May 2020 - netsociety - server-nexa.polito.it

AI & Society -- 4 Postdoctoral Fellowships at uOttawa

by Florian Martin-Bariteau

Hello, Friendly reminder. Please share with your networks and contacts! The AI + Society Initiative<https://techlaw.uottawa.ca/aisociety> at the University of Ottawa is seeking four postdoctoral fellows for 2020-2021: The Scotiabank Postdoctoral Fellowship on AI and Regulation will support an innovative research program focused on shaping the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a global context. Details at: http://aisociety.ca/scotiabank-postdoc-regulation-2020 French: http://iasociete.ca/postdoc-scotiabank-regulation-2020 The Scotiabank Postdoctoral Fellowship on AI and Inclusion will support an innovative research program focused on reimagining how to design ethical and inclusive Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Details at: http://aisociety.ca/scotiabank-postdoc-inclusion-2020 French: http://iasociete.ca/postdoc-scotiabank-inclusion-2020 The Alex Trebek Postdoctoral Fellowship on AI and Healthcare will support an innovative research program focused on the legal and ethical aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to the health and health care sector. Details at: http://aisociety.ca/alextrebek-postdoc-health-2020 French: http://iasociete.ca/postdoc-alextrebek-sante-2020 The Alex Trebek Postdoctoral Fellowship on AI and Environmental Health will support an innovative research program focused on the social science aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to environmental sustainability. Details at: http://aisociety.ca/alextrebek-postdoc-envi-2020 French: http://iasociete.ca/postdoc-alextrebek-envi-2020 If the start date for this position is affected either by the candidate being under COVID-19-related travel restrictions or the campus being closed, remote working options can be negotiated. Best, -- Florian Martin-Bariteau, LL.D. Professeur agrégé, Section de common law | Associate Professor, Common Law Section Directeur, Centre de recherche en droit, technologie et société | Director, Centre for Law, Technology and Society Directeur scientifique, Initiative IA + Société | Scientific Director, AI + Society Initiative Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa 57 Louis Pasteur (FTX367), Ottawa ON K1N 6N5, Canada +1 613-562-5800 x3474 | f-mb.org<http://f-mb.org/> | @f_mb

May 26, 2020

Online Seminar with Leslie Francis on 26 May at 17:00

by G. van den Maagdenberg

Dear all, On 26 May at 17.00 , the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT) will host its first TILT online seminar by Prof. Leslie Frances on "The Perils of De-identified Data: It's data use, not de-identification, that matters". The seminar will be moderated by Dr. Bo Zhao. More information (including the link to the zoom meeting) can be found here: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/t… The format will be the following: brief intro by Dr. Bo Zhao, then 30-45 mins presentation by Prof. Leslie Francis, everyone muted and no videos. Chat panel open where people can field questions that will be asked to Prof. Francis by the moderator. The seminar is open to everyone and we would love to see many of you there! Feel free to spread this invitation to anyone interested. Best wishes and thanks, Leonie Dr. Leonie Reins, LL.M. - Assistant Professor Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT) - Tilburg University --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Office: Montesquieu Building, room M 704, +31 13 466 4385, l.s.reins(a)uvt.nl<mailto:l.s.reins@uvt.nl> Post: TILT, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

