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CfP: Designing for and with Children - Academic Mindtrek
by Noura Howell 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

Call for Papers: Designing for and with Children at the *25th International Academic Mindtrek conference* on 16th and 18th of November 2022 in Tampere, Finland As track chairs for Designing for and with Children, we especially welcome submissions that contribute to the understanding of how children use, design, and envision technology for their everyday lives and experiences, including (but not limited to) work on Child-Computer Interaction, Participatory Design and Research, and design futuring, design fiction, speculative design, and related approaches. Academic Mindtrek also welcomes full papers, workshops, demonstrations, and poster presentations on a variety of tracks: https://www.mindtrek.org/2022/academic-mindtrek-tracks/ *Deadline: July 25th, 2022* Submissions will be made through EasyChair. The EasyChair submission page for this year will be available soon. https://easychair.org/cfp/search.cgi Please reach out if you have any questions. Sumita Sharma, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar INTERACT Research Unit, ITEE University of Oulu, Finland sumita.sharma(a)oulu.fi Grace Eden, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Human-Centered Design Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIITD), India grace(a)iiitd.ac.in Noura Howell, PhD Assistant Professor Digital Media Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, US nhowell8(a)gatech.edu

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Glitch Poetics by Nathan Jones: new open-access book from Open Humanities Press
by Joanna Zylinska 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of /Glitch Poetics/ by Nathan Allen Jones Like all Open Humanities Press books, /Glitch Poetics/ is available open access (it can be downloaded for free): http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/glitch-poetics/ <http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/glitch-poetics/> *Book description:* Glitches are errors where the digital bursts or creeps into our everyday lives as fragmented image, garbled text and aberrant event. Today, when computational technology is integrated ever more closely into bodies and social structures, glitches are considered by artists and companies alike as critical and commercial opportunities, revealing tears in the real-virtual binary. Glitch has also increasingly become a metaphor for understanding the political and ecological shocks the world pushes into the mediasphere each day. In /Glitch Poetics/ Nathan Jones shows how contemporary writers and artists are integrating the glitch as a literary effect, an affective critique and a realist reflection, at a time characterised by breakage, corruption and crisis. *Endorsements:* Based on a range of close readings of contemporary literature by writers including Linda Stupart, Sam Riviere, Keston Sutherland, Ben Lerner, Caroline Bergvall, Erica Scourti, David Peace and the internet novelists, and drawing on theories of error, shock, glitch, critical posthumanism and code, Jones lays the groundwork for writing that can productively engage in the new situation for literature in the context of AI, the Anthropocene and the post-digital age. His book articulates the working of error in literary and media practice at the horizon of human and machine language. /Glitch Poetics/resists technofuturism, reinventing errancy as a necessary aesthetic value of (and crucially against) our time. /Charles Bernstein/, Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania. So, body-machinic posthuman reader, consider the shock to your system(s) when a glitch-error interrupts the coding-decoding mechanisms that govern your operations. Disruption to the textual condition occurs as voice misrecognition and cycles of translation malform and corrupt the poetics of authorial production. The desire for ideological resistance may or may not be short-circuited by the predictive algorithm manifest in remediating performance and its disruption of literary habits. The old attachment to tactical intervention remains, an aspiration still making its way through the charged circuits of culture, looking for a way to break down the rule-governed barriers between aspiration and effective agency. The pathetic subroutines, often destined to crash, derive from provisional looping of interference patterns that constantly reorder our codified reality. In /Glitch Poetics/ Jones selects vivid examples of the ways the glitch can be used deliberately to produce an uncomfortable intervention in the current conditions of posthuman capitalist culture. Or