[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 169, Issue 7
T.L. Cowan
tl.cowan at utoronto.ca
Tue Aug 7 08:45:20 PDT 2018
Hello,
Will you please post this in the next several AoIR newsletters:
AoIR pre-conference workshop on Digital Research Ethics and Networked Intimate Publics is now inviting open registration.
Workshop title: The Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory for Networked Intimate Publics: Storytelling, Materiality, Ethics & Praxis
Facilitators: T.L. Cowan (UToronto), Jasmine Rault (UToronto), Veronica Paredes (UCLA) and Izetta Autumn Mobley (University of Maryland, College Park)
In The Broken Earth trilogy, science fiction author N.K. Jemisin (2015, 2016, 2017) imagines a subterranean community called Castrima, a hidden place that is built and sustained by the energies and skills of the most powerful, reviled and thus most endangered specimens of humanity: the Oregens. From the surface, Castrima is invisible, buried below ruins. And underground, from the inside, Castrima looks cluttered, chaotic, disorienting: “as if someone found an architect, made her build a city out of the most beautiful materials available, then threw those buildings into a box and jumbled them up for laughs” (2015: 338). Ykka, Castrima’s Head Woman, explains, “This is what we’re trying to do here in Castrima: survive. Same as anyone. We’re just willing to innovate a little” (2015: 342). Jemisin’s speculative design of Castrima is a place made by and for minoritized subjects to protect their lives, to preserve their knowledge and cultural materials, and ensure their cultural survivance (Vizenor 2008; Tuck 2009).
This workshop will be led by former co-facilitators of the Feminist Technology Network (FemTechNet), collaborators in the Center for Solution to Online Violence (CSOV) and lead investigators of the Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC). We use the term “minoritized” from the scholarly fields of Indigenous, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Queer, Sexuality, Trans-, Gender and Feminist Studies, to speak of populations who may not be in the minority at all – indeed, statistically form the majority population in most cases – but whose knowledges, cultural practices, histories and socialities have been consistently undermined, dismissed and rendered insignificant or troubling to the imagined majority (Ferguson 2004; Gopinath 2005; Sedgwick 1990, 2003; Smith 2010; Soto 2010). The infrastructures and networks of intimacy and distributed publicity are central technologies for the sustenance, support, thriving and survivance of minoritized people, knowledges, cultural materials, and chosen communities. These network technologies are too often situated in academic literature and popular discourse as naïvely pre-digital or non-digital, naturally occurring or innate, rather than carefully and strategically constituted, tended-to and transformed with and as new media and communication infrastructures. In this workshop we invite participants to share stories and practices for the ethical research and engagement with minoritized materials and the networked intimate publics that create them. Workshop participants will take turns leading discussions from their own research experiences in attending to the innovations in labour, arts, organizing and research through which technologies for minoritized survivance manifest and mutate.
Like so many researchers we have been caught by the fever to (digitally) archive precarious, precious, minoritized, invisibilized, intimate, forgotten knowledges, scenes, resistance cultures, materials and alternative futures. Bound by their beauty (Siberry 1989), we are also, however, bound by the institutional and platform logics that we hope these archives can transform, and by accountability to the “the people whose belongings have become [our] ‘collections’” (Nowviski 2016). Conventionalised research practices reflect longstanding and ongoing acquisitional, abductive, possessive, extractive practices that bolster these structures, especially the imperialist, settler colonial model of dehumanization, occupation, control, theft, and non-reciprocity (Kovach 2009; Moreton-Robinson 2015; Murphy 2014; Simpson 2014; Tuhiwai Smith 2012).
This workshop comes from the perspectives that all research structures–not only those primarily oriented within or towards Indigenous communities–need to be reshaped in order to decolonize and unsettle the imperialist university and to dismantle the domination habits of academic knowledge production. Starting with the important work that AoIR collaborators have already contributed to the field of Digital Research Ethics (AoIR 2002; Markham and Buchanan 2012; Zimmer & Kinder-Kurlanda 2017), we invite AoIR-affiliated scholars–especially those of digital culture and researchers building online repositories, exhibitions and other forms of publication of minoritized materials–who are trying to break the habits of extractive and possessive research and publication logics and build-while-we-work-within epistemic infrastructures that acknowledge and jumble existing hiearchives of compensation, credit, value, precarity, security and exposure. Following Jemison’s fictional Castrima, the challenge might be to defend against openness and exposure even in opposition to the institutional logics of our disciplines. This workshop will gather researchers who attend to, and attempt to translate into online information practice, the carefully cultivated tactics and cultures of privacy and counter-surveillance which were, and continue to be, necessary to the survival, and survivance, of minoritized people and cultures.
