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Workshop on Usable Security 2013
by Seda Guerses 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

apologies for cross-posting. best, s. > > USEC '13 > > Call for Papers: 2013 Workshop on Usable Security > > Associated with Financial Crypto and Data Security 2013 > > Bankoku Shinryokan, Busena Terrace Beach Resort, Okinawa, Japan > > 1st April 2013 > > > http://www.kisc.meiji.ac.jp/~ethicj/USEC13/ > > > Many aspects of data security combine technical and human factors. If > a highly secure system is unusable, users will move their data to less > secure but more usable systems. Problems with usability are a major > contributor to many high-profile security failures today. > > However, usable security is not well-aligned with traditional > usability for various reasons. Security is rarely the primary desired > goal of the individual. In fact, security is often orthogonal and > sometimes in opposition to the actual goal. Security information is > about risk and threats: such communication is often unwelcome. > Increasing unwelcome interaction is not a goal of usable design. > Since individuals must trust their machines to implement their desired > tasks, risk communication itself may undermine the value of the > networked interaction. For the individual, discrete technical problems > are all understood under the rubric of online security (e.g., privacy > from third parties use of personally identifiable information, > malware). A broader conception of both security and usability is > therefore needed for usable security. > > The Workshop on Usable Security invites submissions on all aspects of > human factors and usability in the context of security and > privacy. USEC '13 aims to bring together researchers already engaged > in this interdisciplinary effort with other researchers in relevant > areas, so we encourage economics, HCI, AI, theoretical computer > science, cryptography, psychology and business studies etc. > researchers and practitioners to submit original research in this > area. We particularly encourage collaborative research from authors in > multiple fields. > > All accepted papers will be published in an LNCS volume (as part of > the main FC '13 proceedings or collected in a subsidiary workshop > proceedings). Submissions are limited to 15 pages including references > for the main paper and a maximum of 18 pages (i.e., 3 pages of > appendices). Authors are expected to submit anonymous versions of > their papers for initial review, except where this would necessitate > unduly undermining the paper (such as by omitting references to > underlying work by the same author(s)). Referees will do their best to > avoid identification of authors of anonymous papers during the review > process. > > Submission is managed via the EasyChair system: > https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=usec13 > > > Schedule > -------- > > Submission Deadline: 16th November 2012 > > Notification of Acceptance: 17th December 2012 > > Final Paper Deadline: 12th January 2013 > > Workshop: 1st April 2013 (subject to confirmation, may change to 5th April) > > > Organising Committee > -------------------- > > Andrew A. Adams, Centre for Business Information Ethics, Meiji > University, Tokyo, Japan (Programme Chair) > > Kiyoshi Murata, Centre for Business Information Ethics, Meiji > University, Tokyo, Japan > > > Steering Committee > ------------------ > > Jean Camp, Indiana University > > Jim Blythe, University of Southern California > > Angela Sasse, UCL > > > Programme Committee > ------------------- > > Sadia Afroz, Drexel University > Rainer Boehme, University of Muenster > Pam Briggs, Northumbria University > Lorrie Cranor, CMU > Neil Gandal, University of Tel Aviv > Seda Gürses, K.U. Leuven > Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland > Raquel Hill, Indiana University > Tiffany Hyun-Jin Kim, CMU > Markus Jakobsson, PARC > Timothy Kelley, Indiana University > Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft Research > William Lehr, MIT > Hui Kai Lung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology > Hitoshi Okada, National Institute of Informatics > Andrew Patrick, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada > Frank Stajano, University of Cambridge > Hovav Schacham, University of California, San Diego > Bruce Schneier, BT > Dan Schutzer, BITS > Sean Smith, Dartmouth College > Douglas Stebila, Queensland University of Technology > David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley > Nicholas Weaver, University of California, Berkeley > Tara Whalen, Carleton University > > > > -- > Professor Andrew A Adams aaa(a)meiji.ac.jp > Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and > Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics > Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ > >

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CFP International Symposium: Towards an Ecology of Data. Political and Scientific Issues of Digital Data.
by jcplantin 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

