[Commlist] CFP, 2023 ICA postconference - Beyond Nudging, Towards Diversity: Understanding transparent algorithmic recommendation practices for media and communications

Please find below the call for papers for our 2023 ICA Postconference. 
More details available here (registrations open soon):

https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA23-prepostconferences 
<https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA23-prepostconferences>

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*Beyond Nudging, Towards Diversity: Understanding transparent 
algorithmic recommendation practices for media and communications*

Endorsed by the following ICA Divisions: Human Machine Communication 
Interest Group

Deadline for abstracts: Friday, 2 December 2022

*Theme*

Digital platforms and personalisation play an increasingly important 
role for how we engage with public issues online. Whether we scroll 
through social media, visit a streaming platform, or use a news 
aggregator, the content we see is at least partly determined by 
algorithmic curation. So far, curation algorithms are often metrics and 
engagement driven, thereby contributing to digital dilemmas such as 
click- or ragebaiting or the spread of disinformation. Moreover, the 
inner workings of curation algorithms and their underlying objectives  
often remain opaque. Building on the knowledge we have about how 
platform affordances shape public discourse and democratic decision 
making, this post conference aims at exploring future opportunities for 
responsible, value-sensitive platform design.

As such, the goal of this post conference is twofold: First, it aims to 
bring together work that critically engages with the design and effects 
of digital platforms - particularly in relation to notions of media 
diversity and transparency. Second, and building on the former, it hopes 
to generate new ideas and approaches for researching and implementing 
value-sensitive platform design that facilitates social cohesion. Key 
aspects that we hope bring together are the promises and pitfalls of 
digital nudging, the need for transparency and diversity/serendipity, as 
well as individual-level and societal effects of diversity-aware 
platform design in both the short and the long term.

This one-day post conference invites papers focusing on but not limited 
to the following topics. Given the nature of the topic, 
interdisciplinary work is especially encouraged, including natural 
language processing and computer science, as is the submission of work 
in progress that address:

  * Transparency
  * Digital nudging - design, effects and questions relating to
    paternalism and user autonomy
  * Value-sensitive platform design
  * Platform choice architecture
  * Recommender systems
  * Affordances of digital platforms
  * Digital intermediation practices
  * Content creation practices for recommender systems
  * Authentic nudging - engaging (reclaiming?) authenticity through
    automation
  * Nudging for media diversity and plurality
  * Computational implementation and analysis of algorithmic
    recommendation practices
A selection of papers will appear in a special issue within a leading Q1 
international journal - details still to be confirmed.

Invited participants include:

Shaina Raza (PhD Student, CS, Ryerson University in Toronto): /Accuracy 
meets Diversity in a News Recommender System/

Donghee Shin (Prof, Zyaed University, Comm & Media, UAE): /Nudging Users 
toward News Diversity in News Recommender Systems/

Zhixin Giselle Pu (PhD Student, Penn State, Comm) & Michael Beam (Prof, 
Kent State, Emerging Media & Technology): /Personalized Serendipity/

Sanne Vrijenhoek (PhD student, UvA, Law & Information)

Nicolas Mattis (PhD student, VU, Comm) & Wouter van Atteveldt (Prof, VU, 
Comm)

Lien Michiels (PhD student, CS, U of Antwerp)

Michael Ekstrand (Prof, CS, Boise State)

*Submission and Selection Process*

Authors should submit an extended abstract of 300-500 words, outlining 
which theme they are interested in addressing, to Nicolas Mattis: 
(n.m.mattis /at/ vu.nl)

Abstracts would be submitted by 2 December.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by 16 December.

The abstract should contain a main idea or argument, a research 
question, a short literature review and some empirical evidence (if 
relevant). We welcome a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including 
historical, computational, regional and scholarly approaches.

The abstract should be anonymised with no details of the author(s) made 
obvious.

The conference will be held off site from the official conference location:

Date: Tuesday, 30 May

Start time: 9:00am

Finish: 4:00pm

Location: University of Toronto

*Registration and Fees*

Registration will open in January, 2023.

Cost is $US40 (waged) $US20 (Student)

The preconference is open to both ICA and non-ICA members. Attendees 
will need to create a profile to register.

*Sponsors*

Discipline of Media & Communication, University of Sydney

Human Machine Communication Interest Group


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