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CFP MEA 2023
by Adriana Braga 28 Sep '22

28 Sep '22

Call for Papers The Twenty-Fourth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association New York City June 22–25, 2023 The Media Ecology Association (MEA) invites the submission of papers and proposals for panels for presentation at its 24th Annual Convention, which will be held June 22–25, 2023 in New York City. The deadline for submissions is December 16, 2022. While we are open to explorations on any topic of interest to media ecologists, we also include a convention theme with the aim of generating further discussion and probes involving multiple perspectives. Submissions do not have to address the theme, but are invited to do so. The theme of the 2023 convention is “Arts/Symbol/Context/Meanings.” In this time of global pandemic, political breakdowns, environment devastation, and mass confusion, we look to the arts and artists: what do the arts have to teach us? Media Ecology has a long and honored connection to the arts. In abandoning established forms of academic expression, Marshall McLuhan was fond of quoting Ezra Pound’s dictum “the artist is the antennae of the race.” Philosopher Susanne Langer underscored the contributions of artists to human knowledge as those who put “feeling into form” in a way that speech is unable to do. Neil Postman and Christine Nystrom urged the centrality of context in understanding the meaning of symbols and insisted on humor and plain language to communicate some of the most penetrating and enduring ideas of media ecology. In short, the arts employ forms and symbols that shape our view of the world, give us tools for thought, and allow us to reshape, re-imagine and re-contextualize our world. The annual meeting of the MEA provides an opportunity for our community of scholars, artists, educators, professionals and practioners to exchange experiences and ideas in a friendly environment. Participants at MEA conventions address a wide diversity of topics in our programs, and we encourage submissions that explore media ecological approaches from any number of different disciplines and fields of knowledge and social practice. We seek papers, thematic panels, roundtable discussion panels, creative projects, performance sessions, and other proposals of interest to media ecologists. New York City, traditionally a stronghold and showcase of both the popular and fine arts, will be the context in which our discussion takes place. The home of the Bowery and Broadway, doowop and opera, wall graffiti and some of the finest art museums in the world, New York will provide the backdrop to our conversation about the arts, symbols, contexts and meanings. Held at various locations in New York, participants will have ample opportunity to explore the rich cultural life of the City and not be confined to just one venue or neighborhood. Guidelines for Submission Please submit paper and panel proposals, in English, by December 16, 2022 to MEA2023Convention(a)gmail.com. A maximum of two submissions per author will be accepted. Authors who wish to be considered for the Top Paper or Top Student Paper award must indicate this on their submission(s). Submission Guidelines for paper and panel proposals: - Include title(s), abstract(s) (maximum 250 words), and contact information for each participant. - Outline, as relevant, how your paper or panel will fit with the convention theme. - Authors with papers submitted as part of a panel proposal or as a paper proposal who wish to be considered for Top Paper or Top Student Paper must send the completed manuscript (see guidelines below) to the convention planners by April 28, 2023. Submission guidelines for manuscripts for authors who wish to be considered for the Top Paper or Top Student Paper award: - Manuscripts should be 4,000–6,000 words (approximately 15 to 25 double-spaced pages) - Include a cover page with your institutional affiliation and other contact information. - Include an abstract (maximum 150 words).

