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Reminder: three postdoc positions on AI & Society in Manchester
by João C. Magalhães 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

Hello all, The deadline for these 3-year postdoc positions on AI at the University of Manchester ends on Jan 31. This is a great opportunity for excellent researchers from any place in the world to develop their own project, with a generous research allowance. We welcome projects situated in any -- or multiple -- social/humanities disciplines and are particularly keen on those that critically examine the intersections of AI and society. Get in touch if you have questions and see more details at https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=33836&source=JobTrain… Best, Joao -- João C. Magalhães Senior Lecturer in AI Trust and Security | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Head of the AI Trust and Security Cluster | Centre for Digital Trust and Society University of Manchester https://jcmagalhaes.com/ Selected publications: Socially blind engineering in Facebook's foundational technologies, 2025<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-025-00971-9> (Philosophy & Technology, w/ Nick Couldry) | Open-ended technological inevitability in journalistic discourses about AI, 2025<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2025.2522281#d1e238> (Digital Journalism, w/ Rik Smit) | The emergence of platform illiberalism, 2025 <https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6grbc_v1> (pre-print, w/ Clara Iglesias Keller and Rob Gorwa) | A history of objectionability in Twitter’s moderation practices, 2023<https://academic.oup.com/joc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/joc/jqad015/720476…> (Journal of Communication, w/ Emillie de Keulenaar, Bharath Ganesh) | Social media, social unfreedom, 2022 <https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2022-0040/html> (Communications, w/ Jun Yu) | Big Tech, data colonialism and the reconfiguration of social good, 2021<https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15995> (International Journal of Communication, w/ Nick Couldry) | Considering algorithmic ethical subjectivation, 2018<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305118768301> (Social Media + Society)

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Book Talk, Silicon Elsewhere, with Andrea Pollio, Jan 27
by Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

Hi AoIR, DigiLabour<https://www.instagram.com/digilabour/> invites you to an online book talk with Andrea Pollio (Polytechnic of Turin & University of Cape Town) on Silicon Elsewhere: Nairobi, Global China, and the Promise of Techno-Capital (University of California Press) This will take place on January 27, 10am ET, on the DigiLabour YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wkm6eWTj2c After the talk, there will be a conversation with Julie Yujie Chen<https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/people/yujie-julie-chen> (University of Toronto) and Rafael Grohmann<https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann> <https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann> (University of Toronto). About the book Heralded as Africa's "Silicon Savannah"—a cradle of innovation—Nairobi has become a technology and innovation capital for Kenya and for the continent at large. With a national strategy that has prioritized digital technology for the last two decades, many Chinese digital champions, smaller startups, and investors have since chosen Nairobi as their African landing pad. Mapping the interface between Nairobi's innovation scene and China's digital presence there, Silicon Elsewhere tells a unique story of ingenuity and adaptation, failure and speculation, and hopefulness and pragmatism. Andrea Pollio's ethnography draws on interviews with cautious venture capitalists, renegade entrepreneurs, dedicated bureaucrats, and ambitious data scientists to explore the competing meanings of contemporary techno-capital. Moving between leafy coworking spaces and the temperature-controlled rooms of brand-new data centers, Pollio locates Nairobi among the experimental capitals, not peripheries, of technological change in the early twenty-first century. See you there! Rafael -- dr. Rafael Grohmann Assistant Professor of Media Studies Department of Arts, Culture and Media<https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann> Faculty of Information<https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/rafael-grohmann/> University of Toronto Leader, DigiLabour<https://digilabour.com.br/> Research Associate, University of Oxford<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/rafael-grohmann/> Founding Editor, Platforms & Society<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS> Principal Investigator, Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP)<https://digilabour.com.br/worker-owned-intersectional-platforms-woip/> Co-Lead, Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF)<https://criticaldigitalmethods.ca/creative-labour-critical-futures/> Researcher, AI Policy Observatory for the World of Work<https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/ai-policy-observatory-for-the-wor…> Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society<https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/> <https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/>

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Last Call for Demos & DC & T
by Announce 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

