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CfP. SI Pandemic disobedience, Mapping Covid19 Non-Conformities
by Nagy, V. (Veronika) 11 May '22

11 May '22

CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE Pandemic disobedience, Mapping Covid19 Non-Conformities While some countries are now considering covid-19 an endemic, international and national responses to the pandemic are still characterized by inconsistencies, fuelling social conflicts and civil disobedience. From travel bans on an international level, national lockdowns, accessibility and availability of public places, vaccines and testing, to the spread of disinformation, social media censorship, and discussions on corporate responsibility have led to new types of social division and exclusion in society. These inconsistencies and the different narratives on Covid-19 have been met with diverse responses from individuals, governments, justice systems and the private sector. While some countries cite the ending of the pandemic, others have tightened regulation and introduced punitive measures for non-compliance with transient measures. These in turn have created pockets of individuals and larger collectives to engage in "Covid non-conformities". Recent studies refer to such incentives as `Covid fraud`, cultures of resistance, pandemic disobedience, or corruption of medical professionals, while others identify online criminal networks, that are assisting counterfeiting national Covid regulations and health care markets. However, due to the growing uncertainties and controversial decision-making practices, deviant responses are increasing in all corners of societies. In this special issue such non-conformities are defined from a greater scope as actions, images, initiatives, vernacular, or behaviour, that defy, challenge or draw into question Covid-19 measures imposed on the local or the international level and which are met with dissenting response. Covid-non conformities go beyond solely (il)legal conduct, but also include professional and moral deviance. In this special issue we invite contributions that examine the dynamics of deviance and the widening of what constitutes Covid non-conformity, to be published in the Autumn of 2022. We welcome innovative and original research representing interdisciplinary objectives, including cultural, critical theoretical approaches which identify these fault lines in society, as well as the responses to them. Contributions presenting qualitative or empirical inquiries seeking to describe and explore Covid non-conformities are highly encouraged, as well as multidisciplinary research from criminology, criminal justice, media and communication studies, anthropology, sociology and other humanities disciplines. Topics may include but are not limited to: * Illicit markets, forgery, buying, selling of vaccine passes, PCR test results, medical status documentation, medicines and treatments * Covid-19 misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, propagation, effects, sources, responses, censorship * Scientific scepticism, professional (mis)conduct, scientific and professional debate, scientific authority and autonomy * Bioethics, medical ethics, autonomy and authority in medicine * Access to healthcare, health equity * Stigma, division, social exclusion, victimization, racism, inequality * Travel restrictions, national and international populations, travel and landing bans, designation of high risk countries * Health status and antisocial and prosocial behaviour * Corporate policing, corporate interests, transparency, access to health and equity * Covid-19 surveillance, law enforcement, document vérification, penalties, fines, quarantaines * Curtailment of human rights and freedoms * Covid-19 criminalization Timeline: Deadline for Initial Proposals: July 10, 2022 Prospective authors should submit a short article proposal as a Word document or PDF file to v.nagy(a)uu.nl<mailto:v.nagy@uu.nl>. The proposal should describe: * The name and contact information of the author(s), along with a brief bio. * The title of the proposed contribution and the topic the author(s) believe(s) that the contribution best fits under. * An abstract (max 500 words) and 4-7 keywords Potential authors are encouraged to contact the editor to discuss ideas for theme and format. There is no article processing charge. Authors are encouraged to use images but will be required to request permission from copyright-holders when needed. Notification of Acceptance: 20th of July, 2022 Deadline First Drafts: 10th of December, 2022 Peer review completed: 25th of January, 2023 Final Drafts Due: 31th of February, 2023 Editors If prospective authors have more questions, please contact one of the editors below. Veronika Nagy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology in Utrecht (V.Nagy(a)uu.nl<mailto:V.Nagy@uu.nl>) Anna Laskai Ph.D. Assistant Professor at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology in Utrecht (a.e.laskai(a)uu.nl<mailto:a.e.laskai@uu.nl>)

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PhD and PostDoc positions @ Uppsala University InfoLab
by Matteo Magnani 11 May '22

