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Call for Participation: SmartFarm 2021
by Ayub, Md. Ahsan (mayub42) 15 Oct '21

15 Oct '21

Hi All, As a member of the Organization Committee, I invite you to submit your research work in the Workshop on Smart Farming, Precision Agriculture, and Supply Chain (SmartFarm 2021, https://sites.google.com/view/smartfarmworkshop/home) This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2021, http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2021/) Atlanta, GA, USA, Dec 15-18, 2021. The important dates of the workshop are as follows: - Due date for the full workshop paper submission: Oct 15, 2021 - Notification on paper acceptance to authors: Nov 1, 2021 - Camera-ready of accepted papers: Nov 15, 2021 Research topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to - Big data and data-driven applications - AI supported smart solutions - ML enabled predictive and analytic solutions - Intelligence applications and crop monitoring - Cooperative farming solutions - Ontology and knowledge representation for cybersecurity - Information & knowledge mining from big datasets - Security and privacy in smart farming and related domains - Networking and infrastructure solutions in smart farms - Aerial drones, autonomous vehicles, and collaborative processing of remote and proximity sensor data in farms - Big data supported anomaly detection and security solutions - Cloud and edge assisted applications - Supply chain solutions, security and applications - Data sharing and privacy - Compliance and data ownership - Cost efficient wireless sensor nodes, network architecture and implementation - New environment sensor technologies - Energy harvesting techniques for battery-less IoT node Paper Formatting Please submit a full-length paper (up to 10 page IEEE 2-column format) through the online submission system. Papers should be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (see the link to "formatting instructions"(http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2020/CallPapers.html)) Submission Link https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2021/bigdata21/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S21… Please help us circulate this announcement among your networks or any interested parties. We look forward to receiving your valuable research work. Thanks for your time and consideration. Best Regards, Ahsan Ayub Ph.D. Student and Graduate Research Assistant Tennessee Tech University Cookeville, TN 38505, USA E mayub42(a)tntech.edu | W ahsanayub.github.io<https://ahsanayub.github.io/>

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AoIR/CSCW'21 Unhappy Hour - Friday, 22 October 12-2PM ET
by Peaks Krafft 15 Oct '21

15 Oct '21

You are cordially invited to join... The ACM Strike School Unhappy Hour Friday, Oct. 22 from 12-2PM ET, happening just before ACM CSCW'21 and shortly after AoIR2021. This "unhappy hour" will involve small group discussions roughly inspired by the Worker's Inquiry<https://notesfrombelow.org/article/tech-workers-platform-workers-and-worker…>, with the goal of developing a sense of the common struggles or issues that we face as workers - whether in academia, tech, or elsewhere. We also plan to discuss strategies for building power and community to address these struggles. Workshop application / RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccJJguYzUM-gOud-zTnZQ8n05tyV_LGXC…> Please invite colleagues who might be interested, and we look forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Peaks (they/them<https://pronoun.is/they/>) — P. M. Krafft, PhD University of Arts London Creative Computing Institute Senior Lecturer and Course Leader, MA Internet Equalities<https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/creative-computing/postgraduate/ma-internet…> University and Colleges Union Site Rep, Join UCU<https://www.ucu.org.uk/join> This email and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this email and/or its attachments you must not take any action based upon them and you must not copy or show them to anyone. Please send the email back to us and immediately and permanently delete it and its attachments. Where this email is unrelated to the business of University of the Arts London or of any of its group companies the opinions expressed in it are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of University of the Arts London (or the relevant group company). Where the sender's signature indicates that the email is sent on behalf of UAL Short Courses Limited the following also applies: UAL Short Courses Limited is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 02361261. Registered Office: University of the Arts London, 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY

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Call for applications Global South researchers on Internet governance in Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America-Caribbean
by Hortense Jongen 15 Oct '21

