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CfP Intersectionality and Digital Platforms Special Issue
by Rafael Grohmann 06 Jun '21

06 Jun '21

CALL FOR PAPERS - INTERSECTIONALITY AND DIGITAL PLATFORMS SPECIAL ISSUE Fronteiras Journal - a Brazilian open journal. No APC required. - [1]http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/fronteiras/announcement/view /50 Guest Editors: Eloy Vieira (Unisinos University) Fernanda Carrera (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Leila Sousa (Federal University of Maranhão) and Pablo Moreno Fernandes (UFMG) In recent years, the intersectional perspective has been highlighted in research focused on acknowledge how discrimination articulates by different structures of oppression. The perspective is widely disseminated by the ideas of American black jurist and feminist, Kimberlé Crenshaw, who systematized the concept of “intersectionality” in 1989 in the United States. In Brazil, and a few years earlier but still in the 1980s, Lélia Gonzalez already denounced the effects of the double oppression of sexism and racism over black women. Beyond universities, the concept has been appropriated by social movements. It also circulates in discourses on digital platforms that try to draw attention to the way these oppressions cross and structure the everyday practices of many people. Thus, this configures huge gaps in spaces of power and construction of knowledge. The debate on intersectionality and its effects in everyday lives finds fertile ground in digital platforms for the inclusion of diverse experiences and concrete experiences in view of the particularity of each person. We announce a call for a special issue of Fronteiras Journal, a Brazil-based open access journal, on intersectionality and digital platforms. The special issue encourages submissions that explore one or more of the following issues: 1. Intersectionality, citizenship and social media 2. Feminisms and intersectionality in digital platforms 3. Intersectionality beyond race and gender 4. Intersectionality and decoloniality on social media 5. Masculinities and intersectionality 6. Tactics, strategies, invisibilities and surveillance 7. Migrations, diasporas and other displacements 8. Digital infrastructures and intersectionality 9. Political articulation, intersectionality and digital platforms 10. Intersectional resistance and confrontations on digital platforms 11. Platformization and affordances in the struggles against oppressions 12. Intersectionality and Globalization 13. Intersectionality and performances 14. Intersectionality and consumption on digital platforms 15. Privacy and data protection around intersectionality 16. Algorithms, AI and the platformization of oppression 17. Methodologies and Intersectionality in practice 18. Intersectional limitations and utopias TIMELINE July 09, 2021 Closing date for submission of 500-word abstract - revistafronteiras(a)gmail.com July 30, 2021 - Invitations to submit full-length papers September 24, 2021 - Deadline for submitting full-length papers (5,000-8,000 words) December, 2021 - Publication of special issue If you have any queries, please send an email to revistafronteiras(a)gmail.com Rafael Grohmann Editor-in-chief - Fronteiras Journal Assistant Professor in Communication, Unisinos University, Brazil Coordinator of DigiLabour Research Lab References 1. http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/fronteiras/announcement/view/50

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Surveillance Studies Network Book Award: Call for Nominations
by Greg Wise 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

This call may be of interest to some on this list. Cheers, Greg Call for Nominations: Surveillance Studies Network Book Award: 2021 The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual Surveillance Studies Book Award. The award is given in recognition of an outstanding monograph on surveillance published during the preceding year. We are currently inviting nominations for 2021 (i.e., books with a ‘2020’ copyright date). Single or multi-authored works are eligible, but not edited volumes. The winner will receive an award amount of £100 (to be split among authors if there is more than one), as well as a 1-year membership for the Surveillance Studies Network (SSN), which provides benefits including discounts on all SSN-sponsored conferences and events. The winner/s will be announced in late 2021 and will be honored at the 2022 SSN conference, if possible. Using the subject heading “SSN Book Award 2021,” please email the committee chair, Greg Wise (Gregwise(a)asu.edu) to nominate a book. Please include the title of the book, year of publication, author, publishing house, and a paragraph of no more than 250 words detailing specifics about why this book would be suitable for the award. The deadline for receipt of books from the publisher is August 31st, 2021. A copy of the book must be sent to each member of the prize committee (addresses will be provided). Hard copies are preferred where possible. Please note that books will not be returned. SSN Book Award Committee Members: Mr. Egwuchukwu Ani, Renaissance University, Nigeria Dr. Chiara Fonio, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Dr. Torin Monahan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Dr. J. Macgregor Wise, Arizona State University, USA Find out more about the Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) and how to become a member here: http://www.surveillance-studies.net/

