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CFP | DEADLINE for PAPERS December 6th | GamiFIN 2022 | Gamification, VR/AR/MR, serious games, esports, streaming etc.
by Henrietta Jylhä 07 Oct '21

07 Oct '21

Dear all, On behalf of the Gamification Group <http://gamification.gg/>, We are excited to announce that GamiFIN Conference 2022 is now welcoming papers, posters and doctoral consortium submissions related to themes such as Gamification, VR and Esports. The full CFP is in the following. We are looking forward to your submissions! ================================================= 6th Annual International GamiFIN Conference 2022 (hybrid event) GamiFIN 2022, April 26–29, 2022, Tampere, Finland. ================================================= DEADLINE for full papers December 6, 2021. Deadline for posters and doctoral consortium submissions February 21, 2022. Conference website: http://gamifinconference.com Full CFP: https://gamifinconference.com/cfp2022 === IMPORTANT DATES - December 6, 2021: Submissions deadline for full papers (extended) - January 31, 2022: Notifications of acceptance sent to authors of papers - February 21, 2022: Submissions deadline for posters and doctoral consortium - February 21, 2022: Deadline for camera-ready full papers - February 28, 2022: Notification of acceptance for posters and doctoral consortium - March 14, 2022: Registration deadline for all presenters - April 26–29, 2022: Conference === THEMES Gamification is a multi-faceted phenomenon that affects many domains of human life. Therefore, we welcome submissions related to this ludic transformation of reality under several domains and related (but not limited) to the following keywords: - Users: e.g., Engagement, experience, user types - Education: e.g., Gamification in education, serious games, game-based learning, games & math - Media: e.g., Esports, streaming, social media and gamification, gamification in journalism & media - Commerce: e.g., Business models, free-to-play, gambling, gamification in marketing/advergaming - Work: e.g., Organizational gamification, gameful work, gamification in leadership, playbour - Technology: e.g., Virtual reality, augmented reality, Internet of things, wearables, AI, machine learning, privacy, security - Toys & play: e.g., Toy play, toy design/creation, toys in education, internet of toys, toyfication, roleplay - Health: e.g., Quantified self, games & gamification for health, COVID-19, mental health - Culture: e.g., Ludification, history of games and gamification, gamification in society, social structures, storification - Environment/Climate: Bioeconomy, climate-change engagement, circularity, human/forest interactions - Governance: e.g., democracy, participation, law enforcement, e-justice, cyber forensics, urban planning, smart and playable cities, surveillance - Design: e.g., Design principles, design methods, designing gamification, gamification artefacts, playful and speculative design - Theories/concepts/methods: Contributions to science around gamification - Critical approach to gamification: e.g., detrimental effects of gamification or metrification, aspects of poor quality of gamification and gamification research, extrinsic control, panopticon society, de-gamification - Esports & exergaming: e.g., players/users, health, law, coaching, governance, business models and sponsorship, cultural expression, platforms === CONTACT Email: info(a)gamifinconference.com Website: http://gamifinconference.com

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2021 Marquette "Ethics of Big Data Symposium" (Nov 4, online)
by Zimmer, Michael 07 Oct '21

07 Oct '21

I'm excited to announce that the 2021 Marquette Ethics of Big Data Symposium will focus on "Applied Algorithmic Ethics" and will take place virtually on November 4, 2021 from 12:30pm - 2:00pm (CT). Our keynote speaker is Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, director of Twitter's ML Ethics, Transparency and Accountability (META) team. Her talk will be followed by a discussion with two other leading voices in this space: Dr. Luke Stark (Western University) and Dr. Ranjit Singh (Data & Society). Details and registration are at https://www.marquette.edu/ethics-of-big-data/ ~ Michael -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science Marquette University michael.zimmer(a)marquette.edu www.michaelzimmer.org @michaelzimmer

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CCDS presents a talk by Heather Evens, Friday October 22nd
by Jeff Hemsley 06 Oct '21

06 Oct '21

The Center for Computational and Data Sciences presents Virtual Research Talk with Dr. Heather Evens, Friday, October 22 12:00-1:00 PM EST, titled Women Belong in the (U.S.) House: The Influence of Gender on Issue Discussion on Twitter. Our next CCDS talk will be from Anders Olof Larsson, Friday Nov 19th, 12 PM. This talk is free and open to the public. Please do use the link below to register for the event. https://forms.gle/Kha1thT7T3ZUAnsR7 Women Belong in the (U.S.) House: The Influence of Gender on Issue Discussion on Twitter Heather K. Evans is the John Morton Beaty Professor of Political Science at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. Her primary research interests are political engagement, competitive congressional elections, social media (Twitter) and the effect of entertainment media on political attitudes. She is the author of "Competitive Elections and Democracy in America: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (Routledge), which explores both the positive and negative side-effects of increasing competitiveness in congressional elections. Her edited volumes, "Community Engagement Findings Across the Disciplines: Applying Course Concepts to Community Needs" and "Community Engagement Best Practices Across the Disciplines: Applying Course Concepts to Community Needs" were published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2017 and 2018 and examine service learning experiences across the various disciplines. Heather is also the host of "Red, White, and Confused," which airs weekly on WEHC 90.7 FM (also available by podcast).

