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IJOC-CfP: Artificial Intelligence and New Media in Challenges
by Seungahn Nah 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

*Call for Papers* *Artificial Intelligence and New Media in Challenges: Algorithmic Bias and Ethical Issues* Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and applications have rapidly penetrated into all aspects of social, political, civic, and cultural life. Despite the exponential growth in and development of AI, algorithmic bias toward gender, age, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and ideology prevails across digital media platforms, ranging from search engines through news sites to social media. This omnipresence of algorithmic bias results in social issues, such as systematic and repeated unfairness, discrimination, and inequality, privileging certain groups over others, violating privacy, and reinforcing social and cultural biases. However, scholarship still remains unexplored in light of the causes, components, and consequences of algorithmic bias and ethical issues. Recent successes in AI are based on "black-box" machine learning models trained with a tremendous amount of data, which makes it extremely difficult to understand or interpret their underlying mechanisms despite their remarkable predictive power. Therefore, this special section calls for papers which can address these structured, longstanding issues toward individuals, groups, communities, and countries across the socio-economic and ideological spectrums. The special section is particularly interested in studies empirically demonstrating the aforementioned issues and providing solutions for a better design, development, application, and implication of AI and digital media. Thus, the following research questions are central to this special section. What are the causes of algorithmic bias and how do these relate to ethical, policy, and legal issues like privacy? What are the components of biased algorithms? To what extent does algorithmic bias produce and reproduce social and cultural biases and vice versa? How can we understand, predict, and trust the behaviors of AI systems? What are the intended or unintended consequences of a biased and discriminatory algorithm? What are the best practices in data collection and model development of AI applications? How do we detect, understand, and mitigate algorithmic bias and the connected ethical, policy, and legal issues so that scholars and developers, alike, use best practices? In doing so, the special section emphasizes an inextricably interwoven relationship among data and media bias, model bias, and social bias. That is, data and media bias leads to unbalanced training resulting in model bias. Model bias, in turn, reinforces data and media bias and produces discriminatory impacts on humans and society. Human and societal bias then produces skewed representation and participation in data and media bias. This “vicious circle” reinforces bias toward AI system and its development, use, application, and practice. Given algorithmic bias toward individuals, groups, and communities across digital media platforms and ethical issues, this special section examines, but is not limited to, the following issues: • Algorithmic bias, discrimination, and inequality toward underrepresented groups and communities • Interaction and amplification of bias between AI and media • Perceived (un)fairness of algorithm-mediated communication, system, design, and applications • (Dis)trust in algorithm news curation, recommendation, and algorithmic gatekeeping • Algorithm bias in news, filter bubbles or echo chambers, opinion polarization, and gaps in knowledge and participation • (Dis)trust in algorithm development, management, and governance • (Dis)trust in practical applications of and data-driven decision-making in AI systems • Impacts of algorithmic bias on cognitive, affectional, attitudinal, perceptual, and behavioral bias in various social, political, civic, and cultural contexts • Impacts of automated surveillance technologies (e.g. face recognition) on privacy • Explainable AI for enhancing public trust • Algorithmic and non-algorithmic solutions to assess and mitigate AI biases and risks We are open to diverse methodological approaches such as quantitative, qualitative, and computational methods. Interested authors should submit an abstract with 1,000 words maximum, alongside a title page containing a brief author bio and contact information. Below presents a detailed timeline. *Proposed Timeline:* • Abstract submission due by March 1, 2022 • Decision for full manuscripts due by May 1, 2022 • Full manuscript submission due by September 1, 2022 • Decision for publication due by December 1, 2022 • Final manuscript submission by January 1, 2023 • Anticipated publication by March 1, 2023 The final paper should be in accordance with the Journal’s Guide for Authors. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/about/submissions#authorGuidelines Special section inquiries can be directed to the guest editors, Dr. Seungahn Nah at snah(a)uoregon.edu and Dr. Jungseock Joo at jjoo(a)comm.ucla.edu . *Guest Editors: * Dr. Seungahn Nah, University of Oregon, snah(a)uoregon.edu Dr. Jungseock Joo, University of California-Los Angeles, jjoo(a)comm.ucla.edu <seungahn.nah(a)uky.edu>

