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Assoc. Prof. Computational Social Science Job
by Barbara Ley 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hi everybody, Attached is the link (and downloaded document) to a Computational Social Science job ad at the University of Delaware. The appointment will made be at the Associate level (tenured or untenured, depending on qualifications). http://apply.interfolio.com/26898 I am not familiar with the position details, so any questions should be directed to the search chair, Paul Brewer (prbrewer(a)udel.edu) Thanks! -- Barbara L. Ley Associate Professor Department of Communication Department of Women and Gender Studies University of Delaware 250 Pearson Hall Newark, DE 19716 Phone: (302) 831-0148 Fax: (302)-831-1892 Email: bley(a)udel.edu

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@HASTS_MIT: October lineup
by Amy Johnson 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hi folks, The second month of @HASTS_MIT<https://twitter.com/HASTS_MIT>, a collaborative Twitter project, has just begun. HASTS is history, anthropology, and STS at MIT. Each week of the fall 2014 semester a different HASTS community member — students, faculty, alumni, staff, affiliates, etc. — is running the @HASTS_MIT account. It's a social media experiment in interdisciplinarity. Check it out for thoughts on research, projects, reading, fieldwork, and much more. The first month was both fascinating and tremendous fun. Come join us! You can follow the account<https://twitter.com/HASTS_MIT> or, if you don't have a Twitter account, drop by https://twitter.com/HASTS_MIT<https://twitter.com/HASTS_MIT.>. October schedule (bios below) 10/6 - 10/12 Shreeharsh Kelkar 10/13 - 10/19 Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft 10/20 - 10/26 Harriet Ritvo 10/27 - 11/2 Diane Greco Josefowicz Curious what people were tweeting about in September? Links to curations for individual September hosts follow the October bios. If you have questions or comments about the project, please contact me at amyj(a)mit.edu or via Twitter @shrapnelofme. Thanks, ~Amy October lineup: Shreeharsh Kelkar<http://web.mit.edu/hasts/graduate/kelkar.html>, HASTS PhD candidate Shreeharsh Kelkar is interested in understanding the role of computing in workplaces using historical and ethnographic methods. Broadly, his interests lie in understanding the relationship between institutions, technology and knowledge production. His dissertation will focus on online learning technologies (like MOOCs) and the changes they are bringing about in different workplaces and their associated roles and work practices. Shreeharsh also tweets as @scritic<https://twitter.com/scritic>. Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft<http://web.mit.edu/anthropology/people/postdocs.html>, HASTS affiliate Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he writes about lab-grown meat and the futures of food. A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied at Swarthmore College and did his graduate work in European intellectual history at Berkeley. Before coming to MIT he was the inaugural Andrew W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow at the New School for Social Research, and a visiting researcher at UCLA. His scholarly articles, essays, and writings on food culture have appeared in History and Theory, Modern Intellectual History, Gastronomica, Meatpaper and other publications, and several books are in the works. Ben also tweets as @benwurgaft<https://twitter.com/benwurgaft>. Harriet Ritvo<http://history.mit.edu/people/harriet-ritvo>, HASTS faculty Harriet Ritvo teaches courses in British history, environmental history, the history of human-animal relations, and the history of natural history. She is the author of The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo5764147.html> (Chicago UP, 2009), The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674673588> (Harvard UP, 1997), The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674037076> (Harvard UP, 1987), and Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History<http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-4121.xml> (Virginia, 2010); she is also the co-editor of Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nationalism, Imperialism, Exoticism<https://www.dukeupress.edu/Macropolitics-of-Nineteenth-Century-Literature/i…> (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991), and the editor of Charles Darwin's The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication<http://www.amazon.ca/Variation-Animals-Plants-Under-Domestication/dp/080185…> (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). Her articles and reviews on British cultural history, environmental history, and the history of human-animal relations have appeared in a wide range of periodicals, including The London Review of Books, Science, Daedalus, The American Scholar, Technology Review, and The New York Review of Books, as well as scholarly journals in several fields. Harriet also tweets as @HRitvo<https://twitter.com/HRitvo>. Diane Greco Josefowicz<http://www.bu.edu/writingprogram/people/writing-program-faculty/diane-greco…>, HASTS alum Diane Greco Josefowicz cowrote The Zodiac of Paris<http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9147.html> (Princeton UP, 2010) with Jed Z. Buchwald, an account of the fortunes of an ancient, Egyptian bas-relief ceiling smuggled into nineteenth-century Paris where it caused a controversy between scientists and religious fundamentalists. The author of the pioneering Cyborg Web, she worked for many years as an editor at Eastgate Systems, the premier hypertext publisher in the United States. Her award-winning fiction, essays and articles have appeared in national publications such as Conjunctions, Fence, and Poets & Writers Magazine, and her scholarly articles and reviews appear regularly in Isis and Perspectives on Science, among others. She is the Science and Technology editor of The Victorian Web<http://www.victorianweb.org>, and teaches in the Undergraduate Writing Program at Boston University. Diane also tweets as @dianegreco<https://twitter.com/dianegreco>. Curious what project hosts were tweeting about in September? Then check out these curations to read the tweets of a particular host from beginning to end: September collections Mitali Thakor: https://storify.com/HASTS_MIT/hasts-mit-mitali-thakor Ian Condry: https://storify.com/HASTS_MIT/hasts-mit-ian-condry Amy Johnson: https://storify.com/HASTS_MIT/hasts-mit-amy-johnson Wade Roush: https://storify.com/HASTS_MIT/hasts-mit-wade-roush Lan Li: https://storify.com/HASTS_MIT/hasts-mit-lan-li --- Amy Johnson PhD candidate<http://web.mit.edu/hasts/graduate/johnson.html>, MIT HASTS Berkman Center for Internet & Society<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/ajohnson>, Harvard Keio International Project for Internet & Society<http://kipis.sfc.keio.ac.jp/people/amy-johnson/>, Keio University @shrapnelofme<https://twitter.com/shrapnelofme>

