[ecrea] cfp: Re-coding Black Mirror

Call for papers
Re-coding Black Mirror-https://kmitd.github.io/recoding-black-mirror/
One day workshop The WEB Conference 2018
24 April 2018, Lyon
  =====MOTIVATION=====

Black Mirror is a British sci-fi series directed by Charlie Brooker 
portraying a dystopian future emanating from the wide use of digital 
advancements. Even though Black Mirror’s episodes do not entirely rely 
on the widespread availability of existing technology, some of the 
advancements presented are not from such a distant future. The ethical 
and social implications emerging from the increasing reliance on digital 
media (partly depicted in the series) has been a longstanding debate in 
critical studies underlying issues around privacy, social control, 
social and individual justice and other key values around Democracy such 
as freedom of speech. Computer science has picked up on such kind of 
issues focusing mainly on privacy offering technical solutions such as 
privacy by design and encryption amongst other tools.

=====FORMAT=====

Re-coding Black Mirror is an one-day workshop which aims at creating 
dialogue and connections between computer, data and social scientists 
that are interested in the societal and ethical implications of web 
technologies. In order to address emerging social phenomena from 
different perspectives, the workshop employs a novel interactive format, 
where researchers are invited to create futuristic scenarios as the ones 
depicted in Black Mirror, exploring the potential societal and ethical 
concerns of their own research. It will also be a forum for raising 
opportunities of networking with scholars from different fields to 
explore novel research problems that can be relevant to both the web and 
social science communities.

=====TOPICS=====

Given the novelty of the workshop format, we welcome submissions 
addressing two different issues, as explained in the brief summaries 
below. Possible submissions are not restricted to those examples, but 
works addressing those scenarios would be very much welcome too. You can 
also look at the submissions of the Re-coding Black Mirror 2017 edition [2].
  (1) Works showing how the ongoing research in the web community could 
enable/lead to scenarios similar to the ones presented in Black Mirror 
episodes.

For example:

* How could advances in natural language processing and social media 
analysis enable the creation of a bot mimicking the personality of a 
dead person based on their available information online? (S02E01)

* How could web technologies be used to integrate information about 
another person from multiple online sources (digital footprinting), 
providing a mean for stalking or even blackmailing them? (S03E03)

(2) Works showing how the ongoing research in the web community could 
prevent/minimise risks such as the ones depicted in Black Mirror episodes.

For example:

* How could web technologies be designed to prevent the abuse of user 
ratings based on the relations between people and information about 
their network/context? (S03E01)

* How could content and network analysis be used to reduce or counter 
the spread of hate on social media? (S03E06)
  =====SUBMISSION=====
  Please submit your contribution to the workshop by February 10th 
(23:59 Hawaii time) through the easychair system [1], choosing the track 
"#RCBlackMirror2018: Re-Coding Black Mirror Workshop" under the 
WWW2018Satellites conference. We accept three categories of submissions:

* Full papers (max 8 pages) on research and applied technologies,
* Short papers (max 4 pages) about visions and positions on forthcoming 
challenges,
* Abstracts (max 2 pages) on the societal and ethical risks of the 
aforementioned technologies.

All papers should be formatted using the ACM template (Latex [3] and 
Word template [4] accepted). We expect each paper to take as a starting 
point one futuristic scenario, either directly from Black Mirror or of a 
similar nature, as motivation for the work presented.
  =====ORGANISERS=====
  * PINELOPI TROULLINOU, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
* MATHIEU D'AQUIN, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland
* ILARIA TIDDI, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK

[1]https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2018satellites  (New 
submission -> Track "#RCBlackMirror2018: Re-Coding Black Mirror Workshop")
[2]http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1939/
[3]https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-template/acmart-master.zip
[4]https://portalparts.acm.org/hippo/acm_windows_word_template.zip

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