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CfP: Digital Sustainability
by Massimo Ragnedda 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

CALL FOR PAPERS, Special Thematic Issue on Digital Sustainability, *Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance Emerald* Scholars are invited to submit abstracts for a special issue on the theme Digital Sustainability, guest edited by Dr. Massimo Ragnedda (Northumbria University, UK) and Prof. Dr. Glenn Muschert (Khalifa University of Science & Technology, UAE). Submissions will be peer reviewed and considered for publication in a special issue on the theme commissioned by Emerald Publishing’s peer-reviewed journal *Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance*. SPECIAL ISSUE THEME: The special issue theme is “Digital Sustainability.” The decade of the 2020s is simultaneously the age of digital transformation and the time in which humanity has established a coherent set of sustainability goals to be achieved by 2030, namely the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). What is less commonly discussed is the role that digital technologies, digital skills, and digital social life will play in the pursuit and maintenance of a sustainable future. This special issue offers a forum for that conversation to develop, as a venue in which social scientists, STS scholars, and other digital scholars can explore the concept of digital sustainability with an eye toward establishing a conceptual framework for defining and theorizing digital sustainability, for studying and assessing digital sustainability, and for plotting out applied methodologies for implementing principles of digital sustainability in real, augmented, and virtual spheres. Thus, this special issue on digital sustainability will open up new scholarly and applied conversations regarding precisely the intersection between digital aspects of human life and wider sustainability concerns for humanity and the planet. The aims of the project are to connect contemporary scholarship in digital sociology with scholarship concerning sustainability, and thereby to carve out a new sub-field for digital sustainability. These goals will be met via the academic investigations assembled in the special issue, as follows: - Establish a concept of digital sustainability, and to define the theoretical and conceptual parameters of the idea. - Map out methodological approaches for the study and assessment of digital sustainability. - Conceptualize how digital sustainability can be enhanced in applied settings. COVERAGE: The special issue on “Digital Sustainability” will include six or seven articles of 5.000 to 7.000 words examining conceptual issues related to digital sustainability. The primary criterion for acceptance is established as scholarly quality and relevance of topic to the special issue theme. Each chapter must engage digital sustainability on a conceptual level, while at the same time advancing issues related to methodologies for study/assessment of digital sustainability and/or practical strategies to enhance digital sustainability. Each article should include some empirical evidence, but must also be linked theoretically to wider debates current in digital sociology, sustainability studies, communications, or related fields. Contributors are encouraged to offer forward-looking perspectives in the form of suggestions for digital sustainability, including how the concepts, associated methodologies, applications, and principles of digital sustainability can be useful in pursuit to sustainability goals. