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46th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2020): First Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 20 Apr '19

20 Apr '19

*** First Call for Papers *** 46th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2020) Atlantica Miramare 4* Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus January 20-24, 2020 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Submission Deadline: July 29, 2019 *** (Proceedings to be published by Springer) INVITED SPEAKERS (list incomplete) · Mikolaj Boyanczyk, Poland · Erol Gelenbe, UK · Gunnar Klau, Germany · Elias Koutsoupias, UK SOFSEM (SOFtware SEMinar) is an annual international winter conference devoted to the theory and practice of computer science. The first SOFSEM was organized in 1974. SOFSEM consists of invited talks by prominent researchers, of contributed talks selected from the submitted papers, and of the Student Research Forum. The program is organized in plenary talks and parallel tracks devoted to original research in the selected research areas. SOFSEM has a long-standing tradition of facilitating discussions and collegial interactions. It is well-known for its familiar and inspiring atmosphere and as a meeting place for active and leading computer scientists. SOFSEM is a track-based conference. It features the traditional track on foundations of computer science and a number of other tracks that cover contemporary important areas, such as artificial intelligence, cryptography, security, verification, data science, knowledge engineering, social computing and human factors, software and web engineering, etc. The Track Chairs are soliciting technical papers for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings published by Springer in the ARCoSS/LNCS series. The topics of the conference are organised in four tracks and the (non exhaustive) list of topics for each track is as follows: Foundations of Computer Science · Algorithms and data structures · Automata and formal languages · Complexity theory · Computability theory · Cryptography and security · Graphs and networks · Machine learning · Non-classical models of computing · Theory of databases, semi-structured data, and finite model theory · Theory of programming languages Foundations of Software Engineering · Methods and tools for improved software processes · Software architecture of complex software-intensive systems · Requirements Engineering · Model-based software engineering methods and tools · Data-driven improvement of methods, models, and tools · Methods and tools for software engineering applications · Empirical Software Engineering Foundations of Data Science · Data Models and Query Languages · Data Integration and Interoperability · Query Processing and Optimization · Distributed, Parallel, and P2P Data Processing and Management · Data Semantics and Linked Data · Spatial, Temporal, Multimedia Data · Web- and Graph-based Data · Probabilistic and Uncertain Data · Information Extraction and Retrieval · Data Privacy, Security, and Trust Foundations of Algorithmic Computational Biology · Alignment and assembly of sequences · Biological networks · Cancer genomics · Comparative genomics · Gene expression · Phylogenetics · Sequence analysis · System biology PAPER SUBMISSION Detailed guidelines for submission will appear shortly on the conference web site (https://cyprusconferences.org/sofsem2020/) Papers must be submitted electronically via Easychair in standard Springer format (max 12 pages). Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published by Springer in the ARCoSS/LNCS series. IMPORTANT DATES · July 29th, 2019: Submission of abstracts · August 5th, 2019: Submission of full papers · September 30th, 2019: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection · November 25th, 2019: Camera Ready Papers, registration deadline · January 20-24, 2020: Conference Dates ORGANISATION General Chairs · Yannis Manolopoulos, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Steering Committee · Barbara Catania, University of Genova, Italy · Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw Uni. of Technology, Poland · Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands · Tiziana Margaria-Steffen, University of Limerick, Ireland · Branislav Rovan, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia · Petr Saloun, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic · Julius Stuller, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, chair Tracks and Track Chairs · Foundations of Computer Science: Christos Kapoutsis, Qatar · Foundations of Data Science: Herodotos Herodotou, Cyprus · Foundations of Software Engineering, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Greece · Foundations of Algorithmic Computational Biology, Riccardo Dondi, Italy and Florian Sikora, France Student Research Forum Chair · Theodoros Tzouramanis, Greece Webadmin · Kyriakos Georgiades, Cyprus

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CfP TEI 2019-Graz
by gimena del rio riande 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

