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Open access translations of The Global Smartphone eBook
by Clegg, Alexander 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

We would like to draw your attention to the publication of the following translations of The Global Smartphone: Beyond a youth technology, an open access eBook which presents a series of original perspectives deriving from the Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA)<https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/assa/> project. A multisited research project based at UCL Anthropology. These are all available as free downloads from UCL Press. We believe it is very important, where we can, to ensure the availability of our research findings to people whose first language is not English and we would be grateful if you can spread news of this publication to any networks you are aware of in the relevant languages. For example, those who might find this useful for teaching purposes. Further translations will appear in Chinese and Japanese. Arabic الهاتف الذكي العالمي: ما وراء تكنولوجيا الشباب<https://www.uclpress.co.uk/pages/the-global-smartphone-arabic-translation> French Le Smartphone Global: Au-delà d’une culture jeune<https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/180788> Italian Lo Smartphone Globale: Non solo una tecnologia per giovani<https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/180781> Portuguese O Smartphone Global: Uma tecnologia para além dos jovens<https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/180789> Spanish El Smartphone Global: Más allá de una tecnología para jóvenes<https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/180616> Also available in English here<https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/171335> Kind regards, Alex Clegg Research Assistant and Public Engagement Fellow, Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA)<https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/assa/>

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WEBCAST APR 5 – A11yNYC – Accessible Typefaces, Fonts, and Text: Optimizing the reading experience – Jared Smith
by Joly MacFie 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

This has just kicked off. A popular topic judging from the size of the zoom crowd! <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11ytext>On *Tuesday April 5 2022* at *7:30pm-8:30pm EDT* (23:30-00:30 UTC) the *Accessibility NYC Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/>* (A11yNYC) hosts an online meetup ‘*Accessible Typefaces, Fonts, and Text: Optimizing the reading experience <https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/284234182/>*‘. Typefaces, fonts, and text styling can have a significant impact on the user experience — and there are few accessibility guidelines that relate to text accessibility. *Jared Smith* of *WebAIM <https://webaim.org/>* will provide an overview of how reading is processed in the human mind, and how to minimize the cognitive effort and maximize the visual accessibility of online text. The meetup will be webcast live via a partnership with the *Internet Society New York Accessibility SIG <https://a11ysig.org/>* *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11ytext <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11ytext>* (Open Captions) *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM: https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/284234182/ <https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/284234182/> *(CC) *REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11ynyc <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11ynyc>* *TWITTER:* *#AccessibleText <http://bit.ly/A11ytext>* @jared_w_smith @WebAIM @A11ysig @a11ynyc #Accessibility #a11y #Captioned *SIMULCASTS *(Open Captions) *https://youtu.be/K6l6FwMChvI <https://youtu.be/K6l6FwMChvI> *(Comments monitored) *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/> * *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <http://bit.ly/A11ytext>* *https://www.facebook.com/isocny <https://www.facebook.com/isocny>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/a11ytext <https://archive.org/details/a11ytext>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/15259/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Book announcement: Machine Habitus
by Massimo Airoldi 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Dear AoIR friends, my book on the (cultural) sociology of algorithms is out with Polity in the UK – and now finally in the US too! I think it may be of interest to the AoIR community… Machine Habitus reviews critical perspectives about a) the social shaping of machine learning and b) the algorithmic shaping of society, developing a Bourdieusian theoretical framework for unpacking the culture in the code. More info and promo code below! Cheers, Massimo **NEW BOOK!