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Fwd: Webinar Announcement: Interoperability in AI Safety Governance
by Yik Chan Chin 27 Nov '25

27 Nov '25

To view this email as a web page, go here. <https://view.mail.isoc.org/?qs=aa281a2dba3defd4ef8c7f995e2fffb9f4b8e34f5ba6…> [image: Placeholder image] Webinar Announcement: *Interoperability in AI Safety Governance* *Ethics, Regulations, and Standards* *Webinar*: Friday 28 November 2025 18:00 Universal Time UTC Register in advance for this meeting <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/yz03Sf2bSPiMSlu-su0_wQ> Join us for an insightful session with *Dr. Yik Chan Chin*, Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University, and *David Raho*, PhD researcher at Sheffield Hallam University, as they present their collaborative policy report on *Interoperability in AI Safety Governance*. Developed through the *United Nations University Institute in Macau*, this landmark study brings together perspectives from four jurisdictions, *the UK, China, South Korea, and Singapore, *to explore the ethical, legal, and technical dimensions of AI safety governance. *Key Highlights of the Webinar* - Examination of interoperability as a cornerstone for reducing risks, fostering innovation, and building public trust. - Case studies across three critical sectors: *education, cross-border data flows, and autonomous vehicles*. - Insights into the UK’s *principles-based approach* to AI safety governance, its international alignment efforts, and the challenges of achieving cohesive global standards. - Actionable policy recommendations designed to strengthen interoperability in line with global frameworks such as the *UN’s Global Digital Compact*. This presentation will not only share the *key findings of the global report *, but also provide a deep dive into the UK’s role in shaping a governance ecosystem that is both *globally informed and locally grounded*. *Webinar*: Friday 28 November 2025 18:00 Universal Time UTC Register in advance for this meeting <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/yz03Sf2bSPiMSlu-su0_wQ> *More Information on the Internet Society United Kingdom Chapter Web Site.* <https://internetsociety.uk/interoperability-in-ai-safety-governance/> [image: Placeholder image] This email was sent to: ocl(a)gih.com This email was sent by: *Internet Society* 11710 Plaza America Drive Suite 400 Reston, VA, 20190-5108, US Privacy Notice <https://click.mail.isoc.org/?qs=d19d8d9cd747fd04849824f125af1dcc9a6858918e5…> | Terms of Use <https://click.mail.isoc.org/?qs=d19d8d9cd747fd045eef6e735e5f5293400a2d1f8b9…> | Legal <https://click.mail.isoc.org/?qs=d19d8d9cd747fd04c2b5254e18cd5c9649217a110d8…> | Unsubscribe <https://click.mail.isoc.org/profile_center.aspx?qs=3ad67242867a4c69b7b74d14…> This email was sent to: *ocl(a)gih.com <ocl(a)gih.com>* This email was sent by: Internet Society 11710 Plaza America Drive Suite 400, Reston, VA, 20190-5108, US We respect your right to privacy - view our policy <https://click.mail.isoc.org/?qs=d19d8d9cd747fd0431c0894123f5e14b0a656958078…> <https://click.mail.isoc.org/?qs=d19d8d9cd747fd0407df7fb9a5cf9777aeb4b62ea33…>

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CFP Grad Conference: Critical Themes in Media Studies - New Constructions
by Josh Scannell 27 Nov '25

