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REFRESH 2020 1st International Workshop on Real-life modeling in 5G networks and beyond - co-located with IEEE DCOSS 2020 - Deadline March 25, 2020 - Los Angeles
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

========================================================================================================== REFRESH 2020 1st International Workshop on Real-life modeling in 5G networks and beyond - co-located with IEEE DCOSS 2020 ========================================================================================================== Scope and Overview: The economic and societal potential of emerging 5G and cyber-physical social systems is vastly greater than what has been realized so far, and major investments are being made worldwide to develop the corresponding science and technology. The Future Internet paradigm, the proliferation of emerging networks and architectures, wireless access technologies and multi-homing smart devices are evolving towards a competitive environment, where users and devices have access to various resources, while their behaviors become strongly interdependent. This fact demands and motivates the development of user-centric resource management and optimization frameworks, which enable user's self-optimization and autonomy. This vision is further motivated and supported by the convergence of various emerging technologies enabling Cyber-Physical Systems operation, including 5G/B5G technologies, Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile Edge Computing and Software Defined Networking, all targeting flexibility and efficiency. To deal with the involved complexity, and driven by the requirements of autonomy and scalability, distributed resource orchestration approaches appear as a necessity rather than a desire. The REFRESH Workshop aims at to stimulate research on the most novel topics of real-life modeling in 5G networks and beyond. This year's edition encourages submission of theoretical and experimental work (including studies of real deployment), with a primary interest in new directions of wireless networking in concrete application scenarios and demonstrators in areas such as, but not limited to: mobile edge computing, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, public safety networks, dynamic spectrum utilization, smart grid communications, wireless power communication, green wireless networks, information-centric wireless networks. The workshop seeks original work presented in the form of research papers describing new research and development approaches and results, as well as work-in-progress papers. Highly disruptive work-in-progress and position papers are also welcome, provided they focus on particularly innovative solutions or applications for 5G networks and beyond. All papers shall be forward-looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and shall argue their impact and implications for ongoing or future research. Selected workshop papers will also be considered for publication in a Special Issue and/or Special Sections of international peer-reviewed journals. http://conferences.ece.unm.edu/refresh2020/ Topics of interest include but are not limited to * 5G Cellular systems and beyond * Cognitive radio networks, dynamic spectrum access and emerging applications and services * Wireless power transfer and energy harvesting for wireless networks * Delay tolerant networks * Wireless communications on different media * End-to-end protocols, flow and congestion control * Artificial intelligence and machine learning for wireless networks * Attack modelling, prevention, mitigation, and defense in wireless networks * Security, Reliability, Privacy and Trust in Wireless Networks * Green Wireless Networks * Heterogeneous, Small-Cell and Dense networks * Information-centric wireless networks * Internet of Things * Pervasive and wearable computing and networking * Public Safety Networks * Social wireless networks * Quality of Service provisioning and management in 5G networks and beyong * Quality of Experience and User Experience in 5G networks and beyond * Software-defined wireless neworks * Vehicular wireless networks * Wireless mesh networks * Wireless multimedia networks * Wireless network virtualization * Multiple Access, Radio Resource Management, Interference Management and Scheduling * Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Networks * Hybrid communication systems (e.g., satellite/unmaneed aerial vehicles/terrestrial/wireline hybrids) * Machine learning-based resource allocation for wireless networks * Reinforcement learning and deep learning for 5G networks and beyond * Architectures, models, security, and approaches for smart grid networks * Economics and pricing for 5G networks and beyond * Smart Cities supported by 5G networks and beyond * Scalability, Robustness and Resilience in 5G networks and beyond Important Dates Paper submission deadline: March 25th, 2020 Authors Notification: April 15th, 2020 Camera-ready submission: April 25th, 2020 Workshop date: May 25-27th, 2020 (TBA) Submission Guidelines General Paper Format Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on real-life modeling in 5G networks and beyond related to REFRESH workshop's topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 X 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available on the link below: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html All submissions should be written in English and submitted as a full or work-in-progress paper. Full papers should have a maximum of eight (8) printed pages including figures and references. Full papers are expected to describe fully developed ideas with a thorough evaluation. Work-in-progress papers should have a maximum of four (4) printed pages including figures and references. Work-in-progress papers are expected to describe new and interesting ideas that have not yet reached full maturity. Note that REFRESH does not follow the double-blind review policy. The names and affiliations of all the authors must be present in the submitted manuscript. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the DCOSS 2020 conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Submission Site Please submit your papers in PDF format using the following paper submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=refresh2020 Program Committee Chairs Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA) Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Workshop Web Chair Georgios Fragkos (University of New Mexico, USA) Publicity Chairs Jim Plusquellic (University of New Mexico, USA) Suzan Bayhan (University of Twente, Netherlands) Technical Program Committee Swades De (IIT, Delhi, India) R. K. Gosh (Department of EECS, IIT Bhilai) Nathalie Mitton (INRIA, France) Jelena Misic (Ryerson University, Canada) Antonella Molinaro (Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy) Amiya Nayak (University of Ottawa, Canada) Elena Pagani (Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Athanasios Panagopoulos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky, USA) Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (Institut Eurocom, France) Tuna Tugcu (Bogazici University, Turkey) Spyridon Vassilaras (Huawei Technologies, France) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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>

