SIGCSE 2020 POSSE Roundup
The Professors’ Open Source Software Experience or POSSE will be holding a session during the morning of the SIGCAS 2020 Pre-symposium on March 11, 2020 in Portland, OR. The session will focus on Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS), particularly on development of “HFOSS kits” Read More
Computers and Society 48: 3-4 now available
Issues 3-4 of Volume 48 of SIGCAS Computers and Society is now available from the Newsletter page (click above or on the image to the left). It is the first issue for the new editor, Richard Blumenthal, who is taking over from the previous Editor-in-Chief, Randy Connolly.
Computing for the Social Good in Computer Science Education – 2019 Mini Symposium
Computing for the Social Good: Educational Practices (CSG-Ed), is an umbrella term meant to incorporate any educational activity, from small to large, that endeavors to convey and reinforce computing’s social relevance and potential for positive societal impact. Are you a CSG-Ed practitioner? Present your work at this mini-symposium. Not a CSG-Ed practitioner – attend and […]
Call For Reviews
For the next issue of ACM Computers and Society, we would like to publish three to four book review essays. Each review should be in the 750-1500 word range and should focus on a recent book related to topics of interest to the SIGCAS membership. Alternately, a longer review essay which examines two or three related books together in some thematic way will also be considered.
ACM SIGCAS Tweets
I'm pretty sure that I should have included this { ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies is Inspired by the broad agenda of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals } in the text. @acmcompass The thanks for retweeting still applies! 🙂
And speaking of cool new journals!! More hope in troubled times. Please RT "We welcome research on ethics of technology, especially from a critical perspective, that explores limitations & concerns w/ tech" https://t.co/PMj2KtQPmo @sigchi @doctorow @vardi @acm_ethics @ieeessit
In a nutshell, what's the argument? I do want to read the book but I'm impatient teach about the potential for positive social change... Hope that doesn't make me seem weird?!
DIGITAL LETHARGY (@MITPress), about how exhaustion, waiting, and the banality of digital life may paradoxically hold the potential for social change, is finally here! Hope to see you tonight or elsewhere: https://t.co/SDLcartukz
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Can Smartphones Help Predict Suicide? https://t.co/M3MPDJMISO