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ICA Preconference: Mis/disinformation and the artifices of authenticity and authentication
by ganaele 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

Dear Colleagues, The following CFP might be of interest. ICA 2023 PRE-CONFERENCE Mis/disinformation and the artifices of authenticity and authentication - Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2023. 9:00 - 17:00 - Venue: York University, Toronto - Division affiliation: Communication & Technology Division - Fee: Registration will be free - Call for Abstract deadline: December 20, 2022 Description: The construction of authentic-feeling yet untrue information, content, experiences, and relations is central to successful mis/disinformation campaigns. The most outrageous lies can catalyze opinions, behaviours and actions–as long as they appear authentic in spirit, or come from a place or person that feels authentic. Authenticity is the lever of the mis/disinformation complex: it is cultivated and maintained through investments in mass-personal social networks (Gehl & Lawson, 2022) that articulate together Russian bots and Donald Trump, global conspiracies and one’s mundane chats. They channel interest in the health benefits of oregano oil into paranoia about covert mass chip implants through vaccination campaigns. National and global mis/disinformation networks rearticulate authenticity within local contexts while leveraging social media techniques and content. Such industries of mis/disinformation are linked to violent and subtle forms of erasure, othering, and denial, from the rejection of and attacks against the inauthentic human according to fascist logics (Bratich, 2022), to the deadly denial of basic realities like climate change or the benefits of masking during an air-borne pandemic. Thus the rejection of most values and realities as inauthentic in network cultures fuels cynicism, and motivates shitposting, trolling, and bullshitting. Yet the contradiction of these reactionary postures is that they can only perpetuate the very desire for authenticity that they deny. The industry of mis/disinformation comes in to fill in that breach: it invests in new distributions of the sensible (Rancière, 2019) and establishes relations of absolute trust within homophilic networks and communities of the same (Chun, 2021). It also outwardly delegitimizes the suffering of others and inwardly deadens and represses any true sense of empathy towards an Other. After dismantling and reassembling the socio-psychological experience of users in such fashion, the industry of mis/disinformation turns towards justifying and legitimizing fear and hatred by articulating them with other social emotions, formulating explosive cocktails of affective intensities that fill in for the yearning for authenticity. Traditional affective structures are reworked to face threats: fear for oneself, one’s family and one’s future about to be destroyed by enemies near and close. In response to these threats, the networked and physical spaces of encounters with radically different others become the dangerous thing from which to turn away, with many users channelling their affects instead towards nationalistic pride, anger and revenge, blind trust in one’s closed off community, and quasi-religious ecstasy in communing with like-minded people. In summary: fabricated mis/disinformation involves the construction of felt, visceral experiences that are then defined as authentic. Through this, authenticity becomes an artifice with direct affective and emotional impact. Mis/disinformation is not just about troubling notions of truth and facticity to destabilize rational democratic communication, but about the production of performances of authenticity both mundane and spectacular. These performances establish norms and practices of authentication – how something comes to be perceived as authentic by a receiving party. And these artifices take on multiple forms, from rhetorical performances to the labour of algorithmic recommendations, from CGI to discursive norms. They mobilize proxies; technical, discursive and cultural norms; sociotechnological affordances; bodies; and cognitive and non-cognitive processes. They feed off and ride on affective, cultural and informational dynamics, which they organize through fast responding junctures and disjunctures, linking disparate data points into clusters that then gain greater network visibility and therefore normalization, all the while constantly refashioning themselves to respond to informational flows and cultural and political reactions. For this pre-conference, we seek critical explorations of authenticity and authentication as they relate to digital manipulation and digital artifice. - How is authenticity in turn caught, created, faked, authenticated and managed through digital assemblages? - How is it both constructed as a felt experience, as well as machinized though automated recognition patterns? - If authenticity is key to misinformation, then what kind of interventions can we imagine to question, and undermine such articulation? - What new algorithms of authenticity (Chun 2021) could we imagine and deploy? We are particularly interested in research that examines the fabrication of digitally mediated authentic experiences, be they non-conscious and habitual, or spectacular and deeply meaningful. We are interested in research that explores how objects and persons come to be seen and experienced as authentic and inauthentic, which includes paying attention to how authenticity – in its affective, emotional, non-conscious and cognitive dimensions – is constructed via technical affordances, media habits, political rhetoric, mass-personal communication, network rhythms, recommendation algorithms and targeted campaigns. Equally, we are interested in work that critically and creatively challenges the articulation of authenticity with misinformation. We welcome a wide array of methodological approaches – qualitative, quantitative, speculative, creative, participatory, collaborative and others. We are open to different formats of intervention, from traditional papers to research-creation. We also welcome proposals for short workshops (1 hour length), demonstrations and other modes of collaborative inquiries. Deadline: Please submit 150-200 words abstract to ICA2023Preconf(a)gmail.com by December 20, 2022. Notices of acceptance will be sent on 11 January 2023. Organizers: - Ganaele Langlois (Communication and Media Studies, York University) - Wendy Chun (Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University) - Alberto Lusoli (Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University) - Anthony Burton (School of Communication, Simon Fraser University) For inquiries and information, please contact the organizing committee at ICA2023Preconf(a)gmail.com. The conference is funded by the generous support of York University, the Canada 150 Research Chairs program, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). -- Ganaele Langlois (she/her) Associate Professor and Chair Department of Communication & Media Studies York University