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Deadline on Special Issue on Mobile Applications Extended to December 31
by John Dinsmore 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

The deadline for the Special Issue on Mobile Applications for *Journal of Business Research* (Impact Factor: 4.028) has been extended to December 31, 2019. The Call for Papers can be found online at: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-business-research/call-for-pap… Best, John B. Dinsmore, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Marketing Raj Soin College of Business *Wright State University* 271 Rike Hall 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway Dayton, Ohio 45435 john.dinsmore(a)wright.edu

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CfA Workshop “Social Robotics and the Good Life"
by Wulf Loh 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

Call for Abstracts: Workshop “Social Robotics and the Good Life – The Normative Side of Forming Emotional Bonds with Robots” Organizers: International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen (Regina Ammicht Quinn and Wulf Loh, both Tübingen, in cooperation with Janina Loh, Vienna, and Charles Ess, Oslo) Date: May 7-8, 2020 Venue:IZEW Tübingen, Germany Social robotics has the strong potential of becoming more and more prevalent in the coming years, especially in the realms of elder day care, child rearing, and education. As human beings have the fascinating ability to emotionally bond not exclusively with other human beings, but also with animals, plants, and objects, it is highly likely that human-machine-relationships will arise from these human-robotic-interactions. While children and the elderly constitute vulnerable groups that merit special consideration, at the heart of the issue lie fundamental ethical questions that concern human-robot-interactions /per se/. Do human-robot-relationships necessarily constitute a form of manipulation, since any form of reciprocity on the side of the robot is merely simulated? Are these relationships then /per se/ detrimental to the good life, as they replace “real” relationships? What constitutes such a “real” relationship? Are more intimate relationships with robots, such as friendship or even love, possible and ethically sound? Which design cues does an ethical design of robots have to take into account? And: how do we conceive and ground “good lives” as more and more of the virtues and interactions – starting with those of friendship – of good lives will be increasingly interwoven with social robots? For discussing these and further questions regarding the normativity of emotional bonds with robots, in this interdisciplinary workshop we invite submissions with a focus on (but not restricted to) topics such as ofriendship olove osex ocare otrust oobjectophilia or object sexuality ofeminist perspectives on relationships ofamily, children, and nurture odisappointment, anger, and hate omorally appropriate behavior with regard to robots. The workshop will take place on the 7^th and 8^th of May 2020 at the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) at the University of Tübingen. *Prof. Dr. Charles Ess*, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, will be a fellow at the Center of Ethics at that time. He will give a keynote lecture and will be our dialogue partner throughout the workshop. Please submit abstracts of around 500 words to Wulf.loh(a)izew.uni-tuebingen.de <mailto:Wulf.loh@izew.uni-tuebingen.de>by January 31, 2020. Acceptance notifications will be sent out by the end of February 2020. An English-language edited volume is planned with the publisher /transcript/. Those, who are invited to present their project during the workshop should be prepared to send their completed paper of about 6.000-8.000 words to Janina.loh(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:Janina.loh@univie.ac.at>by August 31, 2020.

