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"Is Algorithmic Fairness Possible?" 3/23 at 10:30AM Mountain Standard (via Zoom)
by Alexander Halavais 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

Please join us for a brief informal talk & discussion by Marcello di Bello this Wednesday. Register (for free) here: https://bit.ly/b2c2-di-bello <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bit.ly/b2c2-di-bello__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ…> B2C2 Seminar, Wednesday, March 23, 10:30-11:30 MST "Is Algorithmic Fairness Possible?" The literature on algorithmic fairness in computer science is replete with impossibility theorems. They show that no predictive algorithm can concurrently achieve different formal criteria of fairness. So any algorithm is necessarily unfair under one criterion or another. What has been little appreciated is that these impossibility theorems apply to any evidence-based decision, whether or not it is algorithmic. I offer a few examples of this fact, drawing from medical diagnoses and trial proceedings. So then, are all decisions inherently unfair? To avoid despair, I will outline a possibility theorem, a way to concurrently satisfy a restricted family of fairness criteria. This is the best our decisions can aspire to achieve, and--perhaps--it is all they should aspire to achieve. Marcello Di Bello is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. His research lies at the intersection of philosophy of law and epistemology, with a focus on questions about risk and probability, and evidence and quantitative information. -- // Alexander Halavais (he/him) @halavais alex.halavais.net // Associate Professor of Data & Society dasprogram.org // New College, Arizona State University theprof(a)asu.edu <http://asu.edu/> // Emails generally checked 2x a day. five.sentenc.es

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Call for applications for the Postgraduate Course 'Platformisation of cultural and audio-visual sectors in the European Union: new policies for new stakeholders', 9-14th of May 2022, Interuniversity Centre (IUC), Dubrovnik, Croatia
by Pasko Bilic 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

Call for applications Postgraduate Course ‘Platformisation of cultural and audio-visual sectors in the European Union: new policies for new stakeholders’, 9-14th of May 2022, Interuniversity Centre (IUC), Dubrovnik, Croatia Course lecturers: Valerija Barada, University of Zadar, Croatia Paško Bilić, Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Croatia Lilian Hanania, Hanania Consulting and Sciences Po Paris, France (via Zoom) Ole Marius Hylland, Telemark Research Institute, Norway Kylie Jarrett, Maynooth University, Ireland David Nieborg, University of Toronto, Canada Jaka Primorac, Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Croatia Aleksandra Uzelac, Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Croatia Bjarki Valtysson, University of Copenhagen, Denmark About the course: Regulation of digital technologies is high on the EU policy agenda. Platforms capture the attention of policy makers due to their dependence on user data, impacts on traditional cultural and audio-visual supply and demand, transnational reach, and excessive concentration of power. Academic approaches focusing on different facets of platforms have been many (e.g. Gillespie, 2010; Jin, 2015; Mansell, 2015; Srnicek, 2017; Rochet and Tirole, 2003) with selected authors speaking of the rise of platform society (van Dijck et al, 2018) and platformisation of cultural production (Poell et al, 2021). The main focus of this course will be on the role of EU policies on online platforms that affect supply and demand of cultural and audio-visual production. Attention will be given to unpacking social, political and economic dimensions of platformisation, moving beyond deterministic usage of term. Questions that the course will tackle are: How can we interpret changes in EU policies relating to online platforms and cultural and audio-visual sectors? How are they balancing market competition with cultural diversity and pluralism? Can we talk about European digital cultural policies and what are they entailing? What new stakeholders are emerging and what new policies are created? What new types of creative labour practices are brought about by the online platforms? What theoretical frameworks would be best suited to interpret these changes? We welcome PhD candidate submissions from a wide variety of theoretical and/or empirical approaches (e.g. sociology, cultural studies, economy) to the study of the impact of platforms on (policy) developments of cultural and audio-visual sectors. The course is offering 2+2 ECTS points (2 for participation and 2 for presentation). Limited number of partial scholarships available. Deadline for applications: 10th of April 2022 Decision on acceptance: 18th of April 2022 Application form is available at the following link Contact: platEU(at)irmo.hr, jaka(at)irmo.hr, https://plateu.irmo.hr/en/ This postgraduate course is part of activities of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet project ‘European Union Policies and the Platformisation of Cultural and Audio-visual Sectors – platEU’ (2020-2022) dedicated to promoting discussion and reflection on EU policies related to the impact of online platforms on cultural and audio-visual (AV) sectors in Europe. More information can be found at the website of the project: https://plateu.irmo.hr/en/ -- Ovo je sluzbena elektronicka posta i moze biti predmetom nadzora od strane poslodavca. This is an official e-mail message which may be subject to review by the employer.

