- Air-L - lists.aoir.org

8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022): Last Mile for Paper Submission
by Announce Announcements 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022) "Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era" September 26-29, 2022, Aliathon Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 (*** Submission Deadline Extension: June 14, 2022 AoE (firm!) ***) The IEEE ISC2 2022 Organizing Committee is glad to announce that it is currently accepting papers for the 8th edition of the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference. This year, the IEEE ISC2 will be held in-person on September 26-29, 2022, in Paphos, Cyprus and the theme of the conference is “Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era.” The IEEE ISC2 is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community, a coalition of eight IEEE technical societies and organizations. Besides contributions addressing the conference theme, authors are welcome to submit their original research results in traditional topics across broad application and functional domains, within the context of smart urban infrastructure systems. The technical areas include, but are not limited to: • Smart city theory, modelling and simulation  • Intelligent infrastructure • Sensors and actuators • Open data and big data analytics • AI powered smart cities services • Safety and security systems • Smart healthcare • Smart emergency management • IoT and Smart X services • Data security and privacy • Connected Vehicle (CV) technologies • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) • Smart mobility and transportation • Smart energy systems • Smart buildings and Smart grid • Digital city and smart growth • Smart traffic system operations • Environmental monitoring technologies The complete list of technical areas can be found here: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-papers/ . Should you need further clarifications or have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at: isc22022(a)easychair.org . Paper Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality original (Full or Short) papers via the EasyChair submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc22022 . Full papers should describe novel research contributions with evaluation results and are limited to seven (7) pages. Short papers, limited in length to four (4) pages, should be more visionary in nature and are meant to discuss new challenges and visions, highlight early research results, and explore novel research directions. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication, should be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE Template ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). Each submitted paper will pass through the standard IEEE peer-review process. If accepted and presented at the conference, it will appear in the conference proceedings and be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference organisers are currently negotiating a number of special issues with high quality journals. More information is available on the conference web site (https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/journal-special-issues/ ). The best papers will be awarded in the conference Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award contests. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 . Sponsorship Opportunities Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/sponsorships/ . Important Dates • Conference Paper Submission Deadline: June 14, 2022 AoE (firm!) • Conference Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2022 • Conference Camera-ready Deadline: July 31, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: July 31, 2022 • Conference Dates: September 26-29, 2022 Organizing Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/chairs/ Special Track Chairs Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/special-tracks-committee2/ IEEE Smart Cities https://smartcities.ieee.org

1 0

New Book - Existential Media: A Media Theory of the Limit Situation
by Amanda Lagerkvist 13 Jun '22

13 Jun '22

Dear Colleagues, My new book Existential Media: A Media Theory of the Limit Situation is out with Oxford University Press. Endorsements “Amanda Lagerkvist, an established scholar of media, memory and global urban landscapes, in this book breaks radical new ground, both for herself and for the whole field of media and communications research. Reflecting deeply not just on the inheritance of existentialist philosophy, but on the contemporary crises of climate change, datafication and the global pandemic, Lagerkvist's writing is fresh, precise and impassioned: this book urgently needs to be read.” - Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science “We live through media and always have. Yet rarely do scholars take the courageous and risky approach of Lagerkvist in explaining what media do to how we understand our own existence. If Sartre were to write about existentialism today, this is how he would write — or rather, he might wish he had written this. A deep and original account of how we through media, come closer to and push away from the limits of human existence.” - Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois-Chicago About the book Tied to the profundity of life and death, media are and have always been existential. Situated both in the middle of our lives and at the limit, they are deeply embedded in the life-world on individual as well as global scales. As they currently capitalize on human existence seemingly without limit, they are also mythologized as boundless harbingers of the future and as solutions to the predicaments of a world now poised on the edge. We are at a loss for an existential media theory that takes us beyond either the habitual or the sublime to shed light on how media play out their multivalent and momentous roles within our technologized existence of limits. There is also an urgent need after posthumanism to reassess what it means to be human in all our diversity, and to rethink the responsibility we bear in the face of today's techno-existential situation. In order to address these issues, and to remedy the existential deficit in the field, in Existential Media Amanda Lagerkvist revisits existential philosophy through a reappreciation of Karl Jaspers' philosophy, focusing in particular on his seminal concept of the limit situation of death, crisis and guilt which we are called on to seize. The book argues that the present age of deep techno-cultural saturation, and of escalating calamitous and interrelated crises, is a digital limit situation, in which there are both existential and ethico-political stakes of media. In conversation with disability studies, the new materialism and the environmental humanities, Lagerkvist introduces the field of existential media studies by offering a media theory of the limit situation which brings limits, in all their shapes and forms, onto the radar when we interrogate media. Existential media constitute both the building blocks and the brinks of being. Entering into the slow fields of mourning, commemorating and speaking to the dead in the online environment, she makes visible that they ambivalently offer metric parameters and caring and transcendent experiences, ultimately exemplifying post-interactive modes of being digital in slowness, silence and waiting, and spawning the recognition that existential vulnerability in loss is also a source of fecundity. Furthermore, placing the mourner—the coexister—at the center of media studies, calls forth a different ethos. Overturning rampant ideals, in both culture and scholarship, of limitlessness, able-bodiedness, quantification and speed, this book seeks out alternate intellectual and ethical coordinates for reclaiming, imagining and anticipating a responsible future with existential media. If you wish to order it online, visit www.oup.com/academic<http://www.oup.com/academic> and use the promo code AAFLYG6 to save 30%. Find out more here: Existential Media: A Media Theory of the Limit Situation, to be published by Oxford University Press, 2022<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/existential-media-9780190925567?typ…> Best wishes, Amanda Amanda Lagerkvist Professor of Media and Communication Studies PI of the WASP-HS Project BioMe and the Uppsala Informatics and Media Hub for Digital Existence<https://www.im.uu.se/research/hub-for-digtal-existence> Dept. of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University Box 513, SE- 751 20 Uppsala Office: +46(0)18-471 1522 Mobile: +46(0)73-660 0574 E-mail: amanda.lagerkvist(a)im.uu.se<mailto:amanda.lagerkvist@im.uu.se> Profile page<https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N7-774> Research Fellow at Worlds of AI - Department of Informatics and Media - Uppsala University, Sweden (uu.se)<https://im.uu.se/research/worlds-of-ai> När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