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TikTok & Asian Diaspora Roundtable event on 17 October 2022
by Jin Lee 28 Sep '22

28 Sep '22

Dear colleagues, TikTok Cultures Research Network is pleased to announce our 6th event, TikTok Cultures & Asian Diaspora on 17 October 2022. This Roundtable event features TikTokers, community and industry professionals, and scholars discussing the past, the present, and the future of Asian diasporas and TikTok cultures. TikTok has been considered a place for people in marginalized communities including Asian diasporas around the world. This half-day online-only Roundtable will feature moderated discussion between the panelists to reflect and envision the future of TikTok cultures and Asian diasporas on the platform, followed by audience Q&A. The event will be moderated by Dr Jin Lee and A/Prof Crystal Abidin. Our speakers include: Dr Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto (Deakin U), Dr Satveer Kaur-Gill (Dartmouth U), Dr Tara Ross (U of Canterbury), Mr Pele Voncujovi (@pelegroso__), Mr Palak Mody & Ms Mayuri Mody (@palakmody), Mr Billy Kong (@koreanbilly), Ms Shikha Gianchandani (Pardesi), Mr Shaun Chee (BordersLess), Mr May Chaweewannakorn (Gushcloud Inc.). We invite professionals from media industries and social media industries, students and researchers in academia, and members of the general public to attend this event. The event is free but registration is required. Please register here (closes on October 15th) <https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3UQtV0czR6a53q7WAaQJZg>. For more info about the event: https://tiktokcultures.com/tiktok-asian-diaspora/ This event is brought to you by the TikTok Cultures Research Network <http://tiktokcultures.com> and supported by the Faculty of Humanities (Curtin University) <https://humanities.curtin.edu.au/> and the Centre for Culture and Technology (Curtin University) <https://ccat.curtin.edu.au/>. -- Jin Lee, PhD Research Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin University & ARC Centre of Digital Child Affiliated researcher, Korean Research Centre of Western Australia Visit my website <https://ljin8788.wixsite.com/website> for more

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Canadian Game Studies Association 2022 Top Paper Panels
by Gerald Voorhees 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Please join us to celebrate the amazing Top Paper award winners from the 2022 conference! CGSA will host two Top Paper panels on October 12 from 3-5 PM (EDT) via Zoom. The panels will feature a 5-7 minute recap of each paper and ample time for moderated questions and discussion with the authors. If you missed our 2022 conference or just want a reminder, you can watch the full presentation videos here <https://gamestudies.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a594426481937ddd6340…>. You are also encouraged to ask questions (as comments on the file) that will be addressed during the panel. This event is free and open to everyone interested in games scholarship, so please encourage friends and colleagues to attend! Register to attend the panels for free at https://t.co/UE531Kza8E Sincerely Gerald Gerald Voorhees, Ph.D. (he/him) Associate Professor Department of Communication Arts University of Waterloo 257A ML, Waterloo ON, N2L 3G1 President, Canadian Game Studies Association ------------------------------ *I acknowledge that I live and work on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes ten kilometers on each side of the Grand River. *

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Webinar and Workshop Series Announcement
by Robert Topinka (Staff) 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

‘Post-Pandemic’ Politics and Reactionary Digital Cultures Webinar and Workshop Series Full schedule: https://reactionarypandemicpolitics.wordpress.com/ Webinar 27 October 2022 13:30 - 15:30, UTC +1 Online via Teams Register: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/booking/event/33590 This webinar launches a new Birkbeck Centre for Media and Democracy report that charts the overlaps between covid-19 scepticism, vaccine hesitancy and reactionary politics online. Although many far-right extremists have aligned themselves against the public health response to covid-19, the report documents a more ideologically ambiguous and even incoherent form of reactionary politics taking shape around covid scepticism. This reactionary scepticism is advanced by the extreme right, but it is also proving attractive to people dislocated and disconnected by more than two years of life in a pandemic. Covid scepticism is dominated by ‘misinformation,’ but groups organised around rejecting mainstream consensus wear the ‘misinformation’ label as a badge of honour. The report and the webinar investigate the emotional attractions of reactionary politics, calling for an anti-racist and anti-misogynist politics that begins at the community level. With talks from: Rosie Carter, Director of Policy and Engagement at HOPE not hate Liam Shrivastava, Communications Officer at the Institute for Race Relations Dr. Annie Kelly, a journalist and researcher focusing on antifeminism, the far right and conspiracy theories online. Dr. Robert Topinka, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, author of the new report on post-pandemic politics and