Dear AOIR members, Here is a CFP for an upcoming symposium in Paris about the various issues concerning data and research & politics. I hope it might be of interest for some of you, Best, -- Jean-Christophe Plantin Doctorant Contractuel Sciences de l'information et de la communication Université de Technologie de Compiègne Laboratoire Costech/Equipe EPIN Mob: + 33 (0)6 50 86 15 60 Blog: cartonomics.org Twitter: @jcplantin <https://twitter.com/#!/jcplantin> *Call for Paper* *International Symposium* *Towards an Ecology of Data.* * Political and Scientific Issues of Digital Data.* *February 14th, 2013* *Institut des Sciences de la Communication du CNRS (ISCC)* *20 rue Berbier-du-Mets, Paris, France* There is currently a growing number of data produced and disseminated in professional, public and scientific spaces. These data come from various sources: governments posting their operational data within Open Data initiatives, companies opening non-strategic data, scientists increasingly sharing banks of data, or Internet users. Traditional ways of processing data seem insufficient in front of these big data. This fact calls for new means of thinking how to extract, store (grids, cloud computing ...), share, analyze and visualize data. The Web 2.0 related term “data science” (i.e. extracting, processing, analyzing data) now concerns a large number of activities similarly facing large data sets, such as scientific research or data journalism. This symposium will cover the theoretical and practical implications of social research based on data. It calls for critical works that identify the quantitative leap induced by large masses of data available for social sciences, and the related disciplinary and epistemological consequences, e.g. notions of author or producer, public and private actors strategies, citizen uses of data, emerging ecosystems of data processing, local initiatives currently developing Open Data services and applications with related business issues. Epistemological reflections, work in progress and position papers are welcome and can cover one of the following areas: *1. **Digital data and social sciences: History and Epistemology* Large data corpora have been processed for a long time within scientific practices: what is the precise nature of the qualitative leap brought by current technologies? Does the presence of massive data change social science practices? What are the needs, expectations, challenges and emerging solutions? Do these new methods of processing digital data imply epistemological changes? *2. **The politics of Open Data, citizen participation and local eco-systems.* In recent years, Open Data initiatives have been set off by both law changes and actors’ specific demands. It aims to make public data available and reusable. This movement raises many questions: Is it a public service improvement, a regional development tool? What is the relationship between supply and demand, top/down and bottom/up initiatives? Who are those who really understand the data? Can these uses be interpreted as civic empowerment or democracy renewal, as suggested by the proximity between "Open Data" and "Open Government"? How can traditional participatory democracy use these data? What are the possible links between public data and already implemented territorial e-democracy practices? *3. **New sociotechnical mediations, training and professionalization.* Which elements should compose the knowledge base necessary to understand issues around these data? What are the new forms of mediation facilitating citizen uses of released data and its applications? This third axis will highlight, for each category of actors, the type of skills required to be able to understand the data ecosystem in all its complexity, from technical to political aspects. What are the solutions implemented by the various professions facing this flow of data? What types of mediation would increase effective ownership of released data by civil society? What are the training needs to sustain and develop these efforts? How are these new forms of data management skills reorganizing professions (particularly journalism), companies and administrations involved in Open Data? *Submission* We welcome proposals based on current experiments, theoretical reflections and comparative analysis. They can be written in English or in French. Proposals should be 1000 words long, short bibliography included. Selected contributions will be published in a special issue of a French-speaking academic journal. *Proposals should be sent to:* Clément Mabi: clement.mabi(a)utc.fr and Jean-Christophe Plantin: jean-christophe.plantin(a)utc.fr *Deadlines* • Deadline for submission of proposals: November 15th 2012 • Notification of acceptance: December 15th 2012 • Symposium: February 14th 2013 *Scientific Committee * David Berry (Swansea University, College of Arts and Humanities) Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay (CNRS-ISCC) Clément Mabi (UTC-Costech) Jean-Christophe Plantin (UTC-Costech) Bernard Rieder (University of Amsterdam, Media studies department) Valérie Schafer (CNRS-ISCC) Laurence Smith-Monnoyer (UTC-Costech) Bruno J. Strasser (Université de Genève & Yale University) Stéphanie Wojcik (UPEC-Ceditec)

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UMBC Cybersecurity Center Launches
by Richard Forno 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

Dear fellow AOIR'ers -- I am pleased to announce the creation of the UMBC Center for Cybersecuity, which was formally launched this past Wednesday at MDC3 in Baltimore, MD. (which also partially explains why I wasn't at #ir13.) The Center for Cybersecurity is an interdisciplinary university center that unifies UMBC’s many cybersecurity and cybersecurity-related capabilities. It aims to provide both Maryland and the nation with academic and research leadership, collaboration, innovation, and outreach in this critical discipline by streamlining our academic, research, workforce development, and technology incubation activities to advance UMBC’s position as a leading research university in cybersecurity-related disciplines. (CS Prof. Anupam Joshi serves as Director, and I am the Assistant Director.) From an Internet Research perspective, I'm happy to see that the term "interdisciplinary" was used quite a bit in planning this center, which aligns quite closely with my views on the discipline and in particular, what my background and interests can bring to this venture.....and why I'm passing this announcement along to my interdisciplinary-minded AOIR'ers! More information about the Center and its activities can be found at http://cybersecurity.umbc.edu. --rick --- Richard F. Forno, Ph.D. Graduate Program Director, Cybersecurity University of Maryland Baltimore County --- Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it.