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Theorizing digital sustainability - Measuring digital sustainability - Methodologies for assessment of digital sustainability - Mapping plans to achieve digital sustainability - Exploration of the role of advanced computing in digital sustainability, such as AI, big data, quantum computing, blockchain, cryptocurrency - Exploration of various forms of social reality as aspects of digital sustainability, such as RL, VR, AR, and XR - Exploration of digital sustainability and the human-computer interface(s) - The relevance of digital skills in digital sustainability - The role of digital infrastructure in digital sustainability - E-waste, energy usage, and other ecological concerns - The role(s) of infrastructure, hardware, or software in digital sustainability - The role of formal social institutions (public, private, or NGO) in digital sustainability IMPORTANT DATES: - Abstracts Due *1. August 2020* - Decisions Issued 15. August 2020 - Articles Due 31. October 2020 - Reviews Returned 1. January 2021 - Revisions Due 31. March 2021 - Submit to Publisher 7. May 2021 - Online Publication 30. July 2021 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The special issue editors invite colleagues worldwide to prepare extended abstracts for a proposed article contribution. Please submit a one-page proposal to the editorial team via email by 1 August 2020, and kindly contact the editors with questions or for additional information. First drafts of invited articles will be due will be due 1 November 2020, and final manuscripts will be due 1 May 2021. Manuscripts will be limited to 20 manuscript pages (c. 5.000 words), including abstract, references, two-dimensional tables, and figures. SPECIAL EDITORS Dr. Massimo Ragnedda (Senior Lecturer in Mass Communications, Northumbria University, UK). Email: massimo.ragnedda(a)northumbria.ac.uk Prof. Dr. Glenn W. Muschert (Professor of Sociology, Khalifa University, UAE). Email: glenn.muschert(a)ku.ac.ae ______________ *Massimo Ragnedda* <http://northumbria.academia.edu/MassimoRagnedda> Senior Lecturer in Mass Communication Squires Building 306f, Northumbria University, NE8 1ST Newcastle (UK) Tel: 01912437444 Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University <http://www.journ.msu.ru/eng/news/27610/> *Most recent books*: Massimo Ragnedda (2020). Enhancing Digital Equity. Connecting the Digital Underclass <https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030490782#aboutBook>, Palgrave (in press). Massimo Ragnedda and Maria Laura Ruiu (2020). Digital Capital. A Bourdieusian Perspective on the Digital Divide <https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Digital-Capital/?k=97818390955…>, Emerald. Massimo Ragnedda (2017) *The Third Digital Divide: A Weberian approach to digital inequalities* <http://bit.ly/2f8FObg>, Routledge. *Most recent edited books*: Massimo Ragnedda and Anna Gladkova eds (2020). Digital Inequalities in the Global South <https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030327057>. Palgrave. Bruce Mutsvairo and Massimo Ragnedda eds (2019) Mapping the Digital Divide in Africa. A Mediated Analysis. <https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462986855/mapping-the-digital-divide-in-afri…> Amsterdam University Press Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn Muschert, eds (2018) *Theorizing Digital Divide* <http://bit.ly/2y9WSLm>, Routledge Latest articles: A. Gladkova, E. Vartanova, M. Ragnedda (2020). Digital Divide and Digital Capital in Multiethnic Russian Society <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17447143.2020.1745212>, Journal of Multicultural Discourses Massimo Ragnedda, Maria Laura Ruiu and Felice Addeo (2019), Measuring Digital Capital: an empirical investigation <http://buff.ly/2zpPiew>, New Media and Society Massimo Ragnedda (2018) Conceptualizing Digital Capital <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585318309316?via%3Di…>, Telematics and Informatics Vice chair of Digital Divide Working Group, IAMCR <https://iamcr.org/s-wg/working-group/DID> Co-convenor of NINSO (Northumbria Internet and Society Research Group <https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/academic-departments/northumbria-law…> )

