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Twitter API change announcement - mutual aid and response letter invitation
by Libby Hemphill 05 Feb '23

05 Feb '23

Hi y'all, Here's a note from the Coalition for Independent Technology Research <https://independenttechresearch.org/about-us/>: Last week, the Twitter Development team announced dramatic restrictions <https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922> to API access. These changes will disrupt critical projects from thousands of journalists, academics, and civil society actors worldwide who study some of the most important issues impacting our societies today. Is your work affected by this? Even if you are not directly impacted, will you stand up for the people who use this vital information resource for the common good? The Coalition for Independent Technology Research <https://independenttechresearch.org/about-us/> and allies have drafted *an open letter <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AtzYcBaFvcx8-EHGXpPx0qzc5lOAaw95eqUZHi1…>* that will be under press embargo until we publish it at *11am ET on Monday*. We are also *organizing mutual aid for threatened research*. We invite you to: - To receive/give mutual aid, please complete our intake form <https://forms.gle/jH4V6LhfBn38eEhJA>. You do not need to be a letter-signer or coalition member to receive support - Sign the letter <https://forms.gle/jH4V6LhfBn38eEhJA> for yourself and/or your organization (read the letter here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AtzYcBaFvcx8-EHGXpPx0qzc5lOAaw95eqUZHi1…> ) Please do not share the letter or invitation publicly on social media before 11am ET on Monday, but do *please circulate this privately* to communities that would sign, that need help, or can offer it. If you have questions, please direct them to Bit Meehan <bit.coalition(a)gmail.com>. - Libby -- Libby Hemphill pronouns: she/her/hers Director, Resource Center for Minority Data <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/RCMD>, ICPSR <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/> Director, Social Media Archive <http://socialmediaarchive.org/>, ICPSR <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/> Associate Director, Center for Social Media Responsibility <http://csmr.umich.edu/> Research Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research <http://home.isr.umich.edu/> Associate Professor, School of Information <https://www.si.umich.edu/> University of Michigan

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Sample Syllabus for "Intro to Digital Humanities" Course Proposal?
by Cristina Migliaccio 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

Dear Colleagues: I am proposing an "Intro to DH" course in our small, liberal arts college and hoping some of you might share your own as models I might refer to. Thanks in advance for your help! Cristina

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ISP 2023 Call for participation
by Jo PIERSON 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