The Program Committee is pleased to announce its call for proposals for the 19th annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI), which will be held September 18–20, 2019 (Wed-Fri), at the University of Graz, Austria; with workshops September 16–17 (Mon-Tue). This year’s theme is *What is text, really? TEI and beyond* This TEI conference wants not only to reach the community interested in digital representation and processing of text, but also to encourage scholars working on the fringes of the TEI and beyond to join us in discussion. Proposals must be submitted online via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/tei2019/ <https://www.conftool.com/tei2019/>. More information: https://graz-2019.tei-c.org/call-for-papers/ Dra. Gimena del Rio Riande http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8997-5415 Investigadora Adjunta. IIBICRIT, CONICET (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual) - http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/ <http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/> Twitter: @gimenadelr Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales: http://aahd.net.ar Coordinadora Humanidades Digitales CAICYT Lab: https://hdcaicyt.github.io/ Marcelo T. de Alvear 1694 (1060). Buenos Aires - Argentina (54)-11-4129-1158 [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> Remitente notificado con Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> 20/04/19 0:43:21

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LIVE STREAM This Friday, 12pm EDT: "Apparatuses of recognition: Google, Project Maven, and targeted killing" with Lucy Suchman
by Christian Sandvig 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

Hello AoIR: We are launching a new research center soon called ESC: The Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing. We are in a "soft opening" phase right now and this Friday we will do our first ESC experiment with a more external-facing event. ESC will be live-streaming Lucy Suchman's talk on image recognition technology and drone warfare. Prof. Suchman will discuss the controversial Pentagon program that led to protests and resignations at Google. Her bio below is too modest: Prof. Suchman is very well-known as an expert on human-computer interaction, is famous for her early work at Xerox PARC, and was recently president of 4S. I wanted to flag this for your attention in case you are interested in watching. Of course you are also invited to forward this announcement as appropriate. Christian -- http://umich.edu/~csandvig/ ----------------------------------------- TITLE Apparatuses of recognition: Google, Project Maven, and targeted killing SPEAKER Lucy Suchman DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION Friday, April 19, 2019; 12pm-1pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC/GMT-4) Light lunch will be served Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad, 105 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 Directions to this room: http://bit.ly/Ehrlicher (follow path #2) Free and open to the public, no RSVP is required. FOR REMOTE PARTICIPANTS VIDEO FROM THIS TALK WILL BE STREAMED LIVE For video, during the event visit this URL: http://umsi.info/suchman ABSTRACT In June of 2018, following a campaign initiated by activist employees within the company, Google announced its intention not to renew a US Defense Department contract for Project Maven, an initiative to automate the identification of military targets based on drone video footage. Defendants of the program argued that that it would increase the efficiency and effectiveness of US drone operations, not least by enabling more accurate recognition of those who are the program’s legitimate targets and, by