*** Last Call for Demos, DC and Tutorials *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS. We still welcome submissions to the Demo Track, the DC Track as well as for tutorials. The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems. The DC (Doctoral Consortium) is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career. Tutorials will be half-day long and will be in person — online/remote versions will not be accepted. A few full-day tutorials may be considered, but the proponents need to motivate their request when submitting their proposal. More information about the above calls, is available on the AAMAS 2026 web site. Important Dates (AoE) Demo Track • Submission Deadline: January 9, 2026 • Author Notification: February 6, 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline: February 25, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline: March 31, 2026 • Demonstrations: May 27-29, 2026 Doctoral Consortium • Abstract Deadline: January 19, 2026 • Submission Deadline: January 23, 2026 • Author Notification: February 23, 2026 • Camera-Ready Deadline: March 2, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline: March 31, 2026 Tutorials • Proposal Submission: January 16, 2026 • Organiser Notifications: January 30, 2026 • Tutorial Site Online: March 4, 2026 • Tutorial Forum: May 25-26, 2026 Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)

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Fw: [ICT4S] First call for contributions: LIMITS 2026
by Robert Rattle 04 Jan '26

04 Jan '26

Forwarding the LIMITS first call for contributions for the 2026 online workshop. Since 2015, the yearly LIMITS workshop series concerns the role of computing in human societies situated in a world with planetary boundaries and corresponding limits [Nardi et al. 2018]. As an interdisciplinary group of researchers, practitioners, and scholars, this community seeks to reshape the computing research agenda, grounded by an awareness that contemporary computing research is intertwined with ecological limits. LIMITS publishes submissions that move us closer towards computing that supports ecological and just futures for diverse human and non-human lifeforms and thriving biospheres. LIMITS is a place for a wide range of perspectives and approaches. We welcome contributions from anyone including researchers, engineers, designers, and artists who are exploring computing in ways that engage with pressing ecological and social issues and crises. LIMITS strives to be a place for envisioning technologies and futures ‘otherwise’: a place for work that considers how visions and frameworks of pluriversal design, degrowth and post-growth affect computing and asks how computing can grapple with polycrises, metacrisis, collapse, colonialism and de-colonialization, equity, justice, and transition design. For 2026, we are calling for - papers to be peer-reviewed, presented and published in the proceedings (as in previous years) and - alternative contributions, stories and other formats(details to be announced) KEY DATESPaper submission deadline: March 24st 2026, 11:59 pm AoE Alternative contributions deadline: TBDPaper reviews available: May 15th 2026 Camera ready deadline: June 1st, 2026LIMITS 2026: June 23-25, 2026 With best wishes for the new year, Christoph Becker, Daniel Pargman and Oliver Bates

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): First Call for Papers (Indusrey Track)
by Announce 03 Jan '26

