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MIT CFP deadline reminder - Games and Covid
by Piotr Siuda 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

Fellow AOiR Member, this is just to remind you that the deadline for submitting a chapter's extended abstract for collection "Gaming and Gamers in Times of Pandemic" is May 1. You can find the Timeframe and Submission Procedure below. The editors of this CfP are already in discussion with the MIT Press GAME HISTORIES SERIES editors who enthusiastically voiced support for the collection. The website of the series: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/game-histories The Covid-19 pandemic is a historical moment with social, cultural, and economic repercussions and unprecedented government responses. The pandemic has impacted virtually every aspect of our lives regardless of where we live. This volume seeks to examine the impact of this epochal and significant period and resulting government policies, especially the lockdowns, on one particular cultural sphere: games. In the initial months, many industry reports noted the unexpected positive impact on online digital game sales. Games weren’t just lockdown-proof, but boosted by lockdowns: stay-at-home orders triggered a rush toward games as an alternative form of entertainment, and the ubiquity of mobile phones allowed wider than ever participation. This was seen in esports as it was a successful “extension” of traditional sports, and it forced immediate brand innovation and far-reaching changes in marketing strategies. On the other hand, the growth in esports online viewership came with a price, as many local arena events had to be canceled. However, sales growth and marketing aside, the impact on the game industry overall was more complex and often pernicious. Game developers experienced a rapid and often challenging shift to remote work. This shift towards virtual communication also affected universities, where students could no longer be hosted in campus laboratories, requiring new forms of student engagement. Some digital games encountered unexpected challenges: how indeed to adapt a location-based augmented reality game to a locked-down world? Equally complex was the impact on non-digital games. Typically designed for direct face-to-face contact, board games, pen & paper role-playing games, and even live-action role-playing games and their players were forced to move online, or to employ complex safety protocols to minimize transmission risk and conform to legal requirements. With the manufacturing and shipping chain of board game components being drastically distorted, the market for board games has undergone a dramatic change. Also, the virtual market management concept overtook a fair share of the market, with the leading role of crowdfunding specialists. Large scale events were canceled, postponed, downsized, or virtualized. The same, indeed, was the case not only for game-playing events but also for industry and academic conferences. The pandemic also affected game players, game developers, game journalists, and game scholars alike in many other ways, starting with the most direct – illness, and sometimes death. New cultural rifts also opened up due to political tensions. Some effects are temporary: others are here to stay. All deserve to be studied. In this volume, we invite authors to reflect on the various impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on gaming, gamers, as well as those who make and study games. The volume encourages, but is not limited to, the following topics: Digital and non-digital games in the pandemic Visions of Covid-19 and other pandemics in games Pandemic impact on the game industry and game-related events Will the pandemic accelerate the evolution of the game industry (games as a social platform, expansion of the free-to-play model, mobile leading the industry, etc.) The pandemic and esports (e.g. growth and virtualization of esports, ongoing relations between traditional sports and esports) Pandemic impact on game culture and gamer communities Teaching and developing games in the pandemic AR and VR Games and VR in the service of education online Games and players’ well-being (games as tools for therapy and the improvement of anxiety vs. excessive use, abuse, and possible addiction) Ludology in the time of the pandemic Serious games developed for and around the pandemic Digitalization of board games and LARPs TIMELINE *Deadline for Initial Proposals (Extended Abstracts): May 1, 2022* Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2022 First Drafts Due: October 1, 2022 Editor Comments: November 1, 2022 Final Drafts Due: January 1, 2023 Please note that the dates of “Notification of Acceptance”; “First Drafts Due”; “Editor Comments”; “Final Drafts Due” may change due to the publishing process – the authors will be informed in case of any changes happening. *SUBMISSION PROCEDURE* Prospective authors should submit a short chapter proposal as a Word document to games.covid.book(a)gmail.com. The proposal should contain: The name and contact information of the author(s), along with a brief bio The title of the proposed chapter Extended abstract of approximately 1000-1200 words excluding references. The abstract should indicate the consistency, rigor, and relevance of the work. Paper submissions should articulate the issue or research question to be discussed, the methodological or critical framework used, and indicate the findings or conclusions and/or the relevance to general volume. Papers can present any kind of research, analysis, or theoretical framing, but should be written so that the importance of the work can be indicated. Please note that empirical chapters should include the research question and data to be analyzed. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please use the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. The editors strongly recommend that authors follow the Chicago Manual. Please note that chapters not adhering to the guidelines will be returned to the author(s) for revision. EDITORS Piotr Siuda (Primary Contact) Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz piotr.siuda(a)gmail.com Jakub Majewski Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz jakubm(a)ukw.edu.pl Krzysztof Chmielewski Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz k.shaman(a)ukw.edu.pl Piotr Siuda (PhD) is a media studies scholar, Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Communication and Media at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Member of The Association of Internet Researchers and the Polish Society for Social Communication. http://piotrsiuda.com Jakub Majewski (PhD) is an Assistant Professor at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. His research interests include role-playing games and cultural heritage, game storytelling techniques, game industry history, among others. He is also a game developer with two decades' worth of experience and a portfolio of about forty diverse games. Krzysztof Chmielewski (MA) is a Senior Lecturer of Game Design at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. LARP researcher and game designer and producer of games for different platforms (PC/mobile/AR, board/card, live games, gamebooks). R&D specialist in experiential learning and gaming solutions.F -- *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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Call for Papers and Shared Task Participation (CASE @ EMNLP 2022): Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text
by ali hürriyetoglu 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

