Studies AFHEA MA Musicology

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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): First Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals
by Announce Announcements 26 Feb '23

26 Feb '23

*** First Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals *** 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) (currently pending approval for the 2023 edition) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications • Computational models of social phenomena • Social behaviour • Social network analysis • Semantic web • Collective intelligence • Security, privacy, trust in social contexts • Social recommendation • Social influence and social contagions • Quantifying offline phenomena through online data • Forecasting of social phenomena • Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science • Social media and health behaviours • Social psychology and personality • New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science Digital Humanities • Digital media • Digital humanities • Digital games and learning • Digital footprints and privacy • Crowd dynamics • Digital arts • Digital healthcare • Activity streams and experience design • Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.) Information Management and Information Systems (IS) • Decision analytics • E-Business • Decision analytics • Computational finance • Societal impacts of IS • Human behaviour and IS • IS in healthcare • IS security and privacy • IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts • Service science and IS Natural Language Processing • Web mining and its social interpretations • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining • Opinion mining and social media analytics • Credibility of online content • Computational Linguistics • Mining big social data • Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics • Behaviour change • Positive technology • Personalization for individuals, groups and populations • Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation • Web dynamics and personalization • Privacy, perceived security and trust • Technology and Wellbeing • Ethics of computational research on human behaviour Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) • E-Learning and M-Learning • Open and Distance Learning • User modeling and personalization in TEL • TEL in secondary and in higher education • New tools for TEL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023 . All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity. Please note: • All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages) and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages). • The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices). • Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. • Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. • Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. • Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. • All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing). SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS The Organizing Committee invites proposals for Special Sessions that cover any topic related to BESC. Special Sessions can also cover any other area focusing on challenging open problems of relevance in applications on Behavioural, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing. Papers accepted in the Special Sessions will be included in the same conference volume with those accepted in the main track and will be candidates for being invited to the journal special issues that will be organised for BESC 2023. The proposals for organising Special Sessions should be submitted to the Special Sessions Chairs by the indicated deadline. A proposal should be submitted in PDF, be no longer than 2 pages in length, and contain the following: (i) Title of the proposed Special Session. (ii) Names, affiliations and contact information of the proposers. (iii) Names and affiliations of the Program Committee of the proposed Special Session. (iv) Description of the proposed Special Session, including the covered topics and the rationale as to why it fits into the themes of BESC. (v) A dissemination plan of the CFP for the proposed Special Session that the proposers will undertake, if their proposal is accepted. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of Special Session proposals: 10 April 2023 • Acceptance notification for Special Session proposals: 15 April 2023 • Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023 • Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023 • Author Registration: 1 October 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair • Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs • Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia (taotao.cai AT usq.edu.au) • Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China (yuting AT zhejianglab.com) Doctoral Symposium Chair • Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy Panel and Tutorial Chair • Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China Proceedings Chair • Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs • Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore • Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India Webmaster • Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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