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SUMMARY:Call for Papers – Creator and Influencer Studies
DESCRIPTION:Since 2020\, health professionals as creators and influencers has exploded. While they existed long before this date\, the advent of the COVID-19 Pandemic accelerated the growth and importance of health influencers/creators. Health professionals now hold an important place in wellness and online communities but often are disregarded in the broader literature or in traditional health communities. This special collection could examine the role of health professionals as creators\, the current status of the community\, and ethical and legal considerations. \nPossible topics include (but are not limited to): \n• Ethical and legal obligations of health professionals as influencers/creators \n• Educational competencies of health professionals as influencers/creators \n• Trends in health creators content \n• Health professionals experiences as influencers/creators \n• Hierarchies\, power and misogyny \nPlease submit your paper by September 1\, 2026. Should you not be able to meet this deadline\, please contact the Lead Guest Editor (jstokesp@bond.edu.au). \nClick here to learn more.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/call-for-papers-creator-and-influencer-studies/
CATEGORIES:Call for Paper or Proposal
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SUMMARY:AI Civic Action Accelerator | Call for Applications
DESCRIPTION:The AI Civic Action Accelerator is a free\, 6-session\, part-time program that helps individuals and teams refine and advance promising policy solutions to civic artificial intelligence (AI) challenges. The accelerator will support early-stage projects that aim to strengthen the relationship between government\, communities\, and AI. We are seeking practical\, community-driven ideas that help governments tackle AI issues in society or use AI more effectively. For instance\, projects may seek to improve public participation and civic engagement through AI; improve youth online safety; enable governments and AI to work together in more transparent\, equitable\, and effective ways; or propose new ways to handle AI automating jobs for certain sectors of the workforce. The program is open to individuals and teams developing policy-related projects with the potential to create meaningful public impact at the local or state level. \n\n During this short course\, participants will workshop their ideas\, getting direct feedback from peers and Aspen Policy Academy instructors\, while also learning our core framework for achieving policy impact. By the end of the program\, candidates will have developed a concrete civic AI policy solution\, produced a set of tangible outputs\, and begun implementing a policy engagement strategy to present their solution to a decisionmaker\, culminating in an opportunity to share their work directly with a key policymaker. \n\n\nDeadlines\n\n\n Priority Deadline: Tuesday\, August 25 at 11:59pm PT \n\n Final Deadline: Tuesday\, September 1 at 11:59pm PT \n\n\nTimeline\n\n\n Application Open: July 16 – September 1 \n\n Participants Admitted: Late September \n\n Program Dates: 6 Thursday sessions from 9:30 – 11:30am PT/12:30 – 2:30pm ET on October 22\, October 29\, November 5\, November 12\, November 19\, and December 3\nClick here to learn more on the Aspen Institute website. 
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/ai-civic-action-accelerator-call-for-applications/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Call for Paper or Proposal
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SUMMARY:PAIRSx Public Sector 2026 | Call for Extended Abstracts
DESCRIPTION:PAIRSx Public Sector is an open one-day symposium that will be hosted at the Ada Lovelace Institute on 5th November 2026 to explore how public bodies are engaging and involving the public and civil society organisations around their adoption of AI\, particularly in the UK. \nThe PAIRSx Public Sector symposium is a spin-out event from the Participatory AI Research and Practice Symposium (PAIRS) series which are designed as spaces to present research and case studies on the state of the art in participatory development and governance of AI and to build stronger connections across the field. \nWe are inviting submission of extended abstracts for presentations or posters to be featured at PAIRSx Public Sector. The deadline for submissions is 16th September 2026. Please make submissions through HotCRP here.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/pairsx-public-sector-2026-call-for-extended-abstracts/
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CATEGORIES:Call for Paper or Proposal
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SUMMARY:Call for Submissions: Digital Competition Conference 2027
DESCRIPTION:The rapid diffusion of AI and the emergence of AI agents capable of independently accessing tools\, initiating processes\, and acting on users’ behalf may fundamentally reshape how information and economic activity are organized online. These developments are raising new questions about market power\, entry\, innovation\, and control across the technology stack. At the same time\, the regulatory and enforcement disputes that have defined competition policy in tech in recent years continue to evolve\, as the implications of incumbent platform power become increasingly consequential. \nThe Digital Competition Conference 2027 (DCC ‘27)\, taking place February 9-10\, 2027 in Washington\, DC\, will examine all of these developments through a broad inquiry into competition in digital markets. Building on the success of DCC ‘26 – which brought together participants from 37 countries – the conference will continue to serve as a forum for rigorous\, interdisciplinary discussion on the future of competition in the digital economy across key sectors and jurisdictions. The conference aims to advance a shared understanding of competition in AI and digital markets among researchers\, policymakers\, regulators\, business\, litigators\, technologists\, and civil society experts. \nDiscussion will center on research results and methods\, what stakeholders know and still need to learn about competition challenges and remedies\, and how to create a virtuous cycle where research more effectively informs policymaking and enforcement while regulation enables more effective research. The conference will feature research talks and policy discussions focused on a range of technology markets – as they have been traditionally offered\, and as they are being reshaped by AI – including markets for search\, chatbots\, and AI assistants; consumer and enterprise software\, including browsers\, apps\, harnesses\, and cloud services; advertising; social media; messaging; and connected devices. \nCall for Submissions \nWe are soliciting expressions of interest in researcher participation\, including early-stage or draft research papers\, prepublication papers\, and recent or accepted publications. The program committee will select and curate research talks and poster presentations from the submissions received. With the authors’ consent\, we expect to post accepted submissions on our website prior to the conference. \nResearch talks at the conference will be short and should illuminate competition issues\, remedies\, or research methods. Selected speakers will be asked to stimulate dialogue about the practical application of research findings to policymaking and enforcement. The conference is open to all disciplines\, including economics\, computer science\, law\, public policy\, business\, and behavioral sciences. \nPlease submit your paper through the submission link by September 25\, 2026.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/call-for-submissions-digital-competition-conference-2027/
LOCATION:Knight-Georgetown Institute
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