11 May '22

Dear colleagues, we have two open positions that may be relevant for this list: PhD position on: Analysis of online communication https://uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=501594 PostDoc position on: Social image analysis https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=508164 The application deadline is May 31, 2022 for both. You find the description of the profiles in the linked pages. It would be great if you could share this information with prospective candidates if you know some. The successful candidates will join the Uppsala University Information Laboratory (https://uuinfolab.github.io) where we do research in social data science. The lab is part of the EU-funded Nordic Observatory for Digital Media and Information Disorder and has several ongoing collaborations with the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences. The PhD position is for at most five years and includes department duties (mainly teaching) at a level of at most 20%. The PostDoc position is for two years, and also includes 20% department duties (mainly teaching). Knowledge of Swedish is not required, most of our courses can be taught in English. Uppsala is a great place where to live: a picturesque town with a thousand-year history, but also a growing city bustling with business and activities. Uppsala University plays a big role in the city, with around one fourth of the residents being students. Sweden has a generous welfare system that includes paid parental leave, affordable daycare and practically free medical care. Stockholm is 40 minutes away by train. If you have questions, you can contact Davide Vega (davide.vega(a)it.uu.se) for the first position and myself for the second. Best, -- Matteo Magnani Docent (Associate Professor) in Computing Science and Distinguished university teacher Coordinator, Master’s programme in Data Science Director, Uppsala University InfoLab (https://uuinfolab.github.io) Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University TW: @matmagnani @uuinfolab FB: @uuinfolab 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

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Internet Researchers' Conference 2022: #Home [May 25-27]
by Ambika Tandon 11 May '22

11 May '22

Dear All, We are excited to announce that the fifth edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) will be held online on May 25-27, 2022! This annual conference series was initiated by the researchers@work (r@w) programme at CIS in 2016 to gather researchers and practitioners engaging with the internet in/from India to congregate, share insights and tensions, and chart the ways forward. This year, the conference brings together a set of reflections and conversations on how we imagine and experience the home —as a space of refuge and comfort, but also as one of violence, care, labour and movement-building. What has it meant to be at home, and what is home? What is and has been the role of the internet and digital media technologies in navigating the contours of a changing ‘normal’? How have/can digital technologies help overcome, or exacerbate existing social, economic and political challenges during the pandemic? What forms of digital infrastructure—tools, platforms, devices and services—help build, sustain and alter the notion of home? For more details see: https://cis-india.org/raw/irc-22-home A detailed conference schedule will be added shortly on our website. IRC is a free event, please do register to join, using this link: https://tinyurl.com/reg-irc22 Registration closes on Tuesday, May 24 at 4 PM IST/6.30AM ET. Please share with your networks, do write back if you have any queries. Best wishes, IRC22 Team

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Second Call For Papers - HICSS 56 | Human-Centered Digital Privacy Solutions
by Michele A. L. Villagran 11 May '22

11 May '22

Conference: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-56) | January 3-6, 2023*Minitrack: Human-centered Digital Privacy Solutions for Digital and Social Media**Track: Digital and Social Media**Submission Deadline: June 15, 2022 (11:59 PM HST)* *Visit https://hicss.hawaii.edu/ <https://hicss.hawaii.edu/> for more details, and https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ <https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/> for author submission details.* The burgeoning growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions, the ubiquity of social media and digital repositories, and cross-platform data usage have raised the stakes of addressing digital privacy. Semi-structured digital records, like emails, and unstructured text, like social media posts, present a significant threat of privacy breaches. The enormity of data presents an uphill task to identify and mitigate private information on digital and social media platforms. While AI-powered privacy solutions are a welcomed step, it is only recently that researchers have focused on more human-centered and transdisciplinary (Polk, 2015) digital privacy solutions. Privacy protection is a legal and ethical responsibility of both public and private sector organizations, and AI development and deployment should account for the diversity of the target audience, the cultural contexts, and extant biases (Ehsan et al., 2021). Privacy solutions should not only be effective and accurate but also human-centered and accountable (Hepenstal et al., 2019). This minitrack aims to attract submissions on digital privacy solutions that bring different disciplines together, especially computer science, system sciences, information science, social science, and law. The focus of this minitrack is to bridge the gap between algorithmic development (automated decision-making systems, fair, accountable, and transparent systems) and human-centered approaches (usability studies, surveys, user interviews). We encourage submissions that address privacy concerns in digital and social media through inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches, including but not limited to AI and ML. Potential submissions for this minitrack should address (but are not limited to) the following research topics: - quantitative, qualitative, and computational studies on digital (e.g., images, webpages, emails, websites) and social media (e,g., Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, Weibo) privacy; - qualitative studies using interviews, surveys, and usability studies to identify the privacy behavior of users (when using digital and social media); - quantitative work on digital privacy using statistical analysis; - machine and deep learning approaches to identify, classify, and mitigate sensitive and private information on digital and social media platforms; - novel privacy solutions using explainable AI, transparent ML algorithms, or any interdisciplinary methods. Minitrack Chair and Co-Chairs: Dr. Souvick Ghosh San Jose State University, USA souvick.ghosh(a)sjsu.edu Dr. Darra Hofman San Jose State University, USA darra.hofman(a)sjsu.edu Dr. Aylin Imeri (Ilhan) Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany Aylin.ilhan(a)hhu.de Dr. Michele A. L. Villagran San Jose State University, USA michele.villagran(a)sjsu.edu