Call for Papers and Shared Task Participation (CASE @ EMNLP 2022): Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text ************************************************************************************ URL: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2022/ September 7, 2022: Submission deadline on Softconf August 15, 2022: Latest ARR submission deadline for ARR October 2, 2022: Latest ARR commitment deadline October 9, 2022: Notification of Acceptance October 16, 2022: Camera-ready papers due Workshop dates: December 7-8, 2021 Location: Hybrid -> Abu Dhabi & Online Please see below for the important dates of the shared tasks. There are two options for submissions that are i) Softconf page of the workshop: https:// <https://www.softconf.com/m/icspcc2022> softconf.com/emnlp2022/case2022 and ii) ACL Rolling review (ARR): https://aclrollingreview.org/dates. ************************************************************************************ Nowadays, the unprecedented quantity of easily accessible data on social, political, and economic processes offers ground-breaking potential in guiding data-driven analysis in social and human sciences and in driving informed policy-making processes. Governments, multilateral organizations, and local and global NGOs present an increasing demand for high-quality information about a wide variety of events ranging from political violence, environmental catastrophes, and conflict, to international economic and health crises (Coleman et al. 2014; Porta and Diani, 2015) to prevent or resolve conflicts, provide relief for those that are afflicted, or improve the lives of and protect citizens in a variety of ways. Black Lives Matter protests (http://protestmap.raceandpolicing.com) and conflicts in Syria ( https://www.cartercenter.org/peace/conflict_resolution/syria-conflict-resol…) are only two examples where we must understand, analyze, and improve real-life situations using such data. Finally, these efforts respond to “growing public interest in up-to-date information on crowds” as well ( https://sites.google.com/view/crowdcountingconsortium/faqs) Event extraction has long been a challenge for the natural language processing (NLP) community as it requires sophisticated methods in defining event ontologies, creating language resources, domain specific grammars, developing Machine Learning models and other algorithmic approaches for various event-detection- specific tasks, such entity detection, semantic labeling, event classification and clustering and others (Pustojevsky et al. 2003; Boroş, 2018; Chen et al. 2021). Social and political scientists have been working to create socio-political event (SPE) databases such as ACLED, EMBERS, GDELT, ICEWS, MMAD, PHOENIX, POLDEM, SPEED, TERRIER, and UCDP following similar steps for decades. These projects and the new ones increasingly rely on machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), and NLP methods to deal better with the vast amount and variety of data in this domain (Hürriyetoğlu et al. 2020). Unfortunately, automated approaches suffer from major issues like bias, limited generalizability, class imbalance, training data limitations, and ethical issues that have the potential to affect the results and their use drastically (Lau and Baldwin 2020; Bhatia et al. 2020; Chang et al. 2019). Moreover, the results of the automated systems for SPE information collection have neither been comparable to each other nor been of sufficient quality (Wang et al. 2016; Schrodt 2020). SPEs are varied and nuanced. Both the political context and the local language used may affect whether and how they are reported. We invite contributions from researchers in computer science, NLP, ML, DL, AI, socio-political sciences, conflict analysis and forecasting, peace studies, as well as computational social science scholars involved in the collection and utilization of SPE data. Academic workshops specific to tackling event information in general or for analyzing text in specific domains such as health, law, finance, and biomedical sciences have significantly accelerated progress in these topics and fields, respectively. However, there has not been a comparable effort for handling SPEs. We fill this gap. We invite work on all aspects of automated coding and analysis of SPEs and events in general from mono- or multi-lingual text sources. This includes (but is not limited to) the following topics 1) Extracting events in and beyond a sentence, event coreference resolution, 2) New datasets, training data collection, and annotation for event information, 3) Event-event relations, e.g., subevents, main events, causal relations, 4) Event dataset evaluation in light of reliability and validity metrics, 5) Defining, populating, and facilitating event schemas and ontologies, 6) Automated tools and pipelines for event collection related tasks, 7) Lexical, syntactic, discursive, and pragmatic aspects of event manifestation, 8) Methodologies for development, evaluation, and analysis of event datasets, 9) Applications of event databases, e.g. early warning, conflict prediction, policymaking, 10) Estimating what is missing in event datasets using internal and external information, 11) Detection of new SPE types, e.g. creative protests, cyberactivism, COVID19 related, 12) Release of new event datasets, 13) Bias and fairness of the sources and event datasets, 14) Ethics, misinformation, privacy, and fairness concerns pertaining to event datasets, and 15) Copyright issues on event dataset creation, dissemination, and sharing. 