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Reminder: CFP JoPP#15
by Mathieu.O'Neil 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

<apologies as ever for multiple exposures to this message> Hi all This is a reminder that the deadline for submissions to the Journal of Peer Production #15 TRANSITION is fast approaching. You can find the full CFP here: http://peerproduction.net/cfp-jopp-15-transition/ Please email your extended abstracts to the issue editors, Panayotis Antoniadis and Mathieu O'Neil at this address: transition(a)peerproduction.net Cheers Mathieu [UC Logo]<http://www.canberra.edu.au> [Mid-year entry at the University of Canberra]<https://www.canberra.edu.au/study-uc> [UC Facebook]<https://www.facebook.com/UniversityOfCanberra>[UC Twitter]<https://twitter.com/UniCanberra>[UC Instagram]<https://www.instagram.com/unicanberra/>[UC Linkedin]<https://au.linkedin.com/school/university-of-canberra/>[UC Youtube]<https://www.youtube.com/user/uniofcanberra> [University of Canberra] <http://www.canberra.edu.au> Australian Government Higher Education Registered Provider (CRICOS) #00212K The University of Canberra acknowledges the Ngunnawal people, traditional custodians of the lands where Bruce Campus is situated. We wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of Canberra and the region. We also acknowledge all other First Nations Peoples on whose lands we gather. NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential or copyright materials and are for the attention of the addressee only. If you have received this email in error please notify us by email reply and delete it from your system. The University of Canberra accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.

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Come & watch 5-min Spotlight Talks and Featured Panel on Diverse Voices from the International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety)
by Anatoliy Gruzd 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

Hello AoIR Friends, We are delighted to announce that all 83 spotlight talks of full & work-in-progress papers from the 2020 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) are now available online. The conference, which is being held virtually this year, is currently underway. As a way to introduce ourselves to other great academic communities, we like to invite you to explore this year’s presentations before they are gone. The presentations are groups into ten broad tracks: 1: Bots, Bad Actors, Anti-social 2: Digital Methods 3: Discourse and Public Opinion 4: Health & Wellbeing 5: Marketing & Outreach 6: Misinformation 7: Online & Offline Communities 8: Politics 9: Privacy, Security, Trust 10: Use & Users The full list of presentations is available at https://socialmediaandsociety.org/smsociety-presentations-2020/ We have also made the *Featured Panel* on “*Diverse Voices: Promises and Perils of Social Media for Diversity*” available at https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2020/smsociety2020-how-to-participate/. The panel tackles many of the pressing questions that society is grappling with, including: - Can human society handle the connection of diverse and divergent (often conflicting) voices on social media? Is empowering every voice via social media a net good? - Under what conditions can social media build bridges across differences? When does social media reinforce division? *Background about the conference*: The 2020 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) is an annual gathering of social media researchers from around the world. It is the premier venue for sharing and discovering new peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research on how social media platforms impact society. Organized by the Social Media Lab <http://socialmedialab.ca/> at the Ted Rogers School of Management <https://www.ryerson.ca/tedrogersschool/> at Ryerson University <https://www.ryerson.ca/>, #SMSociety provides participants with opportunities to exchange ideas, present original research, learn about recent and ongoing studies, and network with peers. This year’s conference is convened in partnership with colleagues from DePaul University College of Communication <https://communication.depaul.edu/Pages/default.aspx>, Studio Chi <https://las.depaul.edu/centers-and-institutes/studio-chi/Pages/default.aspx> and the College of Computing and Digital Media <https://www.cdm.depaul.edu/Pages/default.aspx> in Chicago. -- Anatoliy Gruzd, Conference chair On behalf of the 2020 #SMSociety Organizing Committee https://socialmediaandsociety.org/about/ ask(a)socialmediaandsociety.org

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Big digital politics & advocacy trends, part two
by Colin Delany 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

