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[Social Networks, Deadline Nov. 1] Call for Papers in ICC 2023
by Jui-Yi Tsai 19 Oct '22

19 Oct '22

*SCOPE AND MOTIVATION* Recently, social network research has advanced rapidly with the prevalence of online social applications and mobile social communications systems. Metaverse has emerged as one of the future Internet for business, socialization, entertainment, and education in fully connected, immersive, and engaging online 3D virtual experiences. Nevertheless, the ongoing pandemic via contact social networks has caused tremendous human life and economic loss around the world, and infodemic is one of the major social impacts that make people difficult to discriminate trustworthy sources, from false and manipulative information sources. Therefore, researchers are increasingly interested in addressing a wide spectrum of challenges in social networks, such as developing social-aware algorithms for communications systems, identifying the topological common structures and information/influence flows, analyzing the social media and evolutions of social graphs, and exploiting location-based and contextual information embedded in mobile social networks to create innovative applications. Due to its increasing prevalence and interdisciplinary nature, social networks have also attracted intensive research interests across multiple disciplines, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, big data analytics, information security and privacy protection, psychology, and marketing. In light of the above crucial needs, Selected Areas in Communication Symposium in Social Networks will serve as a forum for researchers and technologists from academia, industry, and government to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their cutting-edge innovations and contributions, and set future directions in all aspects of social networks. The symposium seeks original contributions in the following topical areas, plus others that are not explicitly listed but are closely related. ●Artificial Intelligence for social networks and applications ●Social network analysis on epidemic diagnosis and asymptomatic infector tracking for COVID-19 and other pandemic ●Convergence and interplay between Metaverse and the underlying communication networks ●Infrastructure, platform, protocol design, and optimization for mobile social networks, social vehicular networks, mobile social clouds, social Internet-of-Things, and new paradigm of future social-aware communication networks ●Social network graph modeling, analysis, measurements, and experiments using big data for a better understanding of social network influence, reputation, recommendation, and community structure ● Data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, signal processing, and artificial intelligence in social media and social contexts ●Trusted networking, privacy and security, user behaviors and dynamics, and digital right management for big data from social networks ● Innovative social networks applications and services to mobile Internet, multimedia networks, mobile commerce, cyber-physical systems, and their potential social, economic, and cultural impacts ● Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on social networks The authors of selected papers from this symposium will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for fast-track review and possible publication in the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society *IMPORTANT DATES* Deadline for paper submission: 1 November 2022 Date for notification: 18 January 2023 Deadline for final paper submission: 15 February 2023 *SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS* All papers for technical symposium should be submitted via EDAS. Full instructions on how to submit papers are provided on the IEEE ICC 2023 website: https://icc2023.ieee-icc.org/

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IEEE WoWMoM 2023, June 12-15, 2023, Boston, Massachusetts, Deadline: December 15, 2022
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 18 Oct '22

18 Oct '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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IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023 -- Nashville, Tennessee, June 26-30, 2023 -- Paper Registration Deadline: February 23, 2023
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 18 Oct '22

