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CfP: online conference ‘Automation and data-driven journalism beyond the Western world: actors, practices, and socio-political impact’
by Mariëlle W. 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

The research project ‘Sustainable journalism for the algorithmic future’ in partnership with the Aleksanteri Institute and Swedish School of Social Sciences of the University of Helsinki invite the submission of papers to be presented at the online conference *Automation and data-driven journalism beyond the Western world: Actors, practices, and socio-political impact* Algorithmic systems and other data-driven practices exert increasing influence over today’s societies, reshaping how social and economic systems function (Gillespie 2014). Algorithms are society’s new “power brokers,” dictating the stories that we pay attention to, the activities we participate in, and the people we connect with (Kitchin 2017). The news media is among those industries where artificial intelligence and algorithms are making strides and reordering the playing field as their use diversifies and expands. AI and algorithmic systems are implemented in newsrooms at various stages of the workflow: from smart tools that assist journalists in producing stories to the fully automated production of news articles, and from audience data analysis that informs editorial decisions to algorithmic recommendation systems that match specific content to users. On social media platforms, that form an increasingly central node in news consumption, algorithms not only generate news feeds based on our acquaintances’ actions and advertisers’ preferences (Van Dijck & Poell 2013) but also perform as actors with their own judgment (Carlson 2018). The algorithmic systems employed by social media platforms, news aggregators and other recommender systems can therefore affect the journalistic process and professional practices of media practitioners. Current scholarly debate on these issues prioritizes and builds upon empirical studies conducted in democratic, Western contexts. Much less is known about the drivers of digital innovation uptake and its socio-political impact in other political and cultural contexts, and this is problematic. Countries such as China, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa and South Korea do implement global or introduce their own AI-driven tools in their news media This challenges the mediated reality they produce and can, in turn, affect global media agendas (e.g., in the international activities of Chinese Xinhua, Russian RT and Arab Al Jazeera). At the same time, the socio-political impact of news and disinformation amplified through social media is evident across the Global South, where moderation efforts by global platforms lag behind. This online conference strives to place the discussion of automation and data-driven journalism beyond the Western and Anglophone world. We build upon previous research (Hanitzsch et al 2019, Henkel et al 2020) demonstrating that media innovation and its adoption develop differently depending on the specific characteristics of media systems and markets. Understanding the algorithmic turn in journalism as a socially constructed process – dependent on a country’s journalistic culture, news media’s formal and informal institutions , and the societal role of media – we propose an alternative list of questions to be added to the discussion. When the main media outlets are owned or controlled by the state, who benefits from the automation of media processes, and in what way? When censorship and self-censorship are embedded into journalist professional culture, will the implementation of algorithmic systems lead to more freedom and independence of journalists, or vice versa? How does the economic efficiency promised by automation leverage the political/ideological efficiency of media institutions in authoritarian contexts? What is the importance of algorithmic systems in spreading and amplifying propaganda and disinformation in different media systems? We welcome both disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives and studies employing various social scientific methods, including comparative case-studies, ethnography, socio-legal, and STS studies. Submissions could address, but are not limited to, the following areas: · The effects of algorithmic and AI-driven tools on professional practices and routines in newsrooms; · Media interlopers and newcomers to the media industry – from IT developers in newsrooms to the role of big technological companies; · Implications of AI and data-driven journalism on the public value of news media; · Disinformation, fake news and fact checking; · The influence of global social media platforms and their algorithmic recommender systems on media outlets; · Robotised, algorithmic, augmented, computational, data-driven and other innovative forms of journalism: challenges and opportunities across the globe. *We accept two types of submissions:* · Individual paper submissions should be written in English and contain a clear outline of the argument, theoretical framework, methodology and results. Abstracts should be between 250 and 500 words. · Panel proposals should be written in English and consist of a panel rationale (300 words) and abstracts of three papers (max. 250 words per paper). *Please submit your proposal through the submission portal:* https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/Automation_and_datadriven_journalism_beyond_the_We… *Important dates:* Deadline for paper and panel submissions: February 15, 2021 23:59 UTC+2 Selections results: March 15, 2021 The conference will be organized as online event. The hosts will strive to accommodate participants’ respective time zones. *Host and organizers:* The event is hosted by the University of Helsinki and organised by Dr. Olga Dovbysh (Aleksanteri Institute, U Helsinki), Hanna Tuulonen (Swedish School of Social Sciences, U Helsinki) and Dr. Mariëlle Wijermars (Aleksanteri Institute, U Helsinki; Maastricht University). Should you have any questions about the conference, please contact Olga Dovbysh: olga.dovbysh [at] helsinki [dot] fi or check the conference website: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/automation-in-media/