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Call for Papers - Machine Vision in Context: politics and practices of computational seeing - photographies
by Martin Hand 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

photographies – Call for Papers Special Issue: Machine Vision in Context: Politics and Practices of Computational Seeing Issue Editors: Martin Hand (Queen’s University) and Ashley Scarlett (Alberta University of the Arts) This special issue will bring together interdisciplinary scholarship that engages critically with the evolving, recursive interrelations between machine vision and photography. The heightened capacities of machines to ‘see’ and visually categorize the world have been the subject of numerous recent journalistic exposés and public outcry. Whether critiquing the role that machine vision plays in efforts to track, detain, and penalize targeted communities, or charting the incorporation of similar technologies into urban infrastructures, self-driving cars and ‘smart’ appliances, there is a growing awareness that it is reshaping what is seen and what counts as seeing. Online, recognition algorithms increasingly automate the tasks of tagging, categorizing, and extracting meaning from the “unmanageable and unassimilable” accumulation of images circulating across networked environments (Henning 2018). Within this context of volume, scale, and distributed production, the photographic image appears to have receded from the realm of human perception (Zylinska 2017), working instead as an ‘operative’ agent (Hoelzl & Marie 2015) that drives and draws together the constellation of hard and soft platforms that comprise the contemporary mediascape (Dvořák and Parikka 2021; Mackenzie & Munster 2019). Images and their audiences are being ‘put to work,’ as the solicitation and generation of metadata as well as the non-human recognition of pixel- and user-based patterns facilitates the improvement and expansion of computerized vision (Sluis 2020). At stake is an unprecedented automation of visual culture, through the infrastructural dimensions of platforms and image economies, corporate and political efforts to harness these ‘structures of seeing’, and multi-faceted configurations of technologies such as facial recognition, wearable cameras, drones, locative media, and so forth (McCosker and Wilson 2020; Mackenzie 2017). This transforms or perhaps further reveals the radically contingent spatial and temporal dynamics of photography, its experimental forms (Gerling 2018), and tensions between its expanding role in expressive human sociability (Henning 2021) and the aims of computational interpretation to determine visual meaning (Geboers & Van De Wiele 2020; Zylinska 2021). We are at a critical juncture where the distinctive categories of the networked image, image processing, machine vision and the like, appear conjoined in ways that require critical engagement to properly understand their implications for contemporary photographic practices. Correspondingly, grounded examinations of how photographic images and practices are being used to advance the aims and applications of machine vision also present an opportunity for greater insight into the politics and practices of computerized seeing. This special issue will thus be concerned with examining the multiple challenges this suite of evolving technologies poses for the continued salience of the photographic, the contemporary politics of image making, distribution, ordering and interpretation, and the practices of personal and artistic photography. How are different forms of machine vision shaping practices of looking, seeing, sensing, and witnessing associated with photography? What are the historical continuities and discontinuities between imaginaries and technical aspects of machine vision in photographic practices? How and in what ways are historically embedded forms of visual inequalities being replicated or disrupted by computerized modes of seeing? How is machine vision being appropriated for social justice? How have artists developed critiques of machine vision? What roles are artistic interventions playing in the public understanding of machine vision? We seek substantial contributions (4,000-6,000 words) that engage with these issues and questions. Particular topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Genealogical histories and prehistories of machine vision in photography * The roles of photographic images in training A.I. systems * Ethnographic examinations of visual content moderation or image-based microwork * Photographic expertise and literacies in machine learning * Categorizations and classifications that emerge in response to machine vision * Embodied and affective experiences of automation in vernacular photography * Changes in visual perception associated with machine learning * Everyday and mundane expressions of machine vision applications and techniques (e.g., filter apps; tagging practices) * Vision and seeing in ‘smart’ technologies and environments * Role of the photographic in multi-sensory applications * Computerized vision in professional domains (e.g., medicine; manufacturing; urban planning; etc.) * Use of automated images in track and trace surveillance * Evidential paradigms in machine vision * Artistic and activist exposures, critiques, and appropriations of computerized vision * The grounds of the image in computerized vision Please submit abstracts (350-500 words max ) and queries to: handm(a)queensu.ca<mailto:handm@queensu.ca> and ashley.scarlett(a)auarts.ca<mailto:ashley.scarlett@auarts.ca> Deadline: Abstracts due July 7th, 2021; Papers due May 1st, 2022. Abstracts and papers will have the benefit of full peer review before acceptance. Martin Hand Associate Professor Department of Sociology handm(a)queensu.ca https://www.queensu.ca/ Queen’s University sits on the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples.

