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Fifth ACM IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) - 1st CFP
by omokryn＠univ.haifa.ac.il 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

Fifth IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) https://sites.google.com/view/esida2022/home 22 March 2022, Virtual Important Dates: Submission deadline: January 3, 2022 (midnight Hawaii time) Acceptance notification: January 28, 2022 Final manuscript due: February 11, 2022 Workshop: March 22, 2022 Workshop Description: This workshop will be part of the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2022 Conference (http://iui.acm.org/2022/) The workshop focuses on systems that personalize, summarize and visualize data for supporting interactive information seeking and information discovery, along with tools that enable user modeling and methods for incorporating user needs and preferences into both analytics and visualization. Additionally, exploratory search is an important tool in how people interact with algorithms online. Examples for interacting with online algorithms are recommender systems, and the understanding of online manipulation systems and algorithms, including bots and the promotion of fake news. Our aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on different personalization aspects and applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. This will allow us to achieve four goals: (1) propose new strategies for systems that need to convey the rationale behind their decisions or inference, and the sequence of steps that lead to speciﬁc (search) results; (2) develop new user modeling and personalization techniques for exploratory search and interactive data analytics; (3) develop design principles for exploratory search of online algorithms and systems; (4) develop a set of evaluation metrics for personalization in exploratory search. The workshop aims to solicit submissions in the following areas of personalized interactive data analytics and exploratory search: Personalized interactive exploration via interactive data analytics: – personalization aspects in systems for exploratory search. – cross-domain/ context-aware/ cross-platform exploratory search systems. Data analytics: – interactive interfaces for data-intensive platforms. – preprocessing vs. online processing. – interactive data visualization – evaluation of human-centered exploratory search and data analytics. Explainable intelligent systems: – metrics for explainable exploratory search. – explainability and transparency in expert vs. non-expert systems. – human-in-the-loop analytics systems. – efﬁcient vs. explainable analytics. – user perception of explainability and transparency in interactive intelligent systems. Interaction with Online algorithms – conveying awareness of algorithmic fairness and bias in retrieval systems. – exploratory studies of online algorithms and recommender systems. – exploratory search of online manipulation systems and algorithms (e.g., fake news and bots). – interactively modelling user’s information needs for high-recall information retrieval. – new applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. Organisers: Dorota Glowacka, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki (Finland), glowacka[at]cs.heelsinki.fi Evangelos Milios, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), eem[at]cs.dal.ca Axel J. Soto, Institute for Computer Science and Engineering, UNS - CONICET (Argentina), axel.soto[at]cs.uns.edu.ar Fernando V. Paulovich, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), paulovich[at]dal.ca Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, Department of Information Systems, University of Haifa (Israel), omokryn[at]univ.haifa.ac.il Submission Information: We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case studies, ongoing research projects, reports on recently completed PhD dissertations or recently accepted journal papers, and generally material that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors, encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on promising research directions. The length should be less than 5000 words and it should follow IUI's formatting guidelines Papers can be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida2022 Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn Information Systems University of Haifa http://scan.haifa.ac.il

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WEBCAST TODAY: Tanzania Youth Internet Governance Forum
by Joly MacFie 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

The YIGF is a pre-cursor to the main Tanzania IGF, which will happen on Thurs and Friday this week. Today will be a hybrid event, as we know not always so easy to pull off. ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday 2nd November 2021, from 10am-4pm EAT (07:00-13:00 UTC), the 2021 Tanzania Youth Internet Governance Forum (TZ YIGF) will be held in the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology, and online. The theme is 'The role of youth in making the Internet a " [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/tz-yigf>On *Tuesday 2nd November 2021*, from *10am-4pm EAT* (07:00-13:00 UTC), the *2021 Tanzania Youth Internet Governance Forum <https://www.facebook.com/YouthIGFTanzania>* (TZ YIGF) will be held in the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology, and online. The theme is '*The role of youth in making the Internet a better space for Interaction*'. *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/tz-yigf <http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/tz-yigf>* *AGENDA https://archive.org/download/tz-yigf/TZ_YIGF_Timetable.pdf <https://archive.org/download/tz-yigf/TZ_YIGF_Timetable.pdf>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3btR7tQ <https://bit.ly/3btR7tQ>* *TWITTER #YouthIGFTanzania <https://bit.ly/3GHCqld> @ISOC_Tanzania @IgfTanzania @IntGovForum #netgov* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>* (AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/ <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/>* (AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/YouthIGFTanzania <https://www.facebook.com/YouthIGFTanzania>* (maybe) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/tz-yigf <https://archive.org/details/tz-yigf>* *INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/youth_igf_tz/ <https://www.instagram.com/youth_igf_tz/>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14726/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Reminder: Call for Papers "Digital Academia" (Deadline: November 15, 2021)
by Saner Philippe 01 Nov '21