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WEBCAST TODAY: APAC insights 2 – True Lies: Misinformation, Censorship and the Open Internet
by Joly MacFie 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

This is coming up shortly, believe me! ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday 30 June 2020 at 06:00 UTC Internet Society Asia Pacific hosts the second edition of its APAC Insights series of online conversations sharing views and insights on current issues related to the Internet and its use in the Asia-Pacific. TOPIC Tr" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/apacinsights2>On *Tuesday 30 June 2020* at *06:00 UTC Internet Society Asia Pacific <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/asia-pacific/>* hosts the second edition of its *APAC Insights* series of online conversations sharing views and insights on current issues related to the Internet and its use in the Asia-Pacific. *TOPIC* True Lies: Misinformation, Censorship and the Open Internet *SPEAKERS* *Nighat DAD*, Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation, Pakistan *Peng Hwa ANG*, Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore *William YU*, Chief Technology Officer, Novare Technologies Inc., Philippines *MODERATOR* *Rajnesh SINGH*, Regional Vice President, Asia-Pacific, Internet Society *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/apacinsights2 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/apacinsights2>* (open captions) *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3hXSYZL <https://bit.ly/3hXSYZL>* (closed captions) *REAL TIME TEXT https://streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC-APAC <https://streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC-APAC>* *TWITTER: #APACinsights <http://bit.ly/apacinsights>@ISOCapac @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/posts/10157232618393239 <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/posts/10157232618393239>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12355/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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FW: Final Call! June 30! Submit abstract for special issue on Algorithmic Governance in Context (for New Media & Society)
by Annette Markham 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Hi Dan, (and the rest of the AoIR list), Sorry! My error about the deadline for full papers! It’s not until October. As I was posting, I couldn’t figure out why the turnaround time was so short. But then I thought I better mention it. So glad to learn I was wrong.…Quarantine brain, Stuck in a hotel room in Melbourne for two weeks. ...... Whew, Annette -- From: Dan L. Burk <dburk(a)uci.edu> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 03:43 To: Annette Markham Subject: Re: [Air-L] Final Call! June 30! Submit abstract for special issue on Algorithmic Governance in Context (for New Media & Society) Hi Annette -- Just to be clear on this, the cfp says invitations will be issued by July 15 and full drafts of invited papers are due by October 31. Your message says full paper is due by July 15, which I am assuming is a typo, right? Cheers, DLB On 2020-06-29 01:37, Annette Markham wrote: Hello AoIR-ists! Final call for submissions! We're coming close to the deadline for a special issue of _New Media & Society_ on ALGORITHMIC GOVERNANCE IN CONTEXT. This CFP is pretty open ended and encourages papers about how we govern algorithms as well as papers on how algorithms govern us...and a lot in between, also. Lots of options. Submit your 750-1000 word abstracts by end of day June 30 wherever your timezone is, but keep in mind that the full paper is due July 15, which is a super quick turnaround. See details below. … · Extended abstract submission deadline: 30 June. Please submit here: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/105716/lomake.html · Invitation to submit full draft: 15 July · Deadline for full papers: 31 October *Submission guidelines:* Proposals of 750-1000 words should comprise an abstract and a short description explaining how the proposed paper relates to the special issue theme. Please submit your proposal through the submission form no later than June 30, 2020. Invited paper submissions will be due 31 October 2020 and will undergo peer review following the usual procedures of *New Media & Society*. Approximately 10-12 papers will be sent out for full review. Therefore, the invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee acceptance into the special issue. The special issue is scheduled for publication in early 2022, with online first publication expected from mid-2021 onwards.

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Twitter and Politicians: Request for Resources
by Cherry Mathew Philipose 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Dear Fellow AoIR Members Greetings from India! I was wondering whether any of you know of any study on the phenomenon of political leaders in some countries (e.g. India, US) preferring Twitter over other SM platforms to communicate, engage and even break news? My initial search results on Google Scholar can be found here: twitter world leader politics - Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=twitter+world+leade…>. I'm not sure whether I used the correct keywords to get anything relevant. Thanks and regards. Cherry Mathew Philipose, PhD Department of English SSN College of Engineering Kalavakkam, Chennai India

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CFP-Beyond Zoom: XR For Teaching and Research in the COVID-19 Era
by John P. Bell 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