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CfP Disinformation-for-Hire and Click Farming (Social Media + Society Special Issue)
by Rafael Grohmann 06 Oct '21

06 Oct '21

Colleagues, Please consider submitting your abstract. https://journals.sagepub.com/page/sms/collections/cfp On August 18th, 1:30PM EST, Jonathan and I will do a livestream featuring the call for papers. We will send you more information soon. And help us spread the word. Disinformation-for-Hire and Click Farming around the World: Identities, Incentives, Infrastructures Special collection of Social Media + Society (Open Access Journal) Abstract submission deadline: October 15, 2021 Full paper submission deadline: March 1, 2022 Special Issue Editors: Rafael Grohmann (Unisinos University, Brazil) and Jonathan Corpus Ong (University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA) From state-sponsored propagandists using paid troll armies, to commercially motivated data analytics firms selling their toolkits to politicians, and platform workers producing memes for overseas clients, the global industry of disinformation production has only professionalized and diversified. This special issue for Social Media + Society aims to deepen understanding about the social identities, work arrangements, and political and commercial motivations of an emerging class of digital disinformation workers. We are interested in critical and interdisciplinary research that examines the political economy, specifically the digital and creative industries that propel and produce disinformation. The special issue’s focus on business models and disinformation worker identities in global context aims to expand on disinformation studies’ analysis of “fake news” and hate speech as content that require better policing or fact-checking. It also aims to expand platform studies’ research agenda and consider the range of digital professionals and entrepreneurs who buy and sell engagement on social media–with pernicious political consequences especially in contexts where dissenting voices are suppressed. Thus, we solicit submissions that discuss the diverse worker hierarchies and conditions, outsourced gig arrangements, money politics, and/or regulatory loopholes in the promotional industries that enable the strategic production of disinformation. We are interested in interdisciplinary and ethnographic research that engages with the deep stories of workers in “dark PR” firms (Silverman, Lytyvenko & Kung 2020; Verwey & Muir 2019), data analytics firms (Briant 2021), Latin American and Indonesian Instagram click farms (Lindquist 2021), and “propaganda secretary” offices (Hassan & Hitchen 2019). We are also interested in normative discussions about complicity and collusion in digital industries as well as scholarly self-reflection about the challenges of doing engaged research about disinformation (Ong 2020). We are especially interested in submissions that shed light across these themes: * ethnographic portraits of paid trolls, meme producers, click farm workers, and political strategists * precarity, aspiration, and the tactics of resistance of digital workers / disinformation producers * the ethics of representing perpetrators; whistleblowers as unreliable narrators * participatory disinformation (Starbird 2021) and networked disinformation * the infrastructure, materiality, and “platform trees” (van Dijck 2020) of click farm platforms with mainstream social media * moral justifications of disinformation producers (Ong & Cabañes 2019) * the complicity of advertising and public relations to “organized lying” (Edwards 2021) * legitimacy, respectability, and plausible deniability; the role of intermediaries or brokers in the disinformation industries * mental health of workers in digital shadow economies * the social proximities between content moderators and paid trolls in the global South * regulatory loopholes in political marketing and PR; experiments with self-regulation and codes of ethics in digital campaigning (Udupa 2019) * auto-ethnographic reflections of engaged scholars about their experiences working with governments, platforms, workers, and journalists to shed light on disinformation shadow economies The special issue will include an interview with ProPublica's Craig Silverman and a response to the contributions from Dr Joan Donovan. Timeline 300- to 500-word abstracts should be emailed to rafaelgrohmann(a)unisinos.br and jcong(a)umass.edu by October 15, 2021. The abstract should articulate: 1) the issue or research question to be discussed, 2) the methodological or critical framework used, and 3) the expected findings or conclusions. Feel free to consult with the Special Issue Editors about your article ideas and potential angles or approaches. Decisions will be communicated to the authors by November 1, 2021. Full papers of the selected abstracts should be submitted by March 1, 2022. References Briant, E. (2021). Lessons from the Cambridge Analytica Crisis: Confronting Today’s (Dis)information Challenges. The Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare, 3(3), 125–127. https://doi.org/10.21810/jicw.v3i3.2775 Edwards. L. (2021). Organised Lying and Professional Legitimacy: Public Relations’ Accountability in the Disinformation Debate. European Journal of Communication, 36(2), 168–182. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323120966851 Hassan, I. & Hitchen, J. (2019, April 18). Nigeria’s Propaganda Secretaries. Mail & Guardian. https://mg.co.za/article/2019-04-18-00-nigerias-propaganda-se cretaries/ Lindquist, J. (2021). Good Enough Imposters: The Market for Instagram Followers in Indonesia and Beyond. In: Woolgar, S. et al (eds). The Imposter as Social Theory: Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans. Bristol University Press. Ong, J.C. (2020). "Limits and Luxuries of Slow Research in Times of Radical War: How Should We Represent Perpetrators?" Journal of Digital War 1(1): 1-6. Ong, J. C., & Cabañes, J. V. A. (2019). When Disinformation Studies Meets Production Studies: Social Identities and Moral Justifications in the Political Trolling Industry. International Journal of Communication, 13, 5771–5790. Silverman, C., Lytyvenko, J. & Kung, W. (2020, January 6). Disinformation for Hire: How a New Breed of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online. Buzzfeed News. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/disinformatio n-for-hire-black-pr-firms Starbird, K. (2021, May 6). Participatory Disinformation: The Big Lie during the 2020 Election and the January 6, 2021 Attack on the US Capitol. Twitter thread. https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/1390408145428643842 Udupa, S. (2019, January 31). India Needs a Fresh Strategy to Tackle Online Extreme Speech. Engage. https://www.epw.in/engage/article/election-2019-india-n eeds-fresh-strategy-totackle-new- digital-tools. Van Dijck, J. (2020) Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Visualizing Platformization and Its Governance. New Media & Society, 1-19. Online First. Verwey, S., & Muir, C. (2019). Bell Pottinger and the Dark Art of Public Relations: Ethics of individuality Versus Ethics of Communality. Communicare: Journal for Communication Sciences in Southern Africa, 38(1), 96-116.