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Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022): Call for Late Breaking Results
by Announce Announcements 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

*** Call for Late Breaking Results *** Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022, Virtual Event https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 (Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS; Journal Special Issues with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier); Best Paper Award sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF) *** Deadline: November 1st AoE (firm!) *** IHAW 2022 accepts now submissions for late breaking results. The instructions to authors remain the same, as for the regular submissions. Accepted papers will be published in the same proceedings volume with the regular submissions and will be eligible both for the Best Paper Award and to be selected for the special journal issues that will be prepared after the conference. ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on "ICT for Societal Challenges". It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation and standardization of new ICT scalable systems and in-silico systems for new and future inclusive and sustainable technologies that benefit all: healthy people, people with disabilities or other impairments, people having chronic diseases, etc. User-centered design and innovation, new intuitive ways of human -computer interaction, and user acceptance are the topics of particular interest. Conference Topics Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Artificial Intelligence, Computation and Data Analytics • Artificial Intelligence methods for medical device testing. • Algorithms, methods and services for condition-specific intervention (e.g., diabetes, obesity, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health). • Algorithms, methods and services for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Medical Data and/or Medical Image Analysis. • Electronic Medical Records Analysis. • Computational methods for medical devices. Human Computer Interaction and Cognition • Human-Machine Interaction for healthcare and well-being. • Cognitive Mechatronics for healthcare and well-being. • Models for human-device interaction for medicine. • Cobotics for healthcare and well-being. • Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and well-being. Assistive Devices • Precision medicine. • ICT for in-silicon trials. • Implantable medical devices. • Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory, cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments. ICT & Wellbeing • Age-friendly systems for active and healthy ageing (telepresence, robotics solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care, integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection). • ICT systems to improve the quality of life and for daily life activities assistance (education, recreation, and nutrition). • Smart living homes and wearables (Intelligent and personalized digital solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living; personalized early risk detection and intervention). • Smart Systems and services promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural environment. • IoT and smart real-time surveillance systems for monitoring, auditing and control to prevent the spread of the pandemic. • eHealth smart solutions in the fight against a COVID-19 like pandemic. • IoT and Smart Healthcare systems with an environmentally friendly and sustainable footprint. Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Operation Services • Distributed and connected digital healthcare services. • IoT services for real-time monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • Wearable devices and IoT systems for remote monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • mHealth services and applications using mobile and wearable devices to collect community and clinical health data, and deliver healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients. • Sustainable city environments for emergency health management. • 5G and beyond for healthcare in sustainable smart cities. • Wireless Sensor Networks for advanced smart healthcare in sustainable cities. Quality in Healthcare Systems • New experimental validation methods with end-users. • Systems and services for ensuring patient’s commitment to the medication schedule. • Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development. • Communication systems and services improving the quality of patient and healthcare provider contact before, during and after admission. • Methods and Technology for Improving the quality of services-oriented care delivery systems. • Methods, Digital Tools and/or Services for inclusive-for-all healthcare systems. • Co-Creation of healthcare systems for social well being of people with special needs, older adults and/or deprivileged or disadvantaged people. • Systems for management of health and care (mental health, pain, neurological disorders, sight, hearing, balance, space awareness; sensory based physiological and psychological non-invasive measurements, preventive healthcare, m-healthcare, e-healthcare, integrated care, serious games, electronic health record, self- management, patient-centered systems for survivorship, palliation and/or end-of-life care). Privacy, Security & Standardization • Standardization, certification, labelling, and communication issues (related to ageing well, to sensory impairment). • Privacy and Security/Regulation compliant services in health