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Openings-Human Centered Computing/Digital Everyware (NY/NJ area)
by Michael Bieber 21 Oct '12

21 Oct '12

*Multiple Tenure-Track Positions in Human Centered Computing / Digital Everyware * http://is.njit.edu/about/jobs/ Located a short train ride from New York City and Silicon Alley, the Department of Information Systems, in the College of Computing Sciences, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) seeks applications for multiple full-time, tenure-track faculty positions (Assistant, Associate and Full Professor / Department Chair), for Fall 2013. We seek candidates with excellent research and teaching abilities in Human Centered Computing (HCC) who are committed to actively engaging in interdisciplinary research. We encourage applications from any area of HCC including but not limited to: Social Computing, Digital Everyware/Ubicomp, CSCW, Assistive Technologies and Usable Privacy and Security. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in UXD, UX-Research, and the building and testing of innovative interactive systems, and grants. Faculty and student entrepreneurship is encouraged and new hires will have the opportunity advise Ph.D. candidates and to work with start-ups housed in NJIT's Enterprise Development Center. U.S. News & World Report's 2012 Guide to America's Best Colleges ranks NJIT among the top tier of national research universities. NJIT is the largest technical State University in the NY-NJ tri-state area and is undergoing rapid transformation. The university, located at University Heights Newark is at the center of large urban renewal project, and under the leadership of a newly appointed President and Provost. The College of Computing Sciences is current engaged in a Dean Search. Information Systems hired four faculty in the past year as part of the university's continuing strategic growth and we are looking to significantly strengthen our efforts in HCC in the coming years. As such, we expect incoming HCC faculty to have a significant role in shaping the future of the department, college and university. We benefit from our close proximity to midtown Manhattan (30 minutes by train) and the highly livable communities of northern New Jersey. The area has a high concentration of business and government organizations, with many opportunities for field research, collaboration and consulting.

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Chair of IS, Prof Human Centered Computing/Digital Everyware (NY/NJ area)
by Michael Bieber 21 Oct '12

21 Oct '12

*Chair of IS, Professor Human Centered Computing / Digital Everyware* http://is.njit.edu/about/jobs/ Located a short train ride from New York City and Silicon Alley, the Department of Information Systems, in the College of Computing Sciences, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) seeks applications for the position of Professor of Human Centered Computing / Digital Everyware and Chair of the Department of Information Systems. We seek candidates with a proven track record in interdisciplinary research in Human Centered Computing (HCC). We encourage applications from any area of HCC including but not limited to: Social Computing, Digital Everyware/Ubicomp, CSCW, Assistive Technologies and Usable Privacy and Security. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in UXD, UX-Research and the building and testing of innovative interactive systems, and grant funding. U.S. News & World Report's 2012 Guide to America's Best Colleges ranks NJIT among the top tier of national research universities. NJIT is the largest technical State University in the NY-NJ tri-state area and is undergoing rapid transformation. The university, located at University Heights Newark is at the center of large urban renewal project, and under the leadership of a newly appointed President and Provost. The College of Computing Sciences is current engaged in a Dean Search. Information Systems hired four faculty in the past year as part of the university's continuing strategic growth and looking to significantly strengthen our efforts in HCC in the coming years. We are searching for a new Chair of Information Systems, tenured Full (or Associate) Professor in Human Centered Computing, take on a leadership role in shaping the future of the department, college and university. The Chair leads our research and academic community. We offer undergraduate, masters and PhD degrees (listed below). We benefit from our close proximity to midtown Manhattan (30 minutes by train) and the highly livable communities of northern New Jersey. The area has a high concentration of business and government organizations, with many opportunities for field research, collaboration and consulting. Undergraduate Programs . BS Business & IS, BS Human-Computer Interaction, BS Web & IS, BA IS Master's Programs . MS IS, MS Business & IS, MS Emergency Mgmt & Business Continuity, MS Web Systems PhD Program . Concentrations in Human-Centered Computing and Data-Intensive Research

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for tweetable announcements
by Barry Wellman 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

I always get announcements from these lsits about calls for papers, conferences, articles/books out. The posters would get a lot more mileage if they were short enough for readers to copy and tweet. There are too many that I read for me to do it myself. So for your own conferences, etc, why not start your post with a 140 character summary (Twitter limit; shorter would be better) including a bit.ly (or equiv) link so I (and others) can copy and paste into Twitter. If you make me do any work more than than copy/paste, I won't do it (and I doubt others will), so if you care about your stuff, just do it! And you and your speakers, readers, etc. will be rewarded. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $19; Kindle $16 Old/newCybertimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 It's still rock & roll to me ________________________________________________________________________