27 Nov '25

Critical Themes in Media Studies: New Constructions - Building for the Moment A celebration conference for the 50th anniversary of The New School’s Media Studies Program Conference Dates: - March 27th - 28th Location: Parsons Media Studies: 6 East 16th Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10003 Keynote Speaker: TBC Proposals Due: December 15th, 2025 Submission Form: https://forms.gle/RKHKMLcdJfUtsQNf9 Call For Proposals: The Graduate Students of Parsons’ MA in Media Studies are excited to resurrect the New School’s annual Critical Themes in Media Studies conference. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Media Studies program, we invite scholars and practitioners to submit panels, paper discussions, and multidisciplinary presentations focusing on this year’s theme, New Constructions - Building for the Moment. While the word “constructions” can bring about feelings of limitations and boundaries, we want to challenge fellow students and thinkers to build new ways to think and move in opposition to them. We are seeking a broad spectrum of work from scholars and practitioners working in or at the intersection of media studies, communication, arts and design, and other related fields. We invite proposals including but not limited to papers, panel discussions, films, and workshops that engage with the New Constructions theme. Our proposal review group will reach out regarding the status of your proposal no later than January 12th, 2026. Theme: This year's theme, New Constructions - Building for The Moment, reflects the multiple and overlapping crises that structure both our sociopolitical environment *and* the state of media studies. The country is enduring a fascist regime built on the worst and most violent aspects of our national political culture. The already woefully inadequate structures of the liberal democratic state are crumbling, and those institutions that have worked to expand our democratic horizons of possibility and community power are under immense pressure. At the same time, the media environment continues to fragment and heel-turn to the hard right under the weight of corporate monopoly, disintegrating collective life, and the alien pressure of AI software warping indexical reality. Meanwhile, devices that we might use to document and contest these abuses are built by workers toiling under dehumanizing and dangerous conditions on neocolonially extracted and environmentally devastating materials. Every stream, Chatbot query, and social engagement feeds a digital media industry whose energy resource requirements are accelerating catastrophic climate change. Things are, in other words, grim. But things have been grim before, and every crisis is also an opportunity. The project that faces us as scholars and practitioners is to build something new on the ashes of the old. To that end, the conference planning group offers the theme of New Constructions - Building for The Moment. We are curious about what emergent, undercommon, and radical possibilities can be collectively imagined, manufactured, programmed, accounted for and held to account in a moment when the new calls to us with fierce urgency. This conference aims to take an interdisciplinary approach to think through the what, how, where, and when of the tools we build. This is vital in order to reconstruct our world that has been intentionally abstracted from its material conditions. We invite submissions to consider their new constructions in the spirit of Deleuze’s famous provocation from the dawn of the digital age: “There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.” Submissions might address but are not limited to the following topics: - Community Organizing - Open Source Software - Technical support for depreciated software - Zine production - NYC Mesh Internet Project - Creating New Pedagogy, how do we teach in a moment of crisis? - Social and Digital Media Studies, how do we build online communities that are focused on actual, tangible change? - Television and Film, what does representation mean in this era? - Building Networks, both in-person and online - Media Ecologies, how do we learn to function alongside the planet as opposed to against it? - Media Materialities and Infrastructures - Media Archeology, what has led us here and how might these older technologies or mediate pieces inform the way to move forward? - Forms of Digital Labor Unrest and Resistance FAQ: - How Do I Apply? - Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words with a clear project title - If submitting as an individual project, please complete the full form - If submitting a pre-constituted panel or group submission, please submit individually with the same project name and description including the topic, names and focus of all panelists, and any logistical support needed. - If submitting art, screenings, etc. please specify space, technical, and any other needs. - Submit to the form here: https://forms.gle/RKHKMLcdJfUtsQNf9 - Who is eligible? - Anyone with a thematically relevant submission, with priority given to junior & senior undergraduate, Master’s, and PhD. students. - What mediums do you accept? - Papers, Panel Discussions, Workshops, and Films - Will the conference be virtual or in-person? - The conference will be in-person. - Is travel support available? - TBC - Additional Questions and accommodation requests? Please contact: CriticalThemes(a)newschool.edu

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RECORDING - Internet Society 2025 Global Alumni Event
by Joly MacFie 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

[image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/19875>*VIDEO <https://isoc.live/19875>* | *AUDIO <https://archive.org/download/isoc-alumni-2025/isoc-alumni-2025.mp3>* | *RECAP <https://www.patreon.com/posts/144459559/>* | *ARCHIVE <https://archive.org/details/isoc-alumni-2025>* | *PERMALINK <https://isoc.live/19875>* On *November 25, 2025*, the *Internet Society Alumni Network <https://www.internetsociety.org/shaping-future-of-the-internet/alumni-netwo…>* hosted it *2025 Global Event* to celebrate the impact generation, connections nurtured, and progress made in its community. Participants heard directly from alumni who are creating a safer and more accessible Internet, and learnt more about how the Alumni Network fosters their personal and professional growth, and what is coming up for 2026… *SPEAKERS* *Sally Wentworth* – President and CEO, Internet Society *John Quarterman* – 2025 Internet Hall of Fame Inductee *Preeksha Malhotra* – ISOC Alumna *Richard Buregeya* – ISOC Alumnus *Kathleen Moriarty* – Internet Society Board of Trustees *Olufunke Baruwa* – Internet SocietyBoard of Trustees *Chris Locke* – EVP / MD, ISOC Foundation HOST: *Claire van Zwieten* – Alumni Specialist, Internet Society -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Deadline for abstract approaching (December 1): Playable Southeast Asia edited collection
by iskandar zulkarnain 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