reactionary digital cultures The webinar will also launch a series of workshops for third-sector workers, local government workers, academics and activists working on public health, mental health, youth work and anti-racism. The first workshop will be Friday, 11 November from 10:30 – 14:00 at Birkbeck’s Bloomsbury campus. Tea, coffee and lunch will be provided for all attendees, and travel funding is available. You can register here: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/booking/event/33611. Webinar Speaker Biographies Rosie Carter is director of policy and engagement at HOPE not hate, the UK’s leading anti-fascist organisation. She conducts research on migration, community relations, public attitudes, identity and political polarisation. She is a Churchill fellow where her research focused on migrant inclusion in post-industrial areas and holds an MSc in Migration Studies from Oxford University. Liam Shrivastava is communications officer at the Institute of Race Relations. Prior to joining the IRR, he worked for Red Pepper magazine and with the Media Reform Coalition. He holds an MA in Political Communications from Goldsmiths College, where his dissertation focused on the BBC and immigration. He has a particular interest in representations of race and racism in the media and the political space. His work at the IRR involves researching ‘culture war’ phenomena, ‘New Right’ networks and political rhetoric. Dr. Annie Kelly is a journalist and researcher focusing on antifeminism, the far right and conspiracy theories online. She received her PhD on digital antifeminism from the University of East Anglia in 2020. She works now as a postdoctoral research associate on the AHRC-funded “Everything Is Connected: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of the Internet” project at King’s College London and the University of Manchester and as the UK correspondent for the podcast QAnon Anonymous. Her writing has appeared in Soundings journal, The Sociological Review and The New York Times. Dr. Robert Topinka is Senior Lecturer in media and cultural studies at Birkbeck. He was Co-Investigator on the AHRC funded project ‘Political Ideology, Rhetoric and Aesthetics in the 21st Century: The Case of the “Alt-Right,”’ and writes widely about race, politics and digital media.  Workshop Series Hosted by the Centre for Media and Democracy at Birkbeck, University of London, this workshop series aims to facilitate collaboration across charities, local governments, academics and activists to respond to the challenges digital and social media pose to public life and public health. In response to the recent rise of far-right extremism and reactionary scepticism around the Covid pandemic, there has been a focus on debunking ‘disinformation’ and on regulating the major platforms. These are important goals, but they are not solutions that offer immediate help to local communities. Starting from the premise that digital media are fully integrated into our daily lives, this workshop series brings together groups and organisations working on public health, mental health, youth work and anti-racism to develop informed, collaborative and practical strategies to respond to digital harms. The focus will be on combining expertise and on putting academic research and academic funding opportunities to work for organisations. Following from a launch event, the workshops will focus on three distinct but cross-cutting themes. Attendees are encouraged to attend all three workshops, but it is also possible to sign up for one or two workshops. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Travel reimbursement is available for all attendees (Zones 1-6). Additional travel reimbursement available upon request. Workshop 1: Digital Media and Digital Data Friday, 11 November, 10:30 – 14:00, Birkbeck, University of London campus Register: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/booking/event/33611 Although digital media are fully embedded in our daily lives and routines, they are still highly personal. Everyone has their own personal ‘feed’ on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and so on. How do we develop strategies for understanding how digital media are shaping the work charities and activists do and the lives of the communities they serve? Opening Speaker Chris Ashworth, Head of Social Impact at Nominet Workshop 2: Local Communities and Social Media Thursday, 12 January 2023, 10:30 – 14:00, Birkbeck, University of London campus Register: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/booking/event/33670 There is no distinction between ‘offline’ and ‘online.’ We don’t go ‘on’ digital media platforms, they are highly integrated with our daily lives and routines. This means that when we think about combating digital harms, we need to begin by thinking holistically about the communities we serve. If we begin from the understanding that digital media is deeply integrated in the daily lives of the communities we serve, how does that shape or change the work we do? Opening Speakers Dr. Rohit Dasgupta, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Industries at the University of Glasgow and Councillor for Canning Town South Cllr Mumtaz Khan, Councillor for Green Street West Workshop 3: Digital Culture, Politics and Communication Thursday, 16 February 2023, 10:30 – 14:00, Birkbeck, University of London campus Register: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/booking/event/33671 The sheer volume of communication is unprecedented, and it only continues to grow. This can make efforts to combat digital harms feel like a drop in a bucket, and a bucket owned and controlled by massively powerful tech corporations. Instead of thinking about digital communication as something ‘outside’ of our work, how can we communicate better on and about digital media with the communities we serve? ____________ Robert Topinka Senior Lecturer in Transnational Media & Cultural Studies Department of Film, Media & Cultural Studies Birkbeck, University of London Recently published: "The Politics of Anti-Discourse: Copypasta, the Alt-Right, and the Rhetoric of Form"<https://muse.jhu.edu/article/852390> in Theory & Event New book: Racing the Street: Race, Rhetoric, and Technology in Metropolitan London, 1840-1900<https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520343610/racing-the-street>

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Vacancy: PhD Platformisation of Education (1.0 FTE)
by Niels Kerssens 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Vacancy: PhD Platformisation of Education (1.0 FTE) UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, the Netherlands HOURS PER WEEK: 38 to 40 FACULTY: Faculty of Humanities DEPARTMENT: Media & Culture Studies at Utrecht University APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15 November 2022 Job description The department of Media & Culture Studies at Utrecht University recruits a PhD student for a research project on “Platform infrastructures and the shaping of public education” which is part of the larger Spinoza-funded research program Governing the Digital Society, chaired by prof. dr. José van Dijck. Platformisation of education—the embedding of digital platforms into educational practices—unfolds through increasingly complex integrations of local European educational technology (‘edtech’) companies and global American providers of platform infrastructures like Google (Alphabet), Amazon, and Microsoft. This project will critically investigate how these integrations are shaping and governing public education and use its findings for furthering our understanding of the power of platforms and how they should be governed. In the project, you will 1) map and analyse technological and organizational integrations of big and local (ed)tech in The Netherlands and/or other European countries); 2) study how big tech cloud infrastructures and strategic partnerships shape the functions and services that third-party companies provide to educational institutions; and 3) contribute methods and/or theories to the field of platform studies based on the empirical findings. In the second and/or third year of the project you are expected to teach a few classes at the BA-level at the department of Media & Culture studies at a rate of 10 percent of the total workload. Qualifications We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD student who: - has an (R)MA degree in (new) media studies, communications, or a similar research area; - has excellent research skills, as demonstrated in the (R)MA thesis or any publications assessed as such; - has an academic interest in and thorough knowledge of platform studies; - has affinity with the use and development of digital methods (experience is recommended but not a prerequisite, can also be acquired during the PhD trajectory); - has an excellent command of English (an additional command of Dutch is preferred). For more information, please see: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-pl… <https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-pl…>

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CFP DDP 2022
by ijwa dline.info 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Second International Conference on Digital Data Processing University of Bedfordshire Luton. UK December 07-09, 2022 www.socio.org.uk/ddp (IEEE Xplore. Papers should follow the IEEE template) Data grows voluminously and exponentially with heterogeneity and complexity. A single organization or industry processes more than a few million transactions hourly and stores several petabytes of data. We live in a world of tremendous pressure to analyze and process data more efficiently where the Data analytics can reflect hidden patterns, incomprehensible relationships, intrinsic information relations, and segmentation. The data applications have introduced cutting-edge possibilities in every activity in our life. Thus, studying data and its underlying structure, dynamics of data relations, and newer data technologies are a never-ending process. The literature and research on data management are enormous; they do not sufficiently solve the data processing requirements. Currently, the use of technology and interrelations among information pieces generate gargantuan amounts of data. Many studies tend to develop models and systems to analyse the voluminous datasets. Analysing the impact of data leads to application domains on decisions that have a systematic influence. Knowledge generated from the data analysis can enable the production of critical information for several domains. Hence this conference reviews and discusses the recent trends, opportunities, and pitfalls of data management and