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History of Synthetic Speech
by Meryl Alper 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Hi all, Back in November, I asked if anyone had recommendations for books/chapters/articles on the history of synthetic speech. (My dissertation is focused on the nexus of mobile devices and augmentative and alternative communication, or AAC). I put together a short bibliography over on the HASTAC blog in case anyone is interested: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/merylalper/2014/01/05/history-synthetic-speech-… Please feel free to leave a comment if you have any other recommendations! Thanks, Meryl Alper Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Southern California

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2 Postdoctoral Positions at University of Vienna
by Gil De Zuniga, Homero 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Hola all ~ First I'd like to wish you a Happy New Year. I write to inform you about 2 postdoctoral positions currently open at University of Vienna, Austria, with an emphasis in Media Innovation/Media Change and Political Communication. Here is the formal call. As German knowledge is not required, unless you speak German you may wish to scroll down to check the English version: https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibun… We'll be opening a new lab research unit in the Department of Communication, and we have great resources to carry on with exciting research projects, so I hope you apply. The deadline is January 22nd 2014. Please if you have further questions feel free to check with me (homero.gil.de.zuniga(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:homero.gil.de.zuniga@univie.ac.at>), with my administrative assistant, Meike Müller (meike.mueller(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:meike.mueller@univie.ac.at>) or with the Head of the Department, Klaus Schönbach (klaus.schoenbach(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:klaus.schoenbach@univie.ac.at>). Saludos, HGZ Homero Gil de Zúñiga Associate Professor Director, Digital Media Research Program (DMRP) communication.utexas.edu/strauss/dmrp Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life College of Communication University of Texas - Austin utexas.edu Voice (512) 471 6323 Fax (512) 471 7979 homerogdz.com Google Scholar Profile @_HGZ_

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Second Call for Papers: Int'l Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-14)
by Brian Keegan 04 Jan '14

04 Jan '14

A second and final reminder to consider submitting your research to ICWSM. Abstracts are due in less than two weeks (15 Jan) and full papers in three (22 Jan). ICWSM authors also have the option of submitting to a "Social Science track" that preserves the option of subsequent journal publication. http://icwsm.org/2014/submitting/call-for-papers/ THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEBLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA (ICWSM-14) SPONSORED BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE * Abstracts Due: January 15, 2014 (by 11:59 pm PST) * Full Papers Due: January 22, 2014 (by 11:59 pm PST) * Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2014 * Conference: June 1-4, 2014 in Ann Arbor, Michigan The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) is a forum for researchers in computer science and social science to come together to share knowledge, discuss ideas, exchange information, and learn about cutting-edge research in diverse fields with the common theme of online social media. This overall theme includes research in new perspectives in social theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing social media. ICWSM is a singularly fitting venue for research that blends social science and computational approaches to answer important and challenging questions about human social behavior through social media while advancing computational tools for vast and unstructured data. ICWSM, now in its eighth year, has become one of the premier venues for computational social science, and previous years of ICWSM have featured papers, posters, and demos that draw upon network science, machine learning, computational linguistics, sociology, communication, and political science. The uniqueness of the venue and the quality of submissions have contributed to a fast growth of the conference and a competitive acceptance rate of 20% for full-length research papers published in the proceedings by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). For ICWSM-14, in addition to the usual program of contributed technical talks, posters and invited presentations, the main conference will include a selection of keynote talks from prominent social scientists and technologists. Building on successes in previous years, ICWSM-14 will also hold a day of workshops and tutorials in addition to the main conference. SUMMARY SUBMISSION GUIDELINE Full paper format: Full paper submissions to ICWSM are recommended to be 8 pages long, and must be at most 10 pages long, including figures and references. The final camera-ready length (between 8-10 pages) for each full paper in the proceedings will be at the discretion of the program chairs. All papers must follow AAAI formatting guidelines. Poster and demo paper format: Poster paper submissions to ICWSM must be 4 pages long, including figures and references. Demo paper submissions to ICWSM must be 2 pages long, including figures and references. All papers must be follow AAAI formatting guidelines. Anonymity: Paper submissions to ICWSM must be anonymized. Social science track with only abstracts in the proceedings: We will be continuing the “social science” track at ICWSM-14 following its successful debut in 2013. This option is for researchers in social science who wish to submit full papers without publication in the conference proceedings. While papers in this track will not be published, we expect these submissions to describe the same high-quality and complete work as the main track submissions. Papers accepted to this track will be full presentations integrated with the conference, but they will be published only as abstracts in the conference proceedings. DISCIPLINES * Computational approaches to social media research including * Natural language processing * Text / data mining * Machine learning * Image / multimedia processing * Graphics and visualization * Distributed computing * Graph theory and graphical models * Human-computer interaction * Social science approaches to social media research including * Psychology * Sociology and social network analysis * Communication * Political science * Economics * Anthropology * Media studies and journalism * Interdisciplinary approaches to social media research combining computational algorithms and social science methodologies TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA include * Weblogs (posts, comments, and/or social shares) * Social networking sites (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn) * Microblogs (e.g., Twitter, Tumblr) * Wiki-based knowledge sharing sites (e.g., Wikipedia) * Social news sites and websites of news media (e.g., Huffington Post) * Forums, mailing lists, newsgroups * Community media sites (e.g., YouTube, Flickr, Instagram) * Social Q & A sites (e.g., Quora, Yahoo Answers) * User reviews (e.g., Yelp, Amazon.com) * Social curation sites (e.g., Reddit, Pinterest) * Location-based social networks (e.g., Foursquare) TOPICS INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO) * Psychological, personality-based and ethnographic studies of social media * Analysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream media * Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media * Centrality/influence of social media publications and authors * Ranking/relevance of blogs and microblogs; web page ranking based on weblogs * Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery * Collaborative filtering * Trust; reputation; recommendation systems * Human computer interaction; social media tools; navigation and visualization * Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion identification and extraction, linguistic analyses of social media behavior * Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification * Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting * Measuring predictability of real world phenomena based on social media, e.g., spanning politics, finance, and health * New social media applications; interfaces; interaction techniques * Social innovation and effecting change through social media * Social media usage on mobile devices; location, human mobility, and behavior * Organizational and group behavior mediated by social media; interpersonal communication mediated by social media * Studies of digital humanities (culture, history, arts) using social media CONFERENCE WEBSITE http://icwsm.org/2014/ General Co-Chairs Eytan Adar, University of Michigan Paul Resnick, University of Michigan PROGRAM Co-Chairs Munmun De Choudhury, Microsoft Research Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute Alice Oh, KAIST -- Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Lazer Lab College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University Fellow, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University Affiliate, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School b.keegan(a)neu.edu www.brianckeegan.com M: 617.803.6971 O: 617.373.7200 Skype: bckeegan

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CHI14 Workshop: Biological Rhythms and Technology
by Jaime Snyder 03 Jan '14

03 Jan '14

[Apologies for cross posting] Biological Rhythms and Technology http://pac.cs.cornell.edu/rhythms/ Workshop at CHI 2014 Toronto, Canada, April 27th 9.00am – 6.00pm We are constantly changing. Every week. Every day. Every minute. Our bodies coordinate many physiological and mental changes to help us adapt to our environment. As a consequence of these fluctuations, we can be more suited to certain types of activities at specific times of the day. Disruptions of our rhythms can have serious impacts on our sleep, productivity, and well-being. In spite of these natural fluctuations, the technologies we use to work and to communicate respond identically throughout the day to our interactions. However, a new class of technologies has emerged that takes our biological rhythms into account. This interactive workshop will bring together researchers interested in designing technologies to support biological rhythms. We invite participants from a range of disciplines (including sleep, well-being, and mental health) to take part in this workshop to discuss the design and development of technology to support individual rhythms; social impacts of measuring these physiological, behavioral, and mental changes; and feedback interventions to help people become more aware of these changes. The goal of the workshop is to create a community around incorporating an awareness of biological rhythms into the design of technology How to participate Submit a 2-4 page paper in the ACM Extended Abstract format about your ongoing work, recent results, or study methods related to biological rhythms. At least one author of each accepted papers must attend the workshop and all participants much register for the workshop and attend at least one day of the conference. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chibrt2014> (https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=chibrt2014) or sent in PDF to biologicalrhythms.CHI2014(a)gmail.com<mailto:biologicalrhythms.CHI2014@gmail.com>. Important dates • Submission Deadline: 17 Jan 2014 • Notification: 10 Feb 2014 • Workshop date: 27 April 2014 For more info: http://pac.cs.cornell.edu/rhythms/ Organizers Mark Matthews, Cornell University, USA  Erin Carroll, University of Rochester, USA  Saeed Abdullah, Cornell University, USA  Jaime Snyder, Cornell University & Syracuse University, USA  Matthew Kay, University of Washington, USA  Tanzeem Choudhury, Cornell University, USA  Geri Gay, Cornell University, USA  Julie Kientz, University of Washington, USA