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Launching of the First African electronic literature database
by Waliya, Yohanna Joseph 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

Hi to all, African Electronic Literature Alliance is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting to launch the Multilingual African Electronic Literature Database & African Diasporic Electronic Literature Database (MAELD & ADELD) Time: Jun 12, 2021 03:00 PM West Central Africa Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/77262021771?pwd=WWFvYm5uYkdxR2dNSG4rSHdKWVcyQT09 Meeting ID: 772 6202 1771 Passcode: bTZZ67 Thanks All the best! Waliya, Yohanna Joseph Enseignant et chercheur à l'université de Calabar. Auteur de La récolte de vie, Quand l'Afrique se lèvera etc. Mail: waliyayohannajoseph(a)unical.edu.ng Mobile:+2348038940016. Webs: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4456-7458<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4456-7458> https://unical-ng.academia.edu/WALIYAYOHANNAJOSEPH https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yohanna_Waliya http://vispo.com/guests/waliya/

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WEBCAST TODAY: Conversations with… Rodney Taylor, Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union
by Joly MacFie 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

ICYMI Rodney Taylor recently stepped up to the post of CTU Sec Gen <https://today.caricom.org/2021/03/01/rodney-taylor-appointed-ctu-secretary-…>. Bernadette Lewis leaves some big shoes to fill! <https://www.telecomreview.com/index.php/articles/reports-and-coverage/4257-…> Today we'll hear his outlook on all things Digital Caribbean. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Thursday June 3 2021, at 7pm AST (23:00 UTC) the Internet Society Trinidad and Tobago Chapter presents 'Conversations with... Rodney Taylor, Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union'. This is the first webinar of a series that co" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoctt1>Today, *Thursday June 3 2021*, at *7pm AST* (23:00 UTC) the* Internet Society Trinidad and Tobago Chapter <https://isoc.tt>* presents '*Conversations with... Rodney Taylor, Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union*'. This is the first webinar of a series that consists of conversations with a single guest, focusing on issues surrounding the Digital Caribbean. *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoctt1 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoctt1>* *PARTICIPATE VIA TEAMS http://t.ly/1D8u <http://t.ly/1D8u>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3g5IabW <https://bit.ly/3g5IabW>* *TWITTER @isoctt <https://bit.ly/3x0d1O5> #conversationswith Rodney Taylor @CTUSecGen @TheCtunion* *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/NetGovCaribbean <https://www.facebook.com/NetGovCaribbean>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/isoctt1 <https://archive.org/details/isoctt1>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14095/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST TODAY: Webinar on Rebuilding and Enhancing Trust in Algorithms Policy
by Joly MacFie 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