care systems (e.g., HIPAA). • Security and privacy of digital health systems and service. • Socio-economic issues of smart healthcare in sustainable societies. • Privacy, security and ethics in eHealth smart solutions and surveillance at scale in the fight against a COVID-19 pandemic. High-quality original submissions that address such future issues, show the design and evaluation in (near-) real scenarios, explain how to benchmark systems, and outline the education and training procedures for acquiring new perceptual skills while using such systems are welcome. Research and technical papers are expected to present significant and original contributions validated with the targeted end-users. Submissions should clearly state the progress beyond the existing state-of- the-art and the expected societal benefits of the developed technology. When possible, validate scenarios with the target user groups and well-identified technology readiness levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level) should be at least outlined. Submissions We invite Research and Technical papers, up to 15 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. As was the case for IHAW 2021, the proceedings of IHAW 2022 will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) and will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. The Best Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF. The authors of the best papers accepted and presented at IHAW2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible inclusion in either of two Journal Special Issues that will be organised with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier). Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer format for conference proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icihaw2022 . Important Dates • Submission Deadline: November 1, 2022 (AoE, firm!) • Notification: November 15, 2022 • Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: November 24, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: November 24, 2022 Organizers Honorary General Chair • Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Scientific Chair • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus Scientific Vice-Chair • Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico Publicity Chair • Jessica Allingham, Lakehead University, Canada Finance Chair • Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD, Cyprus Steering and Program Committee • https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022/committees/

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WEBCAST OCT 6 – Reawakening Digital Trade: Diverse Stakeholder Considerations Around The Future of the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework
by Joly MacFie 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

When today's event is described as a 'roundtable', that is exactly what it is. We will livestream direct from a conference room at AU. Real time Text will be at https://bit.ly/3T2Sao8 [image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/15817>On *Thursday October 6, 2022*, at *10:30-12:00 EDT* (14:30 UTC) *i2Coalition <https://i2coalition.com/>* and *eco <https://international.eco.de/>*, along with partners *Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society <https://isoc-dc.org/>* and the* Inclusive Tech Policy Initiative <https://www.american.edu/centers/itp/>* at American University, host a roundtable '*Reawakening Digital Trade: Diverse Stakeholder Considerations Around The Future of the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework <https://bit.ly/AU-TADPF>*'. This is the first of two sessions in which the leading associations of the Internet Industry in the European Union and the United States convene key individuals in government, industry, and academia at American University in Washington, D.C., to discuss the legal frameworks that could make or break the Internet economy on both sides of the Atlantic. This event is financially sponsored by the *Fieldfisher <https://www.fieldfisher.com/en>* law firm. *HOST / FACILITATOR* *Christian Dawson*, Executive Director, i2Coalition *OPENING REMARKS* *Alex Greenstein*, Director, Privacy Shield, U.S. Department of Commerce *ROUNDTABLE* *Catherine Stihler*, CEO, Creative Commons *Kate Charlet*, Director for Data Governance, Google *David Snead*, General Counsel, cPanel / Co-Founder, i2Coalition *Ruth Berry*, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Information and Communications Policy, Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, U.S. Department of State *Alissa Starzak*, Vice President, Global Head of Public Policy, Cloudflare *Oliver J. Süme*, Chair of the Board, eco – Association of the Internet Industry / Partner, Fieldfisher *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/au-tadpf <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/au-tadpf>* *PARTICIPATE https://bit.ly/AU-TADPF <https://bit.ly/AU-TADPF>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see* ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/15817>*) *TWITTER #TADPF <https://bit.ly/3y5mUNk> @i2Coalition @eco_EN @isocdc @AmericanU @Fieldfisher @CommerceGov @StateCDP @mrcjdawson @C_Stihler @KateCharlet @wdsneadpc @AlissaStarzak @OSueme #digitaltrade * *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/au-tadpf <https://archive.org/details/au-tadpf>* *Permalink https://isoc.live/15817/ <https://isoc.live/15817/>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CFP: ACM Web Science Conference (#WebSci23)
by Katherine Ognyanova 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

