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Lecturer in Digital Journalism at Birkbeck, University of London
by Scott Rodgers 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Birkbeck, University of London is recruiting a new Lecturer in Digital Journalism! Lecturer in Digital Journalism Salary range: £38,594 rising to £53,342 Contract type :Open ended Mode: Full time Grade: Lecturer Department: Department of Film, Media & Cultural Studies Closing date for applicants: 30-Mar-2021 Ref No: 776 Documents: Recruitment Pack 776.pdf<https://cis7.bbk.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.view_blob?p_web_site_id=6056&p_we…> The new Lecturer in Digital Journalism will play a key role in developing our expanding portfolio of journalism courses and programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. You will bring a passion for innovative research-led teaching in digital newsgathering and digital news publishing, as well as a clear and cogent strategy for outstanding research in this emergent sub-discipline. The successful applicant will join a growing team of academics with a strong international research and impact profile. The successful applicant will hold a PhD in a related discipline and have an emergent research profile and publications. We are particularly interested in applicants that take a critical perspective on journalism’s evolving social purpose, especially in the context of emerging digital technologies (e.g. social platforms, mobile media, digital interfaces, data visualisation, recommendation systems) and their implications (e.g. digital surveillance, algorithmic decision-making, misinformation, platform power). Remuneration Lecturer Grade of the College's London Pay Scale which is £ 38,594 rising to £53,342 The salary quoted is on the College's London Pay Scale which includes a consolidated Weighting/Allowance which applies only to staff whose normal contractual place of work is in the London area. Enquiries If you would like to know more about the role please click on apply below or contact Dr Justin Schlosberg, Assistant Dean for Film, Media and Cultural Studies, via j.schlosberg(a)bbk.ac.uk<mailto:j.schlosberg@bbk.ac.uk> If you have technical issues or difficulties using the recruitment portal please contact jobs(a)bbk.ac.uk, providing your name and the job reference number of the position. While we are happy to respond to all informal enquiries, only formal applications through the online system will be considered. Birkbeck offers a competitive salary and pension scheme, 31 days paid leave, flexible working arrangements and some of the most generous benefits in the HE sector, all while being located right in the heart of Central London. We welcome applicants from all sections of the community. The College is committed to improving the gender and cultural diversity of its workforce, holding an Athena SWAN award, membership of WISE, operating Disability Confident & Mindful Employer schemes. Link to job vacancy ad: https://cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lecturer-in-digital-journalism-435633.html

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CfP: 4S 2021 - "Markets as Data: Knowledge, Automation, Governance"
by Kevin MELLET 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Dear colleagues, We invite your submissions to an Open Panel dedicated to “Markets as Data” at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting which will be held in Toronto (and online), 6-9 October 2021. STS scholars have long been interested in the diverse devices that equip markets, from market infrastructures to mundane marketing tools such as shopping carts, knowledge devices, and measuring instruments. As markets are digitized, consumer records, scoring and targeting instruments, trading machines, and so on are key to how markets operate. Data act as a versatile, yet vital, apparatus for markets, playing crucial roles in the form of devices, valuation tools, infrastructures, and assets. This panel will explore these various facets of data, and how they help to bring markets into being. We welcome empirical and theoretical investigations of markets as data. First, with big data technologies, marketing knowledge is increasingly produced from the analysis of large databases that combine heterogeneous arrays of information on consumers, products, firms, and market operations. These data are then stabilized through metrics, dashboards and standards. How do these new “data objects” and knowledge devices reconfigure practices? Second, data streams are fueling automation or decision-making systems: matching algorithms, trade desks, recommendation engines, smart contracts, market screening mechanisms, dashboards. How does automation reconfigure firms’ practices in markets? Third, data are increasingly marketized themselves, harvested from public-facing services such as social media. How do markets for data impact “conventional” markets? Finally, data practices are increasingly subject to specific governance that is often the object of fierce contestation: from regulation such as GDPR in Europe, industry-level self-regulation and labelling processes, to local framing within firms. How does the governance of data, and its contestation shape markets and marketization practices? Convenors: – Thomas Beauvisage, Orange Labs – Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh – Kevin Mellet, Sciences Po – Zsuzsanna Vargha, ESCP The deadline for submitting proposals is March 8, 2021. Open panel link: https://www.4sonline.org/120-markets-as-data-knowledge-automation-governanc… Submission link: https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/call-for-submissions/