** Machine Habitus<https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=machine-habitus-toward-a-s…> Toward a Sociology of Algorithms<https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=machine-habitus-toward-a-s…> By MASSIMO AIROLDI Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan “I strongly suspect that Massimo Airoldi’s Machine Habitus is a concept that will be utilised and debated for years to come. At its centre, this book is a lively and original take on how we can understand social connections and society itself in a world laced with algorithms. I’d suggest reading and engaging with the ideas contained here, otherwise you will be missing out on an agenda setting text.” David Beer, University of York “One of the first books that uses sociological theory to make sense of machine-learning algorithms. Hence, for anyone interested in understanding algorithms and their growing role in our societies, this book is essential reading.” Simon Egbert, Universität Bielefeld We commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longer the case. Billions of automated systems tacitly contribute to the social construction of reality by drawing algorithmic distinctions between the visible and the invisible, the relevant and the irrelevant, the likely and the unlikely – on and beyond platforms. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, this book develops an original sociology of algorithms as social agents, actively participating in social life. Through a wide range of examples, Massimo Airoldi shows how society shapes algorithmic code, and how this culture in the code guides the practical behaviour of the code in the culture, shaping society in turn. The ‘machine habitus’ is the generative mechanism at work throughout myriads of feedback loops linking humans with artificial social agents, in the context of digital infrastructures and pre-digital social structures. This theoretical perspective sheds fresh light on user-machine interactions and on broader processes of techno-social reproduction, laying the sociological foundations for critically understanding and investigating our increasingly algorithmic culture. Use promo code POL21 and order via https://www.politybooks.com/ to get 20% off (promo code is valid until 30/06/2022) UK December 2021 / US March 2022 || PB 978-1-5095-4328-1 || £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 || ebook available For further information and to order your copy, visit https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=machine-habitus-toward-a-s… John Wiley & Sons Limited is a private limited company registered in England with registered number 641132. Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom. PO19 8SQ.

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4S Open Panel on templates, formats and models
by Lingel, Jessa 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hello AoIR friends, Please consider sending your work to our 4S Open Panel on templates, formats and models. Description and link below! Templates / Plantillas / Modelos: https://www.4sonline.org/131-templates-plantillas-modelos/ This panel explores the politics and poetics of templates. Like formats, protocols, and standards, templates can be found in nearly all domains of knowledge and practice, imposing uniformity, reducing complexity, and allowing for the proliferation of communicative and material forms. Templates are crucial to organization and work across a range of professions, including architecture, publishing, genetic engineering, and nursing. Accordingly, templates vary in degree of elaboration, institutionalization, visibility, and consequence. They surface in struggles over legitimacy, inclusion, and authenticity, if only to recede again into the technological unconscious. Templates establish norms of consistency and deviation, configuring our classifications and evaluations, our sense of sameness and difference, self and other. This panel solicits proposals in English, Spanish or Portuguese that grapple with templates across contexts and from a range of interpretive perspectives. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Templates as organizational, managerial, or bureaucratic technologies * The relationship between templates and other aesthetic classifications (e.g., genre or style) in film, architecture, music, literature, visual arts, etc. * “Template” as rhetorical device * Templates as representations of inequality * The use of templates in projects of carcerality and/or state violence * The role of templates in the history of computing * Templates in urban governance and planning * Templates as ludic and improvisational forms * Templates in finance, economics, or marketing * Templates in academic knowledge production, scientific discovery, or publishing Across these different topics, we are particularly interested in perspectives and analysis that draw from the Global South and/or BIPOC knowledge practices. Contact: Aaron Shapiro, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jessa Lingel, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication Diogo Pereira Henriques, Aarhus University amshap(a)unc.edu<mailto:amshap@unc.edu>, jlingel(a)asc.upenn.edu<mailto:jlingel@asc.upenn.edu>, dph(a)cc.au.dk<mailto:dph@cc.au.dk> Keywords: template, standard, format, aesthetics, intellectual technologies Jessa Lingel {she/her/hers | associate professor} {Annenberg School for Communication} {core faculty | GSWS<https://www.sas.upenn.edu/gsws/>} {University of Pennsylvania} {tumblr<http://jessalingel.tumblr.com> | medium<http://medium.com/@jessa.lingel>}

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Introduction of the journal Asian Communication Research (ACR) & Call for Manuscripts: Deadline June 10th
