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Building Inclusive, Ethical, and Accessible AI for Healthcare
by Ayushi Tandon 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

Dear AoIRists I wish to share the following event which may be of interest for folks concerned about AI ethics in Healthcare. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-inclusive-ethical-and-accessible-ai-f… Thanks and Regards (Stay safe) Ayushi [Women in AI Ethics™Collective & event organizing committee member ] -- Ayushi Tandon PhD Candidate | Information Systems Area ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D-29 | R-33 Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - 380015 M: 8008900319 | Land phone: (079) 6632 2933

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CfP: "Crowd Control," SHOT 2021 (Abstracts 4/7)
by Scott Kushner 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

Dear AOIRians, I'm proposing an open session called "Crowd Control" for the 2021 meeting of SHOT, the Society for the History of Technology (New Orleans, November 18-21), and I think it may be of interest to internet studies folks who are interested in the management of crowds online. If that sounds like you, I hope you'll consider submitting an abstract. Queries and abstracts (by 7 April) to scottkushner(a)uri.edu. See below or visit https://tinyurl.com/CrowdControlSHOT2021. *** CROWD CONTROL Organizer: Scott Kushner, University of Rhode Island Queues, gates, doorways, turnstiles, stanchions, guards, cages, pens, cells, anterooms, hallways, cameras, bottlenecks, streets, signage, velvet ropes, bouncers, bleachers, fences, barriers, ushers: the methods of crowd control are technological interventions. The ways that crowds have been constituted, apprehended, understood are historically, geographically, and culturally contingent. The discourses that differentiate crowds from (and conflate them with) adjacent categories of analysis, such as audiences, mobs, masses, multitudes, are similarly variable across different contexts. The purposes to which crowd control has been put have also changed over time and space, organizing the flows and stases of bodies in order to impose political, social, cultural, and economic logics specific to and co-constitutive of the contexts in which its various technologies are situated. This SHOT session seeks to develop an understanding of technologies used to control crowds of people over time. Participants will present research on historically-situated technological devices, protocols, systems, and infrastructures that modify built and natural environments in order to contain, channel, direct, arrange, expel, disperse, and otherwise direct the movements and stillnesses of human bodies. The significance of this work to the history of technology lies in concentrating discussion about the ways that technological interventions have shaped the spatial dispositions of groups of human bodies in order to sculpt the experiences of those spaces and of the crowds of people those spaces attract. Proposals engaging with any era and geographic context are welcome. The organizer is interested in placing in conversation scholars and audience members working with and curious about a range of materials and methodologies. Potential participants are therefore invited to imagine the notion of crowd control in adventurous manners. Note: A pair of panels had been constituted for SHOT 2020, which was cancelled due to public health concerns. Not all panelists are able to participate in SHOT 2021, so a small number of additional papers will be selected to round out the group. Procedure: Those interested in proposing presentations for potential inclusion in this session should kindly prepare a one-page abstract (500 words maximum) and a one-page short CV (300 words maximum) with current contact information. Please send these materials to Scott Kushner ( scottkushner(a)uri.edu) no later than April 7, 2021. If you will be a first-time SHOT presenter, do not hold a tenure-stream position, are no more than two years from receipt of a terminal academic degree, and wish to be considered for the Robinson Prize, please indicate as much in your abstract. (Find information about the Robinson Prize at the SHOT website.) -- Scott Kushner Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies Harrington School of Communication and Media University of Rhode Island 312 Davis Hall 10 Lippitt Rd. Kingston, R.I. 02881 +1 (401) 874-5223 scottkushner(a)uri.edu

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HICSS CfP: Games & Gaming
by Nathaniel Poor 20 Mar '21