Dear all, Please find below the Call for Participation of our 5th Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2023<https://isp.cs.ru.nl/>) from June 25-30, Berg en Dal / Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Thanks in advance for spreading the word. Also to be found on Linked-in<https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaap-henk-hoepman_the-5th-interdisciplinary-…> and Twitter<https://twitter.com/xotoxot/status/1618140523470131200>. Best regards, Jo Pierson, PhD Full Professor of Responsible Digitalisation Hasselt University School of Social Sciences Professor Media & Communication Studies Vrije Universiteit Brussel imec-SMIT - Studies on Media, Innovation & Technology =========================================================================== Call for Participation 5th Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2023) June 25-30, 2023, Berg en Dal / Nijmegen (The Netherlands) Theme: "Assessing and mitigating privacy risks in the Internet of Things" https://isp.cs.ru.nl<https://isp.cs.ru.nl/> ============================================================================ We invite doctoral researchers working on privacy, data protection, security, surveillance and ethics to participate in the fifth Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2023) to be held from September June 25-30, 2023 in Berg en Dal (The Netherlands), close to Radboud University (Nijmegen). # Teachers We are extremely happy to offer the following team of teachers for this year's summerschool. - Aphra Kerr (Maynooth University, Ireland) - Didem Ozkul (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey) - Michael Veale (UCL, London, UK) - Bart Preneel (KU Leuven, Belgium) - Ana-Maria Cretu (Imperial College, London, UK) - Marc Langheinrich (Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland) - James Stewart (University of Edinburgh, UK) (with two more teachers to be announced soon) # Background of the summerschool The interdisciplinary summerschool on privacy (ISP) provides an intensive one week academic post-graduate programme teaching privacy from a technical, legal and social perspective. The goal of the summerschool is to provide students with a solid background in the theory of privacy construction, modelling and protection from these three different perspectives. It also aims to help them to establish a first international network with peers and senior academics across these disparate disciplines. Participants of the summerschool are awarded two ECTS (study credits) and receive a certificate of attendance issued by the Radboud University attesting this. For more information [click here<https://isp.cs.ru.nl/>] # Theme: Assessing and mitigating privacy risks in the Internet of Things As a concept, the Internet of Things is perhaps already an anachronism. Already back in 1991 Marc Weiser, in his famous paper on the Computer for the 21st Century wrote: The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it. 'Ubiquitous computing' (ubicomp) or the disappearance of the infrastructure in the background, as predicted by Mark Weiser (1991), through the ubiquitous presence of sensing IoT devices (Dourish & Bell, 2011), is not fulfilled. And yet here we are, well into the 21st century, and the internet of things is getting real: cars are networked supercomputers on wheels, we wear smart watches or fitness trackers, even our fridges are smart and connected, and the virtual and real world are starting to converge as the technology is indeed disappearing and mediating our lives. These technological changes in ubicomp and autonomous systems also fit in with recent scholarly thinking in social sciences. According to Deuze (2012) the key challenge of media and communication studies in the ‘media life’ of the 21st century is, or will be, the disappearance of media, where people increasingly are living ‘in’ media instead of living ‘with’ media. However one of the first ways to conceptualise the merger between media technology and the everyday life can be found with Roger Silverstone, Eric Hirsch and David Morley (1990) proposing the notion of ‘domestication’. Through that process the domesticated digital media technologies disappear into the daily practices. They are not perceived as (savage) technologies anymore but offer ‘ontological security’ as natural extensions of personal interactions and social communication (Giddens, 1990). This gradual shift of people becoming one with their digital environment has later also been highlighted by other scholars in social sciences, through notions like ‘media life’ (Deuze, 2012), ‘mediatization’ (Couldry and Hepp, 2017), the ‘digital condition’ (Stalder, 2018), and ‘liquid surveillance’ (Bauman and Lyon, 2013). A key socio-technical question is then how trust in and dependence of these ubiquitous platforms for mediated communication is configured and the kind of consequences this has for user (dis)empowerment and public values (Pierson, 2021). This steady technology push, perhaps partly made invisible by new hypes like the metaverse, does raise fundamental privacy and autonomy issuers, that will be explored in the summerschool. # Format The summer school is interdisciplinary, involving the following disciplines: computer science, law and social sciences / media and communication studies. The school lasts one week, with nine scheduled lectures (five morning lectures and four afternoon lectures) of two hours each. These nine lectures are equally distributed over the three disciplines, with top-notch lectures from each of the disciplines. The lectures will lay the grounds for an interdisciplinary conversation among students and lecturers coming from a variety of backgrounds. The remaining time is used for hands on working group sessions to study practical cases. The cases will be offered by businesses, governments, government related institutions (like DPAs) and civil society/NGOs. Groups of six students, ideally two from each discipline, are formed to tackle the cases and report back on their results in a plenary session. The school is held in a location that encourages dialogue and social interactions between both the staff and the students, both during lectures and in the evening. Staff (i.e. lecturers) are encouraged to stay at the summer school for the whole length of the school. The summer school is foremost aimed at PhD students from computer science, law and social sciences. # Practical Information The summer school is held at Hotel Erica<http://www.hotelerica.nl/>, Berg en Dal, The Netherlands. The hotel is well equipped and ideally situated in the woods close to Nijmegen, and easily reached by bus from Nijmegen train station. Nijmegen has direct train connections with Schiphol, the Dutch national airport. ## Registration Visit the following web page to register: https://isp.cs.ru.nl/2023/registration.php We offer the following options. - Single room: € 1,229 (late: € 1,429) - Shared room: € 899 (late: € 1,099) - No room (lunch/diner/school only): € 635 (late: € 835) (for local people who do not need accommodation) Payment by credit card accepted. Early registration fees expire on May 1. Admission after May 1 subject to availability. Registration may close earlier if the maximum number of participants (40) is reached. ## Stipends A limited number of stipends is available. To see whether you would qualify for a stipend, and to start the application process, see https://isp.cs.ru.nl/2023/stipends.php ## Contact For further information please consult our website https://isp.cs.ru.nl<https://isp.cs.ru.nl/> or contact us by email at dis-secr(a)cs.ru.nl<mailto:dis-secr@cs.ru.nl> ## Organiser - Jaap-Henk Hoepman (Radboud University /PI.lab) ## Steering Committee - Seda Gürses (TU Delft / KU Leuven) - Eleni Kosta (TILT-Tilburg University / Privacy & Identity Lab) - Jo Pierson (Hasselt University / Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - Thorsten Strufe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / TU Dresden) ## Supported by - PI.lab - The Privacy & Identity Lab. - iHub / Radboud University