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Speakers Announced for The 17th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium and the 3rd Annual Information Ethics and Policy Workshop
by Colin Rhinesmith 06 Oct '21

06 Oct '21

Dear colleagues, The Planning Committee for The 17th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium and the 3rd Annual Information Ethics and Policy Workshop: Sociotechnical Perspectives on Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (SIG-SI and SIG-IEP) are excited to share the speakers and schedule for the joint SIG-SI and SIG-IEP Workshop on Sociotechnical Perspectives on Equity, Inclusion, and Justice on Friday, October 29th, 2021 from 8:00am-12:00 MDT. Our speakers will discuss research related to policy, training, AI and diversity and inequality. In this half-day workshop, a range of scholarly sociotechnical inquiries alongside ethical, practical, and policy perspectives across a range of disciplines and sectors will be presented and discussed. The workshop will provide a virtual space to share and exchange experiences and ideas or suggest theories and directions for future work among international SI researchers and practitioners. This workshop will facilitate collaboratively producing short- and long-term research agendas, addressing pressing critical and diversity concerns around technology, sharing research that supports empirically driven policy making, ethical decision-making, and practice for social justice and well-being with pervasive and emerging sociotechnical systems. The speakers and topics are as follows: Tien-I Tsai and Hui-Yun Sung. Towards an Inclusive and Sustainable Knowledge Society for Everyone: Development of a National Policy for Public Libraries in Taiwan. (virtual) Nga Than, Abhishek Gupta, and Ameen Jauhar. Critical Analysis of "Responsible AI #AIforAll: Approach Document for India" (virtual) Sundaraparipurnan Narayanan. Game based training as a model for skill enhancement in bias mitigation efforts. (virtual) Dania Bilal and Jessica Barfield. Increasing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Design and Use of Voice Digital Assistants. (virtual) Lindsay Poirier. Grappling with the Representational Inequities in NYC 311 Data. (virtual) Lala Hajibayova. In Search for Cuteness: Interactive Discovery and Play in Times of Pandemic. (virtual) Hengyi Fu and Yao Lyu. How People Experience Facial Recognition in an Organizational Setting: An Organizational Justice Perspective. (virtual) Elliott Hauser. Action in light of information: What robots can teach us about algorithms. (in-person) Additional registration fee applies. All of the workshop descriptions can be found on the ASIS&T Annual Meeting website. To register for this workshop, whether attending online or in-person, you can visit Registration and Workshop Rates. If you have not already done so, please register for the Annual Meeting here: https://www.asist.org/am21/registration/ <https://www.asist.org/am21/registration/> We look forward to seeing you there! Best, Colin — Colin Rhinesmith (pronouns: he/him) Associate Professor and Director Community Informatics Lab School of Library and Information Science Provost’s Faculty Fellow for Scholarship and Research Simmons University http://crhinesmith.com Senior Faculty Research Fellow Benton Institute for Broadband & Society https://benton.org