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Summer School in Digital Methods for Critical Consumer Studies, Lake Como, 31 May - 4 June 2021
by Alessandro Gandini 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Hello Aoir folks, with apologies for crossposting, we welcome applications for the Summer School in Digital Methods for Critical Consumer Studies, which will be held in the wonderful setting of the Lake Como between 31 May - 5 June 2021. All information can be found here: https://dmcs.lakecomoschool.org/. The deadline for applications is 15 March 2021. Please share widely in particular among phds or postdocs who have an interest in digital methods and/or consumer research, broadly intended. Feel free to email me for any other information or question. Best wishes to all, Alessandro -- Alessandro Gandini Associate Professor of Sociology University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan @afrontiercity

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Call for Papers of Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing Special Issue on “AI Drives Our Future Life”
by Jui-Yi Tsai 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Call for Papers of Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing Special Issue on “AI Drives Our Future Life” SUMMARY While “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) becomes the mainstream of application techniques breakthrough, its impacts to our future life is unprecedented. AI becomes increasingly important for understanding complex data and offering intelligent processing to foster innovative business applications, self-driving cars, voice recognition, drug design, and new medical applications in the future. Recently, new technologies with explainable AI, such as federated learning, meta-learning, active learning, multi-task learning, inductive graph learning, transfer learning, and ensemble learning, have emerged and attracted considerable interests from both academic and industrial communities. Meanwhile, the rising prominence of AI has dramatically transformed a variety of domains. For intelligent wireless networks, due to privacy constraints and limited communication resources, distributed multi-agent reinforcement learning and federated learning are employed to solve complex convex and nonconvex optimization problems and collaboratively learn shared prediction models for user clustering, resource management, and interference alignment. For smart automatic driving, robust deep learning models that are capable to avoid adversarial examples are developed to analyze world state representations and behavior models, as well as forecast and control the car trajectory according to various sensors (e.g., cameras, HD maps, inertial measurement units, wheel encoders, LiDAR). Moreover, for immersive VR and AR, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely adopted to address scene segmentation, depth estimation, realistic 3D modeling, image fusion, whereas effective gaze estimation and prediction algorithms are designed to reduce the computation time for immersive view rendering. For health and digitized education, AI is also the cornerstone to infer indicators of disease activities for early detection of emerging outbreaks, and to facilitate knowledge tracing for online courses. To support the above applications, domain-specific software and hardware co-design in DNN accelerators is crucial to boost the performance and energy efficiency for various computation and memory-intensive tasks, making these models usable on smaller devices at the edge of the Internet. Researchers and practitioners are jointly devoting efforts to develop solutions for related problems using various AI methods. Therefore, this special issue aims to bring together recent advances in AI for various domains to share new findings among the community and bridge the gaps between research and practice. SCOPE The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Artificial Intelligence Learning Theory and Statistics AI for Healthcare and Bioinformatics Artificial Intelligence on Education AIoT Applications AR/VR and Human Computer Interaction Autonomous Driving Algorithms and Computation Theory with AI Big Data Systems and Analysis Image Processing, Computer Graphics, and Multimedia Technologies Intelligent Network Intelligent Manufacturing Web Intelligence and Social Network Cyber Security Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, SoC, and VLSI/EDA to support AI Parallel, Distributed, and Cloud/Edge Computing for AI SUBMISSION PROCEDURE All manuscripts must be prepared and submitted following to the submission guidelines of Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing that can be accessed at https://www.springer.com/journal/12652/submission-guidelines?IFA. Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described has not been published before, and that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else. All submitted papers will go through the same review process as the regular Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing paper submissions. Referees will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition, and relevance to the special issue topics above. IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript submission: June 30, 2021 First Decision: September 15, 2021 First Revision Submission: October 15 2021 Second Revision Submission: October 30, 2021 Final Decision: November 10, 2021 GUEST EDITORS Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Gary G. Yen Oklahoma State University, USA De-Nian Yang Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Meng-Hsun Tsai National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