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Google and the Culture of Search
by Hillis, Ken 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

What did you do before Google? The rise of Google as the dominant internet search provider reflects a generationally-inflected notion that everything that matters is now on the Web, and should, in the moral sense of the verb, be accessible through search. In this theoretically nuanced study of search technology’s broader implications for knowledge production and social relations, the authors shed light on a culture of search in which our increasing reliance on search engines influences not only the way we navigate, classify, and evaluate Web content, but also how we think about ourselves and the world around us, online and off. Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, and Kylie Jarrett seek to understand the ascendancy of search and its naturalization by historicizing and contextualizing Google’s dominance of the search industry, and suggest that the contemporary culture of search is inextricably bound up with a metaphysical longing to manage, order, and categorize all knowledge. Calling upon this nexus between political economy and metaphysics, “Google and the Culture of Search” explores what is at stake for an increasingly networked culture in which search technology is a site of knowledge and power. "Some say Google makes us stupid. Others say it should make us worry. Google and the Culture of Search makes us both smarter and more worried about Google’s monopoly powers. As Hillis et al. show, Google’s lineage runs less to General Motors than to a long line of mathematicians and metaphysicians who wanted to organize the world’s information—never before has the strange beast of Google been so clearly put into its proper family tree. Read this book!" —John Durham Peters, University of Iowa "If you wonder why Google gets billions of search queries every day, and (like me) don't think ‘because it's free’ or ‘because it's there’ are sufficient answers, you should read this book. It’s a treasure trove of insights into the culture of search." —Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Oxford Internet Institute Google and the Culture of Search. Routledge. 2012. Ken Hillis Professor of Media and Technology Studies Department of Communication Studies The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3285 USA

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Lit on Internet governance research methods
by Luis Hestres 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Hello, Could I get some recommendations on methodological literature related to Internet governance? I am particularly interested in privatized Internet governance, i.e. how policies and architectures deployed by corporations constitute forms of governance and affect individuals or groups in different ways: privacy, freedom of expression, etc. Approaches that help analyze how policies and architectures encode certain values would be helpful. Also, thanks again to everyone who answered my request about hacking lit. Many thanks, Luis - - - - - Luis E. Hestres Ph.D. student | School of Communication | American University More about me at luishestres.com or LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/hestres> | Follow me on Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/luishestres/>

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please join us at the ethics committee meeting at IR13
by Annette Markham 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Dear Colleagues attending the AOIR conference, perhaps even sitting here with me in the room with the keynote speaker as I write this, We're having an informal Ethics Committee meeting at IR13, and everyone is welcome to join. Consider this more of a "Birds of a Feather" session, where we'll talk about what we've been doing, but also what we might be doing. We'll meet Saturday, 1:20-2:50 in room 3.31 We hope to see you there, Annette Markham and Charles Ess and the rest of the committee

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Call for Papers: 3rd Island Dynamics Conference
by Adam Grydehoj 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Call for Papers: 3rd Island Dynamics Conference Famagusta, North Cyprus, 14-18 May 2013 Website: www.islanddynamics.org/3idc.html The 3rd Island Dynamics Conference is an interdisciplinary academic conference exploring island and maritime issues worldwide. Previous Island Dynamics Conferences have featured presentations by researchers from a variety of disciplines, ranging from Business Studies to Sociology, Political Science to Media & Communication, Economics to Anthropology. Abstracts are welcome on any island or maritime topic, but we particularly encourage presentations concerning the conference theme, “Islands of Culture and Practice”: Islands are often home to unique cultural, economic, and political traditions. They both preserve traditions that have been lost on the mainland and function as meeting places for traditions, the mingling of which result in new traditional forms. We can even speak of archipelagos of culture and practice, where traditions flourish in dispersed geographical areas. How do traditions develop in such circumstances, and what can island and mainland communities tell us about one another? Keynote speakers at the conference are Philip Hayward, Alan Jabbour, Owe Ronström, and Stephen A. Royle. This Island Dynamics event is a collaboration of Eastern Mediterranean University’s Center for Cyprus Studies, the Institute for Anthropological Research’s Center for Island Studies (Croatia), and the University of the Highlands & Islands’ Centre for Nordic Studies. The deadline for abstracts is 1 December 2012. Submit an abstract early to take advantage of early registration rates, which also end on 1 December. For more information, please visit the conference website (www.islanddynamics.org/3idc.html) or contact the convenor Adam Grydehøj (agrydehoj(a)islanddynamics.org) Best regards, Adam Grydehøj, Director of Island Dynamics E-mail: agrydehoj(a)islanddynamics.org Tel.: +45 53401982 Island Dynamics Web: www.islanddynamics.org Personal Web: www.island-studies.org

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