Hi folks, I just published the second installment of that Big Trends in Digital Politics and Advocacy series: https://www.epolitics.com/2020/07/23/big-trends-in-digital-politics-advocac… Here's part one if you missed it a couple of weeks ago: https://www.epolitics.com/2020/06/29/big-trends-in-digital-politics-advocac… What do YOU think? Note that these two pieces are adapted from Chapter Four of "How to Use the Internet to Change the World - and Win Elections". Enjoy, and please share if you find them interesting. Thanks! --cpd "How to Use the Internet to Change the World - and Win Elections: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Politics for Campaigns & Advocates" [Ebook] http://www.epolitics.com/winning Colin Delany Epolitics.com -- digital strategy for politics and advocacy http://www.epolitics.com 202-422-4682 cpd(a)epolitics.com @epolitics

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Three-year research fellow on ‘Generic visuals in the news’
by Helen Kennedy 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

We are appointing a three-year, full-time postdoctoral research fellow to join us (Dr Giorgia Aiello, Professor Christopher Anderson & Professor Helen Kennedy) on *Generic Visuals in the News: The Role of Stock Photos and Simple Data Visualizations in Assembling Publics*, from 1st October 2020 until 30th September 2023. *Generic Visuals in the News, *a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, will explore how generic visuals assemble political publics. Do stock photographs and simple data visualizations - which are increasingly ubiquitous and understudied - bring groups of people together around shared interests and concerns? Do they activate citizens to care about particular issues and lead to specific forms of political engagement? *Generic Visuals in the News* will use mixed methods, combining ethnographic fieldwork, focus groups, interviews, and social semiotic analysis. The successful candidate will be a key member of the research team, carrying out research in newsrooms, analysing generic visuals, and interviewing members of the public in order to explore how they respond to generic visuals in the news, amongst other duties. Further information about applying can be found here: https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=AHCMC1047. Closing date: Monday 17th August 2020. -- Helen Kennedy, Professor of Digital Society, @hmtk, Living With Data <https://livingwithdata.org/> *RECENT PUBLICATIONS: * Public perceptions of good data management: findings from a UK-based survey <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951720935616>, *Big Data and Society* (June 2020, w/Todd Hartman, Robin Steedman & Rhia Jones) *Public Understanding and Perceptions of Data Practices: a review of existing research <https://livingwithdata.org/current-research/publications/>* (May 2020, w/ Susan Oman, Mark Taylor, Jo Bates, Robin Steedman) *Data Visualization in Society <https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463722902/data-visualization-in-society>* (April 2020, ed w/ Martin Engebretesen, Open Access with Amsterdam University Press) Complex ecologies of trust in data practices and data-driven systems <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1748090>, *Information, Communication & Society* (April 2020, w/Robin Steedman & Rhia Jones) Approaching public perceptions of datafication through the lens of inequality: a case study in public service media <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1736122>, *Information, Communication & Society *(March 2020, w/Robin Steedman & Rhia Jones)

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WEBCAST WED-FRI – Virtual West Africa Internet Governance Forum 2020 #waigf
by Joly MacFie 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