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CfP: Unobtrusive Observations of Learning in Digital Environments (chapter proposals due 15 Feb 2022)
by Vitomir Kovanovic 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit your proposal for an edited volume on "Unobtrusive Observations of Learning in Digital Environments", to be published by Springer, Cham. If you are interested in contributing to the book project, we invite you to submit a short chapter proposal (see details below) no later than 15 February 2022 using the online submission form: https://bit.ly/3ecOFJw All submissions will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review who will recommend full submissions from among the proposals. Accepted chapters shall not exceed 8,000 words, including references, figures, and tables. Specific guidelines will be made available after 15 March 2022. You may also share this CfP with your colleagues. Kind regards Vitomir Kovanovic, Roger Azevedo, David Gibson and Dirk Ifenthaler Unobtrusive Observations of Learning in Digital Environments Introduction This book seeks to integrate foundational ideas from psychology, immersive digital learning environments and game-based learning supported by theories and methods of the learning sciences, particularly in pursuit of questions of cognition, behaviour and emotion factors in digital learning experiences. New and emerging foundations of theory and analysis based on observation of digital traces are enhanced by data science, particularly machine learning, with extensions to deep learning, natural language processing and artificial intelligence brought into service to better understand higher-order thinking capacities such as self-regulation, collaborative problem-solving and social construction of knowledge. As a result, the edited volume will present a collection of indicators or measurements focusing on learning processes and related behaviour, (meta-)cognition, emotion and motivation, as well as social processes. In addition, each section of the book will include an invited commentary from a related field, such as educational psychology, cognitive science, and learning science. The following presents a tentative table of contents including sections and possible key areas of the included contributions: The section on indicators focusing on behaviour - Modelling student behavioural engagement - Measuring engagement with multimodal data - Commentary from Learning Design or Learning Science The section on indicators focusing on cognition and metacognition - Measuring learning from text - Learning strategies - Metacognitive prompts and personalized scaffolding - Commentary from Psychometrician or Cognitive Science The section on indicators focusing on emotion and motivation - Affect detection methods and techniques - Emotions and ITS - Emotion regulation in collaborative learning - Measuring motivation from hypertext - Commentary from Educational Psychology The section on indicators focusing on social processes - Modelling dynamics of social processes - Linguistic analysis of student collaboration - Group cohesion - Commentary from Computational Social Science This edited volume is part of the Advances in Analytics for Learning and Teaching book series (https://www.springer.com/series/16338) and will focus on indicators or measurements focusing on learning processes and related behaviour, (meta-)cognition, emotion and motivation, as well as social processes. Instructions for authors If you are interested in contributing to the book project, please submit a short chapter proposal no later than 15 February 2022 as a single PDF document using the submission form: https://bit.ly/3ecOFJw The chapter proposal should include: - Chapter title, - The list of all authors and their affiliations, - 300-word abstract describing the content of the chapter - Five keywords, - Three key references, - A short description of how the chapter fits the theme of the book. All submissions will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review who will recommend full submissions from among the proposals. Accepted chapters shall not exceed 8,000 words and shall be completed no later than 15 July 2022. Specific guidelines will be made available after 15 March 2022. You may refer to the information below or visit the website: https://bit.ly/3yOaNna Submission Timeline - 15 February 2022: Short chapter proposals due (with 300-word abstract) - 15 March 2022: Notification and additional information for accepted authors - 15 July 2022: Draft chapters of max 8,000 words due - 01 September 2022: Chapters returned with reviewers' comments - 01 October 2022: Final chapters due Volume editors - Vitomir Kovanovic, University of South Australia, Australia, - Roger Azevedo, University of Central Florida, USA - David Gibson, Curtin University, Australia - Dirk Ifenthaler, University of Mannheim, Germany and Curtin University, Australia Inquires Please use the following link for your inquiries and submissions: https://bit.ly/3ecOFJw

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9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022): Final Call for Satellite Contributions
by Announce Announcements 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

