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SPION closing workshop "You are not alone - How to tackle security and privacy in online social networks"
by Jo Pierson 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Dear all, SPION (Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks; http://www.spion.me) would like to invite you to our closing workshop "You are not alone - How to tackle security and privacy in online social networks" on Tuesday December 16, 2014 in the Faculty Club in Leuven. Our keynote speaker is prof. Alessandro Acquisti from Carnegie Mellon University (US), talking on the 'Roots of Privacy Concerns'. The closing note will be given by dr. Seda Gürses from NYU (US). In this closing event we will present the main results of our interdisciplinary research project. The objective of the SPION project is to mitigate the responsibilization of individuals who use or are affected by social networking services by making the underlying social networking infrastructures and the organizations that run them more accountable and providing the means and knowledge to users to better arm themselves. These issues are addressed from different angles including legal, social, behavioral, educational and technical. During the lunch the audience will have the opportunity to try and see the different tools and educational materials that were developed. To close the day, everybody is invited for a drink at the reception. The complete program and speaker information can be found at http://www.spion.me/finalWorkshop. The workshop is free, but registration is required. Please register using this link http://www.spion.me/finalWorkshop. We hope to see you at the event, The SPION team --- Jo Pierson, Ph.D. Associate Professor | iMinds-SMIT | Department Media and Communication Studies | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel | Belgium | jo.pierson(a)vub.ac.be | http://smit.vub.ac.be/Person/30/Jo_Pierson | http://be.linkedin.com/in/jopierson | @iMuses

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CFP: 6th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2015) - Behavioral Analytics in Social Media, Big Data and the Web co-located with ACM WWW'2015
by Christoph Trattner 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2015) Behavioral Analytics in Social Media, Big Data and the Web to be held on May 19, 2015, Florence, Italy co-located with ACM WWW 2015 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2015/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** Submission Deadline: Jan 24, 2015 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time) ** Notification of Acceptance: Feb 22, 2015 ** Camera-Ready Versions Due: Mar 8, 2015 ** Workshop date: May 19, 2015 Workshop Organizers: ==================== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Alvin Chin, Microsoft, Beijing, China; alvin.chin(a)utoronto.ca Christoph Trattner, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com For the 6h International Workshop on Modeling Social Media, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working in the field of behavioral analytics using web and social media data. Behavioral analytics is an important topic, e.g., concerning web applications as well as extensions in mobile and ubiquitous applications, for understanding user behavior. We would also like to invite researchers in the data and web mining community to lend their expertise to help to increase our understanding of the web and social media. Thus, we invite submissions which may include the following topics, but are not limited to: Behavioral analytics methods or frameworks for social media, big data and the web * approaches for personalization and recommendations * methods for social structure and community discovery * methods for tie strength or link prediction * methods for extracting and understanding user and group behavior * methods for extracting and understanding user and group behavior * methods for predicting user behavior * methods for user modelling and profiling * applications of behavioural analytics * privacy and security in behavioural analytics * applications of any of the above methods and technologies The goal of this workshop is to apply behavioral analytics approaches and algorithms on social media, big data and the web. Hence, the workshop aims to attract and discuss various novel aspects of personalization, recommendation, community discovery, profiling and prediction from social media. Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-6 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair tohttps://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2015 Program Committee: ================== * Luca Aiello, Yahoo! Labs Barcelona, Spain * Robin Burke, de Paul, USA * Shlomo Berkovsky, NICTA, Australia * Polo Chau, Georgia Tech, USA * Guanling Chen, University of Massachussetts Lowell, USA * Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain * Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany * Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnic University, USA * Ido Guy, IBM Research, Israel * Eelco Herder, L3S, Germany * Sharon Hsiao, Columbia University, USA * Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, INRIA, France * Thomas Kannampallil, University of Texas, USA * Mark Kibanov, University of Kassel, Germany * Simon Koo, University of California Santa Barbara, USA * Dominik Kowald, Graz University of Technology, Austria * Florian Lemmerich, University of Wuerzburg * Harold Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China * Leandro Balby Marinho, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brasil * Kjetil Norvag, NTNU, Norway * Denis Parra, PUC, Chile * Christoph Scholz, University of Kassel, Germany * Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Yang Su, Fudan University, China * Claudia Wagner, GESIS, DE * Shengdong Zhao, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Arkaitz Zubiaga, New York City University, USA Proceedings: ============ Contributions will be included in the Companion volume of the ACM WWW2015 conference, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. However, to make that happen at least one author of the accepted paper has to register. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; * occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices. It is the authors responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2015 Contact: ======== Martin Atzmueller - atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Alvin Chin - alvin.chin(a)utoronto.ca Christoph Trattner - trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com Follow us on: ============= Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/527164050627185/ -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Norway and Know-Center Research Center for Big Data Analytics & Data Driven Business Head of Social Computing Area Graz University of Technology, Austria E-mail: ctrattner(a)know-center.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info -------------------------------------------------------