Apologies for cross-postings! Deadline for sending abstract and author bio for Playable Southeast Asia is approaching soon! *Update:* We have received initial interest from a major university press to publish our edited collection under their Asian Media series *Call for Contribution: * *Playable Southeast Asia: Gaming Cultures, Politics, and Aesthetics in a Multiethnic Region* edited volume Editors: Peichi Chung, Byron Fong, Iskandar Zulkarnain *Deadline for abstract and author bio: December 1, 2025* *Notification of abstract acceptance*: *February 1, 2026* *Deadline for full chapter*: *December 1, 2026* *Expected date of publication*: *2027* While video games have always been a global phenomenon, they have been received, played, and created differently in different regions and localities (Hjorth and Chan 2009; Huntemann and Aslinger 2013; Penix-Tadsen 2019). These differences add multiple levels of complexity to how we experience them. Games can be, and often are more than just an entertainment medium, capable of serving as a subversive means of self-expression under authoritarian regimes (Svelch 2018), or being converted into cultural currency for both game designers and players (Penix-Tadsen 2016). Games can also exist as platforms of ideological protest, representing voices from below (Mukherjee 2017), or can reveal the “upside/down” logics that have defined the Asia/America geopolitical relationship since the 19th century (Patterson and Fickle 2024). Especially important is how they can also be used as a lens to explore how nations struggle with the legacies of war, colonialism and religious strife that define part of the nation-building process (Kang, Yang, Mochocki, Majewski, and Schreiber 2024*)*. Yet, despite these valuable insights, much of the purportedly global focus of video game studies still emphasizes the experience of regions in the Global North and other conventionally prominent centers for the production and consumption of games, while largely omitting the experiences of the Global South from consideration. By following the path of scholars who focus on regions that have traditionally been underserved by dominant industry players, and thus aiming to rectify the broadly lacking examination of these regions by journalists and academics, this edited collection will focus on gaming cultures, politics, and aesthetics in Southeast Asia. As a region, Southeast Asia offers layered, vast levels of complexity. It is a geopolitical and economic construct deeply rooted within the history of global colonialism. It invites multiple approaches in its mapping and description. The region’s nuances are evident in its most prominent geopolitical construction, ASEAN, as an anti-communist bloc while also having two nominally communist countries in the region (Vietnam and Laos). There is mainland Southeast Asia and there is also maritime Southeast Asia. The southern region has a predominantly Muslim population and the northern region is predominantly Buddhist. Meanwhile, the Philippines and East Timor are the only predominantly catholic countries in the region. The region also has the largest number of Chinese diaspora in the world, mostly living in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. All these cultural connections and political configurations have shaped and are currently being shaped by the production, circulation, and consumption of video games both from within and outside the region. In terms of video game theory, for instance, a specific play practice in Southeast Asia–Balinese cockfight–contributes to the theoretical formulation of “gamic action” (Galloway 2006), even though it is somewhat underexplored. Furthermore, within the video game industry framework, there is a conscious effort–driven by data analytics–of “mythifying” Southeast Asia as “the world’s fastest growing game region” to attract foreign (i.e. western) investors, creating a depoliticized configuration of the region and flattening cultural and racial differences (Wong 2023). Meanwhile, in an effort to collectively re-imagine Southeast Asia’s regional identity through game art, some independent game studios in the region have adopted two types of approaches: following the production formula of global popular media to achieve “niche globality,” or presenting their version of “contested regionalism” (Chung 2016). In some cases, game developers and professional players in Southeast Asia also participate in the promotion of digital nationalism (Zulkarnain 2014; Jiwandono 2024). In this context, this edited collection aims to further study gaming practices in Southeast Asia that reflect and reshape cultural paradigms in local and regional settings while simultaneously attending to global gaming progression. Here, we want to frame the concept of “Southeast Asia as a method,” following the theoretical formulation of Kuan-Hsing Chen (2010), to emphasize the use of Southeast Asia as an imaginary anchoring point that allows for inter-referentiality between countries within and outside of the region in terms of their gaming cultural practices (e.g. E-sports, industry, indie games, streaming, etc). We are also interested in having a mix of contributions from scholars from the region (or in close proximity to the region, geographically and/or culturally) and perspectives from/interviews with people who are involved in Southeast Asian gaming cultures (e.g. game developers, studios, archivists, gaming communities, etc). Possible topics might include, but not limited to: - Early histories of video game cultures - Identity (e.g. national, gender, racial, sexual, religious) - “Asiatic” style or form in SEA games - Nostalgic aesthetic/themes in SEA games - Labor exploitation and unionization (or lack of) in SEA gaming industry - Historical and counterhistorical representation in SEA games - Inter-regional citation practice among indie or AAA game developers - Significance of paratextual elements in SEA games (e.g. streaming, game magazines, gaming clubs) - Cultural representations in SEA games (e.g. religious, linguistic, or national) - The roles of the state in SEA gaming cultures - Archival initiatives of SEA games - Decolonizing SEA in video games - Gaming platforms in Southeast Asian context - Video games as a heritage - Gaming preservation - E-sports cultures in SEA - Mobile gaming cultures - Video game bans by the state/state apparatuses Abstract submissions should comprise of: 1. Abstract (250-500 words) 2. Author information (short biographical statement of 200 words) Submissions should be sent to *playablesea(a)gmail.com <playablesea(a)gmail.com>*. Abstract submissions will then undergo an internal editorial review process. Authors will be notified of the outcome as soon as reports are received. Chapter submissions should comprise of: 1. Full-length article (5000-9000 words), including references and a bibliography, or 2. Perspectives/Interviews (3000-5000 words) in English or translated 3. Final author information (short biographical statement of 200 words) Feel free to send us questions regarding this proposed edited collection. *References:* Chen, Kuan-Hsing, *Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization*, Duke UP (2010) Chung, Peichi, “The Globalization of Game Art in Southeast Asia,” in Hjorth, Larissa, and Olivia Khoo (Eds.), *Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia*, Routledge (2016) Galloway, Alexander, *Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture*, University of Minnesota Press (2006) Hjorth, Larissa, and Dean Chan (Eds.), *Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific*, Routledge (2009) Huntemann, Nina B., and Ben Aslinger (Eds.) *Gaming Globally: Production, Play, and Place*, Palgrave Macmillan (2013) Jiwandono, Haryo Pambuko, “Mobile Game Esports as an Indonesian National Identity,” in Kang, Yowei, Kenneth C.C. Yang, Michal Mochocki, Jakub Majewski, and Pawel Schreiber (Eds.), *Asian Histories and Heritages in Video Games*, Routledge (2024) Kang, Yowei, Kenneth C.C. Yang, Michal Mochocki, Jakub Majewski, and Pawel Schreiber (Eds.), *Asian Histories and Heritages in Video Games*, Routledge (2024) Mukherjee, Souvik, *Videogames and Postcolonialism: Empire Plays Back*, Palgrave Macmillan (2017) Patterson, Christopher B., *Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games*, NYU Press (2020) Patterson, Christopher B., and Tara Fickle (Eds.), *Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) About Us*, Duke UP (2024) Penix-Tadsen, Phillip, *Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America*, The MIT Press (2016) ___________ (Ed.), *Video Games and the Global South*, ETC Press/Carnegie Mellon University (2019) Švelch, Jaroslav, *Gaming the Iron Curtain*, The MIT Press (2018) Wong, K. T., “The Data-Driven Myth and the Deceptive Futurity of ‘The World’s Fastest Growing Games Region’: Selling the Southeast Asian Games Market via Game Analytics,” *Games and Culture*, Vol. 18(1), 2023: 42-61 Zulkarnain, Iskandar, “‘Playable’ Nationalism: *Nusantara Online* and the ‘Gamic’ Reconstructions of National History,” *SOJOURN*, Vol. 29(1), 2014: 31-62 -- Iskandar "Izul" Zulkarnain, Ph.D. (He/him) Assistant Professor of Media and Society Global Digital Media Hobart and William Smith Colleges Personal website: https://www.digitalperipheries.com/ "Ilmu itu untuk dibagi, bukan untuk dimiliki!"