01 Nov '21

Dear AoIR community, We would like to remind you of our Call for Papers „Digital Academia" for the Swiss Journal of Sociology. We would be very interested in receiving contributions from the AoIR community that deal with the issue of digital transformation of science and higher education. Deadline for the Call is November 15. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at: Luca Tratschin, luca.tratschin(a)chess.uzh.ch<mailto:luca.tratschin@chess.uzh.ch> and Philippe Saner, philippe.saner(a)ehb.swiss<mailto:philippe.saner@ehb.swiss> Best, Philippe Saner and Luca Tratschin ************ CALL FOR PAPERS: DIGITAL ACADEMIA Special Issue of the Swiss Journal of Sociology https://szs.sgs-sss.ch/en/home/ Deadline for Abstracts: November 15th, 2021 Guest-Editors: Luca Tratschin (Center for Higher Education and Science Studies, University of Zurich) Christian Leder (Center for Higher Education and Science Studies, University of Zurich) Philippe Saner (Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training, Zollikofen; Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne) Katja Rost (Department of Sociology, University of Zurich) Background: Digital Transformation as a major issue in science and higher education It is widely recognized among practitioners and social scientists that digital transformation presents a major change process for today’s society (cf. Schiølin 2020; Schwab 2018; Massen & Passoth 2020; Weyer 2019). Many observers argue that digital change is disrupting established product markets through “creative disruption”, altering valued skills in labor markets and goes along with the destruction of old job profiles and the creation of new knowledge-intensive occupations. In view of these challenges and opportunities, actors from the economy and politics expect the university system to address these needs in research and teaching and to become themselves “modern”, for example more “digitalized”, organizational actors. Actors in science policy and research funding formulate specific expectations regarding the digital transformation of academia through strategies and priorities that are intended to guarantee competitiveness and adaptivity to the needs of labor markets (cf. European Economic and Social Committee 2019, SBFI 2020). This relevance attributed to the university sector in digitalization is mirrored in the activities of higher education institutions as well as scientific disciplines (cf. Barton, Müller & Seel; 2019, Hassan 2017; Henke & Pasternack 2020; Mocquet 2017, Wannemacher 2016): Universities around the world declare digital transformation as a major strategic and operational issue (Getto & Kerres 2017; Prinsloo 2020), and we are currently witnessing the creation of new curricula and research fields such as data sciences (cf. Dorschel 2020; Saner 2019) or digital humanities (cf. Antonijević 2015), and of digital teaching platforms (cf. Williamson 2020). Additionally, we witness how digital technologies reconfigure key practices of academics in general: They cooperate with laymen in citizen-science projects via digital platforms (e.g. “galaxy zoo” or “fold it”), make scientific data and publications widely available (“open data”, “open science”, “open access”) and – possibly – evaluate each other more and more strongly via “altmetrics” (cf. Franzen 2018; Franzoni & Sauerman 2013; Plantin, Lagoze & Edwards 2018). Furthermore, the institutional context that makes research possible – namely university administrations – is also adopting digital technologies, opening up new freedoms but also creating new restrictions. The aim of the special issue: Insights into digital transformation in academia Based on these observations, we aim to assemble contributions that analyze aspects of the digital transformation of science and higher education and give insights into the preconditions, processes and consequences of the uptake of the issue of digital transformation in science and higher education. We welcome conceptual contributions as well as empirical studies from sociology and related fields such as science and technology studies, organizational studies and educational studies. Additionally, we are also open to methodological contributions that discuss the potential of digital technologies as research tools in the social sciences in general and in science studies and higher education research in particular. While we are open to all contributions that relate to the afore-mentioned observations, we especially welcome contributions that address the following types of questions: * Digital transformation as a discourse: How is “digitalization” discursively constructed and what are the involvements and consequences of the academic field? * Digital transformation of scientific disciplines: Through which processes do new research fields emerge and how do they affect the established system of disciplines? * Digital transformation of research practices: How do digital technologies shape research processes in disciplines such as the humanities, the social sciences or the natural sciences? * Digital transformation of institutions of higher education: What are the challenges of digital transformation for institutions of higher education as contexts of research but also of the transmission of scientific knowledge and competences? * Digital transformation and the Covid-19 pandemic: How does the current pandemic and health crisis affect the digital transformation of university teaching and research? How is the forced shift to distance education changing the conditions of teaching and learning in the post-pandemic university? * Comparative perspectives: How is digital transformation as an issue adopted in different national contexts or in different types of institutions of higher education? * Historical perspectives: How can the current process of digital transformation in higher education and research be situated in a larger historical context? We particularly welcome contributions that address the issue of digital transformation in research and higher education in the Swiss higher education system, for instance in the form of case studies or comparative studies. However, we are also interested in contributions that study other institutional contexts and give insights into ways digital transformation is shaped by pre-existing structures and processes (and vice versa). Please send an abstract of your contribution proposal to Luca Tratschin (luca.tratschin(a)chess.uzh.ch<mailto:luca.tratschin@chess.uzh.ch>), no later than November 15, 2021. The following documents should be included with the proposed paper: * Name, e-mail address and institutional affiliation of all authors * Title of the paper * Abstract of about 500 words plus short bibliography (topic, main objective, theoretical perspective, empirical basis, main results/first results). The guest editors will decide by December 1, 2021 which authors will be invited to submit a manuscript. The selected authors will be invited to submit a paper (of maximum 8'000 words or 50'000 characters including tables, graphs and references). The deadline for submission of a contribution is June 1, 2022. Contributions are subject to the usual review process of the Swiss Journal of Sociology. To promote consistency of the volume and international visibility, we ask that contributions be submitted in English only. For more information on the Swiss Journal of Sociology and how to prepare manuscripts, see https://szs.sgs-sss.ch/. Should you have any questions, please contact Luca Tratschin (luca.tratschin(a)chess.uzh.ch<mailto:luca.tratschin@chess.uzh.ch>) Dr. des. Philippe Saner Senior Lecturer Ausbildung +41 58 458 27 08 Philippe.Saner(a)ehb.swiss<mailto:Philippe.Saner@ehb.swiss> Eidgenössische Hochschule für Berufsbildung EHB Kirchlindachstrasse 79, CH-3052 Zollikofen +41 58 458 27 00, info(a)ehb.swiss<mailto:info@ehb.swiss>, www.ehb.swiss<http://www.ehb.swiss> YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/c/Eidgen%C3%B6ssischeHochschulef%C3%BCrBerufsbildun…> Twitter<https://twitter.com/EHB_HEFP_SUFFP> LinkedIn<https://linkedin.com/school/ehb-hefp-suffp-sfuvet> Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/ehb.hefp.suffp.sfuvet>