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UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies Seeking Assistant Professor in Information Technology
by Michael T Zimmer 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Dear colleagues - The UW-M School of Information Studies, the iSchool at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is hiring an assistant professor in Information Technology, with a broad range of approaches considered. The official posting is at https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/21017, and the priority deadline is February 1, 2015. I’ve shared the text below. Please forward as appropriate, and my apologies if you’ve received multiple copies of this solicitation. Thanks, Michael Zimmer -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org ==== University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies Information Technology Faculty Position The School of Information Studies (SOIS), the iSchool at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Information Technology at the rank of Assistant Professor. The selected applicant will be expected to maintain an active research agenda in their field of interest, and teach courses in the School’s undergraduate and graduate programs in Information Science and Technology. Ideal candidates will be interested in research and pedagogy in information technology from a variety of possible perspectives, including technical, user-centered, social, historical, or humanistic approaches. Preferred emphases include, but are not limited to: data science, data management, information security, information visualization, user interface & human–computer interaction (HCI), web and mobile development, or science & technology studies/digital humanities. Required Qualifications: • PhD in Information Studies or related discipline by the beginning of the contract term. • Evidence of ability – or potential – for teaching in the School’s undergraduate and/or graduate programs in Information Science and Technology. • Excellent research promise in relevant area. Preferred Qualifications: • Experience or demonstrated ability in the design and delivery of courses in a variety of formats, including onsite and online. • Ability to teach an advanced elective undergraduate or graduate courses in her/his areas of expertise, with preference for: data science, data management, information security, information visualization, user interface & HCI, web and mobile development, or STS/digital humanities The nationally ranked School of Information Studies offers several educational programs: a Bachelor of Science in Information Science and Technology (BSIST); an ALA-accredited Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS); several coordinated graduate degree programs, including History and Anthropology; transcript-designated concentrations within the MLIS Archival Studies, Digital Libraries, Public Library Leadership, Information Organization, and Information Technology; post-masters Certificates of Advanced Study in Archives and Records Management and Digital Libraries; and a PhD in Information Studies. A new Masters of Science in Information Science and Technology (MSIST) degree is currently under development in partnership with the Department of Computer Science. The School has a strong research faculty, more than 900 students, and state-of-the-art informational technology laboratories. SOIS houses the Center for Information Policy Research, and its faculty organizes three research groups: the Research Group for Information Retrieval, Information Organization Research Group, and the Social Studies of Information Research Group. The School’s research and instructional programs are designed to be a resourceful blend of the University’s mission with the School’s information focus, international scope, and interdisciplinary mindset. Situated in the cultural, commercial, and educational hub of the state, in a pleasant residential neighborhood overlooking Lake Michigan, UWM is a research university committed to academic excellence. It is one of the two doctoral degree-granting institutions in the multi-campus University of Wisconsin system, and has a student enrollment of over 29,000. The School offers a competitive salary for an academic year (9 month) appointment, plus additional compensation for possible summer teaching, and generous fringe benefits. SOIS also provides extensive research support in the form of travel funding, research assistance, and internal research grant programs. First priority will be given to applications received by February 1, 2015. The starting date is August 24, 2015, or negotiable. To apply, candidates must submit a Candidate Profile through the UWM Employment website (https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/21017) and electronically submit the following: a cover letter of interest that describes the candidate’s fit for the position, research agenda, and teaching experience; a curriculum vitae; names and contact information of three references that can speak to the candidates research and/or teaching excellence. Also, under separate cover by e-mail please arrange for one of the references to send a confidential letter of recommendation to Dr. Michael Zimmer, Chair of the IT Faculty Search and Screen Committee, at zimmerm(a)uwm.edu. For more information, please contact Dr. Michael Zimmer, Chair of the IT Faculty Search and Screen Committee, at zimmerm(a)uwm.edu. For questions regarding submission of your materials, please contact Laura Meyer at Lauram(a)uwm.edu or (414)229-5409. For more information about the School of Information Studies, please visit http://ischool.uwm.edu. UWM is an affirmative action, equal employment opportunity employer. For the UWM Crime Statistics Annual Report and the Campus Security Policy, see http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/OSL/CleryAct/, or call the Office of Student Life, Mellencamp Hall 118 at (414) 229-4632 for a paper copy.