Virtual Conference CFP Beyond Zoom: XR For Teaching and Research in the COVID-19 Era Submission Deadline: July 10, 2020 Conference Date: August 7, 2020 Submit Proposals at https://forms.gle/yzHWHgNjPSgVLb5X8 Register to Attend at http://dartgo.org/covid-xr-conf-reg Send Questions to covid.xr.conf(a)gmail.com Recent large scale engagement with remote learning has brought to the fore the challenges of teaching and learning in an online environment. While technologies like videoconferencing and learning management systems have drawn a great deal of critical review and pedagogical development, we can also apply the lessons of higher education's sudden foray into mass remote teaching to other types of tools. In particular, XR-a catch-all term including augmented and virtual reality, as well as related technologies for spatial and pervasive computing-holds both great potential and challenges for educational use under pandemic conditions. This virtual conference will explore areas where XR can mitigate the challenges of engaging with students and collaborators remotely as well as investigate new opportunities to apply XR technologies across remote, face-to-face, or hybrid environments. In particular, we are interested in opportunities to use XR to help teach and work within or across disciplines such as laboratory science, clinical education, studio art, fieldwork, or other object- and place-based teaching and research. We welcome proposals for brief (5-minute) lightning talks showing off existing XR projects. Of interest are student and faculty feedback from remote classes that can help shape future XR projects, and ideas for safely dealing with the logistics of technology that is literally in your face while trying to maintain social distancing standards, as well as discoveries or ideas related to knowledge discovery and collaboration. These brief presentations will be organized into sessions that seed generative discussions as part of a day-long event. Examples of relevant presentations would include: - Discussions of existing XR software that has been deployed for classroom use (live in-headset demonstrations will not be supported, though screenshots and videos are welcome), independent research, or collaborations - Results of faculty or student surveys highlighting where XR could fill gaps in remote learning built around videoconferencing - Experiments in or ideas for using XR to support remote community building in teaching or research - How plans for exploring or deploying XR in the classroom or research have changed since the beginning of the pandemic - Examples of development patterns or technologies to quickly build lessons or research platforms for XR - Rigorous testing methodologies that demonstrate efficacy - or the lack of efficacy - for XR as a classroom tool that increases student engagement or improves learning outcomes - Best practices for safely sharing XR resources like VR headsets while trying to contain viral spread - Ideas for designing pedagogy meant for headsets rather than screens - Sources for primary materials that have particular impact when experienced with XR (e.g. 360 videos) - Methods for hybridizing experiences that are partially virtual and partially physical - Research on the environments in which students and faculty have been accessing remote classes, including how spaces are shared at home, network connection quality, and other factors that could influence XR adoption - Novel technologies and applications that expand the classroom, laboratory, or workspace by mixing the virtual and the physical HOSTS Information, Technology, and Consulting; The Neukom Institute; Film and Media Studies @ Dartmouth College Online Learning Initiative @ University of Pennsylvania

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Call for papers -- Migration, migrant work(ers) and the gig economy -- Environment and Planning A
by Mark Graham 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