03 Jan '26

*** First Call for Papers (Industry Track) *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> The ISSRE Industry Track gathers industry representatives as well as researchers from, within or in collaboration with industry to discuss software reliability, quality assurance as well as experiences and lessons learned. This year we will bring experiences from self- made tools, usage of AI, generative AI and machine learning in relation to software reliability. Industry track papers are expected to be of interest to software development professionals, as well as to anyone researching or working in the area of software reliability, software quality, and process improvement groups, with concrete relevance to industrial problems and practical applications. All presenters of accepted papers will be required to attend the conference in person. Participating in the conference would give a chance to meet and discuss with a wide selection of researchers and other industry experts in the area. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the software development lifecycle, from an industrial and practitioner-oriented perspective. Ask yourself this: Is the work grounded in real-world systems, operational experience, or industrial practice, and does it address reliability or dependability concerns? If it is, you have found the right conference track. For a more detailed list check out the detailed topics list for the research track on this site. • Use cases, practical experiences, lessons learned, improvement programs in reliability or dependability. • Foundations of reliability and dependability, including process, technology, methods, metrics and lessons learned. • Design for reliability or dependability, failure and incident case studies, including experiences in security, testing, verification, and related practices in the field. • Reliability in AI-driven and autonomic systems or AI techniques used for Reliability Engineering. • Software reliability in any system domain. • Trustworthiness, security, and Responsible Software Engineering. • Human-centric focus on reliability and dependability. • Adoption of reliability standards, measurements and similar experiences. We look for papers with good evaluation, honest data, new insights and practical experiences that can be used to help others. We also encourage submissions reporting negative results, unexpected outcomes, and lessons learned from real-world practice. Submission Guidelines and Instructions We invite three kinds of submissions to the Industry Track: • Enlightening Talk or Tool Demo: 1-2 page abstract (OR a Power Point presentation OR a video for a tool demo). • Short paper: 4-pages (including references). • Full paper: 6-pages (including references). All the submissions will be reviewed by members of the Industry Track Program Committee. Accepted papers (with an abstract) will be included in the ISSRE Supplemental Proceedings and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore. Submissions must adhere to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines (for more Information, please refer to the relevant part on the conference website: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/industry-track/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…>). Note that: • A paper must include the title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words, and up to 4 keywords. Thus, submissions are not anonymous. • Reviewers will use the abstract during the bidding process for peer-review. Thus, the abstract should state the paper goals clearly, along with the means used to achieve them. • The first page is not a separate page, but is a part of the paper (i.e., it has technical material in it). Thus, this page counts toward the total page budget for the paper. • Symbols and labels used in the graphs should be readable as printed, without requiring on-screen magnification. • Limit the file size to less than 15 MB (for Video’s – provide a live link). Papers that exceed the page limits specified, on topics not in the scope of ISSRE, or that do not follow the formatting guidelines will be rejected without review. Authors of accepted papers will have the chance to present their work at ISSRE 2026. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for the conference and to give the talk, if the paper is accepted. Best Paper Awards The Industry Program Chair will select three candidates among top-ranked papers presenting and motivating novel and disruptive ideas that address problems relevant for industry. Selection will be based on the reviewers’ feedback, novelty and potential impact of the results. The final selection of the best paper will be done by the audience attending the presentation of the candidate papers. Eligible papers must be (1) full papers accepted to the industry track, and (2) co-authored by at least one author whose primary affiliation is in Industry. Important Dates (AoE) • Abstract Submission Deadline: June 28, 2026 & July 3, 2026 • Paper Submission Deadline: July 5, 2026 & July 12, 2026 • Notification to Authors: August 12, 2026 • Camera Ready Papers: August 19, 2026 • Enlightening Talks or Tool Demos (without abstract; not to appear in the proceedings): August 15, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline (Industry Track): August 19, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): First Call for Papers (Research Track)
by Announce 02 Jan '26