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ISOC Foundation 2022 Research Grantees
by Joly MacFie 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

https://www.isocfoundation.org/2023/02/announcing-our-2022-research-grantee… We’re thrilled to announce the diverse group of researchers who joined the Internet Society Foundation’s Research Program <https://www.isocfoundation.org/2022/01/third-round-of-grant-funding-awarded…> in 2022. Established in 2020, this program awards funding to researchers around the world who are examining the future and sustainability of the Internet Representing 18 organizations and 12 countries, these researchers are collectively generating solutions today to meet the Internet challenges of tomorrow. Through these grants, the Internet Society Foundation continues to advance new research on the future of the Internet, research that will influence policy and industry decisions and ultimately help shape a more equitable and sustainable future for the Internet and the people it serves. Learn more about each awardee in the list below. Projects are grouped by the Research Program’s four themes: A Trustworthy Internet, Decolonizing the Internet, Greening the Internet, and the Internet Economy. Decolonizing the Internet *Awardee *– Francis Saa-Dittoh – Ghana – $99,950.00 *Research Question* – How can decentralized digital information systems promote decolonizing of the Internet in developing countries? *Awardee* – Stichting Digital Freedom Fund <https://digitalfreedomfund.org/> — Netherlands – $100,000 *Research Question* – How can a decolonizing program for the European digital rights field be designed and implemented? Greening the Internet *Awardee* – Chomora Mikeka – Malawi – $81,314.00 *Research Question *– Can Internet of Things (IoT) be green powered using ambient radio frequency energy harvesting? *Awardee *– The Green Web Foundation <https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/> – Netherlands – $550,000 *Research Question* – How do we accelerate the transition of the Internet off of fossil fuels? *Awardee* – ISOC Kyrgyzstan Chapter <https://isoc.kg/> – Kyrgyzstan – $200,000 *Research Question* – Can we use the Internet of Things in a rough environment to detect landslides and other threats while developing an open and secure infrastructure? *Awardee *– German Informatics Society <https://gi.de/> – Germany – $196,788.00 *Research Question* – What concepts of programming software in an environmentally friendly way (“Green Coding”) exist for software development? *Awardee* – University of Amsterdam <https://www.uva.nl/> – Netherlands – $250,000 *Research Question* – How does Internet infrastructure reconfigure power relationships and resource dependencies, and how could it better serve the public interest? An Internet Economy *Awardee *– Data & Society Research Institute <https://datasociety.net/> – US – $499,926.00 *Research Question* – How is the work of mental health professionals changing as they increasingly provide services through online digital platforms, and how do such shifts impact therapeutic expertise, therapeutic labor, and professional practice? *Awardee* – David Johnson – South Africa – $200,000 *Research Question* – Can a decentralized mutual credit-based community voucher combined with a community network and localized services incentivize (i) custodianship of commons infrastructure, (ii) creation of more locally generated digital content , and (iii) act as a catalyst to the stability and expansion of a local market? *Awardee *– Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research <https://andreyfradkin.com/> – US – $150,550.00 *Research Question* – What is the economic impact of dark patterns on consumers? *Awardee* – World Data Lab <https://worlddata.io/> – Austria – $485,375.00 *Research Question* – Who is most affected by Internet poverty and which countries are making the greatest progress in reducing it? How can we promote greater access and use of the Internet to benefit the poor? A Trustworthy Internet *Awardee* – Centro Latam Digital <https://centrolatam.digital/> – Mexico – $249,550.00 *Research Question* – What kind of interactions do migrants in transit have with the Internet based on their perception of digital vulnerability? How does this perception impact their decision making and strategies in using the Internet along their transit? *Awardee* – DNS Research Foundation <https://dnsrf.org/> – UK – $250,000 *Research Question* – To establish an Internet Standards Observatory, what innovative research methodologies and policy research questions should we explore relating to the development of Internet standards? *Awardee* – The Distributed AI Research Institute <https://www.dair-institute.org/> in partnership with Code for Science & Society <https://www.codeforsociety.org/> – US – $500,000 *Research Question* – What is the impact of social media platforms in countries and diaspora communities that are not considered important by the companies who own these platforms? *Awardee* – Evidence and Methods Lab <https://evidenceandmethodslab.org/> in partnership with the Internet Society Uganda Chapter <https://isoc.ug/> – Uganda – $550,000 *Research Question* – What are the capacity gaps hindering the utilization of the Internet by government agencies in the effort to improve transparency and accountability in service delivery? *Awardee* – Georgia Institute of Technology <http://gatech.edu/> – US – $149,945.00 *Research Question *– How can we improve our understanding of the way private sector governance mechanisms interact with technology to produce trust and security on the Internet? *Awardee* – Internet Security Research Group <https://www.abetterinternet.org/> – US – $350,000 *Research Question* – How can we enforce the promises made in a privacy policy through technology that is ubiquitous and affordable? *Awardee* – Reset Tech Australia <https://au.reset.tech/> – Australia – $140,130.00 *Research Question* – What does trustworthy tech, from young people’s perspectives, look like in practice? If you’d like to know more, you can see full details of our Research Grant Program <https://www.isocfoundation.org/grant-programme/research-grant-programme/>. To be notified of upcoming grant opportunities, sign up to our newsletter https://www.isocfoundation.org/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CFP **extended!!** TECHMONEY workshop
by M.R.Sauter 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