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ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): Second Call for Special Track Proposals
by Announce Announcements 01 Nov '21

01 Nov '21

*** Second Call for Special Track Proposals *** ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7–9 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ Scope ACM GoodIT focuses on the application of IT technologies to social good. Social good is typically defined as an action that provides some sort of benefit to the general public. In this case, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create positive societal impact. GoodIT topics include but not limited to: • IT for education • Data Science • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Data sensing, processing, and persistency • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for development • Privacy and trust issues and solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Smart governance and e-administration • IT for smart living • Technology addressing the digital divide • IT for automotive • Frugal solutions for IT • Ethical computing • Decentralized approaches to IT • Citizen science • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable IT • Social informatics • Civic intelligence Journal Special Issue and Best Paper Award Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue in the journal MDPI Sensors, where the theme of the special issue will be "Application of Information Technology (IT) to Social Good". Specifically 5 papers will be invited free of charge and another 5 papers will get a 20% discount on the publication fees. Furthermore, MDPI Sensors will sponsor a Best Paper Award with the amount of 400 CHF. Special Tracks Proposals GoodIT 2022 will feature special tracks whose aim is to focus on a specific topic of interest related to the overall scope of the conference. We solicit proposals for special tracks to be held within the main conference and whose publications will be included in the conference proceedings. Tracks proposals can focus on any contemporary themes that highlight social good aspects in the design, implementation, deployment, securing, and evaluation of IT technologies. Special Track Proposal Format A special track proposal must contain the following information: • Title of the special track. • The names of the organizers (indicatively, two) with affiliations, contact information, and a single paragraph of a brief bio. • A short description of the scope and topics of the track (max 1/2 page) and a brief explanation of: (1) why the topic is timely and important; (2) why the topic is related to the conference’s main theme; (3) why the track may attract a significant number of submissions of good quality. • Indication if a journal special issue is associated with the track, possibly with information on the process of selecting papers. • The plan to disseminate the call for papers of the special track for achieving a reasonable number of paper submissions (a list of emailing lists will help). • A tentative Program Committee list. • A draft Call for Papers (max 1 page). Publication Papers submitted to each particular track have to satisfy the same criteria as for the main conference. They must be original works and must not have been previously published. They have to be peer-reviewed by the track's Program Committee (at least three reviews per submitted paper are required). The final version of papers must follow the formatting instructions of the main conference (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/) At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. The special track may provide an option for publishing extended versions of selected papers in a special issue of a journal. Special Track Proposal Submission Guidelines Special track proposals should be submitted as a single PDF file to the special track Chairs (see below) via email to: ombretta.gaggi(a)unipd.it, valentino.vranic(a)stuba.sk, and rysavy(a)fit.vut.cz. The subject of the e-mail must be: “GoodIT 2022 – special track proposal”. The special track chairs may ask proposers for supplying additional information during the review period. Important Dates • Special Track Proposal Submission Deadline: 13 December 2021 • Notification of Selection: 20 December 2021 Contact (Special Tracks Chairs) • Ombretta Gaggi (University of Padua, Italy) • Ondrej Rysavy (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) • Valentino Vranic (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia)

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New open access journal: History of Media Studies
by Park, David 01 Nov '21

01 Nov '21