16) We encourage submissions of new system description papers on our available benchmarks (ProtestNews @ CLEF 2019, AESPEN @ LREC 2020, and CASE @ 2021). Please contact the organizers if you would like to access the data. The proceedings of the previous editions should be indicative of what we cover: ProtestNews @ CLEF 2019 (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2380/) AESPEN @ ACL 2020 (https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2020.aespen-1/) CASE @ ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2021.case-1/) **** Shared tasks **** Task 1- Multilingual protest news detection: This is the same shared task organized at CASE 2021 (For more info: https://aclanthology.org/2021.case-1.11/) But this time there will be additional data and languages at the evaluation stage. Contact person: Ali Hürriyetoğlu (ali.hurriyetoglu(a)gmail.com) Github: https://github.com/emerging-welfare/case-2022-multilingual-event Task 2- Automatically replicating manually created event datasets: The participants of Task 1 will be invited to run the systems they will develop to tackle Task 1 on a news archive (For more info https://aclanthology.org/2021.case-1.27/) Contact person: Hristo Tanev ( htanev(a)gmail.com) Github: https://github.com/emerging-welfare/case-2022-multilingual-event Task 3- Event causality identification: Causality is a core cognitive concept and appears in many natural language processing (NLP) works that aim to tackle inference and understanding. We are interested to study event causality in news, and therefore, introduce the Causal News Corpus. The Causal News Corpus consists of 3,559 event sentences, extracted from protest event news, that have been annotated with sequence labels on whether it contains causal relations or not. Subsequently, causal sentences are also annotated with Cause, Effect, and Signal spans. Our two subtasks (Sequence Classification and Span Detection) work on the Causal News Corpus, and we hope that accurate, automated solutions may be proposed for the detection and extraction of causal events in news. Contact person: Fiona Anting Tan (tan.f(a)u.nus.edu) Github: https://github.com/tanfiona/CausalNewsCorpus Please follow the workshop page for the updates or contact the contact person related to the task you are interested in. The important dates for the tasks are i) Training and validation data available: April 15, 2022, ii) Validation labels and test data available: August 01, 2022, iii) Test period: August 01-15, 2022. *** Keynotes *** Three prominent scholars have accepted our invitation as keynote speakers: i) J. Craig Jenkins (https://sociology.osu.edu/people/jenkins.12) is Academy Professor Emeritus of Sociology at The Ohio State University. He directed the Mershon Center for International Security Studies from 2011 to 2015 and is now senior research scientist. ii) Scott Althaus (https://pol.illinois.edu/directory/profile/salthaus) is Merriam Professor of Political Science, Professor of Communication, and Director of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. iii) Thien Huu Nguyen (https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~thien/) is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Oregon. Thien is the director of the NSF IUCRC Center for Big Learning (CBL) at the University of Oregon. **** Submissions ***** This call solicits short and long papers reporting original and unpublished research on the topics listed above. The papers should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. The page limits and content structure announced at ACL ARR page (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp) should be followed for both short and long papers. Papers should be submitted on the START page of the workshop ( http://softconf.com/emnlp2022/case2022) or on ARR page (TBA on the workshop website) in PDF format, in compliance with the ACL publication author guidelines for ACL publications https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html The reviewing process will be double-blind and papers should not include the author's names and affiliations. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The workshop proceedings will be published on ACL Anthology. **** Organization Committee **** Ali Hürriyetoğlu (KNAW Humanities Cluster DHLab, the Netherlands) Hristo Tanev (Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Italy) Vanni Zavarella (Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Italy) Reyyan Yeniterzi (Sabancı University, Turkey) Erdem Yörük (Koc University, Turkey) Osman Mutlu (Koc University, Turkey) Fırat Duruşan (Koc University, Turkey) Ali Safaya (Koc University, Turkey) Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi (Insight SFI Centre for Data Analytics, United Kingdom), Benjamin J. Radford (UNC Charlotte, United States) Francielle Vargas (University of São Paulo, Brazil) Farhana Ferdousi Liza (University of East Anglia, UK) Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria), Ritesh Kumar (Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, India), Daniela Cialfi (The ‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ University, Italy) Tiancheng Hu (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) Niklas Stoehr (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) Fiona Anting Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

