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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 10 May '22

10 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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Social Media + Society Special Issue: Semantic Media
by Heather Ford 09 May '22

09 May '22

Hi everyone, Super excited about this new RFP for our special issue on semantic media coming up. See below and let me know if you have any questions. All best, Heather (and Andrew) --------------------------- Dr Heather Ford Associate Professor and Head of Discipline, Digital and Social Media<https://www.uts.edu.au/future-students/communication/digital-and-social-med…> School of Communication<https://www.uts.edu.au/future-students/communication/about-communication/we…>, University of Technology, Sydney<https://www.uts.edu.au/> (UTS) Affiliate: UTS Data Science Institute<https://www.uts.edu.au/data-science-institute> | Associate: UTS Centre for Media Transition<https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/centre-media-tran…> | Associate Member: UTS Centre for Research on Education in a Digital Society<https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/centre-research-e…> w: hblog.org<http://hblog.org/> / t: @hfordsa<http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa> / pronouns: she/her Call for Papers Social Media + Society Special Issue: Semantic Media Editors: Andrew Iliadis and Heather Ford This special issue focuses on “semantic media,” which we define as media technologies that primarily orchestrate and convey facts, answers, meanings, and “knowledge” about things directly in media products, rather than lead people to other sources. Search engines and virtual assistants respond directly to questions based on textual or verbal searches (e.g., “Things to do in Philadelphia?” or “What is the capital of Israel?”). The special issue is thus dedicated to the often-invisible ways (to the non-specialist) that internet companies are now actively involved in constructing “knowledge” about the world. Organizations like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon extract, curate, and store facts served to users in new and emerging media products. Such processes have significant implications for the politics of knowledge sharing in the future. We seek papers that examine how design decisions “bake” these facts into the apps and platforms people use daily while focusing on the infrastructures dedicated to orchestrating and presenting this information. The goal is to understand the technologies that will drive social and political outcomes when large internet companies become a primary conduit through which people directly acquire an understanding of facts about the world. We also seek to understand how governments, nonprofit, and nongovernmental organizations engage these media technologies. Semantic media are less about searching for keywords and matches on different websites that are then ranked for people to choose. Instead, they deal with identifying and describing entities (things like people, products, and places) and directing interactions with those entities (actions like purchasing, scheduling, and contacting). How do semantic media identify concepts and connect related information about them? How do companies and organizations produce facts and organize the data? From where does the data originate? What do these semantic processes mean for web users and administrators? What types of gatekeeping or safety checks do companies and organizations perform concerning these facts? Today’s semantic media have a long history reaching back to the “Semantic Web” project initiated by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. Yet, media researchers do not adequately cover how companies and organizations implement semantic technologies on platforms relative to their central role. These semantic technologies are in proprietary and open source products, and extensive media platforms are now using them to provide facts and represent knowledge to various publics. Google’s Knowledge Graph is a database of facts that Google uses to provide quick answers to the public, and such graphs are in use at other companies. At the same time, Wikipedia has a product called Wikidata that similarly stores facts about the world in data formats through which various apps can retrieve the data. Researchers and journalists also use semantic technologies for search engine optimization, fact-checking practices, and data sharing and organization. This special issue thus focuses on such platformized versions of fact production and examines the underlying infrastructures, histories, and modeling techniques used in knowledge representation systems. We are interested in quantitative, qualitative, and critical approaches and papers that propose new methods, theories, and frameworks. Areas of interest: • The creation or transmission of facts, answers, meanings, definitions, and “knowledge” across media systems and their platforms • Answers from virtual assistants such as Alexa, Siri, Cortana, Bixby, etc. • Answers from search engines such as Google, Bing, Baidu, Yandex, etc. • Products like knowledge panels, infoboxes, carousels, rich results, maps, etc. • Open-source semantic technologies such as Schema.org, Wikidata, etc. • Proprietary semantic technologies such as Google’s Knowledge Graph, etc. • Fact-checking practices for misinformation and disinformation across semantic media platforms • Search engine optimization and semantic search practices • Semantic infrastructure projects such as the semantic web, linked data, etc. • Semantic governance organizations such as the World Wide Web Consortium, etc. • Semantic technologies such as metadata, markup languages, knowledge bases, knowledge graphs, web schemas, applied ontologies, and enterprise semantic software • Semantic, linguistic, and conceptual theories involving rules and logic, theories of meaning, ontology, taxonomy, ideas of truth, social ontology, etc. Timeline: • Extended 1000-word abstracts due Fri July 15 • Decisions out to authors Fri Aug 19 • Full 8000-word manuscript due Fri Nov 18 • Final decisions January 2023 • Submit to journal February 2023 • Publication spring 2023 Send submissions to andrew.iliadis(a)temple.edu and heather.ford(a)uts.edu.au with the subject header “Social Media + Society Special Issue: Semantic Media” Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/sms/collections/cfp UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. 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Appel à candidatures pour contrat doctoral fléché / Call for applications for a doctoral contract
by Helene BOURDELOİE 06 May '22

