From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Fri May 21 15:37:26 2021 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 15:37:26 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] =?utf-8?b?RXRoaWNhbOKAr0Z1dHVyZeKAr0Vudmlyb25t?= =?utf-8?b?ZW50czrigK9TbWFydOKAr1RoaW5raW5n4oCvYWJvdXTigK9TbWFydCBD?= =?utf-8?b?aXRpZXMuLi4u?= Message-ID: C&T 2021 - workshop application Ethical Future Environments: Smart Thinking about Smart Cities means engaging with its Most Vulnerable Workshop at C&T 2021, June 21-22, 2021, Online Virtual Conference https://margins-in-hci.tech/ https://2021.comtech.community/ Thank you for your interest in our workshop! Please fill out the following application form to be eligible for a workshop spot. ------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------- • Early Submission Deadline: Mai 23, 2021 (23:59 PST) • Early Notification of Acceptance: Mai 30, 2021 • Final Submission Deadline: June 14, 2021 • Final Notifications of Acceptance: June 16, 2021 • Workshop Days: June 21-22, 2021 ------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------- This one-day Design Fiction workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners, and activists to discuss and extend current concepts regarding smart cities creatively. This will be used to inform a new holistic and sustainable approach to smart cities, including a broad spectrum of vulnerable stakeholders who currently have no representation or are under-represented in the process of developing new technologized environments. We invite all interested people from both academia and practice/non-academia. Both target groups apply via a Google form in which you describe your motivation to participate and your background. Submissions should critically reflect on how your research or interests address issues related to smart cities and/or vulnerable target groups. Your prior experience does not have to be specifically concerned with smart cities, but the application forms will be expected to demonstrate how their work is relevant to the workshop’s topic and can be applied within the workshops’ context. All application forms will be reviewed based on relevance and potential for contribution to the workshop. At least one co-author of each accepted paper must register to attend the workshop. WHY BE A PART OF THIS WORKSHOP? Being part of this workshop holds a lot of benefits: o it is an excellent way to become familiar with the C&T conference and the community o you can extend your network o you can get inspired for future projects and collaborations o you can share your experiences and opinions o you can be an advocate for the vulnerable target group you work with and give them a voice or share information on a political, economic, ecological, administrational or developmental level with the other workshop participants to create realistic implications for ethical future environments o this workshop is also included into the Community Day: https://2021.comtech.community/community-day/ SELECTION PROCESS o Applications will be selected based on their quality, compliance with the workshop themes, and the extent (and diversity) of their backgrounds. o The workshop is planned as a one-day event (4h) with group work sessions by using the method of Design Fiction. o Pre- and follow-up activities are planned prior and after the workshop. o Upon acceptance, at least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop and register for the conference. See the main conference site for more information on registration: https://2021.comtech.community/registration/ The detailed timeframes for each day might be discussed with all to better consider time zones. Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FP4zygu5KKP47X34BSQbDrvlPfjx9HocmL1D9PVRdVM/edit?ts=608bff9c -- Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good * http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci 4cg-announce* Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv Liberating Voices! 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Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, it will be held virtually online with reduced main conference early bird registration fees of $150 standard / $100 student. *Learn more and register here: https://2021.comtech.community/ * We have a really fantastic program lined up, thanks to the hard work of our organizing committee and all the amazing papers, case studies, posters, and workshops accepted to our program, focused on our 2021 theme "Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech". Check out our At-a-Glance program highlights below. *C&T 2021 Program At a Glance* *PSTime* *Sunday* *Monday* *Tuesday* *Wednesday* *Thursday* *Friday* *June 21* *June 21* *June 22* *June 23* *June 24* *June 25* 8:00 Welcome Lobby Welcome Lobby Welcome Lobby Welcome Lobby Welcome Lobby Welcome Lobby 8:30 Community Day Workshop A: The Arts-based Creative Approaches (half day) Workshop B: The Ethical Approaches to Smart Environments (half day) Workshop C: The Grassroots Communities (full day) Welcome Paper Session D: Social Media 9:00 Opening Keynote: *Kate Starbird* Revealing the “Big Lie”: Collaborative Data Science for Rapid Response to Online Disinformation Closing Keynote: *Shalini Kantayya*Beyond Coded Bias: Data Rights as Human