by Kyun Soo Kim 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Why ACR? Asian Communication Research (ACR) is a refereed international publication that features cutting-edge scholarship in all areas of communication with a focus on Asian contexts, while contributing to understanding of communication phenomena around the world. ACR features: ● Free publication ● All papers are DOI enabled ● Included in Korean Citation Index (KCI) ● Open articles in the journal homepage ● Articles presented in meta XML, PDF, PubReader, and ePub ● Quality review and editorial service Call for Manuscript Submissions We are currently accepting submissions for our second issue of 2022 (Vol. 19 No. 2). Asian Communication Research (ACR) is a peer-reviewed, international journal of the Korean Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (KSJCS). ACR is registered in the Korean Citation Index (KCI) and published three times a year in April, August, and December. New submissions are always open, but manuscripts submitted by June 10 will be given a priority to undergo peer review after initial editor screening for publication, scheduled to be on August 31, 2022. ● Submission Deadline: June 10, 2022 ● Scheduled Date of Publication: August 31, 2022 ● New Online Submission Site: https://www.dbpiaone.com/acr/index.do To be considered for publication, the submitted manuscripts must adhere to the submission guidelines. Please download and use the manuscript template: http://acr.comm.or.kr/download/ACR_manuscript_template.docx We are also inviting reviews of books on topics relevant to the scope of the journal. Eligible books for review are those published within the last five years and appealing to an international readership. Authors should provide a clear account of the major issues dealt with in the book and critically evaluate the book’s contribution to the field (2,000–3,00 words). Potential book reviewers should contact the book review editor in advance. If you have any inquiry, please contact: Editor‐in‐Chief Sungeun Chung (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, chseun(a)skku.edu) Associate Editors Minsun Shim (Inha University, Korea, mshim(a)inha.ac.kr) Borae Jin (Joongbu University, Korea, bjin23(a)gmail.com) Kyun Soo Kim (Chonnam National University, Korea, kimk(a)jnu.ac.kr) Christopher J. Carpenter (Western Illinois University, USA, cj-carpenter2(a)wiu.edu) Book Review Editors JongHwa Lee (Angelo State University, USA, jonghwa.lee(a)angelo.edu) Associate Managing Editor Daeun Jeong (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, acr(a)comm.or.kr) -- *Kyun Soo Kim, Ph.D.* Chair & Professor, Department of Communication Chonnam National University 77 Yongbongro Bukgu Gwangju, Republic of Korea 61186 Office: +82-62-530-2671 Fax: +82-62-530-2679 Zoom meeting ID: 620 636 1798

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MIS4TEL 2022: 5th Call for Paper / 13-15 July 2022 / L'Aquila (Italy)
by MIS4TEL 2022 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

--- Kindly forward it to anyone who might be interested --- --- Apologies for cross-posting --- ====================================================================== Call for Papers We are glad to invite you to submit a manuscript to MIS4TEL2022, the 12th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning. The conference proceedings are published by Springer and indexed in Scopus, INSPEC, DBLP, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago. MIS4TEL 2022 will be held in L'Aquila (Italy) on 13th-15th July, 2022, in parallel with the PAAMS'22 International Conference. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will be hybrid, meaning that we will also organize remote participation/presentation for whoever cannot travel to L'Aquila. Official Website:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/ Submission info:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/submission Contact us:info@mis4tel-conference.net Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MIS4TEL22/ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/mis4tel22/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/MIS4TEL22 ====================================================================== Important dates: - Submission deadline: 22nd April, 2022 - Notification of acceptance: 30th May, 2022 - Camera-Ready papers due: 17th June, 2022 - Conference celebration: 13th-15th July, 2022 ====================================================================== MIS4TEL 2022 -- 12th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning >>> SCOPE Education is the cornerstone of any society and it serves as one of the foundations for many of its social values and characteristics. State-of-the-art and novel methodologies and technologies allow researchers, designers, and domain experts to pursue Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) solutions targeting not only cognitive processes but also motivational, personality, or emotional factors. Nowadays, we can identify two main legs, providing necessary and complementary strengths to a TEL-oriented design process: appropriate technologies should be applied, and appropriate methods should guide the design of such application. Technologies in TEL are capable of delivering smart, personalized, tailored, and motivating learning solutions. Methods are coming from different fields, such as education, psychology, medicine, computer science, and from diverse communities, where collaboration and co-working are used, such as maker communities and participatory design communities. In addition, Learning Analytics can help manage available (big) data and augment learning opportunities for learners and educators alike, for instance by supporting self-regulated learning or adaptation of the learning material. As to these topics, the annual appointment of MIS4TEL established itself as a consolidated fertile forum where scholars and