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CALL FOR PAPERS - Leveraging Technology and Data to Promote Social Equity
by THAKUR Dhanaraj 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

CALL FOR PAPERS Social Equity Leadership Conference Leveraging Technology and Data to Promote Social Equity Nashville, TN June 3-5, 2015 The National Academy of Public Administration's (NAPA) 14th Annual Social Equity Leadership Conference will be hosted by Tennessee State University’s College of Public Service and Urban Affairs on June 3-5 in Nashville, TN. Established by the Standing Panel on Social Equity at the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), the annual Social Equity Leadership Conferences focus on advancing knowledge and understanding of applied and theoretical research towards the promotion of social equity in governance. The Standing Panel on Social Equity in Governance (a committee of NAPA) focuses on issues of fairness, justice, and equity in a variety of public contexts, including, but not limited to: education, policing, welfare, housing, and transportation. Faculty members, researchers, nonprofit and government leaders as well as graduate/undergraduate students are strongly encouraged to participate at the meeting. The theme of the 2015 Annual Meeting is Leveraging Technology and Data to Promote Social Equity. We are asking for abstracts of up to 250 words to be submitted by January 15, 2015. All submissions should be submitted via https://tnstateu.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_etEkdv9vSF4E5hP The conference is interdisciplinary and papers should address the role and use of technology in solving critical public policy issues. These include (but are not limited to): * The Role of Nonprofits in Bridging the Digital Divide * Building Civic Leadership * Data Innovation in the Faith-Based Sector * Social Equity Reporting – The Role of the Media * Big Data and Education Equity * Equity in Healthcare Access and Delivery * Transportation in the Smart City * Better Data for Environmental Justice * Data Driven Communities * Nashville Next – Planning, Data and Social Change * Housing through Data * Political Threats to Equity Planning * Questions of Security and Privacy * Foundations for Justice For more information please contact Planning Committee Chair Dr. Cara Robinson at crobin22(a)tnstate.edu<mailto:crobin22@tnstate.edu>

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DE-CONSTRUCTING THE SMART CITY, REASSEMBLING URBAN LIFE - Call for Abstract
by Maurizio 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Dear All, first, apologies for cross-posting. Second, I point you a session at the forthcoming IAS-STS Conference on the Smart-City narrative and its deconstruction. You can find details at the bottom of this email. Abstracts should include no more than 250 words, comprising detailed contact information, affiliation and specification of the *session* you are referring to. In this case, *SESSION 17: DE-CONSTRUCTING THE SMART CITY, REASSEMBLING URBAN LIFE.* Abstracts should be sent to Michaela Jahrbacher (sts-conf-graz(a)aau.at ) until *January 15**, 2015* as a *DOC/DOCX-file*. More information about the conference: http://www.ifz.tugraz.at/ias/IAS-STS/Upcoming-Activities/Call-for-Abstracts… Thanks for you attention and I hope to see you in Gratz Best M. *---* *SESSION 17: DE-CONSTRUCTING THE SMART CITY, REASSEMBLING URBAN LIFE* *Michela Cozza, Giusi Orabona, Giacomo Poderi, Maurizio Teli*, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Sciences (DISI), University of Trento, Italy Since nearly a decade, the idea of a “Smart City” strongly emerged and rapidly spread in urban planning, political discourse and academia in general. As any successful term, its widespread adoption has attributed it many meanings, almost overlapping with the idea of having digital technologies distributed in the urban environment. On the one hand, such distribution seems to favour the city management related to the transit, traffic and provision of localized services. On the other hand, it could be interpreted as a program of control of the population by the big corporations of the ICT domain (Greenfield 2013). Nevertheless, we are already witnessing tentative appropriations and applications of the “Smart City” ideal into several specific domains which concern urban life: from transportation to welfare services, from active ageing to energy management. As already noted in one of the first and pivotal works on Smart Cities (Hollands, 2008), this concept is usually vaguely defined, biased towards the ICT dimension of urban developments, and often portrayed with enthusiastic, uncritical and entrepreneurial rhetoric. In summary, the concept of “Smart City” hides urban life behind the (often physical) screens of technological efficiency and monitoring social practices. As described, the picture of the “Smart City” is signed by technological determinism, an ideological commitment privileging the private sector, social polarization as an inevitable by-product, missing concerns with class inequality, inclusion and social justice, and the almost clear neo-liberal attempt to incorporate local communities into the entrepreneurial discourse. Such discourse needs to be de-constructed and re-assembled in order to leave space for a more socially aware, distributed effort, that is actually empowering people more than the powerful actor at the political and economic level. Therefore, we welcome contributions that critically examines the concept of a “Smart City” at one or both of the two following levels. At the theoretical level, where the different dimensions and elements of “Smart City” such as ICT, urban planning, societal challenges, are defined, analysed and discussed in relationship to state-of-the-art developments and their respective domains of application (e.g. energy, mobility). At the empirical and practical level, where the actual efforts of designing, implementing and deploying plans for smart cities are critically described, reviewed or assessed. In particular, we welcome contributions able to point at how the “Smart City” can be de-constructed and re-assembled in a more democratic way, supporting urban life instead of neo-liberal narratives. Ultimately, we welcome contributions that look at the “Smart City” from the viewpoints both of the citizens and professionals: reflections that discuss how citizens’ identity and professional practices take part in the construction of the idea of “smartness” are appreciated.

