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CfP - 12th Chinese Internet Research Conference
by Herold, David [APSS] 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

Call for Papers - 12th Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) 19-21 June 2014 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ABSTRACTS DUE BY JANUARY 1, 2014 Situated Practices on China's changing Internets: >From the users of mobile ICTs and Apps to Weibo posters and Social Networkers Website: http://myweb.polyu.edu.hk/~circ12/ Introduction CIRC was started in 2003, when less than 25 million people had access to the Internet in China, to study the impact this new technology might have on China's still somewhat isolated society, culture, and politics. By July 2013, the Internet in China had grown to almost 600 million Chinese Internet users whose activities have influenced Chinese society and culture in many different ways. Meanwhile, the CIRC continued to investigate and discuss these exciting developments in annual conferences held most recently at Peking University (2010), Georgetown University (2011), University of Southern California (2012), and the University of Oxford (2013). As an interdisciplinary conference, CIRC has profited from the exchanges between researchers from diverse academic and disciplinary traditions, as well as the inclusion of experts from outside academia. Academics, journalists, market researchers, industry analysts, legal practitioners, business leaders and others come together at the conference to discuss the latest developments of the Internet in China. In June 2014, the Chinese Internet Research Conference will return to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, a place both inside and outside China, with the world's fastest broadband Internet next to the world's most openly censored one. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University will host CIRC 12 (June 19-21) as well as a related postgraduate student pre-conference (June 18 and 19), in the centre of the Hong Kong and just 45 minutes by train from the physical and digital borders with Mainland China. CIRC 12 wishes to continue the proud tradition of past Chinese Internet Research Conferences in challenging researchers to take a fresh look at the Chinese Internet by recognizing the complexity of the Chinese digital media ecology and focusing on the lived practices of Chinese Internet users and the embedding of the Internet into their lives. CIRC 12 encourages papers that go beyond studies of the interactions between netizens and the state to look more closely at the rich variety of practices that have evolved on China's digital media platforms in its enforced distance from the global Internet. Some of the many questions papers could address in this context are: - How are different people in China using their mobile phones or computing devices to access networked services, and how is this affecting their work, leisure, relationships, families, studies, etc? - Where and when are people in China accessing the Internet and what is it they are accessing? - How are mobile phones and computing devices affecting businesses and the work or study environment in China? - How do people in China describe 'the Internet' and their online practices, as well as their feelings and attitudes towards cyberspace? - How have individual social networks in China been affected by the rise of networked services? - How has the Internet affected China, and how has China affected the Internet? - How has the Internet affected Chinese culture and vice versa? - What is Chinese about the Internet in China? - Who are the users of the Chinese Internet? - What are the differences, if any, between Internet use in China and elsewhere, in particular in different parts of the Chinese-speaking world, e.g. Hong Kong, Taiwan, overseas Chinese? - How do everyday practices on the Chinese Internet intersect with discourses - circulating both inside and outside China - on the Internet? - How are practices on the Chinese internet related to policy? Paper and Panel Proposals The organising committee invites proposals for paper presentations or panels that address one or more of the questions above or related issues concerning the Internet in the Chinese-speaking world. Proposals should be written in English and should not exceed 500 words for individual papers, or 1000 words for panel proposals. Proposals and enquiries should be sent to circ12(a)polyu.edu.hk Deadlines Proposals for panels and papers should be submitted by 1 January, 2014. The organising committee will provide feedback on the proposals and full versions of the accepted papers of up to 8,000 words including references should be prepared by 1 May 2014 and sent via email to the organising committee. Graduate Student Pre-Conference and Paper Competition CIRC 12 will include a graduate student pre-conference 18-19 June 2014 that will focus on methodology and ethics of Internet research in the People's Republic of China, both of which pose particular problems, which are often not discussed in sufficient depth. It is hoped that the pre-conference will promote a greater discussion of some of the difficulties new researchers face in analysing the Internet in China. The pre-conference will consist of two master classes and postgraduate students are encouraged to submit paper proposals of up to 500 words focussing on methodology and/or ethics to the pre-conference, while papers for the main conference should focus on thematic issues. The main conference continues to welcome graduate student papers, and submissions FOR THE MAIN CONFERENCE will be considered for CIRC's annual graduate student paper competition. Please note that only papers without faculty co-authors are eligible for the competition. Organising Committee Chair David Kurt HEROLD, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences (APSS), HK Polytechnic University Members CHENG Chungtai, Teaching Fellow, APSS, HK Polytechnic University Rodney CHU, Assistant Professor, APSS, HK Polytechnic University Alex COCKAIN, Teaching Fellow, APSS, HK Polytechnic University Patrick LAW, Assistant Professor, APSS, HK Polytechnic University CIRC Steering Committee ANG Peng Hwa, Director, Singapore Internet Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore William H. DUTTON, Professor of Internet Studies, OII, University of Oxford HU Yong, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University Randy KLUVER, Exec. Director, Global Partnerships and Projects, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University Monroe PRICE, Director, Center for Global Communication Studies and Adjunct Full Professor, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania Jack Linchuan QIU, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong Ernest J. WILSON III, Dean and Walter H. Annenberg Chair in Communication, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism Peter K. YU, Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law, and founding director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University Law School ==================== Dr. David Kurt Herold, Assistant Prof. for Sociology, APSS - GH325, HK Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel.: +852-3400 3015 Fax: +852-2773 6558 http://myweb.polyu.edu.hk/~ssherold/ ==================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and notify the sender and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (the University) immediately. 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Call for papers on initiatives or research for the Digital Discrimination and Social Networks International Conference, Barcelona 2014
by Jj Pedregosa 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