Dear all, We'd like to invite your submissions to the 15th ACM Web Science Conference to be held as a hybrid online/offline event April 30 – May 1, 2023 in Austin, Texas, USA (co-located with The Web Conference). The emphasis this year is on Inequalities in the Face of Concurrent Crises. You can find the full call here: [1]https://websci23.webscience.org/call-for-papers/ Please upload your submissions by November 30, 2023 via EasyChair: [2]https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci23 Feel free to contact us with any questions at websci23papers(a)easychair.org Program Committee Chairs Katherine Ognyanova Harsh Taneja Ingmar Weber ______________________________________________________ CFP: 15th ACM Web Science Conference (#WebSci23) Hybrid event, Austin, Texas, USA (co-located with The Web Conference) April 30 – May 1, 2023 [3]https://websci23.webscience.org/ Submissions accepted at [4]https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci23 by November 30, 2023 Important Dates * Wed, November 30, 2022 Paper submission deadline * Tue, January 31, 2023 Notification * Tue, February 28, 2023 Camera-ready versions due * Sun-Mon, April 30 – May 1, 2023 Conference dates Possible topics across methodological approaches and digital contexts include but are not limited to: Understanding the Web * Trends in globalization, fragmentation, rejoining, and Balkanization of the Web * The architecture and philosophy of the Web * Automation and AI in all its manifestations relevant to the Web * Critical analyses of the Web and Web technologies Making the Web Inclusive * Issues of discrimination and fairness * Intersectionality and design justice in questions of marginalization and inequality * Ethical challenges of technologies, data, algorithms, platforms, and people on the Web * Safeguarding and governance of the Web, including anonymity, security and trust * Inclusion, literacy and the digital divide The Web and Everyday Life * Social machines, crowd computing and collective intelligence * Web economics, social entrepreneurship, and innovation * Legal issues, including rights and accountability for AI actors * Humanities, arts, and culture on the Web * Politics and social activism on the Web * Online education and remote learning * Health and well-being online * Social presence in online professional event spaces * The Web as a source of news and information Doing Web Science * Data curation, Web archives and stewardship in Web Science * Temporal and spatial dimensions of the Web as a repository of information * Analysis and modelling of human vs automatic behavior (e.g., bots) * Analysis of online social and information networks * Detecting, preventing and predicting anomalies in Web data (e.g., fake content, spam) Format of the submissions Please upload your submissions via EasyChair: [5]https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci23 All accepted submissions will be assigned an oral presentation (of two different lengths). There are two submission formats. Full papers should be between 6 and 10 pages (inclusive of references, appendices, etc.). Full papers typically report on mature and completed projects. Short papers should be up to 5 pages (inclusive of references, appendices, etc.). Short papers will primarily report on high-quality ongoing work not mature enough for a full-length publication. More details and template links are available at [6]https://websci23.webscience.org/call-for-papers/ For any questions and queries regarding the paper submission, please contact the chairs at [7]websci23papers(a)easychair.org Katherine Ognyanova (Rutgers University) Harsh Taneja (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) Ingmar Weber (Saarland University) References 1. https://websci23.webscience.org/call-for-papers/ 2. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci23 3. https://websci23.webscience.org/ 4. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci23 5. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci23 6. https://websci23.webscience.org/call-for-papers/ 7. mailto:websci23papers@easychair.org