*** Final Call for Satellite Contributions *** 9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022) March 22-24, 2022, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany https://www.esocc-conf.eu Scope Service-oriented and cloud computing have made a huge impact both on the software industry and on the research community. Today, service and cloud technologies are applied to build large-scale software landscapes as well as to provide single software services to end users. Services today are independently developed and deployed as well as freely composed while they can be implemented in a variety of technologies, a quite important fact from a business perspective. Similarly, cloud computing aims at enabling flexibility by offering a centralised sharing of resources. The industry's need for agile and flexible software and IT systems has made cloud computing the dominating paradigm for provisioning computational resources in a scalable, on- demand fashion. Nevertheless, service developers, providers, and integrators still need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service- oriented applications in the cloud. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state of the art and practice of service- oriented computing and cloud computing in Europe. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of service-oriented computing and cloud computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. Satellite Contributions - PhD Symposium: an opportunity for PhD students to present their research activities and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, hence getting fruitful feedback and advices on their research activities. - Projects Track: a useful opportunity for researchers to disseminate the latest research developments in their projects and meet representatives of other consortia. - Industrial Track: a useful opportunity for the industry to disseminate the latest innovations and product developments in their field and meet other industry representatives. - Workshop Papers: three specialised workshops will be organised as part of ESOCC 2022; more information is available here: https://esocc-conf.eu/index.php/workshops/ . Topics of interest ESOCC 2022 seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects of service- oriented and cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Service and Cloud Computing Models  • Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies  • Governance models  • Architectural models  • Requirements engineering  • Formal Methods  • Model-Driven Engineering  • Quality models  • Security, Privacy & Trust models  • Self-Organising Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures Models  • Testing models - Service and Cloud Computing Engineering  • Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation and Selection  • Monitoring and Analytics  • Governance and management  • Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Federated Cloud solutions  • Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based Applications  • Cross-layer adaptation  • Edge/Fog computing  • Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management  • Service Level Agreement Management  • Service Evolution/Optimisation  • Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation  • QoS for Services and Clouds  • Semantic Web Services  • Service mining  • Service & Cloud Standards  • FaaS / Serverless computing - Technologies  • DevOps in the Cloud  • Containerized services  • Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds  • Microservices: Design, Analysis, Deployment and Management  • Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories  • RESTful Services  • Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms  • Blockchain for Services & Clouds  • Services and Clouds with IoT  • Fog Computing with Service and Cloud - Business and Social aspects  • Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud  • Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management  • Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance, Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities  • Business Process as a Service - BPaaS  • Service and Cloud Business Models  • Service and Cloud Brokerage  • Service and Cloud Marketplaces  • Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing  • Crowdsourcing Business Services  • Social and Crowd-based Cloud  • Energy issues in Cloud Computing  • Sustainability issues Submissions - Industry papers (15 pages including references). - PhD Symposium (8 pages including references, authored by the PhD student with indication of his/her supervisors' names). - Projects Track (1 to 5 pages including references, describing an ongoing project). - Workshop papers: please refer to each workshop's web site, accessible from https://esocc-conf.eu/index.php/workshops/ . We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines. They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2022 by selecting the right track. Accepted papers are expected to be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. Important Dates - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Organization General Chair • Wolf Zimmermann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Programme Co-Chairs • Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) • George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Industrial Track Chair • Andreas Both (Anhalt University of Applied Science) Projects Track Chair • Damian Tamburri (Technical University Eindhoven) Workshops Co-Chairs • Guadalupe Ortiz (University of C·diz, Spain) • Christian Zirpins (Karlsruhe University of Applied Science) PhD Symposium Co-Chair • Jacopo Soldani (University of Pisa) • Massimo Villari (University of Messina)