The *Digital Discrimination and Social Networks International Conference, (Barcelona 13th and 14th March 2014)* will be an excellent opportunity to present your projects or research on relevant experiences and/or reflections about issues such as: - veiled discrimination online - youths and social network sites (sns) - education and the internet - digital activism - stereotypes and online media - initiatives and self organized groups on sns - youngsters, active or passive internet users? - hate crimes, cyber bullying, cyber gossip - virtual identities, image construction and appearance in a digital age - digital policies and best practices - local governments use of online services and sns: problems and advantages - inclusion or exclusion and internet access - the power of social media and its dangers - legal issues, observatories, help lines We invite you to email us your abstract (*see instructions in **h ttp://digitaldiscrimination.eu/international-conference/*) and to participate at this conference in order to share your research, projects and experiences. Submission deadline is the *15th of November 2013*. There will be two presentation modalities: *oral **presentations or poster presentations* *Advantages for people with selected papers:* - 2 speakers will be invited to travel from any EU country, including two days accommodation and meals - Final publication with ISBN Juan Pedregosa ITD <http://www.e-itd.com/> Trànsit Projectes <http://blog.transit.es/> Ceps Projectes Socials <http://www.asceps.org/> | Bòria 17 pral 08003 Barcelona +34 933 194 750 @juanpedregosa <https://twitter.com/#!/JuanPedregosa> Projectes Internacionals, Consultoria i Gestió Cultura, Digital, Innovació, Inclusió, Participació, Educació

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Re: [Air-L] Reddit Downvotes
by Nick Seaver 21 Oct '13

21 Oct '13

This isn't method help, but your student may also be interested in talking with Chris Peterson <https://twitter.com/peteyreplies>, who wrote a master's thesis <http://cmsw.mit.edu/user-generated-censorship/> at MIT Comparative Media Studies about organized downvoting on Digg. N Nick Seaver Anthropology Department Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing University of California, Irvine www.nickseaver.net On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:00 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:23:10 -0700 > From: jose marichal <marichal(a)callutheran.edu> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Reddit Downvotes > Message-ID: > <CAEqQr1kxrvJSG2GC6dVEEesfjSg9zktRY1HP3iQoXtYP9Mg= > 8w(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Colleagues, > > A student of mine is doing a project looking at the most downvoted articles > in the sub-reddit "r/politics." Does anyone know of a way to identify the > most "downvoted" links on the site? > > Many thanks, > Jose

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Reddit Downvotes
by jose marichal 21 Oct '13

21 Oct '13

Colleagues, A student of mine is doing a project looking at the most downvoted articles in the sub-reddit "r/politics." Does anyone know of a way to identify the most "downvoted" links on the site? Many thanks, Jose _______________________________________________________________________________________ josé marichal, ph.d. | associate professor | political science <http://about.me/marichal> department | california lutheran university 60 w. olsen road | #3800 | thousand oaks, ca 91360 805-493-3328

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2012 presidential campaign websites
by Jason Archer 21 Oct '13