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39th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS): Fourth Call for Contributions
by Announce 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

*** Fourth Call for Contributions *** 39th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2026) June 3-5 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://2026.cbms-conference.org<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Attracting a worldwide audience, CBMS is the premier conference for computer-based medical systems, and one of the main conferences in the fields of medical informatics and biomedical informatics. CBMS allows the exchange of ideas and technologies between academic and industrial scientists. The scientific program of IEEE CBMS 2026 will consist of regular and special track sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as, keynote talks and tutorials given by leading experts in their fields. The CBMS 2026 edition also aims to host high-quality papers about industry and real case applications as well as allow researchers leading international projects to show to the scientific community the main aims, goals, and results of their projects. We solicit submissions on previously unpublished research work. CALL FOR PAPERS Example areas include but are not limited to: • Active and Healthy Ageing System • Analytics and solutions in Public Health • Artificial intelligence in healthcare • Big Data Analytics in Healthcare • Bioinformatics • Biomarker Discovery and Drug Design • Biomedical Signal and Image Processing and Machine Vision • Cognitive Computing in Healthcare • Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Healthcare (CSCW) • Databases and blockchain in Medicine or Healthcare • Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery in Medicine or Healthcare • Decision Support and Recommendation Systems in Medicine or Healthcare • Digital Twins / Personalized AI Models • e-Health • Ethics in the application of ICT to biomedicine • Explainable AI for Decision Support • Generative AI and Foundational Models for Biomedicine • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in Healthcare • Knowledge Representation in Medicine or Healthcare • m-Health • Medical education using ICT • Medical Robotics, Intelligent Medical Devices, and Smart Technologies • Metaverse, Augmented and Intelligent Reality • Multimodality Data Analysis • Network and Telemedicine Systems • Pervasive Computing for Wearables • Privacy and Security in Healthcare • Radiomics and Radiogenomics • Serious Games for Healthcare • Software Systems in Medicine • Technology in Clinical and Healthcare Services Research • Web-Based Delivery of Medical Information Special Tracks CBMS 2026 will also feature a number of special tracks: • Green-Aware Artificial Intelligence for Network and Text Mining in Computational Biology and Medicine https://sites.google.com/unicz.it/greenai-nettext/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Multimodal Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare https://sites.google.com/view/maih2026/home<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> GEAI4ND — Generalizable & Explainable AI for the Care Continuum of Neurodegenerative Disease http://geai4nd-cbms2026.conf.uoi.gr/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Interoperability and Federated Analytics in Biomedical Data Using OMOP CDM https://bioinformatics-ua.github.io/ieee-cbms-st-IFABD/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Network Medicine https://medal.ctb.upm.es/CBMS26_ST_NM.html<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Image Processing and Machine Vision for Intelligent Healthcare https://sites.google.com/view/2026-cbms-impvih<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Artificial Intelligence for Inclusion, Accessibility and Well-Being of Vulnerable Populations https://www.uco.es/kdis/cbms-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Synthetic Healthcare Data Generation and Clinical Decision Support https://is-innovation.eu/CBMS2026/search-workshop.htm<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging (CIMI) https://sites.google.com/view/cbms/cbms-cimi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Management and Quality of Data Lifecycle in Health and Medicine https://raise-suite.eu/management-and-quality-of-data-lifecycle-in-health-a…<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Prospective authors are expected to submit their contributions to the general track or one of the special tracks if relevant. Please see the submission guidelines for further details. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program Committee members. All accepted papers (Regular, Short, and Posters) will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. Type of Submissions Each contribution must be prepared following the IEEE two-column format, whose template is available at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> . The authors may choose LaTeX or Microsoft Word templates. CBMS 2026 accepts three types of submissions: • Regular papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 6 pages, but it is possible to extend the paper length up to 8 pages by paying for each extra page. Check fees for more information. • Short papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 4 pages and no less than 3 pages, not being possible to extend the paper length. The duration of the oral presentation of short posters will be less than regular ones. • Posters: The length of the contribution is limited to 2 pages. Poster papers will be included in the proceedings but won’t include oral presentations during the conference. The authors of a poster also need to prepare a real poster to be shown during the conference. For presentation purposes at the conference, the authors must prepare the poster in portrait format. The accepted dimensions are 60 (width) x 80 (length). CALL FOR SHOWCASE / RESEARCH PROJECTS CBMS 2026 will have a special showcase/research projects track session, where we invite (a) scientific