1. This is a half-day workshop. We will begin with 1 hour of presentations by the co-facilitators, followed by 1.5 hours of group workshopping current, past and future projects that participants bring to discuss, and a concluding 30 minutes drafting protocols, manifestos, best-practices and other collaborative (and future) possibilities.
2. AoIR participants can register for this workshop when they register for the conference; please come prepared to either workshop your own project or pitch in to workshop projects that other participants bring.
If you have already registered for the conference and would like to add this workshop please email ac [at] aoir [dot] org . For further information, please contact workshop organizers T.L. Cowan & Jas Rault at drecollab at gmail.com.
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Thanks very much!
T.L. Cowan
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1. Re: Country specific social media data (Gohar F. Khan)
2. Re: WhatsApp methodologies and platform frameworks
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3. 2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018):
Last Call for Workshop Papers (Announce Announcements)
4. The ethics of artificial intelligence (Jill Walker Rettberg)
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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 12:06:41 +1200
From: "Gohar F. Khan" <gohar.feroz at gmail.com>
To: Arkaitz Zubiaga <arkaitz at zubiaga.org>, "Shulman, Stu"
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] Country specific social media data
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Thank you for comments and suggestions Stu and Arkaitz.
I am currently experimenting with Discovertext, which certainly looks like
a very comprehensive tool.
Thank you,
Khan
On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 12:06 AM, Arkaitz Zubiaga <arkaitz at zubiaga.org>
wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 at 13:00, Shulman, Stu <stu at texifter.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Finally, Twitter. It is the best bet, but filtering by location data
> means
> > (not insignificantly) that you exclude the vast majority of Tweets from
> > your data.
>
>
> For Twitter you may want to check the country-level classifier we
> developed: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7913605/
>
> Code available here:
> https://github.com/azubiaga/tweet-country-classification
>
> This generalises very well to infer the country of origin on Twitter
> timelines with no/limited geolocation data.
>
> Arkaitz
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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 09:12:07 +0530
From: Cherry Mathew Philipose <cherrymp at gmail.com>
To: p.raymurray at srishti.ac.in
Cc: AoIR-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>, pk at iiitd.ac.in
Subject: Re: [Air-L] WhatsApp methodologies and platform frameworks
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Hi Padmini
Recently I attended a talk by Dr. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
<https://www.iiitd.ac.in/pk> (PK) of IIIT, Delhi. He had/has a couple of
interesting Online Social Network (OSN) Projects and the latest in the list
I think is the problem of WhatsApp forwards. In India particularly, the
forwards have revealed their potential to instigate mob violence and even
lynching. He displayed a WhatsApp number to which he said if people forward
those messages which they think are fake, then PK's team will analyse and
get back.
I tweeted about it and you can see it by clicking here
<https://twitter.com/cherrymp/status/1021991328572493826>.
PK's research group keeps a web resource page for sharing all the OSN study
resources that they use which can be seen by clicking here
<http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/resources.html>.
I am marking a copy of this mail to PK as well so that in case you or he
can get in touch with each other and take this forward.
One of the challenges of getting hold of WhatsApp messages is the
end-to-end encryption that the platform uses. Unless your data respondents
are willing to share the forwards with you, I don't think you will be able
to get any.
Like PK you can also think of a WhatsApp number to which your participants
can forward the messages. That's my suggestion.
Thanks for listening.
Best,
Cherry Mathew Philipose
Assistant Professor of English
SSN College of Engineering
Kalavakkam - 603 110
On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 at 19:25, Padmini Ray Murray <p.raymurray at srishti.ac.in>
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have two queries:
> a. Has anyone had success with studying WhatsApp -- especially what
> motivates users to share and forward content? If so, what sort of
> methodologies worked?
> b. I am working on a research project looking at ethics frameworks for
> digital platforms - if you have any suggestions for examples of existing
> platforms and open source communities, consultancies (business and
> developmental), research institutes or social enterprises that have
> demonstrated best practice in governance models and foundational
> principles, I'd love to know.
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> All best,
> Padmini.
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> Padmini Ray Murray, PhD
> Digital Humanities,
> Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology,
> Bangalore.
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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 15:31:01 +0300
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Subject: [Air-L] 2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI
2018): Last Call for Workshop Papers
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*** LAST CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ***
2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018)
Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus, 12-14 November, 2018
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi5hb2lyLm9yZwkyMDE4IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQW1iaWVudCBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UgKEFtSSAyMDE4KTogTGFzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBXb3Jrc2hvcCBQYXBlcnMJMjU0CUxpc3RzCTE1MAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyprusconferences.org%2Fami2018
*** Submission Deadline: 10th August 2018 ***
Ambient intelligence refers to normal working and living environments being
surrounded by embedded devices that can merge unobtrusively and in
natural ways using information and intelligence hidden in the network
connecting these devices (e.g. The Internet of Things). Such devices, each
specialised in one or more capabilities, are intended to work together based
on an infrastructure of intelligent systems, to provide a variety of services
improving safety, security and the quality of life in ordinary living, travelling
and working environments.