I don't believe there is anyone in Africa who doesn't already know about this event, which is nearing the end of the its second day.What may not be known is that a) there is a real time text feed <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-WAIGF> on the English channel, and 2) that, after the conference, the video and audio and text will be available for download at https://archive.org/details/waigf <https://archive.org/details/waigf> ISOC Live posted: "The Virtual West Africa Internet Governance Forum (vWAIGF 2020) will be convened from 22nd-24th July 2020. With the general theme "Digital Access and Inclusion in Response to COVID19" the vWAIGF 2020 will focus on key sub-themes that relate to human right" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/vwaigf>The *Virtual West Africa Internet Governance Forum <https://2020.waigf.org/>* (vWAIGF 2020) will be convened from *22nd-24th July 2020*. With the general theme "*Digital Access and Inclusion in Response to COVID19*" the vWAIGF 2020 will focus on key sub-themes that relate to human rights issues in COVID-19; Cybersecurity, Trust and Privacy; and Emerging Issues and technologies. The objective will lead to discussions on how best to mitigate and solve these issues in the Post COVID -19 scenario, and put the sub-region in a state of preparedness for future pandemics. The discussion will also focus on policies that would promote digital inclusion and access which are critical to West Africa in achieving the 2030 digital transformation goals. Le* Forum virtuel sur la gouvernance de l'Internet en Afrique de l'Ouest <https://2020.waigf.org/>* (vWAIGF 2020) se tiendra du *22 au 24 juillet 2020*. Avec le thème général « *Accès numérique et inclusion en réponse au COVID19* », le vWAIGF 2020 se concentrera sur les principaux sous-thèmes liés aux droits de l'homme dans le COVID-19; la cybersécurité, la confiance et la confidentialité; et les problèmes et technologies émergents. L'objectif mènera à des discussions sur la meilleure façon d'atténuer et de résoudre ces problèmes dans le scénario post COVID -19, et de mettre le sous-région en état de préparation aux futures pandémies. La discussion portera également sur les politiques qui favoriseraient l'inclusion et l'accès numériques, qui sont essentielles pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest pour atteindre les objectifs de transformation numérique à l'horizon 2030. *ENGLISH LIVESTREAM **http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/vwaigf <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/vwaigf>* *LIVESTREAM FRANCAIS **http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/vwaigf <http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/vwaigf>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM - https://2020.waigf.org/register <https://2020.waigf.org/register>* *PROGRAMME https://2020.waigf.org/schedule <https://2020.waigf.org/schedule>* *TWITTER #waigf <https://bit.ly/3hkCGJm> * *REAL TIME TEXT https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-WAIGF <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-WAIGF> (English)* *SIMULCASTS* *https://2020.waigf.org/ <https://2020.waigf.org/>* *https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/ <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/>* *https://www.facebook.com/waigf/ <https://www.facebook.com/waigf/>* *ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/waigf <https://archive.org/details/waigf>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12506/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CfA: Academic Staff/Research Associate in the Area of Ethics and Digitalization, University of Tuebingen
by Wulf Loh 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

Academic Staff/Research Associate in the Area of Ethics and Digitalization German Collective Agreement TV-L E 13 (75-100%), 3 years The International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) at the University of Tübingen offers a position for a research associate (f/m/d) in the field of interdisciplinary research on digitalization as soon as possible. The position is located with the Centre’s research focus “Media Ethics and Information Technology”. Specifically, we are looking for specializations in at least one of the following areas: AI ethics, big data and society, AI and trust, AI regulation, training data quality, algorithmic decision making and fake news. The position is suitable for part time arrangements. The following qualifications are expected of the applicant: - Master's degree in philosophy, communication and media studies or another field within the humanities or social sciences - Specialization in information and media ethics, ethics of technology, or applied ethics in general - Willingness and ability to work in an interdisciplinary environment Please send your application including CV, relevant certificates, a writing sample, and (if applicable) a list of publications in electronic form (attached as one single PDF document) by August 25th to wulf.loh(a)izew.uni-tuebingen.de. Unfortunately, we will not be able to cover travel expenses. The University of Tübingen seeks to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching and therefore strongly encourages female researchers to apply. Severely disabled applicants with equivalent qualification will be preferentially considered. All the best, Wulf -- PostDoc Researcher BmBF Projekte NIKA/Plattform Lernende Systeme IZEW - Internationales Zentrum für Ethik in den Wissenschaften Universität Tübingen Wilhelmstr. 19 72074 Tübingen