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Re: [Air-L] On the aesthetics and politics of #Dronies
by Elisenda Ardèvol 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Drones for art: Video: Cirque du Soleil Does Its Thing… With Drones http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/23/video-cirque-du-soleil-does-its-thing-with… On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Elizabeth Anne Watkins < writetowatkins(a)gmail.com> wrote: > If anyone is interested, the MIT Art, Culture and Technology program is > having a public lecture on drones tomorrow, Monday the 22nd: > > Dronological: The Art and Science of Unmanned Systems > > > > *Marko Peljhan*: Artist, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at UC Santa > Barbara, and Director of Systemics Lab, MAT/ART, UC Santa Barbara > > Unmanned aircraft systems have recently been rediscovered due to their use > in the so-called “war on terror,” but are an invention more than 100 years > old. The lecture will explore the histories and interconnectedness of these > systems with geopolitical, scientific, techno-social, tactical media and > conceptual contexts. It will also present cases of their real and imagined > appearances, uses, and disappearances in order to track the potential > future vectors of utilization and concurrent reflection. > > > http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures-series/2014-fall/sept-22-ma… > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Kyle Kontour <kkontour(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Two things that occur to me that are alternative explanations, which also > > require more field work: > > > > 1. A unique aspect of the aesthetics of the drone camera is how it > mimics > > how we imagine personal flight to be (i.e. if humans had wings): it's > much > > more immanent and intimate than airplane flight given the combination of > > slow speed and low level altitude in most of these videos. > > > > 2. There is the obvious political aspect of "populist" drone use that > is a > > direct challenge to its use by police, military, and other government > > organizations, which the author mentions. But I wonder if there is also > > the old politics of the scamp coming through, by which I mean, drones are > > used to unnerve people or disrupt things, which may or may not be overtly > > political per se, and are instead done for the drone user's happy mayhem. > > The mere presence of a drone controlled by "just anyone" inherently calls > > into question the use of drones in general. > > > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Daniel Kunzelmann < > > kunzelmann.daniel(a)yahoo.de> wrote: > > > > > Used for surveillance, drones hunt or kill. But could their air power > > also > > > be understood as cultural capital? http://transformations-blog. > > > com/would-you-mind-my-drone-taking-a-picture-of-us-2/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ > > > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- Elisenda Ardevol Professora Agregada Estudis d'Arts i Humanitats Universitat Oberta de Catalunya UOC Associate Professor IN3 Researcher mediaccions digital culture reserach group http://mediaccions.net Aquest missatge s'adreça exclusivament al seu destinatari. Este mensaje es para uso exclusivo del destinatario. This email is only for the receiver's eyes. Abans d'imprimir, penseu en el medi ambient. Antes de imprimir, piensa en el medio ambiente. Before printing, consider the environment.