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Visiting Assistant Professor Job at University of Maryland in Race & Media
by Sarah Ann Oates 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

Hi, I'm the search chair for this job -- would love to see applications from people studying social/digital media and race, etc. Just email me at soates(a)umd.edu if you have information questions, etc. Full ad is here: https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/80394 but I'll also paste in our flyer text below as well. Please forward to those you think might be interested -- there is some great work in this area. The Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor to start in August 2021. This is a one-year post with the possibility of renewal for a second year. Merrill College anticipates a search for a tenure-track faculty member once a state hiring freeze is lifted. This individual will be welcome to apply. We seek an active scholar with demonstrated cutting-edge research and innovative teaching interests in journalism/race/social media (both qualitative and quantitative approaches are welcome). Interests can include any of the following: • How media and race intersect with topics such as politics; health inequities; environmental injustice, and social justice. Research could include how race impacts sports; popular culture; protest movements; wealth; poverty, housing, social exclusion, and power structures • Modes and theories of investigation, e.g. Critical Race Theory, systemic racism and institutional racism, including anti-racism movements impacting U.S. culture and politics • Social media and race, including studies of online protests, implicit bias, disinformation and misinformation, racial exclusion, and the cultivation of social media groups divided by race • U.S. media, race, and democracy • Studies of race as a social construct; the language of race; race identity; race politics and the legacy of racial violence, including lynching, racial massacres and genocide, especially as viewed through such lenses as contemporary media theory, deep data sets, visual media, graphic data, or sociology Candidates should have a PhD in journalism, communications, political science, history or a relevant field in the social sciences by August 2021 but ABD candidates will be considered. The University of Maryland, College Park, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action; all qualified applicants will receive consideration. The UMD is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, creed, marital status, political affiliation, personal appearance, or on the basis of rights secured by the First Amendment, in all aspects of employment, educational activities, and admissions. The University of Maryland, College Park is the state’s flagship institution and is minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power, giving proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profits. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance preeminence in our teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world. For best consideration, please apply by 02/05/2021. Search chair Sarah Oates is happy to answer questions at soates(a)umd.edu To apply, please go to https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/80394 Sarah Oates Pronoun: she/her Professor and Senior Scholar Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland College Park, MD 20457 Email: soates(a)umd.edu Phone: 301 455 2332 www.media-politics.com Twitter: @media_politics *Support the UMD Student Crisis Fund <https://giving.umd.edu/giving/showPage.php?name=crisis-funding> today. *

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PhD vacancy in Culturally and Socially Responsible AI
by Blanke, Tobias 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

Dear all With the usual apologies for cross-posting. Julia Noordegraaf, Natali Helberger and I are looking for a fully funded PhD student in Culturally and Socially Responsible AI in Amsterdam. Deadline is 29/1/2021. Best, Tobias Blanke https://www.illc.uva.nl/People/person/5048/Prof-dr-Tobias-Blanke --- The University of Amsterdam Faculty of Humanities is looking to fill one PhD position in the area of Culturally and Socially Responsible AI. The PhD focuses on research of AI technologies that respect the values central to public institutions in the area of media and culture. The successful candidate will be appointed in UvA’s Department of Media Studies and based in the creative interdisciplinary environment of the CREATE Lab for digital humanities research. They will work within the broader Humane AI community at the University of Amsterdam via the university-wide Research Priority Area Human(e) AI (https://humane-ai.nl/) which synthesises ongoing work and stimulates new research on the societal consequences of AI. Closing date is the 29/1/2021. Further details can be found at: https://www.uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/2020/12/20-785-phd-position-in-cult…

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First Call for Papers and Shared Task Participation: CASE @ ACL-IJCNLP 2021 Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text
by ali hürriyetoglu 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