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Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022): Second Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 19 Mar '22

19 Mar '22

*** Second Call for Papers *** Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022, Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 (Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS; Journal Special Issues with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier); Best Paper Award sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on "ICT for Societal Challenges". It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation and standardization of new ICT scalable systems and in-silico systems for new and future inclusive and sustainable technologies that benefit all: healthy people, people with disabilities or other impairments, people having chronic diseases, etc. User-centered design and innovation, new intuitive ways of human -computer interaction, and user acceptance are the topics of particular interest. Conference Topics Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Artificial Intelligence, Computation and Data Analytics • Artificial Intelligence methods for medical device testing. • Algorithms, methods and services for condition-specific intervention (e.g., diabetes, obesity, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health). • Algorithms, methods and services for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Medical Data and/or Medical Image Analysis. • Electronic Medical Records Analysis. • Computational methods for medical devices. Human Computer Interaction and Cognition • Human-Machine Interaction for healthcare and well-being. • Cognitive Mechatronics for healthcare and well-being. • Models for human-device interaction for medicine. • Cobotics for healthcare and well-being. • Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and well-being. Assistive Devices • Precision medicine. • ICT for in-silicon trials. • Implantable medical devices. • Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory, cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments. ICT & Wellbeing • Age-friendly systems for active and healthy ageing (telepresence, robotics solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care, integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection). • ICT systems to improve the quality of life and for daily life activities assistance (education, recreation, and nutrition). • Smart living homes and wearables (Intelligent and personalized digital solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living; personalized early risk detection and intervention). • Smart Systems and services promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural environment. • IoT and smart real-time surveillance systems for monitoring, auditing and control to prevent the spread of the pandemic. • eHealth smart solutions in the fight against a COVID-19 like pandemic. • IoT and Smart Healthcare systems with an environmentally friendly and sustainable footprint. Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Operation Services • Distributed and connected digital healthcare services. • IoT services for real-time monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • Wearable devices and IoT systems for remote monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • mHealth services and applications using mobile and wearable devices to collect community and clinical health data, and deliver healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients. • Sustainable city environments for emergency health management. • 5G and beyond for healthcare in sustainable smart cities. • Wireless Sensor Networks for advanced smart healthcare in sustainable cities. Quality in Healthcare Systems • New experimental validation methods with end-users. • Systems and services for ensuring patient’s commitment to the medication schedule. • Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development. • Communication systems and services improving the quality of patient and healthcare provider contact before, during and after admission. • Methods and Technology for Improving the quality of services-oriented care delivery systems. • Methods, Digital Tools and/or Services for inclusive-for-all healthcare systems. • Co-Creation of healthcare systems for social well being of people with special needs, older adults and/or deprivileged or disadvantaged people. • Systems for management of health and care (mental health, pain, neurological disorders, sight, hearing, balance, space awareness; sensory based physiological and psychological non-invasive measurements, preventive healthcare, m-healthcare, e-healthcare, integrated care, serious games, electronic health record, self- management, patient-centered systems for survivorship, palliation and/or end-of-life care). Privacy, Security & Standardization • Standardization, certification, labelling, and communication issues (related to ageing well, to sensory impairment). • Privacy and Security/Regulation compliant services in health care systems (e.g., HIPAA). • Security and privacy of digital health systems and service. • Socio-economic issues of smart healthcare in sustainable societies. • Privacy, security and ethics in eHealth smart solutions and surveillance at scale in the fight against a COVID-19 pandemic. High-quality original submissions that address such future issues, show the design and evaluation in (near-) real scenarios, explain how to benchmark systems, and outline the education and training procedures for acquiring new perceptual skills while using such systems are welcome. Research and technical papers are expected to present significant and original contributions validated with the targeted end-users. Submissions should clearly state the progress beyond the existing state-of- the-art and the expected societal benefits of the developed technology. When possible, validate scenarios with the target user groups and well-identified technology readiness levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level) should be at least outlined. Submissions We invite Research and Technical papers, up to 15 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. As was the case for IHAW 2021, the proceedings of IHAW 2022 will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) and will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. The Best Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF. The authors of the best papers accepted and presented at IHAW2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible inclusion in either of two Journal Special Issues that will be organised with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier). Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer format for conference proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icihaw2022 . Important Dates • Submission Deadline: July 18, 2022 (AoE) • Notification: September 26, 2022 • Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: October 10, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: October 10, 2022 Organizers Honorary General Chair • Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Scientific Chair • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus Scientific Vice-Chair • Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico Publicity Chair • Jessica Allingham, Lakehead University, Canada Finance Chair • Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD, Cyprus