how it has impacted organizations to create successful business and technology strategies and remain updated in data technology. This conference also highlights the current open research directions of data analytics that require further consideration/ The proposed conference will discuss topics not limited to Data applications in various domains and activities Data in cloud Real-world data processing Data inaccuracy and reliability issues Data Ecosystem Business Analytics New data analytics techniques Physical and management challenges Privacy and Security Crowdsourcing and Sensing Data modelling Deep learning techniques Data fusion Descriptive analytics, Diagnostic analytics, Predictive Analytics, and Prescriptive analytics Machine learning Network optimization Data in Biomedical Engineering Data in Materials science and mechanics Data handling and applications in domains Wireless Networking Data Management Data of Electronic & Embedded Systems Multi-media Systems Data Artificial intelligence Models and Systems Data E-Computing Data Renewable Energies Data Publications DDP is technically supported by IEEE CPS. The DDP papers will be submitted for publication and indexing in IEEE Xplore. Besides, modified versions of the papers will appear in the following journals. 1. Journal on Data Semantics 2. Technologies 3. Data Technologies and Applications 4. Webology 5. Journal of Digital Information Management 6. International Journal of Computational Linguistics 7. Journal of Optimization 8. International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies Important Dates Full Paper Submission: October 01, 2022 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: November 01, 2022 Registration Due: November 25, 2022 Camera Ready Due: December 01-09, 2022 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos: December 08-09, 2022 Main conference December 07-09, 2022 Keynote Speakers Eleni (Helen) Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK Program Committee General Chair Ezendu Ariwa, Chair UK& RI IEEE TEMS, UK Program Chairs Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau - Program Co-Chairs Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Publicity Chair Mohsin Beniysa, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Morocco Paper Submission: http://socio.org.uk/ddp/paper-submission/ Contact: ddp(a)socio.org.uk

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CFP: Global Perspectives on Surveillance (Jump Cut)
by Gary Kafer 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Dear colleagues, For a special section of a forthcoming issue of *Jump Cut <https://www.ejumpcut.org/home.html>*, we invite submissions for articles and review essays on the topic of "Global Perspectives on Surveillance." The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2023. Please circulate widely! --- *Global Perspectives on Surveillance* Call for Papers Special Section of Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media Full Paper Submission Deadline: January 15, 2023 Editor: Gary Kafer (University of Chicago) Description This special section of Jump Cut seeks original research and review essays that examine the global circuits of surveillance that increasingly mark contemporary social and political life. Towards the end of the twentieth century, surveillance studies scholars proclaimed the arrival of a “surveillance society” (Marx 1985; Gandy 1989; Lyon 1994), which soon became global by the turn of the century following the attacks on 9/11 and the War on Terror (Lyon 2004; Murakami 2009; Ström 2020). In many ways indebted to the emergence of novel digital and communication tools, such critiques called attention to increasing levels of tracking practices by national governments and corporations to preempt threats and safeguard capital. No doubt, the global parameters of surveillance were put on full display with the Snowden leaks of 2014 as the world became cognizant of The Five Eyes intelligence alliance (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States), which was soon followed by media coverage of China’s vast social credit system and internment camps. And yet, even as such developments exposed the globality of surveillance systems, such frameworks tend to maintain the ‘global’ as simply a reference point for the ‘Global North’ and its centers of data accumulation and exchange. Such narratives are troublesome, not in the least for the way that they ignore how surveillance has historically always been transnational in scope, such as in the development of biometrics and identification documents in chattel slavery and penal colonies across colonial and imperial regimes (Browne 2015; Heynen and van der Meulen 2019). At the same time, some global frameworks ignore how many surveillance devices are first developed and tested in sites of settler colonial and capitalist violence – often in the Global South – before being sold on the global market, such as in Israel’s occupation of Palestine (Halper 2015) or the repression of indigenous communities at the borders of settler states (Schaeffer 2022). Building on such debates in surveillance studies, this special section of Jump Cut explores how the global remains a fraught, if not necessary, framework to grapple with how surveillance is inextricable from racial violence, capital accumulation, and settler colonial rule. In