May 25, 2020

Multistakeholder Processes & Bodies | PoliTICs 30

by Luca Belli

May 8, 2020

AI & Society -- 4 Postdoctoral Fellowships at uOttawa

by Florian Martin-Bariteau

Hello, Please share with your networks and contacts! The AI + Society Initiative<https://techlaw.uottawa.ca/aisociety> at the University of Ottawa is seeking four postdoctoral fellows for 2020-2021: The Scotiabank Postdoctoral Fellowship on AI and Regulation will support an innovative research program focused on shaping the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a global context. Details at: http://aisociety.ca/scotiabank-postdoc-regulation-2020 French: http://iasociete.ca/postdoc-scotiabank-regulation-2020 The Scotiabank Postdoctoral Fellowship on AI and Inclusion will support an innovative research program focused on reimagining how to design ethical and inclusive Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Details at: http://aisociety.ca/scotiabank-postdoc-inclusion-2020 French: http://iasociete.ca/postdoc-scotiabank-inclusion-2020 The Alex Trebek Postdoctoral Fellowship on AI and Healthcare will support an innovative research program focused on the legal and ethical aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to the health and health care sector. Details at: http://aisociety.ca/alextrebek-postdoc-health-2020 French: http://iasociete.ca/postdoc-alextrebek-sante-2020 The Alex Trebek Postdoctoral Fellowship on AI and Environmental Health will support an innovative research program focused on the social science aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to environmental sustainability. Details at: http://aisociety.ca/alextrebek-postdoc-envi-2020 French: http://iasociete.ca/postdoc-alextrebek-envi-2020 If the start date for this position is affected either by the candidate being under COVID-19-related travel restrictions or the campus being closed, remote working options can be negotiated. Best, -- Florian Martin-Bariteau, LL.D. Professeur agrégé, Section de common law | Associate Professor, Common Law Section Directeur, Centre de recherche en droit, technologie et société | Director, Centre for Law, Technology and Society Directeur scientifique, Initiative IA + Société | Scientific Director, AI + Society Initiative Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa 57 Louis Pasteur (FTX367), Ottawa ON K1N 6N5, Canada +1 613-562-5800 x3474 | f-mb.org<http://f-mb.org/> | @f_mb

May 7, 2020

CFP | Shifting spheres @Kybernetes [SCI 1.381, Scopus, ABS]

by Dr. Steffen Roth

Shifting Spheres Call for Papers to a special issue of Kybernetes [Clarivate Impact Factor: 1.381] Deadline: 1 June 2020 Guest Editors: Markus Heidingsfelder, Xiamen University, Malaysia Holger Briel, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, PR of China Steffen Roth, La Rochelle Business School, France, and Yerevan State University, Armenia The concept of publicity as a sphere of its own was first introduced to social scientific discourse by Jürgen Habermas in 1962. His novel contribution consisted in the development of an ideal type of social discourse: the “bourgeois public sphere”, a relatively dense network of public communication that managed to emerge from the middle of the 18th-century private sphere within which individuals could come together in rational discussion to identify the problems they faced as a society and seek to resolve them by consensus. This utopia of rational and universalistic politics was imagined to be free from both the economy and the state. However, according to Habermas, the same forces that initially established it eventually destroyed it. Identifying the consumeristic drive that successfully infiltrated all levels of society as its main cause. A detailed description of this downfall would fill the pages of his 1972 book, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Today, in a world increasingly characterized by rapid media transformations and corresponding structural shifts in public communication, … Link: https://derroth.com/2018/08/29/cfp-kybernetes-futures-of-media-shifting-sph… <https://derroth.com/2018/08/29/cfp-kybernetes-futures-of-media-shifting-sph…> ***** Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Steffen Roth Full Professor of Management, La Rochelle Business School, France Adjunct Professor of Economic Sociology, University of Turku, Finland URL: http://derroth.org ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8502-601X ***** CFP | LUHMANN CONFERENCE: Moral Communication. Observed with social systems theory: https://wp.me/pvO07-1mN BIG DATA INSIGHTS into social macro trends (1800–2000): A replication study @TFSC: https://wp.me/pvO07-1oy PRINT THEORIES OF COMPUTER SOCIETIES. Introduction to the digital transformation of social theory @TFSC: https://wp.me/pvO07-1oO HARNESSING BIG DATA for a multifunctional theory of the firm @EMJ: https://wp.me/pvO07-1m5 DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIAL THEORY. A research update @TFSC: https://wp.me/pvO07-1kH GOVERNMENT.COM? Multifunctional cabinet portfolio analysis of 201 national governments @JOCM: https://wp.me/pvO07-1mF CSR BEYOND ECONOMY AND SOCIETY. A post-capitalist approach @J Bus Ethics: https://wp.me/pvO07-1gv

May 2, 2020