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Scouting for PhDs/Post-docs at Ubiquitous Internet, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy - DEADLINE July 31st
by Andrea Passarella 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

The Ubiquitous Internet Research Unit of IIT-CNR (Pisa, Italy) is scouting for talented candidates for the following PhD and post-doc areas: * Human-centric explainable and efficient pervasive Artificial Intelligence [3 topics] * Architectures, Algorithms, and Protocols for the Quantum Internet [2 topics] * 6G networks and edge computing [4 topics] * Mobile health and digital phenotyping for personalized health services [1 topic] * ICT-enabled production optimization in Industry 4.0 [1 topic] Complete information about research areas, associated topics, reference contact points are provided at https://turig.iit.cnr.it/ui-positions/. Expressions of interest will be continuously considered upon reception. The very final date for sending EoIs is 31st July 2022, but topics may be closed earlier, depending on the received EoIs. Interested people are strongly encouraged to send expressions of interest as soon as possible. Details on the procedure are available here https://turig.iit.cnr.it/ui-positions/apply/. PhD and PostDocs will be carried out in the framework of one of the following European and National Projects. This will allow ample opportunities for international collaboration: * AI and BigData: H2020 HumanAI-Net, SoBigData++, CHIST-ERA SAI (Social Explainable AI) * Edge computing & decentralised AI: HE RE4DY, H2020 MARVEL, PON-MIUR OK-INSAID * Next-Generation Internet Infrastructures: ESFRI-SLICES, HE SLICES-PP, H2020 SLICES-DS, SLICES-SC * Quantum Computing & Networking: H2020 HPCQS, PON-MIUR QUANCOM Research Group: Ubiquitous Internet @ IIT-CNR http://ui.iit.cnr.it General contact: Andrea Passarella <a.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it> Specific contacts: see topics description at https://turig.iit.cnr.it/ui-positions/positions/

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3 x Post-doctoral Research Fellowships (2 years) - University of Queensland, Australia
by Nicholas Carah 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

Dear Colleagues, We have recently advertised 3 x Post-doctoral Research Fellowships (each for 2 years) in the new formed Digital Cultures and Societies hub at The University of Queensland. We welcome applications from researchers across the humanities and social sciences. Our initial themes include digital platforms, computational language and media, digital intimacies, digital Asia, automation and algorithmic recommendation. You can find out more about the hub here: https://hass.uq.edu.au/Digital-Cultures-and-Societies The successful applicants will be appointed as a Digital Cultures and Societies Research Fellow in a Research-Focused (RF) appointment at either Level A (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) or B (Research Fellow). Part-time appointments will be supported. The appointment will include 20% time allocation to other duties (e.g. teaching, industry engagement, university service etc.) as negotiated. The fellows will commence in late 2022 or early 2023. Applications close 1 July 2022. For more information and to apply go here: https://uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/job/St-Lucia-Campus/Digital-Cult… Any questions about Digital Cultures and Societies at UQ or the fellowships please get in touch with me at digitalcultures(a)hass.uq.edu.au<mailto:digitalcultures@hass.uq.edu.au> Best Regards, Nic Nicholas Carah Director of Digital Cultures and Societies Hub | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Associate Professor | School of Communication and Arts | The University of Queensland Digital Cultures and Societies<https://hass.uq.edu.au/Digital-Cultures-and-Societies> | digitalcultures(a)hass.uq.edu.au<mailto:digitalcultures@hass.uq.edu.au> 07 3365 3145 | n.carah(a)uq.edu.au<mailto:n.carah@uq.edu.au> | UQ Researchers<https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1512> | @nnniccc<https://twitter.com/nnniccc>

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Call for participation: ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci’22) in Barcelona and online - June 26-29
by Weller, Katrin 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

