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CFP: Extraction: Tracing the Veins
by Taffel, Sy 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

CFP: Extraction: Tracing the veins A Virtual/nearly carbon neutral conference Massey University, New Zealand and Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands June 29 – July 10, 2020 The global appetite for large-scale resource extraction is insatiable. Extraction is the basis for contemporary capitalism, and for almost every commodity we engage with, use and even consume in everyday life. Like minerals coursing through veins deep in the earth and connecting in ways unseen from the surface, extraction provides a direct link between people, economy and planet, with deeply embedded connections—material, ideological and political. Extractive industries are also responsible for half of the world’s carbon emissions and more than 80% of biodiversity loss. Now, as the environmental costs become harder to ignore, we are seeing new actions to contest and reshape extractivism, and to consider post-extractive futures. From a ban on offshore oil and gas exploration in Aotearoa NZ, to industry-led sustainable mining initiatives, and to strikes and protests against mining and oil developments through the Americas, Asia, Pacific and Africa, extraction (and activism towards it) is reshaping people’s relationships with state and market institutions, with the land and soil, and with each other. Despite the centrality of extraction to contemporary life, Anthony Bebbington (2012) wrote a few years ago of ‘the relative invisibility of minerals, oil and gas in the canons of political ecology’. While the intervening years have seen important scholarship, the extractive industries, and processes of extractivism more broadly, continues to be a fertile space for further political ecology- driven exploration. In order to re-examine extraction and its contested place in contemporary capitalism, this event calls on participants to take up the theme of Extraction, which we understand in multiple senses: extraction as the material extraction of natural resources; as a mode of accumulation central to the histories and continuation of capitalism; and as a worldview in which nature is a resource to be commodified for human consumption and accumulation. We encourage scholarly critique as well as engagement with the multiple movements that confront extraction and the communities that are practicing and imagining different systems based on regeneration. In this nearly carbon neutral conference, we invite authors from a range of backgrounds and countries to present and collaborate virtually. The conference will take place over two weeks in June and July 2020. We welcome contributors who hail from a broad range of disciplines: sociologists, artists, engineers, environmental activists, geographers, development practitioners, biologists, economists, environmental managers, anthropologists, and industry representatives to name a few. We seek contributions that cross boundaries of social/natural sciences, and that connect local and global contextual analyses. Papers are invited to address, but are not limited to, the following themes: * Theorising extractivism. Considering the environmental histories and ongoing colonial character of extractive industries; the historic and contemporary global flows and connections of resources and power. This may include: Social reproduction and extractivism; feminist political ecology of extraction; racism and ethnic identity formation in extractivist projects and processes; the financialization of commodities and extractivism; extractivism and climate change. * The future of extractive industries. How are extractive industries changing and adapting to environmental, social, or competitive pressures; What are the possibilities for sustainable resource extraction?; of moving away from extractive industries?; do calls for the end of extractive industries ignore the imperial histories of these industries, their centrality to modern life (and indeed to the technologies by which this conference is possible) and the different potentialities that extraction produces – from the politics of resignation, to increasingly strident forms of nationalism, and discourses of (resource) curses. * New forms of extraction. Beyond the traditional extractive industries, how do other forms of resource extraction – sand, intensive agriculture, deep sea mining, data mining, even ‘renewable’ resources - help us to re-theorise extractivism and its centrality to capitalist relations? * Confronting extractivism. Movements by indigenous Peoples, environmental groups, peasants, workers, etc. that confront extractivism, both in terms of place-based projects, and the political economy and nature/society dualisms that legitimate extractive practices. * Creative responses to extraction. How are artists, creative writers and activists responding to extraction? How is / can art challenge and subvert extractivism? We welcome creative presentations that work well on the online format, such as photography and art portfolios, short films, and creative writing. * Post-extraction and regenerative systems. Can we live without extraction? What does a post-extractivist world look like? How are communities around the world protecting and/or building regenerative rather than extractive systems? How do different worldviews, including Māori and other indigenous perspectives on extraction, take us beyond a materialist discussion of post-extractivism to imagining and building alternatives? Nearly carbon-neutral conference format Traditional academic conferences are responsible for a considerable amount of carbon emissions, as presenters fly from around the world to present in a single location. This also incurs significant financial costs, which often precludes researchers from developing countries and postgraduate students from attending. The Environmental Humanities Initiative at UC Santa Barbara estimated that running an online conference reduces the carbon footprint of a conference by 99%, as well as broadening their reach and accessibility. This conference will take place entirely online in June-July 2020. Contributors will not have to travel anywhere and there is no registration fee. Conference presentations will consist of material that can be submitted online as a video file. This could take the form of a webcam recording, an edited video, a PowerPoint or Prezi with recorded audio or another form of video. Each presentation should be no more than 20 minutes long. Instructions on creating and submitting presentations for the conference are online here<http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/submitting-a-video-file/>. For a sense of what this looks like in practice, please see previous conferences on “The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic<http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/the-lives-and-afterlives-of-plastic/>” and “The Feral<http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/feral/>”. We also ask contributors to actively engage with questions and ideas that other attendees post on their presentation. Abstract and panel submission instructions If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please send a 250 word abstract with your name, e-mail address, and affiliation to masseyPERC(a)gmail.com by Friday, March 6th 2020. We also welcome proposals for panels and (digital) roundtable discussions, and we encourage innovative formats. If you would like to propose a panel, please send us a short panel rationale and details of panel participants. After the conference, some contributors will be invited to develop their presentations for publication in an edited volume. Conference Organisers Glenn Banks, Massey University Alice Beban, Massey University Michiel Köhne, Wageningen University Elisabet Rasch, Wageningen University Hosted by Massey University Political Ecology Research Centre (PERC) Sy Taffel, PhD Programme Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Media Studies |Co-Director, Political Ecology Research Centre<http://perc.ac.nz/> College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Massey University Email: s.a.taffel(a)massey.ac.nz<mailto:s.a.taffel@massey.ac.nz> | Telephone: +64 (06 ) 356 9099 ext. 84527 Recently Published: Taffel. S (2019) Digital Media Ecologies: Entanglements of Content, Code and Hardware<https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-media-ecologies-9781501349263/>, New York and London: Bloomsbury Taffel. S (2019) Automating Creativity<http://screenworks.org.uk/archive/volume-10-1/automating-creativity> Screenworks 10.1

