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JOB: Senior Communications & Technology Advisor @ Internet Society
by Joly MacFie 17 Sep '22

17 Sep '22

https://internetsociety.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=188 What You'll Do The Senior Communications & Technology Advisor applies a blend of communications and mobilization skills to create and execute technically informed advocacy campaigns. They will use their substantial background and expertise in digital and Internet technologies to increase awareness and inspire action on issues having profound effect on the infrastructure of the Internet. This person will join our team of project experts to contribute advocacy, communications, and technical expertise to a range of projects to grow and strengthen the Internet. The ideal candidate is a creative and strategic thinker with considerable technical expertise, fluent in English with solid experience in developing and implementing successful advocacy mobilization campaigns. This is a 2 year term position with a possibility of renewal. Location Ideal location- Australia, Singapore, or Netherlands- Remote - Work from home -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023 -- Nashville, Tennessee, June 26-30, 2023 -- Paper Registration Deadline: February 23, 2023
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 17 Sep '22

17 Sep '22

================================================================================================================ ================================================================================================================ IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, June 26-30, 2023 https://smartcomp.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ 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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CFP: HASTAC 2023 – Critical Making & Social Justice (Pratt Institute, NY)
by Chris Alen Sula 16 Sep '22

16 Sep '22

HASTAC 2023 – Critical Making & Social Justice June 8–10, 2023 | Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Full CFP at https://hastac2023.org/cfp The Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC), in partnership with Pratt Institute, invites submissions for an upcoming conference at the intersection of thinking, making, and justice work. The conference is planned as an in-person experience, with some opportunities for online participation. HASTAC 2023 welcomes submissions from practitioners at all stages of their careers; from all disciplines, occupations, and fields; and from groups as well as individuals, including independent scholar-practitioners, artists, and activists. Commensurate with the broad theme of “Critical Making and Social Justice,” we seek proposals for a wide range of papers, posters, workshops, roundtables, exhibits, etc. related to such topics as: - art and activism, and their relationship to scholarship - interventions in design justice, data justice and data feminism, algorithmic accountability, (digital) literacies, open knowledge, and accessibility in all its forms - community-based projects and learning, participatory research and design - praxis, as the enactment of theory, and socially-engaged learning - critical uses and non-uses of technology, including resistance to technology, creative misuses, subversions, etc. - creative, educational, and social implications of emerging technologies, including robotics, automation, rapid prototyping, wearables, “smart” devices, and extended reality (augmented reality / virtual reality / mixed reality) - craft and other forms of making that support justice work - research and teaching that reflects emerging conversations on racism, capitalism, sexism, gender bias, ableism, nationalism, colonialism, and their many intersections with humanities, arts, design, (social) sciences, and technology - progressive pedagogy and educational engagements with issues of social justice - work undertaken by, with, and for the Lenape people and other Indigenous peoples - sustainability and environmental justice in projects, pedagogy, design, and other areas - public humanities and the evolution of public discourse and media The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2022. For further details and to submit, please visit https://hastac2023.org/cfp. Notification of acceptances will be sent in February 2023, with registration to follow (special rates for students, contingent faculty, independent scholars, and others). If you are interested in reviewing for the conference, you may also sign up at https://www.conftool.pro/hastac2023/register.php. Reviewers will be able to select priority topics, bid on proposals to review (optional), and specify a maximum number of review assignments. We anticipate that the review phase will open December 1, 2022 and close January 20, 2023. If you have any questions, please contact info(a)hastac2023.org

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Postdoc in digital politics (quant) at UNC-Chapel Hill
by Deen Freelon 16 Sep '22

16 Sep '22

Hi all, The Center for Information, Technology, & Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring a new postdoc who will work directly with my research group, the Political and Civic App Division (PCAD): https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/240132 I'm looking for someone with strong quant skills, especially in the areas of survey research and/or computational social science, who can help PCAD build new research tools and analyze the data they generate. Here's some of what we're working on: * Our first tool, PIEGraph, tracks a opt-in panel of American users and analyzes the ideological and factual aspects of their Twitter feeds. Sign in and view your personalized ideology/fact quality chart here: https://pcad.ils.unc.edu/ * We also recently released a new TikTok scraper and are looking to extend and apply it to a range of research areas: https://github.com/dfreelon/pyktok Please spread the word and LMK if you have questions! If you're looking to build a rep in the digital politics space with a strong identity/power analysis game, I'd strongly encourage you to apply. Best, //DEEN -- Deen Freelon, Ph.D. Associate Professor | Hussman School of Journalism and Media Principal Researcher | Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://dfreelon.org | @dfreelon <https://twitter.com/dfreelon> | https://github.com/dfreelon | https://citap.unc.edu/ Schedule an appointment with me <https://doodle.com/bp/deenfreelon/book-a-time>