We've extended the deadline for the Tech/Money workshop! If you thought you missed your chance, you have another one! ____ *!ABSTRACTS DEADLINE EXTENDED!* CFP: TECH/MONEY Workshop Date+Time: 22 May 2023 (Monday), all day commencing at 9AM Venue: Center for Social Innovation Annex Garage, 720 Bathurst St, Toronto, Canada Organizer: M. R. Sauter, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College of Information Studies Sponsor: STRATLab, University of Maryland College of Information Studies Description: The goal of this workshop is to bring together scholars who are working on the topic of money, finance, and funding in high technology, “innovation,” and the digital. We are specifically interested in work that approaches this topic using critical theory, communication theory, political theory, and cultural studies perspectives rather than economic approaches. We hope to draw from a wide variety of sub-disciplines, time periods, and geographic regions of focus. Works-in-progress by pre-tenure and junior scholars are particularly sought after for this workshop. A secondary goal is to gauge interest in a special issue or collected volume on the topic of TECH/MONEY at some point in the future. Potential topics might include: -how and why different funding models are promoted or encouraged by industry, finance, and government actors -alternate currency systems using fungible or other non-monetary assets -professionalized influencer economies, markets, and businesses -studies of funding models for “innovation” spaces and projects -studies of digital financial platforms like RobinHood or the rise of meme stocks -corruption in the tech/money world -ethico-moral-financial ideologies and philosophies as they appear in the high technology space -how changing funding practices or financial/tax regulations impacted communication technology development Please submit your *abstract of *max* 500 words *using *this form: https://forms.gle/ZgLEk817PWoUHt1V9 <https://forms.gle/ZgLEk817PWoUHt1V9>* by January 31 2023 -> *FEBRUARY 6* Important dates: January 31 > *EXTENDED DEADLINE* *FEBRUARY 6 *: abstracts due *March 3*: notification of acceptances *May 22*: workshop date Organizer contact info for any questions, comments, or concerns: mrsauter(a)umd.edu -- m.r. sauter oddletters http://oddletters.com/