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Nancy Baym Annual Book Award nomination deadline is 1 May 202
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

*The deadline for the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award nominations is 1 May 2022.* This award recognizes the best scholarship of the Association of Internet Researchers, and highlights the breadth of work relating to the social and cultural dimensions of networked media. To be eligible for the award: - The book must be authored or co-authored as a monograph and must explore a single topic (edited collections are not eligible). - All of the book’s authors must be current members of AoIR at the time of submission (May 1, 2022). Memberships may be purchased here https://members.aoir.org/. - The book must have been published between January 1 and December 31, 2021. The books will be reviewed by a committee of Robert W. Gehl-Louisiana Tech University (Chair), Nancy Baym-Microsoft Research, Jakob Linaa Jensen-Aarhus University, Jun Liu-University of Copenhagen, Bjorn Nansen-The University of Melbourne, Robert Tynes-Bard College, Arantxa Vizcaino Verdu-University of Huelva, and Weiyu Zhang-National University of Singapore. Each book should be accompanied by an emailed letter of nomination. Self-nominations from AoIR members are welcome. The letter of nomination, which must be written by a current member of AoIR, should outline: How the book contributes to AoIR’s intellectual community. - The book’s unique contributions and overall strengths. - If not a self-nomination, the letter should also include a statement that the nominated author has been contacted prior to its submission and accepts the nomination. - Books submitted without a meaningful nomination letter outlining both the strengths of the book and the book’s contribution to the AoIR community to AoIR will not be eligible. We are happy to accept books in either digital or hard copy. If digital, please send pdf to bookaward [at] aoir.org or contact for individual email addresses. Additional nomination details available here: https://aoir.org/2022bookaward/

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Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
by Joly MacFie 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/ Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker / 12:16 PM PDT•April 18, 2022 Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals is the latest in a long-running legal battle brought by LinkedIn aimed at stopping a rival company from web scraping personal information from users’ public profiles. The case reached the U.S. Supreme Court last year but was sent back to the Ninth Circuit for the original appeals court to re-review the case. In its second ruling on Monday, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed its original decision and found that scraping data that is publicly accessible on the internet is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA, which governs what constitutes computer hacking under U.S. law. The Ninth Circuit’s decision is a major win for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists who use tools to mass collect, or scrape, information that is publicly accessible on the internet. Without a ruling in place, long-running projects to archive websites no longer online and using publicly accessible data for academic and research studies have been left in legal limbo. But there have been egregious cases of web scraping that have sparked privacy and security concerns. Facial recognition startup Clearview AI claims to have scraped billions of social media profile photos, prompting several tech giants to file lawsuits against the startup. Several companies, including Facebook, Instagram, Parler, Venmo and Clubhouse have all had users’ data scraped over the years. The case before the Ninth Circuit was originally brought by LinkedIn against Hiq Labs, a company that uses public data to analyze employee attrition. LinkedIn said Hiq’s mass web scraping of LinkedIn user profiles was against its terms of service, amounted to hacking and was therefore a violation of the CFAA. LinkedIn first lost the case against Hiq in 2019 after the Ninth Circuit found that the CFAA does not bar anyone from scraping data that’s publicly accessible. On its second pass of the case, the Ninth Circuit said it relied on a Supreme Court decision last June, during which the U.S. top court took its first look at the decades-old CFAA. In its ruling, the Supreme Court narrowed what constitutes a violation of the CFAA as those who gain unauthorized access to a computer system — rather than a broader interpretation of exceeding existing authorization, which the court argued could have attached criminal penalties to “a breathtaking amount of commonplace computer activity.” Using a “gate-up, gate-down” analogy, the Supreme Court said that when a computer or website’s gates are up — and therefore information is publicly accessible — no authorization is required. The Ninth Circuit, in referencing the Supreme Court’s “gate-up, gate-down” analogy, ruled that “the concept of ‘without authorization’ does not apply to public websites.” “We’re disappointed in the court’s decision. This is a preliminary ruling and the case is far from over,” said LinkedIn spokesperson Greg Snapper in a statement. “We will continue to fight to protect our members’ ability to control the information they make available on LinkedIn. When your data is taken without permission and used in ways you haven’t agreed to, that’s not okay. On LinkedIn, our members trust us with their information, which is why we prohibit unauthorized scraping on our platform. -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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AoIR 2022 Dissertation Award Submission deadline is 1 May 2022
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