15 Oct '21

Dear colleagues, We are looking for three researchers in the Global South to join our research project, ‘Digital Self-Determination for the South? Legitimacy in the Regional Internet Registries,’ funded by the Swedish Research Council. The project is based at the University of Gothenburg and led by Dr. Hortense Jongen (University of Gothenburg/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), with co-researcher Prof. Jan Aart Scholte (University of Gothenburg/Leiden University). This three-year project investigates legitimacy and legitimation in the three Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) for the Global South. These bodies – the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC), the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), and the Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre (LACNIC) – perform a crucial role in digital development, by overseeing the distribution of Internet numbers (IP addresses) and handling associated questions about accessible technology, content control, data protection, and cybersecurity. This project investigates how participants in these regional multistakeholder governance bodies evaluate them, mainly using mixed-methods interviews. We invite applications for three researchers to work as part-time consultants on this project. One based in Africa will focus on AFRINIC. A second based in Asia-Pacific will focus on APNIC. A third based in Latin America-Caribbean will focus on LACNIC. Job tasks include: * To help consolidate the final research design of the study. * To help design and implement the mixed-methods survey questionnaire. * To conduct survey interviews online (via Microsoft Teams/Skype/Zoom etc.) and in person at conferences of the RIRs. * To contribute to analysing the interview data. * To co-author academic publications and policy papers. Essential qualifications for the job include: * You hold a Master’s degree in a relevant field. We particularly encourage PhD candidates and other early-career academic researchers to apply. * You have a good command of English. The researcher working on AFRINIC must also have a good command of French. The researcher working on LACNIC must also have a good command of Spanish (and ideally Portuguese as well). * You are normally resident in the region of the RIR that you will be working on, though you might be temporarily living overseas, say, for studies. Applicants from low-income and lower-middle-income countries are especially welcome. * You are able to travel internationally to two conferences held by the RIRs in order to conduct interviews (in 2022 and/or 2023). Additional desirable qualifications for the job include: * You have experience researching Internet governance and knowledge of the RIRs. * You have experience with academic field research, ideally also survey methods. * You have strong oral and written communication skills. * You are a team player with enthusiasm to work on an international research team. The positions will be held part-time from 1st February 2022 (or as soon as possible thereafter) until 31st August 2024. Remuneration is by consultancy fee of around €25,000, paid in instalments. Are you interested in working with us? Please send your CV and a cover letter detailing your interest in and qualifications for the position to hortense.jongen(a)gu.se<mailto:hortense.jongen@gu.se> by December 1 , 2021. Interviews will be held via Skype or Zoom on December 10, 2021.

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Book Talk : Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the AI Industry - James Steinhoff - Oct 28 - UW Harry Bridges Center for Labour Studies
by James Steinhoff 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

AUTOMATION AND AUTONOMY: LABOUR, CAPITAL AND MACHINES IN THE AI INDUSTRY BOOK TALK WITH AUTHOR JAMES STEINHOFF 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Pacific) - ZOOM WEBINAR Free and open to the public. Registration required. Join the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies and author James Steinhoff as we discuss his new book, Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). REGISTER HERE: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NaFQ2CYQR2KSwsif8ACTtw MORE INFO ABOUT THE BOOK: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030716882

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Funded PhD student opportunities - Information Quality Lab - School of Information Sciences, Illinois (priority deadline Nov 1 2021).
by Jodi Schneider 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

Dr. Jodi Schneider's Information Quality Lab <https://infoqualitylab.org> invites applications for fully funded PhD students in Information Sciences at the School of Information Sciences (iSchool), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Current areas of interest include: * scientific information and how it is used by researchers and the public * scholarly communication * controversies within science * potential sources of bias in scientific research * confidence in applying science to public policy Candidates should have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in any field (e.g., mathematics, sciences, information sciences, philosophy, liberal arts, etc.). The most essential skills are strong critical thinking and excellent written and spoken English. Interest or experience in research, academic writing, and interdisciplinary inquiry are strongly preferred. Students in the Information Quality Lab develop both domain expertise and technical skills. Examples of relevant domains include public policy, public health, libraries, journalism, publishing, citizen science, information services, and life sciences research. Examples of technical skills include knowledge representation, text and data analytics, news analytics, argumentation analysis, document analysis, qualitative analysis, user-centered design, and mixed methods. Examples of current Information Quality Lab projects: REDUCING THE INADVERTENT SPREAD OF RETRACTED SCIENCE: SHAPING A RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENTATION AGENDA (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) - stakeholder-engaged research to understand the continued citation of retracted research, currently focusing on standards development and raising awareness of what various stakeholders across scholarly communication can do. STRENGTHENING PUBLIC LIBRARIES’ INFORMATION LITERACY SERVICES THROUGH AN UNDERSTANDING OF KNOWLEDGE BROKERS’ ASSESSMENT OF TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION (Institute of Museum and Library Services Early Career Development) - Scientific misinformation and pseudoscience have a significant impact on public deliberation. This project will conduct case studies on COVID-19, climate change, and artificial intelligence to understand how journalists, Wikipedia editors, activists, and public librarians broker knowledge to the public. We will develop actionable strategies for reducing public misinformation about scientific and technical information. USING NETWORK ANALYSIS TO SUPPORT AND ASSESS CONFIDENCE IN RESEARCH SYNTHESIS (National Science Foundation CAREER) - developing and testing a novel framework to evaluate sets of expert literature for potential sources of bias and to allow evidence-seekers to swiftly determine the level of consensus within a body of literature and identify the risk factors which could impact the reliability of the research. Dr. Jodi Schneider studies the science of science through the lens of arguments, evidence, and persuasion. She seeks to advance our understanding of scientific communication in order to develop tools and strategies to manage information overload in science, using mixed methods including semantic web technology (metadata/ontologies/etc.), network analysis, text mining and user-centered design. Her long-term research agenda analyzes persistent controversies applying science to public policy. Prior to joining the iSchool, Schneider served as a postdoctoral scholar at the National Library of Medicine, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Biomedical Informatics, and INRIA, the national French Computer Science Research Institute. She is an NSF CAREER awardee and holds an Institute of Museum and Library Services Early Career Development grant. Her past projects have been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, Science Foundation Ireland, and the European Commission. iSchool PhD PROGRAM iSchool PhD students have backgrounds in a broad range of fields, including the social sciences, sciences, arts, humanities, computing, and artificial intelligence. Accepted students are guaranteed five years of funding in the form of research and teaching assistantships, which include tuition waivers and a stipend. Additional funding is available for conference travel. Our PhD program in Information Science is the oldest existing LIS doctoral program in the U.S. with 270 graduates. Recent graduates are now faculty members at institutions such as the University of Michigan, University of Washington, University of Maryland, Drexel, and UCLA, professionals at Baidu, Google, Twitter, Uber and AbbVie, and academic library professionals at the Library of Congress, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago. APPLICATION PROCESS For more information about the application process, please visit: https://ischool.illinois.edu/degrees-programs/phd-information-sciences/apply Application deadline (For full consideration for nomination for a Graduate College fellowship) is November 1, 2021. For additional information about our PhD program, see https://ischool.illinois.edu/degrees-programs/phd-information-sciences An online PhD informational session is scheduled for Friday, October 15 at 12PM US Central Time: https://choose.illinois.edu/register/?id=b1cbb82a-4c64-46b8-89de-c57dd8690b… For questions about the program, please contact Prof. Michael Twidale, PhD Program Director, at ischool-phd(a)illinois.edu. For questions, about the Information Quality Lab, please contact Dr. Jodi Schneider at jodi(a)illinois.edu