20 Mar '21

HICSS CfP: Game Scholars and Hawaii in January! Face to face! Games & Gaming (Social and Digital Media) 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) January 4-7, 2022, at the Hyatt Regency Maui For the sixth straight year, the Games & Gaming minitrack at HICSS is seeking papers that examine the social aspects of digital gaming. We feature work related to digital games and sociality that covers a variety of methods: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods papers are welcome, ranging from interviews to big data analyses, as well as theoretical papers looking at digital gaming practices in general. Student authors are welcome! Types of games studied may include mobile, social, free to play, AAA, MMOs, PC, console, multiplayer, and indie games. As part of the Digital and Social Media track, papers must contain a social dimension, examining, for example, sociability, social practices, communities (in-game, out-game, across multiple spaces or time), use of social affordances, or some other social dimension. Accepted papers will be published as part of the open access conference proceedings. Last year’s papers are available online at: https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/72169 DATES April 15: Submission site opens (see http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/) June 15, 11:59 pm HST: Papers due August 17: Decision notification September 22: Camera ready version due October 1: Deadline for at least one author to register for HICSS-55 January 4-7, 2022: Conference! TOPICS Esports Fantasy sports leagues Streaming gameplay (e.g., Twitch) Game curation via sites like Steam Fans and fan communities Community management Social affordances of games Network analysis of groups and communities in games Social practices (in-game, out-game, both) Player communities Toxicity online Multiplayer games Cooperative and competitive play Multigenerational play Intercultural play LINKS HICSS: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Author Instructions: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ Digital and Social Media track: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-54/digital-and-social-media/ CO-CHAIRS Nathaniel Poor (Primary Contact Co-Chair) Underwood Institute natpoor(a)gmail.com Kelly Bergstrom University of Hawai’i at Mānoa kelly.bergstrom(a)hawaii.edu Kishonna Gray University of Illinois, Chicago unicorn(a)uic.edu ------------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. (he/him/his) http://github.com/natpoor http://natpoor.blogspot.com/ http://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/ http://www.underwood-institute.org/

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Talk on Tuesday: Brent Allpress - data misuse & 'People You May Know'
by Dr. Emma Briant 20 Mar '21

20 Mar '21

Dear Colleagues and friends, I'm delighted to be able to invite you all to a talk I am hosting with Brent Allpress on Tuesday at 8:45amET (zoom invite below). As you may recall 'People You May Know' is a documentary film which I contributed research for/advised on, which came out in October just before the election. My 'Contemporary Propaganda' class are being given a screening of the film which examines Cambridge Analytica's role in misuse of mental health and church data by conservative Christian non-profits for politics - you can watch the film too before the event on Amazon Prime <https://www.amazon.com/People-You-Know-Charles-Kriel/dp/B08JFZ1YLP>. Dr Brent Allpress was the primary researcher for the film and has done further digging too into the 'Stop the Steal' data operations which were key on January 6 and he will talk about both of these on Tuesday. I do hope you will join us for what will be an important talk. Many thanks, Emma Emma Briant is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Brent Allpress - People You May Know Time: Mar 23, 2021 08:45 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/81319434008?pwd=REFIOERWRXB1UlUwbkU2ZmljVzloZz09 Meeting ID: 813 1943 4008 Passcode: 206012 One tap mobile +13017158592,,81319434008# US (Washington DC) +13126266799,,81319434008# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 813 1943 4008 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kc5gSQ2P4X Join by SIP 81319434008(a)zoomcrc.com Join by H.323 162.255.37.11 (US West) 162.255.36.11 (US East) 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) 213.244.140.110 (Germany) 103.122.166.55 (Australia Sydney) 103.122.167.55 (Australia Melbourne) 149.137.40.110 (Singapore) 64.211.144.160 (Brazil) 69.174.57.160 (Canada Toronto) 65.39.152.160 (Canada Vancouver) 207.226.132.110 (Japan Tokyo) 149.137.24.110 (Japan Osaka) Meeting ID: 813 1943 4008 Passcode: 206012 -- Dr Emma L Briant Independent Researcher/Author/Analyst Associate Researcher at Human Rights Program Bard College, Annandale on Hudson New York Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant

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The Case Against Spreadsheets
by Stuart Shulman 20 Mar '21

20 Mar '21

The Case Against Spreadsheets https://vimeo.com/526218014 When is a Tweet not a Tweet? My answer: “When it appears in a spreadsheet, or is deleted, or the account has been suspended.” Though the video title sounds polemical, half of the argument strongly supports doing certain parts of Twitter research using spreadsheets. Indeed, Twitter is actively encouraging and training academic researchers to transform raw JSON into CSV files for research purposes. Though I find it counterintuitive to mechanically separate the data from the platform that gives it vitality beyond the moment of the Tweet, I do it all the time with Twitter metadata for a variety of research and model building purposes. However, it is the interactional, evolving, multimodal media content, and distinctive, color-rich look and feel that makes Twitter a quintessential early 21st century social media platform. No spreadsheet can capture that. The case against spreadsheets is rooted in a desire for reliable and authentic interpretation practices for digital artifacts. Tweets do not live and cannot make meaning in spreadsheets. Many researchers wait weeks, months, or years to find the time to look at the data closely. After the collection process stops, Tweets often get deleted. Accounts are suspended or deleted. Though a sophisticated (usually well-funded) research team might have a system and method for compliance checking deletions and suspensions at scale, there is no practical way to check and recheck the 10 million Tweets per month academics can now get under Twitter’s new sponsored quotas. Studying Tweet content in spreadsheets is like studying polar bears in a zoo to explain their fate on the melting ice caps. Many things are fundamentally different at the zoo. Inductive and qualitative methods require seeing Tweets in the native display. The same is true for medium to large scale content analysis, where machine-learning training models informed by features intrinsic in the Twitter display are often more robust than those trained on observations that are text-based only. I have heard the story repeatedly of researchers clicking from spreadsheets to Twitter and back to the spreadsheet to record their observation. This common practice is a lot of work on the mouse. Anyone who has done it at any scale has probably felt the carpal tunnel kick in as it requires a minimum of 4-5 clicks, perhaps more depending on labeling variations. In the video, I describe findings accumulated over ten years of studying and coding Tweets using the Twitter display, obscuring deleted and suspended content in real time, and avoiding whenever possible the computer mouse. Dr. Stuart ShulmanU.S. Soccer Federation C-Licensed Coach