Accompanying the main conference, the following two workshops will be
organized:
WS-AFFIN
2nd Workshop On Affective Interaction With Avatars and Robots
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi5hb2lyLm9yZwkyMDE4IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQW1iaWVudCBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UgKEFtSSAyMDE4KTogTGFzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBXb3Jrc2hvcCBQYXBlcnMJMjU0CUxpc3RzCTE1MAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fws-sime.com%2Fws-affin
BRAINS
Behavioral Change and Ambient Intelligence for Sustainability
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi5hb2lyLm9yZwkyMDE4IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQW1iaWVudCBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UgKEFtSSAyMDE4KTogTGFzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBXb3Jrc2hvcCBQYXBlcnMJMjU0CUxpc3RzCTE1MAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fdiag.uniroma1.it%2Fbrains18
SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
Both workshops invite full-papers, work-in progress and position papers
that address one or more of the topics of interest.
All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three Program
Committee members from the corresponding workshop.
All accepted full papers and posters will appear in the conference
proceedings published by Elsevier under the ENTCS Journal series. Papers
must be submitted in PDF format adhering to the ELSEVIER Journal format
and should follow the publication policies of ENTCS.
The macros can be obtained on the ENTCS Macro Web Site
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi5hb2lyLm9yZwkyMDE4IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQW1iaWVudCBJbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UgKEFtSSAyMDE4KTogTGFzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBXb3Jrc2hvcCBQYXBlcnMJMjU0CUxpc3RzCTE1MAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.entcs.org along with detailed instructions about preparing the
papers for the series.
IMPORTANT DATES
? Paper Submissions Due: 10 August, 2018
? Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 10 September, 2018
? Camera Ready Versions Due: 25 September, 2018
? Author (of workshop papers) Registration: 25 September, 2018
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
A few papers from each workshop will be selected by the workshop chairs
and invited for submission to a special issue of MDPI Applied Sciences
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/intelligent_environments ).
The final paper should have at least 30% extra material and will be reviewed
as any MDPI submission.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair
? George Roussos, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Program Chairs
? Achilleas D. Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece
? Kostas Stathis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Workshops Chairs
? Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, University of Rome, Italy
? Fariba Sadri, Imperial College, UK
Local Organization Chair
? George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 12:43:12 +0000
From: Jill Walker Rettberg <Jill.Walker.Rettberg at uib.no>
To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-L] The ethics of artificial intelligence
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I have been asked to contribute to my university?s response to a call from the Norwegian research ethics committee for the natural sciences and technology (NENT) ? they are working on ethical guidelines for research on artificial intelligence and machine learning. I think a lot of the discussions we've had about algorithmic cultures and bias at AoIR are very relevant to this, but that this is also perhaps a more fundamental question: what sort of AI research is ethical? What should be banned? What kinds of ethical considerations should be made?
I am familiar with the debates about algorithmic culture and bias and the many excellent recent books discussing the impact of AI/algorithms/machine learning on society, including Taina Bucher?s If-Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics, Tarleton Gillespie?s Custodians of the Internet, Safiya Noble's Algorithms of Oppression, Virginia Eubanks' Automating Inequality, etc. I also know about FAT* (Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, e.g. https://fatconference.org), and These are fabulous and clearly relevant to the question, but I am wondering if there is something even more specific to the actual tech development and research out there - or perhaps there are already lots of examples of ethical guidelines for AI research?. There is clearly a need for it - just today I heard a computer science professor saying that they do research on the methods that underlie the systems and so ethics isn't relevant.
I have also seen that the EU is planning to develop a strategy for AI in 2019, and that they are positioning ethical considerations as central in that, at the same time as it's ultimately about being competitive globally of course. (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/artificial-intelligence#useful-links)
If you're in Norway and interested in the topic, see https://www.etikkom.no/Aktuelt/Nyheter/2018/ber-om-innspill-om-kunstig-intelligens - they are asking for feedback and comments from everyone until 10 September. I assume other European countries have parallel processes that will feed into the EU strategy in 2019. Perhaps the US, China and other countries already have strategies?
Jill
Jill Walker Rettberg
Professor of Digital Culture
University of Bergen
http://jilltxt.net
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