Apologies for cross-posting --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers and Shared Task Participation: Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE) @ ACL- IJCNLP 2021 URL: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2021/ April 26, 2021: Submission deadline May 28, 2021: Notification of Acceptance June 7, 2021: Camera-ready papers due Workshop dates: August 5-6, 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Today, the unprecedented quantity of easily accessible data on social, political, and economic processes offers ground-breaking potential in guiding data-driven analysis in social and human sciences and in driving informed policy-making processes. The need for precise and high-quality information about a wide variety of events ranging from political violence, environmental catastrophes, and conflict, to international economic and health crises has rapidly escalated (Porta and Diani, 2015; Coleman et al. 2014). Governments, multilateral organizations, local and global NGOs, and social movements present an increasing demand for this data to prevent or resolve conflicts, provide relief for those that are afflicted, or improve the lives of and protect citizens in a variety of ways. For instance, Black Lives Matter protests and conflict in Syria events are only two examples where we must understand, analyze, and improve the real-life situations using such data. Event extraction has long been a challenge for the natural language processing (NLP) community as it requires sophisticated methods in defining event ontologies, creating language resources, and developing algorithmic approaches (Pustojevsky et al. 2003; Boroş, 2018; Chen et al. 2021). Social and political scientists have been working to create socio-political event databases such as ACLED, EMBERS, GDELT, ICEWS, MMAD, PHOENIX, POLDEM, SPEED, TERRIER, and UCDP following similar steps for decades. These projects and the new ones increasingly rely on machine learning (ML) and NLP methods to deal better with the vast amount and variety of data in this domain (Hürriyetoğlu et al. 2020). Automation offers scholars not only the opportunity to improve existing practices, but also to vastly expand the scope of data that can be collected and studied, thus potentially opening up new research frontiers within the field of socio-political events, such as political violence & social movements. But automated approaches as well suffer from major issues like bias, generalizability, class imbalance, training data limitations, and ethical issues that have the potential to affect the results and their use drastically (Lau and Baldwin 2020; Bhatia et al. 2020; Chang et al. 2019). Moreover, the results of the automated systems for socio-political event information collection may not be comparable to each other or not of sufficient quality (Wang et al. 2016; Schrodt 2020). Socio-political events are varied and nuanced. Both the political context and the local language used may affect whether and how they are reported. Therefore, all steps of information collection (event definition, language resources, and manual or algorithmic steps) may need to be constantly updated, leading to a series of challenging questions: Do events related to minority groups are represented well? Are new types of events covered? Are the event definitions and their operationalization comparable across systems? (Hürriyetoğlu 2019, 2020a, 2020b) This workshop aims to seek answers to this kind of questions, to inspire innovative technological and scientific solutions for tackling the aforementioned issues, and to quantify the quality of the automated event extraction systems. Moreover, the workshop will trigger a deeper understanding of the performance of the computational tools used and the usability of the resulting socio-political event datasets. We invite contributions from researchers in computer science, NLP, ML, AI, socio-political sciences, conflict analysis and forecasting, peace studies, as well as computational social science scholars involved in the collection and utilization of socio-political event data. This includes (but is not limited to) the following topics * Extracting events in and beyond a sentence * Training data collection and annotation processes * Event coreference detection * Event-event relations, e.g., subevents, main events, causal relations * Event dataset evaluation in light of reliability and validity metrics * Defining, populating, and facilitating event schemas and ontologies * Automated tools and pipelines for event collection related tasks * Lexical, Syntactic, and pragmatic aspects of event information manifestation * Development and analysis of rule-based, ML, hybrid, and human-in-the-loop approaches for creating event datasets * COVID-19 related socio-political events * Applications of event databases * Online social movements * Bias and fairness of the sources and event datasets * Estimating what is missing in event datasets using internal and external information * Novel event detection * Release of new event datasets * Ethics, misinformation, privacy, and fairness concerns pertaining to event datasets * Copyright issues on event dataset creation, dissemination, and sharing * Qualities of the event information on various online and offline platforms *** Keynotes *** We invite leading scholars in computational linguistics and social and political sciences to deliver keynote speeches on collecting and exploiting socio-political event information. *Computational linguistics*: Elizabeth Boschee is the Director of the Boston office of the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute and a Senior Supervising Computer Scientist in the Emerging Activities division. Her current efforts focus on cross-lingual information extraction, retrieval, and summarization, specifically