can it? Read and decide, based on your own bodily-machinic receptivity to ‘technological timings’ and ‘leaky intrusions’ across the ‘creepy porousness’ of your boundaries. /Johanna Drucker/, Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information Studies, UCLA. /Glitch Poetics/figures glitch radically as a key aesthetic condition of the contemporary moment. A powerful exploration of how glitch works across writing, art and bodies, it reconfigures our understanding of technology as an aesthetic force that structures our world. // /Olga Goriunova/, Professor of Media, Royal Holloway University of London. *Author Bio * Nathan Allen Jones is Lecturer in Fine Art (Digital Media) at Lancaster University. Exploring the dynamic relationship between the newest media, language and art discourse, he has written and made artworks about unicode, blockchain, speed readers and peer-to-peer networks. He is also a co-founder (with Sam Skinner) of Torque Editions, whose publications include /Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain/ (2017) and /The Act of Reading/ (2015), and exhibitions with Tate, Furtherfield and FACT, Liverpool. *Series* The book is published as part of the MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series edited by Joanna Zylinska: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/ <http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/> ** *Other recent titles from Open Humanities Press include: * /Bifurcate: There Is No Alternative/, edited by Bernard Stiegler and the Internation Collective: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/bifurcate/ <http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/bifurcate/> // /La naturaleza como acontecimiento: El señuelo de lo possible/by Didier Debaise: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-naturaleza-como-aconteci… <http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-naturaleza-como-aconteci…> // /Fabricating Publics: The Dissemination of Culture in the Post-truth Era/, edited by Bill Balaskas and Carolina Rito: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/fabricating-publics/ <http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/fabricating-publics/> /Más allá del derecho de autor, editado/by Alberto López Cuenca and Renato Bermúdez Dini: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/mas-alla-del-derecho-de-aut… <http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/mas-alla-del-derecho-de-aut…> // /Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive/, edited by Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Susan Reid, Pia van Gelder and Astrida Neimanis: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/feminist-queer-anticolonial… <http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/feminist-queer-anticolonial…> /The Interfact: On Structure and Compatibility in Object-Oriented Ontology/by Gabriel Yoran: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-interfact/ <http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-interfact/> /La magie réaliste: objets, ontologie et causalité/by**Timothy Morton: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-magie-realiste/ <http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-magie-realiste/> /hyposubjects: on becoming human**/by Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/hyposubjects/ <http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/hyposubjects/> /Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Towards a Metacosmics/by Daniel Ross: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/psychopolitical-anaphylaxis/ <http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/psychopolitical-anaphylaxis/> /A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain/by Gary Hall: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury <http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury> /Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies/by Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/aesthetic-programming/ <http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/aesthetic-programming/> -- Joanna Zylinska Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice King's College London Department of Digital Humanities http://www.joannazylinska.net LATEST: Beyond Machine Vision: How to Build a Non-Trivial Perception Machine [open access article] http://www.transformationsjournal.org/2022-issue-no-36-artificial-creativit… The Future of Media [edited book, open access + print] https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/31658/ https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/future-media 1000 Words: Writer Conversations on Photography [interview] http://www.1000wordsmag.com/joanna-zylinska/