particular, we invite research that approaches such issues from the fields of media studies, film studies, visual studies, communication studies, and related disciplines to consider how surveillance technologies – whether data-based or otherwise – are used, viewed, and resisted in particular geographic contexts. To sure, scholars of these fields have already taken stock of the global formations of infrastructure and labor through which surveillance is made possible, such as in the case of transpacific fiber-optic cable systems (Starosielski 2015), lithium mining (Crawford 2021), and outsourced content moderation (Gray and Suri 2019). They have also examined the emergent visual regimes of global surveillance within satellites (Parks 2018) and drones (Shaw 2016), as well as have interrogated the transnational politics of logistical systems (Hockenberry, Starosielski, and Zieger 2021). At the same time, many others have considered how entertainment media produce public imaginaries in the Global North about the exercise of surveillance elsewhere, such as in televisual and filmic depictions of border security (Fojas 2021) and video games about war and counterterrorism (Payne 2016). Finally, many activist communities are actively developing media counter-practices for resisting digital state surveillance within sites of social unrest and rebellion around the world (Choudry 2019). For this special section of Jump Cut, we invite contributions that examine how surveillance is a global process located within specific cultural, political, and social practices of power. Such research might address (but is not limited to) the following topics: • Technologies of border security • Biometrics – past, present, future • Internet infrastructures • Ecologies of resource extraction • Platforms and outsourced labor • Militarization of police • Counter-practices to surveillance • Global surveillance and documentary aesthetics • Representations of global surveillance in entertainment media • Networked global cities • Social media in the Global South • Algorithms and discrimination • Public policy and regulation of surveillance • Transnational security regimes Submission Information: We welcome a range of submissions including article length essays, short reflection papers, opinion pieces, book reviews, and film reviews. Submissions will undergo a peer-review and revision process prior to publication. Submissions should be original work, neither previously published nor under consideration for publication elsewhere. All references to previous work by contributors should be masked in the text (e.g., “Author 2015”). Please submit your document in a MS Word-compatible format. Timeline Submissions should be emailed to gkafer(a)uchicago.edu by January 15, 2023. Please put “JC – Global Surveillance” in the subject line. Decisions will be communicated by the end of March 2023. Final revisions will be due May 1, 2023. The special section will be published in a forthcoming issue of Jump Cut in the winter of 2023. -- Gary Kafer PhD Candidate, Dept. of Cinema and Media Studies University of Chicago gkafer(a)uchicago.edu

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WEBCAST SEP 26 - From the Ground Up: Broadband Mapping By and For Communities
by Joly MacFie 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

[image: YouTube] <https://isoc.live/15797>[Just starting - real time text https://bit.ly/3CbC1al ] On *Monday September 26 2022* at *3-4:15pm EDT* (19:00-20:15 UTC) the *Benton Institute for Broadband & Society <https://www.benton.org/>* and the *National Broadband Mapping Coalition <https://broadbandmappingcoalition.org/>* host a panel ‘*From the Ground Up: Broadband Mapping By and For Communities <https://bit.ly/3BMF07N>*‘. United States communities and states are collecting data on local broadband availability as the Federal Communications Commission rolls out the *Broadband Data Collection <https://www.fcc.gov/BroadbandData>* (BDC) program. BDC data will be used to determine the allocation and distribution of funding to states under the $42.5 billion *Broadband Access Equity and Deployment <https://broadbandusa.ntia.doc.gov/resources/grant-programs/broadband-equity…>* (BEAD) program. Panelists will discuss these community data collection and mapping efforts, highlighting promising approaches for collaboration and best practices for speed test surveys. We will also discuss how states and communities can be best prepared for the challenge process to ensure they have access to the federal funds they need to address broadband availability. *PANEL* *Eduard Bartholme*, Senior Outreach Director, Broadband Data Task Force, Federal Communications Commission *Shayna Englin*, Director, California Community Foundation Digital Equity Initiative *Lonnie Hamilton III*, Broadband Planner, Office of Broadband, Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) *Sarah Morris*, Senior Advisor, Office of the Assistant Secretary, NTIA *Lai Yi Ohlsen*, Data Scientist, Measurement Lab *Brian Whitacre*, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University *MODERATOR* *Dustin Loup*, Program Manager,National Broadband Mapping Coalition *LIVESTREAM https://youtu.be/_9oSq09WeXo <https://youtu.be/_9oSq09WeXo>* *REGISTER https://bit.ly/3BMF07N <https://bit.ly/3BMF07N>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3CbC1al <https://bit.ly/3CbC1al>* *TWITTER #broadbandmapping <https://bit.ly/broadbandmapping> @FCC @MeasurementLab @okstate @calfund @VADHCD @MarconiSociety @DustinRLoup * *SIMULCAST* *https://twitter.com/Benton_Inst <https://twitter.com/Benton_Inst>* -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CFP - Special Issue: Digital Influencers and Creative Industries