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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Critical and Intersectional Approaches to Data Security, Privacy and Surveillance
by Zeffiro, Andrea 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

The Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, located in Mills Memorial Library at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, invites candidates to apply for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Please find more information below and share it with your networks. The posting closes on March 21, 2023. Job Summary Founded in 2012, the Sherman Centre is an incubator and catalyst of digital scholarship (DS) and digital humanities (DH) activity at McMaster University. A critical need that has become apparent in the Centreâ€™s work is the inclusion of critical data and data justice competencies training. From the vantage point of the Sherman Centre, we see a clear opportunity to increasingly introduce undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff, and members of broader communities to critical considerations of data-driven approaches and outcomes while improving their general data fluency. Working under the direction of the Academic and Administrative Directors of the Sherman Centre, the postdoctoral fellow will support the general outreach and curricular activities of the Sherman Centre, with a specific focus on critical and intersectional approaches to data security, privacy and surveillance. The research program undertaken by the postdoctoral fellow will result in knowledge development and dissemination as well as resource creation and training in these areas for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff, and members of broader communities. In alignment with their own DS/DH research agenda, the postdoctoral fellow will, in close collaboration with other Sherman Centre staff: * offer training and support for general and selected specific tools and techniques that support data security and digital privacy broadly * assess faculty and graduate student needs, and goals with relation to research data security, privacy and management * offer consultation to faculty and graduate students to enable them to begin including critical data and data justice competencies in their teaching and research * support the further development of workshops, talks, and events at the Sherman Centre * prepare and deliver an undergraduate digital scholarship introductory course annually, and * connect and engage with other data justice, digital scholarship, and digital humanities initiatives in the region and beyond. Beyond these responsibilities, the postdoc will participate actively in the life and activities of the Sherman Centre and represent it at key DS/DH events, such as the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) and the annual Digital Humanities conference at the institutionâ€™s expense. Details * Term: August 1, 2023 â€“ July 31, 2025 * Supervisor: Dr. Andrea Zeffiro * Renumeration: $55,000 CAD per year For the complete job posting, please follow [1]this link. Please contact Dr. Andrea Zeffiro ([2]zeffiroa(a)mcmaster.ca) for any general questions about the position. -- Andrea Zeffiro, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts Academic Director, Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship McMaster University 1280 Main St. W Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8 (905) 525-9140 ext. 21901 [3]zeffiroa(a)mcmaster.ca McMaster University sits on the territories of the Mississauga and Haudenosaunee Nations, and within the lands protected by the Dish With One Spoon wampum, an agreement amongst all allied Nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. References 1. https://u.mcmaster.ca/scds-postdoc-2023 2. mailto:zeffiroa@mcmaster.ca 3. mailto:zeffiroa@mcmaster.ca

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Jobs: New Media, Media Studies, Univ of Amsterdam
by rogers＠govcom.org 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

Dear all, We have two Assistant Professorships on offer in New Media & Digital Culture, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. One position is in Digital Research Methods and the other in AI and Digital Culture. Best regards Richard Rogers https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assistant-Professor-Digital-Research-Metho… https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assistant-Professor-in-AI-and-Digital-Cult… Prof. Richard Rogers Media Studies University of Amsterdam digitalmethods.net r.a.rogers(a)uva.nl

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CFP *extended* - Future Markets—Market Futures - IMSW Edinburgh 2023
by Gemma Milne 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