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Celebration of General Comment No.25 on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment
by Livingstone,S 20 Mar '21

20 Mar '21

Last chance to register, and apologies for cross-posting… [https://mcusercontent.com/8fce13cdeeb06829d8306b567/images/7dc4a6af-4fcd-4b…] Please join us to celebrate the adoption of General Comment No.25 which sets out how the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child applies in the digital environment. 24th March | 3–4pm GMT Register Here<https://5rightsfoundation.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8fce13cdeeb0682…> Introduced by: * Luis Ernesto Pedernera Reyna, Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Keynotes from: * Professor Shoshana Zuboff, renowned author and Harvard academic * Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, International Bar Association Human Rights Institute Interactive session (including Q&A) - Baroness Beeban Kidron, Chair, 5Rights Foundation and 5Rights General Comment Steering Group - in conversation with: * Dr Philip Jaffé, Member, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child; and Coordinator of the General Comment No.25 Working Group * Mason Rickard, Tarique Kenny and Mairead Reid who, with other young people across the globe, contributed to the development of the General Comment * Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE, London School of Economics and Political Science, lead author of the 5Rights General Comment Steering Group And more! Register Here<https://5rightsfoundation.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8fce13cdeeb0682…> [Share on Twitter]<https://5rightsfoundation.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8fce13cdeeb0682…> Share on Twitter<https://5rightsfoundation.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8fce13cdeeb0682…> [Share on LinkedIn]<https://5rightsfoundation.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8fce13cdeeb0682…> Share on LinkedIn<https://5rightsfoundation.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8fce13cdeeb0682…> [https://mcusercontent.com/8fce13cdeeb06829d8306b567/images/6678253e-bdc9-44…] © 5Rights Foundation UK 2021, Registered Charity 178581 info(a)5rightsfoundation.com<mailto:info@5rightsfoundation.com> 5Rights Foundation, Suite 6, 313-314 Upper St, London N1 2XQ Home<https://5rightsfoundation.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8fce13cdeeb0682…> | Contact Us<mailto:info@5rightsfoundation.com> | Privacy Policy<https://5rightsfoundation.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8fce13cdeeb0682…> | Unsubscribe<https://5rightsfoundation.us9.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=8fce13cdeeb0682…>

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CFC: Advances in Blockchain Technology for Cyber-Physical Systems by Springer
by Yassine MALEH 20 Mar '21

