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Undergraduate Summer Workshop at Syracuse University’s iSchool
by Jeff Hemsley 14 Oct '22

14 Oct '22

Hello everyone! I’m hoping you can help me get the word out about an NSF sponsored undergraduate event we are having here at Syracuse during the summer (details below). Since it is NSF sponsored, students do have to be US citizens, but we’d like to cast our net wide. If you can, please do forward the message below to your undergraduate audiences. Thank you, Jeff Hemsley Join our nine-week residential research experience in 2023, funded by the National Science Foundation. College students from all social science disciplines are welcome. Undergraduates from all social science disciplines are welcome to apply to this summer 2023 experience at the Syracuse campus in beautiful upstate New York. Successful applicants will receive $6000 in stipend funding plus free meals and housing. Syracuse University's School of Information Studies (iSchool) has excelled for more than 25 years at providing education for students interested in technology and its impacts on industry, education, health, the environment, and other sectors. The research experience includes learning about text analysis, conducting a social science research project using data provided by professors, and opportunities for professional development and mentoring. Successful applicants will receive $6000 in stipend funding plus free meals and housing. Undergraduate students from colleges and universities other that Syracuse University are eligible for this funding. Visit our website for more information and to fill out the online application form: https://ischool.syr.edu/summer-2023-paid-research-experience/

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): First Call for Workshops and Minisymposia
by Announce Announcements 14 Oct '22

14 Oct '22

*** First 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 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 2020 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 2020 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. (Submission address and deadline at the end) 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. - 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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New Open Access book Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement : In Search of the Opt Out Button
by Adi Kuntsman 14 Oct '22

14 Oct '22

Dear Aoirs! We wont be there in Dublin this year, unfortunately, to present the book in person, but wanted to share it with you in the meantime. The book is fully open access - free to download, no strings attached :) Download the book hereMany Aoir colleagues and friends witnessed the process of this book developing; some of you may remember the "fishbowl" session we held in Tallinn on the topic when the project was still in very early stages. Further info below , and a special thanks to Rob Kitchin, Benedetta Brevini, and Patrick Williams, for their commendations. Please read, share, spread the word (and get in touch if you are interested in write a review)Adi *** Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement:In Search of the Opt-Out Button Adi Kuntsman, Esperanza Miyake “The digital now thoroughly saturates our everyday lives to the point where it seems we are drowning. But is it possible to swim on our terms? This book thoughtfully examines this question, critically teasing apart the structures of power that permeate digital relations and charting pathways to a more just digital world. Essential reading for those who want to move beyond personal digital detoxes to challenge and transform our digital society and economy.” - Professor Rob Kitchin, author of The Data Revolution and Data Lives “The seductions of tech have ushered in the encroachment of technological solutions into policing, law enforcement and ever-widening systems of social regulation across the UK and Europe. This book marks a critical intervention – by conceptualising our understanding of the ways in which data and digital harms are systemically expended against the powerless. It is a must read for those of us who are concerned to resist the (digital) exclusion of the marginalised, and the (digital) banishment of the vulnerable.” - Dr Patrick Williams, author of Data-Driven Policing: The Hardwiring of Discriminatory Policing Practices Across Europe “While imaginaries of techno futures constructed by the Digital Lords of contemporary societies become self-fulfilling prophecies, we struggle to imagine a present and future free from digital coercion and exclusion. In their powerful interdisciplinary analysis, Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake delve into the personal, social, political and environmental costs of compulsory digitality. Rejecting a self-defeating naturalisation of digitality and digital inevitability Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement compellingly shows how collective digital justice is imperative in this future/present where the machine rules and people can become marginalized and excluded. A much-needed scholarly intervention that can inspire our collective thinking, research and praxis.” - Dr Benedetta Brevini, author of Is AI Good for the Planet? Life is increasingly governed and mediated through digital and smart technologies, platforms, big data and algorithms. However, the reasons, practices and impact of how the digital is used by different institutions are often deeply linked to social oppression and injustice. Similarly, the ability to resist these digital impositions is based on inequality and privilege. Challenging the ways in which we are increasingly dependent on the digital, this book raises a set of provocative and urgent questions: in a world of compulsory digitality is there an opt out button? Where, when, how, why and to whom is it available? Answering these questions has become even more relevant since the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the book puts forward the concept of ‘digital disengagement’ which is explored across six key areas of digitisation: health; citizenship; education; consumer culture; labour; and the environment. Part I examines the difficulty of opting out of compulsory digitality in a world where most things are digital by default. From health apps, algorithmic decision-making to learning analytics, opting out comes with a set of troubling consequences. Part II turns to several examples of disconnection and disengagement. The chapters reveal how phenomena like digital detoxes, time-management apps and online ‘green’ spaces are co-opted by the very digital systems one is trying to resist. The book critiques issues relating to digital surveillance, algorithmic discrimination and biased tech, corporatisation and monetisation of data, exploitative digital labour, digitalised self-discipline and destruction of the environment. As an interdisciplinary piece of work, the book will be useful to any scholar and activist in Digital, Internet and Social Media Studies; Digital Sociology and Social Policy; Digital Health; Media, Popular and Communication Studies; Consumer culture; and Environment Studies. | | | | University of Westminster Press University of Westminster Press (UWP) is an open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals and books. ... | | |