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HOST 2020 - Mid-Summer Webinar Panel, July 28, 12:00-1:30 pm EST
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) 2020 Mid-Summer Webinar Panel, July 28, 12:00-1:30 pm EST, 2020 Title: How Can Hardware Security Contribute to the Fight Against COVID-19 and to Post Pandemic Life? Panel Organizers: Jim Plusquellic, Saverio Fazzari and Domenic Forte The COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented and widespread impacts on the economy, travel, politics, education, research, and human social lives in 2020. It is widely agreed that technology will play a critical role (both short-term and long-term) in mitigating the spread of the COVID-19 and establishing a "new normal". Personal protective equipment (PPE) is minimizing exposure to virus. Social distancing is being maintained through remote work, education, and health services, online retail, and on-demand food delivery. Scalable methods for fever screening and contact tracing are being developed to quickly identify the infected, warn patient contacts of exposure, and break chains of virus transmission. In the post-pandemic world, some of these 'best' practices may continue while new ones (e.g., contact-less everything, robot/drone delivery, etc.) emerge. Confidence in the hardware is more important because of the impact of the threat. The new normal and upcoming practices/technologies have opened up the door to unfamiliar security and privacy issues. During this webinar, the moderator and panelists will discuss some of the risks, opportunities, and possible roadmaps for researchers in the field of hardware security to address them. Moderator: Saverio Fazzari, Booz Allen Hamilton Panelists: * Sae Woo Nam, National Institute of Standards and Technology * Will Zortman, Sandia National Laboratories * James Joshi, National Science Foundation * Jim Plusquellic, University of New Mexico * Rob Aitken, ARM Topics: The panel will primarily focus on the following topic areas and questions: * Data Privacy: How secure are the devices being used for contact tracking, health monitoring, online shopping, etc.? How to avoid being tracked outside the workplace? How to protect against unauthorized access to my tracking and health information? How should such data be stored and for how long? * Data Transmission: During teleconferences, how should audio and video be protected efficiently in hardware? How can unwanted intrusions (i.e., Zoom bombing) be prevented? How to enforce digital rights management? * User Authentication: How should organizations provide access control for employees working from home, especially on security/IP sensitive tasks? How to verify who we are really talking to? What features need to be present in the hardware to support authentication, e.g., fingerprints, facial recognition, voice recognition, other biometrics? * Supply Chain/Counterfeit: Are front-line workers, state governments, etc. getting genuine, PPE, medicine, vaccines? How can hardware security prevent price-gouging, and enable independence of international suppliers? * Hardware Trust: Can the hardware built on top of low-cost embedded systems used for pandemic and post-pandemic technologies/practices (e.g., contact tracing, telework, telehealth, etc.) be trusted? How can hardware security make such hardware more trustworthy, and how can that trust be quantified? All attendees must register using the following link: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/2508996/23DF48DE5BCC5A86AECBE618C8F53040?partn… -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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Final Speaker of Virtual Summer Speaker Series, Fake News & Disinformation and Its Spread: Dr Crystal Abidin
by Jeffery Joe Hemsley 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

Virtual Summer Speaker Series: Fake News & Disinformation and Its Spread The Center for Computational and Data Science (CCDS) in the iSchool at Syracuse University invites you to join us for our third and final speaker in the Virtual Summer Speaker Series: Fake News & Disinformation and Its Spread. Event registration is required and we will be using Zoom as our virtual platform. Please find below the details and we look forward to welcoming our remaining two thought-provoking speakers. We hope you will join us this summer! Wednesday, August 5, 2020 9:30-10:30AM EST Influencers, Misinformation, and 'Under the Radar' Strategies Drawing on research from various interconnected projects on influencer cultures and vigilante activism in Singapore and the Asia Pacific between 2011 and 2020, this talk provides a vernacular framework for thinking about the role of social media influencers, their involvement in circuits of (mis)information ecologies, and their innovative 'under the radar' strategies of communication, amplification, and suppression. Dr Crystal Abidin is a socio-cultural anthropologist of vernacular internet cultures, particularly influencer cultures, online visibility, and social media pop cultures especially in the Asia Pacific. She is Senior Research Fellow & ARC DECRA Fellow in Internet Studies and at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University, and Affiliate Researcher with the Media Management and Transformation Centre at Jönköping University. Her books include Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online (2018), Microcelebrity Around the Globe: Approaches to Cultures of Internet Fame (co-editor Brown, 2018), Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures (co-authors Leaver & Highfield, 2019), Mediated Interfaces: The Body on Social Media (co-editors Warfield & Cambre, 2020), and tumblr: Curation, Creativity and Community. (co-authors Tiidenberg & Hendry, forthcoming). Crystal was listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and Pacific Standard 30 Top Thinkers Under 30, and recently received the International Communication Association Popular Communication Early Career Scholar Prize and Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship. Reach her at wishcrys.com. Sign-up: https://forms.gle/LitdTXTPk27iYnFw6 Should you have any questions or issues please direct to Lisette Child, Project Manager for the CCDS at ldchild(a)syr.edu<mailto:ldchild@syr.edu>, or Jeff Hemsley, co-director of the Center for Computational and Data Sciences, at jjhemsle(a)syr.edu<mailto:jjhemsle@syr.edu>. If you would be interested in reading some of her work, I have a few recommendations below: Abidin, Crystal, et al. "A Review of Formal and Informal Regulations in the Nordic Influencer Industry." Nordic Journal of Media Studies 2.1 (2020): 71-83. Abidin, Crystal, and Megan Lindsay Brown, eds. Microcelebrity Around the Globe. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018. Abidin, Crystal. "Internet Celebrity and Traditional Media." Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018. Abidin, Crystal. ""Aren't these just young, rich women doing vain things online?": Influencer selfies as subversive frivolity." Social Media+ Society 2.2 (2016): 2056305116641342.