professionals from the international community, with a broad range of expertise in the TEL field, share results and compare experiences. The 12th edition of the conference calls for novel research in TEL and expands the topics of the previous editions, highlighting the role of the most recent methods and technological opportunities. As in the tradition of MIS4TEL, this edition aims at offering the different perspectives, and complementary voices, coming from the multidisciplinary field of TEL. >>> TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: # Technologies and technology-based solutions for TEL # - AI technologies and tools for TEL - Agent-based and multi-agent TEL systems - Knowledge representation, reasoning, and management systems for TEL - Natural language systems for TEL - Recommendation, personalization, and adaptation in TEL systems - Social networks for TEL - Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for TEL - Internet of things (IoT) solutions for TEL - Smart solutions or environments for TEL - Wearable technologies for TEL - Robotics for TEL - Virtual reality environments for TEL - Games for TEL or gamified TEL - Sharing and interoperability between TEL environments - Making and fabrication for TEL # Methodologies and experiences for TEL # - Methodologies for personalization, user modeling, and adaptation in TEL- Methodologies for recommendation systems and user modeling in TEL - Methodologies for fostering motivation and engagement in TEL - Methodologies for the design of accessible and usable TEL systems - Methodologies for including different voices in the design process of TEL - Methodologies for informal learning for TEL - Methodologies for fostering TEL in small, medium, and large companies - Methodologies, tools, and frameworks supporting experiments in TEL - Methodologies or approaches from game design and gamification for TEL - Novel experiences and studies (e.g., case studies, ethnographic studies, field studies, experimentations) with methodologies for TEL # Learning analytics for TEL # - Big data and data visualization in TEL - Learning analytics for curriculum design - Learning analytics for personalizing the learner experience - Learning analytics for predicting behavior - Learning analytics for designing learning interventions - Learning analytics for stakeholders >>> SUBMISSIONS # Submitting papers # MIS4TEL papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNNS Template, with a maximum length of 10 pages, including figures and references. For further details, please see: https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/submission # Review process # MIS4TEL welcomes the submission of papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process. Each contribution will be refereed by three experts in the field using the following set of criteria; relevance, originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The papers must consist of original, relevant, and previously unpublished sound research efforts related to any of the topics of the conference. # Publication # Accepted papers will be included in the MIS4TEL Proceedings published by LNNS series of Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.com/series/15179) At least one of the authors will be required to register for MIS4TEL and to attend the Conference in order to present their paper and to have it included in the conference proceedings. ** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to SCOPUS, INSPEC, DBLP, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago.** ====================================================================== MIS4TEL 2022 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE # General Chair # - Marco Temperini - Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) # Technical Program Co-Chairs # - Ivana Marenzi - L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany) - Vittorio Scarano - University of Salerno (Italy) # Paper Co-Chairs # - Milos Kravcik - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Germany) - Rosa Lanzilotti - University of Bari (Italy) - Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova (Romania) # Workshop Co-Chairs # - Zuzana Kubincova - Comenius University of Bratislava (Slovakia) - Alessandra Melonio - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy) # Publicity Co-Chairs # - Agnese Addone - University of Salerno (Italy) - Federica Caruso - University of L'Aquila (Italy) - Dalila Durães - University of Minho, Braga (Portugal) - John Jairo Páez Rodríguez - University Francisco José de Caldas of Bogotà (Colombia) # Steering Committee Representatives # - Fernando De La Prieta University of Salamanca (Spain) - Rosella Gennari - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) # Local Organizers Co-Chairs # - Tania Di Mascio - University of L'Aquila (Italy) - Pierpaolo Vittorini - University of L'Aquila (Italy) ====================================================================== More information can also be found on the MIS4TEL22 website and social media: Official Website:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/ Submission info:https://www.mis4tel-conference.net/submission Contact us:info@mis4tel-conference.net Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MIS4TEL22/ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/mis4tel22/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/MIS4TEL22 ======================================================================