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IAPMR@Dialogues Series webinar with the EBU - "EBU Research foci and opportunities for academic collaborations"
by Maria Michalis 10 May '22

10 May '22

[apologies for cross-posting] IAPMR@Dialogues Series Partners at Work **Wednesday 18 May, 14.00 CET FREE but registration required New webinar **EBU: Research foci and opportunities for academic collaborations This spring the International Association of Public Media Researchers (IAPMR) will give voice to our partners at work. In this season's first webinar, Dr. Florence Hartmann (Head of the European Broadcasting Union's Media Intelligence Service) will offer an overview of her team’s recent research activity and share with the community of PSM researchers what she sees as the most pressing issues for PSM research. The workshop aims to identify opportunities for academic collaborations and knowledge exchange. There will be an opportunity for attendees to ask questions and contribute to the discussion. The webinar will take place on Wednesday 18 May at 14.00 CET via Zoom. To register, please fill this form<https://forms.gle/eZNJoEdWzjj2eYEH9> and we will send you the link to the Zoom meeting when the date approaches. To register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_y64hHlw-QYWpIIFyUKVgI8ioAMkRzXT… 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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CFP Esports minitrack HICSS56
by Piotr Siuda 10 May '22

10 May '22

CALL FOR PAPERS: ESPORTS AT THE 56TH HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES Esports research is a field with conflicting definitions and multiple perspectives. Despite the differences between approaches to esports, all emphasize its technological specificity and competitiveness. In the last decade, esports has ceased to be seen solely as entertainment for the youth and has become the fastest-growing area in sports. This view is supported by the increase in the number of events organized, their popularity among millions of viewers, and the growing number and professionalization of gamers. Traditional sports are still generally larger in size and reach than the biggest esports, with substantially more revenues and larger player salaries in traditional sports. However, esports is quickly catching up, given the growing number of broadcasted games and events, tournament prize pools, availability of media rights, and increasing advertising and sponsorship potential of esports games. Despite the increasing popularity of esports, the research is still in its nascency. After an initial descriptive stage, the focus shifts from explaining what esports is to a more nuanced understanding of multiple phenomena present in the industry. This minitrack aims to provide insight into esports’ theoretical development and practical understanding without excluding any methodological approach or scientific disciplines. Conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions that enrich our understanding of esports are welcome. Given the diverse goals of this minitrack, possible topics include, but are not limited to: Business, e.g. discovering esports consumers’ motivations; designing effective marketing tools; understanding players’/esports’ networks and organizations; gamers/fans as consumers; esports finances and revenues; esports management and governance Cognitive Science/Psychology, e.g. studying factors influencing athletes’ performance; their abilities and skills; cognitive and behavioral differences between athletes; team management. IT, e.g. using game telemetry, biometrics, user-generated data, or text mining to study esports; team dynamics; interactions of players; in-game performance. Sociology, e.g. gamers’ and athletes’ interactions and identities; live events and streaming dynamics; gender issues (gender gap). Media Studies and Communications, e.g. cultural examinations; relations between esports, traditional sports, and the media; offline spaces versus live-streaming, understanding esports in terms of virtual versus real; how technology mediates gaming and how esports’ communities fit here. Law, e.g. copyright issues, intellectual property. Health, Wellness and Medical Sciences, e.g., health and wellness of players; comparing esports and traditional sports; esports as ‘real’, ‘genuine’ sports or new quality. Technology, e.g. augmented, virtual, mixed and extended reality; haptic technology and gaming. Authors of accepted papers have the option to fast-track extended versions of their papers to: Journal of Electronic Gaming and Esports. Rejected manuscripts will be recommended to be submitted to JEGE for further review. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Author Instructions: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ Esports minitrack website: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-55/internet-and-the-digital-economy/#esport… IMPORTANT DATES: April 15, 2022: Paper submission begins (through HICSS systems: https://hicss-submissions.org/) June 15, 2022: Paper submission deadline (11:59 pm HST) August 17,2022: Notification of acceptance/rejection September 22, 2022: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication October 1, 2022: Deadline for at least one author for each paper to register for the conference MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS: Piotr Siuda (Primary Contact) Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz piotr.siuda(a)ukw.edu.pl Maciej Behnke Adam Mickiewicz University macbeh(a)amu.edu.pl David P. Hedlund St. John’s University hedlundd(a)stjohns.edu -- *Piotr Siuda* (PhD, Professor of Media Studies) piotrsiuda.com Institute of Social Communication and Media Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland *Recent papers:* *--** Microtransaction politics in FIFA Ultimate Team: game fans, Twitch streamers, and Electronic Art*, in*: **EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game, Bloomsbury Academic Press*. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ea-sports-fifa-9781501375347 *-- **Cancer entertainment education and Netflix – an exploratory study, **Educational Media International**, *59(1), doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/09523987.2022.2054115 *-- Sports gamers practices as a form of subversiveness - the example of the FIFA ultimate team*, *Critical Studies in Media Communication*, https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2021.1876897

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[Last call] IEEE GLOBECOM22 - Social Networks
by Jui-Yi Tsai 10 May '22

10 May '22

IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2022) 4–8 December 2022 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Selected Areas in Communications－Social Networks Symposium Co-Chairs Neeli R. Prasad, TrustedMobi “VehicleAvatar Inc.”, USA, neeli.prasad(a)vehicleavatar.com Scope and Motivation Recently, social network research has advanced rapidly with the prevalence of online social applications and mobile social communications systems. Moreover, the ongoing pandemic via contact social networks has caused tremendous human life and economic loss around the world, and infodemic is one of the major social impacts that make people difficult to discriminate trustworthy sources, from false and manipulative information sources. Therefore, researchers are increasingly interested in addressing a wide spectrum of challenges in social networks, such as developing social-aware algorithms for communications systems, identifying the topological common structures and information/influence flows, analyzing the social media and evolutions of social graphs, and exploiting location-based and contextual information embedded in mobile social networks to create innovative applications. Due to the interdisciplinary nature, social networks have also attracted intensive research interests across multiple disciplines, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, big data analytics, information security and privacy protection, psychology, and marketing. In light of the above crucial needs, Selected Areas in Communication Symposium in Social Networks will serve as a forum for researchers and technologists to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their contributions, and set future directions in social networks. Topics of Interest The Social Networks SAC seeks original contributions in the following topical areas, plus others that are not explicitly listed but are closely related: - Infrastructure, platform, protocol design, and optimization for mobile social networks, mobile social clouds, and social Internet-of-Things with Artificial Intelligence - Social-aware network solutions and social network influence on (wireless) communications systems - Cross-layer design for social networks and the underlying communications and network platforms, and subsequent new design paradigm for future (wireless) communications - Network graph modeling, measurements, simulations, and experiments - Analysis of dynamics and control of belief, influence, and rumor propagations in the evolutions of social networks - Data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, signal processing, and artificial intelligence in social media and social contexts - Trusted networking, privacy and security, user behaviors and dynamics, and digital right management, for big data in social networks - Innovative social network applications and services to mobile Internet, multimedia networks, mobile-commerce, cyber-physical systems, and their potential social, economic, and cultural impacts - Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on social networks Important Dates - Paper Submission: 22 May 2022 (Firm deadline) - Notification: 25 July 2022 - Camera Ready and Registration: 1 September 2022 How to Submit a Paper All papers for technical symposia should be submitted via EDAS. Full instructions on how to submit papers are provided on the IEEE Globecom 2022 website: https://globecom2022.ieee-globecom.org/