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Deadline extended to September 25 for Call for Proposals: Auditing Artificial Intelligence
by Nicole McAlee 15 Sep '22

15 Sep '22

Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab 2022-2023 Call for Proposals Auditing Artificial Intelligence ---------------------------------------- OVERVIEW ---------------------------------------- Artificial intelligence increasingly undergirds, digitizes, and automates important processes in our society and economy, such as processing loan applications, making medical diagnoses, informing hiring decisions, surfacing information, and piloting autonomous vehicles. Recent headlines reveal that with such important outcomes on the line for individuals, organizations, and the broader society, it is critical that AI can be trusted to make fair and accurate decisions. Globally, legislation has been both proposed and passed to regulate AI; yet there is not yet broad consensus on the most effective ways to assess the implications of a given system prior to and during deployment. While the objectives that inform financial audits may translate to artificial intelligence in that a financial auditor gathers and inspects evidence to determine whether a company’s practices are free from material misstatement or fraud, an AI auditor may examine design documents, code, and training data to determine whether a company’s algorithms are free from material bias, inaccuracy, or other potentially consequential impact. Financial audits are just one example; other kinds of audits, such as IT, privacy, security, and operational audits, may provide models for examining the impact of decisions made by AI systems. The predicament remains daunting, however. As AI becomes more sophisticated, auditing it will only involve increasingly complicated ethical, social, and regulatory challenges. Dimensions that require auditing must be identified, agreed upon, and measured. AI auditors must be trained. Policies must be developed to govern the operations, credentialing, and impact of audits. The Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab invites proposals for projects that grapple with these challenges and suggest innovative solutions. Potential areas for research and scholarship include, but are not limited to, the following: - Scope of AI audits - Regulatory frameworks for AI audits - Methodologies for AI audits - Skills for future AI auditors - Teaching methodologies for AI audits - How AI audits may impact various sectors and industries - Suggested best practices for AI audits - Adoption and deployment of AI audits Successful applications will propose a defined deliverable (such as, but not limited to, research papers, draft policy, model legislation, teaching materials, and impact assessments) that address the above challenges to be completed between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2023. Key words: AI Ethics, Privacy, Controls, Risk assessment, Risk mitigation, Governance, Policy, Compliance, Evidence, Opinion, Security, Availability, Confidentiality, Integrity, Fairness, Bias, Accuracy, Trust, Impact assessment, Transparency ---------------------------------------- KEY DATES ---------------------------------------- 2022 - August 15 - Application period opens - September 18 *September 25* - Application period closes - November 18 - Recipients notified 2023 - January 1 - Projects kick off - April - Virtual recipient workshop - June - Recipient workshop at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA - October - Virtual recipient workshop - December 31 - Projects close ---------------------------------------- PROJECT AWARDS ---------------------------------------- Recipients may apply for up to $60,000 USD in award funding and will have from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023 to complete their project, including preparation, research, execution, and deliverables. A detailed budget and timeline should be submitted as part of the application. ---------------------------------------- TO APPLY ---------------------------------------- For full details of the call, including eligibility criteria, proposal preparation guidelines, and a link to the application form, please visit https://techethicslab.nd.edu/call-for-proposals/. Questions may be directed to techlab(a)nd.edu.

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Accessible Online Learning Survey
by Patrick Lowenthal 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

Some colleagues and I are investigating online educators' perceptions and experiences in creating accessible online courses, and specifically using Ally and other accessibility checkers. If you and/or faculty at your institution use Ally, please consider completing the following survey. It should take less than 15 minutes to complete. This study involves no foreseeable serious risks. Leave any questions blank that make you feel uncomfortable or you would prefer to skip. Please forward it to others who might be interested. *https://boisestate.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eeMhCvvmxCCCjSm* <https://boisestate.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eeMhCvvmxCCCjSm> .............................. ................................................................... *PATRICK R. LOWENTHAL, Ph.D.* *Co-Coordinator: Ed.D. in Educational Technology <https://www.boisestate.edu/education-edtech/edd-et/>**Coordinator: Graduate Certificate in Designing Accessible Online Education <https://www.boisestate.edu/education-edtech/gc-daoe/>* *Professor: **Department of Educational Technology, Boise State University <https://www.boisestate.edu/education-edtech/> * *Associate Editor: **Online Learning Journal* <https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/index.php/olj/index> *Web: **http://patricklowenthal.com* <http://patricklowenthal.com> *Recent Publications:*Student Perceptions of Video <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01587919.2022.2088479> | Faculty Perceptions of Video <https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/index.php/olj/article/view/2890> | Video Feedback <https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-021-00665-x> | Interaction in Discussions <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-021-10745-3> | Improving Synchronous Meetings <https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/nwelearn.2.1.5641>

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Alternative social media meetup at AOIR
by Robert W Gehl 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