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New funding program by Facebook for misinformation and polarization research
by Alex Leavitt 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Big announcement today! Facebook is providing $2,000,000 in new unrestricted grants for academic research about misinformation and polarization on social media! Apply at https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/02/facebook-misinformation-polarization-r… by April 1. --- Alex Leavitt, Ph.D. Quantitative UX Researcher, Facebook Research http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt>

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CFP ECREA 2020 pre-conference: Disinformation studies
by Inês Amaral 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

*ECREA 2020 pre-conference“Disinformation studies: perspectives to an emerging research field”* October 2 University of Minho, Braga, Portugal *BRIEF DESCRIPTION*The aim proposed for this ECREA 2020 pre-conference is to promote research that helps to define policies and strategies contributing to combat and effectively minimize the phenomena of disinformation and manipulation in the journalistic field. Thus, we intend to join together researchers who are interested in the topic, to develop this field of disinformation studies. *CALL FOR PAPERS*The main goal of the event is to develop a set of studies and policies that allow us to identify and contribute to combat and effectively minimize the phenomena of misinformation and manipulation in the journalistic field. In addition to Fake news, the study of disinformation in the journalistic field includes theoretical paradigms and empirical approaches that go beyond those: bias, concealment of facts, agenda building, strategic use of sources, mobilization of emotion, empathic media and omission of data are studied in other contexts of journalism studies helping to clarify this new phenomenon. There is a vast experience in the media effects theory, whose researchers studied, in due course, a set of phenomena of information and manipulation that today, with the necessary adaptations, constitute a corpus of examples and inspiration for new researches in different contexts. Finally, new research trends began to emerge which constitute a valuable theoretical and experimental corpus for the contemporary and present times: empathic media, recognition of patterns of reading, identification of behavior and consumption patterns with far-reaching consequences around on social, cultural and political life and considerable impact on democratic, electoral and civic participation practices. The contributions to the event should focus (among others) the following topics: - Identifying through case studies, examples of media whether revealing weaknesses or, instead, using strategies particularly directed to fight the phenomenon; - Discussing new manipulation and disinformation strategies, considering in those the study of the audience from the perspective of their manipulation through the mobilization of emotions; - Discussing a theoretical and systematic framework for the analysis of disinformation and manipulation phenomena; - Identifying the use of devices and tools that help to combat the phenomenon of disinformation; - Identifying professional practices and professional routines that help to combat the disinformation phenomena; - Identifying and proposing public policies to decision-makers that helps to minimize and fighting disinformation phenomena; - Discussing the relevance of a subfield called Disinformation studies. Abstracts of 400 words with 3 -5 keywords (excluding tables, figures, and references) must be written in English and should outline the research topic as well as the theoretical and methodological approach. Pictures/tables/charts are allowed within the abstract but do not count against the word count. All abstracts will be subject to a double-blind peer review. Submit your abstract as an e-mail attachment with no references to the author(s). Author(s) details (name, affiliation and contact details) must be included in the e-mail message. More info: https://www.ecrea2020braga.eu/disinformation-studies-perspectives-to-an-eme… *ORGANISERS* João Carlos Correia, University of Beira Interior, Portugal (jcorreia(a)ubi.pt ) Pedro Jerónimo, University of Beira Interior, Portugal (pj(a)ubi.pt) Inês Amaral, University of Coimbra, Portugal (ines.amaral(a)uc.pt) *SPONSORS*Media Veritas Re/media.Lab LabCom – Communication and Arts Journalism and Society SOPCOM Working Group -- Inês Amaral Professora Associada | Associate Professor Diretora do 1.º Ciclo de Estudos em Jornalismo e Comunicação | Director of the Undergraduate Program Studies in Journalism and Communication Universidade de Coimbra • Faculdade de Letras | University of Coimbra • Faculty of Arts and Humanities Largo da Porta Férrea | 3004-530 • Coimbra • Portugal Tel. | Phone: +351 239 410 090 E-mail: ines.amaral(a)uc.pt www.uc.pt | www.uc.pt/fluc