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Emerald Studies in Media and Communications
by Shelia Cotten 03 Jan '14

03 Jan '14

Happy New Year everyone! Due to numerous requests from potential contributors related to ice and snow storms across the U.S., we have extended the deadline for submissions until January 15th. See our call for more information on submission information: http://www.emeraldmediastudies.com/Current-Call.html. We look forward to receiving your submissions! Happy New Year! Best wishes, Laura and Shelia Series Co-Editors

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DIY Revolution manifesto for open-access publishing
by Işık Barış Fidaner 02 Jan '14

02 Jan '14

IJŽS publish "DIY Revolution" manifesto for open-access publishing in the humanities Excerpt: *"We can allow for and release Copernican revolution. That is, rather than Ptolemizing print technology and culture by retrofitting existing models and structures so that the previous paradigm continues to operate, we can work to reconfigure the entire system. Instead of twisting, contorting, and restricting the Internet so that it operates as some kind of digital emulation of the printing press, we can recognize the truly revolutionary potential of this technological innovation—direct peer-to-peer distribution and access to information that operates without the established and increasingly expensive intermediaries and gatekeepers. Understood in this fashion, open access publishing can be positioned as a kind of revolutionary transformation. It not only reconfigures the basic structure of scholarly communication but deposes powerful authority figures and puts everything on the line. This is obviously an enticing opportunity but there are several challenges that go along with it."* http://gunkelweb.com/articles/Gunkel_IJZS_DIY.pdf In his facebook post containing a PDF link to this manifesto, David Gunkel ( niu.edu) described it as "a position paper concerning our experience at IJZS and Zizek Studies" referring to his continued collaboration with Paul Taylor (leeds.ac.uk) since 2007 in the peer-reviewed journal IJŽS and the associated "Zizek Studies" discussion group on facebook with presently ~10k members. He was sharing this document in anticipation of next week's Open Access panel at the MLA (mla.org) convention in Chicago. A few days prior to this manifesto, Vol 7.4 of IJŽS had been published and announced**. Among the articles included in this volume is a Žižekian-Lacanian analysis of the 2007 financial crisis, titled "Capitalism's traumatic encounter with lack".

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Fwd: ICA GLBT: Preconference Reminder!
by Adrienne Shaw 02 Jan '14