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 211, Issue 26
by Paola Di Maio 19 Mar '22

19 Mar '22

Greetings AFAIK there have been no bounces? I have received the last email on March 1st On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 6:00 AM <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. New Book Announcement (S.J. Min) > 2. Global Forum: The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and the Future > of Warfare (Olga Boichak) > 3. Submission Deadline for #AoIR2022 is TOMORROW - 1 March 2022 > (Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers) > 4. Journal of Peer Production #15 TRANSITION (Mathieu.O'Neil) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 21:01:18 -0500 > From: "S.J. Min" <kissandhug(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] New Book Announcement > Message-ID: > <CABYgMTd9gHfQOefYKUQ-=YEyK0a= > z8RDmh6ErAehgh56kRUyWg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Seong Jae Min (2021/2022). Rethinking the New Technology of Journalism: How > Slowing Down Will Save the News. Penn State University Press. e-book: Nov. > 2021, hardcopy: Mar. 2022. > > > > The frenetic pace of modern life subjected every facet of society, > including newsrooms, to cutthroat competitions and relentless pursuit of > speed. Journalists today live by the grand discourse of speedy > technological innovation, struggling to catch up with new tools. Is > technology a vital force in journalism that would make or break the > industry?s fate? Shattering the conventional industry wisdom that > technology determines journalism?s forms, content, and its ultimate > success, this book suggests that, from the printing press to blockchain, > technologies? role in journalism has been overstated. The book calls for a > ?slow journalism,? a respite from the hectic pace of newswork and incessant > innovation, and appreciation of long-term collaboration and reflection that > enhance journalism?s core missions and functions in society. > > > > Available from Amazon and Google Play Books for a discounted price in March > ($9.99 e-book). > > Descriptions from the Penn State Press: > https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09248-5.html > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 14:24:58 +1100 > From: Olga Boichak <olgarithms(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Global Forum: The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and the > Future of Warfare > Message-ID: > <CAAFNfCQrEE_2-2oBa6abNoZ2g7f60gxN1GRO= > OOc5+K7AzJ6+A(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Please join us for a Global Forum that offers a critical reflection on the > Russia-Ukraine war and investigates the relationship between warfare and > media in this context. > > *March 1, 6:00pm AEDT* (what time is it for me > < > https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Global+Forum%3A+T… > > > ?) > > *Click here > <https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZZQroAtCRsi_hYWx5uT3zA> to > register for this virtual event.* > > Ukraine is once again at the epicentre of news due to an unwarranted > full-scale military aggression from Russia. After years of influence > operations, active measures, and ceasefire violations, followed by failed > diplomacy and ineffective sanctions, missiles are once again flying and > more boots are on the ground. With hybrid war expanding into the realms of > communication and perception, new analytical tools are needed to understand > what happened and what is likely to come next. The Global Forum gathers > international experts for a critical analysis of the Russian-Ukrainian war > and what it represents for the future of warfare. > > *Global Forum* is a webinar series hosted at the *Centre for International > Security Studies > < > https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/our-research/centres-institutes-and-groups/c… > >at > the University of Sydney, Australia*. It was created in 2018 to bring > together international security experts to explore the most pressing global > issues in a critical and timely manner. Past themes > < > https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/our-research/centres-institutes-and-groups/c… > > > have > included the COVID-19 crisis (2020), digital insecurity (2019) > and global uncertainty (2018). The Forum will be recorded and made > available on the CISS YouTube channel > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT52PI0tqRnqmCB7DH0Fy0Q>. > > > Moderator > *Professor James Der Derian* is Director of CISS and Michael Hintze Chair > of International Security at the University of Sydney. He writes books and > produces documentaries on war, peace, media and technology. > > Speakers > *Dr Olga Boichak* is a Lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of > Sydney. She is a Ukrainian-born media sociologist who has published > extensively on the role of digital technologies in the Russian-Ukrainian > war and is an editor of the *Digital War Journal.* > > *Dr William Merrin* is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at > Swansea University, UK. He is the author of *Digital War: A Critical > Introduction* (2018), which offers a comprehensive overview of the impact > of digital technologies upon the military, the media, the global public, > and the concept of ?warfare? itself. > > *Dr Anthony Szabo* is the Information Warfare Star Shot leader for the > Australian Defence Force?s Defence Science and Technology Group. > > *Bryce Wilson* is a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker from > Melbourne, Australia. Bryce has been covering the Russian-Ukrainian war > since 2015 and is currently in Ukraine. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:25:31 +0000 > From: "Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers" <ac(a)aoir.org> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Submission Deadline for #AoIR2022 is TOMORROW - 1 > March 2022 > Message-ID: > <CAPpsLq6YZ= > 5GgWunOQ5xdze-mCwKduPXXcE_OUzgfb8QEh1Wqg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hello! > > *A reminder that the #AoIR2022 deadline for submissions is tomorrow: 1 > March 2022, 23:59 UTC.* > > If you are unsure what time this is where you are, please check here: > > https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=AoIR2022+Submissi… > > The 2022 conference welcomes contributions that address the theme of > *Decolonising > the Internet.