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PhD scholarship: Museum Digital and Social Futures
by Larissa Hjorth 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

RMIT Classification: Trusted Dear AoiR We have a PhD scholarship to explore Museum Digital and Social Futures. Do you know someone who might be interested? This PhD scholarship is attached to an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage project that will codesign and evaluate digital, social and material museum experiences with Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI). We are seeking applicants interested in media studies, communication design, digital ethnography and codesign to undertake a PhD exploring museum experiences as they move across digital, social and material spaces and places. Please see below for details: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/careers-opportunities/scholarships/researc… Many thanks Larissa -- PLEASE NOTE: I do not work Fridays. Thanks for your patience. Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth School of Media & Communication RMIT University GPO Box 2476 Melbourne Wurundjeri (VIC 3001 Australia) www.larissahjorth.net<http://www.larissahjorth.net> I acknowledge the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. I respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past, present and emerging. Always was and always will be. Recent publication: Hjorth, L. (2022) Careful Digital Kinship. Communication, Culture and Critique, 15 (2): 227-243.<https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article-abstract/15/2/227/6571687?redirectedFr…> Hjorth, L., Coombs, G., Hussey-Smith, K. and J. Van Loon (2022) Work, care and creativity in a time of COVID-19: creatively mapping presence bleed in the home, Digital Creativity.<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14626268.2022.2082487?src=>

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New book announcement - Deepfakes
by Graham Meikle 12 Oct '22

12 Oct '22

Hi everyone With the usual apologies for self-promotion and cross-posting, some of you may be interested in my book about deepfakes, published this week by Polity<https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=deepfakes--9781509548200>. Here’s the back cover blurb to give you an idea: What happens when we can no longer believe what we see? Show the AI technologies that create deepfakes enough images of a celebrity or a politician and they will generate a convincing video in which that person appears to say and do things they have never actually said or done. The result is a media environment in which anyone’s face and image can be remixed and manipulated. Graham Meikle explains how deepfakes (synthetic media) are made and used. From celebrity porn and political satire to movie mash-ups and disinformation campaigns, this book explores themes of trust and consent as face-swapping software becomes more common. Meikle argues that deepfake videos allow for a new perspective on the taken-for-granted nature of contemporary media, in which our capacity to remix and share content increasingly conflicts with our capacity to trust. The book analyses how such videos deepen the social media environment in which the public and the personal converge, and in which all human experience becomes data to be shared. Timely, clear, and accessibly written, this is an essential text for students and scholars of media, communication, cultural studies, and sociology as well as general readers. ‘If you want to understand the rapidly changing world of deepfakes, this is the place to start. Meikle shows how synthetic media emerge from social media, and he elegantly traces the ways in which they are embedded in complex dynamics of power, representation, and manipulation.’ Kate Crawford, author of Atlas of AI ‘Deepfakes is an astute and accessible examination of the challenges and opportunities presented by synthetic media, providing a vital roadmap to answer the big question these technologies provoke: can we really trust what we see with our own eyes online?’ Tama Leaver, Curtin University All the best, gm --------------------- Professor Graham Meikle Director, Communication and Media Research Institute College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries University of Westminster, UK National Teaching Fellow<https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/awards/teaching-excellence-awards/national-tea…> Latest book — Deepfakes<https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=deepfakes--9781509548200>, available autumn 2022 The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.