targeting low or zero-resource settings, e.g. cross-lingual settings with <1M words of bitext or event extraction from non-English languages with only English training data. Prior to joining ISI, Boschee spent 17 years at BBN Technologies. As a Lead Scientist there, she was the chief architect of the BBN ACCENT event coder, the technology behind the W-ICEWS event data, which more than doubled the precision (while still increasing recall) of the previously deployed solution for CAMEO event coding. *Social and political sciences*: Kristine Eck is an Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, where she serves as the Director of the Uppsala Rotary Peace Center. Her research interests concern coercion and resistance, including human rights, police misconduct, state surveillance, and conflict data production. She served as the Director of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) 2017-2018 and has been a Visiting Researcher at Oxford University, Copenhagen University, the University of Notre Dame, and Kobe University. Dr. Eck’s research has been funded by the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Norwegian Foreign Ministry. **** Submissions ***** This call solicits full papers reporting original and unpublished research on the topics listed above. The papers should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions should be between 4 and 8 pages in total. Authors are also invited to submit short papers not exceeding 4 pages (plus two additional pages for references). Short papers should describe: - a small, focused contribution; - work in progress; - a negative result; - a position paper. - a report on shared task participation. Papers should be submitted on the START page of the workshop (link: TBD) in PDF format, in compliance with the ACL-IJCNLP 2021 author guidelines provided on https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/papers. The reviewing process will be double-blind and papers should not include the authors’ names and affiliations. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. If you do include any author names on the title page, your submission will be automatically rejected. In the body of your submission, you should eliminate all direct references to your own previous work. Finally, the workshop Proceedings will be published on ACL Anthology. **** Shared tasks **** We are preparing a cross-lingual (Spanish, Portuguese, and English), which was only in English in previous events we organized, a socio-political event information classification and extraction task. Moreover, we are preparing two additional data challenges about protests pertaining to BlackLivesMatter and COVID19[3] <https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2021/#_ftn3>. These challenges will be about automatically replicating the spatiotemporal distribution of a manually curated events list. Common Crawl News will be exploited as a data source. Moreover, a Twitter dataset will be shared with the participants as well. A Codalab page will be set up for each task. Participating teams will be required to submit a report, which will be peer-reviewed, describing the methods and results they ran on the data. We encourage submissions of the system papers on our available benchmarks (ProtestNews @ CLEF 2020 <https://clef2020.clef-initiative.eu/> and AESPEN @ LREC 2020 <https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/>). Please find details of these datasets and shared tasks on Hürriyetoğlu et al. (2019, 2020a, and 2020b). Please send an e-mail to ahurriyetoglu(a)ku.edu.tr if you would like to participate in any of the shared tasks. **** Important dates **** April 26, 2021: Workshop Paper Due Date May 28, 2021: Notification of Acceptance June 7, 2021: Camera-ready papers due August 5-6, 2021: Workshop Dates Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). **** Organization Committee **** Ali Hürriyetoğlu (Koc University, Turkey) Hristo Tanev (Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Italy) Vanni Zavarella (Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Italy) Reyyan Yeniterzi (Sabancı University, Turkey) Aline Villavicencio (University of Sheffield, the United Kingdom; and Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Erdem Yörük (Koc University, Turkey), Deniz Yuret (Koc University, Turkey), Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland), Gautam Kishore Shahi (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany). **** Program Committee **** Tommaso Caselli (University of Groningen, the Netherlands), Osman Mutlu (Koc University, Turkey), Fırat Duruşan (Koc University, Turkey), Ali Safaya (Koc University, Turkey), Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi (Insight SFI Centre for Data Analytics, the United Kingdom), Gautam Kishore Shahi (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland), Matina Halkia (European Commission – Joint Research Centre, Italy), Benjamin J. Radford (UNC Charlotte, the United States), Mark Lee (University of Birmingham, the United Kingdom), YiJyun Lin (University of Nevada, the United States), Fredrik Olsson (RISE, Sweden), Kristine Eck (Uppsala University, Sweden), Nelleke Oostdijk (Radboud University, the Netherlands), Francielle Vargas (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Farhana Liza (University of Essex, the UK), Nicoletta Calzolari (Institute for Computational Linguistics, Italy), Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria), Harish Tayyar Madabushi (University of Birmingham, the United Kingdom), Ritesh Kumar (Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, India), Alexandra DeLucia (Johns Hopkins University, United States), Jasmine Lorenzini (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Kalliopi Zervanou Eindhoven (University of Technology the Netherlands).