Hey everyone, Apologies for cross-posting! Please see our CFP below for the Interdisciplinary Market Studies Workshop which is being held in Edinburgh this May/June – the submission deadline has been extended to February 13th. Relevant for academics interested in the social studies of markets from fields as diverse as science and technology studies, sociology, organisation studies, marketing, information systems, political science, history, anthropology and geography. Cheers, Gemma -- Dear Colleague, There is still time to submit your abstract to the 7th Interdisciplinary Market Studies Workshop (IMSW). The call for papers is open to academics in the study of markets, including science and tech, marketing, anthropology & more, and submissions can be made until midnight on the 13 February 2023. This year, IMSW comes to the University of Edinburgh Business School on the 31st May - 2nd June 2023, and will be hosted for the first time in collaboration with the Journal of Cultural Economy. Our theme is Future Markets—Market Futures. The concept of 'futures' is often mobilised in response to the twenty-first century's urgent, stubborn, or 'wicked' problems: global public health, climate emergency, geopolitical instability, rising wealth inequalities, technopopulism among many. In the academy 'futures' indexes a range of critical, empirical, methodological, and institutional responses to these problems. We draw on this architecture of futures thinking to invite reflections on the role the future plays in planning. projecting, modelling, imagining, designing, making, maintaining, promising, casting, and forecasting markets. We invite the submission of extended abstracts (2 - 3 pages). Your extended abstract should be submitted electronically no later than midnight 13 February 2023. Please find more information on how to submit your abstract here: https://www.imsw2023.business-school.ed.ac.uk/call-for-papers If you have any questions, please reach out to: IMSW2023(a)business-school.ed.ac.uk<mailto:IMSW2023@business-school.ed.ac.uk>. Kind regards, 7th Interdisciplinary Market Studies Workshop Organising Committee” -- Gemma Milne PhD researcher, University of Edinburgh School of Social & Political Science Science & Technology writer & broadcaster Co-host of the Radical Science<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scien…> podcast Twitter: @gemmamilne<https://twitter.com/gemmamilne> 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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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Last Call for Workshops and Minisymposia
by Announce Announcements 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