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Consider Joining Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
by Apryl Williams 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Dear Colleagues, Apologies if this has already been shared on the list. I am writing to share the open call for Fellows <https://cyber.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships/2021Fellows>at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University where I am currently a fellow. The fellowship is open to all career stages and there is no limit on time since PhD completion. Those who are practitioners and / or policy experts are also encouraged to apply. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you are interested and / or have any questions. ------ The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University <https://cyber.harvard.edu> is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2020-2021 academic year through our annual open call <https://cyber.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships/2021Fellows>. This opportunity is for those who wish to spend 2020-2021 in residence in Cambridge, MA as part of the Center's vibrant community of research and practice, and who seek to engage in collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and cross-sectoral exploration of some of the Internet's most important and compelling issues. Fellows are supported in an inviting intellectual environment - we have community activities designed to foster inquiry and risk-taking; to identify and expose common threads across fellows’ individual activities; and to bring fellows into conversation with the students, staff, faculty, and broader community at the Berkman Klein Center. We invite applications from people working on a broad range of opportunities and challenges related to Internet and society, which may overlap with ongoing work at the Berkman Klein Center and may expose our community to new opportunities and approaches. We encourage applications from scholars, practitioners, innovators, engineers, artists, and others committed to understanding and advancing the public interest who come from —and have interest in — countries industrialized or developing, with ideas, projects, or activities in all phases on a spectrum from incubation to reflection. To make fellowships a possibility for as wide a range of applicants as possible, in the 2020-2021 academic year we will award a small number of stipends to incoming fellows. This funding is intended to support people from communities who are underrepresented in fields related to Internet and society, who will contribute to the diversity of the Berkman Klein Center’s research and activities, and who have financial need. More information about this funding opportunity may be found here <https://cyber.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships/stipends-for-candidates-2…> . The work and well-being of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society are profoundly strengthened by the diversity of our network and our differences in background, culture, experience, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, age, ability, and much more. We actively seek and welcome people of color, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, persons with disabilities, and people at intersections of these identities, from across the spectrum of disciplines and methods. * Please check out the full call for applications at: https://cyber.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships/2021Fellows <https://cyber.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships/2021Fellows>* *Applications will be accepted until Friday January 31, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.* Apryl Williams, PhD Fellow | Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society <https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2019-06/berkman-klein-center-announces-2019…> | Harvard University Assistant Professor | Sociology | Susquehanna University

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Oxford University’s Cambridge Analytica scandal
by Dr. Emma Briant 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Colleagues, Please see here for my new article on Oxford University’s transparency failure over their staff’s work for SCL and hosting of today’s workshop playing down Cambridge Analytica’s importance https://medium.com/@teflpolsoc/oxford-university-cant-hide-its-role-in-the-… Appreciate any comments and shares very much as always Best to all. Dr Emma Briant -- Dr Emma L Briant Independent Researcher/Author/Analyst Associate Researcher at Human Rights Program Bard College, Annandale on Hudson New York Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant

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Deadline Soon: Humanist Lenses for Internet Research
by Mel Stanfill 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Deadline is coming up in 10 days! Understanding Digital Culture: Humanist Lenses for Internet Research, an NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities to be held June 1-5, 2020 at the University of Central Florida, seeks applications. Understanding Digital Culture aims to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital tools for data collection and analysis in internet research. Drawing on the expertise of an interdisciplinary community of humanities scholars spanning digital humanities, information studies, American studies, fan studies, cultural studies, media studies, and games studies, Understanding Digital Culture will enable sharing ideas and methods for using digital technologies to advance humanities research and teaching. Specifically, we will provide resources, training, and a community of collaborators to engage both computational network and data analysis tools and the ethics and best practices of using the web as a site of research. No previous experience in digital humanities is required to apply, and the workshop sessions are structured to assume no prior knowledge of either the technology or theory in order to allow for the broadest range of participation. Graduate students and early career scholars are especially encouraged to apply, as are faculty and staff at institutions such as HBCUs,Tribal Colleges, and community colleges. All who are selected to participate will receive a stipend of $1,250 to support their attendance at the Institute. 25 places are available. For more information, visit: http://digitalculture.cah.ucf.edu To apply, submit a CV and a brief statement (no more than 2 single-spaced pages) addressing your internet-driven research project concept and your goals for participating in the workshop to: https://digitalculture.cah.ucf.edu/how-to-apply/ Applications are due December 15. Review will be anonymous and conducted by the committee of workshop instructors, coordinated by the co-directors (Anastasia Salter and Mel Stanfill). Instructors will be asked to consider the potential impact and reach of proposed work when reviewing participant applications. Questions? Contact Co-directors Anastasia Salter (anastasia(a)ucf.edu) or Mel Stanfill (mel.stanfill(a)ucf.edu) Mel Stanfill, PhD Assistant Professor Texts & Technology / Games and Interactive Media University of Central Florida http://www.melstanfill.com