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4S Open Panel: Augmenting Realities: digital-material formations of identity, surveillance, and publics. (Iliadis, Liao, Heemsbergen)
by Luke H 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Please excuse any cross postings of our open call to open panel at 4S: Augmenting Realities: digital-material formations of identity, surveillance, and publics (organised by Andrew Iliadis, Tony Liao, and Luke Heemsbergen) This panel is concerned with how augmented reality is shaping personal identity and public communications, it’s social construction as media technology, and the outcomes of these trends for society. Augmented Reality/Realities creates new kinds of digital relations for the physical world. It does not just layer over physical reality with virtual information (cf Azuma 1997, Kim et al. 2018), but helps us perceive and act in a world of novel personal, professional, and civic experiences. However, a dearth of knowledge on AR’s role in shaping and being shaped by society arrests the ability to steer AR’s social impact. And there is a clear and present need to do so: 2020 iPhones now incorporate novel AR-LIDAR surveillance sensors that map faces and the inside homes; there is growing acceptance of body-dysmorphic ‘lenses’ on social media that modify human appearance in real-time to, narrow, sexualise, add privacy, or otherwise reconfigure identity in public and private communication This panel welcomes contributions across AR’s 1) Conceptualisation: how AR is imagined by those making AR experiences, as well as larger social discourses that enable and encourage its imaginaries; 2) Concretisation: how process of potential imaginaries succumb to market forces, civic pressure, technological limits, that deform any ideals of AR into material systems of media (Flusser, 1999) that design constraints towards specific properties and dynamics that mediate a specific reality; and 3) Contextualisation that reflects on how new media, despite their intended public debut, suffer continued social and cultural appropriation (Gitelman, 2006, p. 27). We are interested in papers including but not limited to: *standards, infrastructures, devices, and policies *historical, sociological, and genealogy perspectives of augmentation technologies *social and spatial perception, presence, and practices *(re)presentation, performance, persona, *lenses, filters and other projections *applied domains of interest including, surveillance, play, sensors, etc. 250 word Abstract Due Date: March 8 via 4S abstract submission platform <https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/ssss21/> (find a home in open panel #50).

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SIGDOC CFP Deadline Extended to March 12
by Luke Thominet 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Dear Colleagues, The deadline for proposals for SIGDOC 2021: Advocacy, Accountability, and Coalitions Across Contexts is extended to March 12, 2021. The conference will include both online virtual presentations and optional in-person meetup hubs on October 14, 2021. The locations of the 8 worldwide in-person meetup hubs will be Lavras, Brazil; Beijing, China; Limerick, Ireland; Lisbon, Portugal; Tempe, AZ; East Lansing, MI; Raleigh, NC; and Tacoma, WA. The ACM Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC) invites you to submit proposals for research papers, industry insight papers, experience reports, posters, panel sessions, and workshops. These proposals should explore the themes of advocacy, accountability, and coalitions in communication design, PTC, user experience (UX) practice, and teaching and learning. For a complete description of the proposal process, please review the full SIGDOC 2021 CFP<https://sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2021/call-for-papers> (sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2021/call-for-papers) Important Dates: * 12 March 2021, 23:59 in your local time zone: Proposals due * 14 May 2021: Drafts of initial papers and extended abstracts due * 01 June 2021: Reviews of/comments on papers and extended abstracts returned * 15 July 2021: Papers and extended abstracts (final version) due * 14 October 2021: SIGDOC 2021 hybrid conference: virtual presentations with in-person meetup hubs across 8 locations worldwide Questions on the CFP or the process described here should be emailed to the Program Co-Chairs, Liz Lane and Halcyon Lawrence, at sigdocconference(a)gmail.com<mailto:sigdocconference@gmail.com>. Best, Luke Thominet, PhD SIGDOC Communications Manager