1 0

Visiting Assistant Professor of Critical Media Studies
by Knight, Kim 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

Dear All, Apologies for cross-posting. We have a late posting for a Visiting Assistant Professor in Critical Media Studies (CMS) in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication (ATEC) at The University of Texas at Dallas. https://jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/19106 We seek a scholar of digital media studies to join our faculty for a one-year visiting appointment, with a possible renewal for a second year. Applicants able to teach courses in media theory or media history with expertise in global media or indigenous or ethnic studies are especially welcome. The ideal candidate will have a record of critical scholarship, student-centered teaching, and enthusiasm for engaging a diverse student population. In CMS, we are responsible for curriculum in the BA in ATEC, the BA concentration in CMS, UTD's ethnic studies minor, the MA in Emerging Media Studies, and the PhD in ATEC. We are a collegial and supportive faculty with expertise in feminist STS, digital health, game studies, art education, visual culture, and more. Labs and Studios affiliated with CMS include Fashioning Circuits, The Studio for Mediating Play, Public Interactives Research Lab (PIRL), Social Practice and Community Engaged (SPaCE) Media, and Experimental Animation Lab (experiment.a.l.) The posting has June 15 as the date we will begin reviews, but it took longer than anticipated to post the job. So we will not begin review until June 22. I'm working on getting the posting amended. After that, things will move quickly. I am the search committee chair so feel free to reach out with any questions (kim.knight(a)utdallas.edu) Warm regards, Kim _____ Dr. Kim Brillante Knight Pronouns: she/her/hers Area Head, Critical Media Studies in ATEC School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication The University of Texas at Dallas kim.knight(a)utdallas.edu http://kimknight.com Office Hours Bookings<https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/DrKnightOfficeHourBookings@utdal…> (for current students)

1 0

Invitation // Representing and (re)Imagining Digital Crowds Beyond Data Reduction // KCL-DDH online event
by Nicola Bozzi 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