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TikTok Books Roundtable on 16 May
by Bondy Kaye 09 May '22

09 May '22

Dear colleagues, The TikTok Cultures Research Network is pleased to announce our fifth virtual event TikTok Books Roundtable on 16 May 2022 featuring the authors of the first three academic books on TikTok. TikTok has become one of the most widely used short video platforms around the world and a key site of study for students, researchers, and scholars. This event features a moderated discussion with the authors of the first book-length investigations into TikTok. Trevor Boffone author of “Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok” (2021); D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Jing Zeng, and Patrik Wikström authors of “TikTok: Creativity and Culture in Short Video” (2022); and Crystal Abidin author of “TikTok and Youth Cultures” (2023). This 1.5-hour virtual event will take place via Zoom on 16 May 2022 at 1500-1630 (GMT+8) and will feature a brief introduction of the three books, a moderated panel discussion between the authors, and an audience Q&A. The event will be moderated by Ms Daniela Jaramillo-Dent. We invite professionals from media industries and social media industries, students and researchers in academia, and members of the general public to attend this event. The event is free but registration is required. Please register here <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xn2yQrsIQi-X0-gYcpg64A>. This event is brought to you by the TikTok Cultures Research Network <http://tiktokcultures.com> and supported by the Faculty of Humanities (Curtin University) <https://humanities.curtin.edu.au/> and the Centre for Culture and Technology (Curtin University) <https://ccat.curtin.edu.au/>.

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Online seminar 25 May | Roxana Radu: Digital sovereignty in the new era of Internet Governance
by Orsolya Gulyás 09 May '22

09 May '22

Dear colleagues, You are warmly invited to attend the second edition of our Data Sovereignty Seminar Series on 25 May at 15.00 with Roxana Radu (University of Oxford). The event 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. Registration: https://brussels-school.be/event/data-sovereignty-seminar-2-digital-soverei… Seminar #2: Digital sovereignty in the new era of Internet Governance Description Internet governance is entering a new phase characterized by fragmentation and polarization. These recent trends make it harder to imagine a unitary network bound by globally agreed norms. National spaces of control, ideological divides and the increased bifurcation of Internet-based technologies are likely to reconfigure the way in which the Internet is governed. Various models of digital sovereignty drive this transformation, affecting the power limitations and safeguards possible. This talk examines projects of digital sovereignty in the making and their implications for how the Internet is globally governed. Programme 15:00-15:05: Welcome and introduction by Orsolya Gulyás & Clément Perarnaud (BSoG) 15:05-15:25: Presentation by Roxana Radu (University of Oxford) 15:25-15:35: Discussion by Mauro Santaniello (University of Salerno) 15:35-16:00: Q&A with the audience Time: May 25, 2022 at 03:00 PM CET 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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Workshop (Un)fairness of AI - University of Amsterdam
by Irina Ioniţă 09 May '22

09 May '22

Just as well as AI can support democracy through faster and better decision-making because algorithms are impartial, unfair AI systems can undermine democracy as they have been shown to systematically reinforce racial or gender stereotypes, marginalize minorities or denigrate certain members of society. Between the 27th and 28th of October 2022, at the VolksHotel Amsterdam, the RPA Human(e) AI<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhumane-ai…> of the University of Amsterdam will hold a workshop to explore the ethical, social, and regulatory aspects of AI (un)fairness. The workshop will be dedicated to presenting cutting-edge research on AI (un)fairness and creating space for discussing future collaborations. Our first confirmed keynote speaker is Reuben Binns from University of Oxford. Find out more about submitting a proposal here<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhumane-ai…>. https://humane-ai.nl/events_report/workshop-unfairness-of-artificial-intell…<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhumane-ai…> Kind regards, Irina Ioniță RPA Human(e) AI - Student Assistant | Universiteit van Amsterdam

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