21 Oct '13

Hello list, I am trying to track down complete archived versions of the 2012 presidential campaign websites of Obama and Romney as they appeared on Nov. 6th, 2012. Archive.org has the sites partially archived but there are broken links and unarchived pages, for both sites. If anyone happened to archive the complete sites on Nov. 6th, 2012 and would be willing to share, or if anyone has any thoughts about how I might find them, please respond to jarche2(a)uic.edu. Thanks, Jason Archer Research Assistant PhD Student University of Illinois at Chicago

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Please forward widely: Please join us for the 4th Annual Arizona Methods Workshops!
by Earl, Jennifer Suzanne - (jenniferearl) 21 Oct '13

21 Oct '13

Please forward widely: Please join us for the 4th Annual Arizona Methods Workshops! January 9-11, 2014 http://sociology.arizona.edu/methods These 3-day workshops are open to everyone and are hosted by the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona, where all workshops are held. The goal is to share the methodological expertise of our school and college with the wider community of social scientists. The workshop topics and instructors vary from year to year; this year we are offering four workshops, including: Professor Corey Abramson, Qualitative Data Analysis in ATLAS.ti Professor Jennifer Earl, Managing Research Projects and Teams Professor Claude Rubinson, Qualitative Comparative Analysis Dr. Katerina Sinclair, Introduction to R Faculty and graduate students have found these seminars to be helpful in prior years. We hope you will join us this year. Please note that students receive a 50% discount on their registration. Plus, you could tack on a few days to enjoy a January vacation in sunny Tucson! Please send SBS-methods(a)email.arizona.edu any questions that are not addressed on http://sociology.arizona.edu/methods. *********************************** Jennifer Earl Professor of Sociology Social Sciences 421 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0027 Phone: (520) 621-3296 ***********************************

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Final Programme, 8th GigaNet Symposium
by Francesca Musiani 19 Oct '13

19 Oct '13

Dear colleagues, the final programme of the 8th GigaNet Symposium, to be held in Bali, Indonesia next Monday, October 21st, could be of interest to some of you. Please find it below and apologies for cross-posting. Hope to see some of you there! Kind regards, Francesca Program 8th Annual Symposium Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) 21 October 2013 Bali, Indonesia 8:30 - 9:00. Welcome and introductions 9:00 – 10:30 Emerging Scholars moderated by Derrick Cogburn · Francesca Musiani, “Giants, dwarfs and P2P alternatives to Internet-based services: an issue of Internet governance” · Aaron Shull, “Cyber Espionage and International Law” · Patricia Vargas-Leon, “The evolution of the legislative proposals about the “Internet Kill Switch” in the U.S.A: a historic-legal analysis” · Nicolo Zingales, “Accountability 2.0: Towards a Special Responsibility for Internet Intermediaries” 11:00 – 12:30 Challenges to the Multistakeholder Governance Model · Laura DeNardis and Mark Raymond, “Thinking Clearly about Multistakeholder Internet Governance” · Yoko Nishioka, “Transformation of the international telecommunications regime into the global telecommunication governance With a Comparative Institutional Analysis Approach” · Alison Powell, “Assessing the influence of online activism on internet policy-making: SOPA and ACTA 12:30 – 12:50 Book Launch · Radu, R., Chenou, J.-M., Weber, R. (eds.). 2013. *The evolution of global internet governance: principles and policies in the making*, Zurich: Schulthess and Springer 12:30 – 1:30 Lunch 1:30 – 2:30 Economic Issues in Internet Governance · Brenden Kuerbis, Hadi Asghari and Milton Mueller, "In the eye of the beholder: The role of needs-based assessment in IP address market transfers" · Hadi Asghari, Michel Van Eeten, Axel Arnbak and Nico Van Eijk, "Security Economics in the HTTPS Value Chain" 3:00 – 6:00 APC/GigaNet Joint Fora on Security, Surveillance and the Militarization of Cyberspace The fora are a new interactive format intended to be open discussion venues where IGF participants can come to interact with subject matter experts in relevant topical areas. 3:00 – 4:20 Cyber War, Cyber Weapons and Internet Governance o John Laprise - Historical perspectives on national security and communication o Christopher S. Yoo - Cyber War vs. Kinetic War: Technical Differences and Legal Implications o Nir Kshetri - Cybersecurity-related Barriers to International Trade and Investment o Edet Ojo - Media Rights Foundation (Nigeria) o Moez Chakchouk - Beyond Cyberwar: impacts on internet governance policies: Tunisian Experience o Additional experts to be announced 4:40 – 6:00 Surveillance & Snowden o Ron Deibert, Citizen Lab o Jiow Hee Jhee and Sofia Morales, “Perception & Effects of Surveillance in Singapore” o Robert Bodle, “Social media and cybersecurity: examining the public-private nexus of state security and online social production” o Alex Comninos-APC o Additional experts to be announced -- Francesca Musiani Postdoctoral researcher Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/> MINES ParisTech 60, Boulevard Saint-Michel 75272 Paris Cedex 06, France Co-Chair, ESN-IAMCR <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn> | Outreach officer, GigaNet <http://giga-net.org> Projet ANR ADAM - Architectures distribuées et applications multimédias<http://adam.hypotheses.org/> Internet Policy Review @ HIIG Berlin <http://policyreview.info/> LinkedIn profile <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/francesca-musiani/7/366/b64>(while I update my website...) | Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani> profile