06 May '22

* English below* Bonjour À la demande des intéressé.e.s, je me permets de refaire suivre cette annonce. N’hésitez pas à faire circuler dans vos réseaux. Bien cordialement, —- Hélène Bourdeloie > Chères et chers collègues, > > Nous vous prions de bien vouloir trouver ci-joint une offre pour un contrat fléché intitulé «Dispositifs d’intelligence > artificielle, traitement algorithmique des données dans la culture : industrialisation et régulation ». > > Ce contrat est offert par l’école doctorale Érasme de l’université Sorbonne Paris Nord. > > La thèse pourra être rédigée soit en français soit en anglais et sera conduite au sein du Laboratoire des sciences de l’information et > de la communication (LabSIC). > > Les propositions doivent être envoyées au plus tard le 16 mai à l’adresse électronique suivante : direction.labsic(a)univ-paris13.fr > > Avant le 16 mai, les candidates et candidates qui souhaitent nous contacter afin de préparer leur proposition sont invités à écrire > aux adresses suivantes : christine.chevret(a)univ-paris13.fr et philippe.bouquillion(a)univ-paris13.fr > > Avec nos remerciements > > Bien cordialement > > Christine Chevret-Castellani et à Philippe Bouquillion > > Dear Colleagues, > > Please find attached an offer for a doctoral contract entitled > “Artificial intelligence devices and algorithmic data processing in > culture: industrialization and regulation”. > This contract is offered by the Érasme doctoral school of the Sorbonne > Paris Nord University. > The thesis can be written either in French or in English and will be > conducted within the Laboratory of Information and Communication > Sciences (LabSIC. > > Proposals must be sent no later than May 16 to the following email > address: direction.labsic(a)univ-paris13.fr > Before May 16, candidates who wish to contact us in order to prepare > their proposal are invited to write at the following addresses: > christine.chevret(a)univ-paris13.fr and > philippe.bouquillion(a)univ-paris13.fr > > With our thanks > > Best regards, > > Christine Chevret-Castellani and Philippe Bouquillion >

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Modem World book launch May 10 at 1 PM ET
by Kevin Driscoll 06 May '22

06 May '22

Hi everyone, I'm psyched to announce that next Tuesday, May 10 at 1 PM ET, the Deliberative Media Lab at UVA is hosting a roundtable discussion of my new book, The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media <https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248142/modem-world>, with all-star panelists Megan Sapnar Ankerson, Paul Dourish, Thomas Streeter, and Siva Vaidhyanathan. The event will be on Zoom and open to the public so please feel free to share with your students and colleagues. Registration: https://virginia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gwYnPMK9Q-CfSvkisuSi2g Yours at 300 baud, Kevin Driscoll https://modem.world

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EAI WiCON 2022 (VIRTUAL) - 15th EAI International Wireless Internet Conference -- Submission Deadline: 9 May 2022
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 06 May '22

06 May '22

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EAI WiCON 2022 - 15th EAI International Wireless Internet Conference https://wicon.eai-conferences.org/2022/ November 17, 2022 Original Location: Cyberspace Submission Deadline: 9 May 2022 EAI WiCON 2022 will be held as a fully-fledged online conference! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope Wireless technologies, in general, and the Wireless Internet, in particular, became pervasive in our everyday lives. We rely on wireless connectivity for work, social connections, commerce, finance, health, etc. It would be hardly possible for our generation to imagine life without wireless access. WiCON 2022 is the continuation of, and builds upon, the success of the past editions in this series that focus on various aspects of wireless technology. Building on these past successes, the 15th WiCON 2022 aims to tackle the challenges of wireless Internet communications, covering topics ranging from technology issues to new applications, especially focusing on current, novel, and future next-generation wireless Internet technologies, 5G, 6G, IoT, Industrial IoT, Healthcare IoT, and related topics. WiCON 2022 aims to bring together researchers, leading academic scientists to share their experiences and research findings on all aspects of Wireless Internet Communications. It also offers a leading interdisciplinary forum for academics, educators, and practitioners to present and discuss the latest technologies, developments, practical challenges and approaches to Wireless Internet. Prospective authors are kindly encouraged to participate in the conference by sending Full Papers, Work-in-Progress Papers, and Posters of their work. Last but not the least, middleware and platform providers, application developers, and smart object providers are also welcome. WiCON attendees will present novel ideas, exchange points of views, and foster collaborations. Papers, posters, and demos expressing the point of view of middleware and platform providers, smart object providers, application developers, and researchers are particularly welcome. Topics The works that will be presented at conference will focus on the following topics: 5G, 6G, and beyond technologies Algorithm design and performance analysis Anytime, Anywhere connectivity via wireless communication Architectural support for security Challenges and Architectures related to LTE Cloud Computing and Networks Cognitive Radio Networks Cognitive Radio, AI-Enabled Networks, Cooperative, Collaborative Communications, and relay networks Collaborative Communications and relay networks Context-aware mobile network Convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks Dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) Dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) Delay-tolerant networks Dependable networks Emerging technologies for Wireless Network Energy Transfer in Wireless Networks Flying Ad hoc Networks (FANET) Fog and Edge computing architecture Green wireless network architectures and communication protocols Industrial IoT Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) Internet of Things (IoT) based applications Next-Generation Networking, Internet services, multimedia communications, and applications Next-Generation wireless networking QoS (Quality of Service) issues of Wireless Networks Remote powering of Wireless Networks Remote services via Wireless Internet Satellite and Space Communications SDN, Network Virtualization, Open Platform, Software and Services Security and privacy issues in Wireless Internet Security in cooperative networks Tele-medicine/e-health networks Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) Wireless access in vehicular environment (WAVE) Wireless communication security Wireless technology in healthcare WLANs, WPANs, WBANs, WWAN Publication All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library: WiCON Conference Proceedings. WiCON proceedings are indexed in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Inspec, and Zentralblatt MATH. Paper submission: https://wicon.eai-conferences.org/2022/submission/ Papers should be submitted through EAI 'Confy+' system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author's kit section). All conference papers undergo a thorough peer review process prior to the final decision and publication. This process is facilitated by experts in the Technical Program Committee during a dedicated conference period. Standard peer review is enhanced by EAI Community Review which allows EAI members to bid to review specific papers. All review assignments are ultimately decided by the responsible Technical Program Committee Members while the Technical Program Committee Chair is responsible for the final acceptance selection. You can learn more about Community Review here. Important dates Full Paper Submission deadline: 9 May 2022 Notification deadline: 11 July 2022 Camera-ready deadline: 31 August 2022 Start of Conference: 17 November 2022 End of Conference: 17 November 2022 Full Paper Submission deadline: 9 May 2022 Notification deadline: 11 July 2022 Camera-ready deadline: 31 August 2022 Start of Conference: 17 November 2022 End of Conference: 17 November 2022 General Chairs Ravi Prakash University of Texas at Dallas, USA Zygmunt Haas University of Texas at Dallas, USA Technical Program Committee Chairs Habib M. Ammari Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA Weili Wu University of Texas at Dallas, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Area Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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How to recruit without spamming?
by Tom Hale 05 May '22