02 Jan '14

Please forward widely... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Adrienne Shaw <community(a)icahdq.org> Date: Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:49 AM Subject: ICA GLBT: Preconference Reminder! To: adrienneshaw13(a)gmail.com Greetings and Happy New Year to those on the Gregorian calendar, Just a reminder that the deadline for submitting to our Preconference is January 20th. The call is below as a reminder. To clarify, following the unconference style you are not submitting research papers to this preconference. You are proposing discussions, workshops, skill shares, problem-solving sessions, etc. Unconferences are all about participation and discussion. If you want to participate, but not lead a session, you will still need to register as a participant. Let us know if you have any questions, Adrienne Shaw and Travers Scott ICA GLBT Chairs Please feel free to distribute widely. Call for Proposals ICA Preconference/Unconference on Technologies of Sex and Gender: Queer Theories and Subjects Sponsored by the Gay Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Studies Interest Group 9 am- 4 pm, May 22, 2014 University of Washington, Department of Communication Cost: Free This ICA preconference brings together scholars, activists, and artists working on gender, sexuality, communication, media, and technology to examine, debate, and plan new projects, including: · Investigating how the strategies activists and artists have developed in this field can transform academic research practice, as well as how academics can contribute to activist and artistic technology projects · Providing an interdisciplinary environment in which LGBT, queer, and gender-nonconforming technology scholars, activists, and artists can network with each other, learn about current work in these fields, forge partnerships, and develop new collaborative projects · Creating applications, games, and art that explore, celebrate, or undermine sexualized and gendered subjectivities. · Researching how LGBT, queer, and gender nonconforming populations employ technologies in specific historical and cultural contexts (particularly by looking at the intersections of gender, race, nationality, class, and sexuality in these contexts) · Discussing how queer, transgender, and feminist theories can be brought to bear on technology research, and how these fields can and must transform each other in the process · Exploring how queer, transgender, and feminist theories can be integrated into technology design practice · Ascertaining how scholars have used and can use technologies to study sexual- and gender-nonconforming communities, including their own The preconference’s goal is to provoke encounters that would set in motion future collaborations and networks among artists, activists, and scholars. It utilizes the “unconference” format, in which participants, rather than organizers, decide on the agenda from among their own submitted proposals. This allows for more intensive interaction, higher-level conversations, and a more engaged, productive experience than traditional academic conferences. SCHEDULE AND FORMAT: · Today: You read this CFP. · By January 20: You submit a Session Leader or Participation proposal to ica.glbt(a)gmail.com. See below for a description of the proposal format. · February 1: The organizers will send an acceptance letter to everyone who has submitted a proposal. All proposals will be posted on the Technologies of Sex and Gender website. · February 1 – April 30: All applicants comment online on the proposals, voting for the sessions they are likely to attend and offering suggestions for changes and additions. · May 10: The organizers create and post a working schedule for the preconference and notify session applicants of the likelihood of their session being included. May 22: The unconference · The first morning session will introduce the unconference format. Attendees will take part in an open vote on the schedule, making suggestions, changes, or additions. The schedule will be finalized in this first session, after which the other sessions will begin. Depending on level of interest and number of attendees, there may be simultaneous sessions. · Sessions will proceed throughout the morning following the proposals, but with an openness to exploring new directions that may organically arise (often new sessions are added throughout the day, sessions are combined, or break-out groups are formed over the course of unconferences). · During the lunch break, attendees will give a series of “Speed Presentations”: 1- to 2-minute, rapid-fire presentations about one of their current projects. These are intended as very brief introductions, not extended discussions. Attendees will have an opportunity to contact each other later should they want to learn more about or join a specific project. · Afternoon sessions will proceed, following the same structure as the morning sessions. · At the end of the day, we will lead a concluding session in which attendees can share and integrate the day’s explorations SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL If you wish to participate in the unconference, please submit either a Session Proposal or a Participation Proposal. * Session Leaders will submit a 300 word proposal of a conversation topic to explore, a research question to develop, a problem to grapple with, a skill to teach, a technology application to demonstrate, or an artwork to present. Each proposal should give enough information to help attendees decide which sessions to vote for and participate in. In particular, Session Leaders are encouraged to suggest how their proposal fits with the unconference theme and to explain their expertise and experience. Those who propose a session will be expected to arrive prepared to facilitate that session. * Participants will also submit 300 word proposal, including a biographical statement describing their interests in the preconference and an idea for a 2-minute rapid-fire research presentation. All proposals should address the conference themes described above. Sessions should be of interest to communication scholars, but we warmly encourage interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, multimodal, or media-based endeavors. Session Leader and Participation proposals should be submitted by January 20, 2014 to: ica.glbt(a)gmail.com The unconference is co-sponsored by the Popular Communication, Feminist Scholarship, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Global Communication and Social Change, Communication History, and Game Studies Divisions/Interest Groups. It is also supported by the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, the School of Media and Communication at Temple University, The Stranger, the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at UW Bothell, and the Greater Seattle Business Association. The organizers are Adrienne Shaw (Temple University), D. Travers Scott (Clemson University), and David Phillips (University of Toronto). -- Adrienne Shaw Assistant Professor Temple University Department of Media Studies and Production 2020 N. 13th St. Annenberg Hall, room 203A Philadelphia, PA 19122 telephone: 215-204-6201 fax: 215-214-5402 email: adrienne.shaw(a)temple.edu smc.temple.edu/msp www.adrienneshaw.com This email has been sent out through Ohana. To ensure communication with ICA Communities, please add community(a)icahdq.org to your spam white list or trusted senders. If you would like to unsubscribe from all communications, please follow this link.