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CSST Summer Institute 2020 in Austin, June 8-12
by Jaime Snyder 23 Feb '20

23 Feb '20

The CSST Summer Research Institute supports emerging scholars in sociotechnical systems research. This much loved "summer camp" has been an activity of the Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems Research (CSST) since 2008. We welcome post-proposal doctoral students, post docs, new assistant professors and others at similar stages of career. Now accepting applications: https://sociotech.net/csst2020/ Deadline is March 20. Research areas include (but are not limited to) personal health and well-being; open innovation, eScience, and citizen science; co-production, open source, and new forms of work; cultural heritage and information access; energy management and climate change; civic hacking, engagement and government; disaster response; cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy; education and learning. Follow the link for more information. At least twelve senior mentors will be available to work with campers, representing a breadth and depth of sociotechnical research and career paths. The 2020 Summer Institute is being co-organized by James Howison (UT Austin) and Jaime Snyder (University of Washington). _____________________________ Jaime Snyder Assistant Professor, Information School Adjunct Assistant Professor, Human Centered Design and Engineering Core Affiliate, Data Science Studies Special Interest Group University of Washington jas1208(a)uw.edu she/her

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Empirical data on facial recognition technology and
by Matt Seraph 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

Hello list, I'm writing a FAQ on facial recognition technology, and would like to address the question of the real utility of the currently available technology in solving crimes for law enforcement. I see lots of anecdotal evidence about it helping make arrests, but haven't seen anything more quantitative. We may just be too early on, but has anyone seen a study address this? Thank you.

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REGISTRATION Media Industries 2020: Global Currents and Contradictions, 16-18 April 2020 King’s College London
by McDonald, Paul 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

Media Industries 2020: Global Currents and Contradictions 16-18 April 2020 King’s College London Registration is now open to NON-SPEAKERS. Visit https://media-industries.org/ for details of the conference, delegate fees, venue, travel, accommodation and accessibility. Important: Tickets are limited and will be available until all are sold or until 18.00hrs GMT on Friday 13 March, whichever is soonest. Delegate Rates For full registration details, visit https://media-industries.org/registration Rates are divided between Full (academics, waged) and Reduced (students, unwaged), and graduated according to the three tiers of the World Bank’s classification of countries by per capita income levels<https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank…>. As a delegate, you pay the rate according to the country you live in and not the country from which you originate. Delegates who are residents of countries in tier B pay 75% of the tier A price, and residents of tier C countries pay 50% of the tier A price.

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WEBCAST TODAY: Toomas Hendrik Ilves + 2020 Niejelow Rodin Global Digital Futures Forum
by Joly MacFie 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

Toomas Hendrik Ilves was the President of Estonia fro, 2006 to 2016. From Wikipedia "*In 2013 he chaired the High-Level Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms convened by ICANN <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN>. From 2014 to 2015 Ilves was the co-chair of the advisory panel of the World Bank <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank>'s World Development Report <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Development_Report> 2016 "Digital Dividends" and was also the chair of World Economic Forum <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum>'s Global Agenda Council on Cyber Security beginning in June 2014. Beginning in 2016, Ilves has been co-chairing The World Economic Forum <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum> working group '**The Global Futures Council on Blockchain Technology'." *Should be an interesting fireside chat with Dean Janow. The Global Digital Futures Forum is somewhat pared down in length from previous years, but not in strength. High-level, as always. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Friday February 21 2020 the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Columbia World Projects present a double event. First, at 1pm EST (18:00 UTC) former Estonia President Toomas Hendrik Ilves will deliver the Georg" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/gdf20>Today, *Friday February 21 2020* the *Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs <https://sipa.columbia.edu/>* (SIPA) and *Columbia World Projects <https://worldprojects.columbia.edu/>* present a double event. First, at *1pm EST* (18:00 UTC) former Estonia President *Toomas Hendrik Ilves* will deliver the *George W. Ball Lecture <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ball_(diplomat)>* in the form of a discussion with SIPA *Dean Merit E. Janow*. This will be directly followed at *2:30pm EST* (19:30 UTC) by the *Niejelow Rodin Global Digital Futures Forum <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cybersecurity-the-digital-state-and-democratic…>*. The forum, now in its sixth year, brings together leading scholars from across Columbia University, CEOs, senior policy makers, entrepreneurs, legal and policy experts, amongst others to discuss the broad challenges and opportunities created by the wide-ranging digital transformations occurring in the world today. The theme of this year’s Forum is *Cybersecurity, the Digital State, and Democratic Governance*. Both events will be webcast live via a partnership with the* Internet Society New York Chapter <http://isoc-ny.org>*. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/gdf20 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/gdf20>* *SCHEDULE (EST = UTC-5):* *1:00pm-2:15pm | George W. Ball Lecture* *2:30pm-4:00pm | Pursuing Digital and Cyber Peace* *4:00pm-4:30pm | Data Flows and Transparency* *4:30pm-6:00pm | Digital Identity: A Development Agenda* *AGENDA: http://bit.ly/3bJpLPa <http://bit.ly/3bJpLPa>* *TWITTER: @IlvesToomas <https://twitter.com/IlvesToomas>* *#SIPADigitalFutures <https://bit.ly/sipadigitalfutures>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11803/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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ACM IUI 2020: Call for Participation
by Oana Inel 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

