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CFA: 2020 Cornell Tech DLI Research Fellows
by MC Forelle 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

I'm a visiting fellow of the Digital Life Initiative and can vouch for what an energizing, smart, welcoming group this is - plus, Cornell Tech is a fascinating campus with lots of interesting work, events, etc, going on all the time. I strongly encourage all soon-to-be or recent PhDs interested in "digital life" to consider applying! Applications due Jan 6 *Call for Applications: Cornell Tech DLI Postdoctoral Fellows 2020* The Digital Life Initiative (DLI) invites applications for its 2020 postdoctoral research fellowships 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. Fellows join an exciting, collaborative research community from the US and around the globe, and are encouraged to work with DLI faculty: Helen Nissenbaum (Faculty Director), Deborah Estrin, James Grimmelmann, Karen Levy, Vitaly Shmatikov, and more, as well as other Cornell Tech faculty. New York City offers further unprecedented opportunities to engage with colleagues and institutions. Qualifications and Expectations Eligible candidates will have received their PhD within the past four years. JDs, JSDs, LLMs, and MDs are also eligible. The initial appointment is for one year, renewable depending on fit and available funding. Fellows are expected to reside in the New York City area and participate actively in the intellectual life of Cornell Tech and the Digital Life Initiative. In addition to pursuing research, Fellows play a crucial role enriching the DLI with workshops, conferences, and seminars; contributing to the DLI Critical Reflections publication, and presenting their work at the DLI Seminar and other public and internal forums. There may also be teaching opportunities. Particulars TBD by mutual agreement. About the Digital Life Initiative Embedded within the progressive teaching mission of Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island in New York City, the Digital Life Initiative was launched in 2017 to analyze the societal tensions arising from existing and emergent digital technologies. Inspired by the core values of justice, democracy, privacy, responsibility, security, and freedom, we support collaborative research projects that explore ethics, policy, politics and quality of life within prevailing socio-technical systems. Cornell Tech and the Digital Life Initiative offer unique contexts for close interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly those bridging the technical and the non-technical. To learn more, visit http://tech.cornell.edu/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__tech.cornell.edu_&d=DwM…> . Diversity and Inclusion are a part of Cornell University's heritage. We are a recognized employer and educator valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities. Application Instructions Positions are set to begin on August 20, 2020. Applications will be evaluated starting Monday, January 6, and reviewed until positions are filled. To apply, please submit your information via our online form <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cornell.qualtrics.com_…> , including the following materials: 1. A cover letter explaining your research interests and how your work connects to the Digital Life Initiative. 2. A current curriculum vitae. 3. Two publications or substantial drafts of journal articles, essays, or the equivalent. 4. Names and contact information for three recommenders. Applicants who have not yet received a PhD, should request a letter from their dissertation chairs confirming that the degree will be in hand before the beginning of the Fellowship term. -- Postdoctoral fellow Cornell Tech @mcforelle on the tweet machine (407) 864-2225

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Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object – new open access project
by jo.zylinska＠gmail.com 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

Dear All, Together with Open Humanities Press, I am delighted to announce the first publication in my new series, MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW. Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object from the Onto-Tales of the Digital Afterlife by MALK (Mark Amerika / Laura Kim) Remixing Persona is comprised of two components: a visual manifesto that doubles as a theoretical e-reader and a work of music video art. In building this project, the artists collaboratively investigate persona-making, performance-thinking, and applied remixology. Playfully presenting their research as an intergenerational and intercultural ‘research band’ named MALK (Mark Amerika / Laura Kim), both artists, individually and as a performance duo, bring their own unique experiences and ontologically filtered ‘ways of remixing’ to their intermedia art, writing and performance practice. The research questions the artists initially presented to themselves were unconventional: ‘Who am I this time?’ ‘What does it mean to share a sense of humor?’ ‘What is an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility?’ The artists were not interested in coming up with answers per se, but in using their artist skills to deploy both intuitive and improvisational performances that would generate a set of primary source material to remix into their creative project. This was when they decided to form MALK and began creating the Digital Afterlife music video artwork as a conceptual tool to investigate persona-making as a meta-practice. The culminating field of recombinatory expression that informs the production of this imaginary digital media object is an inversion of their practice-based research conducted in the TECHNE Lab at the University of Colorado. Like all Open Humanities Press books, Remixing Persona is freely available at: [1]http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/remixing-persona/ Further information about the MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series: [2]http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/ Best wishes, Joanna -- Professor Joanna Zylinska Co-Head of Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Goldsmiths, University of London [3]http://www.joannazylinska.net Eco-Thoughts: An Interview in The Believer [4]https://believermag.com/logger/eco-thoughts-an-interview-with-joanna-zyli… / References 1. http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/remixing-persona/ 2. http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/ 3. http://www.joannazylinska.net/ 4. https://believermag.com/logger/eco-thoughts-an-interview-with-joanna-zylins…