papers, (b) demonstrations/posters and (c) research-projects descriptions. Scientific papers: We invite papers (not exceeding 6 pages in length), describing innovative computer-based medical devices or software applications, including practical experiences with such innovations. The papers should be scholarly articles presenting scientific methods, measurements, and experiments. Marketing and sales materials will not be accepted. These papers will be evaluated based on practicality, innovation, scientific rigor, value of the device or application to users, and novelty. They will be published in the proceedings of the conference along with the other papers under this track. Examples of such papers could include but are not limited to: • Computer-based medical devices that have technical/scientific novelty • Computer-based medical applications intended for or recently introduced in the field • Novel uses of traditional equipment in practice • Experience papers based on use and data from the field • Insightful measurement-based analysis of computer-based medical systems from the field • Novel analysis providing new insights from data collected from the field • New and practical data analytics useful in practice • Real deployments of AI solutions in medicine Demonstrations: A demonstration is more appropriate if the value can be better expressed with a demonstration rather than in a full-length paper. The topics for the demonstration papers are the same as the scientific for this track. Please submit a proposal of your demonstration with a limit of two pages. Research projects/initiatives: CBMS aims in this edition to receive submissions about research or innovation projects funded by, mainly, competitive calls to present their project. We foresee to receive submissions which include details about the project goals, consortium and results (expected and any tentative result obtained so far). Only projects funded by competitive calls or with strong potential interest for the community will be considered. International projects organized in a consortium of several countries will have preference. Submissions in this context should be a one/two-pages document with at least the following information: • Project/initiative title • Description • Participant entities • Project goals • Funding agency (when applies) or agencies • Results obtained so far (publications, patents, ...) The contribution must be prepared following the regular paper. The length of the contribution must be between 4 and 6 pages. Submission Guidelines Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program Committee members. All accepted contributions will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of the authors. CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium for CBMS 2026 will provide an opportunity for PhD students to present their research plans or their preliminary work in an informal and supportive atmosphere. The PhD students will be able to discuss the problems that their PhDs are addressing, any preliminary results, and their future plans. The DC will offer them an opportunity to discuss any problems that they have come up against, and gain valuable advice and constructive feedback from experienced researchers in the field.The Doctoral Consortium will involve presentations by participating PhD students (selected by the Doctoral Consortium chairs) as well as a number of invited talks / tutorials on different related topics in the field. Submissions Doctoral Consortium submissions should focus specifically on a PhD thesis or subsection of a thesis. To apply for participation at CBMS 2026 Doctoral Consortium, please submit a research plan on a topic related to the areas covered in the general call for papers for the conference. Each submission should be in the same format as the main conference papers except it should consist of approximately 3-5 pages describing your research work. In particular: • Title and author • The research problem that your PhD addresses • Your planned approach and methods for solving the problem • How your approach compares to other known approaches • Any preliminary results or expected results • Future plans and directions with specific questions Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management system (see link below). Doctoral Consortium papers/contributions will be included in the proceedings in a specific “Doctoral Consortium” section. SUBMISSION LINK FOR ALL TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecbms2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Please choose the track that best fits for your submitted paper. OTHER INFORMATION For more information, please contact ieeecbms2026 AT easychair.org . IMPORTANT DATES (all types of contributions) • Submission Deadline: February 20, 2026 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2026 • Camera-Ready Due: April 24, 2026 (AoE) ORGANIZATION CBMS SC Chair • Rosa Sicilia, University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy General Chairs • Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy • Constantinos S. Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece • Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus • Andreas S. Panayides, CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus Publication Chairs • Sameer K. Antani, National Library of Medicine & National Institutes Of Health, USA • Bridget Kana, Karlstad University, Sweden Special Tracks Chairs • Pietro Cinaglia, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy • Christos Loizou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Showcase / Research Projects Chair • Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy Doctoral Consortium Chair • Marios Pattichis, University of New Mexico, USA Sponsorship Chair • KC Santosh, University of South Dakota, USA Local Organizing and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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CfA Deadline Extended / Workshop on Digital Authoritarianism in the Global South and East
by Saif Shahin 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