We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new international journal, History of Media Studies (hms.mediastudies.press), and the publication of 16 short, programmatic essays written by the editors and members of the editorial board. History of Media Studies (HMS) is an open access, refereed academic journal dedicated to scholarship on the history of research, education, and reflective knowledge about media and communication broadly conceived—as expressed through academic institutions; through commercial, governmental, and non-governmental organizations; and through “alter-traditions” of thought and practice often excluded from the academic mainstream. HMS aims to open space outside the commercialized academic publishing industry—space that is nonprofit, community-led, care-based, and transparent. The journal’s inaugural essays address the geopolitics of the history and historiography of the media and communication fields, structural inequities and exclusions that have helped constitute them, and alternative conceptualizations and methodologies for investigating them, among other topics. Read more about the journal: https://hms.mediastudies.press/about # Editors Introduction * David W. Park, Jefferson Pooley, and Peter Simonson, "History of Media Studies, in the Plural" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/hms-editors # Launch Essays * Wendy Willems, "Unearthing Bundles of Baffling Silences: The Entangled and Racialized Global Histories of Media and Media Studies" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/willems-unearthing-bundles * Armond Towns, "Against the 'Vocation of Autopsy': Blackness and/in US Communication Histories" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/towns-against-vocation * Hailong Liu and Yidan Qin, "Toward a New Media Study in China: History and Approach" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/liu-toward-new * Mohammad Ayish, "Emerging Digital Transitions in the Arab World: Implications for the Region’s Communication Studies" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/ayish-emerging-digital * Mariano Zarowsky, "Communication Studies in Argentina in the 1960s and ’70s: Specialized Knowledge and Intellectual Intervention Between the Local and the Global" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/zarowsky-communication-studies * Shiv Ganesh, "Recuperating Areas: Research on Media and Communication History and South Asian Studies" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/ganesh-recuperating-areas/ * Raúl Fuentes-Navarro, "Communication Research in Latin America: Will the 'Nocturnal Map' Survive or Fade Away?" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/fuentes-navarro-communication-research * Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz, "Challenges of Doing Historical Research in Communication Studies: On the Necessity to Write a Methodologically Informed History of the Methods of Communication Studies" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/averbeck-lietz-challenges-historical * Thomas Wiedemann and Michael Meyen, "Biographical Encyclopedia of Communication Study: Fostering Historiography and Memory in the Field" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/widemann-biographical-encyclopedia * Sarah Cordonnier, "Looking Back Together to Become 'Contemporaries in Discipline'" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/cordonnier-looking-back * Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, "The Role of Theory Groups in the Lives of Ideas" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/leeds-hurwitz-theory-groups * Sue Collins, "What Film and Cultural Histories Can Teach Us about YouTubers" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/collins-film-cultural * Filipa Subtil, "Can the History of Communication and Media Research Proceed without the Philosophy of Technology?" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/subtil-history-communication * Maria Löblich, "Collective Identity and the History of Communication Studies" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/loblich-collective-memory * Ira Wagman, "Remarkable Invention!" - https://hms.mediastudies.press/pub/wagman-remarkable-invention *** History of Media Studies is published by mediastudies.press, a non-profit, scholar-led OA publisher. The journal is affiliated with (1) the Working Group on the History of Media Studies: https://hms.mediastudies.press/working-group (2) the History of Media Studies Newsletter: https://hms.mediastudies.press/newsletter and (3) the History of Communication Research Bibliography: https://ascla.asc.upenn.edu/communications-scholars-history-project/bibliog… Receive updates on new articles through RSS: https://hms.mediastudies.press/rss.xml/ Questions? Contact us at hms(a)mediastudies.press