This is an issue in many countries. Good to see the UK appears to be taking the bull by the horns. Regular viewers may recall Dr Koene's primer at the UK IGF in 2018 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ukigf18/videos/184032622>. ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday 3 June 2021. at 16:00 BST (15:00 UTC) the Internet Society UK England Chapter hosts a webinar 'Rebuilding and Enhancing Trust in Algorithms Policy'. This webinar is based on the presentation of the policy implications and recommendations based" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoc-england-algorithms>On *Thursday 3 June 2021*. at *16:00 BST* (15:00 UTC) the* Internet Society UK England Chapter <https://isoc-e.org/>* hosts a webinar '*Rebuilding and Enhancing Trust in Algorithms Policy <https://isoc-e.org/trust-in-algorithms-policy/>*'. This webinar is based on the presentation of the policy implications and recommendations based on the outcomes of the *EPSRC <https://epsrc.ukri.org/>* funded *ReEnTrust <https://reentrust.org/>* project. ReEnTrust was a collaboration of the *Human Centred Computing Group <https://hcc.cs.ox.ac.uk/>* at the University of Oxford, the *Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute <https://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/aiai>* (AIAI) at the University of Edinburgh, and the *HORIZON Digital Economy Research <https://www.horizon.ac.uk>* at the University of Nottingham. An *invite-only event <https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/events/apgda-roundtable-rebuilding-trust-a…> *was organised last week by the Project Leaders with the *All Party Parliamentary Group on Data Analytics <https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/appgda>* (APGDA). The project results were so impressive that they merit being shared more widely – thus this Webinar. Algorithms control everyone’s experience of the Internet – it is time that you find out how and learn what needs to be done to mitigate this problem. *PRESENTER* *Dr. Ansgar Koene <https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/ansgar.koene>*, University of Nottingham. *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoc-england-algorithms <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoc-england-algorithms>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3yOPNfD <https://bit.ly/3yOPNfD>* *TWITTER #Algorithms @ISOCUKEngland <https://bit.ly/3vHJAA5> @ReEnTrust @arkoene @HorizonDER #AIAI @EdinburghUni @oxhcai @Policy_Connect @EPSRC #EthicalAI* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/isoc-england-algorithms <https://archive.org/details/isoc-england-algorithms>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14087/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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PhD Studentship in Photography and Digital Heritage
by Giuliana Tiripelli 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

Dear Colleagues, De Montfort University is offering a fully-funded 3-year PhD scholarship for the research project Distilling the Photographic Mass: Photography and Digital Heritage at the National Trust. Commencing 1 October 2021, the project will interrogate the potential of image-based digital heritage to fulfil the aims and obligations of the heritage industries, through investigation of the National Trust’s photography collections. Interested applicants are invited to apply for consideration by 21 June 2021. For more details and information about the application process, as well as on how to apply, please visit the following page on FindAPhD: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/distilling-the-photographic-mass-phot… Or, you may visit the Studentship webpage directly via: https://photographichistory.wordpress.com/2021/05/29/phd-studentship-in-pho… We will be grateful if you could please share the information above with anyone who may be interested. Best Regards, Giuliana Tiripelli Senior Lecturer in Digital Journalism & Media Discourse <https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/technology/giuliana-tiripell…> Media Discourse Centre <http://www.dmu.ac.uk/mdc> De Montfort University, Leicester UK @iulikravitz <https://twitter.com/iulikravitz>

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DDP 2021
by ijwa＠dline.info 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

Second International Conference on Digital Data Processing Marrakesh, Morocco November 11-13, 2021 [1]www.socio.org.uk/ddp (IEEE CPS. Papers should follow IEEE template) Digital data technologies gain growth in the last two decades and have widespread applications. In the information world, humans and machine agents are dependent on good quality data to be capable to infer and learn from it through a process of knowledge engineering. Users leverage opportunities to implement interventions that could facilitate optimal access to reputable scientific data, thereby fostering the knowledge process by making data findable and available to information agents. Many professionals and end-users need to continuously develop their data skills to enable themselves to be smarter in the use, process, visualize and apply data. The First International Conference on Digital Data Processing was organized at the University of Bedfordshire, Luton in UK. The second event will be held at Marrakesh in Morocco. The topics in DDP 2021 include but are not confined to the following areas. Information Technology Management Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government Edge and Fog Computing Data Analytics Software Engineering Deep Learning Natural Lanaguage Processing Smart Learning and Smart Cities Signal Processing Network Services Data Mining and Text Mining Knowledge Graphs, Recommender System, Ontology Computational Linguistics Distributed information systems Information visualization Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Image Analysis and Image Processing Cloud Computing Computational Intelligence Privacy, Security and Trusted Computing Machine Learning Human-Computer Interaction Internet of Things Publications DDP is technically supported by IEEE CPS. The DDP papers will be submitted for publication and indexing in IEEE Xplore. Besides, modified versions of the papers will appear in the following journals. 1. Journal on Data Semantics 2. Technologies 3. Data Technologies and Applications 4. Webology 5. Journal of Digital Information Management 6. International Journal of Computational Linguistics 7. Journal of Optimization 8. Future Internet Important Dates Full Paper Submission July 31, 2021 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 05, 2021 Registration Due October 05, 2021 Camera Ready Due October 05, 2021 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos November 12, 2021 Main conference November: 11-13 , 2021 Keynote Speakers Eleni (Helen) Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK Program Committee Honorary Chairs Ahmed MOUSSA, Director of National School of Applied Sciences, Tangier, Morocco Bouchta El Moumni, vice-President of Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tetouan, Morocco Mohamed Addou, Dean of the faculty of sciences and techniques, Tangier, Morocco Program Chairs Aziz El Janati El Idrissi, Ministre d’éducation et d’enseignement supérieur Mohamed V University. Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Zemmour Zaër, Morocco Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Ahmed Moussa, Director of National School of Applied Sciences, Tangier, Morocco Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Program Co-Chairs Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Paper Submission: [2]http://socio.org.uk/ddp/paper- submission/ Contact: [3]ddp(a)socio.org.uk References 1. http://www.socio.org.uk/ddp 2. http://socio.org.uk/ddp/paper 3. mailto:ddp@socio.org.uk