18 Oct '22

================================================================================================================ ================================================================================================================ IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, June 26-30, 2023 https://smartcomp.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ https://twitter.com/IEEESmartComp Paper Registration: 2.23.23 Paper Submission: 3.2.23 ================================================================================================================ ================================================================================================================ SMARTCOMP 2023 is the 9th edition of the premier conference on smart computing. Smart computing is a multidisciplinary domain based on the synergistic influence of advances in sensor-based technologies, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, edge computing, big data analytics, machine learning, cognitive computing, ambient intelligence, and artificial intelligence. Applications of smart computing can be found in various societal domains, including transportation, energy, environmental protection, smart and connected communities, healthcare, banking, industrial systems, entertainment, and social media. Algorithmic and systems advancements of cloud computing, mobile and pervasive computing, sensor networking, and social computing are taking smart computing to a new level while improving our ways of living. SMARTCOMP 2023 welcomes novel, cutting-edge, and creative research. Authors are encouraged to discuss the importance, timeliness, significance of their work, as well as limitations, potential future extensions, and open research directions. Topics SMARTCOMP 2023 solicits submissions that address the fundamental questions of smart computing, namely how to design and build scalable and reliable smart computing systems, and how to use computing technology for resource sustainability to improve the human experience. Topics of interest include---but are not limited to---the following: Emerging Smart Computing Paradigms Evaluation Studies and Datasets of Smart Environments Algorithms for Smart Computing AI and Machine Learning in Smart Computing Security, Privacy, and Trust in Smart Computing Smart and Usable Security and Privacy Fairness and Socio-technical Aspects of Smart Computing Middleware for Smart Systems Mobile and Ubiquitous Smart Systems Cloud, Edge, and Fog based Smart Computing Platforms Data Architectures and Analytics for Smart Computing Computing for Smart and Connected Communities Smart Green Computing Distributed Sensing and Computation Social Computing and Smart Systems Wearable Computing and IoT Architectures and Software for Smart Computing Novel Communication Paradigms (e.g., 5G/6G, VLC, DSA) in Smart Computing Contact-free Sensing Backscatter Communicating Smart ComputingÂ Platforms Quantum Computing in Smart Systems Interdisciplinary Approaches to Smart Computing Applications of Smart Computing: - Healthcare and Digital Epidemiology - Agriculture - Smart Cities - Power Systems - Transportation - Water Distribution - Manufacturing - Workspaces Important Dates (All Deadlines are Anywhere on Earth) Paper Registration: February 23, 2023 Paper Submission: March 2, 2023 Acceptance Notification: April 4, 2023 Camera-ready Submission: May 10, 2023 Conference: June 26-30, 2023 The conference is planned as an in-person event in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The organizers will monitor the public health situation and may make adjustments if necessary. Paper Submission Guidelines Paper submissions must be no longer than 8 pages (the page count limit includes the references list) and formatted according to the two-column IEEE proceedings template. IEEE provides corresponding formatting templates at IEEE proceedings template. Authors should use the conference mode of the template, i.e., LaTeX users must use the conference option of the IEEEtran document class. Papers must be submitted electronically as a single PDF file on US Letter size paper (not A4), with all fonts embedded (PDF-A standard complies with this), through EDAS. All submitted papers that conform to these guidelines will be subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. All presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Journal Fast Track Extended versions of selected high-quality papers accepted by IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023 will be considered for publication in Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal (IF: 3.453). Program Chairs Aron Laszka, Pennsylvania State University, USA Stephan Sigg, Aalto University, Finland Contact Information For any questions about the conference, please contact the TPC Co-Chairs at smartcomp2023(a)list.aalto.fi<mailto:smartcomp2023@list.aalto.fi> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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IEEE HPSR 2023 -- Call for tutorials (Deadline: December 16, 2022)
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 18 Oct '22

18 Oct '22

CALL FOR TUTORIALS IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing Artificial Intelligent Next Generation (NextG) Integrated Communications and Computing Systems 5-7 June 2023 @ Albuquerque, New Mexico https://www.ieee-hpsr.org/ https://twitter.com/ieeehpsr2023 https://hpsr2023.ieee-hpsr.org/authors/call-for-tutorials/ *IEEE HPSR 2023 Organizing Committee is planning for an in-person conference and encourages the authors to participate physically; however, we understand that the pandemic situation is not over yet. Therefore, depending on the situation during the conference time, remote participation and online presentation may be allowed under special circumstances. IEEE HPSR 2023 seeks tutorial proposals on new and emerging topics within the scope of the conference. Guideline for Tutorial Proposals The proposal should not exceed 4 one-column pages and must include: 1. Title 2. Name, affiliation, and a short biography of each tutorial speaker. 3. Abstract, objectives, and motivation. 4. Timeliness, duration (e.g., 1.5h; 3h) and intended audience. 5. A description of the technical issues that the tutorial will address, emphasizing its timeliness. 6. An outline of the tutorial content, including its tentative schedule. 7. Pre-required environment (e.g., Virtual machine, PC characteristics, AWS account, etc.) 8. If appropriate, a description of the past/relevant experience of the speaker(s) on the topic of the tutorial. Submission of tutorial proposals should be made to the Tutorial Co-chairs of HPSR 2023 by email to the following addresses: Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy (chiara.boldrini(a)iit.cnr.it<mailto:chiara.boldrini@iit.cnr.it>) Important Dates: Submission deadline: December 16, 2022 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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CFM: Black Lives Matter, Ten Years Later
by Sarina Chen 18 Oct '22