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CFP please post / circulate
by Roderick Coover 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

CALL FOR PAPERS,PROPOSALS AND CREATIVE WORK EMERGINGDOCUMENTARY PRACTICES Symposiumand Exhibition Temple University, Friday April 3, 2015 An interdisciplinary one-day symposium andexhibition about how emerging technologies are transforming nonfictionimage-making practices in cinema, art and ethnography. Deadline For Proposals: January 12, 2015. The Department of Film andMedia Arts (FMA) at Temple University is delighted to host a one-day interdisciplinarysymposium on Emerging Documentary Practices. The symposium is particularlyfocused on documentary forms that use interactivity, locativeand mobile technologies in innovative ways to transform the concepts andpractices of documentary cinema and media arts. The symposium welcomesdocumentary practitioners from across fields of social sciences, humanities andarts, from ethnographers to eco-poets. Interweaving choices of content and ofform, a new generation of practitioners is reaching across creative andscholarly disciplines. This symposium embraces this discourse on theoreticaland practical levels. The conversions are presented concurrently with anexhibition of documentary works using interactivity and other innovativepractices. Each session will be launchedwith a 15 minute keynote. Each panelist will have the opportunity to present anelaborated 5 minute "proposition/question/provocation" to the panelto stimulate open conversation. Proposals will be peer reviewed. The symposium is complementedby a multi-kiosk exhibition offering speakers and others opportunities toexhibit works in the curated, peer reviewed show. The kiosks that will beavailable for viewing on the day and throughout the week. Longer papers supportingthe discussions may also be linked, and participants may later be invited forto offer submissions for publication. The symposium is sponsored by TempleUniversity's Department of Film and Media Arts, the Center for Humanities atTemple(CHAT) and Temple Libraries. Primary themes include: · SPATIALPRACTICES e.g. geo-spatial mapping andstorytelling; actual and augmented sites of memory; spatial poetics;infrastructure, industrialization and climate change; actual and imaginarycities. · SOCIALPRACTICES e.g. forging community; bringing diversity and indigenous voices;oral historiesand imagined futures; performing and protesting through social media; usergenerated works. · EMBODIED PERFORMANCE e.g. computer materiality andembodied actions of making, viewing; story-telling through webseries, live feeds and digital happenings; practical implications of usingalternative and interactive software like Korkasow, Mozilla Popcorn, Zeega, orMoviestorm upon how stories are told and image edited; the body as a source ofdata; disembodiment and narrative fracture. PROPOSAL INSTRUCTIONS Proposals for participation, short papers (5 minute "proposition/question/provocation")and the digital exhibition of works on the dedicated kiosks should consist of aproposal statement (max 500 words), aURL if available/relevant, and brief biographic statement (max 150 words). Submissions should be sent inelectronic form to: edocs(a)temple.edu Questions can be directed to FMA Faculty OrganizersRoderick Coover and LeAnn Erickson Conferenceregistration will occur in February. Conference fee is $40 and includes lunch. The fee is waived for Temple students and faculty. __________________ Roderick L. Coover URL: http://www.roderickcoover.com