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Call for WiP and Demo -- SMARTCOMP 2022 -- Deadline: 29 April 2022
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ======================================================= CALL FOR WIP-DEMO PAPERS ****************************************************************** The 8th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2022), June 20-24, 2022 in Helsinki, Finland https://smartcomp.aalto.fi/ ********************************************************************************** SMARTCOMP 2022 is the 8th edition of the premier conference on Smart Computing. Smart computing is a multidisciplinary domain based on the synergistic influence of advances in sensor-based technologies, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, edge computing, big data analytics, machine learning, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence. Applications of smart computing can be found in different societal domains including, but not limited to, transportation, energy, environmental protection, smart and connected communities, healthcare, banking, industrial systems, entertainment, and social media. Algorithmic and system advancements of cloud computing, mobile/pervasive computing, cyber-physical systems, sensor networking and social computing are taking smart computing to a new dimension and improving our ways of living. SMARTCOMP WIP and Demo sessions will provide a forum to discuss novel ideas and emerging results, presenting innovative applications and tools, and bring about novel research questions, approaches, and directions. WIP papers are expected to report on early or ongoing research activities, while Demo papers are expected to present innovative applications and tools. Currently the conference is planned to be in Helsinki, Finland, hoping we will be able to meet in person again. TOPICS Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): * Future Smart Computing Paradigms * Models of Smart Environments * Algorithms for Smart Computing * AI and Machine Learning in Smart Computing * Security, Privacy, and Trust issues in Smart Computing * Fairness and Socio-technical issues of Smart Computing * Smart Computing for Cyber-physical Systems * Middleware Platforms for Smart Systems * Mobile and Ubiquitous Platforms for Smart Systems * Cloud, Edge and Fog Smart Computing Platforms * Data Architectures and Analytics for Smart Computing * Smart Computing for Smart and Connected Communities * Smart green computing * Social computing and smart systems * Wearable computing and IoT for Smart Systems * Architectures and Software for Smart Computing * Novel communication paradigms (e.g., 5G/6G, VLC, DSA) in smart computing * Quantum Computing in Smart Systems * Interdisciplinary approaches to Smart Computing * Applications of Smart Computing include: * Smart healthcare and digital epidemiology * Smart agriculture * Smart infrastructures * Smart cities * Smart energy, transportation, water distribution systems * Smart factories * Smart workspace WIP and Demo papers should be no more than 3 pages in length, including figures, tables, and references and formatted according to the two-column IEEE proceedings template. IEEE provides corresponding formatting templates at *IEEE conference template*. Make sure to use the conference mode of the template, i.e., LaTeX users must use the conference option of the IEEEtran document class. WIP papers are expected to present early or ongoing research activities. Novel approaches and preliminary results are especially appreciated. Demo papers should explicitly state what will be demonstrated to the audience, and how the attendees will be able to interact, enjoy, and experiment. Papers must be submitted electronically as a single PDF file on US Letter size paper (not A4), with all fonts embedded (the PDF-A standard complies with that), through EDAS - WiP and Demo Track. Submitted WIP and Demo papers will be subject to peer reviews by SMARTCOMP Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. They will be presented as posters and demo live presentations. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the conference to present the work. Authors are requested to submit original, unpublished manuscripts in standard IEEE proceedings format in PDF. Paper submissions should be formatted according to the IEEE conference template. Due to the short interval between the notification of acceptance and the camera-ready deadline, we strongly encourage authors to follow the camera-ready formatting guidelines as close as possible even for the initial abstract submission. Submissions must be made via EDAS. When submitting, please select the "SMARTCOMP 2021: WIP and Demo" track. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission: extended to 29 April 2022 Acceptance Notification: extended to 9 May 2022 Camera ready: 16 May 2022 WIP AND DEMO CO-CHAIRS: Franca Delmastro, IIT-CNR, Italy (franca.delmastro(a)iit.cnr.it<mailto:franca.delmastro@iit.cnr.it>) Sandip Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India (sandipc(a)cse.iitkgp.ac.in<mailto:sandipc@cse.iitkgp.ac.in>) ****************************************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Director of Recruiting and Admissions Computer Engineering Area Chair 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> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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3rd International Workshop on Real-life modeling in 5G/6G networks and beyond -- REFRESH 2022 -- Submission Deadline: April 8, 2022 (4 days away!)