* To re-familiarize yourself with the call for proposals and > types of submissions solicited, please see here: > https://aoir.org/aoir2022/subtypes/. Submissions deadline is 1 March 2022 > for papers, panels, roundtables, fishbowls, experimental sessions, and > pre-conference workshops. > > When submitting, please take the time to read the submission categories and > topics carefully; this helps us match your submission to a suitable > reviewer. To learn more about how submissions are reviewed, please see > here: https://aoir.org/sub_review_info_aoir/. > > If accepted as a presenting author, you must register for the conference by > the Early Bird deadline of 1 August 2022. Accepted paper and panel > submissions will be included in our open access conference paper archive, > Selected Papers of Internet Research (SPIR). SPIR helps us further > publicise the work of our members and introduce our research to a wider > audience. *All paper and panel submissions must therefore follow our SPIR > formatting requirements,* which includes a consistent header and style > format for the papers that will enable people to easily locate author and > title information, and identify the papers as part of the AoIR conference. > This format is only intended to bring consistency to basic elements (such > as typeface and spacing), not to impose any disciplinary constraints. > Please download and utilise the Word template here: > https://aoir.org/aoir2022/subtemplate/. > > Between the Invasion of Ukraine, serious flooding in Queensland > (Australia), ongoing COVID-19 waves and academic strikes in the UK, we're > aware that there may be unavoidable circumstances that disrupt timely > submissions of your long abstracts. While we discourage extension requests > generally as it makes the reviewing process more difficult, if you would > like to request a (short) extension, or have other queries about the > submission process, please email AoIRConfChair(a)aoir.org. > > Click here to go to the submission site: > https://www.conftool.org/aoir2022/ > > We look forward to your proposals and to a stimulating conference in > Dublin! > > Sincerely, > Kylie Jarrett > AoIR2022 Programme Chair > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 13:26:50 +0000 > From: Mathieu.O'Neil <Mathieu.O'neil(a)canberra.edu.au> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Journal of Peer Production #15 TRANSITION > Message-ID: > < > SYAPR01MB292780A8ACE7331D26B64FDC91019(a)SYAPR01MB2927.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > THE FINAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF PEER PRODUCTION #15 TRANSITION > > http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-15-transition > > Issue editors: Panayotis Antoniadis & Mathieu O?Neil > > JoPP #15 TRANSITION features six peer-reviewed articles exploring diverse > aspects of transitions in peer production projects. Each article is > accompanied by an additional piece or ?complement? which addresses the same > topic in a non-academic manner. This experimental format aimed to explore > the transitions, permutations and transformations of research on peer > production. Reflections about change also inform the future of the Journal > of Peer Production itself. It was collectively decided that the correct > transition path for the Journal is to close its circle: this will be the > last issue of the JoPP. This final issue will serve as a vehicle to > strengthen the JoPP community and encourage its members to collectively > learn from the past, and support each other in our future endeavors. > > To that end, the issue comprises two dedicated sections: ?Reflections on > the past? and ?The future? which will remain open for contributions by > members of the JoPP community until the end of 2022, the final year of the > Journal of Peer Production. In early 2023, a closing ceremony will mark the > end of this era. More detail on the content of the issue ? in its current > incarnation ? and the plans for its expansion can be found in our Editorial > Notes. We look forward to your feedback and contributions. > > As a final experiment in publishing processes, we invite the authors of > this ultimate issue to present themselves in an online gathering in the > context of the 7at7 series, on May 7, at 7pm CET, at > https://7at7.digital/<https://7at7.digital>. After a quick round of > introductions to their work, we will have the opportunity to discuss all > together the past and future of peer production. > > > EDITORIAL NOTES > > Researching transition, transitioning research and saying goodbye to the > Journal of Peer Production | Panayotis Antoniadis and Mathieu O?Neil > > PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES > > Plan C ? Makers? response to COVID-19 | Peter Troxler > Complement: Responses by Dyhrberg H?jgaard, Boeva, Garc?a and Cuartielles > > Collective capabilities for resisting far-right extremism online and in > the real world | Cian O?Donovan > Complement: A framework for mapping, building, and evaluating collective > capabilities > > ?Meet your Personal Cobot!? Framing participatory research in makerspaces > as a trading zone | Tudor Basarab Ionescu and Jesse de Pagter > Complement: EU automation policy: Towards ethical, human-centered, > trustworthy robots? > > Prototypes as agents of transition: The case of DIY wireless technology > for advancing community digital sovereignty | Hagit Keysar, Elizabeth > Calder?n L?ning and Andreas Unteidig > Complement: Collective Learning > > Civic spaces and collaborative commons | Curtis McCord > Complement: Report on workshops and engagement > > Making consensus sensible: The transition of a democratic Ideal into > Wikipedia?s interface | Steve Jankowski > Complement: The link: A policy fiction > > JOPP IN TRANSITION: OUR COMMUNITY > > The Handbook of Peer Production: Interviews with practitioners | > Rhizomatica, Harassmap, Ushahidi, Wikimedia Deutschland, Debian > > JOPP IN TRANSITION: THE FUTURE > > The triumph of peer production? Announcing the creation of the Digital > Commons Policy Council | Kit Braybrooke, Angela Daly, Mathieu O?Neil and > Stefano Zacchiroli > > Really Simple Federation (RSF) | Panayotis Antoniadis > > JOPP IN TRANSITION: REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST > > A short history of the Journal of Peer Production by its founder | Mathieu > O?Neil > > Revisiting JoPP 6 on peer production and the law | Angela Daly > > http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-15-transition > > > > [UC Logo]<http://www.canberra.edu.au> > > [Young at Heart, Driven in Spirit]<https://www.canberra.edu.au/> > > > > The Ngunnawal people are the Traditional Custodians of the ACT where UC's > Bruce Campus is situated and are an integral and celebrated part of UC's > culture. 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Call for papers: 8th Annual Conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics (deadline for abstracts: 23 May 2022)
by Cristian Vaccari 18 Mar '22