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#AoIR2022 Student Paper Award
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 11 Oct '22

11 Oct '22

The 2022 AoIR Student Paper Award has been awarded to Vincent Obia for his paper, “Matrix of Dependence, Postcolonialism, and Social Media Regulation in an African Context. <https://www.conftool.org/aoir2022/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_sessio…> ” The paper was highlighted for its focus on the very important topic of digital media regulation but also for its clear-eyed application of a postcolonial lens. It emphasises the importance of situating policy analysis and policy itself in its domestic context but also the importance of understanding that context as bound within flows of dependency, domination, and autonomy. Congratulations also go to Alaina George and Nicholet Deschine Parkhurst whose paper, “Infrastructures of Care in NDN Spaces: Mutual Aid as a Form of Radical Relationality <https://www.conftool.org/aoir2022/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_sessio…>,” was Highly Commended. Their paper not only does the important work of showcasing Indigenous modes of knowing but does that within a wider intersectional feminist approach, offering the kind of radical decentring of colonial thought that is so vital to developing a just research agenda. We congratulate Vincent, Alaina, and Nicholet! Be sure to check out their papers at the conference <https://aoir.org/aoir2022/>.

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Fwd: Join the TTO Conference this week
by Ahmed Medien 11 Oct '22

11 Oct '22

Hi everyone, We invite you to join us at Truth and Trust Online Conference 2022 online and in Boston on October 12, 13 and 14. Last few days to join us and many others live. We're looking forward to connecting with you. Sign up on the online registration page <https://pheedloop.com/register/EVEJJIVUKDRQZ/attendee/?> In-person registration: truthandtrustonline.com/tickets Full programme: https://truthandtrustonline.com/tto-2022-conference-schedule/ — Fin ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: MisinfoCon <samantha(a)hackshackers.com> Date: Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 2:59 PM Subject: Join the TTO Conference this week To: <ahmed(a)hackshackers.com> <https://hackshackers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8a…> Updates It's finally here! The Conference for Truth and Trust Online <https://hackshackers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8a…> is happening all week, both online and in-person in Boston. <https://hackshackers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8a…> You can still register to attend on its website <https://hackshackers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8a…> or show up in person. Tomorrow (Wednesday) is a full day of online workshops, panels and other talks. The schedule of events is here <https://hackshackers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8a…>. Get your ticket now! News from around the misinformation space - Over 1,000 people engaged with the Misinformation Village <https://hackshackers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8a…>, co-hosted by MisinfoCon, last month at DEFCON30. Around two dozen speakers from Europe and the US shared paper presentations, technical talks and demonstrations of products at the village, and most of the slides can be viewed on its website here <https://hackshackers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8a…> . - NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics and the Torr Vision Group at Oxford University designed a framework called SimPPL (simulate people) <https://hackshackers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8a…> that generates a realistic model of how users make decisions and posting, commenting and voting on content on Reddit. It was designed to estimate harms from coordinated behavior on social networks. - The Observatory on Social Media developed a public-facing tool called Botometer <https://hackshackers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8a…> to detect bots on Twitter, and this paper <https://hackshackers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8a…> presents a tutorial on how it works, different ways to access it, an illustrative case study and recommendations for practitioners. <https://hackshackers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8a…> Events, funding & deadlines Some new opportunities: - Hacks/Hackers, a global network of journalists, technologists and grassroots organizations that explore technical ways to tell stories, is hiring a Director of Operations <https://hackshackers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8a…> to oversee its HR, finance and administrative responsibilities. The job is remote, hours are flexible, and salary range is from $80,000 to $100,000. - The application window has been extended for WikiCred grants <https://hackshackers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8a…>, between $250 and $10,000, to fund pilot projects that support credibility on the internet using Wikimedia data and tools. The CFP is now open through November 28. - The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is hiring a two-year postdoctoral fellow <https://hackshackers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8a…> to work with the Just Tech and Media and Democracy teams in Brooklyn, NY. The position is part of the Data Fluencies project <https://hackshackers.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8a…>, and will work on grant programs, research development workshops and other field-building activities alongside their own research. And lastly… do you have an event, a funding opportunity, a thought to share with the MisinfoCon community? 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Jobs on tech and human rights
by Jat Singh 11 Oct '22