Call for Abstracts for a Workshop on Digital Authoritarianism in the Global South and East at the ECPR Joint Sessions University of Innsbruck, Austria 7-10 April 2026 Submission deadline (extended): 10 December 2025 For details and submission, please visit https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/WorkshopDetails/16786 The global decline in political rights and civil liberties has coincided with the expanding reach of the internet. This Workshop examines how emerging digital platforms, practices, and policies help entrench authoritarianism, or exacerbate democratic backsliding, in regions where the majority of humanity resides, including Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America. It maps the transforming terrain of digital authoritarianism, from internet shutdowns and online censorship to surveillance, disinformation, and participatory propaganda. It also elucidates how data justice and civil rights activists are developing strategies to resist such authoritarianism. While research on digital authoritarianism has burgeoned in recent years, the scholarship remains limited to a few nations — typically those already deemed authoritarian. We turn attention to the Global South and East to explore the myriad forms digital authoritarian practices take across societies with varied democratic, totalitarian and hybrid political histories. A Workshop is an effective format to bring scholars interested in diverse contexts to share their work with each other. This will also help generate a more cohesive conceptual understanding of digital authoritarianism and its evolving tools, modalities, and effects. The Workshop will aim to advance knowledge in three key directions. First, while foregrounding the significance of political and historical context, the Workshop will illustrate how comparative and transnational approaches can help us explore the material and normative diffusion of digital authoritarianism. For example, contributions could examine how China’s digital policies serve as a ‘model’ for repressive regimes elsewhere. Second, extant scholarship emphasises internet shutdowns and surveillance as the key instruments of digital authoritarianism. The Workshop will also pay attention to novel modalities such as participatory propaganda and violations of digital rights. Third, moving beyond a narrow focus on states, the Workshop will also consider the role of corporations, tech operators, ordinary users and other actors in reinforcing authoritarianism. It also invites contributions on everyday acts of algorithmic resistance to digital authoritarianism. In line with these objectives, the Workshop calls for papers addressing questions such as: • How do digital technologies, platforms, and infrastructures enable authoritarianism in the Global South and East (GSE)? • How have the modalities of digital authoritarianism—from shutdowns to censorship, propaganda etc— evolved in the GSE? • What are the roles played by diverse actors—including the state, parties, corporations, civil society and citizens—in digital authoritarianism in the GSE? • What factors and conditions can accentuate or ameliorate digital authoritarianism in the GSE? • Who are the targets of digital authoritarianism in the GSE and what is its impact on them? • How does digital authoritarianism diffuse, either materially or normatively, across the GSE—or from the Global North/West to GSE? • How are legal or extra-legal instruments used for/against digital authoritarianism in the GSE? • What are the responses to digital authoritarianism in the GSE and under what conditions are they likely to succeed? • How does digital authoritarianism shape power relations, domestic and international, in the GSE? How to propose your paper for the Workshop Please create an account on the European Consortium for Political Research website, ECPR.eu. Then, visit the Workshop details page ( https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/WorkshopDetails/16786) and choose ‘Propose a Paper.’ The following details are required to complete the submission: • Workshop title (Digital Authoritarianism in the Global South and East); • Paper title (no more than 20 words); • Abstract (no more than 500 words); • 3–8 keywords, selected from a predetermined list, indicating the paper’s subject, theme and scope; • Co-author’s email address as registered in My ECPR (if applicable). Please contact us if you have any questions. Workshop Directors Saif Shahin, Tilburg University, s.s.shahin(a)tilburguniversity.edu Junki Nakahara, University of Amsterdam, j.nakahara(a)uva.nl _____ *Saif Shahin, Ph.D.* Assistant Professor <https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/s-s-shahin> of Digital Culture MA Thesis Coordinator, Dept. of Culture Studies Director, Digital South Research Lab <https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/humanities/digital-south-lab> Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences Tilburg University, Netherlands Associate Editor <https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/witp20/about-this-journal#editorial-bo…> Journal of Information Technology & Politics Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pzy87iEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao> | ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Saif-Shahin>

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Position: Tenure Track Assistant in Network Science and Communication
by Joseph Reagle 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

Dear AoIR, Northeastern University has a tenure-track interdisciplinary posting for *Network Science and Communication*, in the *College of Arts, Media, and Design*. I am on the search committee and in the Communication Studies department, should you have any unusual questions. 🙂 —Joseph <j.reagle(a)northeastern.edu> =============================== # Job Posting: Assistant Professor in Network Science and Communication https://northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Boston-MA-Main-Campu… - Institution: Northeastern University, College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) - Location: Boston, MA (Main Campus) - Job ID: R137148 - Position Type: Full-time, Tenure-track - Salary Range: $97,000 – $122,000 (Assistant Professor) ## About the Opportunity The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track **Assistant Professor in Network Science**, to be located at the Boston campus. We are particularly interested in candidates with a focus on social networks and sports, science communication, or another communication/media topic, qualified for a joint appointment between the Department of Communication Studies and a department within the College of Science. There is also potential for collaboration with other relevant units such as the Network Science Institute. The ideal candidate will conduct original research at the intersection of network science, communication, and media, and/or will advance computational communication research using network analysis approaches. ## Research Focus Areas We encourage applicants whose research includes (but is not limited to) the following topics: - Sports media, fans, or culture - Sports, markets, and identity - Sports teams and performance networks - Science translation and media ecosystems - Civic science, trust, and knowledge co-creation networks - Science knowledge production and collaboration networks ## Faculty Support & Mentorship The College is seeking to give excellent candidates across all demographics of society the opportunity, resources, and support to establish innovative and impactful research careers. - Post-Doc Option: For selected candidates, there may be an option of a 1- to 2-year CAMD-funded, mentored post-doc Fellow position to allow candidates to ramp up their research programs before starting on the tenure track. - Mentorship: Hires will be mentored for success with individualized and group guidance. - Development: The ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development works in conjunction with the Office of Research Development (ORD) and the Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research (CATLR) to support thriving faculty. ## Responsibilities - Teaching: Develop and teach core undergraduate and graduate courses in our communication studies degree programs. - Mentoring: Mentor students at undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. - Research: Maintain a strong program of interdisciplinary research that attracts external funding and/or recognition. - Service: Participate in departmental, college, and university service. - Global Engagement: Work with global student populations. ## Qualifications - Education: A PhD degree in Communication Studies, Psychology, or a related field by the employment start date. - Research: Demonstrated potential to attract external funding for research and/or creative practice. - Experience: Successful faculty at Northeastern are dynamic and innovative scholars with a record of research and teaching excellence and a commitment to fostering belonging in the university community. ## Application Instructions Review Date: Applications will be reviewed beginning on **December 15, 2025**. How to Apply: Please submit a curriculum vitae that includes a list of publications, contact information for at least three reference letters, and written statements addressing the prompts below via the Northeastern Careers portal: https://northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Boston-MA-Main-Campu… # Required Statements: 1. Research Statement: Describe the focus of your research, including questions identified, funding received, results discovered, and products of these efforts. Describe research undertaken with students/external community and outline future research directions in CAMD. 2. Teaching Statement: Summarize past instructional and mentorship experiences, pedagogical philosophy, plans/goals for teaching in CAMD (including existing and proposed courses), and strategies for teaching and mentoring global student populations. ---- ## About Northeastern University Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus. ## About CAMD The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) is a collaborative community within the university that acts as a catalyst for research, inspiration, and discovery. It brings together a unique combination of disciplines, including Architecture, Art+Design, Communication Studies, Journalism, Media and Screen Studies, Music, and Theatre. Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.*