Hello, AOIR! I'm organizing an informal meetup of AOIR scholars who are interested in alternative social media (broadly conceived). We could meet during AOIR. Have you been exploring the fediverse? Have you installed Scuttlebutt? Did you run a Twister peer? Are you active on an Elgg server? Or are you just curious about what these things are? Then you're welcome at this meetup! Let's talk digital governance, content moderation, network administration, or how to keep the trolls at bay. If you're interested, please fill out this form: https://nextcloud.robertwgehl.org/index.php/apps/forms/fTYZNJLEp895rnsn and we'll be in touch about time and location. Regards, Rob Gehl

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Open Rank Assistant/Associate/Professor of Data Visualization
by Claudia Aragon 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

Good afternoon, The College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (iSchool) (*https://ischool.umd.edu/* <https://ischool.umd.edu/>) invites applications for an open rank tenured or tenure track faculty position in the area of data visualization and visual analytics. The iSchool particularly seeks candidates whose scholarship and teaching interests are centered and focused on one or more of the following areas: ● Data visualization; ● Visual analytics; ● Ubiquitous, immersive, and situated analytics; and ● Human-computer interaction for visual data representations. Interested applicants can apply directly from our website: https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/99435. The best consideration date is *12/15/2022*. Thank you! -- Claudia Aragón | Faculty Affairs & Recruitment Specialist (she/her/hers) University of Maryland | College of Information Studies (iSchool) 4161 Fieldhouse Drive (Patuxent Building) | College Park, MD 20742 www.ischool.umd.edu | caragon(a)umd.edu

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Teaching in the Age of COVID
by Paul Levinson 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

Just up: 3rd & final installment of Petar's Teaching in the Age of COVID, in which I and 66 other teachers from 19 countries offer our brief, varied views https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42438-022-00332-1 [Free]

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Full details for AELAIWC2022
by Waliya, Yohanna Joseph 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