18 Oct '22

Greetings! 2023 marks the ten-year anniversary of Black Live Matter (BLM), a grassroots and decentralized political/social movement seeking criminal justice for African Americans. BLM which began in 2013 as a hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, evolved into street demonstrations against police brutality in 2014 following the deaths of Eric Garner in New York City, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. In the subsequent years, in light of the deaths of numerous African Americans by police actions, many demonstrations, rallies, and die-ins were organized by BLM across the United States. What began as an online platform with a set of goals seeking criminal justice for African Americans, quickly expanded to a national network of over 30 chapters by 2016. The most notable demonstration of BLM movement occurred in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. An estimated 26 million people participated in the 2020 BLM protests in the United States, calling for criminal justice reform, as one of the largest demonstrations in U.S. history. In 2021, BLM was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Internet, not only was responsible for the expansions of the BLM movement across the United States, but also was credited for garnishing global solidarity around the world. People in many countries organized demonstrations in support of the BLM movement in the U.S.--Germany, Japan, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. BLM's Nobel Peace Prize nomination was submitted by Norwegian Parliament member, Peter Eide. Given the significance of the BLM movement, at its tenth anniversary, it is important to reflect on what the movement has accomplished in the past 10 years, as well as to project what the movement could attain in the future. More importantly, it is crucial to examine what political/social movements in the U.S., as well as those around the world, could learn from the BLM movement. It is with these goals, my colleagues and I are editing a volume, Black Lives Matter, Ten Year Later, and we are seeking your contribution. If you are interested in contributing to this volume, please send Shing-Ling Sarina Chen (sarina.chen(a)uni.edu) a 750-word (no more than 1000 words) abstract of your work by November 15, 2022. Please note that original research, empirical or theoretical, utilizing any perspective is welcomed. Topics to address include, but not limited to: BLM and the decentralized grassroots organization BLM and the Internet/Social Media BLM and African Americans BLM and the legislation BLM and counter movements (White Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, etc.) BLM and political/social movements in the U.S. BLM and political/social movements around the world BLM and non-profit fundraising BLM and misinformation BLM and the popular culture BLM and the children BLM and education Thank you for considering our call. Looking forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Shing-Ling Sarina Chen Professor Dept. of Communication and Media Univ. of Northern Iowa *************************************************

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Call for Applications: Winter School Digital practices and global inequalities, Feb 2023
by Meropi Tzanetakis 18 Oct '22