by Issaaf Karhawi 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to submit full papers for the Brazilian Creative Industries Journal, an open-access journal from the University Feevale, in Brazil. I am the guest editor of the special issue "Digital Influencers and Creative Industries" and we are very interested in works from around the globe, from Communication scholars. Submissions are opened until 20th November, 2022. And we expect to have the issue published in January, 2023. All the details are available at the journal website <https://periodicos.feevale.br/seer/index.php/braziliancreativeindustries/an…>. But if you have any questions, you can address the editor-in-chief, Vanessa Valiati at vanessavaliati(a)feevale.br Best, Issaaf Karhawi *Special Issue: Digital Influencers and Creative Industries* Studies about digital influencers—commonly called creators today—have consolidated along different theoretical-methodological perspectives: studies on celebrities (ABIDIN, 2018; ABIDIN, 2022), platformization (POELL, NIEBORG, DUFFY, 2022; ARRIAGADA, BISHOP, 2021), communication and media (KARHAWI, 2020), and digital labor (DUFFY, 2017). This plurality has also shaped a supposed discipline (CUNNINGHAM, CRAIG, 2021; ABIDIN, KARHAWI, 2021) demonstrated by the fertile discussion arising from the topic, which we intend to highlight in this dossier for the Brazilian Creative Industries Journal: Digital Influencers and Creative Industries. For the scope of this dossier, digital influencers and/or creators are understood as different content producers who act—for professional and commercial reasons—on platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitch and others. The creative industry, in turn, is characterized as having intellectual capital and creativity among its core values and includes activities like the arts, games, communication, design, audiovisual, information technology, and technology. Thus, bearing in mind the professional activities of digital influencers in the field of communication and the creative industries, this dossier aims to bring together multidisciplinary works that examine aspects such as: - Digital influencers and creative industries; - Digital influencers and business models; - Digital influencers and sociabilities; - Digital influencers and creativity; - Digital influencers and content strategies and production; - Digital influencers and relations with distinct markets; - Digital influencers, entrepreneurship and management; - Digital influencers, consumption and brands; - Digital influencers, pop culture and fans; - Digital influencers, platforms and platformization; - Digital influencers and labor relations; - Digital influencers and disinformation. Works that articulate broader questions like methodological perspectives and conceptual approaches will also be considered. Works by national and foreign authors (written in Portuguese and/or English) are welcomed to be submitted for publication, as well as various types of content that contribute to the development of the field. The journal accepts works by authors holding a graduate degree and master’s students in co-authorship with PhDs. Articles must be submitted by 20/11/2022 directly on the journal’s website: https://periodicos.feevale.br/seer/index.php/braziliancreativeindustries/an… *The journal has no Article Processing Charges. No payment from the authors will be required. Guest Editor: Dra. Issaaf Karhawi (Unip/Brazil) [issaaf(a)gmail.com] Editor in chief: Dra. Vanessa Amalia Dalpizol Valiati (Feevale/Brazil) [ vanessavaliati(a)feevale.br] Submission deadline: November 20, 2022 Publication date: January 30, 2023 *References *ABIDIN, Crystal. Internet celebrity: Understanding fame online. United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing, 2018. ABIDIN, Crystal. Mapeando celebridades da Internet no TikTok: Explorando Economias da Atenção e Trabalhos de Visibilidade. Pauta Geral - Estudos em Jornalismo, v. 8, n. 2, p. 1–50, 2021. DOI: 10.5212/19881. ABIDIN, Crystal; KARHAWI, Issaaf. Influenciadores digitais, celebridades da internet e "blogueirinhas": uma entrevista com Crystal Abidin. Intercom: Revista Brasileira de Ciências da Comunicação, São Paulo, v. 44, n. 1, 2021. ARRIAGADA, Arturo; BISHOP, Sophie. Between Commerciality and Authenticity: The Imaginary of Social Media Influencers in the Platform Economy, Communication, Culture and Critique, v. 14, n. 4, 2021. CUNNINGHAM, Stuart; CRAIG, David. Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment. New York: New York University Press, 2021. DUFFY, Brooke Erin. (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: gender, social media and aspirational work. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2017. KARHAWI, Issaaf. De blogueira a influenciadora: etapas de profissionalização da blogosfera de moda brasileira. Porto Alegre: Sulina, 2020. POELL, Thomas; NIEBORG, David; DUFFY, Brooke Erin. Platforms and cultural production. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022.