18 Mar '22

Dear colleagues, I hope this email finds you well. I am pleased to share the call for papers for the 8th Annual Conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics, which will be held in person at Loughborough University, UK, 22-23 September 2022. I hope you will find it of interest and that you will be so kind as to share it with anyone you think might be interested. The call for papers is also available at https://cristianvaccari.com/2022/03/18/call-for-papers-for-the-8th-annual-c…. *** Call for papers *** 8th Annual Conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics *** Loughborough University, UK, 22-23 September 2022 *** Deadline for abstracts: 23 May 2022 On 22-23 September 2022, the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture at Loughborough University will host the 8th annual conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics, focused on academic research on the relationship between media and political processes around the world. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 23 May 2022. Attendees will be notified of acceptance by 6 June 2022. Registration fees will be due 8 July 2022 and full papers based on accepted abstracts will be due 8 September 2022. A selection of the best full papers presented at the conference will be published in the journal after peer review. Previous journal special issues based on conference papers can be found here and here. The conference brings together scholars conducting internationally oriented or comparative research on the intersection between news media and politics around the world. It aims to provide a forum for academics from a wide range of disciplines, countries, and methodological approaches to advance knowledge in this area. Examples of relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the political implications of changes in media systems; the importance of different types of media for learning about and engaging with politics; the factors affecting the quality of political information and public discourse; media policy and regulation; the role of entertainment and popular culture in how people engage with current affairs; relations between political actors and journalists; the role of visuals and emotion in the production and processing of public information; the role of different kinds of media during conflicts and crises; and political communication during and beyond elections by government, political parties, interest groups, and social movements. The journal and the conference are particular interested in studies that adopt comparative approaches, represent substantial theoretical or methodological advances, or focus on parts of the world that are under-researched in the international English language academic literature. Titles and abstracts for papers (maximum 300 words) are invited by 23 May 2022. The abstract should clearly describe the key question, the theoretical and methodological approach, the evidence presented, and the wider implications of the study for understanding the relationship between media and politics. Authors are encouraged to provide as much detail as possible about the spatial and temporal context of their study, the research design employed, the data collected, and the main results of the analyses. Please send submissions via the online form available at https://bit.ly/IJPP2022. The registration fee for the conference will be GBP 250, to be paid by 8 July 2022. The fee covers lunches and coffee breaks on 22 and 23 September, two conference dinners on 21 and 22 September, and farewell drinks on 23 September. A limited number of registration fee waivers will be available for early career scholars and scholars from countries that appear in Tiers B and C of the classification adopted by the International Communication Association. Applications must be made by 23 May 2022 via the abstract online submission form available at https://bit.ly/IJPP2022. All attendees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend the conference and respect the UK Government and Loughborough University policies to protect themselves and the population against COVID-19. Attendees visiting Loughborough from abroad must commit to follow the UK Government’s regulations to travel to England. The conference is organized by Cristian Vaccari (Editor-in-Chief of IJPP and Director of CRCC). Please contact Professor Vaccari with questions at c.vaccari(a)lboro.ac.uk. More about the journal, the University, and the Centre. *** The International Journal of Press/Politics The International Journal of Press/Politics is an interdisciplinary journal for the analysis and discussion of the role of the media and politics in a globalized world. The journal publishes theoretical and empirical research which analyzes the linkages between the