*The deadline for the 2022 AoIR Dissertation Award nominations is 1 May 2022.* To be eligible for the AoIR Dissertation Award, a PhD dissertation in the area of internet research must have been filed in the 2021 calendar year. Nominations (self and other) must be received by 1 May 2022. All methods and disciplines are welcome. Submissions Details: A nomination letter that explains why the dissertation is deserving of the award How it contributes to internet research - A PDF copy of the dissertation and nomination letter should be emailed to dissertationaward [at] aoir.org - The graduate or their supervisor must be a member of AoIR (by 1 May 2022) - Self-nominations are permitted - Filed in 2021 (meaning fully defended, all edits complete, filed/published with a 2021 copyright) The recipient of this award will be announced mid-year 2022. In addition to winning a cash prize, the individual will also be invited to present their research during a session at #AoIR2022 in Dublin, November 2022. The committee this year is comprised of Andra Siibak-University of Tartu (Chair), Rafael Grohmann-Unisinos University, Anne Kaun-Södertörn University, John G. Mcnutt-University of Delaware, and Lynete Lusike Mukhongo-Fort Valley State University. For any questions please contact Andra Siibak dissertationaward [at] aoir.org or Tama Leaver prez[at]aoir.org.

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Online seminar 21 April | Francesca Musiani: "Infrastructuring" Digital Sovereignty?
by Orsolya Gulyás 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Dear colleagues, A quick message to invite you to the launch event of a new online seminar series<https://brussels-school.be/event/data-sovereignty-seminar-series> on the contested notion of "data sovereignty”. For this first seminar, which will be held online on 21 April at 15:00 (CET), we are pleased to welcome Francesca Musiani, who will present her recent work on “infrastructuring” digital sovereignty. Details and registration: https://brussels-school.be/event/data-sovereignty-seminar-1-infrastructurin… In the next parts of our seminar series we will also be joined by Roxana Radu (Graduate Institute) on 25 May, and in June (date tbc) by Nick Couldry (LSE) and Ulises Mejias (State University of New York). The series is co-organised by the Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation (BSOG-VUB)<https://brussels-school.be/research/digitalisation-democracy-and-innovation> and the VUB/UNU-CRIS Chair in Digital Sovereignty<https://www.vub.be/en/chair/digital-sovereignty>. Kind regards, Orsolya Gulyás and Clément Perarnaud ORSOLYA GULYÁS PhD Researcher Brussels School of Governance<https://brussels-school.be/> Pleinlaan 5 - 1050 Brussels

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CFP: 20th Community Informatics Research Network conference Nov 9 - 11
by Colin Rhinesmith 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Dear colleagues, Please see the following Call for Papers for this year's 20th Community Informatics Research Network conference. 20 YEARS OF CIRN Examining the past, present, and future of communities and technology Conference | 9 - 11 November 2022, Monash University, Prato, Italy. The theme of the 2022 conference, 20 years of CIRN: Examining the past, present and future of communities and technology aims to both look back at 20 years of the Prato conferences and the rich knowledge, and experience that have emerged from them, but as well, look at new emerging themes and challenges in a very different world. The conference may well be unique as an international long-term reflective event concerned with the internet. We invite referred and non-referred papers and presentations and workshop or panel proposals that can take into account the changes that have occurred with communities and technologies since the earliest days of the internet, as well as accounts of contemporary innovation and challenges across the full range of community informatics interests: libraries, community action and engagement, international development, archives and memory, dis/ability, gender, race & class, identity, and the creative arts. And now, we add environmental informatics. For more details, please see https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn2022/ <https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn2022/> Key dates: 30 May 2022 Call closes/notification to follow. By 30 July 2022 - confirm your participation 15 September 2022 - full papers for refereed track due. 30 September 2022 - referee reports due mid-October 2022 - resubmitted papers due 15 September 2022 - all other papers and submissions 9-11 November 2022- Early 2023 - conference proceedings available 2023 Special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics. While this is a physical event, we recognize in a post-COVID world that there is considerable potential for real-time participation and some events may be live-streamed. — Colin Rhinesmith, Ph.D. Pronouns: he/him Founder and Director Digital Equity Research Center Metropolitan New York Library Council http://crhinesmith.com <http://crhinesmith.com/> Adjunct Faculty School of Library and Information Science Simmons University Co-Editor-In-Chief The Journal of Community Informatics