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Annual Conference of the Centre for Internet and Society of CNRS: 18-20/10
by Francesca Musiani 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

Dear colleagues, The annual conference of the Centre for Internet and Society of CNRS take place online next week, on October 18, 19 and 20, 2021, and will host a number of open meetings of the CIS working groups ( https://cis.cnrs.fr/gdr2091/gdr-workgroups/) as well as events with international invited speakers. The program is now available. https://cis.cnrs.fr/journees-du-cis-2021/ All events are open and accessible by registration. https://cis.cnrs.fr/extras/inscriptions/cis-conf-2021.php (Of course, this is particularly aimed at the francophones among you, although there will be an English-language component. ;)) Best regards, and see many of you around AoIR these days! :) Francesca -- Francesca Musiani, Ph.D. Chargée de recherche | Associate Research Professor, CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr> Directrice adjointe | Deputy Director, Centre for Internet and Society <https://cis.cnrs.fr> (UPR 2000 & GDR 2091 CNRS) Chercheuse associée | Associate Researcher, i3-CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech Global Fellow, Internet Governance Lab <https://internetgovernancelab.org>, American University I'm involved in: CPT-IAMCR <https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/cpt> | Internet Policy Review <https://policyreview.info> | RESET <https://journals.openedition.org/reset/> | ISOC France <https://www.isoc.fr> | ResisTIC <https://www.resistic.org> On the Web <https://cis.cnrs.fr/francesca-musiani/> | On Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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Hidden Seams: Auditing Knowledge, Information & Communication - 25 November 2021
by Matthew Moore 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

More info & RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Information-Innovation-UTS/events/281418241/ The disciplines of knowledge management, information management and corporate communications have all developed tools to assess organisations, often known as “audits”. While these techniques have developed separately, and have had different histories and drivers, they often overlap in the behaviors they target and techniques they use. This session investigates: - How the the traditions of communication, information and knowledge audits developed - Similarities and differences between them - What practitioners from these different disciples can learn from each other Patrick Lambe is a globally recognised knowledge management practitioner who was originally trained in Information and Library Science. He arrived in KM via a second career in training and development, and has been based in Singapore for three decades. Patrick is the author of Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisation Effectiveness (Oxford: Chandos 2007), and co-author with Nick Milton of The Knowledge Manager's Handbook 2nd ed. (London: Kogan Page 2019), which won CILIP UK's Knowledge and Information Management Award 2019 - Information Resources Print Category. Patrick is currently working on a major book on Knowledge Auditing and Knowledge Mapping. Stephen Bounds is an Information and Knowledge Management Specialist with a wide range of experience across the government and private sectors. He is Executive, Information Management at Cordelta, a professional services firm based in Canberra, Australia. With over 20 years of experience in delivering Information Management, Knowledge Management and Information Technology solutions, Stephen has a sophisticated understanding of technology tools and platforms, including how to avoid common pitfalls and maximise organisational benefits. He is an active participant on global KM community lists, and a passionate advocate for evidence-based and reason-based practice. More speakers to be announced! UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Webinar: 'The politics of preservation: cultural collections in dangerous times'
by Kieran Hegarty 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