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ECREA DCC pre-conference workshop: "The Work-in-Progress in Social Media Research"
by Yunyi Liao 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

*EXTENDED DEADLINE* ECREA DCC pre-conference workshop: "The Work-in-Progress in Social Media Research" ECREA’s Digital Culture and Communication (DCC) section invites applications for The Work-in-Progress in Social Media Research: a one-day remote ECREA pre-conference workshop to be held online via Zoom on Wednesday 12th October 2022. We often encounter scholars' work at a finished stage – like a published article or a polished presentation – while the trials and tribulations of research are often experienced in isolation. This is especially the case for social media researchers, whose field sites can disappear overnight and who face new and challenging questions about the methods, ethics, and sometimes legalities of their work. The aim of this workshop is to create a collaborative space for social media researchers to feed back on each other’s ideas and concerns, and help to inspire progress in what has been an extremely challenging couple of years. We invite social media researchers to submit between 500-750 words about their “work-in-progress”, outlining the following as best they can: * The current stage of your work-in-progress * Oh, this could be interesting! * Ongoing research * I think I’m getting there… * Research context and background * Research questions * Research methods/approach * Research ethics * Which aspect of your research would you like to address in more depth (Choose one aspect and pose a question): * Methods * Theories/concepts/research design * Research ethics * Other Workshop attendees will be grouped together according to the aspect of their work-in-progress they wish to address in more depth, ranging from theoretical contributions to research methods and ethics. We are also *delighted* to announce our two keynote speakers for the event: Keisha Bruce (University of Nottingham) and Dr. Hannah Ditchfield (University of Sheffield). Details about their talks will follow. The extended deadline for applications is 27th June 2022 by 5:00pm GMT, and the notification of acceptance will be 15th July 2022. Applications should be sent via this Google Form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddPq_-IzLxxiGN2jiZrAhujrKfJaV0iz9…>, or as a PDF to y.gerrard(a)sheffield.ac.uk<mailto:y.gerrard@sheffield.ac.uk>. We welcome applications from scholars at all career stages, in particular early career researchers, and from non-DCC members. We welcome submissions of work-in-progress at every stage of completion – from vague “this-could-be-interesting” ideas, to on-going research, to nearly-completed works. Yours, The DCC Management Team