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AoIR 2022, Dublin: Undergraduate Teaching Workshop
by Holly Kruse 14 Oct '22

14 Oct '22

Update: I’m working on finding out the correct link to register for the workshop. I’ll post it here once I know what it is. I apologize for the confusion. -hk ----- 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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AoIR 2022, Dublin: Undergraduate Teaching Workshop
by Holly Kruse 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

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

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WEBCAST OCT 13 – IPNSIG Academy Talk 6: DTN’s Role in LunaNet – David Israel
by Joly MacFie 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

Even if you miss today's talk, do look at the LunaNet Overview slides <https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/lunanet_overview_to_ne…>, pretty impressive! Real time text https://bit.ly/3T5oVBB [image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/15830/>On *Thursday October 13 2022* at *5pm-6pm EDT* (21:00-22:00 UTC) the *Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group <https://ipnsig.org/>* (IPNSIG) presents the sixth *IPNSIG Academy <https://ipnsig.org/ipnsig-academy-events/>* presentation. '*DTN's Role in LunaNet <https://ipnsig.org/2022/09/23/october-ipnsig-academy-webinar/>* '. *David Israel <https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-israel-13b57012/>* will provide an overview of the *LunaNet <https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/lunanet_overview_to_ne…>* architecture concepts with an emphasis on DTN’s role in the architecture and the challenges for deployment and operations. *SPEAKER* *David J. Israel*, Exploration and Space Communications Projects Division Architect / Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Principal Investigator, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center *MODERATOR* *Scott Burleigh*, IPNSIG *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ipnsigacademy6 <https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/lunanet_overview_to_ne…>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3fya8jX <https://bit.ly/3fya8jX>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see *isoc.live <https://isoc.live/15830/>*) *TWITTER #IPNSIGacademy <https://bit.ly/3wkSJBq> #DTN #lunanet #LLCD David Israel @NASAGoddard @NASALaserComm @IPNSIG #space* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/> (*AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/ipnsigacademy6 <https://archive.org/details/ipnsigacademy6>* Permalink - https://isoc.live/15830/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CFP - Doing Global Media Studies: Theories, Practices, Reflections
by Bridges, Lauren Emily 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