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Fwd: [SIG-IRList] CFP - Springer Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) - Special Issue on Tackling COVID-19 Infodemic
by Jodi Schneider 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kai Shu <000004d7b7d15c0c-dmarc-request(a)listserv.acm.org> Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 3:45 AM Subject: [SIG-IRList] CFP - Springer Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) - Special Issue on Tackling COVID-19 Infodemic To: <SIGIR(a)listserv.acm.org> *Call For Papers* ================== Social Network Analysis and Mining - Special Issue on Tackling COVID-19 Infodemic Website: https://www.springer.com/journal/13278/updates/18175124 *Description*================== While the COVID-19 pandemic continues its global devastation, numerous accompanying challenges emerge. One important challenge is to efficiently and effectively use recently gathered data and find computational tools to combat the COVID-19 infodemic. An infodemic is an overabundance of information – some accurate and some not – occurring during an epidemic. Rampant conspiracy theories, disinformation, misinformation, and various types of scams can spread fast by taking advantage of human gullibility, fear, and ignorance. Therefore, there is a pressing need to manage the infodemic to help people find trustworthy information and reliable guidance during this global public health crisis. AI for Good holds a lot of potential for solving societal problems including combating the infodemic, while challenges remain. It is important to integrate theories from different disciplines to help with the COVID-19 crisis. In this special issue, we provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners to combat the COVID-19 infodemic. We expect novel research to study the understanding, detection, mitigation, and measurement of the COVID-19 infodemic and potential future outbreaks. To facilitate further research in COVID-19 infodemic, this special issue welcomes interdisciplinary research articles, new open-access datasets, repositories, and benchmarks, broadening research on crisis informatics and its development. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:* ==================================== - Disinformation/misinformation detection and mitigation - Fact-checking and credibility assessment - Computational tools to understand, measure and contain infodemic - Diffusion and intervention of infodemic - Bias, transparency, and fairness - Economical impacts of infodemic - Infodemic monitoring across countries, regions, and cultures - Individual and societal impacts of COVID-19 infodemic - Epidemiology, public health, and infodemic - Psychology, marketing, and behavioral insights - Data science, applied maths, and physics for infodemic - Society, ethics, trust, and governance for infodemic - Attribution and source tracing of COVID-19 infodemic - Spatio-temporal infodemic analysis - Social network analysis - AI for COVID-19 - Sociological and psychological analysis of infodemic - COVID-19 infodemic datasets, benchmarks, and repositories *Submission Instructions* ================== Articles reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above topics are solicited. We welcome two types of research contributions: (1) Research manuscripts reporting novel methodologies and results (up to 20 pages); (2) Benchmark, Datasets, Repositories, and Demonstration Systems (up to 8 pages). Submitted articles will follow an academic review process. Manuscripts must be prepared according to the instruction for authors available at the journal webpage and submitted through the publisher's online submission system, available at https://www.editorialmanager.com/snam/default.aspx. Please note: when submitting, please choose the correct special issue, i.e. "*SI: Tackling COVID-19 Infodemic*". *Important Dates* ================== Submission deadline: *October 15, 2020* Notification: November 25, 2020 Camera-ready deadline: December 30, 2020 *Guest Editors * ================== Kai Shu, Illinois Institute of Technology, kshu(a)iit.edu Miriam Metzger, University of California, Santa Barbara, metzger(a)ucsb.edu Huan Liu, Arizona State University, huanliu(a)asu.edu All questions can be directed to Kai Shu at kshu(a)iit.edu.

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Covid-19 Special Issues
by Angela Keyzers 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

Greetings everyone, I am currently in the process of searching for Covid-19 special issues in Technology focused journals. I am having a hard time finding any and was wondering if anyone may know of any at this time. Specifically, my research team and I are interested in families and technology use during Covid-19. Thank you for your help. Best, Angela

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