news media and political processes and actors around the world, emphasizes international and comparative work, and links research in the fields of political communication and journalism studies, and the disciplines of political science and media and communication. The journal is published by SAGE Publications and is ranked 7th in Communication and 9th in Political Science by Journal Citation Reports. *** Loughborough University Based on a 440-acre, single-site campus at the heart of the UK, Loughborough University is ranked top 10 in every British university league table. Voted University of the Year (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019) and awarded Gold in the National Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), Loughborough provides a unique student experience. Loughborough University has excellent transport links to the rest of the UK. It is a short distance away from Loughborough Train station, a 15-minute drive from East Midlands Airport (near Nottingham), an hour drive from Birmingham Airport, and an hour and 15 minutes from London via train. *** The Centre for Research in Communication and Culture Since its establishment in 1991, CRCC has developed into the largest research center of its kind in the UK. The Centre is proudly interdisciplinary, combining social science and humanities approaches for the rigorous exploration of the production and consumption of different forms of communication and creative texts. CRCC’s research draws on and contributes to theories and methods in cultural and media studies, sociology, politics, psychology, history and memory studies, textual, visual and computational analysis, and geography. The Centre promotes research that explores how media and cultural texts are produced, how they construct meanings, how they shape societies, and how they fit within an ever-growing creative economy. All the best, Cristian Vaccari ****************************************************** Professor of Political Communication, Loughborough University Director, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture Editor-in-Chief, The International Journal of Press/Politics ****************************************************** Personal website: https://cristianvaccari.com/ Twitter: @prof_vaccari Preferred pronouns: he/him/his

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invitation to participate in the conference (Exploring prosumption and money in platform societies)
by Rajorshi Ray 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Dear All This conference might be of interest to you. The UNIBO-IIT Kanpur Digital Sociology International Research Group is organising a three day blended conference from 6th April to 8th April, exploring prosumption and money in platform societies. We hope to see you there. The itinerary is as follows, Day 1- April 6 (Digital Consumption and Prosumption) Keynote Lecture: The smartphone as a platform for life by Daniel Miller (University College London) Panel discussion: Platform-dependent entrepreneurship: managing power asymmetries, risks, and business strategies in the platform economy. Martin kennel (UC Davis) and Donato Cutolo (University of Bologna) Platformisation and prosumption: into the hybrid reality by Piergiorgio Degli Esposti (University of Bologna) Prosumption and digital co-programming by Kornelia Hahn, (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg Democracy and social welfare in the platform society: limitation of current approaches on representation and participation in decision-making processes by Roberto Barbeito (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Day 2 - April 7 (Digital Money) Keynote Event: Digital payments: making payments personal and social by Sophie Mützel, (University of Lucerne) Panel Discussion Collaborative Money Work: Platforms in the care collectives of elderly Anglo-Indians by Jillet Sarah Sam & Brian Gomes (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) 'Consumer-Cyborgs’ and ‘Driver-Partners’: the transactional configurations, constellations, and costs of Indonesia’s platform economy by Sunniva Sandbukt (University of Copenhagen) Platform data money by Koray Caliskan, The New School Recontextualising debt: China’s credit collection callers and the online anti-collection alliance during Covid-19 by Tom McDonald & Rao Yichen (University of Hong Kong) Day 3 - April 8 Gender, genres and generations (ITA) Link for detailed information: https://site.unibo.it/cbdc/en/eps-international-conference/abstracts-of-con… Link for registration: https://site.unibo.it/cbdc/en/agenda/emerginf-platform-society-workshop Contacts: Paola Giglio | +39 051 2080507 p.giglio(a)fondazionealmamater.it Regards Rajorshi Ray Graduate Student Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur India CONTACTS