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REMINDER: CfP for Spec Issue at NMS "Automating Communication in the Networked Society"
by Christian Katzenbach 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

REMINDER: Deadline for extended abstracts is June 15, 2022 – so only a few days more than a week. ### Dear colleagues, for New Media & Society we are guest editing a special issue on "Automating Communication in the Digital Society: Contexts, Consequences, Critique“. The forthcoming publication aims to study how subjectivity, autonomy, agency, and empowerment become defined and reconfigured in these novel human-machine encounters. Because automation, and the related processes of digitization, datafication, and algorithmization, are set to redefine most if not all sectors of society, they have become a research interest across the academy. We invite contributions that take issue with the conditions and consequences of automation and offer critical perspectives on the transition of human activity into machine operations. Extended Abstracts are due June 15, 2022. Please see the call below and here: https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/zemki/about-zemki/news/call-for-papers-for-spe… Deadline for extended abstracts is June 15, 2022. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have questions. Best, Christian Katzenbach (Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen; Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin) Christian Pentzold (Department of Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University) — Call for Papers for Special Issue in New Media and Society Deadline for Abstract Submission: June 15, 2022 Automating Communication in the Digital Society: Contexts, Consequences, Critique Special Issue Editors Christian Katzenbach (Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen; Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin) Christian Pentzold (Department of Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University) Automation has momentum. Automation is a defining feature of today’s societies. Automation converts the production of content, the distribution of information and messages, the curation of media use, and the governance of our networked lives into machine operations. All of these areas are increasingly shaped by algorithmically-driven processes and automated agents. They help to automate the selection and filtering of news feeds and search engines, they attribute relevance and popularity, perform content moderation and fact-checking. Automated agents like social bots participate in organizational communication such as customer service and, as a potential force of manipulation, also seem to intervene in election campaigns. As of today, innovations in smart companions and artificial intelligence are driven by ambitions to delegate physical motoric functions, cognitive processes, decisions, and evaluations to increasingly autonomous and capable technology. This is not a one-way transfer from humans to machines. Rather, we also witness environments where people come to act in an automatic fashion, where human contributions feed into processes of automation and help to improve them. In consequence, the special issue of New Media & Society aims to study how subjectivity, autonomy, agency, and empowerment become defined and reconfigured in these novel human-machine encounters. We invite contributions that take issue with the conditions and consequences of automation and offer critical perspectives on the transition of human activity into machine operations. Because automation, and the related processes of digitization, datafication, and algorithmization, are set to redefine most if not all sectors of society, they have become a research interest across the academy. We are especially interested in submissions that shed light across these themes: Contexts: The ideology, infrastructures, and procedures around automatisation have a long history of mechanical inventions that implicate expectations of efficiency and enhancement but also engender fears of alienation and inorexable domination. What are the dominating sociotechnical imaginaries around automation? Inquiries into automation open up a broad array of topics from the history of ideas around human capabilities and machine capacities via political or economic arguments about the implications of automation on prosperity or democracy up to ethical, legal, and technological challenges. Hence, possible questions are: Can there be alternative visions for automation? What is to be learned from historical moments of people protesting and refusing the automation of labor and life? CfP for a Special Issue: Automating Communication: Contexts, Consequences, Critique 2 Consequences: Automating communication affects and involves a variety of actors: when algorithms produce content this changes the effort and role of journalists. So we for instance ask: How do media actors engage with algorithmic content production? How does automated communication affect media use and media effects? Are journalists “gaming” the algorithms of platforms, and how? Who creates the tools and affordances that automate communication—and under which conditions? What happens when low-wage employees execute highly automated tasks, partly in order to mimic algorithms and artificial intelligence (“fauxtomation”)? New and (semi-)automated actors such as trolls, connected activists, and social bots alter the strategies of campaigning and the way parties and other organizations plan their activities. Who are these actors, and are they actors at all? Who can be held accountable for automated communication? Does automated communication cause dissonance and disrupt public spheres, and if so, how is this happening and can automation be a cure as well? What are challenges and possible solutions for regulation and media policy? Critique: The story of automating communication can be told from two perspectives: the few who are shaping, designing, programming and implementing automation technologies, and the many who are using and become part of automated communication. In this regard, automation raises questions of power and power relations. Automating core features of democracy such as the assignment of relevance and legitimacy to issues, actors, and specific content, based on data and algorithms controlled and operated by a few private companies challenges notions of transparency, due process, and legitimacy. What are the regulatory measures to curb this power? And can automation provide meaningful answers to social problems? What is the impact of the increasing automatic detection of content deemed illegitimate (e.g., hate speech, copyright violation, nudity) in social media and comment sections? What is the role of datafication for automated and automating communication? Studying automated communication often involves computational methods and trace data. But qualitative methods such as ethnography, interviews or observations can also help us to understand how automation comes about and actors use or make sense of automated communication. Particularly research focusing on social media platforms faces severe challenges of data access and data management nowadays, dealing with data protection regulation, privacy issues, and proprietary data. Analyses of automated actors, such as bots, rely on black-boxed tools and call for interdisciplinary approaches. We thus also invite submissions with a critical perspective on research methods and research ethics. Timeline 1,000 to 1,500 word abstracts should be submitted by June 15, 2022 via the submission form at https://forms.gle/3Kxrf2wNrpqVaGno8. The abstract should articulate: 1) the issue or research question to be discussed, 2) the methodological or critical framework used, and 3) the expected findings or conclusions. Feel free to consult with the Special Issue Editors about your article ideas and potential angles or approaches. Decisions will be communicated to the authors by September 15, 2022. Invited paper submissions will be due March 1, 2023 and will be submitted directly to the submission site for New Media & Society: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nms where they will undergo peer review following the usual procedures of New Media & Society. Please note that the invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee acceptance into the special issue. Contact Christian Katzenbach, katzenbach(a)uni-bremen.de Christian Pentzold, christian.pentzold(a)uni-leipzig.de — Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach Professor of Media and Communication Centre for Media, Communication & Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen www.uni-bremen.de/zemki Associated Researcher Alexander von Humboldt Institut for Internet and Society (HIIG) www.hiig.de