Call for Proposals – CARGC Fellows’ Symposium 2023 Theme: Doing Global Media Studies: Theories, Practices, Reflections Date of conference: March 22 - 23, 2023 Deadline for abstract submissions: December 15, 2022 To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, the 2023 biannual fellows’ symposium will reflect on evolving concepts and methodologies in the field of global communication and media studies. We are witnessing ongoing global crises, from widespread displacements and climate disasters, to pandemics and the rising threat of fascism. In light of these circumstances, we invite emerging scholars, artists, and activists to explore what a global approach to media and communication can do today. What is at stake in studying global communication and media at this historical moment? We seek to decenter Western epistemologies by foregrounding the local, the situated, and the relational interconnectedness of cultures, institutions, and infrastructures through media. In an effort to think beyond the national frameworks typically employed by area studies, we foreground transregional methods and frameworks of study that situate the global within the local and vice versa. Bringing together questions of the global and the local allows us as scholars to be reflective and reflexive, to situate our own scholarship within the world, rather than from an imagined, 'objective' outside. We invite scholarly and creative projects, including research papers, creative writing, video essays or documentaries, sound or audio projects, artistic installations, and performances. We welcome submissions from early career scholars, as well as artists and activists whose work engages these issues. Submissions from scholars, artists, and activists based in the Global South are particularly encouraged. Topics may include: * Activist interventions, inclusive practices, and in/equity in global communication and media * Epistemologies of the planetary, the global, and the local and their interrelations * Mediating (neo)colonialism, environmental extractivism, and competing sovereignties * The politics of translation, comparative frameworks, and regional approaches * Media’s im/mobilities and south-to-south flows of cultural exchange * Global perspectives on ( the failures of) communicating mis/disinformation, nonsense, and noise * Global political economy of media industries, platforms, and popular culture The keynote address will be given by Professor Purnima Mankekar. Conference Format & Timeline The CARGC Fellows symposium will take place at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA and online on March 22 & 23, 2023. The symposium is planned as a hybrid event, with in-person participation highly encouraged. It will feature a keynote address by Dr. Purnima Mankekar and roundtable sessions (in which participants will give 5-8 minute flash presentations of their work). Senior scholars will act as discussion facilitators for the roundtable sessions, responding to and providing feedback on participants’ work. The purpose of these roundtables is to foster discussion between participants before opening up to a wider Q&A from the audience. Accepted participants will also be invited to a professional development workshop on teaching global media studies and communication. * Keynote address and in-person roundtable sessions will be made accessible to global audiences through Zoom. Please note that the professional development workshop is for symposium presenters only. * Accepted participants with financial need may apply for a travel grant to offset a portion of the cost of travel * Timeline: Submission deadline for abstracts is December 15, 2022. Acceptance notifications will be sent to selected participants by late January 2023. Please note that although all sessions will be held in a roundtable format, participants are still asked to circulate their conference-length papers and/or creative work to their roundtable chair. Submission Guidelines: [Important Note: Participant(s) may only submit one proposal to the conference. Proposals should be uploaded through our submission platform here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJsy7I2iK5qJ6qOJ9uwjXqxESZSWrapTt…>] Academic Paper Submissions: * Select “Academic paper” on the submission form * Abstracts and presentations should be in English * Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words (excluding references) * The abstract must clearly and succinctly describe the paper’s topic, argument, theoretical framework, or theories from which the project draws from, context/data, method/research approach, and expected results/findings/intervention. * Please indicate whether you intend to participate in person or virtually Creative and Multimodal Work Submissions: * Select the appropriate format (“Audio submission,” “Short film or documentary,” or “Creative writing”, “Performance”, “Installation” ) on submission form * Abstracts should be in English; creative works in other languages should be accompanied by English captions * The abstract should be a description of your project no longer than 300 words (excluding any references) * The description should highlight how the piece addresses or grapples with the conference theme and/or the topics listed above * You may also provide a link to your multimodal project (though this is not required) * Please indicate whether you intend to participate in person or virtually Please note that to keep the conference interactive and to leave room for questions and discussion, participants must be available to present their work synchronously during the conference, either in person or via Zoom. Deadline for submissions is December 15, 2022. For any questions or concerns, e-mail cargc(a)asc.upenn.edu<mailto:cargc@asc.upenn.edu> Submit your proposal HERE<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJsy7I2iK5qJ6qOJ9uwjXqxESZSWrapTt…>

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Preliminary Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