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Re: [Air-L] Give your input to JMCQ and get 30% Sage book discount
by Louisa Shu Ying Ha 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

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First Monday special issue: Napster, 15 years on
by Andrew Whelan 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hello AoIR-ists, Some of you might be interested in the special issue of First Monday released earlier this week, 'Rethinking Digital Music Distribution'. The issue marks 15 years since the advent of the file-sharing platform Napster: *http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/427 <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/427>*. Best, Andrew

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IS-EUD 2015 Call for Participation
by Patrick Shih 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

[Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students] IS-EUD 2015 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION http://www.iseud.net/ ********************************************************************* 5th Symposium on End User Development: My world, my device, my program Madrid, 26-29 May 2014 ********************************************************************* * THEME * In an increasingly connected world, we use computer technology in more and more of our work practices and everyday routines. End users face the challenge of adapting and combining these devices and technologies for their potentially various and differing purposes, and engage in creative, often collaborative, activities to make the infrastructures fit their practice. End-user development has established itself as a research discipline that connects the ergonomics of programming with the users’ needs and abilities to shape the technological infrastructures they live in. The research does not aim at making everybody a programmer, but at allowing everybody to be in control of the technologies they live and work with at a degree of complexity of their choice. This includes improving the concepts and interfaces for programming and configuration as well as supporting end users in their activities to share, delegate and collaborate. The IS-EUD 2015 in Madrid welcomes researchers and practitioners interested in exploring innovative, creative, simpler and more empowered ways of ideating, infrastructuring, configuring, adapting and programming our modern IT infrastructures at home and at work. We look at devices like smartphones, dishwashers, smart TVs, robots, cars, wearable IT, houses and laptops, and we look at practices and milieus like engineering, shopfloor, hackspaces, fab labs, app programming, e-health, e-mobility, e-democracy and energy efficient IT, and aim at improving tools, interfaces, processes and methods that support user-driven innovation. The conference welcomes contributions that − describe new, simple and efficient interfaces for adaptation and programming, − describe new approaches for more flexible software and device architectures, − describe new processes and methods to approach complex scenarios of infrastructuring, − present studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end user development and user creativity. In this edition we aim at opening the conference to the end users with a new category of contributions called the EUD playground where a plethora of interactive activities can be planned, from studios, to hackatons, to whatever format that invites end users to try out technologies devised for them. * SCOPE AND TOPICS * Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished work in all areas related to EUD. Long papers may address work on cognitive and design aspects, underlying theories, formal methods, taxonomies, implementation efforts, tool support, and empirical studies. Short papers that present work in progress or demonstrations of tools are also solicited. Specific topics addressed include (but are not limited to) the following ones: − EUD in everyday life − EUD in specific fields of application − Device ecologies to enable EUD activities − EUD methodologies and approaches − End user participation in Co-Design and Co-Production of software − Supporting collaboration in EUD settings − EUD technologies, frameworks and tools − Recommender systems to support EUD − Collaborative Software Development − Cultures of Participation and Meta-design − EUD and Open Source − Web 2.0 and mash-up technologies enabling EUD − Strategies to foster EUD in software development companies − EUD cost-benefit models − EUD and crowdsourcing − EUD for supporting device sustainability − Usability and UX evaluation of EUD systems * LONG AND SHORT PAPERS * We invite two different types of paper submissions: (a) long papers, up to 16 pages, describing original unpublished research; (b) short papers, up to 6 pages, describing original unpublished research, whose results are more preliminary or less validated than for long papers. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers (both long and short) will appear in the proceedings of IS-EUD 2015, published by Springer as Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS). Short papers will be presented at the conference as poster or live demo in a specific session. Submission The review process is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Papers must be carefully formatted according to the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Paper title, authors and affiliations, abstract and keywords/topics, must be submitted by December 15, 2014 to aid in reviewer assignments. Authors may submit and update their submission through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2015) until the paper submission deadline. Important dates − Abstract submission: December 15, 2014 − Paper submission: December 22, 2014 − Notification: February 20, 2015 − Camera-ready: March 9, 2015 * WORK-IN-PROGRESS * Work-in-progress (WIP) submissions are intended for presenting preliminary results. The authors of accepted contributions will have the opportunity to display a poster and explain their work to other conference attendees during the conference. Accepted Work-in-progress contributions will be published in a dedicated issue of the “International Reports on Socio-Informatics” series and will be available online at http://irsi.iisi.de. The issue has its own ISSN. Submission Authors may submit and update their contribution (up to 4 pages) through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2015) until the deadline. Important dates − Submission: March 6, 2015 − Notification: March 20, 2015 − Camera-ready: March 27, 2015 * EUD-PLAYGROUND * This year, IS-EUD invites proposal for hands-on sessions to be held in parallel tracks, as part of