*** Last Call for Workshops and Minisymposia *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. To provide a meeting point for researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas and hot topics related to parallel and distributed computing and their applications, Euro-Par 2023 will co-locate workshops and, for the first time, minisymposia with the main conference. This is an invitation to send proposals for the workshop and, for the first time, a minisymposium program. Both workshops and minisymposia will be held on August 28 - August 29, 2023, the first two days of the conference. WORKSHOPS Workshop Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: • Workshop title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) • Information of the organizers, including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each workshop will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. All the organizers must be a staff member at an institution or a company, and no PhD or other students can be organizers. • A tentative program committee (10-15 members) • Motivation of the workshop: * scientific objective * interest to the Euro-Par community * positioning with respect to the currently existing Euro-Par workshops • Description of the workshop: * content * format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity i including european project meetings) * organizational aspects • Workshop background (number of previous editions jointly with Europar or in any other format) • Link to international projects/initiatives The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a workshop proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. In the case that several workshop proposals have very similar objectives and scopes, a merge of overlapping workshops may be recommended. The topics covered by a workshop should not overlap with the main topics of the conference. Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline in case of a strong proposal. Workshop Organizer Responsibilities • Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it • Preparing and maintaining the workshop Web site including the relevant sections according to the organization guidelines • Selecting the workshop program committee considering that each member of the committee should make at least one review • Selecting papers through a rigorous peer-review process including at least three reviews per submission using the provided EasyChair installation and considering the possible conflicts of interest • Delivering the final workshop program to the Euro-Par 2023 conference co-chairs in time • Delivering the preliminary workshop proceedings in time before the conference • Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, with key indicators such as: number of submitted and accepted papers, program committee and review process management • Delivering the final workshop proceedings with a revised version of the papers in time after the conference in the required Springer LNCS format (12 pages max.) and writing a preface to the workshop. Camera-ready papers will be published only if the management report has been delivered • Short papers can be accepted and presented at the workshop. However, to be included in the formal Springer proceedings, the minimum length is of 10 pages per paper • Registering for the conference • Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Workshop Proceedings and Paper Review The workshop proceedings will be published in a separate LNCS workshop volume after the conference. The principal coordinator of each workshop will appear as co-editor of the workshop volume. Registered workshop participants will receive an electronic copy of the volume by email. All authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. The Euro-Par organizers will provide an EasyChair setup for all Euro-Par 2023 workshops, and its use is mandatory to facilitate paper submissions, reviewing, and collecting the camera-ready versions. The workshop papers will not be published in the proceedings otherwise. Each workshop will be an independent track within the Workshops' EasyChair installation, but it will be fully manageable by the respective organizers. Papers of less than 10 pages will be considered as short papers that can be presented at the conference but not published in the proceedings. MINISYMPOSIA A minisymposium is a session of coordinated presentations for promoting interdisciplinary communication on a topic of current interest and importance in the field of parallel and distributed computing, ideally having potential application in other domains. The length and program will be decided by the organizers; half-day (three-hour) minisymposia are very welcome, longer is possible, not exceeding one day (6 hours). The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. Minisymposium Proposal Guidelines The proposals should include the following information: • Minisymposium title and acronym, preference for length (half or full-day) • Information of the organizers (full name, affiliation, country and email address), including a short biography of each organizer (5-10 lines). Each minisymposium will have a single main organizer, the corresponding contact. Others can be co-organizers. • Motivation and scope of the minisymposium: * Problem area to be addressed by the speakers and possible applications [max 1500 characters]; * Description of target audience and estimated number of participants [max 1500 characters] * Link to international projects/initiatives • Format (contributed papers, invited talks, panels, posters or any other kind of activity including European project meetings), • Speakers: * a tentative list of speakers detailing their names, affiliation, email address and title of their presentations. Nominated speakers should be approached in advance and should have agreed that they will participate. * companies and/or institutions involved Minisymposium Selection Process All the submitted proposals will be assessed by the organizing committee. The decision about the acceptance/rejection of a minisymposium proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. Overlapping minisymposia will be avoided (or possibly merged). Decisions will be made on a rolling basis. Proposals can already be sent, and the organizers may be notified before the notification deadline. Minisymposium Organizer Responsibilities Minisymposium organizers will be in charge of making publicity of the minisymposium and specify the number of talks and other activities. The contributions will be sent to the same web page as the contributions for the workshops. The review process will be decided by the minisymposium organizers. One of the organizers will be the contact with the conference organization. The responsibilities are as follows: • Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it • Preparing and maintaining the minisymposium website mentioning the Euro-Par vinculation • Deciding the length of the minisymposium, the program and type of activities and the names of the speakers • Use the provided EasyChair installation for receiving the contributions • Delivering the program to the Euro-Par 2023 conference co-chairs in time • Providing the Euro-Par Steering Committee with a Management Report, after the conference, summarizing the experience and including number of persons involved in the activities as well as any consideration useful for future editions • Registering for the conference as well as all the participants to the minisymposium • Meet the deadlines according to the organization guidelines Minisymposium publication The contributions to the minisymposia will not be published in the proceedings. However, the organizers are invited to send one non-compulsory 4-page summary of the minisymposium. The document should summarize the scientific discussion promoted by the minisymposium and it will be published in the same LNCS volume as the workshop proceedings after the conference. The authors of the summary will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. SUBMISSION (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) Workshop and Minisymposium proposals should be sent in PDF format via email to the workshop co-chairs (contact details at the end of this call). An email verification will be sent to each successful submission. In case the verification is not received, submitters are asked to contact the workshop chairs. IMPORTANT DATES (for Workshop and Minisymposium Organizers) • Workshop and minisymposium proposals due: February 10, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium notifications: February 24, 2023 • Workshop website online and launches of Call for Workshop Papers: March 24, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium dates: August 28-29, 2023 • Workshop and minisymposium management report summarizing the experience and results of the activity due: September 15, 2023 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS • Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (dzeina-AT-ucy.ac.cy) • Dora Blanco Heras, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (dora.blanco-AT- usc.es)

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End of a Twitter Era - Time to Use That Access While You Can
by Shulman, Stu 02 Feb '23

02 Feb '23

I suppose we should have seen this coming. https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/twitter-to-end-free-access-to-its-api Academics, you have about a week to get your data. -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*

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