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Re: [Air-L] CfP: Special Issue Poetics "Technology & Inequality in Culture, Media & Arts"
by Ticona, Julia 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

The deadline is approaching (12-1) for a special issue of Poetics on Technology & Inequality in Culture, Media and the Arts<https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/platform/poeticstechissue>. If you have any questions about the process, please feel free to reach out to me! All best, Julia -- Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication, Sociology University of Pennsylvania Book: Left to Our Own Devices<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/left-to-our-own-devices-97801976310…> From: Ticona, Julia <julia.ticona(a)asc.upenn.edu> Date: Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM To: Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org <Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: CfP: Special Issue Poetics "Technology & Inequality in Culture, Media & Arts" Dear AOIR colleagues, We warmly invite abstract submissions of empirical papers on Technology & Inequality in Culture, Media and the Arts for the journal Poetics<https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/poetics>. Check out the CFP below (and attached). Thank you! CfP: Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts Special Issue of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts Editors: Julia Ticona (University of Pennsylvania), Alondra Nelson (Institute for Advanced Study), Angèle Christin (Stanford University). In the summer of 2023, Hollywood writers and actors went on the longest joint strike since the 1960s, joined not long after by similar actions from voice and video game actors. Bollywood stars have begun including AI clauses in contracts, and the European artists who dub Hollywood movies for audiences on the continent have fought back against the use of automated voiceovers. These organized labor disputes have put a spotlight on the role of generative artificial intelligence technologies in disruptions, both actual and future, to creative and cultural work and cultural industries. The relative success of these union campaigns underscored that labor relations and the evolving conditions of creative and cultural work remain central to any critical analysis of technology-mediated society. However, the technological and social transformations at stake extend far beyond AI-driven automation and strikes to encompass the broader digital infrastructures mediating contemporary cultural life. Technologies that create, curate, distribute, and shape cultural consumption - including but not limited to the rise of platforms that birthed both new kinds of artists, and new forms of fame and influence, to COVID-spurred uses of technologies to accommodate newly home-bound ways of working - are reshaping not only creative industries but also everyday practices of cultural participation and meaning-making. These shifts intersect with platform capitalism’s consolidation of cultural production, while simultaneously reconfiguring cultural hierarchies and creating new forms of social stratification. These shifts can include both paid and unpaid labor, within formal organizations and outside of them. This special issue of Poetics seeks to advance our understanding of how a broad array of intertwining developments in digital and data-intensive technologies are reshaping cultural production across diverse creative fields. We invite submissions that employ robust empirical methods to examine how these technologies are reshaping processes of cultural creation, circulation, and evaluation, with particular attention to their implications for creative labor and social inequalities. Key Areas of Interest This special issue invites interdisciplinary contributions that situate their papers across fields, including but not limited to sociology, media studies, communication, and related social sciences. Substantive research questions may address a range of topics; however, we expect all submissions to engage conceptually with the themes of both inequality and technology. This special issue invites theoretically informed empirical contributions using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies. Empirical abstracts should include a clear description of the methods employed and a theoretical framing that situates the paper within or across the scholarly disciplines and literatures within the scope of the special issue. Abstracts should also indicate what scholarly literatures the paper aims to draw on and contribute to. Gatekeepers & Inequalities: How are traditional cultural gatekeepers responding to challenges raised by new ways of working with technologies? What new forms of gatekeeping status and taste have emerged alongside new means of cultural production and consumption? How have these shifts affected the hierarchies that sort high from low-brow forms of art and entertainment? Privileged and marginalized cultural workers and organizations? Technologies-in-use: How are practicing artists and media-makers using, refusing, or working around different configurations of technologies and other artistic tools? How do practices of daily use, unconstrained by platform or media type, blend and bend technologies to meet diverse artistic ends or subvert constraints imposed by material constraints? How are media makers embodied relationships to their work and tools shaped by changing work practices? How do artists and media-makers understand the power of tech companies and their position within media ecosystems? Work & Value: How are collective understandings of the value of creative work shifting? How are AI and other technologies interacting with existing political economies of precarity? Including, the shifting boundaries between paid and unpaid labor? This may include creatives' own understandings of their work, as well as analyses of the “back-end” of these technologies, including the creative works used to train AI systems. How does the integration of these technologies into creative practice raise issues surrounding ideas of intellectual property, theft, and fair use? Culture(s) of Governance: How are the institutions that sell and evaluate art, fund and train artists, and regulate art worlds reshaping hierarchies and understandings of the rules of art and media? What are the legal, cultural, and political frames shaping contests between states, sectors, and institutional actors surrounding the creation or reformation of rules surrounding art and media? International & Cross-Cultural Dynamics: How do these technological shifts play out differently across national, regional, or cultural contexts? How do they work to reconfigure geopolitical hierarchies and/or solidarities? What are the implications for cultural imperialism, local creative economies, or national cultural practices? Timeline & Considerations: Abstracts should be emailed to poeticstechissue(a)gmail.com by December 1st 2026, by 11:59pm EST. Abstracts (750-1000 words, excluding references) due by December 1st 2026, by 11:59pm EST. Decisions will be communicated by March 1st 2026, by 11:59pm EST. Full papers are due by June 5th 2026, by 11:59pm EST, in advance of a virtual workshop. Virtual Workshop will be held in late June/early July - Participation in the virtual workshop is mandatory for inclusion in the resulting special issue, final date will be sent to all authors upon abstract acceptance. All participants will be expected to read and offer constructive feedback to a small number of fellow participants and will receive feedback from special issue editors. Full revised papers due by October 31st, by 11:50pm EST, for peer-review. Each author will be expected to peer-review a paper for the special issue. Note: If your article is selected and you’d like to publish Open Access, Elsevier (Poetics’ publisher) charges an article processing fee of $3730. Some universities/colleges have agreements with some publishers to cover or discount this fee. Please check with the librarians at your institution to understand if your fees may be covered. If needed, the editorial team will assist authors with up to $1865 of this fee. Depending on the final manuscripts accepted and author needs, we may be able to provide further assistance. You may choose for your article to be published for subscription only, and there is no article processing fee. -- Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication, Sociology University of Pennsylvania Book: Left to Our Own Devices<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/left-to-our-own-devices-97801976310…>