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Reminder: 2nd Data Justice Conference: Civic Participation in the Datafied Society, Cardiff University 28/29 May, 2020
by Lina Dencik 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

ONE MORE WEEK to submit proposals for the second Data Justice Conference! Deadline: 15 December 2019 Civic Participation in the Datafied Society Date: May 28-29, 2020 Location: Cardiff University in Cardiff, UK. Host: Data Justice Lab As the generation, collection and analysis of data continues to transform key aspects of our society across economics, politics and culture, the question of participation has rarely been so pertinent. Democratic processes and traditional avenues for participation are facing challenges as state-citizen relations are increasingly shaped through data analytics and automation at the same time as alternative visions for participatory democracy and decision-making have proliferated. As citizens, we are said to be both coerced and active participants in this shift, both liberated and exploited in the use of digital tools, both more visible and more obscured in data-driven systems. How, then, should we understand civic participation in the datafied society? In what ways are we positioned as citizens in the advancement of datafication? How are decisions made, governance carried out, and systems created? What possibilities exist to intervene in, influence, create and resist power? Who gets to participate and on what terms? How might our institutions and government practices need to change? What are strategies for democratising the emergent datafied society? And what are avenues for enhancing citizen and community participation? This two-day event explores the relationship between datafication and participation. Hosted by the DataJustice Lab at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC), it will bring together international scholars, practitioners, activists, and community groups to discuss the possibilities and challenges of civic participation in a datafied society. Speakers include: Carly Kind (Ada Lovelace Institute) Mark Andrejevic (Monash University, Australia) Nanjira Sambuli (World Wide Web Foundation) Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) Rashida Richardson (AI Now) Tawana Petty (Detroit Digital Justice Coalition) The conference will include both scholarly contributions and workshops with civil society, practitioners and impacted communities in order to facilitate and advance knowledge exchange. We therefore welcome alternative formats and ideas. Themes for submissions include (but are not limited to): * Citizen juries, assemblies and audits * Participatory data governance and oversight * Data commons and co-operatives * Data activism and resistance * Participatory design and design justice * Digital and human labour in data * Participation, exploitation and coercion * Geopolitics of participation Submissions Deadline for 500-word abstracts: 15th of December, 2019 Submit via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=datajustice2020<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair…> All submissions must include a title, author name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and full contact information (mailing address, email address). If you propose a workshop or practical demonstration, please provide a clear statement of purpose and a detailed description of activities, as well as any infrastructure requirements. Please note that time-slots for sessions are 90 minutes. If more is needed, please include an explanation. How to get there Cardiff is a 2-hour train journey west of London and Heathrow airport. The closest airports are Cardiff and Bristol. Conference fee Full fee: £75 (early bird) / £100 Reduced fee for students and civil society: £50 (early bird) / £75 Conference organizing committee: Lina Dencik, Arne Hintz, Joanna Redden and Emiliano Treré (Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University, UK) For information about the Data Justice Lab, see: http://www.datajusticelab.org<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dataju…> Online CfP: https://datajusticelab.org/data-justice-2020/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatajusti…> Hashtag: #DataJustice2020 Contact for further information: https://datajusticelab.org/contact/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatajusti…> -- Dr Lina Dencik Reader / Co-Director Data Justice Lab PI Data Justice: Understanding datafication in relation to social justice (DATAJUSTICE) ERC Starting Grant 2018-2023 School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff CF10 1FS Email: DencikL(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk>, Tel: +44 (0)29 208 75461 Twitter: @LinaDencik Fellow, Center for Media, Data and Society, Central European University