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BJET CfP: Special Issue on Learning Analytics and Assessment
by Vitomir Kovanovic 01 Nov '21

01 Nov '21

British Journal of Educational Technology: Call for Papers Title of special section: Learning Analytics and Assessment This special issue seeks to promote research and practice that looks at the intersection of learning analytics and assessment. We invite submissions that report on analytic approaches that are well-aligned to educational assessment research and that improve reliability and validity of data collection and analysis in learning analytics. The submissions will also look into the ways how learning analytics can contribute to the future developments in assessment for both summative and formative purposes, uses of learning analytics to promote fair, sustainable, and developmental assessment, and examine practices for the use of learning analytics to assure assessment trustworthiness with the particular attention to the socio-technical nature of potential challenges. We welcome empirical, conceptual and theoretical papers that report on research spanning the fields of learning analytics and assessment. The papers should include at least one of the following topics: 1. Role of learning analytic approaches to formative and summative assessment 2. Crossovers of practices in assessment validity and reliability with learning analytics 3. Fairness and sustainability in assessment with learning analytics 4. Learning analytic approaches for trustworthiness of assessment 5. Developmental assessment and learning analytics 6. Trace-based assessment to support learning processes and outcomes 7. New theoretical frameworks that describe theoretical constructs (and their relationships) in learning analytics and assessment 8. Juxtaposing of learning analytics and high-stakes/standardized testing 9. Critical perspectives on the role of learning analytics in assessment Submission and Inquiries Manuscripts should not normally exceed 6000 words, including references. All contributions should be prepared following the BJET Guidelines for Authors and submitted via the BJET manuscript submission system see: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14678535/homepage/ForAuthors.h… All submissions will go through the usual process of blind peer-review. The editors will select papers for the special issue on the basis of their academic merit, quality and overall coverage of the theme of the special section. Important Dates: * Abstract submission emailed to the guest editors: December 1st, 2021 (optional) * Full paper submission: March 15th, 2022 * Last Article Acceptances: August 31st, 2022 * Articles published online as soon as copyediting is completed. * Issue Publication: November 2022 Guest editors: * Dragan Gašević, Monash University, dragan.gasevic(a)monash.edu<mailto:dragan.gasevic@monash.edu> * Mladen Raković, Monash University, mladen.rakovic(a)monash.edu<mailto:mladen.rakovic@monash.edu> * Naif Aljohani, King Abudlaziz University, nraljohani(a)kau.edu.sa<mailto:nraljohani@kau.edu.sa> * José A. Ruipérez Valiente, University of Murcia, jruiperez(a)um.es<mailto:jruiperez@um.es> * Sandra Milligan, University of Melbourne, s.milligan(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:s.milligan@unimelb.edu.au> * Saeed Ul Hassan, Manchester Metropolitan University, S.Ul-Hassan(a)mmu.ac.uk<mailto:S.Ul-Hassan@mmu.ac.uk>