02 Jan '26

*** First Call for Papers (Research Track) *** 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026) October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> The International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) is the leading conference on software reliability research and practice. ISSRE focuses on techniques and tools for assessing, predicting, and improving the reliability, safety, security, and resilience of software systems. As modern software increasingly integrates AI/ML components, operates autonomously, and spans cloud-to-edge environments, ensuring reliable system behavior is more critical than ever. Topics of Interest ISSRE 2026 invites high-quality contributions that advance the theory and practice of software reliability across contemporary software-intensive systems, including systems that incorporate AI/ML components. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Foundations of Reliability and Dependability • Principles, models, metrics, empirical methods, and theories of software reliability, resilience, robustness, and safety • Systematic approaches to fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance, and fault forecasting in modern software systems • Testing and debugging, formal methods, model checking, static/dynamic analysis, verification, and runtime assurance Reliability in AI-Driven and Autonomic Systems • Reliability engineering for AI-enabled, autonomous, self-adaptive, and cyber-physical systems • Assurance, testing, verification, and certification of AI/ML components, including foundation and generative models • Reliability of AI-generated code: validation, verification, explainability, defect analysis, and trustworthy automation of development tasks • Impact of AI on software lifecycle processes (design, testing, evolution, operations, and quality management) AI Techniques for Reliability Engineering • Machine learning for defect prediction, anomaly detection, debugging assistance, fault localization, and test automation • Learning-based approaches to self-healing, resilience management, predictive maintenance, and reliability optimization • Reliability governance in AI-driven DevOps pipelines, including transparency, interpretability, and auditability Software Reliability in Emerging System Domains • Reliability assurance for cloud, edge, IoT, 5G/6G, cyber-physical, high-performance, and network softwarization environments • Dependability of open-source ecosystems, data-driven pipelines, model hubs, and AI-assisted contributions • Benchmarking, stress testing, workload modeling, and measurement frameworks for large-scale and AI-based systems Trustworthiness, Security, and Responsible Software Engineering • Intersections of reliability with security, privacy, fairness, transparency, and regulatory compliance • Societal, ethical, and human impacts of pervasive AI-enabled software systems • Responsible governance of AI-based systems, including lifecycle assurance, auditability, and risk analysis Human-Centered, Empirical, and Reproducible Reliability Research • Field studies, experience reports, user studies, and human factors in reliability engineering • Public datasets, benchmark suites, reproducibility packages, and replication/negative- result studies • Tooling, automation, continuous reliability monitoring, observability, and operational feedback loops Research Track Paper Categories The research track at ISSRE 2026 invites high-quality submissions of technical research papers that describe original, unpublished results exploring new scientific ideas, contribute new evidence to established research directions, or reflect on practical experience. Specifically, ISSRE solicits submissions in three categories: • Research (RES) papers • Practical experience reports (PER) • Tools and artefacts (TAR) papers Papers will be assessed with criteria appropriate to each category. All the papers of the three categories are regular and full papers, and will be published in the same ISSRE proceedings. RES Papers RES papers (12 pages, including references) should describe a novel contribution to the reliability of software systems. Novelty should be argued via concrete evidence and appropriate positioning within the state of the art. RES papers are also expected to explain the validation process and its limitations clearly. PER Papers PER papers (12 pages, including references) should provide an in-depth exposition of practical experiences ideally performed by a collaboration of researchers and industry practitioners. The key contribution of these papers should be lessons learned from applying established research tools and methods to ISSRE topics, or new knowledge acquired through empirical studies conducted using various research methodologies. Negative results are welcome, e.g., discussing where or why current research cannot be applied in an industrially relevant context. TAR Papers TAR papers (6 – 10 pages, including references) should describe a new tool or artefact. Tool-focused TAR papers must present either a new tool or a novel and substantial extension of an existing tool. They should include a description of (i) the theoretical foundations, (ii) the design and implementation aspects, and (iii) experiments with realistic case studies. Making the tool publicly available is strongly encouraged. Artefact-focused TAR papers should cover (i) a working copy of the software and (ii) experimental data sets. Dataset papers should introduce a new dataset that supports experimentation, benchmarking, evaluation, or training in AI-driven software engineering. Submissions should describe: (i) dataset motivation and scope, (ii) data collection and processing methodology, (iii) dataset structure and statistics, and (iv) potential use cases. Benchmark papers should present a new benchmark suite for evaluating tools, LLMs, or algorithms. Submissions should include: (i) benchmark design principles, (ii) task definitions and evaluation metrics, (iii) baseline results, and (iv) reproducibility package. The ISSRE conference encourages authors of all three categories of research track papers to follow the principles of transparency, reproducibility, and replicability. Authors are encouraged to disclose data to increase reproducibility and replicability. Should the paper be accepted, the authors will have the opportunity (and are encouraged to) submit artifacts to the Artifact Evaluation (AE) track, to enhance the reproducibility and quality of the research. By submitting your artifacts, you not only contribute to the progress of our field but also stand a chance to earn badges that will be displayed on your papers in the conference proceedings, showcasing the credibility and rigor of your work. At least one author of each accepted paper must register as an author and present the paper in person at the conference. Best Research Paper Award ISSRE is pleased to announce the IEEE Best Research Paper Award, awarded every year to the best paper in the Research Track. Special Journal Issue Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal (under negotiation as in previous editions of the conference). The Call for Papers will be available soon. Review Process & Quality Assurance in ISSRE 2026 (New) Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Major Revision Guidelines Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Rapid Response Reviewers (RRRs) Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Anonymizing Rules Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Formatting Rules Please refer to the information on the conference web site: https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/cfp-research/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Paper Submission Papers are submitted via Easy Chair https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> . Submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee through a double-blind reviewing process, with a limited use of outside referees. Papers will be held in complete confidence during the reviewing process, but papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be rejected without review. Changes in the number and order of authors will not be allowed after the paper acceptance. Authors must anonymize their submissions in accordance with the guidelines above. Submissions violating the formatting and anonymization rules will be desk-rejected without review. There will be no extensions for reformatting. Conference Proceedings The authors of accepted papers must omit the paper’s type from the title to keep consistency among all the camera-ready versions in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Papers presented at the conference will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore and to all of the A&I (abstracting and indexing) partners (such as the EI Compendex). Important Dates (AoE) • Abstract Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026 • Paper Submission Deadline: April 17, 2026 • Author Rebuttal Period: June 5 – June 8, 2026 • Decisions and Early Notification: June 15, 2026 • Author Revision Period: June 16 – July 3, 2026 • Notification to Authors: July 8, 2026 • Camera Ready Papers: August 19, 2026 • Author Registration Deadline (Research Track): August 19, 2026 Organisation General Chairs • Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Coordinator • Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy Research Program Committee Chairs • Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA • Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK Industry Program Chairs • Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA • Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden Workshop Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs • Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany • Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada Fast Abstract Chairs • Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy • Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore JIC2 Chair • Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France Publicity Chairs • Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA • Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publication Chairs • Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand • Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs • Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Diversity and Inclusion Chair • Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Financial Chair • Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Web Chairs • Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD • Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Registration Chair • Easy Conferences LTD