20 Mar '21

*Edited Book: **Advances in Blockchain Technology for Cyber-Physical Systems* *Publication in "Internet of Things <https://www.springer.com/series/11636>", by Springer and indexed by Scopus* *Submission link: Submission link <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=blockcps21>* *Chapter Submission Deadline: May 15, 2021 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Editors of the Springer Book *"**Advances in Blockchain Technology for Cyber-Physical Systems"* invites submissions containing Original, High-Quality Ideas that are relevant to the SCOPE OF THE BOOK. The full chapter may kindly be sent in Latex or Word format. The book will MAINLY focus on significant issues in the field of Blockchain Technology for Cyber-Physical Systems. The book is mainly intended for post-graduate students, research scholars, academics, industry, and research lab scientists. This book aims to provide a state-of-the-art of research results, applications, and real Blockchain deployment scenarios related to Cyber-physicals Systems. EXPERIENCED Authors and Contributors in the field of Blockchain and cyber-physical systems may kindly submit their chapter. All chapter proposals that conform to submission guidelines will be peer-reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and research content, depth, correctness, relevance to the book's scope, and readability. *Topics of Interest:* This book targets a mixed audience of researchers, academics and investigators from different communities to share and exchange new ideas, approaches, theories and practices to resolve the challenging issues associated with the leveraging of Blockchain Technology for Cyber-Physical Systems. Therefore, the suggested topics of interest for this book include, but are not limited to: - Blockchain-based applications for cyber-physical systems - Use-cases of blockchain and AI in CPS - Blockchain for Internet of Things applications - Lightweight protocols and algorithms for blockchains in CPS - Blockchain for cybersecurity in cyber-physical systems - Security, privacy, and trust in and of blockchain-enabled/augmented - Service-oriented blockchains in IoT and CPS - Blockchain-based security solutions of critical infrastructures - Blockchain for securing cyber infrastructure and Internet of Things - Blockchain technology for Smart Cities - Blockchains in SCADA - Blockchains in Smart Grids - Blockchain in Supply Chain - Blockchain for Smart Transport application - Blockchain-based Technology for Industrial Control System *Submission Procedure:* Authors are invited to submit their full chapter by *May 15, 2021*. Manuscripts submitted for the book must be original, must not be previously published or currently under review anywhere. Submitted manuscripts should respect the standard guidelines of the Springer book chapter format. Manuscripts must be prepared using Latex, or Word, and according to the Springer requirements that can be downloaded from the (*link <https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/resources-…>*) and the Chapter should contain in between *15-24 pages*. Manuscripts that do not follow the formatting rules will be rejected without review. Prospective authors should send their manuscripts electronically through easychair submission system as mentioned below: *https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=blockcps21* <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=blockcps21> *NB:* There are *no submission or acceptance fees* for manuscripts submitted to this book publication. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process. *Abstracting and Indexing:* The accepted chapters will be published in "*Internet of Things <https://www.springer.com/series/11636>*" by *Springer*, highly indexed in *Scopus.* *Contact: * For questions regarding the book, please contact the *volume editors*: - *Yassine Maleh*: yassine.maleh(a)ieee.org - *Saad Motahhir*: saad.motahhir(a)ieee.org <yassine.maleh(a)ieee.org> We look forward to hearing from you. -- Y. Maleh, Ph.D., SMIEEE *Associate Editor,* IEEE *Access, IJISP, IJDCF* Phone +212 608 867 568 *yassine.maleh(a)ieee.org <yassine.maleh(a)ieee.org>* ORC*ID* <http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4704-5364> ; *Pub* <https://publons.com/researcher/1529982>lons

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Indigenous/First peoples and digital data/information
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

For metadata, you might look at the TK (Traditional Knowledge) labels https://localcontexts.org/labels/traditional-knowledge-labels/ /Caroline Caroline Haythornthwaite Professor, School of Information Studies Syracuse University chaythor(a)syr.edu > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 07:12:23 +0000 > From: Geoff Lush <Geoffrey.Lush(a)parliament.govt.nz> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Indigenous/First peoples and digital data/information > Message-ID: <509e9ab1c0504ff79654666a4259d5fe(a)parliament.govt.nz> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello all > > A broad request I know, but I thought I'd ask the group's collective wisdom regarding any authoritative sources for Indigenous/First People's perspectives, methodologies and treatments of digital data. > > This can relate to matters surrounding indigenous people's approaches to the management, processing and application of online data, metadata, information, social media etc. This could relate to intellectual property, etc. but can also any philosophical approaches to the management of that data/information that may also be involved. > > Many thanks in advance for any responses. > > Geoff Lush > New Zealand Parliamentary Library > > ________________________________ >

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Study about Consumer Buying Behavior
by Isabel Helm 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

Hi everyone! I hope you are having a nice day. I am a psychology student at the University of Konstanz in Germany and currently conducting a study. The topic of my research is consumer buying behavior. I would really appreciate if you could spend a few minutes to answer the survey. It only takes about 5-10 minutes. Here is the link to the study: http://wextor.eu:8080/ambiv/foodproducts/ Thank you so much! Isabel Helm

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Social Media and Adolescent Health: Academic Conferences
by Amrit PURBA (PGR) 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

Good morning Colleagues, I hope this email finds you well. I am an MRC funded PhD Scholar at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow and my PhD research is focussed on investigating the relationship between social media use and adolescent health risk behaviours. I am trying to identify academic conferences best suited to present my research and wondered if there were any you were aware of beyond those outlined below, any guidance you can provide would be most appreciated. World Congress on Adolescent Health European Public Health Conference Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Society of Social Medicine Society of Epidemiological Research International Association for Adolescent Health World Congress EiP Excellence in Paediatrics Best wishes, Amrit Kaur Purba PhD Candidate MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow Berkeley Square 99 Berkeley Street Glasgow G3 7HR Email: a.purba.1(a)research.gla.ac.uk Twitter: @AmritKPurba www.glasgow.ac.uk/sphsu www.twitter.com/thesphsu

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