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Invitation Hybrid Conference ‘Global implications of migratory movements’
by Nagy, V. (Veronika) 31 Oct '21

31 Oct '21

Dear friends and colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to our Hybrid Conference ‘Global implications of migratory movements’ taking place on 11 & 12 November 2021 at University Utrecht. The Conference is part of the MIGROBAL PROJECT, that critically reflects to the Eurocentric migration discourse and aims to provide a platform that questions, critiques, counters and deconstructs the assumptions and essentialisms of the Western gaze towards the migrant-Other and, at a wider scale, towards the phenomenon of migration itself. The core objective is to critically assess the diverse geopolitical implications of human flows within and outside Europe and explore the long-standing concerns traditionally associated with forced migratory moves. Our Hybrid event encourages experts, activists and academics globally, from the very young to civil societies, to join our panels and discuss how to mitigate the long-standing challenges that seem to come with migratory influxes in the current contexts, also defined by the term of ’crises’. Each panel of program will provide ample opportunity for those present online or in person to contribute to the debate. We hope that you will be able to be a part of this global event. As registration is open to the public, we encourage you to share this email with members of your networks. Please find the schedule of the program and the list of abstracts here: https://www.uu.nl/en/events/hybrid-conference-global-implications-of-migrat… In order to send you the link for online participation and to ensure the safe On Campus participation for all, we would like to kindly ask you to register here: https://fd21.formdesk.com/universiteitutrecht-rebo/conference_global_implic… We look forward to seeing you soon! Kind regards/Met vriendelijke groet/Üdvözlettel, Dr. Veronika Nagy Assistant Professor Utrecht University Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology v.nagy(a)uu.nl<mailto:v.nagy@uu.nl> | +31 30 253 7125 (secretariaat) +31641035072 Newtonlaan 231 3584 BH Utrecht

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CFC The Chiptune Studies Reader
by m.polymeropoulou＠gmail.com 31 Oct '21

31 Oct '21

With apologies for cross-posting. Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce that we are seeking contributions for The Chiptune Studies Reader, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed and edited volume on chiptune - or 'chipmusic' and 'micromusic' as it is also known - which we intend to publish through Oxford University Press. Rooted in the emergence of video game audio technology, and subsequently re-routed through the subversive musicality of an underground participatory culture, chiptune is a form of electronic music that has blossomed into a global phenomenon over the course of nearly four decades. Today, the umbrella term 'chiptune' subsumes an ever-growing plethora of (sub)genres, practices, and a heterogeneous worldwide following, whose musical output is as creatively playful and diverse as it is distinct by way of its mediation. Chiptune's technologies, timbral palettes, and associated iconography have grown rapidly in their accessibility, playability, and ubiquity, and have become woven into pop-cultural imaginaries far beyond their own humble beginnings in the music of video games' past. When compared to other fields of research into music and multimedia (sub)cultures, however, chiptune has received limited scholarly attention. Typically, this attention focuses on tracing the roots and routes of chiptune's rich techno-cultural history, and the documentation of the kinds of discourses that circulate among its practitioners and their affiliated chipscenes. Our proposed volume sets out to broaden the scope of chiptune scholarship by providing a range of analytical perspectives on the subject. Proposals for chapters that explore chiptune's rich history and its various discourses are still welcome, but we are especially keen for scholarship that explores chiptune in-situ of performance, play, and listening: the in-betweens of chiptune's roots and routes, and the interactivity between humans, technologies and timbres in the process. To that end, we are looking for contributions that explore chiptune's musical performativity, embodiment and immersion, creative processes, and the relationship between chip-musicality and its diverse (sub)cultures. Chapters might address - but are not limited to - the following themes: . (Ludo)musicological analyses of chiptune (particularly with a focus on the factor of play) . Critical analyses of the relationship between chiptune and identity (for instance: themes of belonging, community, embodiment, gender, politics, ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality) . (Auto)ethnographic explorations of chiptune's musical performativity, embodiment and immersion, its chipscenes, and its discourses . Chiptune and accessibility/disability studies . The relationship between chiptune and nostalgia . Historical accounts of chiptune . Chiptune composition techniques . Chiptune, context, (sub)genre, and intertextuality . Chiptune and literacy, education, and pedagogy . The political economy of chiptune, anti-capitalist sentiment, netlabels, festivals, intellectual property, and commodification . How chiptune discourses shape its musical practices and performativity (for instance: themes of 'authenticity' and 'originality') . The networking of (g)local and global chipscenes . Chiptune and dance culture . The life/death/resurrection of online chiptune communities and places of activity . The materiality of chiptune and/or chiptune as material culture (for instance: fetishization of hardware/software, continuities of chipmusic-making objects) . Statements from chiptune practitioners and fans (shorter contributions than articles) The invitation to submit an abstract is open to scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as chiptune practitioners and fans. Chapter abstracts should be no longer than 500 words, excluding bibliography, and should be accompanied by a brief biographical note of no longer than 150 words. Completed proposals should be sent to the editors, Marilou Polymeropoulou and George Reid, at thisischipmusic(a)gmail.com <mailto:thisischipmusic@gmail.com> by 21/12/2021. Contributors can expect to receive a response by 21/1/2022. Completed chapters should be between 6000 - 8000 words in length and practitioners' statements should be between 250 - 800 words. These will be due by 1/9/2022, after which we will begin the review process. Should you have any questions, please get in touch with us via the email listed above. Link: <https://tinyurl.com/se5jcvc8> https://tinyurl.com/se5jcvc8