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ICA Mobile Communication division preconference
by Campbell, Scott 02 Jan '26

02 Jan '26

The ICA Mobile Communication division preconference is now accepting proposals for workshops and extended abstracts (up to 1,500 words). For submission information, see the CFP (https://www.icamobile.org/calls) The deadline is January 30, 2026. Hope to see you in Cape Town! Scott W. Campbell Professor, School of Communication Rinehart Chair in Mediated Communication The Ohio State University

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Reminder: CfP Data Justice conference
by Lina Dencik 30 Dec '25

30 Dec '25

Dear all, This is a kind reminder of the upcoming fourth Data Justice conference on the Datafied State. Call for Papers Fourth international Data Justice conference: The Datafied State Date: 1-2 June, 2026 Location: Cardiff University in Cardiff, UK (in person) Host: Data Justice Lab Although contested and multifaceted, the field of data justice continues to engage critical debates on the societal implications of datafication in all its iterations, from social media to platform capitalism to the current hype around Artificial Intelligence (AI). Much of this focus has been on the potential harm of such technologies on different communities and on the societal shifts associated with their uses by a diverse range of actors. Less focus, perhaps, has been on the way the advent of data-driven technologies has intermingled with and transformed the state. From high-stake uses, such as those revealed in the Snowden leaks, to crisis management as evidenced during the Covid-19 pandemic, to the mundane and everyday delivery of public services, platforms and AI systems are now deeply embedded within roles and functions associated with the state. At the same time, the state has been instrumental in the advancement of datafication and the role that technology, and its providers, now play in society. At a time when governments and technology companies are seen to be closer than ever, examining their relationship and its consequences seems pivotal for our understanding of data justice. This two-day conference will therefore explore the role and transformations of the state in an age of datafication and what this means for social justice and resistance. It will examine the interrelations between data-driven technologies and government, the changing role of corporations, emerging popular responses, and efforts to democratise datafication. Hosted by the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) in the UK, it will bring together international scholars, practitioners and community groups to discuss the nature and implications of the datafied state. Keynote Speakers include: Oriana Bernasconi, Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile Sarah Myers West, AI Now, US Nick Srnicek, King’s College London, UK Submission of abstracts of max 500 words to DataJusticeLab(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DataJusticeLab@cardiff.ac.uk> Deadline for submissions of abstracts: 31st of December, 2025 Conference registration fees: £175 / £150 (early bird) £125 / £100 students (early bird) Conference registration deadlines: 6th of March 2026 – early bird 17th of April 2026 – final deadline Further information can be found here: https://datajusticelab.org/event/data-justice-2026-the-datafied-state/ More information about the Data Justice Lab can be found here: https://datajusticelab.org We hope to see you there! -- Professor Lina Dencik University Research Leader in AI Justice Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Goldsmiths, University of London Co-Founder of Data Justice Lab