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The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026): Last Call for Blue Sky Ideas
by Announce 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

*** Last Call for Blue Sky Ideas *** The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around 50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS. The Blue Sky Ideas Special Track is intended to present and provoke visionary ideas, long- term challenges, new research opportunities, and debate. It serves as an incubator for innovative, risky, and provocative research directions, and aims to provide a forum for publishing and presenting these without being constrained by the result-oriented standards followed in the review process of the main track of the conference. Research visions and ideas can cross disciplines, envisioning new directions relevant for Agents and advancing Multi-Agent Systems research through interdisciplinary viewpoints. We encourage papers to reflect on the future of the research area and its community within the broader AI and computing landscape. We invite submissions that focus on novel, overlooked, or under-represented application areas to which agent research may contribute; potential paths for agent research to contribute to the state of the art in other AI and computing areas and the other way around; unexplored theoretical grounds for agent research. Overall, we aim at papers that help guide the agent community to achieve in the coming years a leading position within AI and computing research. Evaluation Criteria Reviewers will assess papers based on the following criteria: Relevance and Advancement (level of future-thinking) • Are the ideas presented of interest to members of the Agents and MAS research communities? • Do the ideas push forward the envelope of Agents/MAS application into the future? Novelty and Vision (level of “Blue Sky”-ness) • How much the ideas are visionary (vs. next step w.r.t. state of the art), novel, or out of the box. Background and Foundation (level of grounded-ness) • Are the ideas motivated and grounded in a solid understanding of the existing state-of- the-art and older foundational research/theory? • Do the ideas consider relatively new research ideas (e.g. published in the last 3 years)? Impact and Practicality (level of real-world applicability) • How deep and wide is the envisioned impact of the ideas on the research agenda in the Agents and MAS communities? • How deep and wide is the envisioned impact on the intended beneficiaries of the ideas presented, including practical considerations? Rigour and Clarity (level of strength of contribution) • Are the ideas presented in a clear and rigorous way? • How strong is the level of critical reflection applied in the exploration of these ideas? Submission Submissions are limited to 4 pages in length in the AAMAS 2026 format, with any additional pages containing only bibliographic references. The formatting instructions are the same as for the AAMAS 2026 main track. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be presented orally at the conference. The Blue Sky Ideas Special Track follows the same policies as the main track. Submissions must be original, reviewing is double-blind, and at least one author of each accepted paper will be required to register for the conference by the early registration deadline with the intention of presenting the paper at the conference. See the Call for Papers (Main Technical Track) and Submission Instructions for details (information on the conference website). Important Dates • Abstract Submission: December 3, 2025 • Paper Submission: December 8, 2025 • Rebuttal Period: January 10-15, 2026 • Author Notification: January 31, 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: February 19, 2026 • Author Registration: March 31, 2026 All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). Contact AAMAS 2026 Blue Sky Ideas Track Co-Chairs • Ann Nowé, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium ann.nowe(a)ai.vub.ac.be • Michael Winikoff, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand michael.winikoff(a)vuw.ac.nz Organizing Committee AAMAS 2026 General Chairs • Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy • John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs • Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America • Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair) • Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)

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GRABACIÓN– Youth LACIGF 2025
by Joly MacFie 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

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