Dear colleagues, It is still time to register for this year’s ACM Web Science Conference! The ACM Web Science Conference<https://websci22.webscience.org/> will take place in Barcelona on June 26-29, 2022 and will be co-located with UMAP’22<https://www.um.org/umap2022/> and HT’22<https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/> conferences. WebSci’22 is organized as a hybrid conference and will also enable online participation. Registration Registration fees start at 50,- Euro (online attendance, student rate). Additional options for discounted tickets are available (including a limited number of free admissions for researchers from countries designated as “economically developing”). All details about registration fees<mailto:https://websci22.webscience.org/registration/> can be found online. Conference Program You can access the full conference schedule<https://websci22.webscience.org/programme/schedule/> with the keynotes and all the paper sessions, including topics such as “Crowds and Social Movements”, “Health” and “Harmful Content Detection”. The conference will feature two keynotes and we are excited to announce our invited speakers: m.c. schraefel<http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sign/> (University of Southampton) and Leila Zia<https://wikimediafoundation.org/es/profile/leila-zia/> (Wikimedia Foundation). We are also happy to announce the accepted workshops and tutorials<https://websci22.webscience.org/programme/workshops-and-tutorials/> for this year, which cover a wide range of topics and are open for participation: * General Collective Intelligence and Web Science * Documenting Web Data for Social Research (#DocuWeb22) * 1st Workshop on Blockchain and AI for Community * Assessing The Ethical Implications Of Artificial Intelligence In Policing * Coornet: detecting problematic online coordinated link-sharing behavior Also, we encourage you to attend and register to Brave Conversations <https://websci22.webscience.org/programme/brave-conversations/> side event that will also run on Sunday 26th. PhD Posters We are considering the option to host posters for phd candidates to present their thesis topics and/or for late breaking research results during the conference as a networking opportunity. In case you would be interested in presenting your phd topic or recent research as a poster onsite in Barcelona, please reach out to us before June 10th. All the information is available at https://websci22.webscience.org/ The WebSci’22 organizing committee

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Conference Registration is open for #AoIR2022
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 02 Jun '22

02 Jun '22

*-apologies for the cross posting-* The AoIR 2022 conference committee is delighted to announce that registration is now open for the #AoIR2022: Decolonising The Internet, November 2-5 in Dublin. There will be a range of pre-conference workshops on Wednesday, 2 November 2022, details here: https://aoir.org/aoir2022/preconfwrkshop/ Registration is open here: https://members.aoir.org/event-4836813. Be sure to log in as a member to get member discounts! The Early Bird Registration deadline is August 1st. After that the price increases, so take advantage of the discount. *Please note:* - *All presenting authors must be registered by 1 August 2022 to be included on the program.* - During the registration process you will be asked to indicate if you are attending the keynotes and various receptions. Please mark each of these events based on your actual attendance as we book facilities and catering based on your responses. #AoIR2022 primarily takes place on the TU Dublin Grangegorman campus in Dublin. AoIR2022 is not recommending, promoting or contracted with any Dublin hotel or hostel. All reservations must be individually made by conference attendees. Some information about hotels near the conference venue, and easily accessible via public transport, is available here: https://aoir.org/aoir2022/aoir2022accommodation/ Additionally, some information about traveling to Dublin is available here: https://aoir.org/aoir2022/traveldublin/ We look forward to seeing all of you in Dublin! #AoIR2022 <https://aoir.org/aoir2022/>Conference Committee

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WEBCAST MAY 26 & JUN 2 – Caribbean Internet Public Policy Forum 2022
by Joly MacFie 02 Jun '22

02 Jun '22

Day 1 has started. This is not the same thing as the Caribbean IGF. That is scheduled for Aug 24-26 2022. [image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/15456>On *Thursdays May 26 2022* and *June 2 2022* at *9:00-12:30 AST* (13:00-16:30 UTC), the *American Registry for Internet Numbers <https://www.arin.net/>* (ARIN), the Internet Registry for *Latin America and the Caribbean <https://www.lacnic.net/>* (LACNIC) and the *Caribbean Telecommunications Union <https://ctu.int/>* (CTU) will host the fifth *Caribbean Internet Public Policy Forum <https://archive.org/details/caribbeanpolicyforum>*. The theme for this year’s event is '*Advancing Caribbean Digital Development Within a Changing Global Context*'. This virtual forum will feature keynote speakers, interactive discussions and case studies on international Internet public policy topics relevant to in the Caribbean. *AGENDA https://ctu.int/event/caribbeanpolicyforum <https://ctu.int/event/caribbeanpolicyforum>* *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ctu-arin-lacnic-policy-forum <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ctu-arin-lacnic-policy-forum>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/38jz1ww <https://bit.ly/38jz1ww>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3MSssjJ <https://bit.ly/3MSssjJ>* *TWITTER #caribbeanpolicyforum <https://bit.ly/39Txca3> #caribbeaninternetpolicy @TeamARIN @TheCTUnion @LACNIC* *SIMULCASTS* *https://youtu.be/bjncBT-znzg <https://youtu.be/bjncBT-znzg>* (CTU YouTube) *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/> *(AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/CaribbeanTelecommunicationsUnion* <https://www.facebook.com/CaribbeanTelecommunicationsUnion> (AI Captions) *https://www.youtube.com/c/teamarin <https://www.youtube.com/c/teamarin>* *https://www.facebook.com/TeamARIN <https://www.facebook.com/TeamARIN>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/caribbeanpolicyforum <https://archive.org/details/caribbeanpolicyforum>* *PERMALINK https://isoc.live/15456 <https://isoc.live/15456>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Decentralized Web Archives Research Findings (June 2, 12 EDT)
by Ed Summers 02 Jun '22