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GIGANET Symposium
by John Paul Laprise 19 Oct '13

19 Oct '13

The 2013 GIGANET Symposium<http://giga-net.org/page/2013-annual-symposium> kicks off this year's Internet Governance Forum<http://igf2013.or.id/> (IGF) in Bali, Indonesia. Focusing on cybersecurity and cyberwarfare, the Symposium provides informed commentary and in-depth research on the impact of state surveillance and control of the internet on the heels of the Montevideo statement<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-07oct13-en.htm>. Open to all attendees, the Symposium is making a special effort to encourage participation and interaction with the IGF community by co-sponsoring with the Association for Progressive Communications<http://www.apc.org/en> (APC) an afternoon of forums where attendees will be able to directly engage with experts in an open conversation about cybersecurity and cyberwarfare. Follow the proceedings at #giganet #igf2013 Best regards, John Laprise, Ph.D. Visiting Fellow Oxford Internet Institute<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/> Oxford University<http://www.ox.ac.uk/> Assistant Professor of Communication in Residence Northwestern University in Qatar<http://www.qatar.northwestern.edu/> Northwestern University<http://www.northwestern.edu/>

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USEC'14 Workshop on Usable Security
by Seda Guerses 18 Oct '13

18 Oct '13

apologies for multiple copies of this announcement. s. ================================================== USEC'14 Workshop on Usable Security @ NDSS'14 ================================================== USEC'14 will be held on the 23rd February 2014 co-located with NDSS'14 San Diego, California. Many aspects of information security combine technical and human factors. If a highly secure system is unusable, users will try to circumvent the system or move entirely 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 three reasons. First, security is rarely the desired goal of the individual. In fact, security is usually orthogonal and often in opposition to the actual goal. Second, security information is about risk and threats. Such communication is often unwelcome. Increasing unwelcome interaction is not a goal of usable design. Third, 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. http://www.usecap.org/usec14.html ================================================== TOPICS ================================================== The workshop on Usable Security invites submissions on all aspects of human factors and usability in the context of security and privacy. USEC'14 aims to bring together researchers already engaged in this interdisciplinary effort with other computer science researchers in areas such as visualization, artificial intelligence and theoretical computer science as well as researchers from other domains such as economics or psychology. We invite authors to submit original papers describing research or experience in all areas of usable privacy and security. We particularly encourage collaborative research from authors in multiple fields. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Evaluation of usability issues of existing security & privacy models or technology - Design and evaluation of new security & privacy models or technology - Impact of organizational policy or procurement decisions - Lessons learned from designing, deploying, managing or evaluating security & privacy technologies - Foundations of usable security & privacy - Methodology for usable security & privacy research - Ethical, psychological, sociological and economic aspects of security & privacy technologies ------------------------------------ NEW AT USEC'14 ------------------------------------ - Reports of replicating previously published studies and experiments - Reports of failed or negative usable security studies or experiments, with the focus on the lessons learned from such experience. - Reports on deploying usable security & privacy technology in industry It is the aim of USEC to increase the scientific quality of usable security and privacy research. To this end we encourage the use of replication studies to validate research findings. This important and often very insightful branch of research is sorely underrepresented in usable security and privacy research to date. Papers in these categories should be clearly marked as such and will not be judged against regular submissions on novelty. Rather they will be judged based on scientific quality and value to the community. Please contact the chairs in advance of submitting such work. -------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKER -------------------------------------------- Serge Egelman, UC Berkeley ==================================== IMPORTANT DATES ==================================== Submission site: https://usec2014.cs.berkeley.edu/ Submissions deadline: 6th of November 2013 Notification: 5th January 2014 Camera ready: 15th January 2014 -------------------------------------------- CHAIRS -------------------------------------------- Matthew Smith (LUH) and David Wagner (UC Berkeley) -------------------------------------------- REPLICATION STUDY CHAIR -------------------------------------------- Marian Harbach (LUH) -------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------- Alessandro Acquisti, CMU Heinz College Andrew A. Adams, Meiji University, Tokyo Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge Pamela Briggs, Northumbria University Dirk Balfanz, Google Lorrie Faith Cranor, CMU Sunny Consolvo, Google Alexander De Luca, LMU Serge Egelman, UC Berkeley Sascha Fahl, LUH Neil Gandal, Tel Aviv University Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland Seda Gürses, NYU Tiffany Hyun-Jin Kim, CMU Maritza Johnson, Facebook Yoshi Kohno, University of Washington Sameer Patil, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology Andrew Patrick, Carleton University Rob Reeder, Google Hovav Shacham, UC San Diego Sara Sinclair, Google Douglas Stebila, Queensland University of Technology Kami Vaniea, Michigan State University Eugene Y. Vasserman, Kansas State University Rick Wash, Michigan State University http://www.usecap.org/usec14.html

