Special Issue on “Negotiating Digital Visibility in Asia” published in Convergence
Dear friends! Our special issue on "Negotiating Digital Visibility in Asia" has just come out in Convergence journal. Please take a look. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/CON/current The issue comprises 19 articles examining the practices, motivations, challenges, and concerns about digital visibility from Azerbaijan to Japan, China to the Philippines. We have tried to foreground themes, communities, and locations that are less visible in academic literature — including racialised and gendered minorities, underground artistic groups, diasporic communities and so on. But the articles also look at the reasons why some highly visible phenomena, such as K-pop, achieved their success. Many thanks to all the authors, reviewers as well as friends who helped publicise our call for papers — including many on this listserv. As guest editors, we worked on putting this issue together for two years and are quite proud of the result. We hope that you would find it interesting and useful for your own work. Best wishes, Saif, also on behalf of Qian, Jing and Hiromi _____ *Saif Shahin, Ph.D.* Assistant Professor <https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/s-s-shahin> of Digital Culture Director, Digital South Research Lab <https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/humanities/digital-south-lab> Tilburg University, Netherlands Associate Editor <https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/witp20/about-this-journal#editorial-board> Journal of Information Technology & Politics Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pzy87iEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao> | ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Saif-Shahin> Recent articles Fractured Spectacle <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565251335427> ( *Convergence*, 2025) #StopAsianHate as Hashtag Activism <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051241309701> (*Social Media + Society*, 2025) Black Lives Matter Goes Global <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448211057106> (*New Media & Society*, 2024) Platform Affordances and Spiral of Silence <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160791X23002361> (*Technology in Society*, 2024)
CALL FOR PAPERS Second Workshop on "Next-Generation Models for Generative AI" (In conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on Digital Data Processing 2025-IEEE) University of Bedfordshire, Luton. UK August 18-20, 2025 (IEEE CPS will publish the proceedings, and papers should follow the IEEE template) AI models use billions of parameters to detect and retrieve text and images. The currently available LL models are being tested for efficiency, while newer models are also being developed. There are many challenges associated with generative AI. The pre-training volume and efficiency are a focus. To leverage the training set with comprehensiveness and accuracy, billions of parameters are injected into the LLM. Current GPTs face criticism, and governments are cautious about their use. The agenda for the future of Generative AI needs to be clarified. Improved generative tools should be capable of characterising extremist narratives in corpora to reveal different contexts, which may lead to building semantic-rich content for end-users. Evaluating the current models and their outcomes may inform future research. Considering these issues, we organised a workshop to address the theme of next-generation models. The workshop themes include, but are not limited to, the following. Text, Image, Code, Video, 3D models Domain-specific models Impact of Generative AI on Teaching and Learning Knowledge and Semantic Issues in Generative AI Future LLM AI Ethical Issues AI and NLP Embedding in AI Reinforcement learning Data Support and Datasets in AI Standards and Benchmarks Compositional generative models Workshop Chairs Gloria Tengyue Li North China University of Technology Beijing China Simon Fong University of Macau Macau Hathairat Ketmaneechairat King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand Important Dates Submission of Papers: July 15, 2025 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 10, 2025 Camera-ready: August 31, 2025 Registration: August 31, 2025 Conference Dates: August 18-20, 2025 Post-Conference Proceedings Release: November 30, 2025 Paper Submission: http://socio.org.uk/ddp/paper-submission Contact: ddp@socio.org.uk
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