18 Oct '22

Dear colleagues, we are pleased to announce that the Research Platform Governance of Digital Practices <https://digigov.univie.ac.at/>will host an <https://digigov.univie.ac.at/teaching/winter-school/>*interdisciplinary and international winter school* <https://digigov.univie.ac.at/teaching/digigov-virtual-winter-school-digital…>**again**and the Call for applications is ready to be disseminated! Below you find a short invitation text you can use for promotion when sending it to your mailing lists, etc. The application deadline is on *25 November 2022*, we will choose 30 participants from all applications. In the meantime please continue with the detailed planning of your track(s): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wNdBGAn798gymFuthyKTEQsw3woN0O4KA71Gqe6… <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wNdBGAn798gymFuthyKTEQsw3woN0O4KA71Gqe6…>. */Digital practices and global inequalities/* /DigiGov Winter School 1-3 Feb //2023/ Digital practices determine how we are able to access resources and infrastructures. They co-shape and reflect existing dependencies and inequalities but they also amplify and perpetuate them. The *interdisciplinary and international DigiGov Winter School 2023* <https://digigov.univie.ac.at/teaching/digigov-virtual-winter-school-digital…> will therefore explore: */How do digital practices shape global inequalities?/* */How do global inequalities shape digital practices?/* */ /* Together with our members and affiliates as well as external experts from various disciplines and fields of practice, we will: * dive into topics such as digital activism driven by social change across the globe, data governance, and how to assess and operationalize public value * address inequities with a focus on ‘extractive practices’ and the in/visibilities of dependencies and exploitation using the socio-technical spheres around AI as exploratory space * discuss the enforcement of digital fundamental rights in Europe and beyond and through the lens of experienced NGO professionals. Our speakers include: * Tima Otu Anwana LL.M <https://id.univie.ac.at/team/univ-prof-dr-nikolaus-forgo/team/anwana-tima-o/> (University of Vienna), * Prof Joe Cannataci <https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-privacy/biography-joe-cannat…> (UN Special Rapporteur, University of Malta), * Seliem El-Sayed MA <https://digigov.univie.ac.at/team/> (University of Vienna), * Prof Vladan Joler <https://futureeverything.org/profile/vladan-joler/> (University of Novi Sad), * Dr Katja Mayer <https://digigov.univie.ac.at/team/> (University of Vienna), * Dr Ing Milagros Miceli <https://milamiceli.com/> (Weizenbaum Institute), * Dr Samuel Iheanyi Nwankwo <https://www.iri.uni-hannover.de/de/iheanyi-nwankwo> (Leibniz University Hannover), * Prof Barbara Prainsack <https://digigov.univie.ac.at/team/>(University of Vienna), * Noopur Raval PhD <https://noopur.xyz/> (UC Santa Cruz), * Prof Linnet Taylor <https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/l-e-m-taylor> (Tilburg University), and * Dr Christof Tschohl <https://researchinstitute.at/en/en-team/christof-tschohl> (Research Institute). *When & Where: *1 – 3 February 2023 | 9:00 - 16:30 CET incl. breaks, online via Zoom *Structure: *three modules per day | keynotes, presentations and interactive workshops * * *Participants:* early-stage researchers (PhD students and post-docs) who are eager to engage in discussion and exchange, open to colleagues from all disciplines with an interest in the topic. *Participation is free, but places are limited.* If you would like to participate please send a short outline of your motivation to participate, including a brief summary of the project(s) you are working on (1 page max.), to sonja.prendinger(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:sonja.prendinger@univie.ac.at> by *25 November 2022*. The members and affiliates of the Research Platform Governance of Digital Practices <https://digigov.univie.ac.at/> look forward to hearing from you! Please keep informed here <https://digigov.univie.ac.at/teaching/digigov-virtual-winter-school-digital…>. -- Dr. Meropi Tzanetakis (she/her) Lecturer in Digital Criminology Department of Criminology School of Social Sciences University of Manchester Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL Senior Research Fellow Interdisciplinary Research Platform 'Governance of digital practices' University of Vienna Editorial Board Member, Kriminologisches Journal (KrimJ) Elected Board Member, Economic Sociology Research Network, ESA Website homepage.univie.ac.at/meropi.tzanetakis Twitter @MeropiTzanet Skype meropitzanetakis PGP 013E EB43 74D3 B441 86ED 2B51 FB5F 9A3D 2DDB 2CA9 Recently published: Uncertainty and risk: A framework for understanding pricing in online drug markets, International Journal of Drug Policy, 2022, 101, 103535. Drugs and Digital Technologies, Special Issue, Kriminologisches Journal, 2021, 53(3). Doing Internet research with hard-to-reach communities: methodological reflections on gaining meaningful access, Qualitative Research, 2020, 20(6), 927-944. Drogen, Darknet und Organisierte Kriminalität/ Drugs, darknet and organised crime (2019).https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845282831

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Emerging Technology and AI policy positions at the ICO (UK)
by Sophia Ignatidou 18 Oct '22

18 Oct '22

Hi everyone, We continue to recruit for positions at the Information Commissioner Office's expanding Technology department. Please share or apply! *Principal Policy Advisers* https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/jobs/vacancies/vacancy?Advert=gE5zFbOjuK+0… https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/jobs/vacancies/vacancy?Advert=o+ZJXy2OOae0… *Senior Policy Officer* https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/jobs/vacancies/vacancy?Advert=aqngSVWBDmu0… -- Sophia Ignatidou ----------------------- /Group Manager for Technology Policy at the ICO /Academy Fellow (2018-2019) at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London