Dear colleagues, For anyone doing work at the intersection of migration and the gig economy, please see the below call for papers. Please do be in touch with any questions or ideas. Mark *Call for papers - Migration, migrant work(ers) and the gig economy - Environment and Planning A* The study of platform-mediated gig work has granted insufficient critical attention to questions of migration and migrant labour. My colleagues, Niels van Doorn, Fabian Ferrari, and Srujana Katta, and I, are putting together a theme issue <https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/EPA%20theme%20issue%20GRAHAM%20et%20…> of Environment and Planning A to address that gap (see also our working paper on Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3622589>). One set of questions that contributors to the theme issue may address concerns the structural role of migrant labour in sustaining the gig economy. Without a steady influx of migrants, platform companies like Uber, Ola, Helpling, Rappi, and Deliveroo would have trouble maintaining their labour supply in almost any of the cities in which they operate. As is the case for the informal economy, the precise numbers of migrants working in the gig economy remains unclear, due to the lack of comprehensive publicly accessible data on the topic. However, from New York to Santiago to Cape Town to London, it is clear that migrant workers play an outsized role in providing the labour power behind a range of services offered in the gig economy, where the distinction between formal and informal labor is frequently blurred. Even in India and China, countries with huge domestic labour markets, internal migrants play an oversized role in providing key gig economy services such as ride-hailing, domestic work, and food delivery. In this sense, it is evident that migrant labour serves an infrastructural function for these platform companies—one that is as vitally important as the steady influx of investment capital—and its governance at the intersection of labour market regulation and immigration policy forms a critical institutional condition for their business model’s viability. Another set of questions concerns migrants’ lived experiences of work and social reproduction within the gig economy. The relative ease of finding work through platforms enables a valuable lifeline for migrants, who often face significant barriers to formal employment and welfare provision. However, compared to native-born gig workers, migrants often face additional dimensions of precarity as a result of their migrant status. For example, they are often subject to discrimination from consumers and co-workers alike, face accusations of depressing wages, and encounter substantial uncertainty with shifts in policy regimes (e.g. Brexit). Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic render workers with irregular immigration status especially precarious, as their tenuous existence at society’s economic and socio-legal margins inhibits their access even to the marginal support afforded by platforms and/or governments. It is clear that—as in other contexts of precarious work—migrants’ working lives in the gig economy are forged at the intersections of workplace conditions, labour market and welfare regulation, migration policy, and public attitudes towards migrants. In order to bring questions around migration and migrant labour to the forefront of debates on the gig economy and platform-mediated work, and to thereby connect these debates to broader concerns pertaining to migrants’ position in low-wage labour markets and informal sectors, this theme issue of EPA: Economy and Space will bring together new and original scholarship on these topics. The ‘gig economy’ in this context is understood broadly, to comprise both location-based platform labor and remote cloud/crowdwork platforms. We invite papers and commentaries including, but not limited to: - The role of migration in local and global platform-mediated labour markets; - The intersections of migration, welfare, and labour market policies, and their impacts on gig workers and gig economy platforms; - The opportunities and challenges of platform-mediated gig work for migrants; - Migrants’ overlapping experiences with gig work and other kinds of formal and informal labor arrangements; - The socially reproductive struggles and strategies of migrant gig workers and their families; - Labour market segmentation and inequalities in the gig economy due to intersecting factors such as immigration status, gender, race/ethnicity, nationality, education, and age. - Labour platforms’ hiring, management and promotional strategies with respect to migrant workers; - The impacts of changing migration policy (e.g. Brexit) on migrant gig workers; - The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant gig workers; - Policy approaches to creating and sustaining decent working and living conditions for migrant gig workers. This special issue of Environment and Planning A on “Migration, migrant work(ers) and the gig economy,” is edited by myself (Mark Graham <https://fair.work/people/mark-graham/>, University of Oxford), Niels van Doorn <https://www.uva.nl/profiel/d/o/n.a.j.m.vandoorn/n.a.j.m.vandoorn.html> (University of Amsterdam), Fabian Ferrari <https://fair.work/people/fabian-ferrari/> (University of Oxford), and Srujana Katta <https://fair.work/people/srujana-katta/> (University of Oxford). This call is an open invitation to submit paper proposals (in the form of a one-page extended abstract, plus one-paragraph bio sketch for each author). Following an initial review, conducted by the guest editors in conjunction with EPA’s coordinating editor, invitations will be extended for full-length paper submissions. Consistent with EPA’s procedures for theme issues, all papers will be subject to peer review. Paper proposals for the planned theme issue on “Migration, migrant work(ers) and the gig economy” <https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/EPA%20theme%20issue%20GRAHAM%20et%20…> should be submitted to the EPA Journal Administrator at epa(a)sagepub.co.uk by September 1, 2020. The review of proposals will be completed within 4 weeks. Please be in touch if you’d like to informally discuss any ideas. *Summary and timeline * *September 1, 2020* Closing date for submission of one-page paper proposals EPA Journal Administrator at epa(a)sagepub.co.uk *October 1, 2020* Invitations to submit full-length papers *January 31, 2021 *Deadline for submitting full-length papers *Summer 2021* Completion of peer review, papers scheduled for publication. *Related reading* Graham, M. 2020. Regulate, replicate, and resist – The conjunctural geographies of platform urbanism <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2020.1717028>. *Urban Geography*. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1717028 Katta, S., Badger, A., Graham, M., Howson, K., Ustek-Spilda, F., & Bertolini, A. (2020). (Dis)embeddedness and (de)commodification: COVID-19, Uber, and the unravelling logics of the gig economy <https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/29CEVXEWKSHWYGEW5QAG/full>. *Dialogues in Human Geography*. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620934942 van Doorn, N., Ferrari, F., and Graham, M. 2020. *Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy: An Intervention* <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3622589>. Working paper. van Doorn, N., and Badger, A. 2020. Platform Capitalism’s Hidden Abode: Producing Data Assets in the Gig Economy <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anti.12641>. *Antipode. * Woodcock, J., and Graham, M. 2019. *The gig economy: a critical introduction* <https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/The+Gig+Economy%3A+A+Critical+Introduction-p-97…>. London: Polity ------------------------------------------ Mark Graham Director, Fairwork www.fair.work Professor, University of Oxford www.markgraham.space New books: Graham, M. (ed). 2019. *Digital Economies at Global Margins*. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Woodcock, J. and Graham, M. 2019. *The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction.* Cambridge: Polity. Graham, M, Kitchin, R., Mattern, S., and Shaw, J. (eds). 2019. *How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables.* London: Meatspace Press. Graham, M and Dutton, W. H. (eds). 2019. *Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing our Lives (second edition).* Oxford: Oxford University Press. <http://twitter.com/geoplace>

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WEBCAST TODAY: Impact of COVID-19 on Internet Ecosystem in MENA
by Joly MacFie 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

This has started. I am recording the arabic translation, and will stream that later in the day. English real time text is running out at https://otter.ai/s/V6Q-FnA_SH6QHjptFsagrg ISOC Live posted: "On Monday 29 June 2020 from 12:00-13.00 UTC the Internet Society Middle East will host a webinar 'Impact of COVID-19 on Internet Ecosystem in MENA' that focuses on the challenges of addressing the COVID-19 crisis and its potential aftermath in the Middle " [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/menacovid>On *Monday 29 June 2020* from *12:00-13.00 UTC* the* Internet Society Middle East <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/middle-east/>* will host a webinar '*Impact of COVID-19 on Internet Ecosystem in MENA <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/impact-of-covid-19-on-internet-ecosy…>*' that focuses on the challenges of addressing the COVID-19 crisis and its potential aftermath in the Middle East and North Africa. As a formal report is being finalized this session is an opportunity for reflection and feedback. *SPEAKERS* *Nermine EL Saadany*, Regional Vice President - MENA, Internet Society *Jane Coffin*, Senior Vice President, Internet Growth, Internet Society *Michael Kende*, consultant and report author *David Belson*, Senior Director of Internet Research and Analysis, Internet Society *Naveed Haq*, Regional Director for Infrastructure and Connectivity - Asia-Pacific, Internet Society *Mat Ford*, Technology Manager, Internet Society *Max Stucchi*, Regional Technical Advisor – Europe, Internet Society *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/menacovid <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/menacovid>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/2BJiIbJ <https://bit.ly/2BJiIbJ>* *AGENDA https://www.internetsociety.org/events/impact-of-covid-19-on-internet-ecosy… <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/impact-of-covid-19-on-internet-ecosy…>* *TWITTER @ISOC_MiddleEast #covid19 <https://bit.ly/3gbjr4B>* *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/pg/InternetSociety/videos/ <https://www.facebook.com/pg/InternetSociety/videos/>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12348/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers
by Axel Soto 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers *** * College Station, TX * March 18-21, 2021 * http://iui.acm.org/2021/ * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org ## Upcoming deadlines Abstract: Oct 2, 2020 (compulsory) Paper submission: Oct 9, 2020 ## ACM IUI 2021 ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is on improving the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ### Why you should submit to ACM IUI While other conferences focus on either the AI or HCI side of this research, we address the complex interaction between the two. We strongly encourage submissions that simultaneously discuss research from both HCI and AI. We also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other, but still highlight the connections between the two. We value papers that contribute methodology or theory for the evaluation of intelligent user interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contributions. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas—academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations—and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. The conference is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and a doctoral consortium for graduate students. ### COVID-19 statement We are monitoring the situation regarding the global pandemic and associated travel restrictions. If needed, we will offer a virtual presentation option if the conference cannot take place due to the global pandemic, or if registered authors from specific parts of the world cannot attend the conference. ## Papers We accept two forms of contributions: full and short papers. They should both make novel contributions to IUI, however full papers should make more substantial and significant contributions, while short papers can contain more focused contributions. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2021". ## Topics IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Application areas * Internet of Things (IoT) * Education and learning-related technologies * Health and intelligent health technologies * Assistive technologies * Social media and other Web technologies * Mobile applications * Artificial personal assistants * Information retrieval, search, and recommendation systems * Interface types * Affective and aesthetic interfaces * Collaborative interfaces * Speech-based interfaces * AR/VR interfaces * Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces * Ubiquitous smart environments * Modalities * Agent based interfaces (e.g., embodied agents, virtual assistants) * Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) * Conversational interfaces * Tangible interfaces * Intelligent visualization * Methods and approaches * Methods for explanations (e.g., transparency, control, and trust) * Persuasive technologies in IUI * Privacy and security of IUI * Planning and plan recognition for IUI * Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation * User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces * User-Adaptive interaction and personalization * Crowd computing and human computation * Human-in-the loop machine learning * Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces * User experiments * User studies * Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) * Meta-analyses * Mixed-methods evaluations ## Dates * Oct 2, 2020: Abstract deadline (compulsory) * Oct 9, 2020: Papers deadline * Dec 14, 2020: Notification * Feb 8, 2021: Camera ready due * Mar 18, 2021: Conference starts ## Submission Guidelines Check the submission guidelines on the conference page: https://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html. ## Program Chairs * John O’Donovan, University of California, Santa Barbara * Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University * Paul Teale, Texas A&M * Jeeeun Kim, Texas A&M * Aaron Adler, Raytheon BBN Technologies * Manoj Prasad, Microsoft * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org