Rights 10:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break 10:30 Community Day Paper Session A: C&T in a Pandemic Paper Session E: Community and Collaboration 1 Paper Session G: Sustainable Communities 12:15 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch 1:30 Community Day Paper Session B: Civic Engagement Paper Session F: Community and Collaboration 2 Paper Session H: Food and Agriculture 2:45 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break 3:00 Coffee Break 3:15 Community Day Poster Session Town Hall and Closing 3:30 Paper Session C: Special Topics 4:30 4:45 See our detailed program here: https://2021.comtech.community/program/ *More about C&T 2021:* The biennial International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T) is the premier international forum for stimulating debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – in their multiple forms – and information and communication technologies. C&T is brought to you by EUSSET, the European Society for Socially Embedded Systems, who also brings you ECSCW. The theme of C&T 2021 is “Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech ,” inviting participants to examine the positive and negative implications of new trends in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) impacting communities, civil society and the common good. Papers and proposals were accepted from a variety of relevant perspectives including technology, philosophy, social sciences, policy, design, business, art, the humanities, and so on. We are very much looking forward to seeing you in June! Sincerely, Shelly *Shelly D. Farnham, Ph.D.* General Chair C&T 2021 Get updates on Twitter @comtech2021 , Facebook , or by requesting to join our mailing list . ***** Program Committee ***** *Program Co-chairs* - *Kentaro Toyama, *W.K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan School of Information - *Sara Fox, *Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human Computer Interaction Institute, Director of the Tech Solidarity Lab, and founding member of the Community-Tech Collective *Case Studies Co-Chairs* - *Maria Menendez-Blanco, *Assistant Professor at the Computer Science department of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - *Giacomo Poderi*, Assistant Professor, Digital Design Department, IT University of Copenhagen *Workshop Co-Chairs* - *Anne Weibert, *Research Associate at the Universitat Siegen - *Jasmine Jones, *Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science at Berea College *Posters and Demos Co-Chairs* - *Anna De Liddo*, Senior Research Fellow at KMi (Knowledge Media Institute), The Open University, in Milton Keynes (UK), working on Collective Intelligence and online deliberation See idea.kmi.open.ac.uk - *Yuheng Hu*, Assistant Professor at Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago *Proceedings Chair* - *Florian Cech, *Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology and Center for Informatics and Society // CIS *Social Media Chair* - *Tanja Ertl,* PhD Student, Department of Information Systems, esp. IT for the Aging Society, University of Siegen *Student Volunteers Co-Chairs* - *Konstantin Aal, *PhD Student, Department for Business Informatics and New Media of the University of Siegen - *Madison Snider, *PhD Candidate, Department of Communication, University of Washington *Community Day Chair* - *Douglas Schuler, *Professor Emeritus, The Evergreen State College, and Executive Director, Public Sphere Project *General Organizing Committee* - *Douglas Schuler, *Professor Emeritus, The Evergreen State College, and Executive Director, Public Sphere Project - *Chris Coward* Senior Principal Research Scientist at the University of Washington Information School, director of the Technology & Social Change Group, and co-founder of the Center for an Informed Public. - *Adrienne Russell* Mary Laird Wood Professor of Communication and co-director of the Center of Journalism, Media, and Democracy in the Department of Communication. -- Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good * http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci 4cg-announce* Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! 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We seek to reshape the computing research agenda as topics that acknowledge a need for limits are seldom discussed in relation to contemporary computing research. LIMITS 2021 solicits submissions that move us closer towards computing systems that support diverse human and non-human lifeforms within thriving biospheres. The virtual (and free!) two-day gathering will run June 14 + 15, 2021. The schedule attempts to accommodate participants from different time zones, however we recognize that it won’t work well for all. Your registration information will enable us to share connection details closer to the event. Registration: https://forms.gle/hHkv27YZCVQLGXnk8 Program: https://computingwithinlimits.org/2021/ Please share the registration and program links with interested colleagues. -- Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good * http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci 4cg-announce* Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/liberating-voices -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: