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Deadline Extension for CFP: Computer Culture (SWPACA Conference, February 11-14, 2015)
by natasha chuk 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Computer Culture Area 36th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association Conference February 11-14, 2015 Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM www.southwestpca.org *PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE (EXTENDED):* Saturday, November 15, 2014 Proposals for papers are now being accepted for the area of Computer Culture, as one of the many areas within the 36th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA). Please consider submitting. This year’s conference theme is: *Many Faces, Many Voices: Intersecting Borders in Popular and American Culture* COMPUTER is broadly defined as any computational device, whether smartphone or abacus, and any form of information technology, including the origins of concepts of interactive text, which may predate computational devices as traditionally conceived. CULTURE is rooted in the concept of cultural meaning. We ask not just operational questions such as, "How do people communicate using computers?" but questions of meaning such as, "What does it mean when people communicate using computers instead of using pre-computer approaches to communication?" Along these lines, we are interested in communication as well as creative practices/applications and how computer technologies shape them. "Computer Culture" can be understood in a variety of ways: ● the culture of the computer, that is, as computers interact with each other, what culture do they have of their own? ● the culture around the computer, that is, (sub)cultures associated with the production, maintenance, use, and destruction of computers ● the culture through the computer, that is, explicit treatment of how computer mediation influences cultural phenomena that exist or has existed in forms that did not involve computer mediation, and what these influences mean ● the culture by the computer, that is, the ways in which new (sub)cultures or (sub)cultural phenomena have arisen because of computers and understandings of these given awareness of the nature and/or workings of computers Example questions associated with Computer Culture would include, but not be limited to: ● What implications are there because of the powerfulness of (computer/information) technology, and are these implications beneficial, detrimental, inevitable, or avoidable? ● What are the cultural origins of computers, computer/information technologies, and practices associated with them? What is the descriptive and prescriptive outlook for the conditions of those cultural forces associated with those cultural origins? ● How do cultural forces (such as changes from one generation to the next, trends in education or society, or other cultural phenomena) impact (and are impacted by) computer/information technologies/market-forces, and what do these impacts (in either direction or both) mean? Paper topics might include (but are not limited to) those that address: ● issues of (re)presentation through computers (website analysis and design), ● methods of discourse involving computers (blogging, Twitter, social networks, viral video, live feeds), ● theories focused on the relationship between computers and culture, uses of computers in particular contexts and the impacts thereof (computers and pedagogy, online literary journals, etc.), ● the relationship between computers and cultural forces (such as news, politics, and terrorism), ● security/privacy/fraud/surveillance and computers (online security issues, spam, scams, and hoaxes), ● creative practice, web art, generative and digital art, virtual performance, ● the self, the “second self,” identity formation/negotiation, anonymity ● “cyberkids,” internet youth cultures ● data visualization and digital geographies ● hashtag thinking, communities, data organization and archives While we will consider any relevant paper, we have a preference for those that involve transferable methodological approaches. This is an interdisciplinary conference, and other conference attendees would benefit from being able to adapt your research methods to their future research. Scholars, teachers, professionals, artists, and others interested in computer culture are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are also particularly welcome with award opportunities for the best graduate papers. More information about awards can be found at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ Specifically, we would like to highlight the following award opportunities: ● The "Computer Culture and Game Studies Award" ● The "Heldrich-Dvorak Travel Fellowships" Given how papers may often fall into multiple categories, there may be other award opportunities listed at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ which would be appropriate for your paper. (However, each presenter may only apply for one – not including the Travel Fellowships, which can be in addition.) If you wish to form your own panel, we would be glad to facilitate your needs. This conference is a presentation opportunity. Visit <http://www.journaldialogue.org/>http://journaldialogue.org <http://www.journaldialogue.org/> for information about the organization's new, peer-reviewed journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy. Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues. For consideration, *submit 100-200 word abstracts and proposals for panels by Saturday, November 15, 2014* to the conference’s electronic submission system, which can be found at: http://conference2015.southwestpca.org/