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CfP: Digital Criminology session / STS Conference Graz 2026
by Piotr Siuda 29 Dec '25

29 Dec '25

Dear AoIR colleagues, I would like to share a Call for Abstracts for a session titled "Digital Criminology – Bridging Technologies, Human Practices and Environments", which we are organising (together with Meropi Tzanetakis) at the STS Conference Graz 2026 (4-6 May 2026, Graz). The session invites 400–600 word abstracts engaging with digital platforms and infrastructures, datafication and surveillance, AI and algorithmic systems, online and hybrid illicit markets (including drug markets), and broader intersections between criminology, STS, internet and media studies. Abstract submission deadline: 27 January 2026 Submission system: https://www.conftool.com/sts-conference-graz-2025/ Conference website: https://stsconf.tugraz.at Author guidelines: https://stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/call-for-abstracts/ The full Call for Abstracts is available at this link: https://www.wu.ac.at/fileadmin/wu/d/i/sozio/Dateien_zu_News/CfA_Digital_Cri… Please feel free to circulate this CfP within your networks. Best wishes -- *Piotr Siuda* (PhD, Professor of Media Studies) Faculty of Cultural Studies Department of Game Studies and Digital Culture Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Associate Editor, *Journal of Creative Communication *(SAGE Journals) *Recent papers:* *-- **Digital drug trading ecologies in context: Technological, geographic, and linguistic variation across darknet platforms*, *International Journal of Drug Policy.* -- *Navigating community-transaction and egalitarian-hierarchy divides: redefining virtual communities in the darknet drug trade and beyond*, *Information, Communication & Society.* *-- **The opioid crisis in Poland? Insights from online forum data. **International Journal of Drug Policy.*

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CfP: Digital Criminology session / STS Conference Graz 2026
by Piotr Siuda 29 Dec '25

29 Dec '25

Dear AoIR colleagues, I would like to share a Call for Abstracts for a session titled "Digital Criminology – Bridging Technologies, Human Practices and Environments", which we are organising (together with Meropi Tzanetakis) at the STS Conference Graz 2026 (4-6 May 2026, Graz). The session invites 400–600 word abstracts engaging with digital platforms and infrastructures, datafication and surveillance, AI and algorithmic systems, online and hybrid illicit markets (including drug markets), and broader intersections between criminology, STS, internet and media studies. Abstract submission deadline: 27 January 2026 Submission system: https://www.conftool.com/sts-conference-graz-2025/ Conference website: https://stsconf.tugraz.at Author guidelines: https://stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/call-for-abstracts/ The full Call for Abstracts is available at this link: https://www.wu.ac.at/fileadmin/wu/d/i/sozio/Dateien_zu_News/CfA_Digital_Cri… Please feel free to circulate this CfP within your networks. Best wishes -- *Piotr Siuda* (PhD, Professor of Media Studies) Faculty of Cultural Studies Department of Game Studies and Digital Culture Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Associate Editor, *Journal of Creative Communication *(SAGE Journals) *Recent papers:* *-- **Digital drug trading ecologies in context: Technological, geographic, and linguistic variation across darknet platforms*, *International Journal of Drug Policy.* -- *Navigating community-transaction and egalitarian-hierarchy divides: redefining virtual communities in the darknet drug trade and beyond*, *Information, Communication & Society.* *-- **The opioid crisis in Poland? Insights from online forum data. **International Journal of Drug Policy.*

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