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Special issue call for articles: Refugees and Digital Work
by HACKL Andreas 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

Dear colleagues, Please consider submitting an article proposal for the following special issue: Call for Articles: Special Issue on Refugees and Digital Work Aimed at: Development and Change Digital transformations are currently reshaping labour markets and employment opportunities around the world. Some suggest that online work platforms and the so-called ‘gig economy’ are now planetary in scope, promising access to work for anyone with an internet connection and some skills. However, to what extent does that hold true for the world’s refugees? Parallel to this spread of digital opportunities, refugee self-reliance has now become one of the leading mantras in global refugee governance and international development. A plethora of programmes and initiatives have therefore tapped into a pool of digital opportunities for livelihood provision and skills training among displaced persons and host communities. However, their scope, methods, and outcomes remain underexplored in both academia and policy. This special issue will explore the diverse implications of this transformation on refugees, who often face severe restrictions to economic activity, financial inclusion, and a limited right to work. Particular consideration will be given to critical contributions that are rooted in empirical research and offer insights linking important debates in the international development literature on refugee economies, livelihoods, and digital work. Articles might address one of the following questions: What do particular case studies tell us about the unique relationship between forced displacement and digital economies? How does the inclusion of refugees, and a perspective grounded in their experience, change established views on digital economies and the future of decent work? How do digital economies reshape the role of work within increasingly prolonged conditions of forced displacement? What are the risks and opportunities of digital work for refugees? Other themes articles might address may include the following: * Digital refugee livelihoods and the decent work agenda * Digital skills training or remote job-mentoring * Freelancing and online entrepreneurialism * Working conditions and social protection * Informal means of digital work (e.g. social media platforms) * Refugees’ involvement in the informal or illicit digital economy * Gender dimensions of digital work * Barriers to digital access and/or financial inclusion * The interaction between host country legal and social environments and digital economies These questions and issues are for guidance only and should not be considered exclusive of other important themes. Deadlines If you are interested in contributing to this issue, please submit the following to the issue editors by Friday, January 10, 2020: * A 500-750 word abstract including main research question, details on the empirical research, theoretical contribution, research methods, main findings, and conclusions * Author CV Tentative deadline for full-length articles: May 2020 Special issue editors: Dr Andreas Hackl, Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh Andreas.hackl(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:Andreas.hackl@ed.ac.uk> Dr Evan Easton-Calabria, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford Evan.easton-calabria(a)qeh.ox.ac.uk<mailto:Evan.easton-calabria@qeh.ox.ac.uk> ---------------------- Dr Andreas Hackl Lecturer, Social Anthropology School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh, UK The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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SoLAR webinar invitation: Dr. Laura Allen "Leveraging Writing Analytics for a More Personalized View of Student Performance", Dec 11, 2019
by Vitomir Kovanovic 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