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Final Call! June 30! Submit abstract for special issue on Algorithmic Governance in Context (for New Media & Society)
by Annette Markham 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

Hello AoIR-ists! Final call for submissions! We're coming close to the deadline for a special issue of _New Media & Society_ on ALGORITHMIC GOVERNANCE IN CONTEXT. This CFP is pretty open ended and encourages papers about how we govern algorithms as well as papers on how algorithms govern us...and a lot in between, also. Lots of options. Submit your 750-1000 word abstracts by end of day June 30 wherever your timezone is, but keep in mind that the full paper is due July 15, which is a super quick turnaround. See details below. Cheers, annette ******** *CfP: ‘Algorithmic Governance in Context’* Special issue of *New Media & Society* Special issue editors: Daria Gritsenko (University of Helsinki), Annette Markham (RMIT), Holger Pötzsch (UiT – The Arctic University of Norway) and Mariëlle Wijermars (Maastricht University) We invite paper proposals for a special issue in the journal *New Media & Society* that will interrogate the functions and effects of algorithms in contemporary governance. Contributing to the current academic debate, the special issue seeks to conceptualize the notion of context in algorithmic governance by, first, perceiving of algorithmic governance as an activity taking place in a variety of contexts and aiming at investigating these contexts in a systematic manner. Second, by focusing not only on how algorithms are used as tools for governance, but also on how such tools can be governed – controlled and held to account – and what challenges such forms of governance imply. The use of algorithms in society can imply a moving of contestable issues from negotiable to non-negotiable spaces, thereby reducing agency and influence of human actors. Active recontextualizations can become an important tool to problematize such and other consequences of algorithmic governance and reveal possible unintended implications and effects. The special issue builds upon a series of workshops (2019-2020) facilitated by a networking grant from *The Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences* (NOS-HS) coordinated at the University of Helsinki, that focused on the multiplicity of contexts in which algorithmic systems operate. Drawing upon the conceptual work conducted during the workshops, the special issue focuses on two key themes: multiplying the contexts of algorithmic governance and governing algorithms in context. *Multiplying the contexts of algorithmic governance* Articles are invited that explore how specific conditions impact upon the efficacy and perceived legitimacy of algorithms as tools for governance. In particular, contributions may direct attention to the manifold everyday practices through which algorithmic governance is effectuated and investigate the legal, political, cultural, economic, and technological frames that predispose and tacitly guide these. Through this focus, it becomes clear that algorithmic governance is not only a deeply contextual activity, but also an activity carried out within the frames of a multiplicity of different and often competing context*s*. Identifying exactly which contexts matter when, in which ways, and to whom becomes an important task for the planning of algorithmic forms of governance in and through autonomous machine learning systems. At the same time, active recontextualization enables problematizing and resisting algorithmic governance in cases where it is perceived as illegitimate or biased. *Governing algorithms in context* Articles are invited that focus on the fact that algorithms at once govern, and are themselves governed by, either human or non-human agents. The increased use of algorithms in all areas of life makes the question of how to understand and sufficiently control such governing algorithms a timely and salient area of critical inquiry. Issues such as the complexity and opacity of algorithmic assessment and feedback systems as well as their growing autonomy and pervasiveness are important areas of research dedicated to improving the governance of algorithms. Articles could, for example, aim at facilitating new technical solutions, at raising public awareness, at informing practices of decision-makers and funding bodies, as well as at critically assessing cultural and other responses to the governance of algorithms. We welcome both disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives and studies employing various social scientific methods, including comparative case-studies, ethnography, socio-legal studies, design studies, and historical inquiry. We particularly encourage studies that challenge the status quo, either through innovative (mixed method) methodologies or critical reflections on the state of the art. Papers could address, but are not limited to, the following questions: · What are the different ‘realities’ constructed by the use of algorithms in governance? How do they play out across time and space? · How do individuals – in private or organisational contexts – make sense of and respond to algorithmic governance? · What are the similarities and differences in the deployment of algorithmic governance within public and private sectors? · What are the challenges of developing effective strategies for governing algorithms at the intersection of law and technology? · How can different publics be made aware of ‘algorithmic bads’, while still benefiting from ‘algorithmic goods’? In sum, papers can either systematically tackle the contexts of algorithmic governance or investigate the governance of algorithms, identifying challenges that emerge in different governance contexts. *Guest editors:* Daria Gritsenko, Assistant Professor in Russian Big Data Methodology, University of Helsinki. daria.gritsenko(a)helsinki.fi Annette Markham, Professor of Media & Communication, Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT, Melbourne. amarkham(a)gmail.com Holger Pötzsch, Professor of Media- and Documentation Studies, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. holger.potzsch(a)uit.no Mariëlle Wijermars, Assistant Professor in Cyber-Security and Politics, Maastricht University. m.wijermars(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl *Timeline:* · Extended abstract submission deadline: 30 June. Please submit here: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/105716/lomake.html · Invitation to submit full draft: 15 July · Deadline for full papers: 31 October *Submission guidelines:* Proposals of 750-1000 words should comprise an abstract and a short description explaining how the proposed paper relates to the special issue theme. Please submit your proposal through the submission form no later than June 30, 2020. Invited paper submissions will be due 31 October 2020 and will undergo peer review following the usual procedures of *New Media & Society*. Approximately 10-12 papers will be sent out for full review. Therefore, the invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee acceptance into the special issue. The special issue is scheduled for publication in early 2022, with online first publication expected from mid-2021 onwards.

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CORRECTION RE: SSU Journalism and Mass Communications Seeks New Chair
by Plothe, Theo 28 Jun '20

28 Jun '20

Apologies. The search for the Savannah State University Chair position in Journalism and Mass Communications has been deactivated. Sorry for any confusion that may have caused. Best, Dr. Plothe -- Theo Plothe, PhD Assistant Professor Journalism and Mass Communication Savannah State University

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