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CFP Extended: Problematizing Cyber Wars
by Vit Sisler 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Problematizing Cyber Wars Call for Papers CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East Editor-in-Chief: Daniel Martin Varisco Guest Editor: Helga Tawil-Souri Submission deadline: January 31, 2015 (Full Papers) Aim According to military analysts, since the 1991 Gulf War and even more so since the Hezbollah-Israel 2006 war, we have entered a new phase of warfare, in which kinetic and traditional military power are losing importance to symbolic and media power. Perhaps unsurprisingly given a still-widely held Orientalist view in military circles, many such perspectives revolve around wars and conflicts in the ‘Middle East’ or against ‘Islam’ more broadly – taking place in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine, Syria, but also on cyber networks and mobile phones. While these claims are of course hyperbole, this special issue of CyberOrient invites articles on questions of how we might define wars in a (new) media-age in the region; whether, why, and how (new) media are increasingly sites of warfare; the relationships between ‘virtual’ and ‘real’ battlespaces. Topics could include the significance of targeting (and bombing) telecommunications and media infrastructures; the use of (new) media as outlets for propaganda during wartime; the mediatization of war and the militarization of media; the role of participatory or social media and mobile communications during and in wars; relationships or differences between official, military, alternative, citizen, and grass-roots (new) media uses during war and conflict; the expanding definition of warzones; commemoration and memorialization of war in a digital age; among others. We welcome submissions from across disciplines and methodological approaches that are empirically and critically grounded. About CyberOrient CyberOrient (http://www.cyberorient.net/) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Anthropological Association, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. The aim of the journal is to provide research and theoretical considerations on the representation of Islam and the Middle East, the very areas that used to be styled as an “Orient”, in cyberspace, as well as the impact of the internet and new media in Muslim and Middle Eastern contexts. Submission Articles should be submitted directly to Helga Tawil-Souri (helga(a)nyu.edu) and Vit Sisler (vit.sisler(a)ff.cuni.cz) Article should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including references), and follow the AAA style in referencing and citations. Upon acceptance, articles will be published online with free access in spring 2015. More information can be found here: http://www.cyberorient.net/detail.do?articleId=3682 -- Vit Sisler, Ph.D. Charles University in Prague Faculty of Arts Institute of Information Science and Librarianship New Media Studies http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/

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CFP: CEPE-IACAP 22-25 June 2015 - University of Delaware
by Mariariosaria Taddeo 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the call for papers of this year CEPE-IACAP Joint Conference CEPE-IACAP 2015 Joint Conference June 22-25 2015 at the University of Delaware Philosophical and ethical enquiries about information technologies, computing, and artificial intelligence have acquired a focal place in the academic and societal debate on the design, development and deployment of technological artefacts. As the issues to be addressed are increasingly complex and interwoven, the need to consider different stakeholders and to endorse both multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches in addressing such problems become more pressing. For this reason, in 2015 INSEIT and IACAP will hold a joint meeting to offer the opportunity to members of both communities to exchange ideas and discuss issues of common interest. The conference will be held on June 22-25 2015 at the University of Delaware and will be hosted by Professor Tom Powers, Department of Philosophy, School of Public Policy and Administration and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, and Director of the Center for Science, Ethics & Public Policy, University of Delaware. This year’s meeting will have a single main track focusing on topics at the core of IACAP and INSEIT member’s interests. Symposia will also be organized and run by members, or member groups, to focus on more specific topics of discussion. We invite submissions of abstract (up to 3000 words) as well as submission of proposals for symposia focusing on ethical and philosophical problems relate to information technologies and computing. A selection of the papers presented during the meeting will be published in a volume of the ‘Synthese Library’ (Springer). The conference theme is open to the following topics: · Artificial Intelligence · Artificial Life · Automated Warfare · Cognitive Science, Computation & Cognition · Computational Modeling in Science and Social Science · Computer-Mediated Communication · Ethical Problems and Societal Impact of Computation and Information · Ethics of Big Data · History of Computing · Information Culture and Society · Metaphysics of Computing · Philosophy of Information · Philosophy of Information Technology · Robotics · Virtual Reality ... and related issues Important dates Papers submission: 2 February 2015 Notification of acceptance: 27 February 2015 Submission full paper for the conference proceedings: 1 August 2015 Symposia submission: 12 January 2014 Notification of acceptance: 2 Fenruary 2015 Submissions should be sent via EasyChair using the following link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cepeiacap2015 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cepeiacap2015> Relevant websites IACAP: http://www.iacap.org <http://www.iacap.org/> INSEIT: http://inseit.net <http://inseit.net/> -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://rosariataddeo.net

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CFP: iConference 2015 workshop on Exploring Gender, Race, and Sexuality with Social Media Data
by Oliver Haimson 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