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DPASSH 2015 Call for Papers | June 25-26, 2015 | Dublin, Ireland
by Natalie Harrower 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Hi AoIR-Listers: Please distribute widely and apologies for cross-posting (however contradictory these might seem :) Call for Papers: DPASSH 2015 The 1st Annual conference on Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities “Shaping our Legacy: Safeguarding the Social and Cultural Record” hosted by the Digital Repository of Ireland Dublin, Ireland 25-26th June 2015 On the last day of June of 1922, the western block of Dublin’s Four Courts exploded, engulfing the Irish Public Record Office in flames. As smoke billowed from the eighteenth-century construction and the fire brigade struggled to bring the flames under control, debris fell onto the surrounding Dublin streets, and the Irish Times reported that a priceless library was left in ashes. The fire, caused by the outbreak of the Irish Civil War, hit at the heart of government records, destroying hundreds of years of Irish history that had been housed centrally since the 18th century. A few days after the fire, the Provisional Government issued a notice asking citizens to return to public custody any and all of the burned fragments of the public record that had “blown to other districts.” In the current digital age, our social and cultural record is also at risk, but its degradation occurs over time. Instead of burning rapidly, digital records are threatened by a slow-burning fire that can go undetected as a result of insufficient data management practices. Additionally, the preservation of our digital social and cultural heritage is subject to domain- and community-specific requirements. These issues demand that we reflect critically on the purpose of digital preservation, and ask fundamental questions about how requirements should shape our practices. Similar to the public appeal in 1922, we are looking for public, academic and industry engagement on the issue of digital preservation, to help identify the fragments that have been, or are in danger of being lost, as well as to build the digital preservation strategies that will shape and safeguard our public record. To address the complexities of long-term digital preservation in the social and cultural realms, we are hosting the first Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DPASSH 2015) conference, titled “Shaping our Legacy: Safeguarding our Social and Cultural Record.” The conference will take place on June 25-26, 2015 at Croke Park, in Dublin, Ireland, and will include international keynote speakers, networking, expert panels, peer-reviewed papers, and posters. Submissions are invited from all sectors and perspectives (academics, researchers, students, industry, cultural heritage institutions, preservation infrastructures, etc.) for a variety of presentation formats that critically reflect on all areas relating to digital preservation in the humanities and social sciences, arts, and cultural heritage sectors. Conference themes include but are not limited to: • Cultural Responsibility & Preservation: critical reflections on preservation, challenges in choosing what to preserve, digital curation, digital stewardship, archiving processes. • People & Preservation: stakeholder engagement, community approaches, partnership building, education & training, knowledge transfer. • Policy & Preservation: advocacy, national approaches, sustainability, open access, open data. • Sharing & Preservation: content curation, contextual information and metadata, aesthetics of preservation, sharing of research data, user tools, crowdsourcing. • Technology & Preservation: Technical challenges posed by datasets in arts/humanities/social sciences, digitisation vs. the born digital record, preservation infrastructures, software and tools. • Trust & Preservation: TDRs, provenance, authenticity, certification, security, data protection, copyright, licensing. Important Details: - Submission Deadline: 26th January 2015 - Notification of outcome: 30th March 2015 - Full papers due: 25th May 2015 - All abstracts will be peer reviewed, and accepted papers will be published as conference proceedings. - All submissions must be made through the conference website: dpassh.dri.ie - Abstract Length: Long papers: 400-500 words; Short papers: 200-300 words; Posters: 50-100 words - Final Paper Word Length: Long papers: 3000-5000; Short papers: 1500-2000 - Questions: Dr. Natalie Harrower, Chair of the Programme Committee: n.harrower(a)ria.ie _______ Dr. Natalie Harrower Manager, Education & Outreach Digital Repository of Ireland Royal Irish Academy 19 Dawson St., Dublin 2 www.dri.ie Twitter: @natalieharrower / @dri_ireland<https://twitter.com/dri_ireland> www.ria.ie<http://www.ria.ie/> The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann Ireland's Academy for the sciences and humanities The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 & 2003 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1988 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie

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Need free Linkedin downloadable datasets repositories
by Babiga Birregah 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

hi everyone, I am wondering if someone can recommend me some relevant and free Linkedin downloadable datasets repositories. Thanks a lot for your help best regards -- -- BIRREGAH Babiga, Phd Enseignant-Chercheur/ Assistant professor ICD UMR-CNRS 6279 STMR Sciences et Technologies pour la Maîtrise des Risques Joint Research Unit in Sciences and Technologies for Risk Management Department of Operational Research, Applied Statistics and Simulation UTT - ROSAS LM2S H107 12 Rue Marie Curie CS 42060 10004 TROYES CEDEX Tél. +33 (0) 325715869 Fax. +33 (0) 325715649 QR: http://goo.gl/Et0A4

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November 4: Trusting Human Safety to Software: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
by Solon Barocas 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