Hello everyone (& apologies for cross-posting), I am happy to invite you to an online event organised at KCL-DDH. Hope you can make it! --- *Representing and (re)Imagining Digital Crowds Beyond Data Reduction* Date: *20 June 2022* Time: *16:00-18:30* (London time) *Register with this Teams link <https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/FM9wg_MWFky4PHJAcWVDVg,GmZ934gLO0i…>* How do emerging cultural formats like dating profiles, Instagram face filters, GAN imagery, or blockchain-enabled communities contribute to spread out our increasingly distributed, digitally augmented identities? This online event, which is part of the *Online Crowds* workshop series organised by King's College London, Department of Digital Humanities, features presentations by critics and artists who work on digital culture, art, and identity in critical ways. Taking her Instagram filters exhibition project “Art Layers” (2021) as a starting point, Valentina Tanni <http://www.valentinatanni.com> will analyze the different roles that AR filters can play in the context of today's social media - from light, playful approaches to complex artistic experimentations on the topic of self-identity and reality perception. Midgray <https://midgray.org/> (Kris Blackmore and Simon Boas) will discuss their layered work on internet dating platforms, privacy, and masculinity. These projects involve algorithmically identifying misogyny in dating app user profiles on OkCupid, ultimately leading to thoughtful and nuanced conversations about consent and masculinity that aren't typically seen in mainstream media. Ksenia Fedorova <https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/ksenia-fedorova> will address the ways the social imaginary is affected by the capabilities of digital technologies and the creative response to this state of affairs, registered in practices ranging from political activism to interactive art and mixed reality performance. Max Dovey <https://maxdovey.com/> will discuss projects that involve performance, improvisation and live action role play to confront emergent techno-social configurations within live, embodied and situated contexts. The presentations will be followed by an open discussion session moderated by Nicola Bozzi <http://twitter.com/schizocities>, Lecturer at King's College London, Department of Digital Humanities. ---- Nicola Bozzi Lecturer in Digital Innovation Management Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London Recent Publications: Bozzi, N. (2021), "Dramatization of the @GANGSTA: Instagram Cred in the Age of Glocalized Gang Culture”, Wiest, J.B. (Ed.) *Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age* (*Studies in Media and Communications, Vol. 20*), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 69-88. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2050-206020210000020010 Bozzi, N. (2020) #digitalnomads, #solotravellers, #remoteworkers: A Cultural Critique of the Traveling Entrepreneur on Instagram. *Social Media + Society*. DOI: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305120926644

1 0

Call for Submissions // PDC 2022 Workshop // Creative Entrances to Co-Design: Exploring Collaboration through Fiction, Fairy Tales, and Games
by Sarah Rüller 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

Apologies for cross-posting Please forward this e-mail to potentially interested researchers, practitioners, activists, and designers (all career stages) Creative Entrances to Co-Design: Exploring Collaboration through Fiction, Fairy Tales, and Games Hybrid Workshop at the Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2022 (https://pdc2022.org/) Tuesday, August 30th, 2022, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) & Online (hybrid) Application deadline: June 12th, 2022, 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth) https://creative-co.design/ Design fiction, storytelling, and games provide creative entrances to co-design activities with different groups. These have emerged from a need to develop joint perspectives, a joint language and technological imagination as prerequisites for participatory approaches and co-design. With our workshop, we seek to create a practice-oriented and reflective space exploring answers to questions like the following ones: What potential does fiction, fairy tales and games carry regarding creative and low-threshold entrances to co design? How do we genuinely co-design without enforcing our, often external, perception on people’s realities and needs? How does creativity in co-design look like thinking from the very beginning, before setting up the research design? We invite researchers, practitioners, activists, and designers (all career stages) who are working in settings that are socially and culturally diverse, who bring together people of a broad age range and who have tried creative approaches in their co-design activities. Working in groups to co-design and further develop creative entrances, this workshop will explore and reflect upon the potential of design fiction, storytelling, and games to foster creativity in co-design activities and to support (technological) imagination. As a result, we plan to co-host together with the participants a digital exhibition with the results of the workshop. We welcome and appreciate submissions in various formats: · traditional workshop papers, short essays, reflections, or motivational letters (up to 5 pages, excl. references. We recommend using the template provided by PDC. https://pdc2022.org/submission-formatting/) · video and audio recordings (max. 5 minutes) about experiences from previous co-design activities and overall research designs · reflections, including visual and audio material (if existent) from previous and/or current co-design activities. We further encourage applications to submit existing creations, such as games, co-written tales, and fictions, that can be subject to further development and discussion in the working group activities. All submissions should come with a short bio of the applicant(s). For better planning, we ask the applications for an indication of preferred participation format (online or on-site). Submissions or questions can be sent to submission(a)creative-co.design. Organizers: · Sarah Rüller, Konstantin Aal, Anne Weibert, Belén Giménez (University of Siegen, Germany) · Michael Muller (IBM Research) · Mark Blythe (Northumbria University, UK) · Yasmin B. Kafai (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Check out our workshop website (https://creative-co.design/) to find more information about the formats and the application process. Please share the event widely among your networks and reach out to us if you have further questions. _________________ Sarah Rüller M.Sc. Pronouns (She/Her) Researcher // CRC 1187 - Media of Cooperation PhD candidate // Information Systems and New Media University of Siegen Kohlbettstraße 15 // 57072 Siegen // Room: US-E 103 Phone: +49 271 740 3474