*** Preliminary Call for Papers *** 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/ ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital Library. The theme of UMAP 2023 is "Personalization in Times of Crisis”. Specifically, we welcome submissions that highlight the impact that critical periods (such as the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and climate change, to name a few) can have on user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems; the focus is on investigations that capture how these trying times may have influenced user behavior and whether new models are required. While we encourage submissions related to this theme, the scope of the conference is not limited to the theme only. As always, contributions from academia, industry, and other organizations discussing open challenges or novel research approaches are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis). Important Dates • Paper Abstracts: January 19, 2023 (mandatory) • Full paper: January 26, 2023 • Notification: April 11, 2023 • Camera-ready: May 2, 2023 • Conference: June 26 - 29, 2023 Note: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) Conference Topics We welcome submissions related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation of (intelligent) systems targeting a broad range of users and domains. Detailed descriptions and the suggested topics for each track will be available shortly in the extended version of the CFP on the UMAP 2023 website. Personalized Recommender Systems This track invites works from researchers and practitioners on recommender systems. In addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects of recommendations, we welcome research contributions that address questions related to user perception, decision-making, and the business value of recommender systems. Adaptive, Semantic, Knowledge, and Social Graphs This track welcomes works focused on the use of knowledge representations (i.e., novel knowledge bases), graph algorithms (i.e., graph embedding techniques), and social network analysis at the service of addressing all aspects of personalization, user model building, and personal experience in online social systems. Moreover, this track invites works in adaptive hypermedia, as well as semantic and social web. Intelligent User Interfaces This track invites works exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, leveraging solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Personalizing Learning Experiences through User Modeling This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to submit their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy Researchers, developers, and practitioners have a social responsibility to account for the impact that technologies have on individuals (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and society. This track invites works related to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy, beneficial to society, and accountable for their impacts. Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems This track invites submissions focused on personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but not limited to personalization models, user models, computational personalization, design, and evaluation methods. It also welcomes work that brings attention to the user experience and designing personalized and adaptive behavior change technologies. Virtual Assistants, Conversational Interactions, and Personalized Human-robot Interaction This track invites works investigating new models and techniques for adapting synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, social robots) to individual users. With the conversational modality so in vogue across disciplines, this track welcomes work highlighting the model and deployment of synthetic companions driven by conversational search and recommendation paradigms. Research Methods and Reproducibility This track invites submissions on methodologies to evaluate personalized systems, benchmarks, and measurement scales, with particular attention to the reproducibility of results and techniques. Furthermore, the track looks for submissions that report new insights from reproducing existing works. Submission and Review Process Submissions for any of the aforementioned tracks should have a maximum length of *14 pages* (excluding references) in the ACM new single-column format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) (Papers of any length up to 14 pages are encouraged; reviewers will comment on whether the size is appropriate for the contribution.) Additional review criteria and submission link will be available shortly on the conference website: https://www.um.org/umap2023/ . Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference. At least one author should register for the conference by the early registration date cut-off. UMAP uses a *double-blind* review process. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from their submissions; they should also avoid obvious identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors' prior work should be in the third person. Submissions not abiding by anonymity requirements will be desk rejected. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) Program Chairs • Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, Austria • Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands Contact information: umap2023-program(a)um.org

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new open access book: Creating Chaos Online
by Asta Ze 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

New book (free open access) on disinformation online published this week by University of Michigan Press: *Creating Chaos Online: Disinformation and Subverted Post-Publics* by Asta Zelenkauskaite: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/7h149s20q Short description: With the prevalence of disinformation geared to instill doubt rather than clarity, Creating Chaos Online unmasks disinformation when it attempts to pass as deliberation in the public sphere and distorts the democratic processes. Asta Zelenkauskaitė finds that repeated tropes justifying Russian trolling were found to circulate across not only all analyzed media platforms' comments but also across two analyzed sociopolitical contexts suggesting the orchestrated efforts behind messaging. Through a dystopian vision of publics that are expected to navigate in the sea of uncertain both authentic and orchestrated content, pushed by human and nonhuman actors, Creating Chaos Online offers a concept of post-publics. The idea of post-publics is reflected within the continuum of treatment of public, counter public, and anti-public. This book argues that affect-instilled arguments used in public deliberation in times of uncertainty, along with whataboutism constitute a playbook for chaos online. If you are interested in hard copy you can use promotion code UMF22 to get 30% off at press.umich.edu. Asta Zelenkauskaite, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Graduate Program in Communication, Culture, & Media Affiliated with Center for Science, Society, and Technology Drexel University 3201 Arch, #165 Philadelphia, PA 19104 *2021-22 Provost Fellow for Global* *Engagement, Drexel University* *co-chair IAMCR Audience section* *co-chair AABS Communication and the Media division* *Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cDxS2wwAAAAJ&hl=lt&oi=ao <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cDxS2wwAAAAJ&hl=lt&oi=ao>* *Author: **Creating Chaos Online: Disinformation and Subverted Post-Publics, **University of Michigan Press, September 2022 https://www.press.umich.edu//12237294 <https://www.press.umich.edu//12237294>*

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Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology discussed on CaMP blog
by Ilana Gershon 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

Dear Colleagues, Today, Patricia Lange discusses the Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology, a volume she edited with Elizabetta Costa, Nell Haynes, and Joynna Sinanan. https://campanthropology.org <https://campanthropology.org> 20% Discount Available - enter the code FLE22 at checkout* * Offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount and only applies to books purchased directly via the publisher’s website (www.routledge.com/9781032007762) Best, Ilana

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