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invitation to survey on social robots in healthcare
by Katherine Harrison 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

Dear all, My colleague, Maria Arnelid and I from Linköping University, together with Neziha Akalin from Örebro University, would like to invite you to participate in a 10-15 minute online human-robot interaction study. In this study, you will watch a video of a robot in a healthcare context interacting with a patient. After the video, you will be asked to complete a questionnaire. You can also participate in an interview and let us know your ideas about the video and robots in healthcare in general. All volunteers should be aged 18 or over. To take part, click here <https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=7Bg_kSZ_X0yoFnhP6aWO3cJ…> .(:// forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=7Bg_kSZ_X0yoFnhP6aWO3cJIsK4d15V… ) If you have any questions, or know other people that may be interested in the study, do not hesitate to contact Neziha Akalin neziha.akalin(a)oru.se or Maria Arnelid maria.arnelid(a)liu.se. Many thanks in advance! Katherine Harrison

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WEBCAST TODAY: Challenges at Layer 8: Network neutrality, the digital divide and spectrum
by Joly MacFie 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

theNetworkingChannel is a collab between Empower, PAWR Office and ACM Sigcomm. This is their 6th webinar. Previous sessions can be found on their YouTube Channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAtFAG5JdQrHac6ArIWJ-hw>. ISOC Live posted: "On Wednesday 2 June 2021 at 15:00 UTC theNetworking Channel hosts a panel 'Challenges at Layer 8: Network neutrality, the digital divide and spectrum'. As the internet has become critical infrastructure and indispensable, policy makers in many countries a" <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/nwc-layer8>On *Wednesday 2 June 2021* at *15:00 UTC* *theNetworking Channel <https://networkingchannel.eu/>* hosts a panel '*Challenges at Layer 8: Network neutrality, the digital divide and spectrum <https://networkingchannel.eu/challenges-at-layer-8-network-neutrality-the-d…>*'. As the internet has become critical infrastructure and indispensable, policy makers in many countries are struggling with the same questions: What should be the regulatory obligations of telecommunications carriers? How can we ensure that rural areas and low-income households have access to the internet? And how can we manage scarce spectrum to enable new services, increase competition and protect vital existing services? While each of these issues is hard, they are also interdependent. *SPEAKERS* *Scott Marcus* – Senior Fellow at Bruegel, Belgium *Eric Burger* – Professor of Computer Science, Georgetown University, USA *Chris Marsden* – Professor of Internet Law, University of Sussex, UK *Sonia Jorge* – Executive Director, A4AI, Head of Digital Inclusion, Web Foundation *Paul Brooks* – Consulting CTO and Chair of Internet Australia, Australia *ORGANIZER* *Henning Schulzrinne* – Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Mathematical Methods and Computer Science and Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, USA *LIVESTREAM* *http://livestream.com/internetsociety/nwc-layer8 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/nwc-layer8>* *TWITTER #layer8 @thenetworkingc1 <https://bit.ly/3ccOVrk> Scott Marcus @Bruegel_org Eric Burger @Georgetown @ChrisTMarsden @SoniaA4AI PWB_inAus @HSchulzrinne* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/nwc-layer8* <https://archive.org/details/nwc-layer8> *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14091/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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