1 0

Behind Data and Algorithms – Actors, logics and cultures behind digital technologies
by Jakob Svensson 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

Welcome to seminar 16th June - online or AFK in Malmö, Sweden Behind Data and Algorithms – Actors, logics and cultures behind digital technologies Speakers: Janet Abbate, Mike Ananny, Minna Ruckenstein,Julia Velkova, Anne Kaun , Elizabeth van Couvering, Rivka Ribak, Sara Suarez Gonzalo, Fernanda R. Rosa, Itzelle Aurora Medina Perea, Andrea Rosales &Ulrike Klinger The event will be free and take place at Malmö University 16th June 1030-1700 and will be live-streamed for those of you that cannot come to Malmö. For more info and link live stream, check out this webpage: https://mau.se/en/calendar/data-society-research-seminar-behind-data-and-al… Jakob Svensson jakob.svensson(a)mau.se +46 (0) 40-66 57205 Malmö University, School of Arts & Communication (K3), 205 06 Malmö, Sweden

1 0

Call for Workshop Proposals -- ACM ICDCN 2023 -- Deadline: June 15, 2022
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, Below is a Call for Workshop Proposals for ACM ICDCN 2023. The proposals should be submitted as pdf-format attachment to an email sent to the workshop chairs Sujoy Saha<https://nitdgp.ac.in/department/computer-science-engineering/faculty-1/sujo…>, Suchetana Chakraborty<https://sites.google.com/site/suchetana0116> (icdcn2023-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:icdcn2023-workshop-chairs@googlegroups.com>) by June 15, 2022. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Proposal Submission Deadline: June 15, 2022 Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2022 Please consider sending a Workshop proposal against the following CFP. ICDCN 2023 Call for Workshop Proposals ICDCN is a premier international conference dedicated to addressing advances in Distributed Computing and Communication Networks, which over the years, has become a leading forum for disseminating the latest research results in these fields. The 24th edition of this international conference will be organised in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, from 4th - 7th January 2023. https://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/conf/ICDCN23/ The 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2023) plans to host several workshops. The Organizing Committee invites proposals for one-day or half-day workshops affiliated with the conference. Workshops should emphasize current topics of interest within the broader areas of Distributed Computing and Communication Networks. Some of the topics of interest are mentioned below, but not limited to: - Distributed Data-Analytics - Blockchains - Distributed AI/ML - Security, Privacy and Game Theory in Distributed Computing and Networking - Disaster response - Smart healthcare - Energy and Sustainability - Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical systems - Distributed game theory - Biological Distributed Algorithms - Mobile Crowdsensing and Social Network Analysis and Mining - 5G and beyond Networks Next generation internet - Ad-hoc, Sensor, PAN and Mesh Networks - Backscatter and Ultra-low Power Networks - Cloud Computing and Big Data Processing - Cognitive Networking - Edge Computing and Mobile Offloading - Pervasive and Mobile Computing - Vehicular Networks, Smart Grids and Smart City Applications - Fault-tolerance, Reliability, and Availability of Distributed Systems - Self-organization, Self-stabilization, and Autonomic Computing The workshops may include a mix of regular papers, invited presentations and panels that encourage the participation of attendees in active discussion. The purpose of these workshops is to provide a platform for presenting new ideas in a generally more focused area than the main conference. The objective of these workshops is to enable stimulating discussions on state-of-the-art, emerging, visionary, and perhaps controversial topics. Workshops should be organized to promote such lively interaction. Plans to promote interaction and discussion should be clearly addressed in workshop proposals. It is expected that workshop papers will be published along with the main conference papers as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) and will be indexed by the ACM Digital Library. The previous editions of ICDCN hosted the following workshops: Year & Location Name of the Workshops 2022 1. The Fifth International Workshop On Networking Women In Distributed Computing And Networks 2. The International Workshop On Machine Learning And Blockchain For Smart Society 3. International Workshop on Emergency Response Technologies and Services For more information follow this link: https://icdcn2022.iiitd.edu.in/ 2021 1. Predictive and Learning Approaches based on Distributed-to-Centralized Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Management of Large-Scale Internet of Things Networks in Smart Cities 2. 