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12 Streams 2020 10 – Space Internet Governance Webinar
by Joly MacFie 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

After yesterday's session of Hackers on Planet Earth, today we have Hackers Off Planet Earth! The news came in over the weekend that panelist Scott Pace is departing his post <https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/scott-pace-departing-white-house-nationa…> running the Space Force to return to GWU. The silver lining is that this may give him more time to dedicate to the IPNSIG's particular interests. The video only has AI captions, but a full corrected (and White House approved) transcript, including slides, is linked below. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Monday January 4 2021, at 8:00pm EST (01:00 UTC) in the tenth instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ 2020 highlights, we feature the InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG) Space Internet Governanc" *[image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-10>Today, Monday January 4 2021, at 8:00pm EST (01:00 UTC) in the tenth instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming <https://isoc.live>‘s ‘12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>‘ 2020 highlights, we feature the InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group <http://ipnsig.org/> (IPNSIG) Space Internet Governance Webinar from August 7th, 2020. Presently there is no governance framework, formal or informal, for the Internet in space (what will become the Solar System Internet, or SSI). A panel explored whether one is needed and, if so, what form it should take.* *SPEAKERS* *Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, GoogleDr. Scott Pace, Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary of the National Space Council* *MODERATORScott Burleigh, Principal Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology* *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-10 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-10>* *SLIDES https://archive.org/download/spaceig/8.7.2020_Update_on_U.S._Space_Policies… <https://archive.org/download/spaceig/8.7.2020_Update_on_U.S._Space_Policies…>* *TRANSCRIPT https://archive.org/download/spaceig/2020.08.07_Space_Internet_Governance.p… <https://archive.org/download/spaceig/2020.08.07_Space_Internet_Governance.p…>* *TWITTER #12STREAMS <http://bit.ly/2t10HX2J> #SpaceIG <https://bit.ly/spaceig> @vgcerf Scott Pace @SpaceForceDoD* *SIMULCASTShttps://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* *ARCHIVEhttps://archive.org/details/12streams2020-10 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-10>* *ORIGINAL STREAMhttps://isoc.live/12563/ <https://isoc.live/12563/>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13335/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021): Third Joint Call for Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos, Research Projects and Tutorials
by Announce Announcements 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