implication, sparing the lives of noncombatants. But this promise begs a more fundamental question: What relations of reciprocal familiarity does recognition presuppose? And in the absence of those relations, what schemas of categorization inform our readings of the Other? The focus of a growing body of scholarship, this question haunts not only US military operations but an expanding array of technologies of social sorting. Understood as apparatuses of recognition (Barad 2007: 171), Project Maven and the US program of targeted killing are implicated in perpetuating the very architectures of enmity that they take as their necessitating conditions. I close with some thoughts on how we might interrupt the workings of these apparatuses, in the service of wider movements for social justice. SPEAKER BIO Lucy Suchman is Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University in the UK. Her research interests within the field of feminist science and technology studies are focused on technological imaginaries and material practices of technology design, particularly developments at the interface of bodies and machines. Dr. Suchman’s current research extends her longstanding critical engagement with the field of human-computer interaction to contemporary warfighting, including the figurations that inform immersive simulations, and problems of “situational awareness” in remotely-controlled weapon systems. Dr. Suchman is concerned with the question of whose bodies are incorporated into these systems, how and with what consequences for social justice and the possibility for a less violent world. -- This talk and the speaker series listed below are part of the "soft opening" of ESC: The Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing. http://esc.umich.edu/ This event is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. Event details on the Web: http://esc.umich.edu/event/critical-x-design-lucy-suchman/ A PDF flyer for this series: http://esc.umich.edu/ESC_Events_Flyer_Fall_2019.pdf ________________________________ All events in this series: CRITICAL x DESIGN: A new event series about ethics, society, and computing Mar 20 (Wed) 3-4pm, 3100 North Quad, snacks provided Katherine Behar: Digitally Divided: The Art of Algorithmic (In)Decision Mar 27 (Wed) 12-1pm, 3100 North Quad, light lunch provided Ben Grosser: Less Metrics, More Rando: (Net) Art as Software Research Apr 11 (Thu) 12-1pm, 3100 North Quad, light lunch provided Joy Rankin: Old, Raw, or New: A (New?) Deal for the Digital Age Apr 19 (Fri) 12-1pm, 3100 North Quad, light lunch provided Lucy Suchman: Apparatuses of Recognition: Google, Project Maven, and Targeted Killing (*) (†) ________________________________ *The Ethics and Politics of AI: A Week of Events* Apr 19 (Fri) 12-1pm, 3100 North Quad, light lunch provided Lucy Suchman: *Apparatuses of Recognition: Google, Project Maven, and Targeted Killing* (*) (†) Apr 22 (Mon) 3-4pm, 3100 North Quad, snacks provided Anna Lauren Hoffmann: *Data Violence: Discourse and Justice in a Datafied World* Apr 25 (Thu) 12-1pm, 3100 North Quad, light lunch provided Tarleton Gillespie: *Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media* (*) ________________________________ (*) -- This event will be live streamed. (†) -- This event is in *both* the "CRITICAL x DESIGN" and "The Ethics and Politics of AI" event series. All talks will be recorded, pending speaker approval. *All talks will be held in the Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad*, 105 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 Directions to this room: http://bit.ly/Ehrlicher (follow path #2) Free and open to the public, no RSVP is required. These events are generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan.