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Call for Chapter Proposals: Zoom
by Mark Nunes 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Apologies if this call already went through once. --mark ___________ *Zoom: Performance, Precarity, and Performativity in the Age of COVID-19* Mark Nunes & Cassandra Ozog, co-editors In March of 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous countries across the globe declared nationwide shutdowns that resulted in profound changes in the daily life of millions of individuals. While many workers in the hospitality and travel industries were suddenly left unemployed, countless others found themselves working—and playing—through video chat software platforms. And of those platforms, Zoom quickly emerged as the default modality for remote engagement, rapidly morphing from brand name to eponymous generic—a verb and a place and mode of being all at once. In an era of COVID-19, our relationships and experiences are deeply intertwined with our ability to “zoom.” Now, as we enter our third year of the pandemic (and our nth wave of outbreak), much of the newness of Zoom and other video conferencing platforms has become a matter of banal practice. Yet we have witnessed during this period of mandated telepresence new forms of artistic innovations, new modes of pedagogy, and new ways of social organizing. And we have also seen new forms (and exacerbated existing forms) of exploitation, inequity, social isolation and precarity. As the initial hype and dread has faded, the moment presents itself for a more in-depth critical analysis of the past two years of living with Zoom. This collection of essays will explore the impacts and implications of Zoom and other video conferencing platforms on economic, artistic, social, political, and cultural practices. We invite contributions that explore the experiences of our new cultural reality of Zoom through a variety of disciplines and areas of investigation including, but not limited to: - Teleworking and Hypercapitalism - Mediating Race, Gender, and Sexuality - Trolling in the age of Zoom-Bombing - Screens as Permeable Borders - Intersectionality, Power, and Telepresence - Positionality, Privilege, and Access - “Zoom-Outs” and Techlash Movements - Surveillance and Hypervisibility - Place, Performance, and Mediated Copresence - Connection, Isolation and Mental Health While we welcome a wide range of topics, we anticipate organizing this collection of essays around the following sections: Theorizations of Zoom; Artistic/Literary Performance; Zooming Academia; The Politics of Zoom; Access; Performative Publicity/Privacy. Prospective contributors should email a brief abstract, a one-page chapter summary, and a brief biography by January 31, 2022 to nunesm(a)appstate.edu and cassandra.ozog(a)uregina.ca. We anticipate requiring full chapters (6000-8000 words) from accepted authors by August, 2022.

