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Web page:
[https://kmitd.github.io/recoding-black-mirror/](https://kmitd.github.io/recoding-black-mirror/){target="_blank"}

One day workshop The WEB Conference 2018

24 April 2018, Lyon

##### =====MOTIVATION=====

*[![](https://cstonline.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/black-mirror-300x130.jpg){.alignleft
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sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"}](https://cstonline.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/black-mirror.jpg)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](http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1939/){target="_blank"}.

- **(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](https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2018satellites){target="_blank"}**,
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](https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-template/acmart-master.zip){target="_blank"}
and [Word
template](https://portalparts.acm.org/hippo/acm_windows_word_template.zip){target="_blank"}
accepted). We expect each paper to take as a starting point one
futuristic scenario, either directly from *[Black
Mirror]{style="text-decoration: underline;"}* 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\[2\][http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1939/](http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1939/){.moz-txt-link-freetext}  
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  \[4\][https://portalparts.acm.org/hippo/acm_windows_word_template.zip](https://portalparts.acm.org/hippo/acm_windows_word_template.zip){.moz-txt-link-freetext}---------------


Web page: https://kmitd.github.io/recoding-black-mirror/   One day workshop The WEB Conference 2018  24 April 2018, Lyon =====MOTIVATION=====
<em>
 Black Mirror
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is a British sci-fi series directed by Charlie Brooker portraying a dystopian future emanating from the wide use of digital advancements.

Postagens de Rogue Scholar

Call for contributions: Workshop “Re-coding Black Mirror”. April 24, 2018 @ The WEB Conference, Lyon, FR. Deadline: Feb 10, 2018.