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Searching for scales and questionnaires to measure photography skills/knowledge
by Nitin Verma 15 Jun '22

15 Jun '22

Hello everyone! I'm a Ph.D. student at the UT Austin iSchool, and I'm currently finalizing a recruitment instrument for my dissertation study on the public perception of deepfake technology, and I'm looking to sample from among the general public. To address my research questions I need to ask potential participants about their photography/videography skills and technical knowledge about it. I have been unable to find any validated scales or questionnaires that measure this technical knowledge. So, I have drafted a questionnaire that consists of items that ask about participants' familiarity with concepts like exposure, focal length, depth of field, frame rate, camera types, familiarity with post-processing tools like Photoshop and Lightroom, etc. However, without any way to establish the validity and coverage of my questionnaire, I am a little hesitant to move forward with the design of my survey. Could you all please share resources that can help me develop a reliable questionnaire on people's technical (or general) knowledge of photography and videography (and perhaps, graphic design)? Thank you! Best, Nitin Verma Ph.D. Student, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin

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IEEE MeditCom 2022: International Mediterranean Conference [Extended Deadline (Firm and Final): 19 June, 2022], Athens, Greece
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

============================================================ MeditCom 2022 CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 19 JUNE (FIRM) ============================================================ The Second IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (IEEE MeditCom 2022) 5-8 September 2022, in Athens, Greece (https://meditcom2022.ieee-meditcom.org/<https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=c1a11361-9e3a2dde-c1a5206e-000babda03…>) IEEE MeditCom is the IEEE ComSoc Conference serving the Mediterranean area and surrounding countries. It gathers visionaries in academia, research labs and industry from all over the world to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, with a top-notch technical program addressing hottest topics in the areas of communications and networking. IEEE MeditCom 2022 solicits Industry and Academia to submit papers on a wide range of research subjects, spanning both theoretical topics and system engineering. Original technical papers are sought in the following areas: - Network Architectures, SDN, NFV - Cloud Communications and Data-Center Networks - Optical Networks and Systems, Radio over Fiber - Mobile and Wireless Communications and Networking - 5G Mobile Systems and their Components - Molecular and Nanoscale Communications - Satellite and Space Communications - Underground and Underwater Communications - Image, Speech and Signal Processing for Communications - Big Data and Machine Learning for Communications - Semantic Web and Ontologies - Internet of Things, Smart grids, and Vehicular Networks - Edge Computing, Edge Intelligence, and Fog Networks - Semantic Communications - Green Communications and Energy Efficient Computing - Network Applications and Services - Analytical Models, Simulation, Testbeds & Prototypes - Network Management and Cognitive Radio - QoE/QoS Support and Cross-Layer Optimization - Performance Evaluation of Communication Systems - Massive MIMO, Signal Processing, and Coding - Advanced PHY and MAC Techniques - Security, Privacy, Trust and Blockchain - 6G Systems - Machine Learning for Communications and Networks - Communications and Information Theory - Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Communications - Integrated Sensing and Communications - Cell-Free Massive MIMO - RIS/LIS-Aided Communications IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission Due: June 19, 2022 (Extended) Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2022 Camera-ready Submission: July 29, 2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Co-Chairs: Stefano Bregni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Hikmet Sari, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Executive Co-Chairs: Christos Verikoukis, University of Patras, Greece Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Technical Program Co-Chairs: Octavia Dobre, Memorial University, Canada Jalel Ben Othman, Centrale Supelec, France Steering Committee Chair: Khaled B. Letaief, HKUST, Hong Kong Note: A selection of best papers on topics in the scope of the IEEE Networking Letters will be proposed for submission of a revised version to the Journal with accelerated review process. More information can be found at https://meditcom2022.ieee-meditcom.org/<https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=e10fbb8d-be948532-e10b8882-000babda03…> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering 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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PhD or PostDoc position on the ERC project "Digital DNA"
by Mareile Kaufmann 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

Dear all, Please find the call for a position in Digital Criminology/Sociology below: Postdoctoral or PhD fellowship as part of the ERC project 'Digital DNA' https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/224745/postdoctoral-fellowsh… Have a good summer (and consider applying)!, Mareile Kaufmann

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Online behavior study
by Isabel Helm 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