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FWD: Call for Contributions: International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly conference
by Grotke, Abigail 18 Oct '13

18 Oct '13

Passing along, there may be interest on this list... Each year the International Internet Preservation Consortium holds a day-long public conference in conjunction with their General Assembly. It will be held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, on 19th May 2014. This year's theme is Building Modern Research Corpora: the Evolution of Web Archiving and Analytics. Libraries, archives and other heritage or scientific organizations have been systematically collecting web archives for over 15 years. Early stages of web archiving projects were mainly focused on tackling the challenges of harvesting web content, trying to capture an interlinked set of documents, and to rebuild its different layers through time. Institutions, especially those on a national level, were also defining their legal and institutional mandates. Meanwhile, approaches to web studies developed and influenced researchers' and academics' use of web archives. New requirements have emerged. While the objective of building generic collections remains valid, web archiving institutions and researchers also need to collaborate in order to build specific corpora - from the live web or from web archives. At the same time, "surfing the web the way it was" is no longer the only way of accessing archived web content. Methods developed to analyse large datasets - such as data or link mining - are applicable to web archives. Web archive collections can thus be a component of major humanities and social sciences projects and infrastructures. With relevant protocols and tools for analysis, they will provide invaluable knowledge of modern societies. This conference aims to propose a forum where researchers, librarians, archivists and other digital humanists will exchange ideas, requirements, methods and tools that can be used to collaboratively build and exploit web archive corpora and datasets. Contributions are sought that will present: - models of collaboration between archiving institutions and researchers, - methods and tools to perform data analytics on web archives, - examples of studies performed on web archives, - alternative ways of archiving web content. Attendance will be free but registration is obligatory. Abstracts (no longer than one page) should be sent to Peter Stirling (peter.stirling(a)bnf.fr) by 1st December 2013. Acceptance will be notified on 6th January 2014. Abstracts should be submitted in English but speakers may present in English or French. Simultaneous translation (French/English) will be offered to the audience. Final presentations will be published on the IIPC website, but no proceedings of the conference will be published. Those submitting a presentation proposal who also wish to propose a paper for publication are encouraged to send in parallel their abstract to Alexandria, The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues, for its special issue on web archiving (abstracts due Friday 13th December 2013; more information on www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/journals/alx<http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/journals/alx> or from the editor, Monica Blake, at info(a)blakeinformation.com) More information is available here: http://netpreserve.org/about-us/news/call-contributions-2014-general-assemb… Please feel free to distribute/forward to others who might be interested. Abbie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Abbie Grotke | Web Archiving Team Lead | Office of Strategic Initiatives National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program | Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/ | http://www.digitalpreservation.gov<http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/> 202-707-2833 | abgr(a)loc.gov<mailto:abgr@loc.gov> | @agrotke

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