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GigaNet Annual Symposium 2022 - Call for Papers
by Joly MacFie 05 Jun '22

05 Jun '22

(via YCIG) The call for papers for the GigaNet Annual Symposium 2022 are open now until 10 July 2022. https://www.giga-net.org/call-for-papers-2022-giganet-annual-symposium/ “GigaNet – the Global Internet Governance Academic Network – is now accepting extended abstracts for papers to be presented at its annual symposium. As of now, GigaNet 2022 is planned to be held alongside the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which is held in a hybrid format in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 28 November to 2 December 2022. For the time being, the GigaNet symposium is planned as a virtual event on Day 0 of the IGF. Papers on any Internet/digital governance-related topic are welcome. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. There will be the possibility of a focused subset of accepted papers to be fast-tracked for publication in a relevant journal. In the last two years, selected papers presented at the conference were invited for a dedicated special issue of Telecommunications Policy.” -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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General Call for Papers: "Journal of Ecohumanism" invites contributors to submit their articles.
by NIKOLETA ZAMPAKI 05 Jun '22

05 Jun '22

General Call for Papers Journal of Ecohumanism invites contributors to submit their articles. Submission Deadline: throughout a year Journal of Ecohumanism aims to open up new possibilities in reconfiguring the multidimensional internship among humans and the more-than-human world by focusing on the structure, mechanics, functionalities, and representations of this internship manifested across ecohumanist and civil contexts. Since Environmental Humanities ample research has looked at variable aspects of ecological citizenship, we have to focus on globalization's temporality in the rise of Citizen Humanities. In this sense, we are in the midst of constant transformations and evolutionary processes, contributing to the world defining, even perceiving new planetary narrations. In response, the Journal of Ecohumanism develops conversations to consider how challenging conditions shape the concept of citizenship as form, structure, identity, representation and insight, as well as how ecohumanism affects our civil experience of space and time. Moreover, Journal of Ecohumanism features original research articles, discussion papers and book reviews in a great range of topics covered by critical ecohumanism and citizenship, including but not limited to works informed by cross-cultural and transnational approaches in their intersections with literary theory, cultural studies, cultural criticism, comparative literature, media studies, social studies, religious studies, medical humanities, continental philosophy, and environmental ethics. Τhe journal welcomes research in environmental humanities, ecopoetics, ecofeminism, ecopsychology, eco-/bio-art, eco-linguistics, matters of Anthropocene or Capitalocene, symbiosis and the era of Symbiocene, citizen humanities and art, semiotics of space and place, urban ecology, smart cities, resilience and sustainability, biopolitics, bioterrorism, pandemic literature and art, posthumanism and related topics about eco-citizenship and the future of Humanities. All the aforementioned disciplines and research fields change how we understand citizenship by interpreting and translating the complexities of the world that we live in alongside the interplays among humans and the more-than-human world. In conclusion, the Journal of Ecohumanism is open to contributions from around the globe by enriching and promoting the interdisciplinary dialogue between academics, practitioners, policymakers, and students working on different disciplines and encouraging the ecohumanist and citizen narratives in both theory and praxis. Currently, submissions in English and French are considered. For all articles, an abstract in English is required. For submissions in French, another abstract in the original language is required. The journal follows a strict double-blind review policy embedded in our general publishing ethics and supported by rigorous academic scrutiny of papers published. We invite papers, commentaries, discussion papers and book reviews investigating the ecohumanist and civil narratives in Environmental Humanities, Citizen Humanities, Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism, enabling short research accounts, debates, study cases, book reviews in this interdisciplinary field of Humanities. The Journal seeks to explore issues beyond the “ecocentric-anthropocentric” binary and to examine the changing status of subjectivity, agency, and citizenship today through the complex relations between nature and techno-culture while encouraging a philosophical rethinking of citizenship in a more-than-human world. Possible topics include but are not limited to: Ecocriticism and the Εcological Culture Environmental Ethics Ecofeminism Ecopsychology Ecopoetics Eco-/Bio Art Ecohumanism and Continental Philosophy Ecohumanism and Posthumanism Ecohumanism and Citizenship and/in Postcolonial Studies Ecohumanism and Citizenship and/in Animal Studies Ecohumanism and Citizenship and/in Media Studies Ecohumanism and Citizenship and/in Religious Studies Ecohumanism and Citizenship and/in Disability Studies Ecohumanism and Citizenship and/in Medical Humanities Ecohumanism and Citizenship and/in Gender Studies Ecohumanism and Citizenship and/in Narrative Studies Citizen Humanities Citizen Art Pandemic Literature Pandemic Art Semiotics of Space and Place Urban ecology, Smart cities, Sustainability, Resilience Bioethics Biopolitics Bioterrorism Anthropocene or Capitalocene Matters of Symbiosis and the era of Symbiocene Eco-citizenship and the future of Humanities All submissions should follow the latest guidelines of APA style referencing. You are welcome to submit full-length papers and discussion papers (5000-6000 words), commentaries and book reviews (1000-2000 words). Please direct any queries about the journal to (journalofecohumanism(a)gmail.com) [https://journals.tplondon.com/ecohum.../announcement/view/40<https://journals.tplondon.com/ecohum.../announcement/view/40?fbclid=IwAR2U9…>]

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Call for Papers for Truth and Trust Online 2022 | Deadline June 17th
by Ahmed Medien 05 Jun '22

