Reminder: Inference - Critical Approaches to Visual Generative AI workshop, Sheffield, April 2024 (abstract deadline extended deadline - 22 January)
Dear all, Happy new year! I just wanted to remind you about the one-day workshop on Critical Approaches to Visual Generative AI that will be held in Sheffield in April 2024 by the Data, AI, and Algorithms in Society hub of the University of Sheffield's Digital Society Network. The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to midnight on 21 January 2024 (i.e. the end of Sunday 21 January, UK time), so you still have time to submit something if you are interested in participating! Submissions might consider the following topics, and additional subjects are also encouraged: - Visual AI and identity - Commercial applications of visual AI - The inequalities/biases of visual AI - The harms of visual AI - Visual AI and user behaviour - Visual AI and play/humour - The legal implications of visual AI - Visual AI imaginaries - Visual AI and mis/disinformation - Theoretical approaches to Visual AI - Visual AI as/and art - Visual AI and labour - Economies of visual AI - Visual AI and geopolitics/colonialism and colonial logics The workshop will be held on 22 April 2024 in Sheffield. For more information and to submit, please visit: https://bit.ly/inferenceworkshop If you have any questions, please email Kate Miltner at k.miltner@sheffield.ac.uk Many thanks, Tim. -- *Dr Tim Highfield | *Pronouns: he, him, his Lecturer in Digital Media & Society Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield C435, The Wave 2 Whitham Road Sheffield S10 2AH Director, Digital Society Network: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/social-sciences/research/digital-society *Latest writing* Highfield, T., & Miltner, K.M. (2023). '‘Platformed solidarity: examining the performative politics of Twitter hashflags’. *Convergence*. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13548565231199981 Highfield, T. (2023). 'BeReal Now: Digital temporal authenticity on BeReal'. *Flow*, *29*(4): http://www.flowjournal.org/2023/02/bereal_now_temporal_authenticity/ *Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures* <http://timhighfield.net/research/instagram/> (with Tama Leaver and Crystal Abidin; Polity, 2020) *Social Media and Everyday Politics* <http://timhighfield.net/research/social-media-and-everyday-politics/> (Polity, 2016) timhighfield.net / @timhighfield <http://twitter.com/timhighfield>
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Tim Highfield