Hello! Here is a 5-minutes online study from the University of Konstanz. By participating, you will have a chance to win one of five Amazon vouchers worth 20€ each. https://exp.wextor.eu/iSciencecore/pbfn_v/index.html?so=airl We are conducting a study about how online behaviors are influenced by different contexts. As an incentive to participate in our study, we offer the opportunity to take part in a voluntarily raffle. The prize draw will be five Amazon vouchers worth 20€ each for the winners of the raffle. You will find further information on participating in the draw at the beginning of the study. Thanks a lot for your time! Isabel Helm

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Online Study - iScience Team of the University of Konstanz
by Isabel Helm 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

Hi everyone! The iScience team of the University of Konstanz is currently conducting an online survey. We would really appreciate if you could spend a few minutes to answer the survey. In this study we want to investigate human behavior in leisure situations. We are aiming to taget especially an european sample. It only takes less than 5 minutes. Here is the link to the study: https://exp.wextor.eu/iSciencecore/RepBA/index.html?so=airl Thank you so much! Isabel Helm

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WEBCAST TUE-WED: 2022 Gambia National Internet Governance Forum
by Joly MacFie 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

Always a great event! Starting shortly. As we know, hybrid events are technically hard to pull off, so tolerance, please! [image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/15505%20>On *Tuesday-Wednesday June 14-15 2022* the *8th Annual Gambia National Internet Governance Forum <https://www.facebook.com/gambiaigf>* will be convened, with the theme ‘*Digital Sustainability: Data Innovations for Post-Covid Recovery - The Gambia Context*’, with 3 subthemes. The Internet Governance Forum serves to bring people together from various stakeholder groups as equals, in discussions on public policy issues related to the Internet. The Forum is organized to represent all key stakeholders in the Gambia through a National Steering Committee coordinated by the *Ministry of Communications & Digital Economy <https://www.moici.gov.gm/>* (MOCDE). The event will be hybrid - both online and face-to-face on site. The livestream is provided by the* Internet Society Gambia Chapter <https://www.facebook.com/isocgambiachapter/>*. *PROGRAM* (all times UTC) *Tuesday June 14 2022* *10:00* Opening *11:45* Main Theme: Digital sustainability: data innovations for post covid recovery The Gambia Context *12:30* Subtheme 1: Digital Inclusion and Access to Information Act *14:45* Subtheme 2: Data Innovation & Privacy *Wednesday Jun 15 2022* *10:00* Report on Day 1 *11:45* Cybersecurity and Trust *12:30* UN Global Digital Compact Submission *13:00* Communique Drafting *15:00* Closing *AGENDA* https://archive.org/download/gmigf2022/gmigf2022_agenda.pdf *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gmigf2022 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gmigf2022>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM* T.B.D. *TWITTER #gmigf2022 <https://bit.ly/gmigf2022> @gambia_forum @isocgm #TheGambia #Gambia #IGF* *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/ISOCAfrica <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica>* (AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/gambiaigf <https://www.facebook.com/gambiaigf>* (AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/isocgambiachapter/ <https://www.facebook.com/isocgambiachapter/>* (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/gmigf2022 <https://archive.org/details/gmigf2022>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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AoIR2022 Travel Scholarship Application - Deadline 3 July 2022
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