05 Jun '22

*apologies for cross-posting* Conference: Truth and Trust Online (TTO 2022) is a unique forum for academia, industry, non-profit organizations, community organizers, and other stakeholders to discuss the problems surrounding participation in online platforms with respect to truth and trust, together with socio-technical approaches for understanding and addressing them. *Deadline June 17th, 2022* This is a great opportunity to present in front of and interact with a diverse professional community. Presentations will be either in-person or online visit truthandtrustonline.com and https://truthandtrustonline.com/cfp-22/ We invite submissions of both technical papers and talk proposals (see below for details) on socio-technical approaches aimed at addressing current and upcoming challenges for truth and trust in online participation. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): Misinformation, disinformation, influence operations, conspiratorial thinking - Trustworthiness of COVID-19 news and public health communications - Equitable mitigation of harm related to truth and trust online - Truth and trust online in low-resourced, low-literacy regions - Policy approaches to truth and trust worldwide Credibility - Polarization, echo chambers, hyper-partisanship, bias - Hate speech - Transparency in content and source moderation (e.g. deplatforming, shadow banning) - Privacy requirements, privacy breaches - Trust and digital currencies - Online harassment and cyberbullying - Image/video verification, manipulated media - Reputation manipulation (e.g., fake amplification, fake reviews, etc.) - Safety and privacy in virtual environments (e.g, augmented reality, online games, etc.) *We invite two types of submissions: technical papers and talk proposals. * Conference for Truth and Trust Online is supported by H/H and TTO 2022 organizing committee <https://truthandtrustonline.com/tto-2022-organisation/>. 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Julie Angwin - Rethinking the Effects of Screen Time on Youth
by Joly MacFie 04 Jun '22

04 Jun '22

(thought this merited a share) https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/rethinking-the-effects-of-scre… "...it appears that researchers may have been testing the wrong hypothesis. Quantity of screen time may not be as important as what kids are doing on their screens and what age they are when they are doing it. In other words, it’s quality not quantity that matters. And now researchers will likely need another decade or so to study quality, so we apparently won’t have an answer soon on what types of content to worry about." -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Mini-conference: combating and regulating online disinformation - 22 June 2022 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
by Eskens, S.J. (Sarah) 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

The Amsterdam Law and Technology Institute (ALTI) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is organising a mini-conference on combating and regulating disinformation. Scroll down for a description! Details: 22 June 2022. 14:00 - 17:00 CET. Attendance is free. On-campus and online. Speakers: - Kitty Smeekes, Owner of B44S!, a research agency specialising in disinformation, radicalisation, and extremism. - Dianeth Perez Arreola, Journalist in Mexico and Doctoral Student at VU Amsterdam. - Michael Klos, Doctoral Student in Law, Leiden University. - Andrew Murray, Professor in Law, London School of Economics and Political Science. Online disinformation is a multi-headed monster. Several human rights and fundamental values conflict when combating disinformation. On the one hand, democracy and the rule of law require the protection of freedom of expression to allow citizens to freely receive and discuss all ideas, even those that 'shock, offend and disturb', and thus form a critical and well-founded opinion. On the other hand, democracy, the rule of law, public health and public order must be protected against the harmful effects of conspiracy theories and other disinformation. The liberal model of the free marketplace of ideas fails to guarantee that the 'truth' floats to the surface, suggesting that freedom of expression must be restricted under certain circumstances. In other words, a healthy democratic debate requires freedom of expression but may also require limitations of freedom of expression, to reduce the spread of disinformation. Online platforms, such as social media, play a crucial role in spreading disinformation. These online platforms decide what content stays up and what is taken down or blocked. Can we leave the balancing of fundamental rights and values in the hands of big tech, or does that lead to the privatisation of human rights adjudication? Can technology help in combating disinformation? Does freedom of expression restrict all legal regulation of disinformation? These are some of the questions that we will discuss during the mini-conference. For more information and to sign up (for free) for the conference, please visit https://alti.amsterdam/miniconference-regulating-disinformation-legal-strug… Sarah Eskens Assistant Professor in Law and Technology Coordinator International Technology Law program Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Registration Open for The 2nd International Cyberspace Governance Forum
by Yik Chan Chin 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