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd International Workshop on Real-life modeling in 5G/6G networks and beyond -- REFRESH 2022 https://refresh2022.github.io/#/ Co-located with IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2022) https://dcoss.org/ Marina Del Rey, LA, California May 30 to June 1, 2022 Scope and Overview The economic and societal potential of emerging 5G/6G and cyber-physical social systems is vastly greater than what has been realized so far, and major investments are being made worldwide to develop the corresponding science and technology. The Future Internet paradigm, the proliferation of emerging networks and architectures, wireless access technologies and multi-homing smart devices are evolving towards a competitive environment, where users and devices have access to various resources, while their behaviors become strongly interdependent. This fact demands and motivates the development of user-centric resource management and optimization frameworks, which enable user's self-optimization and autonomy. This vision is further motivated and supported by the convergence of various emerging technologies enabling Cyber-Physical Systems operation, including 5G/B5G/6G technologies, Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile Edge Computing and Software Defined Networking, all targeting flexibility and efficiency. To deal with the involved complexity, and driven by the requirements of autonomy and scalability, distributed resource orchestration approaches appear as a necessity rather than a desire. The REFRESH Workshop aims at to stimulate research on the most novel topics of real-life modeling in 5G/6G networks and beyond. This year's edition encourages submission of theoretical and experimental work (including studies of real deployment), with a primary interest in new directions of wireless networking in concrete application scenarios and demonstrators in areas such as, but not limited to: mobile edge computing, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, public safety networks, dynamic spectrum utilization, smart grid communications, wireless power communication, green wireless networks, information-centric wireless networks. The workshop seeks original work presented in the form of research papers describing new research and development approaches and results, as well as work-in-progress papers. Highly disruptive work-in-progress and position papers are also welcome, provided they focus on particularly innovative solutions or applications for 5G/6G networks and beyond. All papers shall be forward-looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and shall argue their impact and implications for ongoing or future research. Selected workshop papers will also be considered for publication in a Special Issue and/or Special Sections of international peer-reviewed journals. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to 5G/6G Cellular systems and beyond Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Integrated Access and Backhaul Channel modeling and measurements Cloud/CRAN-based networks5G/B5G/6G Networks Millimeter-wave and THz communication technologies Massive MIMO Multi-modal sensing/sourcing Cognitive radio networks, dynamic spectrum access and emerging applications and services Wireless power transfer and energy harvesting for wireless networks Delay tolerant networks Wireless communications on different media End-to-end protocols, flow and congestion control Artificial intelligence and machine learning for wireless networks Attack modelling, prevention, mitigation, and defense in wireless networks Security, Reliability, Privacy and Trust in Wireless Networks Green Wireless Networks Heterogeneous, Small-Cell and Dense networks Information-centric wireless networks Internet of Things Pervasive and wearable computing and networking Public Safety Networks Social wireless networks Quality of Service provisioning and management in 5G networks and beyond Quality of Experience and User Experience in 5G networks and beyond Software-defined wireless networks Vehicular wireless networks Wireless mesh networks Wireless multimedia networks Wireless network virtualization Multiple Access, Radio Resource Management, Interference Management and Scheduling Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Networks Hybrid communication systems (e.g., satellite/unmanned aerial vehicles/terrestrial/wireline hybrids) Machine learning-based resource allocation for wireless networks Reinforcement learning and deep learning for 5G/6G networks and beyond Architectures, models, security, and approaches for smart grid networks Economics and pricing for 5G/6G networks and beyond Smart Cities supported by 5G/6G networks and beyond Scalability, Robustness and Resilience in 5G/6G networks and beyond Important Dates Paper Submission: April 8, 2022 Acceptance Notification: April 21, 2022 Camera Ready: April 28, 2022 Early Registration: TBA Workshop Day: TBA General Paper Format Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on real-life modeling in 5G/6G networks and beyond related to REFRESH workshop's topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 X 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available on the link below: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html All submissions should be written in English and submitted as a full or work-in-progress paper. Full papers should have a maximum of eight (8) printed pages including figures and references. Full papers are expected to describe fully developed ideas with a thorough evaluation. Work-in-progress papers should have a maximum of four (4) printed pages including figures and references. Work-in-progress papers are expected to describe new and interesting ideas that have not yet reached full maturity. Note that REFRESH does not follow the double-blind review policy. The names and affiliations of all the authors must be present in the submitted manuscript. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the DCOSS 2022 conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Submission Site Please submit your papers in PDF format using the following paper submission website: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=refresh2022 Program Committee Chairs Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering 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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BOOK EVENT REMINDER: 'Platforms and Cultural Production' with Brooke Erin Duffy, Thomas Poell & David Nieborg | LSE Digital Ethnography Collective
by Glatt,ZA (pgr) 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Hi everyone! Just a reminder that our next zoom event is happening this Thursday 7th April (4-6pm BST), where the wonderful Brooke Erin Duffy, Thomas Poell and David Nieborg will be discussing their new book Platforms and Cultural Production (Polity, 2021). The authors will present some of the findings of the book, which examines both the processes and implications of platformization across the cultural industries. This will be followed by an audience Q&A. As usual, our events are designed to be interactive and generative of ideas and conversation, so we hope you'll come with questions. The event will be chaired by LDEC Co-Founder Zoë Glatt, with Q&A moderated by Ludmila Lupinacci. You can book a free ticket and read all info here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-event-platforms-and-cultural-production… Looking forward to seeing some of you there, Zoe BOOK DESCRIPTION: The widespread uptake of digital platforms – from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and TikTok – is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways. Longstanding media industries are experiencing tremendous upheaval, while new industrial formations – live-streaming, social media influencing, and podcasting, among others – are evolving at a breakneck pace. In 'Platforms and Cultural Production', the authors identify key changes in markets, infrastructures, and governance at play in this ongoing transformation, as well as pivotal shifts in the practices of labour, creativity, and democracy. Foregrounding simultaneous changes in institutional relations and cultural practices, the authors define platformization as: the penetration of digital platforms’ economic, infrastructural, and governmental extensions into the cultural industries, as well as the organization of cultural practices of labour, creativity, and democracy around these platforms. Exploring how these interrelated changes take shape in different industrial and geographic contexts, they discuss key variations in the trajectories of transformation. This analytical framework should assist students, scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners in their efforts to understand how the institutions and practices of cultural production are evolving in the era of platforms. **You can purchase the book with a 20% discount provided by Polity Books using the code 'PCP02' at checkout HERE<https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=platforms-and-cultural-pro…>. Code eligible until the end of 2022** SPEAKER BIOS: Brooke Erin Duffy is an Associate Professor at Cornell University, where she holds appointments in the Department of Communication and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. Her specific areas of interest include digital and social media industries; gender, identity, and inequality; and the impact of new technologies on creative work and labor. She's the author of two monographs on gender and cultural production, including (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work (Yale University Press, 2017), which Wired ranked as one of the "Top Tech Books of 2017." Thomas Poell is Professor of Data, Culture & Institutions at the University of Amsterdam and director of the Research Priority Area on Global Digital Cultures<https://globaldigitalcultures.uva.nl/>. His research is focused on the societal consequences of the rise of digital platforms. He has published widely on social media and popular protests around the globe, as well as on the role of these media in the development of new forms of journalism. Poell is co-author of three books, including The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World (Oxford University Press, 2018). David B. Nieborg is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto. He holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam and held visiting and fellowship appointments with MIT, the Queensland University of Technology, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He published widely on the game industry, app and platform economics, and game journalism in academic outlets such as New Media & Society, Social Media + Society and Media, Culture and Society. ~We are the LSE Digital Ethnography Collective, an interdisciplinary group exploring the intersections of digital culture and ethnographic methods. We invite scholars at all levels to join us for events where we host speakers and workshop new ideas. The aim of the group to establish a community of scholars of digital ethnography and to work through challenges in this emerging subdiscipline. Follow us on Twitter (@DigEthnogLSE) and join our mailing list (https://tinyurl.com/y5a6odte) to hear about exciting new scholarship in this area as well as updates on all of our future events.~ ________________________ Zoë Glatt www.zoeglatt.com<http://www.zoeglatt.com/> ESRC PhD Researcher in Media & Communications London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Co-Founder: LSE Digital Ethnography Collective @DigEthnogLSE<https://twitter.com/DigEthnogLSE> Graduate Student Rep 2019-2021: Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Managing Editor 2018-2020: ICA journal Communication, Culture & Critique<https://academic.oup.com/ccc/pages/About> YouTube channel<https://www.youtube.com/user/Zedstergal> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/ZoeGlatt> | LSE bio<http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/phd-researchers/zoe-gl…>