* We apologize for cross-posting * *** ACM IUI 2020: Call for Participation *** * Cagliari, Italy * March 17-20, 2020 * http://iui.acm.org/2020/ ## Upcoming deadlines Early registration: Feb 8, 2020 ## ACM IUI 2020 ACM IUI 2020 is the 25th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and the 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 to improve 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. ## CONFERENCE PROGRAM ================================ In addition to the 65 papers, the conference program will include three keynote presentations by Brad A Myers (IUI4EUD: Intelligent User Interfaces for End-User Development), Margaret Burnett (Explaining AI: Fairly? Well?) and Ana Paiva (Humans and Robots Together: engineering sociality and collaboration), 49 posters and demos, 8 workshops and 2 tutorials. The technical program will be complemented by social events to facilitate informal discussions and networking among the conference attendees and invited guests. TUESDAY, MARCH 17 Workshop & Tutorial Day WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 09:00 - 09:30 Welcome and Opening Plenary 09:30 - 10:30 Keynote Brad A Myers (IUI4EUD: Intelligent User Interfaces for End-User Development) 11:00 - 12:30 Parallel Sessions (Intelligent Support and Active & Interactive ML) 14:00 - 15:30 Parallel Sessions (Gestures & Accessibility and Natural Language Interfaces) 16:00 - 17:30 Doctoral Consortium 18:00 - 20:00 Reception with poster/demo THURSDAY, MARCH 19 09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Margaret Burnett (Explaining AI: Fairly? Well?) 10:00 - 11:00 Parallel Sessions (Recommender Systems 1 and Intelligent Visualizations) 11:30 - 13:00 Parallel Sessions (Sketching and Explanations 1) 14:30 - 16:00 Parallel Sessions (Multimodal and User Modeling/Personalization 1) 16:30 - 17:00 Most Impactful Paper Award 17:00 - 18:00 Panel "25 years of IUI - the road traversed and the road ahead" 20:00 - 22:00 Social Dinner FRIDAY, MARCH 20 09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Ana Paiva (Humans and Robots Together: engineering sociality and collaboration) 10:00 - 11:00 Parallel Sessions (Displays & Accessibility and User Modeling/Personalization 2) 11:30 - 13:00 Parallel Sessions (Methods and Explanations 2) 14:30 - 16:00 Parallel Sessions (Wearable & Ubiquitous and Recommender Systems 2) 16:30 - 17:30 Town Hall Late Registration ends on March 15!

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PhD studentship in Information Studies at Lund University
by Jutta Haider 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Available: 4-year fully funded doctoral student position in Information Studies at the Department of Arts and Cultural Science, Lund University, Sweden See job announcement here: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:313135/type:job/where:4/apply:1 For more information please contact Prof Olof Sundin ( olof.sundin(a)kultur.lu.se)

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AI Now hiring Graduate Research Assistants
by Sarah Myers West 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Hi all, AI Now is hiring several (paid!) Graduate Research Assistants for now through the 2020-21 academic year. Info on the positions and how to apply is available here <https://grnh.se/7b990ae63>. We welcome graduate students with any disciplinary or experiential background to apply, including technical and non-technical backgrounds, and especially those with experience in Science and Technology Studies, History, Media Studies, Critical Race and Gender Studies, Disability Studies, Literature, Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy. Please share and circulate widely - we'd LOVE to see folks from the AOIR community apply!! All the best, Sarah -- *Dr. Sarah Myers West* Postdoctoral Researcher AI Now Institute New York University sarah(a)ainowinstitute.org | @sarahbmyers

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