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Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
by Tom Boellstorff 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Dear all! Just a friendly reminder about the book series for which Bill Maurer and I are the Series Editors, the Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology. Details and a list of the amazing work we’ve been able to publish thus far are here: https://press.princeton.edu/series/princeton-studies-in-culture-and-technol… <https://press.princeton.edu/series/princeton-studies-in-culture-and-technol…> Please feel free to pass along to anyone who might be interested—we define “culture” and “technology” very broadly as you can see (and “anthropology” as well). I’m happy to chat with anyone interested in possibility publishing with the series! All the best, Tom Boellstorff tom boellstorff + professor + department of anthropology + university of california + irvine + website <http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/boellstorff/> a publication you might find interesting: The Ability of Place <https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/704924>

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Call for proposals closing soon for the 2021 Connected Learning Summit [submit by March 15]
by Jamieson L Pond 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

You have less than two weeks left to submit a proposal for the fourth annual Connected Learning Summit! This year, the event will run entirely online through the month of July, in 1 hour sessions scheduled between 9am – noon Pacific (noon-3pm Eastern). Connected Learning Summit 2021 July 1-31, 2021 | Virtual Event Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2021 Notifications of Acceptance: April 2021 Call for proposals page: https://clsummit.news/aoirCFP21 Our CFP for this year is focused on self-organized online workshops, symposia, networking opportunities, social, and gaming events tailored to an online format. We welcome your proposals for creating an inclusive, learner-centered, community-driven event that will break new ground in what is possible for online events and community-building. Our hope is that this event will strengthen the community and create a space for sharing of ideas that are relevant and timely today and for the future. Given the experimental nature of this year’s event, we welcome any and all creative ideas that meet the goals of sharing ideas and promoting connections within the CLS community. We will be accepting proposals for: - Workshops - Symposia - Experimental and Social Sessions Time Zones We are considering running some sessions at 4pm-6pm Pacific / 7pm-9pm Eastern, to accommodate participants in Asia and Australia. Please let us know if you would like to present during one of these later times when submitting your proposal. Forum We’ve heard from community members that they’d like a space to connect as they consider submissions for CLS2021. We're excited to announce the launch of the Connected Learning Summit’s new forum, a place where participants and presenters can connect, share presentation ideas, and self-organize sessions for CLS2021. As we get closer to the event, we are hoping this forum will also be a space for session organizers and participants to connect before and after their sessions, and share resources and materials. Forum sign up: https://2021.connectedlearningsummit.org/community/?foro=signup About the Connected Learning Summit CLS was first convened in 2018 with the mission to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing the power of emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. It represents a merger between three community events with this shared vision and values: the Digital Media and Learning Conference, the Games+Learning+Society Conference, and Sandbox Summit. With a unique focus on cross-sector connections and progressive and catalytic innovation, the event brings together leading researchers, educators, and developers. The event is co-hosted by UC Irvine’s Connected Learning Lab, MIT’s Scheller Teacher Education Program and Education Arcade, and the Learning Games Network and supported by a wide network of academic, industry, nonprofit, and philanthropic partners. Respectfully, *Jamieson Pond, Head of Communications* Connected Learning Lab University of California, Irvine CLAlliance.org <https://clalliance.org/> | ConnectedLearning.uci.edu <http://connectedlearning.uci.edu/> | ConnectedLearningSummit.org <https://connectedlearningsummit.org> Twitter: @TheCLAlliance <https://twitter.com/TheCLAlliance> | @TheCLSummit <https://twitter.com/TheCLSummit> LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/connected-learning-alliance/> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/ConnectedLearningAlliance/> | YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/c/connectedlearningalliance> Connected Learning Newsletter <https://clalliance.org/newsletter> "Everyone you ever meet knows something you don't." - Bill Nye