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Faculty Tenure-Track - User Experience Design (UXD)
by Lala Hajibayova 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

> > Please pardon cross posting > > Faculty Tenure-Track - 9 Mo. - User Experience Design (UXD) > User Experience Design [Job 997000] > Kent Campus – Kent, OH > > Kent State University’s School of Information (iSchool) invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor. The iSchool is part of the College of Communication and Information (CCI), a unique collaboration that brings together five distinct but interrelated fields of study – media, design, communication, information, and digital technologies. CCI faculty are creative, dynamic, and interdisciplinary and the iSchool seeks candidates that fully embrace the opportunities that the College offers for transdisciplinary collaboration among our fields. The iSchool features the same interdisciplinarity and collaborative spirit in our approach to research and teaching. > > The School of Information offers MS degrees in user experience design, health informatics, knowledge management, and an MLIS in library and information science. All iSchool graduate programs are offered online, including the User Experience Design (UXD) MS, and attract students from across the U.S. and internationally. All degree programs in the iSchool receive university resources for instructional design support, including UXD. The iSchool faculty also teach in an undergraduate, face-to-face UXD minor, in partnership with the School of Visual Communication Design. > > The iSchool seeks a new faculty member with research and teaching interests in one or more of the following areas: > · Human-computer interaction; > · User experience research and design; > · Interaction design; > · Industrial design; > · Human factors psychology; > · Related areas. > > The School is also interested in individuals who may utilize professional experience in one or more of these areas in their research and teaching. Service to professional organizations, the school, and the university is expected. The position also involves online teaching and working with and/or coordinating remote collaborative online teams. > > Minimum Requirements: > Candidates must have an earned Ph.D. (official notification of completion of the degree must be received by August 15, 2020) in a field related to user experience research and design, human-computer interaction, or human factors psychology. Candidates must also provide evidence of a strong interest in or track record of teaching excellence, demonstrate potential for developing a sustained record of outstanding scholarship including publication and grant writing, as well as hold a demonstrated commitment to student success through mentoring and advising > > > Additional information about the iSchool and the UXD program is available at: https://www.kent.edu/i <http://www.kent.edu/iSchool/user-experience-design-0>School/use <http://www.kent.edu/iSchool/user-experience-design-0>r-experience <http://www.kent.edu/iSchool/user-experience-design-0>-design-0 <http://www.kent.edu/iSchool/user-experience-design-0> > > Kent State University: > Kent State is a comprehensive graduate and undergraduate, residential, Carnegie Doctoral Research Extensive University. Founded in 1910, the university is the third largest in Ohio, with an enrollment of approximately 39,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries. The Chronicle of Higher Education identifies Kent State as one of the Great Colleges to Work For. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ranks Kent State among the nation’s top 74 public high-research universities, and U.S. News & World Report ranks Kent State in the coveted top-tier of Best Colleges. Kent is a small but vibrant college-town with close proximity to the cultural, dining, and professional sports activities of Cleveland and other Northeast Ohio cities, along with the recreational opportunities of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and the many lakes in the region. > > Kent State University is committed to the creation and nurturing of a diverse community of individuals through inclusive excellence. Diversity involves recognizing the value of differences and the inclusion of all members of the community. This is one of several core values we embrace as we strive for a culturally diverse student body, faculty and staff that reflect the multicultural nature of Ohio, the nation, and our world. The successful candidate for this position is committed to diversity, inclusion, and advocacy. > > Compensation: > Salary is competitive and benefits are excellent (KSU offers a full range of benefits: (https://www.kent.edu/sites/default/files/file/BENE%20BRIEF%20FT%202019.pdf <http://www.kent.edu/sites/default/files/file/BENE%20BRIEF%20FT%202019.pdf)>) > > Applying: > For priority consideration applications should be submitted by December 15, 2019 but will stay open until the position is filled. The starting date is August 17, 2020. > > A letter of interest, curriculum vitae, research statement, and teaching portfolio (including philosophy of teaching, sample syllabi, and evidence of peer/student feedback) should be submitted online at https://jobs.kent.edu/ <https://jobs.kent.edu/>. Names of at least three references should be provided with the application. > > For additional information, questions, or nominations, interested parties should contact: > Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D., Search Committee Chair Associate Professor > School of Information Email: kgracy(a)kent.edu <mailto:kgracy@kent.edu> Phone: 330-672-0049 > > For a complete description of this position and to apply online, visit our jobsite at https://jobs.kent.edu <https://jobs.kent.edu/> > Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer / Disabled / Veterans > >