On Tuesday, November 4, the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University is hosting a public conference on the legal and policy implications of software safety, entitled “Trusting Human Safety to Software: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” https://citp.princeton.edu/thss/ Software now runs a multitude of vital systems: medical devices that dispense insulin or control heart rhythms; records of health information; and infrastructure, including power plants or air traffic control. Emerging technologies, such as drones and driverless cars, continue to extend the impact of software on the physical world. Code failures increasingly lead to bodily harms, yet public awareness of these dangers is low and our understanding of how to govern them is nascent. This conference focuses on the need for affirmative, preventative measures to be put into place in this area. Panels will discuss the legal and policy context of software safety, the general consequences of code failures, and the particular effects of software on the health and automotive sectors. If you plan to attend in person, please RSVP: https://citp.princeton.edu/thss/rsvp/. No RSVP or login is required for watching the livestream: http://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/. Questions from the virtual audience will be accepted under the hashtag #safersoftware. Should you be unavailable on November 4, archived copies of the talks will be available on YouTube approximately a week after the conference: https://www.youtube.com/user/citpprinceton. == Schedule 10:00am — Introduction Andrea Matwyshyn — Trusting Human Safety to Software 10:30am — Software Safety: Setting the Legal Context Judith Rauhofer — Our Bodies, Ourselves 2.0: The Role of Informational Self-Determination in the Prevention of Physical Harm from Code-Based Devices Ian Brown — Institutional Capabilities for Information Security Regulation Elizabeth Rowe — The Tension between Intellectual Property and Consumer Protection in Technology Contexts Suzanne Munck — Alice and Bob and Software Patents Robert Anguizola — Selling Software Safety: Truthful Advertising and Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act 12:00pm — Software Safety: Asking the Right Questions Seda Gürses — From Security to Resilience and Back Again Solon Barocas — Safe “Enough” for Humans?: The Meaning of Accuracy in Machine Learning Burkhard Schafer — “You Don’t Have the Right to Remain Silent”: Explanation-Aware Computing and the Management of Machine Liability 1:00pm — Lunch 1:15pm — Software Safety and Social Harms David Levine — Secret Code and Public Harms Lisa Lynch — “Snake Oil Software Crap”: Journalists, Information Vulnerability, and the Search for a Technological Fix Kim Zetter — Stuxnet and Collateral Damage: How Attacks Meant for Our Enemies Come Back to Bite Us Stephanie Pell — The StingRay’s Tale: Claims of Method Secrecy for Surveillance Technology as a Source of Public Harm 2:30pm — Software Safety and Patient Harms Jay Radcliffe — A Hacker and His Insulin: Fighting for Safety and Losing Elizabeth Jex — Health Data Integrity: Consumer Protection and Competition in Innovation Chris Marsden — How the Tubes are Strangling Their Owners 3:45pm — Break 4:00pm — Software Safety: Connected Cars and Beyond Raúl Rojas — Software Security: New Challenges for the Automotive Industry Beau Woods — Hackers in Rear View Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear Jen Ellis — Code of Conduct: Security Research and Legislative Reform

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Call for Abstracts: International Conference on Computational Social Science 2015 | Helsinki, Finland, 8-11 June 2015
by news＠iccss2015.eu 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

***APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS*** CALL FOR ABSTRACTS International Conference on Computational Social Science Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland, 8-11 June 2015 WEBSITE http://www.iccss2015.eu/ IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstract submission: 15 November 2014 Opening of registration: 15 January 2015 Conference dates: 8-11 June 2015 EVENT OVERVIEW The conference will bring together scientists from different areas to meet and discuss problems on social systems and dynamics, as well as research questions motivated by large datasets, either extracted from real applications (e.g. social media, communication systems), or created via controlled experiments. PROGRAM CHAIRS Karen Cook (Stanford) Santo Fortunato (Aalto University) Michael Macy (Cornell) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Opening talk by Michael Macy (Cornell) Lada Adamic (Facebook) Sinan Aral (MIT) Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (Northeastern University and CEU) Nicholas Christakis (Yale) Robin Dunbar (Oxford) Andreas Flache (University of Groeningen) Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich) Matthew Jackson (Stanford) Jure Leskovec (Stanford) Alex Pentland (MIT) Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University) Duncan Watts (Microsoft) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Santo Fortunato (Aalto University), Aristides Gionis (Aalto), Heikki Hämmäinen (Aalto), Kimmo Kaski (Aalto), Walter Quattrociocchi (IMT Lucca), Jari Saramäki (Aalto), Juuso Valimäki (Aalto) TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (but are not limited to) Social networks Social contagion Communication dynamics Information diffusion and other spreading phenomena Social influence Crowd-sourcing Popularity dynamics Smart cities Attention economics Social design and user behavior Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis Human mobility Mobility and context-awareness Economics of trust SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Contributions to the conference have to be submitted via Easychair (www.easychair.org) the name of the event there is IC2S2. Each submission consists of an extended abstract of max 2 pages (A4). Please give a sufficiently detailed description of your work, put at least one figure, otherwise it will be difficult for the PC to assess its relevance. Short, paper-like abstracts will not be considered. Abstracts do not need to refer to unpublished work. If the work is published or under submission elsewhere it is fine. We want to give to everyone the opportunity to present the most relevant work to the topics of the conference. There will be no proceedings, but we are exploring the possibility of having a special journal issue, where selected contributions will be published. Authors of those contributions would be invited to submit full papers after the conference. Each extended abstract will be reviewed by two PC members. Abstracts can be submitted from September the 15th till November 15th, 2014. We will do our best to have mostly oral presentations of the selected contributions, both plenary and in parallel sessions. However, there will be a poster session as well. During the submission process, you will be asked to specify whether your contribution is intended for a) Plenary session presentation, b) Parallel session presentation or c) Poster session presentation. The final allocation of each contribution will be decided by the Program Committee. CONTACT For any question you might have please contact Prof. Santo Fortunato (santo.fortunato(a)aalto.fi)