05 May '22

Hi everyone, can anyone advise me about how to recruit research participants from particular Facebook pages or Twitter threads without spamming? I just got a Research Page I created on Facebook unpublished after two comments I posted included a standard blurb inviting research participants, that was approved by my IRB, and two replies in a thread were very similar because I wanted both participants in that thread to be research participants. Not sure which of these two repetitions violated FB's policy against "repeating the same comment"--probably the two replies that were almost identical (I note that Twitter has a similar policy). But I can't figure out how to avoid the repetition and stay within my IRB requirements, because unless I've misunderstood, they require me to have a standard invitation that they approve ... Any advice much appreciated! -- Tom Hale PhD Candidate in Intercultural Studies

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[Data to Power]: Join our final online research session
by Natalia Grincheva 05 May '22

05 May '22

Hello all Apologies for X-postings You are invited to attend a series of free public online sessions in the framework of the project: *GLAM and Digital Soft Power in the Post-Pandemic World. *Please, read more about the project here: datatopower.net *Upcoming events:* *Webinar: Urban Data Infrastructures and Digital Place-making* *Date: *May 30, 2022 *Time:* 8:00AM - 10:00AM UTC | 3:00PM - 5:00PM SGT | 5:00PM - 7:00PM UTC+11 *Keynote:* Professor Tim Winter, “The Digital Silk Road and Geocultural Diplomacy” *To register follow the link*: *https://www.datatopower.net/webinar3 <https://www.datatopower.net/webinar3>* The webinar will discuss the concept of digital soft power from the perspective of digital place-making, urban diplomacy and city branding. Interrogating phenomena such as digital tourism, digital cultural heritage and its virtual cultural consumption, it will investigate the role of digital representations, narratives and images constructed by GLAM institutions in the development and circulation of urban identities in the global media spaces. *Datathon: Forecasting local impacts of travelling exhibitions* *Date:* June 1, 2022 *Time:* 8:00AM - 10:00AM UTC | 3:00PM - 5:00PM SGT | 5:00PM - 7:00PM UTC+11 *Keynote: *Paul Owens, Founder of the World Cities Culture Forum *To register follow the link:* *https://www.datatopower.net/datathon3 <https://www.datatopower.net/datathon3>* The Datathon will discuss challenges and opportunities of urban cultural infrastructure mapping as well as its value and implications for designing touring exhibitions and predicting their local engagement power. It will present the Local Engagement Layer of the Data To Power prototype, designed by aggregating and mapping data generated by travelling exhibitions toured around the world by the Science Museum Group in London and Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne. To stay in the loop of current and future activities: *Subscribe to our Google group* https://groups.google.com/g/datatopower *Dr Natalia Grincheva* Programme Leader, BA(Hons) Arts Management, School of Creative Industries, LASALLE College of the Arts Senior Research Fellow (Hon), Digital Studio, the University of Melbourne *Recent Books:* *Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age <https://www.routledge.com/Museum-Diplomacy-in-the-Digital-Age/Grincheva/p/b…>* (Routledge 2020) *Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy <https://www.routledge.com/Global-Trends-in-Museum-Diplomacy-Post-Guggenheim…>* (Routledge 2019)

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