the main conference program, on the afternoon of Thursday, May 28th, 2015. The “End-Users’ Playground” will be open to the general public, thus offering a unique scenario in which (a) wider categories of the public will create, modify and extend technologies with the tools researchers have developed for their needs and (b) researchers can obtain feedback directly from end users. The Playground aims at inspiring new perspectives on the field of End-User Development. It will be an excellent opportunity for organizers to share their tools with other researchers and to engage the end-users at the same time, in order to broaden the scope of their research practices. A successful Playground activity, therefore, will offer direct hands-on experiences with new and cutting-edge end-user development technologies, both for conference attendees and non-professionals. Playground activities should accommodate a maximum of 20 participants each, with a minimum of 5 participants required to run the activity and they are open to anyone (conference attendees and the general public). Each activity will last a maximum of 4 hours. For each Playground activity, we request a short proposal (up to 4 pages). Accepted proposals will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Organizers are also strongly encouraged to arrange for posterior publications of a Playground activity’s output. Submission guidelines Submit a proposal formatted according according to the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) The proposal should be structured accorded to the following: 1. Abstract (150 words maximum) 2. Topics to be covered and their relevance to the EUD community 3. Detailed description of the planned hands-on activity (e.g., how the tool will be introduced to the participants, a scenario of the activity in text or in visual format, a tasks list, a description of the organization of participants in the groups, etc.). You may include diagrams or screenshots if relevant. 4. Objectives and learning goals for the activity 5. Supporting documentation (e.g., project website) 6. References Please add an additional page in which you indicate: 1. Short biographical statement(s) of organizer(s) 2. Cost of material and hardware, if any (per participant, with list of individual items) 3. Logistics requirements: space, equipment, video/audio, specialized tools, etc. 4. Selection criteria and expected number of participants 5. Expected length (up to 4 hours) Submission Organizers may submit and update their proposal through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2015) until the proposal submission deadline. Important dates − Proposal: January 26, 2015 − Notification: February 28, 2015 − Camera-ready: March 9, 2015 * WORKSHOPS * High quality workshops, aligned to the themes of the conference, provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Submission Workshop proposals (up to 4 pages) must be carefully formatted using the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Workshop organizers may submit and update their workshop proposal through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2015) until the deadline. Important dates − Proposal: January 26, 2015 − Notification: February 9, 2015 − Camera-ready: March 9, 2015 − Workshops date: May 26, 2015 * DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM * The IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on theory and application of EUD. We particularly encourage students that are somewhere in the middle of their research to submit to this workshop. Submission Applications to the Doctoral Consortium (up to 4 pages) must be carefully formatted the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Authors may submit and update their submission through the EasyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2015) until the submission deadline. Important dates − Submission: January 15, 2015 − Notification: February 28, 2015 − Camera-ready: March 9, 2015 * VENUE * The Symposium will take place at Media-Lab Prado and the Leganés Campus of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The Workshops and the Doctoral Consortium will be held at the University Campus in Leganés, a city in the south of Madrid connected through public transportation to the city center (see location http://goo.gl/maps/ePQLV) The main track of the conference including the Playground will take place at Media-Lab Prado in Madrid downtown (see location at http://goo.gl/maps/OgFTF) * ORGANIZERS * Conference chairs − Paloma Diaz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain − Volkmar Pipek, Siegen University, Germany Program chairs (Full Papers) − Carmelo Ardito, University of Bari, Italy − Carlos Jensen, Oregon State University, US Program chairs (Short Papers) − Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain − Alexander Boden, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany EUD-Playground chairs − Andrea Bellucci, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain − Lily Diaz, Aalto University, Finland − Monica Maceli, Drexel University, US Industrial Liaison chairs − Marcos García, MediaLab-Prado, Spain − Alex Jaimes Larrate, Yahoo Labs, US/Spain/India − Boris De Ruyter, Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands Workshop chairs − Daniela Fogli, University of Brescia, Italy − Yvonne Dittrich, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Doctoral Consortium chairs − Clarisse de Souza, PUC-Rio, Brazil − Panos Markopoulos, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands − Simone Stumpf, City University London, UK Publicity chairs − Patrick Shih, Pennsylvania State University, US − Teresa Onorati, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Local arrangement chair − Telmo Zarraonandia, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * STEERING COMMITTEE * − Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, US − Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy − Boris De‎ Ruyter, Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands − Yvonne Dittrich, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark − Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado, US − Anders Mørch, University of Oslo, Norway − Antonio Piccinno, University of Bari, Italy − Volkmar Pipek, Siegen University, Germany − Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State University, US − David Redmiles, University of California, US − Gunnar Stevens, Siegen University, Germany − Volker Wulf, Siegen University, Germany For more information, look at http://www.iseud.net/ ________________________________________________________ Dr. Patrick C. Shih College of Information Sciences and Technology The Pennsylvania State University ________________________________________________________