*** Third Joint Call for Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos, Research Projects and Tutorials *** 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2021) May 12-14, 2021, Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/ Submission deadline (except tutorials): February 9, 2021 (AoE) Submission deadline only for tutorials: March 19, 2021 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer) RCIS has become a recognized conference on research challenges in Information Science. Organized for the 15th time in a row, RCIS 2021 will be held from May 12-14, 2021, in Limassol, Cyprus. The topics of interest are organized into some major categories (more details in the call for papers http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/callPapers.php) · Information Systems and their Engineering · User-Oriented Approaches · Data and Information Management · Business Process Management · Domain-specific IS Engineering · Data Science · Information Infrastructures · Reflective Research and Practice IMPORTANT DATES FOR ALL SATELLITE EVENTS · Submission deadline (except tutorials): February 9, 2021 (AoE) · Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: March 19, 2021 (AoE) · Notification to authors and registration opening: March 12, 2021 · Notification for tutorial proposals: March 22, 2021 · Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021 · Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 29, 2021 · Conference: May 12-14, 2021 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The RCIS 2021 Doctoral Consortium is an opportunity for doctoral students to present, discuss and develop their research project in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of senior researchers. The Doctoral Consortium offers nice opportunities for PhD students. Firstly, the feedback received during the Doctoral Consortium will really benefit students who have defined their topic, research plan and have obtained early results, but who still have room for improving their longer-term plan. Secondly, students at all stages of their doctoral project can meet the welcoming RCIS community and widen their network of contacts. The Doctoral Consortium has the following objectives: · Provide a platform for students to present their work and to meet other peers and be familiar with different research topics and methods. · Provide feedback on students' current research and guidance on future research directions. · Promote the development of a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research and networking. · Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers. Interested PhD students are invited to submit papers, in agreement with their supervisors, addressing the instructions that are provided on the online call: http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/callDoctoral.php . Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word): https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . Submissions must be written in English, and must be authored by the student only. The maximum length of the paper should be eight (8) pages, including references, appendices, etc. The submission site address is https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcis2021 where you can choose the "RCIS2021_Doctoral_Consortium" track. Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain · Renata Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands Doctoral Consortium Student Co-Chair · Blagovesta Kostova, EPFL, Switzerland POSTERS AND DEMOS The posters & demos track will showcase prototypes and new research ideas in Information Science. This track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their work, interact with conference participants, and obtain feedback on on-going research. We invite two types of submissions: · Posters are intended to convey a research result and are not advertisements for commercial software packages. While posters need not describe completed work, they should report on research for which at least some preliminary results are available. · Demonstrations should directly and actively involve the exhibition and display of tools/prototypes and associated materials that illustrate research work in progress and serve as ground for discussion of research ideas. Posters and demonstrations proposals must be submitted as a single PDF file with no more than 6 pages in Springer LNCS/LNBIP format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) including references and appendices. Proposals that exceed the limit of 6 pages will be rejected without review. Proposals that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2021. The submission site address is http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/ where you can choose the "RCIS2021 Posters & Demos" track. More details on the submission and presentation format is online: http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/callPostersDemo.php . Posters & Demos Chairs · Dominik Bork, TU Wien, Austria · Giovanni Meroni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy RESEARCH PROJECTS @RCIS RCIS 2021 features a track entirely devoted to presenting future or ongoing research projects (e.g., H2020 or ERC projects, national grants) in the context of information science. This track features a good opportunity for presenters to get feedback before submitting research project or to disseminate the intermediate results of their projects, and for participants to get an updated view of innovative ongoing research while getting in touch with potential research partners. The Research Projects @RCIS Track follows a two-step publication process. Firstly, the authors should submit a 2 pages paper summarizing the objectives of the project and relevant results. Each submission will be peer reviewed on the relevance of the submitted paper in the context of RCIS. If the paper is accepted, the authors will have to register to the conference in order to present their work as a poster at the "Research Projects @ RCIS" session at RCIS. A discussant system will be organized to ensure proper feedback and discussions about the projects. Furthermore, the accepted 2 pages paper will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer in the LNBIP series. Beyond the special topic for RCIS 2021, the conference welcomes Research Projects submissions from any domain of Information Science. More information about the special topic and the range of topics that RCIS traditionally addresses can be found in: http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/callPapers.php . The submission site address is https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcis2021 where you can choose the "ResearchProjects@RCIS2021" track. More information about preparing and submitting contributions related to this track can be found here: http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/researchProjects.php . Research Projects @RCIS Chairs · Denisse Muñante, Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France · Anthony Simonofski, UNamur and KU Leuven, Belgium TUTORIALS Tutorials are intended to provide independent instruction (know-how) on a topic of relevance for the RCIS academic and practitioner community. However, we discourage commercial or sales-oriented tutorials. Potential presenters should keep in mind that there might be a varied audience, including novice graduate students, seasoned practitioners, and specialised researchers. Tutorial speakers should be prepared to cope with this diversity. The conference has specific slots for tutorials. They will be organised in sessions of 90 minutes with a free format. Tutorials run in parallel with other conference tracks, and participation in the tutorials is included in the attendees' conference fee. We invite proposals for tutorials that may address one or more of the listed topics below, although authors should not feel limited by them. A 2-page summary of the tutorials that end up being accepted and delivered will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series. Furthermore, a free registration for the conference will be offered to the main presenter (i.e. to one speaker), unless they are the only paying author of a paper presented at the conference. Beyond the special topic for RCIS 2021, the conference welcomes tutorial proposals from any domain of Information Science. More information about the special topic and the range of topics that RCIS traditionally addresses can be found in: http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/callPapers.php . Tutorial proposals are limited to 5 pages in Springer LNCS/LNBIP format and should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word): https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . The submission site address is https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcis2021 where you can choose the "RCIS2021_Tutorials" track. More information about preparing and submitting contributions related to this track can be found here: http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/tutorials.php . Tutorial Chairs · Sergio España, Utrecht University, The Netherlands · Patricia Martín-Rodilla, University of A Coruna, Spain CONFERENCE COMMITTEES General Chairs · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Organising Chair · Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs · Samira Cherfi, CNAM, France · Anna Perini, FBK, Italy Proceedings Chair · Raihana Ferdous, FBK, Italy

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vacancy Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communications, LSE | focus on gender, sexuality and/or race
by Willems,W 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