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IEEE WoWMoM 2023, June 12-15, 2023, Boston, Massachusetts, Deadline: December 15, 2022
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) June 12-15, 2023, Boston, Massachusetts, USA https://coe.northeastern.edu/Groups/wowmom2023/index.html Deadline: December 15, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE AND OVERVIEW IEEE WoWMoM 2023 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems and applications. Wireless networking technologies are continuously evolving and have become a critical part of modern life, be it for communication services, media distribution, or sensing and actuation services within the Internet of Things (IoT) context. Appropriate resource management, application design, and architectural networking paradigms are necessary to provide users with high quality experience in multimedia communication and services. Edge computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are becoming essential tools to cope with the increasing diversity of connected devices and the plethora of new data-intensive and latency-sensitive applications. At the same time, the interoperability among IoT environments (including wearable computing and sensors), the network edge, and the cloud are evolving towards an fog-edge-cloud continuum that is expected to support a wide range of application domains and services in a more smooth and efficient manner. In this context, providing rich sets of measurements for characterizing, and understanding the behavior of such complex systems is of paramount importance. IEEE WoWMoM 2023 takes a broad view and seeks papers describing innovative research contributions to the field of mobile and wireless networking and applications. We solicit papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. We also welcome practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field trials, or real deployments. SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST * 5G/ 6G networks for mobile and multimedia services * AI-assisted and data-driven networking in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Authentication, authorization, accounting for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Behavior-aware human-centric multimedia networks * Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Context-awareness in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) multimedia networks * Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning * Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) enabled multimedia networks * Seamless inter-networking and self-organization * Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and slicing for wireless and mobile networks * IoT-edge-cloud continuum for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking and services * Communication technologies and services for MTC * Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Energy characterisation and efficiency for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Localization, tracking, and mobility management and services * Trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Modeling, analysis, and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Network traffic characterization and measurements * System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences * Mobile social networks * Connected mobility, including vehicles, vulnerable road users, etc: networking issues and services * Participatory, mobile, and urban sensing * Wearable Computing PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process, and all submissions must be made electronically through EDAS. <https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28898> Click here to register your paper now! Authors can submit regular or work-in-progress papers (appropriate category to be selected upon submission). REGULAR PAPERS Regular papers submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 10 points or greater. See IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings<https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. WORK IN PROGRESS PAPERS WIP (Work-in-progress) papers provide a peer-reviewed forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research and obtain feedback from their peers in a poster session. Work-in-progress papers submissions may be up to 4 pages in length (including figures and references) and must have the prefix "WIP:" in the paper's title. IMPORTANT DATES Papers due: December 15, 2022 Acceptance notification: February 20, 2023 Camera-ready version: April 15, 2023 ACCEPTED PAPERS An author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate. The paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference. Exceptions can be granted if compelling reasons are sent to the TPC Co-Chairs with a written request indicating an adequate substitute presenter before the conference. Accepted papers (both regular and WIP) will be included in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2023 which will be published through the IEEE Xplore digital library. All conference proceedings must meet IEEE's quality standards, and IEEE reserves the right not to publish any proceedings that do not meet these standards. Furthermore, IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference, for unjustified reasons. BEST PAPER AWARD All accepted regular papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. A committee will select three best paper candidates based on the reviews received and also the quality of presentation. The winner will be announced during the conference. For any additional information, please contact the PC Co-chairs. JOURNAL FAST TRACK Extended versions of selected papers from IEEE WoWMoM 2023 will be invited for possible publication in the Elsevier journals: * Computer Communications<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-communications> (Impact factor 3.167) * Pervasive Mobile Computing<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing> (Impact factor 3.453) PC CO-CHAIRS Eylem Ekici, The Ohio State University, USA Ana Aguiar, University of Porto, Portugal -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Vice Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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