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new book: Hacking Diversity
by christina dunbar-hester 04 Dec '19

04 Dec '19

Dear AoIR list, Forgive the self promotion (and x-posting), but I wanted to announce a new book: NEW FROM PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS—*Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures <https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691192888/hacking-diversity>* by Christina Dunbar-Hester. A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communities. Enter discount code *LIST30* on the PUP website to get *30% off* the paperback, through June 30, 2020. (Ok to share/forward the code.) I'm indebted to scholarship by and conversations with many in the AoIR community! And will look forward to future conversations. -c "*Hacking Diversity* takes us into the hackerspaces, makerspaces, and unconferences where diversity advocates hack their social order to open up volunteer technologies along multiple dimensions. Dunbar-Hester shows that much more than 'stuff' is produced—issues of gender, race, power, and class emerge and are interrogated. This is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how diversity becomes productive in open technology movements and corporate tech cultures."—Sareeta Amrute, University of Washington "This book provides a clear-eyed critical exploration of diversity advocacy within today's market-saturated culture of open technology, fractured by the sediments of racial capitalism. Dunbar-Hester brilliantly combines historical analysis with ethnographic insights to show why DIY interventions by voluntaristic open technologists and computing devotees, however well-meaning, struggle to resolve the foundational tensions between individual freedom and collective emancipation."—Paula Chakravartty, New York University "Written with grace, clarity, and generosity, *Hacking Diversity* critically probes inclusion initiatives in open content and hacker communities. Giving credit where it is due, Dunbar-Hester shows how diversity advocacy engendered laudable changes that nevertheless have fallen short of securing substantive equity and justice. This widely relevant book will become central to reorienting the public debate around diversity in technology."—Gabriella Coleman, McGill University "Unraveling threads of identity, open technology, and activism over the past decade, *Hacking Diversity* sympathetically but critically analyzes the daily life, utopian desires, and critical awareness of participants in hackerspaces, free software communities, maker movements, and activist tech collectives. Dunbar-Hester reveals the poignant tensions at work in communities struggling to address problems of global political inequality with new technologies and practices that promise liberation—but all too rarely deliver it."—Christopher M. Kelty, University of California, Los Angeles "Well-written, sophisticated, theoretically limber, and often clever and humorous, *Hacking Diversity* unpacks the concept of diversity advocacy and how to create, nurture, and sustain feminist hacker/maker spaces. It will make an impact in feminist media studies, critical communication studies, digital activism studies, and science and technology studies."—Leslie Regan Shade, University of Toronto

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Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Digital Life Initiative, Cornell Tech
by Jessie Garrett Taft 04 Dec '19

04 Dec '19

Good afternoon, The Digital Life Initiative (DLI; dli.tech.cornell.edu) at Cornell Tech invites applications for its 2020 postdoctoral research fellowship supporting research in ethics, politics, and quality of life in digital societies, on topical issues such as algorithmic decision systems, bias and unfair discrimination, privacy, AI and ethics, and civil society. We welcome applicants from wide-ranging disciplines -- computer and information sciences, law, philosophy, data science, media studies, public policy, and social sciences. For one of the positions, demonstrated interest in contextual integrity is a plus. For more information and to apply, please visit https://www.dli.tech.cornell.edu/postdocs Applications will be considered beginning January 6, 2019 until positions are filled. Please forward this announcement to others who may be interested! Sincerely, Jessie G Taft On behalf of Helen Nissenbaum and the Digital Life Initiative

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CFP | Media and the Night: An International Conference | Colloque international « Les médias et la nuit
by Jhessica Reia 04 Dec '19