*apologies for cross-posting* A reminder that the closing date for receipt of applications for this role is Sunday 10 January (23.59 UK time). Applicants are invited to attend a Zoom webinar and Q&A for further details on the position on Wednesday 6 January, 2-3pm UK time. Please RSVP at the following link: https://bit.ly/3lwpRNU. https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/2465/0/283643/15539/assistant-professor-… Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science Salary is competitive with Departments at our peer institutions worldwide and not less than £55,974 pa inclusive The post will commence on 1 September 2021. Applications are invited from outstanding candidates in the field of media and communications. The successful candidate will join an established and successful department, ranked first in the UK’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework evaluation and third in the QS 2020 World University rankings. The Department is known for its distinctive interdisciplinary approach to the field of media and communications, primarily based in the social sciences, but also open to humanities perspectives. You will contribute to the intellectual life of the School through conducting and publishing outstanding quality research, engaging in high-quality teaching as instructed by the Head of Department, and participating in the School and wider Department activities. Candidates will have a completed PhD in media and communications, or a closely related field, by the post start date. Candidates must also have expertise on media and communications in relation to one or more of the following areas of research: gender, sexuality and/or race. Within these primary areas, we are particularly ― but not exclusively ― interested in candidates with a global and comparative research approach, a focus on the Global South and a commitment to issues of marginality, inequality and social justice. For full details on the post, please see the how-to-apply document, job description and the person specification on our website. We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave and excellent training and development opportunities. LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university. For this post, we particularly welcome applications from women and people from minority ethnic groups. Should you have any queries about the role, please email Dr Wendy Willems (W.Willems(a)lse.ac.uk<mailto:W.Willems@lse.ac.uk>), Deputy Head of Department. Applicants are also invited to attend a Zoom webinar Q&A for further details on Wednesday 16 December 2020, 2-3pm UK time or Wednesday 6 January 2021, 2-3pm UK time. Please RSVP at the following link: https://bit.ly/3lwpRNU. The closing date for receipt of applications is Sunday 10 January (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications. Online interviews and presentations will take place in February 2021. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Wendy Willems (PhD) Associate Professor and Deputy Head of Department Room PEL7.01G Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE United Kingdom P: +44 20 7852 3738 E: w.willems(a)lse.ac.uk<mailto:w.willems@lse.ac.uk> T: @WendyWillems_<https://twitter.com/WendyWillems_> W: http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/wendy-w… Recent research: ‘Rich History’: race, space and the sanitisation of colonial heritage<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqgTv57oy74&feature=youtu.be> #BlackLivesMatter in General Gordon Square: a history<https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2020/07/22/blacklivesmatter-in-general-gor…> Beyond platform-centrism and digital universalism: the relational affordances of mobile social media publics<javascript:void(0)> ‘The politics of things’: digital media, urban space and the materiality of publics<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0163443719831594?journalCode=m…> Digital development imaginaries, informal business practices and the platformisation of digital technology in Zambia<http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/101248/>

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12 Streams 2020 #9 – Quantum Encryption – Robin Wilton @ HOPE
by Joly MacFie 03 Jan '21

03 Jan '21

As noted earlier, Robin Wilton's HOPE talk on quantum encryption is, by a long chalk, the most viewed ISOC presentation of the year, with 100s of views. To be honest, he was given a boost by being scheduled on the opening day as the lead in to Cory Doctorow's keynote, but it' still garnering many further views in the archive. He did follow up with a paper, which is linked below. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Sunday January 3 2021, at 7:00pm EST (00:00 UTC) in the ninth instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ 2020 highlights, we feature Internet Society Director of Internet Trust Robin Wilton giving a presentation 'Quantu" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-9> Today,* Sunday January 3 2021*, at *7:00pm EST* (00:00 UTC) in the ninth instalment of the *Internet Society Livestreaming <https://isoc.live>*‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ 2020 highlights, we feature Internet Society Director of Internet Trust *Robin Wilton <https://www.internetsociety.org/author/wilton/>* giving a presentation '*Quantum Encryption*' at the Hackers on Planet Earth <https://hope.net> (HOPE) conference on July 25 2020. Robin explains the science behind quantum encryption, and what it's use means for Internet security. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-9 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-9>* *SLIDES https://archive.org/download/hopeconf2020/20200725_1500_Quantum_Encryption.… <https://archive.org/download/hopeconf2020/20200725_1500_Quantum_Encryption.…>* *PAPER https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2020/does-quantum-computing-p… <https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2020/does-quantum-computing-p…>* *TWITTER #12STREAMS <http://bit.ly/2t9HX2J> #QuantumEncryption @futureidentity @hopeconf @InternetSociety* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-9 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-9>* *ORIGINAL STREAM* *https://isoc.live/12526/ <https://isoc.live/12526/>* *Trouble clicking?* Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://isoc.live/13328/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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12 Streams 2020 #8 – CNXAPAC 2020 Summit Roundtable
by Joly MacFie 02 Jan '21