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Feb 2022: International Winter School: Taming the iMonster: Regulating digital platforms
by Katja Mayer 06 Oct '21

06 Oct '21

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the Research Platform Governance of Digital Practices <https://digigov.univie.ac.at/> (University of Vienna) will host an *interdisciplinary and international winter school*: */Taming the iMonster: Regulating digital platforms/* Digital platforms, understood as the technical and social infrastructure for the collection, storage, curation, analysis, distribution or commercialisation of digital data, are frequently compared to a Leviathan <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-04363-6_2>: A “monster” that people submit their natural freedoms to in order to receive something back that they consider essential. In the case of the platform-Leviathan, it is not physical security and the protection of their property that people receive in return, but the possibility to communicate across time and space, to connect different groups to buy and sell goods in a faster and more convenient manner, or to look for rides, jobs, houses, partners. Especially during and after Covid-19, submitting to the iMonster has been a necessary condition for many people to be able to do the things they need to do to hold a job or two and run their families. How do we best regulate digital platforms? This is the question that this interdisciplinary Winter School will focus on. *When: * 14 – 25 February 2021 | Mon-Fr 3-6pm Central European Time *Where:* online (Zoom) *Speakers include:* José van Dijck <https://www.uu.nl/staff/jftmvandijck>, /t.b.c./ (Universiteit Utrecht) Jonathan Gray <https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-jonathan-gray> (King’s College London & Public Data Lab) Alex Hanna <https://alex-hanna.com/> (Google) Jürgen Pfeffer <https://www.sites.hfp.tum.de/css/team/prof-dr-juergen-pfeffer/> (Technical University Munich) Jean-Christophe Plantin <https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/jean-c…> (LSE) *Participants:* mainly early-stage researchers (PhD students and post-docs), but open to colleagues from all disciplines with an interest in the topic */Participation is free, but places are limited./* If you would like to participate, please send a short outline of your motivation to participate, and a brief summary of the project(s) you are working on (1 page max.), to natalia.kancelova(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:natalia.kancelova@univie.ac.at> by *15 November 2021* at the latest. The members and affiliates of the Research Platform Governance of Digital Practices <https://digigov.univie.ac.at/team/> look forward to hearing from you! */For more info visit: https://digigov.univie.ac.at/teaching/winter-school/ <https://digigov.univie.ac.at/teaching/winter-school/>/*

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Inclusive Games Group
by Kat Schrier Shaenfield 06 Oct '21

06 Oct '21

Hello all- I am inviting anyone interested to join a new group related to inclusive games. We are holding our first meeting on *October 7 (Thursday) at 8 pm ET (virtual), *and our second meeting on *October 14th (Thursday) at 10 am ET (virtual).* We are exploring things like... --Developing an "unconference" on inclusive games --Creating whitepapers/open access books on inclusive games --Connecting with each other and with organizations that are supporting inclusion in games --Finding collaborators for grants, research, and scholarship --Finding collaborators for games and other projects --Creating a cozy, inclusive, caring community --& MORE! Please email me if you want more details about the group and our meeting. Take care, Kat ----------------------------------------- Dr. Karen (Kat) Schrier http://www.karenschrier.com www.twitter.com/drgamermom Associate Professor & Director, Games & Emerging Media program, Marist College Author, *We the Gamers* <https://gamesforcivics.com/> (Oxford University Press) Author, *Knowledge Games <https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/knowledge-games>* (Johns Hopkins University Press) Editor, *Learning, Education, & Games <https://gamesforgrowing.com/> book *series (ETC Press/Carnegie Mellon) Author, Designing Ourselves <https://www.adl.org/media/13011/download> (Center for Technology & Society)

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Nate Persily drafts legislation that would require large online platforms to share data with outside researchers
by Joly MacFie 05 Oct '21