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Advice on NVivo with Chinese materials
by Ho Pong To 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Dear all Sorry for cross-posting. I am a PhD student and conducting qualitative analysis of a large amount of online materials (mainly discussion forum and FB posts) using NVivo, but have encountered various logistics issues with uploading and transforming the data to fit the NVivo platform. Even getting the coding of the Chinese characters right has been a headache. I wonder if anyone is aware of any sources whereby I may solve these hands-on issues? I am based in Hong Kong but unfortunately the software does not seem to be very popular among the qualitative researchers here. Thanks a lot and sorry for disturbing! Ho-pong To Lecturer and PhD candidate UOW College Hong Kong

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ICTD2022: Call for Open Sessions
by Seetharama Bhat, Karthik 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Hi all, Please find below the call for submissions for open sessions at ICTD 2022. Apologies for cross posting. I'd appreciate it if you can forward it in your networks. Call for Submissions for Open Sessions 12th International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2022)<https://ictd.org/>, June 27-29, 2022 University of Washington in Seattle, USA ________________________________ The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) invites you to submit two-page proposals for open sessions by April 1, 2022. ICTD 2022 will be hosted at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA on June 27-29 2022. ICTD as a field aims for inclusivity and ICTD 2022 as a conference aims to include perspectives and participation from industry, policymakers, civil society, practitioners, academia, and government. The Open Sessions provide this opportunity to ensure the representation of projects, experiences, and viewpoints that will benefit the ICTD community, especially where they do not fit the full papers or notes formats. Open sessions<https://ictd.org/ictd2022/participate/call-for-open-sessions/> typically include multiple presenters convening around important, cross-cutting themes. They may take the form of panels, workshops, “ignite” talks, debates, participatory activities, or other types of communication and exchange. Successful proposals will work towards inclusiveness, relevance, and excellence, and examples from some previous conferences can be found here: ICTD 2016<https://ictd2016.info/schedule/> and ICTD 2012<http://ictd2012.org/open-sessions/>. Session organizers may extend invitations to particular participants to attend, or present based on emerging themes in ICTD; likewise, participation is open to any conference attendee who wishes to join in on the day of the session. To propose an open session, please fill out this Google form<https://forms.gle/XWC2kj6rr84TrkQDA>, providing a 75-word summary and an additional 2-page description detailing your goals for the session and how you plan to achieve them. The deadline for submission is April 1, 2022, at 11.59 pm Anywhere on Earth (AoE). Guidelines Open Sessions welcome a variety of submissions and formats. We invite extended abstracts that include proposals for panels, workshops, doctoral colloquium submissions, young researchers meet-ups, and more. Open sessions will be 90 minutes in length by default. They can also be 180 minutes long, but only if there is sufficient justification. Although sessions (and session proposals) will be held in English, we are also open to proposals for sessions in other languages. In such cases, please note the proposed language and indicate why it is important to the session topic. Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we also expect some attendees to be joining the open sessions remotely. So, please describe an appropriate plan to make open sessions inviting and accessible to both remote and in-person attendees. Proposals for sessions will be reviewed and assessed according to the criteria below. * They should be accessible to a highly interdisciplinary ICTD audience. * They should be lively, inclusive, and participatory in style and content. * They should be on topics relevant to the ICTD community. * They should demonstrate careful planning and a clear agenda. Examples of sessions and formats, based on prior years are indicated below. * A panel of researchers and practitioners to discuss and brainstorm post-PhD opportunities for ICTD researchers. * A workshop organized by 2-3 researchers to discuss in small breakout sessions the role of gender (what it is and what it should be) in ICTD projects. * A short course on co-design in research areas pertaining to global health. * A workshop to set an agenda for future research on digital financial services. * An ice-breaker session for ICTD researchers and practitioners to learn about and from each other and their work. * A series of short, lightning talks followed by an open discussion, where each talk represents an extended abstract on a common, chosen topic such as caste-related inequities in ICTD contexts. Dates April 1, 2022: Deadline for submission of Open Sessions (using this form<https://forms.gle/XWC2kj6rr84TrkQDA>) April 8, 2022: Notifications sent Open Session Chairs * Aditya Vashistha (adityav(a)cornell.edu<mailto:adityav@cornell.edu>) * Agha Ali Raza (agha.ali.raza(a)lums.edu.pk<mailto:agha.ali.raza@lums.edu.pk>) If you have any questions, please reach out to both the chairs via email. Thanks, Karthik