Hi all, Sorry for cross posting!!! AELAIWC 2022: Call for Participation The Centre for Digital Humanities University of Lagos (CEDHUL), Nigeria in conjunction with African Electronic Literature Alliance & African Diasporic Electronic Alliance (AELA&ADELI) Organises The 2nd African Electronic Literature Alliance International Workshop Conference (AELAIWC2022) Theme: E-Literary Procedural Creativity on Digital platforms and Metaverse/création numérique procédurale de la Littérature métaverselle et littérature dispositive. Date: 22-25 November, 2022. Venue: Zoom Time: 12:00 PM-7:00 PM Friday: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM (25-11-2022) Conference Languages: French, Arabic & English. ============================================================= Digital media is creating its decentralised universe called Metaverse which is transforming exponentially our worldview and society today by tilting towards e-literary fusion with non-literary, humans and Artificial Intelligence to produce an e-literary utopia. Therefore, there is a need for African litterateurs, scholars, researchers, students and digital artists to create Metaversal literatures which will bring African physical presence and digital culture to singularity. This is the reason Centre for Digital Humanities University of Lagos (CEDHUL) in collaboration with African Electronic Literature Alliance and African Diasporic Electronic Literature (AELA & ADELI) is calling for participation at the second virtual African Electronic Literature Alliance International Workshop Conference (AELAIWC2022) in order to teach enthusiastic participants the art of XR literary procedural creativity, meta-creative writing, critiquing, reading and analysis employing new theories and methods in Electronic Literature. African Electronic Literature Alliance International Workshop Conference (AELAIWC 2022) is virtual workshop, and lectures are designed to train African scholars, electronic literature artists, digital poets and students in the field of African Electronic Literature(AEL), African Diasporic Electronic literature (ADELI) by providing them with opportunities to learn digital creative writing, connect with peers around the world and established electronic literature experts, and explore computational creativity in literature. The workshop will be divided into four-day intensive classes. An hour lecture, 30 minutes break, and self-practice for an hour. Then, that will be followed with comments from lecturers on the works of 2-3 participants for about 30 minutes. It means, 1hr 30 minutes will be spent on each lecture while public talks will be for an hour. The African Electronic Literature Festival (AELF) showcases for free the best works of all the participants created during the conference on the Multilingual African Electronic Literature Database and African Diasporic Electronic Literature Database (MAELD & ADELD) website: https://africanelit.org Registration is free but membership is mandatory. New participants, register here: https://africanelit.org/membership.php Time Table: https://bit.ly/AELAIWCTimeTable Zoom details: https://bit.ly/AELAIWC-2022 Meeting ID: 875 3135 8855 Passcode: CEDHUL Resource Persons and the Lectures/Workshops Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos. Lecture: welcome address and opening ceremony of the conference Prof. Mourad El Fahli, Sidi Mohammaed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco. Keynote Lecture: E-Literary Procedural Creativity on Digital platforms and Metaverse/création numérique procédurale de la Littérature métaverselle et littérature dispositive. Prof. Dr. Tunde Ope-Davies, University of Lagos, Nigeria. Opening ceremony lecture: Opportunities in Digital Humanities for African Literary scholars. Prof. Nick Montfort, Professor of digital media, MIT. director, The Trope Tank, USA. Lecture/workshop: The Computer Generation of Novels — Theory and Practice. Emeritus Prof. Philippe Bootz, University Paris 8, France. Lecture: The praxis of procedural model theory Prof. Bouchardon, University of Technology of Compiègne, France. Cours/Lecture: les smartfictions (les fictions pour smartphone) Prof. Leonardo Flores, Ex-President of ELO, Appalachian State University, Puerto Rico. Workshop : Distant writing: Creating literary Twitterbot using Tracery and CBDQ Prof. Michael Hurtado, University of Applied Sciences, Peru. Workshop : Generating a Storytelling with text and images using Python programming on Google Colab. Prof. Davin Heckman, Winona State University, USA. Lecture: The poetics of Artificial Intelligence Generated poetry Prof. Patrick Lichty, Winona State University, USA. Workshop: Creating AR poetry Prof. Erik H. Zepka, xox Lab Surrey, Canada and Empire State University, Ibiza, Spain. Lecture: The Organism, The Data Structure and Electronic Inscription Associate Prof. Mariusz Pisarski, University of Information Technology and Management: Rzeszów, Poland. Lecture: praxis of Multilingual electronic literature creation Associate Prof. Richard Oko Ajah, University of Uyo, Nigeria. Lecture: Introduction to African Electronic Literature Dr. Reham Hosny, Minia University, Egypt. Lecture: Practical methods of reading and analysing Arabic electronic literature Mr. Alan Bigelow , Independent Artist, USA. Workshop: Using Hypertext(HTML5 and CSS3) to create Digital Art. Mr. Yohanna Joseph Waliya, Director of AELA & ADELI, University of Calabar, Nigeria. Workshop: Programming African Electronic Literature with simple code and code remix CALL FOR PAPERS (MADSEJ VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1) ABOUT THE JOURNAL Multilingual African Digital Semiotics and E-lit Journal (MADSEJ) is a multilingual scientific journal owned by African Electronic Literature Alliance & African Diasporic Electronic Literature (AELA & ADELI). It is a peer-reviewed, creative, technical and open access journal. MADSEJ is created in 2022 to enable African electronic literary works and digital arts get wider readership and visibility presence in the virtual wold-Internet and Metaverse. It concerns with the investigation into electronic and metaversal literary works, digital culture, heritage, semiotics created by Africans or/and in collaboration with Africans across the world. In other words, MADSEJ publishes only original researches and e-creative works mediated by social media, Internet and immersive storytelling platforms-Extended Reality (AR+VR+MR=XR). Therefore, MADSEJ accepts papers or digital arts that deal with the literary singularity intersected by technology such as Twitterature, Facebookature, Youtubature, Instagramature, TikTokature, Mobile and video Games, Blogfanfic, immersive and metaversal literatures. SUBMISSION This journal will begin its maiden edition with the papers accepted for the AELAIWC2022 conference. Papers are welcomed for the second edition which will possibly be published this year. All articles should have an abstract not more than 150 words. In a situation whereby the article is written in any official African language, the abstract should be either in French, in English or in Arabic vice versa. All articles should not be more than 16 A4 size pages, including tables, graphs, reference or webography, if need be. The presentation of the article should be double line spacing, Times New Roman, 12 points. All works cited are to comply with the MLA 9th edition format. Articles should be sent electronically to madsej(a)africanelit.org(link sends e-mail). MADSEJ's board of editors would get to the researchers/artists within 20 working days from the day of submission. EDITORIAL BOARD Managing Editor: Prof. Tunde Ope-Davies, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria. Editor-in-chief: Prof. Mourad El Fhali, Sidi Mohammaed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco. Senior Editor: Dr. Richard Oko Ajah, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria. Second Editor: Yohanna Joseph Waliya, University of Calabar, Nigeria. Contact: madsej(a)africanelit.org(link sends e-mail) Website: https://madsej.africanelit.org Mobile: +2348038940016 Thanks Yohanna Joseph Waliya Enseignant et chercheur à l'université de Calabar. UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow, ELO Research Fellow, Winner of Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020, Creator & Curator of MAELD & ADELD Executive Director of AELA & ADELI Web: https://africanelit.org/ Auteur de La récolte de vie, Climatophosis (Winner Best Use of DH for Fun 2020) etc. Mail: waliyayohannajoseph(a)unical.edu.ng Mobile:+2348038940016. Webs: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4456-7458<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4456-7458> https://unical-ng.academia.edu/WALIYAYOHANNAJOSEPH https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yohanna_Waliya http://vispo.com/guests/waliya/

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