Dear Colleagues, Registration is open for the 2nd International Cyberspace Governance Forum, To join the forum, please email with your information to wlkjgjzl(a)163.com by June 8, 2022. (CST, UTC+8). The 2nd International Cyberspace Governance Forum The Rules of Digital Economy June 9 -10th, 2022 ONLINE·ZOOM SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION Organizer Beihang University School of Law Beijing Normal University’s School of Journalism and Communication Research Institute of Cyberspace Governance in Beihang University INTRODUCTION The 2nd International Cyberspace Governance Forum will be held on June 9-10th, 2022, online. This year, the 2nd forum is organized by Beihang University School of Law, Beijing Normal University’s School of Journalism and Communication, and Research Institute of Cyberspace Governance in Beihang University. The theme of this year’s forum is The Rules of Digital Economy, aiming to communicate and exchange the views of experts and scholars from both domestic China and overseas, learn the differences and commonalities of digital economy’s rules and rulemaking in various countries/regions, and explore the consensus for internationally agreed rules, strengthening international cooperation in the context of the digital economy. PANELS For this, the conference will especially focus on but not limit to following topics: 1. Rules on Data Flows and Usages 2. Regulations on the Use of Algorithms 3. Rules on Competition and Regulation of Online Platforms 4. IP, ODR and other Related Issues GUESTS Yik Chan Chin Beijing Normal University’s School of Journalism and Communication, Associate Professor Nigel Cory Information Technology and Innovation Foundation(ITIF) Trade Policy, Associate Director DING Xiaodong Renmin University of China Law School, Associate Professor & Renmin Law and Technology Institute, Vice Dean FANG Zengquan Beijing Normal University’s School of Journalism and Communication, Researcher Bhawna Gulati Competition Commission of India, Joint Director (Law) HE Tianxiang City University of Hongkong School of Law, Assistant Professor HE Jing Beihang University Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Ansgar Koene IEEE Standard on Algorithm Bias Considerations Working Group, Chair & University of Nottingham, ReEnTrust, UnBias & Horizon Policy Impact & Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, Senior Research Fellow Jaemin Lee Seoul National University School of Law, Professor LI Xingan International Institute for Innovation Society Helsinki Finland, President LIU Wenjie China University of Political Science and Law College of Comparative Law, Professor LONG Weiqiu Beihang University School of Law & Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Dean & Professor Asaf Lubin Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Associate Professor PEI Wei Beihang University School of Law, Professor Courtney Radsch UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy, Fellow & Center for International Governance Innovation(CIGI), Senior Fellow David Tan National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, Professor WANG Xiaoye Shenzhen University, Distinguished Professor & Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Law, Researcher WANG Weisi Japan KDDI Research Inc. Global Market and Policy Research Group, Associate Analyst Rolf H. Weber University of Zurich Faculty of Law, Professor YAN Jun Beijing Internet Court, Deputy Chief Judge ZANG Dongsheng University of Washington School of Law, Associate Professor ZHAI Zhiyong Beihang University School of Law, Professor ZHAO Yun The University of Hongkong, Faculty of Law, Head of Department of Law & Professor ZHAO Jingwu Beihang University School of Law, Assistant Professor ZHANG Hongzhong Beijing Normal University’s School of Journalism and Communication, Professor ZHANG Linghan China University of Political Science and Law(CUPL) Institute of Data Law, Professor ZHANG Xin University of International Business and Economics(UIBE) School of Law, Associate Professor & Executive Director of UIBE Institute on Digital Economy & Legal Innovation ZHOU Youjun Beihang University School of Law, Professor & Beijing Society of E-Commerce Law, Vice President ZHOU Xuefeng Beihang University School of Law, Vice Dean & Professor (The list is in alphabetical order by last name and is continuously updated.) To join this forum, please respond with your information to wlkjgjzl(a)163.com by June 8, 2022. (CST, UTC+8） Thanks! Best wishe, Yik Chan New Articles/Book: Chin, Yik Chan & Zhao, Jingwu (forthcoming) Governing Cross-Border Data Flows : International trade agreements and their limits, Laws Chin, Y. C., Park, A., & Li, K. (2022). A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms. Policy & Internet, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.301 Chin, Yik Chan and Li, Ke, A Comparative analysis of Cyber Sovereignty Policies in China and the EU (August 6, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3900752 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3900752 Chin, Yik Chan (2020) ‘Internet governance in China: the network governance approach’ In Dragan Pavlićević and Zhengxu Wang (eds.) Social Relations and Political Development in China: Change and Continuity in the ‘New Era’, London: Routledge: page 134-153. Chin, Yik Chan (2018) Legitimation of Media Regulation in China, Chinese Political Science Review, 3(2), 172-194. --------- Dr. Yik Chan Chin Associate Professor School of Journalism and Communication Beijing Normal University Beijing, P. R. China 215123 Email: yik-chan.chin@bnu.edu.cn；yikchanchin@gmail.com https://xwcb.bnu.edu.cn/as/ap/114761.htm https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yik_Chan_Chin http://ssrn.com/author=1377946 https://bnu.academia.edu/YikChanChin https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=u41w5b4AAAAJ&hl=en

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