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AoIR2022 abstract reviews deadline
by Kylie Jarrett 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Hi all, This is just a friendly reminder that the reviews of the AoIR2022 conference submissions are due in by the end of Friday, April 22nd. Even if you haven't submitted this year, you may have been allocated reviews so please do login to conftool to check - https://www.conftool.org/aoir2022/ We can't do this conference without you so thanks for your contribution. Dr. Kylie Jarrett AoIR2022 Programme Chair Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) Department of Media Studies Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare Ireland Author: Digital Labor (coming soon from Polity) Feminism, Labour, and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife Co-author: NSFW: Sex, Humor and Risk in Social Media Google and the Culture of Search

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Webinar: Why Is Sex Objectionable?, April 26
by Susanna Paasonen 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Dear all, Please join us on Zoom, or in person, should you be in Sydney (and sorry for cross-posting): Why is sex objectionable? Tue, 26 Apr 2022 • 06:00PM - 07:00PM AEDT (10:00 - 11:00 AM CEST) Online / Social Sciences Building Seminar Room 210, University of Sydney Despite the significance of sexuality in people’s lives, sex is a topic of constant contestation. This panel asks why sex, particularly mediated depictions of sex, are often termed objectionable. Why are female nipples zoned out from social media? Why is porn framed as a social problem? Join us as our experts discuss what is really at stake in platform regulation of explicit content. Chair: Professor Kane Race (University of Sydney) Participants: Professor Kath Albury (Swinburne University of Technology), Professor Alan McKee (UTS), Professor Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku/Hunt-Simes Visiting Chair @SSSHARC, University of Sydney) https://whatson.sydney.edu.au/event/7ae7ef2c-668b-48ff-a494-168209e76ae6 This is a hybrid In person/online event. In person seating is limited so please so please send RSVPs to sssharc.research(a)sydney.edu.au to ensure your spot. Online registration link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Im57SHm9RqCCjG7fd5Fh9g ---------------------------- Susanna Paasonen Professor of Media Studies University of Turku susannapaasonen.org Hunt-Simes Visiting Chair in Sexuality Studies SSSHARC, University of Sydney PI, Intimacy in Data-Driven Culture, www.dataintimacy.fi/en/ Author of Dependent, Distracted, Bored, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/dependent-distracted-bored ---------------------------- Susanna Paasonen Professor of Media Studies University of Turku susannapaasonen.org Hunt-Simes Visiting Chair in Sexuality Studies SSSHARC, University of Sydney PI, Intimacy in Data-Driven Culture, www.dataintimacy.fi/en/ Author of Dependent, Distracted, Bored, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/dependent-distracted-bored

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Call For Papers for Special Issue of Homelessness and Mobile Media for MMC
by Justine Humphry 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Dear all, Please consider responding to this Call For Papers for a Special Issue of *Homelessness and Mobile Media* in the *Journal of Mobile Media and Communication *edited by Maren Hartmann, Justine Humphry, David Lowis and Will Marler. https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/MMC_CfP_Homelessness-and-Mobile-Medi… Please submit an extended abstract of 500 words (including references) that states the paper’s main argument, contribution, and takeaway. The abstract should clearly explain how the full submission will contribute to the aims of this special issue. Please email abstracts to homelessmedia2024(a)gmail.com by 30/05/2022. Abstracts should be accompanied by a short biography for each author (approx. 200 words). Also, include the names, titles, and contact information for 2-3 suggested reviewers. Many thanks, Justine Humphry (Co-Editor of the Special Issue and Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney) https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/justine-hump…

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