- apologies for cross posting - In order to increase the diversity of participation in the annual AoIR conferences, the Association of Internet Researchers makes available several conference fee waivers and travel stipends per year. Applications are invited from authors whose proposals have already been accepted via the conference reviewing process, as well as by PhD students applying to the Doctoral Colloquium. All applications should be emailed directly to the Association Coordinator, Michelle (ac [at] AoIR [dot] org), and must be received by 3 July 2022. Late applications cannot be considered. Applications should include (1) a short (2-page) CV and (2) a statement no longer than 2 pages that must include the following information: 1. A brief description of how the author’s presentation or contribution to the AoIR 2022 conference will uniquely articulate and/or represent a distinctive perspective (e.g., of persons and/or cultures) otherwise unlikely to be represented at the conference. 2. An explanation of the author’s distinctive circumstances that would warrant a fee waiver, and an indication that the applicant will be able to make effective use of the funds. These may include, but are by no means limited to: exceptionally limited financial resources (e.g., as a graduate student or scholar in a non-OECD country, as a disabled person on a limited income, etc.); exceptional limits on institutional support otherwise normally available (e.g., travel funds, grant funds, etc.); other exceptional circumstances that render the usual AoIR conference fees an insurmountable obstacle to attending the conference in order to present the author’s work. Please include any information on access you have to additional funding. AoIR membership is encouraged but is not a requirement for the application. Applicants may also include a letter of support from someone familiar with their circumstances, special needs, etc. Such a letter is not a requirement. Applications will be reviewed by the AoIR Executive Committee. Fee waivers and travel stipends of up to USD$500 (with one stipend of up to USD$1,500) will be awarded. Awards are intended to reimburse participants for expenses incurred and will be paid out after the conference. The awardee is required to provide expense receipts to AoIR in order to access travel stipends. Decisions are made on the basis of the Executive Committee’s collective judgment as to which applicants will make the most distinctive contribution to the AoIR conference. Priority will be given to applicants who have not previously received a travel award from AoIR. In order to respect and protect the privacy of the applicants, all Executive Committee discussions and deliberations will be held in strict confidence. The AoIR Executive Committee regretfully acknowledges that there may be more meritorious applications than we will be able to award and support. Nonetheless, we hope that awarded fee waivers and travel stipends will not only assist deserving scholars and researchers, but also enrich the AoIR 2022 conference for all attendees. Please direct any additional questions to AoIR's Association Coordinator, Michelle (ac [at] AoIR [dot] org). Tama Leaver AoIR President

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Join us this week - Mediating Scale online conference - 16-18th June
by Magdalena Krysztoforska 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

*Mediating Scale Conference 16-18 June 2022* Join us this week for 3 days of fantastic interdisciplinary panels and keynotes exploring ways of framing the problem of mediating scale, and the stakes involved in addressing epistemological barriers to facing contemporary problems at an appropriate scale. All presentations are free to attend on Zoom Events but registration is required. The conference is being hosted at the Institute of Communication Studies in Lille, France, and so all times are in Central European Summer Time (CEST). Full details, including the conference schedule, abstracts, biographies and how to register, can be found on the website: <https://mediatingscale.com/programme/>www.mediatingscale.com <https://mediatingscale.com/programme/> We look forward to seeing you there, Oliver Kenny and Magdalena Krysztoforska *Organisers of Mediating Scale Conference 2022*mediatingscale(a)gmail.com *Keynote presentations:* *Thursday 16th June:* · 3pm: Dr Zachary Horton (University of Pittsburgh) · 7.30pm: Dr Joshua DiCaglio (Texas A&M University) o For this talk, the first part of *Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry* has been made freely available. Please see the website to download. *Friday 17th June:* · 3pm: Dr Laura Tripaldi (University of Milano-Bicocca) · 7.30pm: Professor Benjamin Bratton (University of California, San Diego) *Saturday 18th June:* · 3pm: Dr Bogna Konior (NYU Shanghai) · 7.30pm: Dr Thomas Moynihan (University of Oxford) *Panels:* *Thursday 16th June, 5-6.30pm – Panel 1* - Yazdanmehr Gordanpour (University of British Columbia) Close Reading in the Age of Climate Change: Scale in Interpretative Methodologies - Professor Sara Upstone (Kingston University) and Dr Kristian Shaw (University of Lincoln) Simultaneity of Scale: Contemporary Transglossic Literature *Friday 17th June, 11am-1pm – Panel 2* - Dustin Breitling (Masaryk University) Scaling the Mesocosm - Dr Concepción Cortés Zulueta (University of Málaga) Looking through the myriad lenses of a fly’s eye: the persistence and transformations of an entomological scale play and a microscopic-telescopic experience - Dr Julie Momméja (Lumière Lyon 2 University) Expanding Timescales: the Long Now Foundation and its *Longue Durée * Clock *Friday 17th June, 5-6.30pm – Panel 3* - Dr Anushka Peres (University of Nevada, Reno) Scale Intimacies - Sasha Crawford-Holland (University of Chicago) Oppressive Heat: Scaling Extreme Weather in Local Television *Saturday 18th June, 11am-1pm – Panel 4* - Dr Andrew Fisher (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), Prague) Flusser, Simondon and the scales of contemporary photography - Dr Laurence Kent (University of Cambridge) The Cosmic Non-Place: Intelligence and Scale in Frant Gwo’s *The Wandering Earth* - Dr Provides Ng (Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL)) Universal Basic Service: Scalability of CFHT & DAO 衣食住行 • 道 *Saturday 18th June, 5-6.30pm – Panel 5* - Dr Patrick Brian Smith (University of Warwick) Media and Forensics: Activism Across Investigatory Scales - Dr Piotr Szpunar (University at Albany, SUNY) Spectroscopic Pasts and Tele-scoping Futures on the Red Planet *Magdalena Krysztoforska* (she/her) *AHRC/M4C Doctoral Candidate in Critical Theory* Dept. of Cultures, Media & Visual Studies Room B57, Trent Building University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD

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Online seminar 16 June | Nick Couldry & Ulises Mejias: Resisting Data Colonialism
by Orsolya Gulyás 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

Dear colleagues, A quick reminder to register for the third edition of our online Data Sovereignty Seminar Series on 16 June at 17.00 (CEST) with Nick Couldry (LSE) and Ulises Mejias (SUNY) on resisting data colonialism. Please follow the link below to register, where you can also find the recordings of our past seminars. Registration: https://brussels-school.be/event/data-sovereignty-seminar-series Seminar #3: Resisting Data Colonialism: The Benefits and Limits of Data Sovereignty Description In their book The Costs of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism (Stanford University Press, August 2019), Couldry and Mejias argue that the role of data in society needs to be grasped as not only a development of capitalism, but as the start of a new phase in human history that rivals in importance the emergence of historic colonialism. This new "data colonialism" is based not on the extraction of natural resources or labor, but on the appropriation of human life through data, paving the way for a further stage of capitalism. Resisting it will require strategies that decolonial thinking has foregrounded for centuries, including the articulation of new forms of sovereignty. By reviewing the benefits and limits of these emerging proposals for digital sovereignty—including the ones currently being discussed in the EU—the authors will explore how effectively this concept can inform government and public responses against emerging forms of data colonialism. Programme 17:00-17:05: Welcome and introduction by Orsolya Gulyás & Clément Perarnaud (BSoG) 17:05-17:25: Presentation by Nick Couldry (LSE) and Ulises Mejias (SUNY) 17:25-17:35: Discussion by Julia Pohle (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) 17:35-18:00: Q&A with the audience Time: June 16, 2022 at 05:00 PM CEST The Data Sovereignty seminar series is jointly organised by the Center for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation at the Brussels School of Governance and the UNU-CRIS/VUB Chair on Digital Sovereignty. Best wishes, Orsolya Gulyás and Clément Perarnaud ORSOLYA GULYÁS PhD Researcher +32 485 980 172 Brussels School of Governance<https://brussels-school.be/> Pleinlaan 5 - 1050 Brussels

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Everyday Algorithms - Algocount conference, Milan 7 July 2022
by Alessandro Gandini 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

With apologies for cross-posting The University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences, together with Density Design (Politecnico di Milano) and the Science and Technology Museum "Leonardo da Vinci" of Milan, are happy to share the programme of the upcoming *Everyday Algorithms - Algocount conference*, which will be held at the Science and Technology Museum "Leonardo da Vinci" of Milan on 7 July, 2022. Funded by Fondazione Cariplo, the Algocount project (2020-2022) engaged in the study of algorithmic imaginaries in Italy, with a peculiar focus on processes of public opinion formation and news circulation. All information about the project, its current and future outputs can be found at: www.algocount.org. The conference brings together a stellar lineup of scholars interested in algorithmic imaginaries, algorithmic theory and methods, algorithmic visualization, and the role of algorithms in the formation of public opinion. Speakers include, among others, Heather Ford (University of Technology Sydney), Sophie Bishop (University of Sheffield), Massimo Airoldi (University of Milan) and many more. Joelle Swart (University of Groningen) and Simone Natale (Politecnico di Torino) will deliver a keynote speech. The conference will be held in-person and live-streamed on Zoom. Full programme and registration information are available at the following page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biglietti-everyday-algorithms-algocount-conf… For any other information or query, feel free to contact me (Alessandro Gandini) at: alessandro.gandini(a)unimi.it. Best, Alessandro -- Alessandro Gandini Associate Professor of Sociology University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan @afrontiercity

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