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CIRC19 CfP
by Jack Qiu 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Sorry for cross-posting. But anyone interested in the event below (an ICA pre-conference), please submit by February 1, 2022. All the best, jack *CALL FOR PAPERS*The 19th Chinese Internet Research Conference China and the Future of the Internet *23-24 May 2022School of Communication and FilmHong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong(Hybrid Conference)* GENERAL INFORMATION The School of Communication and Film at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) welcomes scholars from all disciplinary backgrounds to the 19th annual Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC), to be held in Hong Kong and online on Monday and Tuesday, 23-24 May, 2022. The theme for CIRC 2022 is China and the Future of the Internet. Conference Theme China’s internet is flowering and provides successful examples of digital transformation in domains such as economic and social development, finance, entertainment, cyber governance, health, and more. Being the world’s largest internet market by several measures, the Chinese internet has a great impact on individual and collective life at the domestic, regional, and global levels. The Chinese internet offers an innovative model of a state-led digital capitalism with a strong developmental dimension. This model differs from the dominant internet discourse, which focuses on market-based solutions for digital empowerment and for creating and supplying cyber consumers. Amid the rise of the Chinese Soft Power and the country’s hardware proficiency, questions can be raised concerning how the Chinese model of the internet - with its distinctive values and practices - intersects with its Western counterparts. Since the internet technology will continue to transform the economic, political, cultural, social, and health sectors of China and other countries, the cooperation, competition, confrontation, and convergence of the Chinese model with other models will have a critical role in characterizing the future of the internet. Under this broad theme, a wide range of issues - from ethics, information, crisis management, government-citizen relationship, participation, and lifestyle to data technologies, digital diplomacy, internet laws, information ecologies, and cyber governance - are worthy of scholarly inquiry. To this end, CIRC 2022 proposes to interrogate questions around, but not limited to, the following topics: - To what extent has China evolved an internet model? - Is China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) providing a new digital infrastructure for globalizing the state-led cyber-capitalism? Is it replicable among other developing countries? - How successful have China’s efforts been towards data localization and data management? - China has used data for development in innovative ways by deploying AI. How does the outside world view this – especially in reconciling large-scale and extensive surveillance with meeting developmental needs of its people, particularly in rural areas? - China has developed its own interpretations about the principles of global cyberspace such as being ‘multilateral, democratic, and transparent.’ How do the Chinese interpretations and practices of cyber governance and digital democracy differ from their Western counterparts? - How is ‘internet sovereignty’ understood in domestic discourse in China in comparison to perspectives from the outside world? What is the role of national governments in global cyber governance? - China’s digital economy has increased rapidly in recent years, particularly in the areas of e-commerce and fintech. What are the major risks and opportunities of further digitalization of the Chinese economy? - From a health perspective, what opportunities and challenges does the Chinese internet provide to risk management and disease control? - What insights can be drawn from the Chinese government’s regulation of internet information and digital content? - What is the impact of digital protectionism on China and other nations? - In what ways can China shape the future of cyberspace? Paper and Panel Proposals Proposals are invited for paper presentations or panels that address one or more of the questions raised above, as well as proposals related more generally to questions concerning Chinese Internet. This may include (but not limited to) topics such as: - Perspectives on the globalization of the Chinese internet - Internet and social development - AI, blockchain, and machine learning: Lessons learned from the Chinese experiences - China’s digital economy and its impacts on domestic market and beyond - Ethical issues revolving around the Chinese model of internet - Personal information protection, content controls, and cybersecurity laws - Cyber governance and digital democracy - Civic engagement in social and political affairs in the Chinese context - Journalism in Chinese digital networks - Misinformation and disinformation in the digital age - The role of platforms in digital content production and dissemination - Influences of platforms and algorithms on digital content use - Health implications of Chinese internet technologies - Users and digital content - Digital technology in everyday life Submission Guidelines All submissions should be written in English. This conference accepts abstracts and panel proposals. Abstract and panel proposals should be submitted by 1 February 2022 to: https://www.comm.hkbu.edu.hk/circ2022/ <https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2…>. For further inquiries, please contact: circ2022_cmcr(a)hkbu.edu.hk. Abstract: Individual or co-authored abstracts should be between 300-500 words, excluding the title page and references. The title page should include the title of the paper and authors’ names, academic/professional affiliations, and email address. The abstract should include central arguments and a summary of the substance. Panel proposal: Panel proposals are limited to 1,000 words, excluding the title page, references, and appendices. The organizing committee will inform applicants of its decision by March 2022. Full versions of the accepted papers are to be submitted by 1 May 2022. Papers should not exceed 8,000 words, including notes and references, and should be uploaded to the submission system or sent to the organizer via email. Additional information Organizer: - Centre for Media and Communication Research (CMCR), School of Communication and Film, HKBU Co-organizers: - AI and Media Research Lab, School of Communication and Film, HKBU - Department of Communication Studies, HKBU - Department of Journalism, HKBU About the School of Communication and Film: Located in Kowloon, Hong Kong, the School of Communication and Film at HKBU provides a comprehensive range of programs in communication at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels under three academic units: Department of Journalism, Department of Communication Studies, and Academy of Film. Home to some 35 research faculty and 40 PhD Students, the School has been recently rated Hong Kong’s leading institution for communication/media research outputs based on the 2020 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) conducted by the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong. Organizer Committee: Leanne Chang, Co-Director, Centre for Media and Communication Research Daya Thussu, Co-Director, Centre for Media and Communication Research Rose Luqiu, Department of Journalism, HKBU Celine Yunya Song, Department of Journalism, HKBU Xinzhi Zhang, Department of Journalism, HKBU Stephanie Jean Tsang, Department of Communication Studies, HKBU Location: Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Other information: - No registration fee for the conference will be required - The language of the conference will be English - Open to the public, without fees, subject to registration in advance -- Jack Linchuan Qiu, Ph.D. Professor & Research Director <https://ap5.fas.nus.edu.sg/fass/cnmqlj/>, Dept of Communications & New Media, <https://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cnm/> National U of Singapore New article, "Conducting research in difficult, dangerous &/or vulnerable contexts <https://doi.org/10.1177/08933189211058706>", *MCQ *(2022) Article, "Radical praxis of computing in the PRC <https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2021.1949817>", *Internet Histories* (2021) Article, "Effects of digital media upon labor knowledge and attitudes <https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1933565>", *iCS* (2021) Special issue of *Comunicação e Sociedade,* "Digital Platforms in Connected Economies <https://revistacomsoc.pt/index.php/revistacomsoc/issue/view/175>" (2021) Special issue of *China Perspectives,* "Agency beyond Precarity <https://www.cefc.com.hk/issue/china-perspectives-2021-1/>" (2021)

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UQ Art Museum x Liquid Architecture 'Listening to Misrecognition' online talk
by Thao Phan 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