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Ukrainian Internet Scholars?
by Rich Canevez 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Hello everyone, This is Rich Canevez, a postdoc at the University of Hawaii's School of Communications. I'm reaching out to the wonderful AoIR community for partnership/guidance, as I'm considering a study on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This study would be a social network analysis + qualitative content analysis study that explores how activism and independent media that grew from the Maidan revolution is playing a critical role in resisting the Russian invasion (or at least my theory goes). Towards that end, I am looking to work with Ukrainian scholar(s) who might be likewise interested in this topic, or be available to provide some guidance in the thinking that could come out of this exploration. So if you are, or know someone, who is interested, please do contact me. Thank you everyone, and remember today the people of Ukraine who are fighting for the freedom we get to enjoy as scholars. ~Regards, -- Richard N. Canevez Postdoctoral Fellow - School of Communications, University of Hawaii at Manoa Ph.D. - Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University B.A. - Philosophy, University of Michigan Pronouns: he, him, his I acknowledge that my work at Penn State University took place on the traditional, ancestral territory of the Erie, Haudenosaunee (Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora), Lenape (Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe, Stockbridge-Munsee), Shawnee (Absentee, Eastern, and Oklahoma), Susquehannock, and Wahzhazhe (Osage) Nations. I acknowledge that my work at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Island took place on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Musqueam and K'omoks people. I honor them as the traditional caretakers of these lands and strive to understand and model their responsible stewardship.

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Digital Methods Summer School '22 - Univ. Amsterdam
by Richard Rogers 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Digital Methods Summer School 2022 ‘Vision methodologies: New visual analysis online’ 4-16 July 2022 New Media & Digital Culture Media Studies University of Amsterdam Turfdraagsterpad 9 1012 XT Amsterdam the Netherlands Call for participation The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is holding its annual Summer School on 'Vision methodologies'. The format is that of a (social media and web) data sprint, with tutorials as well as hands-on work for telling stories with data. There is also a programme of keynote speakers. It is intended for advanced Master's students, PhD candidates and motivated scholars who would like to work on (and complete) a digital methods project in an intensive workshop setting. Vision methodologies: Research affordances and critique of new visual analysis online Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen have produced a withering critique of the data behind computer vision software and other AI applications. In Excavating AI, the project they describe as dataset archaeology, they question the enterprise of image labelling, particularly in the category of ‘persons’, and discuss how sets of labels encompass problematic worldviews. Among the training data sets they scrutinise is ImageNet, the very large set of tagged images with a variety of shocking (and more sensible) labels. In 2019 ImageNet removed images of people, together with their labels, leading to questions of why the images were sourced as they were and labelled as they had been. Despite the removal (and the questions surrounding it) these images and their labels already have downstream effects, they argue, having served to train vision software, among other uses. The critique has opened a debate both within the research communities behind the image sets as well as outside them, asking how to ‘de-bias’ both the training data and the applications that use them as well as whether to label at all (or how to do so fairly). Similar scrutiny has not as yet been made of other aspects of computer vision analytical outputs (and inputs). In the dual effort to both critique and repurpose, the Summer School inquires into the affordances of computer vision for media research, not just the labelling but also especially the study of image circulation via reverse image search as well as the contextual tagging of images, otherwise known as web entities. We also discuss a series of methods to augment automated image analysis through such data enrichment strategies as emoji and hashtag linkage. At the Summer School there are the usual social media tool training tutorials for working on single and cross-platform analysis, but also continued attention to thinking through and proposing how to work critically with social media data, both from mainstream social media platforms as well as so-called alt tech. Apart from the keynotes and the training tutorials, there are also empirical and conceptual projects that participants work on. Projects from the past Summer and Winter Schools include: Detecting Conspiratorial Hermeneutics via Words & Images, Mapping the Fringe on Telegram; Greenwashing, in_authenticity & protest; Searching constructive/authentic posts in media comment sections, Mapping deepfakes with digital methods and visual analytics, “Go back to plebbit”: Mapping the platform antagonism between 4chan and Reddit, Profiling Bolsobots Networks, Infodemic cross-platform analysis, Post-Trump Information Ecology, Streams of Conspirational Folklore, and FilterTube: Investigating echo chambers, filter bubbles and polarization on YouTube. The most recent school had some of the following projects: Climate imaginaries; Repurposing Google Ads; What is a meme, technically speaking?; Tracing the genealogy and change of TikTok audio memes; Google Autocomplete: Racist results still?; and OK Boomer on Twitter. Summer School ’22 organisers: Richard Rogers and Guillen Torres, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Application information at https://www.digitalmethods.net <https://www.digitalmethods.net/>. Prof. Richard Rogers Media Studies University of Amsterdam

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