11 Oct '22

The Alan Turing Institute - the UK's national centre for AI and data science - has several researcher positions open to work at the intersection of technology and human rights that may be of interest. The first with more a social sciences background: * Participatory AI & Data Justice: https://cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/research-associate-parti… And two more technically-oriented posts: * Data Science & Machine Learning in Human Rights: https://cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/research-associate-data-… * Privacy, Security & Trust for Human Rights: https://cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/research-associate-priva… Work is interdisciplinary, involving collaborations across UK Universities including Warwick, Queen Mary, Oxford and Cambridge. Note the deadlines are soon! -------------------------------------- Jat Singh Compliant & Accountable Systems Group Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge [ www.jatsingh.com / www.compacctsys.net ]

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Position announcement: Associate/Full Professor of Race, Media and Communication in the Department of Communication
by Leda Cooks 11 Oct '22

11 Oct '22

The Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst seeks to build on our 50-year tradition of critical and community-engaged media and communication research with this hire in the area of race, media, and communication studies. We are looking for an Associate / Full Professor with a record of intellectual leadership and engaged scholarship examining the politics of race in media and communication, communication and racial justice, and/or race and representation in popular culture. We seek a colleague who can advance our department's mission to center issues of racial justice in communication research, collaborate with our diverse and international faculty and students, and extend our core strengths in critical cultural studies and media and communication studies. The Department of Communication is one of the most internationally diverse faculty in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Of particular interest are candidates who draw from critical bodies of theory and epistemologies of Black, Latino/a/x, Asian, Indigenous, and Ethnic Studies when studying media, communication, and racial politics in the United States. We also welcome candidates who draw from intersectional perspectives of feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory and those who study racial politics in transnational perspective. We are open to diverse methodological approaches and community engaged scholarship. Particular areas of expertise may include (but are not limited to) the following: • Race and representation in film, television, and social media • Systemic racism in media, creative, and tech industries • Racial equity and critical data studies • Racial justice narratives, digital activism, and strategic communication of social movements • Black digital cultures, creativity, and media-making • Queer and transgender politics of race • Race and Blackness in performance studies • Race and racial discrimination in health communication • Mediated solidarities, joy, and conflicts between/among communities of color • Racially targeted disinformation, hate, and digital harms • Race and mediated communication in geopolitics • Postcolonial and decolonial studies, and transnational and diasporic media • Critical approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion in media and communication studies Requirements The candidate is expected to have a PhD in Communication or related fields. This is a mid-career or senior-level position, and the candidate will be reviewed for tenure during their first year of appointment. They are expected to have at least 5 years experience in a tenure-track professorship post in Communication or related fields, with a record of excellence in research, teaching, and outreach. A successful record of leadership in grant-funded projects is desirable. Additional information The position will begin on Sept. 1, 2023. Applicant instructions Candidates should submit the following materials: 1. Cover letter addressed to Dr. Jonathan Corpus Ong, Chair of the Search Committee, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 2. CV. 3. Three writing samples. 4. Evidence of teaching effectiveness. 5. Names and contact information of three academic references. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to write a tailor-fit statement about their experiences with and expectations from university diversity and inclusion initiatives and submit this to the Chair prior to the campus visit. Shortlisted candidates will also be asked to provide materials that demonstrate the candidate's eligibility and qualifications to show they meet the criteria and the standards for tenure at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. https://www.umass.edu/provost/resources/all-resources/academic-personnel/po… Review of applications will begin October 20, 2022, and will continue until the position is filled. For inquiries about the post and the application process, contact Search Committee Chair Dr. Jonathan Corpus Ong at jcong(a)umass.edu<mailto:jcong@umass.edu>. Leda Cooks Professor Department of Communication umass Amherst pronouns: she, her, hers

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