*UQ Art Museum x Liquid Architecture Online Talk* *Title:* Machine Listening: Listening to Misrecognition *Speaker: *Dr Thao Phan, Emerging Technologies Research Lab and ARC Center of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making & Society, Monash University *Date:* Tuesday 18th January, 5:30pm Brisbane Time/6:30pm Melbourne Time *Register for Zoom link: *https://art-museum.uq.edu.au/event/session/2087 *Abstract:* What is the sound of racialisation? How might we listen to misrecognition? What does machine error tell us about the precision of racism? And how can the tools of a racist system be used to transcribe new forms of resistance? This experimental presentation by feminist technoscience researcher Thao Phan brings together critical work on race and algorithmic culture with new techniques for dissecting and analysing automatic speech recognition, applied to personal and public archives drawn from Thao’s life and research on race. Broadcast live on Zoom and across multiple platforms, this event is part of Machine Listening <https://machinelistening.exposed/curriculum/>, an ongoing investigation and experiment in collective learning, instigated by artist Sean Dockray, legal scholar James Parker, and curator Joel Stern for Liquid Architecture <https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/>. In addition to Thao’s presentation, the event will feature a discussion and demonstration of the Word Processor tool, <https://machinelistening.exposed/experiment/word-processor/> developed by the Machine Listening team and Reduct, and recently launched as part of the event ‘Unnatural Language Processing <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Vzqaoeul8>’, at Unsound Festival. *About the speaker:* Thao Phan is a feminist technoscience researcher who specialises in the study of gender and race in algorithmic culture. She has researched and published on topics including: the aesthetics of digital voice assistants like Siri, Amazon Echo, and Google Home; ideologies of ‘post-race’ in algorithmic culture; and AI in popular culture. Her research takes an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach, drawing on theory and methods from feminist science and technology studies, media and cultural studies, queer and gender studies, critical race studies, and critical algorithm studies. *More info:* https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/thao-phan-listening-to-misrecognit…

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#AfternoonTeaandTruthBiscuits Launch
by Dr. Emma Briant 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Happy New Year Friends and Colleagues...I am delighted to say my new YouTube channel has launched. Thank you to all those who have subscribed - powerful truthtellers take on the lies in style - over a nice cup of tea. Each week I am taking on the propaganda over afternoon tea and biscuits with a new exciting guest. This week my rebel tea drinkers are Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin. We will be exploring how election disinformation is so wildly profitable and hearing about plans from their organization Check My Ads <https://checkmyads.org/branded/j6-defund-the-insurrectionists/> to demonetize the biggest culprits. If you want to hear about how to bust the budget of Breitbart and other organizations do tune in here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0s3KPZEN-8&feature=youtu.be> Tuesday 11th at 3pm ET/8pm GMT (there will be a recording if you miss it). If you were busy over the holidays and missed my last guests you might want to check out the videos at the bottom of this email for: Afternoon Tea & Truth Biscuits 1: Dr Emma Briant and Heidi Cuda <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmJmJ-NXK0w&feature=youtu.be> With Emmy award-winning investigative producer, author, and filmmaker Heidi Cuda we look back on what we've learned about events of 2021, a dark year for disinformation. AND Afternoon Tea & Truth Biscuits 2: Dr Emma Briant and Jack Poulson <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6DrfwcKNEA> Jack Poulson, a former Google Research senior scientist, now the Executive Director at Tech Inquiry (@tech_inquiry) a non-profit investigating national security procurement and lobbying. Jack chats with Emma about surveillance tech & its ties to think tanks. Please subscribe and do feel free to share with others, I appreciate you spreading the word. Thank you for reading and for subscribing to the show. Best wishes for the year ahead, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Independent Researcher/Author/Analyst Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant -- Dr Emma L Briant Independent Researcher/Author/Analyst Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant

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CFP: Cryptocurrency and Societal Harm, Symposium and Special Issue of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety
by Daniel Bateyko 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