02 Jun '22

For the past 6 months New Design Congress [1] and Webrecorder [2] have been engaged in interviews with archivists and memory workers to help understand the benefits and potential harms of *decentralized* web archives [3]. They are sharing some preliminary results on their monthly call today from 12-1PM EDT [4], and I thought this might be a conversation that others in the AoIR might be interested in. Web archives, like the Internet Archive, British Library or PageFreezer, are typically institutional platforms which collect web content from elsewhere and present it for historical or evidentiary purposes. These platforms have their own practices, policies and procedures that shape what gets collected, how it is viewed, and how it gets removed. The Webrecorder project has been building browser based tools to allow users to create and and publish web archives, similar to other media types (images, audio, video). You can think of these archives as something like screenshots, but which afford more interaction while documenting the provenance of the content (the HTTP traffic is recorded, serialized and then played back on demand). Hopefully it will be an interesting conversation. There should be a recording available afterwards—if you want me to let you know when it’s available just send me an email. //Ed [1] https://newdesigncongress.org/ [2] https://webrecorder.net [3] https://webrecorder.net/2022/01/18/grant-update-standards-and-design-resear… [4] https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtf-utrDIoE9UKtwF5oc5Dpf-GdXydQY85

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Lecturers in New Media & Digital Culture - Univ. Amsterdam
by Richard Rogers 02 Jun '22

02 Jun '22

Hello all, We have multiple lectureships on offer in New Media & Digital Culture, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, to start in the fall semester. Here is the job advertisement: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/4-6-Lecturers-in-New-Media-and-Digital-Cul… <https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/4-6-Lecturers-in-New-Media-and-Digital-Cul…>. All the best Richard Rogers Prof. Richard Rogers Media Studies University of Amsterdam digitalmethods.net r.a.rogers(a)uva.nl

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Call For Papers [deadline approaching June 15]- HICSS 56 | Human-Centered Digital Privacy Solutions
by Michele A. L. Villagran 02 Jun '22

02 Jun '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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WEBCAST JUN 1: IPNSIG Academy Talk 2: Origin and Evolution of Delay and Disruption Tolerant Protocols
by Joly MacFie 01 Jun '22

01 Jun '22

About to start. This time Vint is in the spotlight, giving a DTN overview. REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3m6xVrm [image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/15464>On *Wednesday June 1 2022* at *5:00-5:45pm EDT* (21:00-21:45 UTC) the *Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group <https://ipnsig.org/>* (IPNSIG) presents the second *IPNSIG Academy <https://ipnsig.org/2022/02/28/ipnsig-academy/>* presentation. '*Origin and Evolution of Delay and Disruption Tolerant Protocols*'. IPNSIG Board Member *Dr. Vint Cerf* will be talking about *Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking <https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/engineering/technology/disruptio…>* (DTN) and its use to facilitate communications within the *Solar System Internet <https://ipnsig.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IPNSIG-SWG-REPORT-2021-3.pdf>* (SSI). *SPEAKER* *Dr. Vint Cerf*, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google *MODERATOR* *Yosuke Kaneko*, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) / IPNSIG Chair *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ipnsigacademy2 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ipnsigacademy2>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3GBoQ35 <https://bit.ly/3GBoQ35>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/15464>) *TWITTER #IPNSIGacademy <https://bit.ly/3wkSJBq> #SolarSystemInternet @IPNSIG Yosuke Kaneko @JAXA_en @vgcerf #space* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>* (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/ipnsigacademy2 <https://archive.org/details/ipnsigacademy2>* Permalink https://isoc.live/15464 -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CFP: Workshop on cultural representations of machine vision - Bergen, 15-17 August
by Jill Walker Rettberg 01 Jun '22