02 Jan '21

Today's stream a bit behind our regular scheduled time because of extra effort needed on the transcript/captions. The plus side is that you can read the transcript <https://archive.org/download/12streams2020-8/12Streams2020-8_CNXAPAC_2020_S…>. A community networks all star line up was gathered for the CNXAPAC finale, including Onno Purbo, current winner of the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award <https://www.internetsociety.org/grants-and-awards/postel-service-award>, ISOC Live posted: "Today, Saturday January 2 2021, at 8:30pm EST (01:30 UTC) in the eighth instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ 2020 highlights, we feature the final session - a Summit Roundtable - of Community Network Exchange 2020 (CNX A" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-8>Today, *Saturday January 2 2021*, at *8:30pm EST* (01:30 UTC) in the eighth instalment of the *Internet Society Livestreaming <https://isoc.live>*‘s ‘*12 Days of Stream*s <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>‘ 2020 highlights, we feature the final session - a Summit Roundtable - of *Community Network Exchange 2020 <https://cnxapac.org/>* (CNX APAC 2020), on December 4 2020. The 4th annual CNX APAC had the theme ‘*Meaningful access with Community Networks*‘ and comprised 11 sessions over two weeks. The roundtable was the closer, and commences with a summary of all those preceeding sessions from facilitators *Sarbani Belur* and *Sarah Farooqui*. *SPEAKERS* *Onno W. Purbo*, Indonesia’s Internet Liberator (Indonesia) *Atsuko Okuda*, Regional Director, Asia and the Pacific, ITU *Mahabir Pun*, Founder, Nepal Wireless networking Project & National Innovation Centre (Nepal) *Mary Grace Mirandilla-Santos*, Independent ICT Policy Researcher (Philippines) *Osama Manzar*, Founder/Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation (India) *MODERATOR* *Rajnesh Singh*, Regional Vice President – Asia Pacific, Internet Society *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-8 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-8>* *TWITTER #12STREAMS <http://bit.ly/2t8HX2J> #CNXAPAC2020 <https://bit.ly/CNXAPAC2020> @DEFindia @ISOCapac @A4A_Internet @apnic @APC_News @ITU #CommunityNetworks* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* *https://www.facebook.com/isocasiapacific/live <https://www.facebook.com/isocasiapacific/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-8 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-8>* *ORIGINAL STREAM* *https://livestream.com/internetsociety/cnxapac2020 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/cnxapac2020>* *Permalink*: https://isoc.live/13322/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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12 Streams 2020 #7 – Internet Society Action Plan 2021 – Dawit Bekele
by Joly MacFie 01 Jan '21

01 Jan '21

The ISOC 2021 Action Plan is yet to be formally introduced to the community - an event is scheduled for later in January - however Dawit Bekele did give it a quick going over during the Africa Q4 call. Apart from the introduction of the Impact Assessment Kit <https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/internet-way-of-networking/internet-…> and the new Insights <https://insights.internetsociety.org/>platform, there is a new emphasis on Community empowerment, and diversifying funding and partnerships. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Friday January 1 2021, at 7:00pm EST (00:00 UTC) in the seventh instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ 2020 highlights, we feature Internet Society Regional Vice President Dawit Bekele giving a quick overview of the" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-7> Today,* Friday January 1 2021*, at *7:00pm EST* (00:00 UTC) in the seventh instalment of the *Internet Society Livestreaming <https://isoc.live>*‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ 2020 highlights, we feature Internet Society Regional Vice President *Dawit Bekele <https://www.internetsociety.org/author/bekele/>* giving a quick overview of the newly released *2021 Action Plan <https://www.internetsociety.org/action-plan/2021/>*, during the *Africa Region Community Engagement Call <http://bit.ly/Q42020ISOCAFRICA>* on 9 December 2020. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-7 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-7>* *TWITTER #12STREAMS @Dawit_Bekele @InternetSociety @ISOC_Community @ISOC_Africa #InternetForEveryone* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-7 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-7>* *ORIGINAL STREAM* *http://bit.ly/Q42020ISOCAFRICA <http://bit.ly/Q42020ISOCAFRICA>* (EN/FR) *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13314/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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