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2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Arda Akdemir 18 Apr '19

18 Apr '19

Apologies for cross-posting & please share with anybody who may be interested in this call. *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** CLEF ProtestNews 2019 Extracting Protests from News Using Automated Methods https://emw.ku.edu.tr/clef-protestnews-2019/ ProtestNews 2019 is a lab that is being organized as part of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum 2019 (CLEF). The lab aims at extracting protest event information from news articles across multiple countries using machine learning (ML) and generalizable natural language processing (NLP). This is a sub-task of our ERC-funded research, which aims to generate a comparative protest databases for China, India, South Africa, Mexico and Brazil (emw.ku.edu.tr). The lab aims at facilitating research in line of improving generalizability of natural language processing systems. Our objective is to develop text classification and information extraction tools on one country and test them on data from different countries. The results of our task will appear in the working notes proceedings, published by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) and are presented in the CLEF 2019. Time & Place: 09-12 September 2019, Lugano - Switzerland Competition is organized using Codalab. Competition website : https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/22349 We offer three subtasks and target research areas involve but not limited to: - Information Retrieval - Natural Language Processing - Machine Learning, Deep Learning - Big Data, Data Mining with a focus on generalizability. Tasks: We split the ProtestNews task in three subtasks: 1) Task 1: News article classification as protest vs. non-protest is a binary classification task that aims at discriminating between protest event related news articles and any other news article. Task 1 forms the basis of the subsequent tasks and is the first step towards extracting protest event related information from news articles. 2) Task 2: Event sentence detection aims at determining event sentences that contain an event trigger or a mention of it. Event triggers refer to the textual unit that makes a sentence to be annotated as an event sentence and an event mention is any kind of mention to that event trigger. For example; "In the attack that happened yesterday 20 people were injured." and "Today, we received news that 2 people died in the hospital after the incident." would be positive examples. 3) Task 3: Event information extraction is an event information extraction task that targets mainly events. Information such as participants, time and place of the event. So this task can be considered as a challenging Named Entity Recognition task where the participants are expected to detect not only the named entities found in the text but also be able to detect which ones are related to event. F1 measure will be used to evaluate Task 3. Subtasks two and three will be based on news articles that are labelled as protest or not for subtask 1. Participants can choose to participate in one or more of these subtasks independent of each other. The data from India will be used for training and testing. Evaluations will be done using a combination of the datasets from India and China. Participation: In order to participate go to the link and register ( http://clef2019-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/) After signing and submitting the form regarding the use of the competition data you have to register to our competition through Codalab ( http://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/22349 ). Details regarding the competition and all the important dates can be found on the competition website. Timeline: Please register before April 26, 2019 ( http://clef2019-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/) Initial Data release: April 1 (training and development sets already released !!) Intermediate Evaluations : Cycle 1: Data Release, India: April 12 Submission deadline: April 19 Scores: April 20 Cycle 2: Data Release, China: April 22 Submission deadline: May 1 Scores: May 2 Final Evaluation: Cycle 3 (final evaluation): No new data. Submission deadline: May 10 Scores: May 11 *** ORGANIZERS *** Ali Hürriyetoglu: ahurriyetoglu(a)ku.edu.tr Deniz Yüret: dyuret(a)ku.edu.tr Erdem Yörük: eryoruk(a)ku.edu.tr Çağrı Yoltar: cyoltar(a)ku.edu.tr Burak Gürel: bgurel(a)ku.edu.tr Fırat Duruşan: fdurusan(a)ku.edu.tr Osman Mutlu: omutlu(a)ku.edu.tr Arda Akdemir: aakdemir(a)ku.edu.tr Theresa Gessler: Theresa.Gessler(a)eui.eu Peter Makarov: makarov(a)cl.uzh.ch *** STEERING COMMITTEE *** Aline Villavicencio Antal van den Bosch Arzucan Özgür Hristo Tanev Kemal Oflazer Sophia Ananiadou

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Reminder: "Information Science Trends: Search Engines and Information Retrieval", Hamburg, 26 April 2019
by Dirk Lewandowski 18 Apr '19

18 Apr '19

We still have a few places available for ASIST’s Hamburg event: "Information Science Trends: Search Engines and Information Retrieval", Hamburg, 26 April 2019 Join us for a day of exciting talks and discussions on search engines and information retrieval! (Free) registration is now open for the ASIS&T European Chapter event “Information Science Trends: Search Engines and Information Retrieval” in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday, 26 April 2019. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.de/e/information-science-trends-search-engines-and-i… The event will take place at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Kunst- und Mediencampus Hamburg Finkenau 35 22081 Hamburg Germany Program: 9:30 AM Registration 10:00 AM Welcome and opening remarks 10:15 AM Keynote Prof. Olof Sundin, Lund University, Sweden Invisible Search in Everyday Life How can we understand search and search engines in everyday life? In his lecture Sundin will introduce and discuss some key concepts from his new book Invisible Search and Online Search Engines: The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life (2019, with Jutta Haider); specifically he will elucidate the notions friction of relevance and infrastructural meaning-making. The lecture broadens a traditional understanding of searching in information science by locating searching squarely in society and as entwined with the conditions of everyday life. 11:30 AM Dirk Lewandowski, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany A call for fair search engines Search engines like Google have a massive influence on what information users get to see, and on what search results users select. It has been often lamented that search engines are biased. I, however, argue that we have only scratched the surface because search engine bias is a multifaceted concept and the discussion usually solely focuses on some aspects. Further to giving an overview of the topic, I will show how search engine providers (and regulators) can take steps towards making search fair. Whereas a bias-free search engine is impossible, a fair search is. Here, I will not only focus on the big web search engines but also on how developers and product owners can make their search systems fair. 12:30 PM Lunch 1:30 PM Emmy Le, Otto GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany Product Search at otto.de OTTO is one of the largest full-range online retailer in Germany with over 2.9 million products. Thus the internal on-site product search with more than 1 million search queries per day is the most critical feature to make relevant products and information easy to find. Achieving the right balance between business, measuring search quality and user needs can be quite challenging when building an ecommerce search engine. How we at OTTO respond to these challenges will be part of this talk. 02:15 PM Short presentations Astrid Mager, Institute of Technology Assessment, Wien, Austria Alternative search engines as drivers for social change? Ingo Knuth, Janina Masuhr, Hochschule für Medien, Kommunikation und Wirtschaft, Berlin, Germany Decision Drivers for Search Engine Usage – The Role of the Lock-in Effects Christiane Behnert, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Influences on the relevance judgment process in academic search systems More short presentations tba. 04:00 PM Coffee Break 4:30 PM ASIS&T presentation: ASIS&T, the European Chapter, the European Student Chapter 04:45 PM Tom Alby, Euler Hermes, Hamburg, Germany Data Science in Search Engine Development Machine Learning has been an essential part of large-scale search engine development even before the term "data science" was coined. With the increasing interest in data science and artificial intelligence, the impact of self-learning algorithms on search engine development, relevance and transparency has to be reviewed. In addition, what is the chance for new search engines to succeed without the vast amount of data that has already been collected? 05:45 PM Closing remarks Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski T +49 40 428 75 36 21 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: @Dirk_Lew HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Faculty Design, Media and Information Department of Information Finkenau 35 / 22081 Hamburg / Germany http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk Suchmaschinen verstehen, 2. Auflage: http://suchmaschinen-verstehen.de Editor, Aslib Journal of Information Management http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=AJIM Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski T +49 40 428 75 36 21 Skype: dirk.lewandowski Twitter: @Dirk_Lew HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Faculty Design, Media and Information Department of Information Finkenau 35 / 22081 Hamburg / Germany http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk <http://www.searchstudies.org/dirk> Suchmaschinen verstehen, 2. Auflage: http://suchmaschinen-verstehen.de <http://suchmaschinen-verstehen.de/> Editor, Aslib Journal of Information Management http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=AJIM <http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=AJIM>

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AoIR Executive candidates election fora
by Axel Bruns 18 Apr '19

18 Apr '19

Dear AoIRists, This is a reminder that the candidates standing for the AoIR Executive in our upcoming elections are currently making themselves available for your questions and discussion over on the AoIR site. We've already seen some healthy conversations about the future of AoIR, and it would be wonderful if you could visit and join in. We have now also solved the problem with some of the participants' names being shown as 'Anonymous', which was caused by an overzealous privacy setting - all statements are now attributed to the participants. To see the debate, go to http://members.aoir.org/ and click on Elections - from there, you can find the candidates' election statements and discussion fora. Please remember that to participate in the election you must be a current member of the Association - so this might be a good time to check your membership status and (if necessary) renew your membership. Once again, my sincere thanks and best wishes to everybody standing for election to the AoIR Executive: we are an entirely volunteer-run organisation, and AoIR could not continue without your willingness to serve this community. Axel Bruns President, Association of Internet Researchers -- Prof. Axel Bruns a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au - @snurb_dot_info ARC Future Fellow, 2014-18 http://www.amazon.com/author/axel.bruns/ Professor, Media & Communication http://mappingonlinepublics.net/ QUT Digital Media Research Centre http://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/ Creative Industries Faculty, Z6-503, KG http://snurb.info/ Queensland University of Technology +61 7 3138 5548 GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J

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Call for submissions - ACM DIS 2019 Workshop on Designing Feminist Action
by Palashi Vaghela 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