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by ilg1953＠gmail.com 01 Nov '14

01 Nov '14

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Call for Chapters
by Dal Yong Jin 01 Nov '14

01 Nov '14

*Call for Chapters* *Mobile Gaming in Asia: Politics, Culture and Emerging Technologies * *Edited by Dal Yong Jin, Ph.D., Simon Fraser University. To be published by Springer in October 2016 * The dramatic improvement of mobile phones, tablets, and game consoles has fundamentally changed our daily lives. While the bite-sized software programs people loaded onto their mobile phones seemed to be frivolous games until several years ago, smartphones and their applications have recently created new capital for information and communication technology corporations and changed the way people communicate. While many countries have invested in mobile industries since the early 21st century, several Asian countries have become some of the centers for mobile technologies and culture with their global smartphone manufacturers, such as Samsung and LG in Korea, HTC in Taiwan, Huawei and Lenovo in China. Although these countries were once lagging behind in the penetration of mobile phones, Asia exists as an interesting test-bed for the future of mobile technology and culture because several Asian countries advance several new mobile games based on their smartphones and application. The recent emergence of the smartphone industry and mobile gaming in Asia can be attributed to favorable information technology policies, severe competition among IT corporations, and enthusiastic mobile game users in the region. Equally important is the role of local smartphone applications, which have provided convenient smartphone platforms for local game users. Asians’ engagement with smartphones and related mobile apps suggest that the smartphone becomes a symbolic and material resource for people’s mobile game lifestyle. *SCOPE * Despite the significance of smartphones and mobile gaming in both digital economy and youth culture across the globe, there has been a lack of academic literature exploring how mobile phones are integrated into the socio-economic and cultural landscapes of a particular local game context, and how smartphone users engage in the process. This volume looks into a hitherto neglected focus of inquiry, a localized mobile landscape emerging with the smartphone and its apps, with particular reference to Asians’ engagement with mobile gaming. This edited volume focuses on not only the celebratory achievement of local mobile games, but also the significance of the social milieu in the development of Asian mobile gaming culture. It also investigates several dimensions in the growth of mobile game technologies and culture, including government policy through the lens of globalization theory. Although it seeks to identify factors for the growth of local mobile games, it will also critically examine significant conflicts between global and the local forces. Given that users are the primary actors propelling the smartphone era forward, the volume analyzes how smartphones have taken shape within the context of Asia’s particular mobile culture. We welcome research by emerging Asia-focused or Asian-based scholars whose work has not been published in English. Possible topics for submissions include but are not limited to: *History of the growth of mobile gaming as a regional/global industry, discourse, and media product *Critical interpretation of emerging local game industries in Asia *Comparative mobile game studies *Mobile games and globalization/regionalization *Convergent technologies and the impact on established modes of mobile/social game play *Government regulations and types of mobile game play *Mobile game fandom and free labor *Mobile gaming as social technology/media *A culturally specific aesthetic to the production and consumption of mobile games *New media and experimental mobile gaming *Gendered consumption and production of mobile games *Mobile gaming and the role of apps *Moral panics about mobile gaming (especially among religious communities) *Concerns about mobile gaming addiction and consequent policy changes *Traditional dominance of the market by Asian developers *Unique ways in which specific Asian countries have adopted mobile devices *Intellectual property issues particular to the region *Tendency for big developers to look to Asia for outsourcing and localization *Case studies to gaming in places such as Korea (PC Bangs/StarCraft tournaments etc.) *SUBMISSION * Please submit proposals of up to 800 words, and a brief (300-word) author bio in an e-mail attachment by 30 May, 2015, to Dal Yong Jin ( yongjin23(a)gmail.com) Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 15 July, 2015, and invited to submit a full paper by 15 October, 2015. Manuscripts should be no more than 8,000 words, including notes and references, and conform to APA style. All chapters will be subjected to anonymous peer review following submission.

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