Hi all, The Stanford Internet Observatory<https://io.stanford.edu/)> and Jeff Hancock (Department of Communication<https://comm.stanford.edu/>, Stanford) have started a new open-access journal, the Journal of Online Trust and Safety<http://tsjournal.org/>. We invite researchers across disciplines to submit their work for a symposium and a special issue on Cryptocurrency and Societal Harm. The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers for a conversation on cryptocurrency and its links to crime and other socially harmful activities (broadly defined). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * New anti-money laundering laws or other regulations for cryptocurrency * Money laundering and cryptocurrency * Money mixing or “tumbler” services * Ransomware groups, including tracing payments to these groups and mapping connections between them * Darknet marketplaces * Cryptocurrency scams (typosquatting, exit scams, pump and dump of cryptocurrency coins) * Analysis of social media and messaging posts about illegal activity or evading regulations tied to cryptocurrency * Understanding the use of “privacy” coins like Monero, Dash, and Zcash * Terrorism financing linked to cryptocurrency The full call can be found here: https://tsjournal.org/index.php/jots/article/view/12/3 Timeline Letter of inquiry submission deadline: February 15, 2022 Desk decisions: March 1, 2022 Draft submission for symposium: April 1, 2022 Symposium date: April 15, 2022 Paper submission for special issue: May 15, 2022 Publication date of special issue: August 31, 2022 Submission Instructions Authors interested in submitting an article for the symposium and/or the special issue should follow the journal’s standard submission process by sending a letter of inquiry (LOI) by February 15, 2022. Authors should note in their submission whether they wish to be considered for the symposium, special issue, or both. The symposium will be non-archival (no published proceedings), and attendees are not required to submit a full paper nor to make a submission for the special issue. Attending the symposium is not a prerequisite for submitting an article for the special issue. The symposium will be hosted by the Stanford Internet Observatory in April 2022. We hope this can be a hybrid in-person and remote symposium, though this will depend on COVID-19 protocols. Full paper submissions for the special issue are due May 15, and if accepted will be published near the end of August 2022. Questions about the special issue or symposium may be directed to the guest editor, Karen Nershi, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Internet Observatory (nershi(a)stanford.edu)

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CGSA 2022 Conference Submission Deadline Extended
by Gerald Voorhees 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

Good news! The deadline to submit a paper abstract or panel or workshop proposal for the 2022 (May 31 - June 1) Conference of the Canadian Game Studie Association is extended to midnight PST (UTC 8:00) January 16. Original cfp is linked <https://bit.ly/3GfJ7dw> for your reference. Best regards Gerald Gerald Voorhees, Ph.D. (he/him) Associate Professor Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies Department of Communication Arts University of Waterloo

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Three PhD positions, Department of Media and Communication (IMK), University of Oslo (UiO).
by Charles M. Ess 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

Dear AoIR-ists, The Department of Media and Communication (IMK), University of Oslo (UiO), has opened three PhD positions with an application deadline of Feb 1, 2022. From the job description (<https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/215708/doctoral-research-fel…>): == IMK is an interdisciplinary department, approaching media and communication from social scientific, humanistic and technological perspectives. In line with the department's new strategy for 2030, it will be prioritized to follow-up UiO's bold efforts to develop more competence and knowledge about conservation and development of democracy, climate and the environment. The doctoral project must be innovative and relevant to the current research that takes place at IMK. The successful candidate will take part in research groups within relevant areas at the department, and applicants must enclose a project description with topics or research questions within one or more of the research areas outlined below: *Children, adolescents and digital media Research on children's and adolescents' digital lives, how they use digital media, digital skills, adolescents as natives of a global media culture (global natives), digital parenting, children and adolescents' safety and rights online, political socialization and children's democratic rights, and regulations on children's digital life. * Media aesthetics Media aesthetics follows a humanistic tradition that emphasizes technologically mediated communication, sensory and experiential aspects of media expressions in a cultural and social perspective. This includes research on the form and content of media texts, perception, media history, and media development and innovation. * Political communication Research on political communication between different actors, in different public spheres, and political influence through strategic communication. This includes research on lobbying, political rhetoric, election campaigns, opinion processes and influences, algorithms and artificial intelligence, fake news, media policy, journalism in digital media, freedom of expression, media, power and democracy. * Screen cultures Screen cultures is a research and educational initiative that studies how screen media shape people´s experience and understanding of themselves and the world. This includes research on development, use and experience of new and established screen media, such as film, television and new digital platforms. Ambivalence, resistance and attempts at withdrawal or digital detox are relevant perspectives. * Method and analysis of digital media Innovative/creative methods for research on communication, utterances and changed usage patterns in digital media. Including an increased focus on data collection on digital/social media and analysis of big data. == From my perspective, these are three very exciting possibilities for pursing one's PhD in a top-ranked department in the marvelous city of Oslo, Norway. Please see the website for further details, including the encouragement to contact the particular research area(s) of interest for further information about their work. As a start, you can look at <https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/about/> Good luck and good hunting! - charles -- Professor Emeritus University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Secretary, IFIP Working Group 9.8, Gender, Diversity, and ICT <http://ifiptc9.org/9-8/> Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany 3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out: <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428>

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