Hi all, I have a pleasure to invite you to SoLAR's Webinar with Dr. Laura K. Allen from the University of New Hampshire *"Leveraging Writing Analytics for a More Personalized View of Student Performance"*. *Time and date*: Wed December 11, 2019, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Eastern US time (11 Dec 4–5 pm UK, 5–6 pm Central European) *Location*: Zoom (meeting URL provided in the registration email) *To register, go to* https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/webinar -with-dr-laura-k-allen-university-of-new-hampshire-registration-77316645167 *Leveraging Writing Analytics for a More Personalized View of Student Performance* *Abstract*: Researchers and educators have developed computer-based tools, such as automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems, to increase opportunities for students to produce natural language responses in a variety of contexts and subsequently to alleviate some of the pressures facing writing instructors due to growing class sizes. Although a wealth of research has been conducted to validate the accuracy of the scores provided by these systems, much less attention has been paid to the pedagogical and rhetorical elements of the systems that use these scores. In this webinar, I will provide an overview of case studies wherein writing analytics principles have been applied to educational data. I will provide an overview of multi-methodological approaches to writing analytics that rely on natural language processing techniques to investigate the properties of students’ essays across multiple linguistic dimensions. This approach focuses on the notion that there are multiple linguistic dimensions of the texts that students produce. Some surface-level features relate to the characteristics of the words and sentences in texts and can alter the style of the essay, as well as influence its readability and perceived sophistication. Further, discourse-level features can be calculated that go beyond the words and sentences. These features reflect higher-level aspects of the writing such as the degree of narrativity in the essay. Webinar attendees will gain a sense of both the conceptual issues and practical concerns involved in developing and using writing analytics tools for the analysis of multi-dimensional natural language data. *Biography*: Dr. Laura K. Allen <https://cola.unh.edu/person/laura-allen> is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire. She earned a B.A. in English Literature and Foreign Languages from Mississippi State University (2010), followed by a M.A. (2015) and Ph.D. from Arizona State University (2017). The principal aim of Dr. Allen’s research has been to theoretically and empirically investigate the higher-level cognitive skills that are required for successful text comprehension and production, as well as the ways in which performance in these domains can be enhanced through strategy instruction and training. This line of research has been accompanied by a second line of work that explores how educational technologies can be leveraged to facilitate learning. The overall goal of this research is to develop educational technologies and methodologies that will have a broad impact on current practices in writing research and instruction across multiple dimensions. Kind regards, Vitomir --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Vitomir Kovanović Research Fellow,* School of Education, University of South Australia* Data Scientist,* Teaching Innovation Unit, University of South Australia* Visiting Researcher, *LINK Lab, University of Texas Arlington, USA* Secretary,* Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR)* Academic Editor (Education, Pedagogy),* PLOS One* University of South Australia <http://unisa.edu.au/> GPO Box 2471, Adelaide SA 5001 CRICOS Provider Number 00121B Office: City West Campus Room BH3-21 <https://goo.gl/maps/TeFoTBJ8nrM2> Web: http://vitomir.kovanovic.info Phone: +61 8 830 27377 <+61883027377>

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CfP Media and religion
by Ekaterina Grishaeva 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

CALL FOR PAPERS We invite scholars to submit proposals to the panel Theology and Digital Media: a Comparative Perspective from Christian Churches, which will be organized at the Annual Conference of European Academia of Religion (June 22-25, 2020, Bologna, Italy). Please send your abstract up to 300 words to Marianna Napolitano (La Fondazione per le scienze religiose Giovanni XXIII) mariannanapolitano(a)hotmail.com and to Ekaterina Grishaeva (Ural Federal University) katherina.grishaeva(a)gmail.com by December 20, 2019. *Panel description* Since the Internet has gained a deep penetration into the everyday life of a lot of societies, Christian Churches strive to increase their presence on digital media for missionary and spiritual purposes and in order to counterbalance the negative coverage in secular media. This change has brought about the need for digital professionals who use their media and technical skills to create resources for Churches. Heidi Campbell (2016) coins the term ‘digital creatives’ to signify this new group of professionals. At the same time, the ways Christian Churches use digital media are closely entangled with existing institutional practices and are shaped by theological dispositions. They may vary in Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Churches. This panel is aimed at a comparison of how Christian Churches adopt digital media for religious purposes. The comparison will be worked out through the dialogue between scholars who study the adaptation of digital media by Christian Churches and digital creatives, i.e., ministers and/or priests from these Churches who work with digital media. Papers that scrutinize digital media use in Christian Churches from theoretical, theological and practical perspectives are particularly welcome.

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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 07 Dec '19

07 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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