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[CfP - 4S 2021]
by Baptiste Kotras 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Dear fellow Internet researchers, Please find [ https://www.4sonline.org/128-new-wars-on-science-the-reconfiguration-of-con… | here ] (and below) the call for our open panel at the next 4S Conference, " New Wars on Science. The Reconfiguration of Contemporary Contestations of Science ", which will take place in Toronto and online, from October 6th to 9th 2021. This open panel aims to investigate the recent and growing contestation of epistemic authorities (scientific institutions, the media, the State). We would very much appreciate to receive submissions studying such contestations and controversies within digital worlds, through ethnographic and/or digital methods, as the Internet clearly is a crucial space in this matter. Submissions (250 words) should highlight the main argument, the methods and the theoretical frame employed. Deadline is March 8th . Please feel free to contact us for any question you might have. To submit your paper: [ https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/ssss21/ | https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/ssss21/ ] Best, Henri Boullier [ [ mailto:henri.boullier@dauphine.psl.eu | henri.boullier(a)dauphine.psl.eu] ] Baptiste Kotras [baptiste.kotras(a)u-pem.fr] New Wars on Science. The Reconfiguration of Contemporary Contestations of Science Lots of debates have recently arised about an alleged crisis of trust in science. Scientific knowledge is increasingly entangled in crossed accusations of ‘fakeness’, conspiracy and falsification, on a number of critical issues (vaccines, pollution, climate, etc.). To make sense of this somewhat blurry picture, this panel argues for the necessity to go back to the basics of STS, adopting a symmetrical approach of contemporary contestations of science. This way, we wish to depict a large continuum of critiques, mobilizations and material resources at play in the transformation of the way we collectively apprehend the scientific truth. Contributions could follow three lines of research: (1) by analyzing the material practices of so-called alternative science: how do climate skeptics or anti-vaxxers (for instance) collect data, design experiments, publicize results supporting their marginated theories? (2) by documenting how corporate actors strive to undermine scientific consensus in order to defend their interests (building networks of journals, think tanks, philanthropic organizations, etc.) and/or how scientific institutions deal with such corporate involvement in knowledge production; (3) by investigating the mobilization of heterogeneous actors (scientists, journalists, physicians) to fight what they consider irrational attacks against reason and progress. What kind of strategies, arguments and alliances do they build to “debunk fake science”? We welcome a variety of cases and methods, in particular analyses focusing on the Global South (with different epistemic traditions & non-hegemonic scientific production), and/or using digital methods. -- -- Baptiste KOTRAS Chercheur postdoc au LISIS Postdoctoral researcher at LISIS IFRIS / Université Paris-Est

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Social Media and/as Urban Research: A Workshop for Beginners
by Scott Rodgers 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Social Media and/as Urban Research: A Workshop for Beginners Tuesday 30 March 2021, 2-5pm GMT+1 (UK Summer Time) Via Microsoft Teams Organisers: * Andrea Ballatore<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8750177/andrea-ballatore> (Lecturer in Geographic Data Science, Dept. of Geography) * Scott Rodgers<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/culture/staff/teaching-staff/scott-rodgers> (Senior Lecturer in Media Theory, Dept. of Film, Media and Cultural Studies) * Sara Rodriguez (PhD student, Dept. of Geography) Sponsored by: * Urban Intersections Experimental Collective, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research Are you an urban researcher interested in using or focusing on social media in your project? Are you curious about some of the conceptual and methodological issues at stake? Social Media and/as Urban Research is a short workshop providing an introduction to conceptualising and approaching social media as part of urban research. Urban life today leaves numerous traces on various social media platforms, and these platforms are reshaping how we experience, communicate across and represent cities. Particularly after a long period of social distancing, many urban researchers have become more aware of social media, both as an alternative way to do urban research at-a-distance, but also as an emergent topic of urban research in its own right. This workshop is aimed at urban researchers at all levels, from the doctoral/ECR stage to professorial, who are at an early- or beginner-stage of interest and/or experience in social media as it relates to urban research. This interest may be in social media as either an instrument to research urban settings (e.g. to get background on a neighbourhood or topic, or recruit research participants) or as an object of urban research (e.g. an interest in the implications of social media practices or technologies for urban life) (cf. Zeller, 2017). Focusing on ‘small data’ qualitative urban research projects, you will draw on your own provisional ideas and experiences with fellow participants and begin to unpack the nature and accessibility of social data. We will also address the sometimes-ambiguous ethical issues related to researching human participants through social media, and glimpse how larger-scale data analytics can play a role in qualitative research projects. If you would like to participate, please register below, including 50-word statement explaining your research background and motivations for attending this workshop. In the event of high demand, we reserve the right to allocate places to those who would benefit most. Register your place: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=19730 Registration deadline: 22 March 2021, 5pm GMT+1 (UK Summer Time) Before the event, participants will be sent a programme, required readings and a Microsoft Teams meeting link.

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