04 Dec '19

*Media and the Night: An International Conference* April 29 and 30, 2020 McGill University, Montreal Organized by Jhessica Reia, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University Will Straw, James McGill Professor of Urban Media Studies, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University Over the last decade, the study of the night has emerged as an international, interdisciplinary field of scholarly research. Historians, archaeologists, geographers, urbanists, economists and scholars of culture and literature have analyzed the night time of communities large and small, across a wide range of historical periods. The study of the night has expanded in tandem with new attention to the night on the part of city administrations, organizers of cultural events (like *nuits** blanches* and museum nights) and activists fighting gentrification, systems of control and practices of harassment and exclusion which limit the “right to the night” of various populations. In this context of this new attention to the night, we invite proposals for an international conference, in English and French, on relationships between media and the night. We are open to papers focussing on old and new media, from any disciplinary perspective, and dealing with any historical period or geographical area. Possible topics may include (but are not limited to) the following: - The place of media consumption and circulation within the 24-hour cycle; - Formal and stylistic features of media treatments of the night; - Media constructions of the transgressive, marginal or identitarian night; - Specialized media directed at (or produced by) communities of the night; - The role of media forms (or platforms) in tracing itineraries of night-time activity; - Media tools to enhance the safety and accessibility of the night; - “Intermedial” dimensions of media’s relationship to the night (e.g., electric lighting and photography; late-night television and classic cinema, etc.); - The challenge of imagining “night” genres for 24-hour streaming services; - Archiving the night; - Pre-digital or digital practices of mapping the night; - Night, social media and data visualization; - Games, apps and night modes; - Night media and energy infrastructures. Proposals (with title) should be approximately 350 words, in French or English, and submitted by email to jhessica.reia(a)mcgill.ca by *December 30, 2019*. Please note that, while the organizers are unable to cover the travel and accommodation costs of participants, we will and will not charge a registration fee. https://theurbannight.com/ *** *Colloque international « Les médias et la nuit »* 29 et 30 avril 2020 Université McGill, Montréal Sous la direction de : Jhessica Reia, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Histoire de l'art et communication, Université McGill Will Straw, James McGill Professor of Urban Media Studies, Histoire de l'art et communication, Université McGill Au cours de la dernière décennie, la nuit est devenue un objet d’études à part entière autour duquel s’est constitué un domaine international et interdisciplinaire de recherche universitaire. Des historien.nes, des archéologues, des géographes, des urbanistes, des économistes et des spécialistes de la culture et de la littérature ont analysé les activités et les imaginaires nocturnes de grandes et de petites communautés, à travers un large éventail de périodes historiques. Parallèlement au développement de ces études, la nuit fit l’objet d’une nouvelle attention de la part des administrations municipales, des organisateurs d’événements culturels (auxquels on doit par exemple les nuits blanches et les soirées des musées), ainsi que de la part d’activistes luttant contre la gentrification et les dispositifs de contrôle des activités nocturnes, ou encore dénonçant les pratiques de harcèlement et d’exclusion qui limitent le « droit à la nuit » de divers groupes minoritaires. C’est dans le contexte de cette nouvelle attention portée à la nuit que nous lançons un appel à communications pour un colloque international en français et anglais sur les relations entre les médias et la nuit. Nous sommes ouverts aux propositions portant sur les anciens comme sur les nouveaux médias, à toutes les perspectives disciplinaires, ainsi qu’à toutes les périodes historiques ou zones géographiques. Voici la liste indicative non restrictive des thèmes suggérés : - La consommation et la diffusion des médias dans le cycle de 24 heures ; - Les caractéristiques formelles et stylistiques des différents traitements médiatiques de la nuit ; - Les constructions médiatiques des transgressions, des marginalités ou des identités nocturnes ; - Les médias spécialisés destinés aux communautés de la nuit, ou produits par elles ; - Le rôle des types de médias (ou des plateformes) dans la traçabilité des itinéraires de l’activité nocturne ; - Les outils médiatiques œuvrant à l’amélioration de la sécurité et de l'accessibilité de la nuit ; - Les aspects intermédiaux de la relation média/nuit (par exemple, le lien entre l’éclairage électrique et la photographie, les programmes télévisuels de fin de soirée et le cinéma classique, etc.) ; - Les défis de la programmation « nocturne » pour les services de streaming 24 h/24 ; - Archiver la nuit ; - Les pratiques pré-numériques ou numériques de cartographie de la nuit ; - La nuit, les médias sociaux et la visualisation des données ; - Les jeux vidéo, les applications et les modes nuits ("night modes") ; - Les médias nocturnes et les infrastructures énergétiques. Les propositions d’environ 350 mots (plus le titre), en français ou en anglais, doivent être envoyées par courrier électronique à jhessica.reia(a)mcgill.ca avant le *30 décembre **2019*. Le colloque est gratuit et ouvert au public. En revanche, les frais de voyage et d’hébergement des participants ne seront pas pris en charge. https://theurbannight.com/ Jhessica Reia Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University, Montreal @jhereia <https://twitter.com/jhereia> | jhessica.reia(a)mcgill.ca

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