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Free online course and Student Challenge about media, cognitive biases and online extremism
by cbouko 30 Oct '21

30 Oct '21

View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/d5262392616e/free-online-course-for-students-precobias-s…> Dear Air-L community, As part of the *EU-funded counter-radicalization project* *PRECOBIAS*, we are launching an international student challenge to encourage students to follow our *free online course (MOOC)* on the psychological mechanisms behind online propaganda. This MOOC was developed by researchers from LMU Munich and Ghent University, and we believe that it can be a very interesting pedagogical resource for your students. We would like to invite you to share the student challenge (more info below) or include the MOOC in your own lessons. *Why this student challenge?* Dealing critically with the overload of information on social and online media is one of the most important skills for young adults growing up in this digital age. By educating students of psychology, social work, media or education, PRECOBIAS wants to develop and *strengthen digital resilience* and raise awareness about the *cognitive mechanisms behind online extremist discourse*. *What is the MOOC about?* This course takes a cognitive approach to radicalization and aims to reveal the mental processes that are activated when people are confronted with extremist online content. During a *12-hour program*, which they can start at any moment and follow at their own pace, participants are introduced to key theories surrounding extremism, and gain insights into the principles of information processing and automatic thinking. The course then explores how extremist online content can fuel radicalization processes by triggering cognitive biases, and how helping developing a critical and resilient attitude can play a key role in counter-extremism. The course is *available in 8 languages* (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak). *How does the challenge work?* The challenge will be promoted through the PRECOBIAS project Facebook page. We will target students internationally and encourage them to take part in the MOOC, send us a selfie with their MOOC certificate and share the challenge among their Facebook friends. Throughout the month of *November*, we will draw a *weekly winner* at random, and this person will receive a prize worth 250 euros (Sony headphones, Garmin smart watches or theme park tickets). Of course, the MOOC will still be available after the end of November. Feel free to contact me for any question or comment. Best wishes, Catherine Bouko PRECOBIAS Student Challenge on Facebook <https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41c&i…> PRECOBIAS free online course <https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41c&i…> [image: Facebook] <https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41c&i…> [image: Twitter] <https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41c&i…> [image: Link] <https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41c&i…> [image: Website] <https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41c&i…> -- Catherine Bouko Ghent University Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Groot-Brittanniëlaan 45 9000 Gent Belgium Bureau: B2.06 http://research.flw.ugent.be/en/catherine.bouko

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9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022): Final Call for Papers for the Main Track
by Announce Announcements 30 Oct '21

30 Oct '21

*** Final Call for Papers for the Main Track *** 9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022) March 22-24, 2022, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBs… (*** Submission Deadline Extended to November 21st ***) 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. 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 from industry are welcome (for example, use cases). Submissions ESOCC 2022 invites submissions for the main track: - Regular research papers (15 pages including references) 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 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBs… by selecting the main track. All accepted regular research papers are expected to be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs) At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. A journal special issue is planned, and authors of selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their articles. Important Dates - Paper submission: 21 November 2021 - Notifications: 7 January 2022 - Camera Ready versions due: 20 January 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)

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