05 Oct '21

Tweet https://twitter.com/persily/status/1445409819486216203 Draft https://www.dropbox.com/s/5my9r1t9ifebfz1/Persily%20proposed%20legislation%… WaPo https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/05/facebook-research-data-ha… The current situation — platforms controlling all their data and deciding what information the public deserves to know — is unsustainable. So, too, would it be a mistake for Congress to regulate the Internet based on folk theories or misguided conventional wisdom regarding the harms caused by these new technologies. We need good information. -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Opportunity to be included in a new article collection, Deep Learning for IoT Security
by Paudel, Ramesh 05 Oct '21

05 Oct '21

Dear All, As a Associate Guest Editor I would like to invite you to submit high quality papers in our Special Issue on “Deep Learning for IoT Security” https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/24532/deep-learning-for-iot-sec… in Frontiers in Big Data If you decide to submit a manuscript within our collection, your contribution will be peer-reviewed and judged on originality, interest, clarity, relevance, correctness, language, and presentation by our editorial board members. Immediately upon publication, your paper will be free to read for everyone, increasing visibility and citations. We encourage authors to submit abstracts ahead of the full manuscript submission. See the message below for more information, as well as the links to either accept or decline this Call for Participation. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to write to the journal team at bigdata(a)frontiersin.org. Would you be interested in contributing a manuscript to this Research Topic? Please let me know by clicking on the links below: YES – I would like to participate https://research-topic-management-app.frontiersin.org/manage/contributor-co… NO – I am unable to participate in this project https://research-topic-management-app.frontiersin.org/manage/contributor-de… Information on the Publishing Fees can be found on the following link: https://www.frontiersin.org/about/publishing-fees. <https://www.frontiersin.org/about/publishing-fees> Kindly note that we are committed to ensuring that fees do not become a barrier to scientific publishing and solutions are available. You are welcome to explore this on our fees page. If you have any questions or if you require any special considerations, please do let me know. I hope you consider contributing to this exciting project. Kind Regards, Ramesh Paudel Topic Editor, Cybersecurity and Privacy Section, Frontiers in Big Data

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New book: AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives
by Pieter Verdegem 05 Oct '21

05 Oct '21

Verdegem, P. (ed.) 2021. AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives. London: University of Westminster Press. 310 pages The book is published open access and available via: https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/e/10.16997/book55/ We are entering a new era of technological determinism and solutionism in which governments and business actors are seeking data-driven change, assuming that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now inevitable and ubiquitous. But we have not even started asking the right questions, let alone developed an understanding of the consequences. Urgently needed is debate that asks and answers fundamental questions about power. This book brings together critical interrogations of what constitutes AI, its impact and its inequalities in order to offer an analysis of what it means for AI to deliver benefits for everyone. The book is structured in three parts: Part 1, AI: Humans vs. Machines, presents critical perspectives on human-machine dualism. Part 2, Discourses and Myths About AI, excavates metaphors and policies to ask normative questions about what is ‘desirable’ AI and what conditions make this possible. Part 3, AI Power and Inequalities, discusses how the implementation of AI creates important challenges that urgently need to be addressed. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and regional contexts, this book offers a vital intervention on one of the most hyped concepts of our times. CHAPTERS: Introduction: Why We Need Critical Perspectives on AI Pieter Verdegem Artificial Intelligence (AI): When Humans and Machines Might Have to Coexist Andreas Kaplan Digital Humanism: Epistemological, Ontological and Praxiological Foundations Wolfgang Hofkirchner An Alternative Rationalisation of Creative AI by De-Familiarising Creativity: Towards an Intelligibility of Its Own Terms Jenna Ng Post-Humanism, Mutual Aid Dan McQuillan The Language Labyrinth: Constructive Critique on the Terminology Used in the AI Discourse Rainer Rehak AI Ethics Needs Good Data Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt and Monique Mann The Social Reconfiguration of Artificial Intelligence: Utility and Feasibility James Steinhoff Creating the Technological Saviour: Discourses on AI in Europe and the Legitimation of Super Capitalism Benedetta Brevini AI Bugs and Failures: How and Why to Render AI-Algorithms More Human? Alkim Almila Akdag Salah Primed Prediction: A Critical Examination of the Consequences of Exclusion of the Ontological Now in AI Protocol Carrie O’Connell and Chad Van de Wiele Algorithmic Logic in Digital Capitalism Jernej A. Prodnik 'Not Ready for Prime Time': Biometrics and Biopolitics in the (Un)Making of California’s Facial Recognition Ban Asvatha Babu and Saif Shahin Beyond Mechanical Turk: The Work of Brazilians on Global AI Platforms Rafael Grohmann and Willian Fernandes Araújo Towards Data Justice Unionism? A Labour Perspective on AI Governance Lina Dencik The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.

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