Call for Submissions Workshop on Designing Feminist Action - ACM DIS2019 Hi all! We are organizing a workshop at the upcoming Designing Interactive Systems (DIS2019) conference (scheduled from June 23rd to 28th) in San Diego. The workshop is called Designing Feminist Action: At the Intersection of Culture and Method. Please read a short description below. More details can be found on the website - https://cultureandmethoddis2019.wordpress.com/ <https://cultureandmethoddis2019.wordpress.com/>. This one-day workshop will explore the use of design research and computing practice in resisting and reifying inequalities. We invite participants to share how we do, and how we might, bring our feminist ideals to bear upon the kinds of work that we perform (methods) and upon the forms of interaction that we participate in (culture). This workshop centers on three driving orientations of feminist design research: How do we translate feminist perspectives from scholarly discourse into practical action? How do we revise existing methods to align with our feminist values and beliefs? How do we intervene in the prevailing culture to identify and change attitudes, behaviors, and practices that work against equity and inclusiveness? We invite researchers/scholars, community members, artists, and others interested in participating to submit a brief position paper, design provocation, case study (approximately 500 words in a format of your choosing), or a video contribution (max. 5 minutes) that describes a situation in which you have either attempted OR would like to attempt the translation of feminist perspectives from scholarly discourse into some form of action. For instance, your paper could: Consider actual or imagined revision to existing research or pedagogical methods Reflect on actual or imagined intervention in prevailing cultures Important dates to note for this workshop: - April 22: Proposal Acceptance Deadline June 24th: Workshop at ACM DIS 2019 (San Diego) Submissions or questions/queries can be sent to cultureandmethoddis2019(a)gmail.com <https://cultureandmethoddis2019.wordpress.com/call-for-participation/submit…> We look forward to your proposals and hope for a wide participation of scholars, researchers and practitioners committed to feminist action and design. Please do forward this call to other listservs or folks who you think will be interested. Thanks, Organizers (Melanie Feinberg, Sarah Fox, Jean Hardy, Stephanie Steinhardt Palashi Vaghela)

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CFP: Digital Humanities Forum 2019: Bodies, Justice, Futures, Oct 3-4 at the University of Kansas
by Thorat, Dhanashree Ashok 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

Hi All, I wanted to share a CFP that may be of interest to some of you. The deadline for proposal submission is May 20th, 2019 at 11:59pm. Dhanashree ------------------------------------------ Call for Proposals The Digital Humanities Forum 2019, presented by the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities (IDRH), will take place October 3-4, 2019 at the Burge Union at the University of Kansas. This year, the theme of the Forum is: Bodies, Justice, Futures. With this theme, the Digital Humanities Forum hopes to inspire presenters to think about the ways in which we envision and build towards just futures for individual and collective bodies from around the globe. By evoking the human body, we ask presenters to foreground humanistic inquiries of digital culture and technology, to trace continuities between historical realities and present socio-political conditions, and/or take up issues related to marginalized and invisible lived experiences. Suggested topics related to our theme's keywords are listed below. Bodies: wearables and biotechnologies; cognition and neuro-aesthetics of art and literature; machine learning, artificial life, Turing bots, and robotics; datafication of human bodies and experiences; literary bodies: texts, archives, collections; the human in the (digital) archive; embodiment and affect in digital culture; critical issues of identity (race, gender, sexuality, indigeneity, etc) in digital culture; digital materiality. Justice: precarious and emotional labor in the digital humanities; ethics and politics of algorithms and digital platforms; data justice; eco-critical approaches to digital technologies and cultures; digital humanities in the global south; surveillance and privacy; democratization of science, technology, access, and knowledge production; citizen technology and citizen labs; race, space, and place in the digital. Futures: emerging technologies and data economies; speculative futures and critical making; participatory, critical, and speculative design; architectures of necessity; minimal computing; IT governance and cybersecurity; hackerspaces, fabrication, and DIY/repair culture; open technology and hardware; video games and the utopian/dystopian; Afrofuturism and the digital; pirate libraries and peer-to-peer networks; participatory, experimental, and/or anticipatory digital pedagogy. Forum organizers welcome proposals that explore connections in and between these themes and that suggest new approaches to digital scholarship. We encourage proposals from scholars at any stage in their careers, including undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty scholars; from gallery, library, archives, and museum professionals; as well as from those engaged in scholarship outside the university. There is a Student Presentation Award for a graduate or undergraduate presentation. The deadline for proposal submission is May 20th, 2019 at 11:59pm. Additional details are available on our website: http://idrh.ku.edu/dhforum2019 Dr. Dhanashree Thorat Postdoctoral Researcher, Digital Humanities Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Kansas