Dear AoIRers, Please find below a webinar I am running that may be of interest to those working in critical information studies, decoloniality, digital preservation, and/or archival studies. ********************************************** The fourth quarterly meetup of the Australasia Preserves digital preservation community of practice for 2021. Date/time: Tuesday 2 November 2021 11:00AM–12:30 PM AEDT Event title: The politics of preservation: cultural collections in dangerous times. Event provocation: "Taking something that would otherwise disappear and making it endure has consequences in the world. This makes it a political act, neither wholly good, nor wholly bad, but dangerous." A meetup organised by community member Kieran Hegarty to celebrate in the week of World Digital Preservation Day. Kieran is a PhD Candidate (Representing Multicultural Australia in National and State Libraries), at RMIT University. This event brings together artists, activists, archivists, and academics to together think through the politics of preservation with the Australasia Preserves Community of Practice. Archivists and archival scholars have increasingly recognised that archival processes are at once political, professional, and personal. Archives have consequences. The decisions made at an institutional and individual level shape collections as sources of history, accountability, and evidence. This event considers the politics of preservation. It starts with a basic provocation: that taking something that would otherwise disappear and making it endure has consequences in the world. This process is neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but dangerous. Speakers will examine those consequences and the role archivists and archival processes (including systems, technologies, and structures in which records are kept) play in shaping the political life of collections. FEATURING: Narungga woman and activist-poet Dr Natalie Harkin on archival-poetics and decolonising state archives Information studies scholar Dr Leisa Gibbons on tools to support a critical archival praxis PhD researcher and librarian Kieran Hegarty on web archives and their political consequences To register: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/australasia-preserves-quarterly-meetup-nove… ********************************************** Kind regards, Kieran Hegarty PhD candidate, Representing Multicultural Australia in National and State Libraries Centre for Urban Research School of Global, Urban and Social Studies RMIT University, City Campus Building 8, Level 11 │ Melbourne VIC 3000 E kieran.hegarty(a)student.rmit.edu.au | W assemblingtheweb.com | @assemblingweb I acknowledge the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. I respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past and present.

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SIGDOC 2021 Conference Proceedings Available for Free This Week
by Luke Thominet 13 Oct '21

13 Oct '21

Dear Colleagues, The SIGDOC 2021 Conference Proceedings<https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3472714> were just published! The proceedings include a range of different publications, including research papers, experience reports, industry insight papers, panel and poster abstracts. It also includes abstracts for all the fantastic work in the Student Research Competition. The articles are free for access at the link above throughout the conference this week! Best, Luke Thominet, PhD SIGDOC Communications Manager

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Job alert: Post-doc on trustworthy AI and motivation at School of Psychology, University of Reading w/ Oxford Internet Institute - Deadline October 24
by Brent Mittelstadt 13 Oct '21

13 Oct '21

Dear all, A great 30-month post-doc position just opened in the School of Psychology at Reading for a post-doc working with Reading and the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford on motivation, trustworthy decision-making, and AI. The work primarily involves psychology using a variety of methods (including both experimental and qualitative). The candidate will be based at Reading and work with Prof. Netta Weinstein<https://www.reading.ac.uk/en/pcls/staff/netta-weinstein>, but will also collaborate with a project team in philosophy, law, and computer science via the Governance of Emerging Technologies<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/governance-of-emerging-technologies/> research programme at the Oxford Internet Institute<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/>, University of Oxford. This post will complement the project team at Oxford, Dr Brent Mittelstadt<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tP685zYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao>, Professor Sandra Wachter<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZXBJVqYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao>, and Dr Chris Russell<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RM2sHhYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao>, and their work on technical aspects of interpretability, transparency, and fairness in machine learning and AI. The postdoc will be supported in leading research and subsequent publications, and working directly with industry partners. An interest in reproducible research methods is highly encouraged. See more info and application here: https://jobs.reading.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=8548 A description of the project is available here: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/trustworthiness-auditing-for-ai/ You can also write Dr. Netta Weinstein, N.Weinstein(a)reading.ac.uk for more information. Kind regards, Brent --------------------------------------- Dr. Brent Mittelstadt Senior Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St. Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=365

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