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Talk with Paola Ricaurte
by Jennifer Pybus 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

For anyone who missed this the first time, please join us later today for an on-line talk by Dr. Paola Ricaurte! Join the Department of Politics Seminar Series at York University, Toronto on Monday, October 17, 2022 from 2:00 to 4:00pm EDT Registration is required. Register<https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpd-CqqzMqGt0DdiKba-Q4bVt5hQ00PnF8> Title: Ethics for the majority world: AI and the question of violence at scale In this work, I argue that hegemonic AI is becoming a more powerful force capable of perpetrating global violence through three epistemic processes: datafication (extraction and dispossession), algorithmization (algorithmic mediation and governmentality) and automation (violence, inequality and displacement of responsibility). These articulated mechanisms lead to global classification orders and epistemic, economic, social, cultural and environmental inequality. Hegemonic AI can be thought of as a bio-necro-technopolitical machine that serves to maintain the capitalist, colonialist and patriarchal order of the world. To make this point, the proposed approach bridges the macro and micropolitical, building on Suely Rolnik’s call for understanding the effects of the macropolitical in the micropolitical, as well as what feminist black scholar Patricia Hill Collins made visible about oppressive systems operating at the structural, institutional and individual levels. I advocate for a feminist and decolonial ethics concerned with the preservation of life and the shared responsibility of AI harms to the majority of the planet. Dr. Paola Ricaurte is associate professor in the Department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Together with Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejías, she co-founded Tierra Común, a network of academics, practitioners and activists interested in decolonizing data. She is a member of the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms and leads the Latin American and Caribbean hub of the Feminist AI Research Network. In addition to her academic work, she participates in civil society initiatives to promote digital rights and the development of public interest technologies. _________________ Dr. Jennifer Pybus (she/her) Canada Research Chair in Data Democracy and AI Department of Politics YORK UNIVERSITY Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies 4700 Keele Street • Toronto ON • Canada • M3J 1P3 T: 416-736-5686. W: https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/jpybus/ Recent Publications Pybus, J., & Coté, M. (2021). Did you give permission? Datafication in the mobile ecosystem. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1877771 Blanke, T., & Pybus, J. (2020). The Material Conditions of Platforms - Monopolisation through Decentralisation. Social Media + Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120971632 -------------------------------- York University sits on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been cared for by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat, and the Métis.It is now home to many Indigenous Peoples. I acknowledge the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is subject to the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region. --------------------------------

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Re: [Air-L] AoIR 2022, Dublin: Undergraduate Teaching Workshop
by Holly Kruse 15 Oct '22