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Save the date: MoneyLab #7, Amsterdam, November 14 & 15, 2019
by Geert Lovink 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

MoneyLab #7: Geo-Politics of Financial Flows Save the date: Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, November 14 & 15, 2019 The Institute of Network Cultures is proud to announce the return of MoneyLab to Amsterdam: two days filled with presentations, workshops, performances and discussions by and with artists, academics, activists, geeks, and students about pressing financial issues. What is the status of our experiments with alternative finance in the age of Brexit, Trump, and the rise of right-wing nationalism? Can we move beyond the critique of libertarian start-ups and their male preoccupations? What is the role today of artists and designers in this expanding financial ecology? Are platforms becoming the new banks? What are the counter-designs of digital transactions? How do we relate to the emerging regulatory regimes that want to “civilize” fintech? Can we speak of a gentrification of payments, as Brett Scott indicated? Possible topics: Beyond the Blokechain: the Cryptofeminist Agenda Geopolitics of Finance: From Altright to China Investigative Journalism without Consequences? Financial Hacking: From Dark Web Smokescreens to White-Collar Crime Payments and the Platforms: Monetization of Social Media Questioning Financial Visualization AltFin: Experiments from Prototype to Pilot The event consists of a 2-day conference, workshops and an evening program with performances. If you are interested to participate, please contact Geert Lovink <geert(a)xs4all.nl>.

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Conference and Special Issue CfP: Communication Rights in the Digital Age
by Minna Aslama 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

Communication Rights in the Digital Age International Conference organized by the Helsinki Media Policy Research Group, the University of Helsinki, the ECREA Communication Law and Policy Section and the Euromedia Research Group, and supported by the IAMCR Communication Policy & Technology Section. 24–25 October 2019, Helsinki, Finland Conference presenters will be invited to submit to a special issue of the Journal of Information Policy, (www.jip-online.org) Abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2019. The rights-based perspective on ethical and political questions presented by the new digital media has recently regained attention in academic and political debates. Due to the importance of communication rights to societies and democracy, it is imperative to understand how those rights are defined, manifested, regulated, and monitored today. The realization of communication rights is further shaped by economic, political and socio-cultural situations. What do we know about these contexts? How can we accumulate a better conceptual and empirical understanding of communication rights? This conference will address the interplay of national and global, universal and specific, characteristics of communication rights. We are interested in analyses of different definitions of communication rights; of policy and other actors defining these rights in national and international contexts; and of current core issues or cases that pertain to communication rights. We welcome conceptual and theoretical interventions as well as empirical approaches. Presenters at the conference will be invited to submit their completed papers for review by the Journal of Information Policy (www.jip-online.org) Now in its 9th year, the JIP brings contemporary scholarly research and analysis of significant information policy issues to the attention of policymakers in a timely fashion via an online format. The JIP is a publication of the Institute for Information Policy at the Pennsylvania State University. The JIP is an open-access journal accessible on the JSTOR platform. Published works in the JIP are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution, which means that all content is freely available immediately upon publication without charge to the user or his/her institution. Please see the detailed call for papers: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/communication-rights-in-the-digital-… Keynote speaker: Philip M. Napoli, James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy, the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, United States. Conference submission: Please submit your proposal of max. 500 words, including your affiliation and contact information, by 15 May 2019 to minna.aslama(a)helsinki.fi. You will receive notification of acceptance by 15 June 2019. Registration and fee: Registration will be open 15 June through 15 October. Registration fee: €100 Reduced student fee: €40 For more information and inquiries, please contact minna.aslama(a)helsinki.fi and irina.khaldarova(a)helsinki.fi. -- Dr. Minna Aslama Horowitz @aslama https://minnahorowitz.net/

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