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Extension - CFP - First Death Online Research Symposium
by Lisbeth Klastrup 02 Jan '14

02 Jan '14

Dear all, The deadline for submissions to the First Death Online Research Symposium has now been extended to January 10th! So there is still chance to submit a proposal (400 words). See full CFP below for more information. On behalf of the organising committee, Lisbeth Klastrup IT University of Copenhagen CALL FOR PAPERS First Death Online Research Symposium April 9th and 10th, 2014 Center for Life and Death Studies University of Durham, England As digital media have become an integral part of our everyday life, so have also death and our afterlife become inextricably interwoven with technology. Marking the formation of the international research network Death Online Research, this first Death Online Research Symposium will focus on current research into the digital mediation of dying, death, mourning and personal legacy, in order to explore and discuss how online connectivity is changing how, when and where we engage with death. Confirmed keynote speaker at the symposium will be Professor Tony Walters, Director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. For the symposium, we invite presentations of ongoing or recently completed research within the following areas: memorial sites online; explorations of new ways of grieving though social media; the use of mobile technologies in graveyards; and the discussion of pertinent problems related to the digital afterlife and people's digital inheritance. In addition, we welcome other relevant perspectives on the impact digital technology has on everyday practices in the context of death in the 21st century. We expect papers to be presented in either one or two tracks, pending on the number of submissions. All submissions will be peer-reviewed, and we expect select papers to be published in an recognised peer-reviewed journal. Submission format: 400 word abstract Submission deadline: January 10th, 2014 Submission feedback: January 22nd, 2014 All submissions and enquiries should be sent to: <mailto:deathonline@itu.dk> deathonline(a)itu.dk marked "Death Online Symposium Submission" in the subject field. Papers will be reviewed by an international committee consisting of: Professor Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Dr. Tim Hutchings, University of Durham, England Associate Professor Lisbeth Klastrup, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Associate Professor Dorthe Refslund Christensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark Stay updated on the symposium and read more about the network, including how to join, at <http://www.deathonlineresearch.net> www.deathonlineresearch.net. **************************************************************************** *************************************

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Re: [Air-L] Papers on attitudes towards SNS non-users?
by xpage＠ics.uci.edu 01 Jan '14

01 Jan '14

Hi David, Perhaps this is relevant. We studied non users of location-sharing social networks, and a lot of the data pointed to similar factors playing a role in non use for other social media. We discovered a communication style trait that explained over fifty percent of the variance of adoption as well as low usage in our studies, including a nationwide geographically balanced survey (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2493432.2493487 or http://bit.ly/FYILSSN) Other differences between users and non users included privacy management tactics and perceptions (some of this is published in these papers http://bit.ly/BoundPreserve, http://bit.ly/tangledWeb) In our qualitative research we did not see as much "stigmatization" as different expectations regarding social norms and etiquette. Happy to discuss more. -Xinru Ph.D. Information & Computer Science, Dept. Informatics University of California, Irvine > On Dec 23, 2013, at 6:00 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > > Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:49:02 +0000 > From: David Brake <davidbrake(a)gmail.com> > To: AoIR mailing list <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Papers on attitudes towards SNS non-users? > Message-ID: <57EE8B10-847A-43BA-ADA8-937C551D8513(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Dear all, > > I'm writing about some of the factors that keep people posting to social networks for my upcoming book "Sharing Our Lives Online- Risks and Exposure in Social Media". One of the ones I'm considering is the potential stigmatisation of those who ?stick out" in their peer groups for either not participating at all on social networks or keeping a very low profile. I've seen a few studies about why people choose not to join eg: > > Eric P.S. Baumer, Phil Adams, Vera D. Khovanskaya, Tony C. Liao, Madeline E. Smith, Victoria Schwanda Sosik, and Kaiton Williams. 2013. Limiting, leaving, and (re)lapsing: an exploration of facebook non-use practices and experiences. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3257-3266. DOI=10.1145/2470654.2466446 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2470654.2466446 > > Pavica Sheldon, Profiling the non-users: Examination of life-position indicators, sensation seeking, shyness, and loneliness among users and non-users of social network sites, Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 28, Issue 5, September 2012, Pages 1960-1965, ISSN 0747-5632, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2012.05.016. > > Tufekci, Z. (2008). Grooming, Gossip, Facebook and MySpace: What Can We Learn About These Sites From Those Who Won?t Assimilate? . Information, Communication & Society, 11(4), 544 - 564. > > but they don't talk much about how people are perceived if they don't participate (though Baumer et al mention pressure to join on p. 4) > > Marwick, A. (2013). Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. > > has some on this but the SF tech community is perhaps an outlier case? > > Anyway I hope you can suggest some alternatives! > > ...And Happy holidays to one and all! > > > -- > Dr David Brake, FHEA (@drbrake http://davidbrake.org/) Senior Lecturer, Journalism & Communications, University of Bedfordshire

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