15 Oct '22

FINAL UPDATE: If you are attending AoIR in Dublin and want to participate in our undergraduate teaching pre-conference workshop, people need to register for workshops when they're paying for the conference overall (it's an option when they're signing up). There isn't a separate link. For changes after you've registered you can email Association Coordinator Michelle at ac(a)aoir.org <mailto:ac@aoir.org>. If you want to audit the undergraduate teaching workshop on Zoom, then you still just need to email me: holly.kruse(a)gmail.com <mailto:holly.kruse@gmail.com>. ----- This may be of interest to some on the cultural studies list: Adrienne Shaw (Temple University) and I (Holly Kruse, Rogers State University) are offering the Association of Internet Researchers’ second-ever pre-conference undergraduate teaching workshop, and first-ever in-person version of the workshop. There are still two or three openings available, so if you’re going to be in Dublin at the conference and would like to participate in the workshop on Wednesday, November 2 from 1:30-4:30 IST, please read more about the workshop and how to register for it here: https://aoir.org/aoir2022/preconfwrkshop/ <https://aoir.org/aoir2022/preconfwrkshop/> If you won’t be in Dublin but would like to audit the workshop, we will accepting up to 20 auditors who will be able to watch and listen to it via Zoom. The workshop will be focused on the in-person participants who have registered. We won’t be able to accommodate fully hybrid participation, but if time and technology allow you will be able to ask questions and make comments while the workshop is taking place. If you’re interested in auditing, please email me at holly.kruse(a)gmail.com <mailto:holly.kruse@gmail.com> If fewer than 20 people have asked to audit the workshop, I will send you the link to the Google doc for the workshop on which you will add your name and some other information. Best wishes, Holly holly.kruse(a)gmail.com <mailto:holly.kruse@gmail.com> ——— Undergraduate Teaching Workshop Organizers: Holly Kruse, Rogers State University and Adrienne Shaw, Temple University Last year we (Adrienne Shaw, Temple University and Holly Kruse, Rogers State University, along with Emily van der Nagel, Monash University) organized a first-ever Undergraduate Teaching Workshop at AoIR in order to address an overlooked area at AoIR conferences that is of critical importance to many AoIR members. Building on the momentum of that successful, entirely online workshop at AoIR 2021, we are offering a half-day (4-hour) undergraduate-teaching-focused workshop for the 2022 conference. The idea behind this workshop is that teaching is a big part of our academic lives, and in the classroom (on campus or virtual), our students’ understandings of social media and internet use don’t always align with broader press or research narratives. What do we learn from our students about the internet, how are we using the internet to teach, and what’s the best way of bringing AoIR research into our classrooms? How do we use the internet in teaching when our students don’t have broadband access, aren’t digitally-savvy, and when our institutions do not offer robust technical infrastructures or support? As professors with experience teaching that spans types of institutions, student populations, and institutional support, we understand that there are no one-size fits all solutions to teaching in ever changing technological and social contexts. Also, and building on last year’s workshop, this year’s workshop will attend to the ways that teaching loads, expectations, terms, and more. are different in different regions of the world. For that reason the workshop will be discussion/conversation-based so we can all learn from and with one another. The main event will be held in-person in Dublin, with the workshop planned primarily as an in-person event, but virtual participation by some registrants can also be accommodated by connecting them to each other and the in-person conversation over Zoom. The hybrid plans will remain flexible as the nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and other variables may demand and will be announced closer to the event. This workshop will adhere to AoIR’s Statement of Principles and Statement of Inclusivity <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, which is a commitment to academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity. This means that in this workshop, just like in the rest of the AoIR conference, no harassment or discrimination will be permitted, and members must commit to the inclusion and recognition of all members. We appreciate the participants in this session arriving with a shared sense of purpose, community, and respect as we discuss teaching today.

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: First Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
by Announce Announcements 15 Oct '22

15 Oct '22

*** First Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/ Proposals due: January 16, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 PROPOSAL FORMAT Workshop and tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF format via the Easy Chair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23, not exceeding 5 pages, and following the ACM single-column format. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROPOSALS ● For tutorials: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-tutorials/ ● For workshops: https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-workshops/ WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ACM UMAP 2023, the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program comprising different workshop formats, combining newly emerging, currently evolving and established research topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop schemas are possible, such as: ● Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic; participants may be asked to submit a white paper or position statement ● Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper submission and review processes ● Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation ● Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP general research topics ● Joint panels for different workshops We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas. We strongly suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that may attract various types of contributions and may ensure rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop web site containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timeline. They will be responsible for their own publicity and reviewing processes. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Hence, the workshop organizers will need to adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline. IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ● Proposal submission: January 16, 2023 ● Notification of proposal acceptance: January 30, 2023 ● Send the workshop description & website URL: February 23, 2023 ● Workshop Date: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ● New user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. exploiting data mining and big data analytics for user modeling, evaluation methodologies, data visualization, etc.) ● User modeling and personalization techniques for specific domains (e.g., health sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, education, internet of things, mobile, music, information retrieval, etc.) ● Application of user modeling and personalization techniques for information retrieval and recommender systems ● Eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account users’ emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, cognitive factors An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Tutorial presenters can have one page in the adjunct proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Proposals due: January 16, 2023 Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2023 Camera-ready tutorial summary: May 18, 2023 Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 18, 2023 Tutorial Day: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS CHAIRS ● Veronika Bogina, Haifa University, Israel sveron AT gmail.com ● Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNICEN antonela.tommasel AT isistan.unicen.edu.ar

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