3rd International Workshop on Emergency Response Technologies and Services 3. 1st ACM Workshop on Recent Trends of Internet of Softwarized Things 4. The Third International Workshop on Mobile Ubiquitous Systems, Infrastructures, Communications and Applications 5. The Fourth International Workshop On Networking Women In Distributed Computing And Networks 6. The 2nd Workshop on Distributed Algorithms for Low-Functional Robots 7. First International Workshop on Maintenance-Free Context Sensing For more information follow this link: https://www.icdcn2021.net/workshops.html 2020 1. International Workshop on Emergency Response Technologies and Services (EmeRTeS 2020) 2. The Ninth International Workshop on Computing and Networking for Internet of Things and Beyond (ComNet-IoT 2020) 3. Workshop on Networks and Systems for Agriculture (AGRINETS 2020) 4. 1st International Workshop on Societal Computing for the Internet of Things & You (SoCIeTY 2020) 5. Workshop on 5G Edge architecture 6. First ACM Workshop on Smart Sensing: from IoT to Ambient (SmartSensing) 7. International Workshop On Networking Women In Distributed Computing And Networks 2022 (NWDCN 2022) 8. The International Workshop On Machine Learning And Blockchain For Smart Society(MLBSS-2022) 9. International Workshop on Emergency Response Technologies and Services (EmeRTesS 2022) For more information follow this link: http://www.icdcn2020.rf.gd/workshop.html Format of the Proposal: Each workshop proposal (maximum 5 pages) must include: - Title of the workshop - Description of the technical issues covered, emphasising the timeliness of the proposed workshop (1 page maximum) - Workshop Organizers (names, affiliation and contact information), limiting up to 2 workshop chairs for half-day workshop and 3 workshop chairs for full-day workshop - A short biography of the organizers (up to 200 words) -Names of potential participants, such as program committee members and invited speakers (indication that speakers accepted to participate is a plus) - Planned format of the workshop, including: + Duration of the workshop: Half-day, Full-day and tentative schedule + Preferred day of workshop: Before or after the conference + Number of refereed papers, hot topic sessions, keynotes, panels + Unique, creative and novel workshops formats are strongly encouraged - Draft Call for Papers - A description of the publicity and promotion plan - Workshop potential website address (if available at the time of the proposal - will be required later if the workshop proposal is accepted) - If appropriate, a description of past versions of the workshop, including the number of submitted and accepted papers, number of attendees, etc. -In order to ensure the quality of the accepted papers in ICDCN, the ICDCN steering committee set an upper limit of 40% on the acceptance rate for ICDCN Workshop papers. Hence, it is desirable for the organizers of the accepted workshops to adhere to that acceptance rate for their respective workshops. Please address questions to Workshop Chairs: Suchetana Chakraborty and Sujoy Saha by sending e-mail to icdcn2023-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:icdcn2023-workshop-chairs@googlegroups.com> Timelines for the Workshop: The proposals should be submitted (in PDF format) no later than June 15, 2022 to the ICDCN 2023 Workshop chairs (icdcn2023-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:icdcn2023-workshop-chairs@googlegroups.com>) with "ICDCN 2023 Workshop Proposal" in the subject. - Proposal Deadline: June 15th, 2022 - Notification of Selection: July 1st, 2022 - Opening of Workshop Papers for Acceptance: July 15th, 2022 - Deadline for Workshop Papers: September 15th, 2022 - Decision on Acceptance/Rejection of the Workshop Papers: October 15th, 2022 - Camera-Ready Papers Version Due: October 31st, 2022 Thanks & Regards, Sujoy Saha Suchetana Chakraborty -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

1 0

CFP: Reimagining Platforms @ The University of Edinburgh, October 31
by Kate Miltner 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

Hello all, We are now accepting submissions for *Reimagining Platforms: Research, Governance and Labour. * *Reimagining Platforms* is a new collaboration between The University of Edinburgh and University of Toronto. It is a one-day symposium taking place at The University of Edinburgh on October 31, 2022 that brings academics and community and local partners together to develop methods and concepts to analyze the different futures and possibilities of platforms and platform economies. To this end, we invite papers and presentations that reimagine platforms in alignment with three specific themes: 1) researching proprietary digital platforms; 2) governing digital platforms; and 3) new labour futures. The deadline for submissions is July 8, 2022. For more information, please visit: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/reimagining Thanks, Kate