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Fwd: question
by AJ Kelton 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

A colleague has inquired about this and I don't have any suggestions. I'm confident someone on this list knows resources. thx aj It was great seeing you last week. I am hoping we can catch up soon. > In the meantime, i am looking for information on technology > phobia....Mainly I need a definition and some basic information on why > people have technophobia. I am having a really difficult time finding a > professional source for this, do you have any ideas? -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences Montclair State University http://eit.montclair.edu ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2015 http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf <http://twitter.com/ELDConf> Hashtag: #ELD15 Journal of Emerging Learning Design http://eldj.montclair.edu ----------

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1st CfP: AAAI Int'l Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-15)
by Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEBLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA (ICWSM-15) SPONSORED BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE * Abstracts Due: January 18, 2015 (by 11:59 pm AOE) * Full Papers Due: January 23, 2015 (by 11:59 pm AOE) * Acceptance Notification: March 9, 2015 * Conference: May 26-29, 2015 in Oxford, UK 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 ninth 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). The accepted papers will be open access and have equal time for a full oral presentation. Full papers will also have the opportunity to display their paper as a poster at the venue. For ICWSM-15, 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-15 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-15 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/2015/ General Chair Daniele Quercia, Yahoo! Labs Barcelona Local Chair Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute Program Co-Chairs Meeyoung Cha, KAIST Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge Christian Sandvig, University of Michigan --- Assistant Professor School of Information University of Michigan http://yardi.people.si.umich.edu/

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Opening: Associate Professor in Media Innovations, University of Oslo
by Charles Ess 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Dear AoIRists, Please spread the following position announcement far and wide - and review for pertinent details if interested in your own right, of course: <http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1257927/62047?iso=gb> While still something of a new kid on the block - in the beginning of my third year in the Department - my entirely objective and unbiased view is that I cannot recommend the life and work environment strongly enough. A most collegial, fruitful, and supportive work environment with most interesting and enjoyable colleagues, and terrific administrative and resource support (and, so far as one can put any trust in such measures, in the top 5 departments in Europe). The life environment is at least on a par therewith. Many thanks in advance, - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> My latest book, Digital Media Ethics, is now available from Polity: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745656056 University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess(a)media.uio.no

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Associate Lecturer, Digital Media, RMIT University
by Adam Nash 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

http://yourcareer.rmit.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=549601 Associate Lecturer, Interactive Digital Media System Reference: 549601 Portfolio/College: Design & Social Context (DSC) School/Group: Media and Communication Award/Salary: Academic Level A ($59,488-$80,690) Work type: Full time - Continuing/Permanent Campus: Melbourne, Australia - CBD (Central Business District) • Salary range: $59,488 - $80,690 p.a + 17% super • Contribute to the teaching and research efforts of the Digital Media discipline area • Full-time, continuing position commencing in early 2015, based at RMIT's CBD campus RMIT is a global university of technology and design, focused on creating solutions that transform the future for the benefit of people and their environments. The College of Design and Social Context encompasses RMIT University's renowned art, communication, built environment, design, education and social science disciplines and is comprised of seven schools. The School of Media and Communication seeks an Associate Lecturer who will contribute to the teaching and research efforts of the Digital Media discipline area. In this role you will assist with teaching and development, course coordination, curriculum design, course administration, and quality assurance for core stream curriculum in relevant courses drawing on recent professional and academic experience. The role will provide student academic advice and support for the program. The successful candidate will possess demonstrated ability to teach in the discipline area of Interactive Digital Media at an undergraduate level and/or have significant industry experience in one or more of the following areas: web design and production; interactive media design and production; app design and production; online media production. You will also undertake research activities in line with the university's research strategy that emphasizes relevant and applied research. It is essential that you possess a qualification in the relevant discipline area, and have commenced or enrolled to commence a PhD. To view a position description please see PDF at http://yourcareer.rmit.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=549601 or for further information please contact Dr Adam Nash on +61 3 9925 2598 or <adam.nash(a)rmit.edu.au> All applicants are required to provide a separate statement addressing the Key Selection Criteria in addition to providing a resume and covering letter. Applications close Sunday 26 October 2014. RMIT is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from all sectors of the community. Advertised date: 6 Oct 2014 Aus. Eastern Standard Time Closing date: 26 Oct 2014 11:55pm Aus. Eastern Standard Time -- Dr Adam Nash Program Manager, B.Design (Digital Media) School of Media and Communication RMIT University | City Campus | Australia GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, Victoria 3001 +61-3-9925-2598 | adam.nash(a)rmit.edu.au www.rmit.edu.au/mediacommunication CRICOS Provider Code: 00122A

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