01 Jun '22

Call for submissions: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF MACHINE VISION: AN EXPERIMENTAL MIXED METHODS WORKSHOP Location: Bergen, Norway Workshop dates: 15-17 August 2022 Proposals due 15 June The ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life invites submissions to a workshop to be held at Solstrand Hotel near Bergen, Norway, on 15-17 August 2022. The workshop will combine qualitative close readings/case studies of machine vision in art, fiction, games and social media, with data analysis of the project’s dataset on machine vision in 500 creative works (see references below). WHO IS THIS FOR: The interdisciplinary workshop is for scholars at all levels from graduate students to full professors. We welcome participants from the humanities and social sciences as well as those with a background in data science or similar and an interest in interdisciplinary collaborations. The project will cover the cost of hotel and board for the workshop, and a limited number of travel stipends may be available. TOPIC As visual technologies are increasingly combined with machine learning to interpret and generate images, societies around the globe face practical and ethical questions about how these new possibilities should be evaluated, implemented and governed as they impact people’s everyday life. With their anticipatory and speculative potential, cultural representations of machine vision play a key role in answering these questions. Our premise is that cultural production – including literature, art, cinema, video games, science fiction, memes, fandom and more – is a rich source for understanding the impact of machine vision technologies on society, as well as their potential future trajectory. What can we learn from how machine vision is represented, applied and discussed in digital art, video games, novels, movies, TV-series, fan fiction, electronic literature, popular culture, social media content and other aesthetically or culturally expressive genres? QUALITATIVE INTERPRETATION AND/OR DATA ANALYSIS Seeking to experiment with mixed methods approaches, this workshop will ask participants to explore both qualitative interpretations and quantitative analyses of machine vision in art, games, narratives and more, based on the dataset Representations of Machine Vision Technologies in Artworks, Games and Narratives, which documents how machine vision is portrayed in 500 cultural works. The dataset is available as a set of .csv files and can be also browsed using a more human-friendly interface at http://machine-vision.no. Participants are invited to either present work-in-progress towards individually or co-authored papers on the topic of machine vision and its cultural representation, or to pitch and discuss strategies for analysing the dataset in collaboration with other workshop participants. In either case, workshop hours will be divided between short presentations, feedback sessions, and individual or collaborative data analysis and/or writing. The workshop has two goals: generating new research from the project’s dataset, and experiment with a mixed method approach to digital humanities data. A goal of the workshop is to develop research that combines qualitative methods with data science and data analysis, and to strengthen interactions between researchers using different methods. The workshop will be held at Solstrand Hotel, with delicious meals, beautiful fjord views, plenty of nooks and crannies for writing and group work, and indoor and outdoor bathing opportunities. Participants will be invited to submit papers developed in the workshop to a special journal issue that is currently under development. HOW TO APPLY Please send an email to jill.walker.rettberg(a)uib.no by June 15, 2022 with a few sentences about your background and either a 250-word abstract for the paper you would like to develop at the workshop, or an idea for how you’d like to work with the dataset and a short explanation of why you’re interested in participating in the workshop. We are also open to participants who would like to analyse other relevant datasets or materials, or who have general skills in data science and would like experience applying humanities approaches to digital methods. Travel scholarships may be available for a limited number of applicants. REFERENCES The dataset is available on DataverseNO: Rettberg JW, Kronman L, Solberg R, et al. (2022) A Dataset Documenting Representations of Machine Vision Technologies in Artworks, Games and Narratives. DataverseNO. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18710/2G0XKN. A data paper describing the dataset is also available: Rettberg JW, Kronman L, Solberg R, et al. (2022) Representations of Machine Vision Technologies in Artworks, Games and Narratives: Documentation of a Dataset. Data in Brief. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108319. TENTATIVE WORKSHOP SCHEDULE August 15 09:00-09:45 Bus from Muséplass at the University of Bergen to Solstrand 10:00-12:00 Welcome, introductions, presentation about the project Presentations and discussion start 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13:00-17:00 Presentations and discussion continue (or smaller groups?) 20:00- Dinner August 16 09:00-12:00 Group and individual work (writing or data analysis) 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13:00-17:00 Group and individual work (writing or data analysis) 20:00- Dinner August 17 09:00-12:30 Finish up – short presentations of what we did Discuss methods, connections between projects 12:30-13:30 Lunch 14:00-14:45 Bus back to Bergen FUNDING The workshop is funded by the University of Bergen and the project Machine Vision in Everyday Life: Playful Interactions with Visual Technologies in Digital Art, Games, Narratives and Social Media, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 771800).

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