1 0

special issue ‘Digital Migration Practices and the Everyday’ published in Communication, Culture & Critique, 15(2) 2022: 103-298.
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting, we kindly like to share with you info on the special issue ‘Digital Migration Practices and the Everyday’ Sandra Ponzanesi and I guest-edited for Communication, Culture & Critique, 15(2) 2022: 103-298. https://academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/15/2 This special issue explores the role that digital technology plays in the lives of migrants. It does so by paying close attention to governmental and supranational organizations as well as to subjective and affective dimensions of the everyday. Digital migration practices emerge as complex negotiations in the digital media sphere between infrastructural bias and agential opportunities, contesting racial practices as well as enabling digitally mediated bonds of solidarity and intimacy. The issue offers nuanced critical perspectives ranging from surveillance capitalism, extractive humanitarianism, datafication, and border regimes to choreographies of care and intimacy in transnational settings, among other aspects. Renowned international scholars reflect on these issues from different vantage points. The closing forum section provides state-of-the-art commentaries on digital diaspora, affect and belonging, voice and visibility in the digital media sphere, queer migrant interventions in non-academic settings, and datafication and media infrastructures in “deep time.” This special issue draws from the successful conference “Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday” which took place online on April 21–23, 2021. The conference was part of the ERC project CONNECTINGEUROPE (http://connectingeuropeproject.eu/) (Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging), led by Sandra Ponzanesi and jointly organized in collaboration with the DMM section (Diaspora, Migration and the Media) of ECREA (European Communication Research and Education) chaired by Koen Leurs. In this event, over 200 speakers presented contributions covering a wide diversity of topics ranging from digital connectivity, to creative practices, digital diaspora and place-making, affect and belonging, visuality and social media, datafication, securitization and infrastructuring, among others. For more information see: https://migrantbelongings.sites.uu.nl/. It includes contributions by: Sandra Ponzanesi & Koen Leurs (UU), Paul Gilroy, Nicholas de Genova, Saskia Witteborn, Roopika Risam, Martina Tazzioli, Christine Quinan & Mina Hunt, Larissa Hjorth, Earvin Cabalquinto, Laura Candidatu & Sandra Ponzanesi (UU), Myria Georgiou, Łukasz Szulc, Raelene Wilding & Monica Winarnita, Koen Leurs (UU) and Philip Seuferling See the full table of contents below EDITORIAL https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/103/6581831 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Sandra+Ponzanesi, https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Koen+Leurs Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 103–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac016 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/122/6565345 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Paul+Gilroy Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 122–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac012 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/139/6562973 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Nicholas+De+Genova Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 139–156, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac009 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/157/6570646 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Saskia+Witteborn Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 157–175, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac007 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/176/6573768 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Martina+Tazzioli Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 176–192, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac018 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/193/6564094 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Roopika+Risam Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 193–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac005 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/211/6571700 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=C+L+Quinan, https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Mina+Hunt Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 211–226, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac013 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/227/6571687 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Larissa+Hjorth Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 227–243, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac008 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/244/6572111 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Earvin+Charles+B+Caba… Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 244–260, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac011 FORUM https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/261/6565888 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Laura+Candidatu, https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Sandra+Ponzanesi Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 261–268, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac010 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/269/6561482 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Myria+Georgiou Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 269–275, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac003 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/276/6556263 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=%c5%81ukasz+Szulc Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 276–282, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac006 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/283/6571686 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Raelene+Wilding, https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Monika+Winarnita Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 283–289, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac015 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/290/6572110 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Koen+Leurs, https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Philipp+Seuferling Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 290–297, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac019 Koen Leurs Assistant professor Gender, Media and Migration Studies | https://graduategenderstudies.nl/ | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Utrecht University, the Netherlands |

1 0

Trust Defender
by Shulman, Stu 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Trust Defender is a collection of open source scripts used to train and run a classifier to classify Twitter users as potential good or bad actors. The classifier models are based on Twitter user information and focus heavily on the user bio description to make determinations. https://github.com/texifter/trust-defender There are two primary classifier types: an n-gram naive Bayes classifier model, which uses 2,3,4, and 5-gram models combined and results a probability score for two classes: bot or good, a neural network that takes as input: p(bot) (from the n-gram classifier) p(good) (from the n-gram classifier), number of days the Twitter account has been active, average number of statuses per day, average number of followers per day, average number of per day, the description length in number of individual terms, the number of “lists” in the description (e.g. god, country, president would be considered a “list”), the number of hashtags used in the description, the number of URLs found in the description. Not every seemingly odd account is a "bad actor" or a bot, however, you can find some pretty freaky stuff using this model. Happy hunting. Elon is waiting for your findings. -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*

1 0