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8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022): Third Call for Contributions
by Announce Announcements 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

*** Third Call for Contributions *** 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022) "Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era" September 26-29, 2022, Aliathon Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 The Call-for-Contributions for the 8th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2022) is OPEN! The IEEE ISC2 2022 Organizing Committee is glad to announce that it is currently accepting papers for the 8th edition of the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference. This year, the IEEE ISC2 will be held in-person on September 26-29, 2022, in Paphos, Cyprus and the theme of the conference is “Community Smartification and towards ZERO emission Smart Cities for a Green New Era.” The IEEE ISC2 is the flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community, a coalition of eight IEEE technical societies and organizations. Besides contributions addressing the conference theme, authors are welcome to submit their original research results in traditional topics across broad application and functional domains, within the context of smart urban infrastructure systems. The technical areas include, but are not limited to: • Smart city theory, modelling and simulation  • Intelligent infrastructure • Sensors and actuators • Open data and big data analytics • AI powered smart cities services • Safety and security systems • Smart healthcare • Smart emergency management • IoT and Smart X services • Data security and privacy • Connected Vehicle (CV) technologies • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) • Smart mobility and transportation • Smart energy systems • Smart buildings and Smart grid • Digital city and smart growth • Smart traffic system operations • Environmental monitoring technologies The complete list of technical areas can be found here: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-papers/ . Should you need further clarifications or have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at: isc22022(a)easychair.org . Paper Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality original (Full or Short) papers via the EasyChair submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc22022 . Full papers should describe novel research contributions with evaluation results and are limited to seven (7) pages. Short papers, limited in length to four (4) pages, should be more visionary in nature and are meant to discuss new challenges and visions, highlight early research results, and explore novel research directions. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication, should be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE Template ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). Each submitted paper will pass through the standard IEEE peer-review process. If accepted and presented at the conference, it will appear in the conference proceedings and be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference organisers are currently negotiating a number of special issues with high quality journals. More information is available on the conference web site (https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/journal-special-issues/) The best papers will be awarded in the conference Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award contests. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022 . Special Sessions Proposals Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-special-sessions/ . Workshops Proposals Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-workshop-proposals/ . Tutorials Proposals Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/call-for-tutorial-proposals/ . Sponsorship Opportunities Please refer to the web site for further details: https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/sponsorships/ . Important Dates • Conference Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2022 • Conference Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2022 • Conference Camera-ready Deadline: July 31, 2022 • Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals Submission Deadline: April 15, 2022 • Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals Selection: April 21, 2022 • Tutorial Proposals Submission Deadline: May 27, 2022 • Tutorial Proposals Selection: June 3, 2022 • Conference Dates: September 26-29, 2022 Organizing Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/chairs/ Special Track Chairs Committee https://attend.ieee.org/isc2-2022/special-tracks-committee2/ IEEE Smart Cities https://smartcities.ieee.org

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