*Call for Presenters: iConference 2015 workshop on Exploring Gender, Race, and Sexuality with Social Media Data* *Newport Beach, California, USA. March 24, 2015* Social media data present a powerful opportunity for researchers to explore how they might ask nuanced questions regarding the intersectionality of gender, race, and sexuality. Recent controversies like #Gamergate and the public outcry over research about #BlackTwitter demonstrate the importance of ethical practices and accountability to online communities when conducting social media data analysis. We invite anyone interested in discussing these questions and controversies to join us at this iConference workshop where we will: · Help build a community of researchers working on issues of gender, race, and/or sexuality within the information sciences and related fields. · Create skill-building experiences that enable researchers to collect and analyze social media data to further their own work. · Explore how to analyze social media data ethically and develop practices that respect and engage the sometimes vulnerable and marginalized populations who may have generated the data. · Critically discuss the use of social media data to generate new insights and scholarship. We welcome both new and experienced researchers and encourage participation from a wide range of methodological orientations, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. *CALL FOR PRESENTERS* Workshop participation is open to all. However, to facilitate the opportunity for a select set of presentations at the workshop, we welcome any interested scholars to submit a position paper, methods paper, or case study. Papers should describe novel and ethical research involving the use of social media data for the exploration of gender, race, and/or sexuality. We particularly welcome submissions from participants dealing with issues of intersectionality. Paper submissions are entirely optional, but if desired should be 2-4 pages in the iConference 2015 format <http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/author-instructions/#template>. If accepted, authors will be provided with presentation details in advance of the workshop; they will also be invited to share their data for workshop demonstration purposes. We will provide opportunities throughout the workshop for presenters to get feedback on their research from workshop attendees and organizers. Participant papers will be made available on the workshop website <https://iconferencesocialmediadata.wordpress.com/> with author permission. *HOW TO SUBMIT* Email your paper to ohaimson(a)uci.edu by January 16, 2015 at 5pm PST. *TIMELINE* Paper deadline: January 16, 2015 Decision notifications: February 16, 2015 Workshop: March 24, 2015 *ORGANIZERS* Oliver L. Haimson, UC Irvine Amanda Menking, University of Washington Jordan Eschler, University of Washington Ingrid Erickson, Rutgers University Gillian R. Hayes, UC Irvine *CONTACT* Oliver Haimson: ohaimson(a)uci.edu For more information: https://iconferencesocialmediadata.wordpress.com/ <https://iconferencesocialmediadata.wordpress.com/> -- <https://iconferencesocialmediadata.wordpress.com/> <https://iconferencesocialmediadata.wordpress.com/> Oliver L. Haimson PhD Student, Informatics Social & Technological Action Research Group University of California, Irvine <https://iconferencesocialmediadata.wordpress.com/>oliverhaimson.com

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Call: 5th ICTs and Society-Conference: The Internet and Social Media at a Crossroads: Capitalism or Commonism? Perspectives for Critical Political Economy and Critical Theory.
by Christian Fuchs 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

5th ICTs and Society-Conference: The Internet and Social Media at a Crossroads: Capitalism or Commonism? Perspectives for Critical Political Economy and Critical Theory. http://icts-and-society.net/events/5th-icts-and-society-conference/ Part of the ISIS Summit Vienna 2015: Information Society at the Crossroads: Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information. Vienna University of Technology. Vienna, Austria June 3-7, 2015. The information society has come with the promise to restore information as a commons. The promise has not yet proven true. Instead, we face trends towards the commercialisation and commoditisation of all information; towards the totalisation of surveillance and the extension of the battlefield to civil society through information warfare; towards disinfotainment overflow; towards a collapse of the technological civilisation itself. The Vienna Summit is a multi-conference and is at the same time the 5th ICTs and Society-Conference: The Internet and Social Media at a Crossroads: Capitalism or Commonism? Perspectives for Critical Political Economy and Critical Theory. Given that the information society and the study of information face a world of crisis today and are at a crossroads, also the future of the Internet and social media are in question. The 5th ICTs and Society Conference therefore wants to focus on the questions: What are the main challenges that the Internet and social media are facing in capitalism today? What potentials for an alternative, commonist Internet are there? What are existing hindrances for such an Internet? What is the relationship of power structures, protest movements, societal developments, struggles, radical reforms, etc. to the Internet? How can critical political economy and critical theory best study the Internet and social media today? Presentations and submissions are organised in the form of 23 panel topics (ICT&S1-ICT&S23; please indicate the panel identification number to which you submit in your submisison): * ICT&S1 The Internet and Critical Theory: What does it mean to study the Internet, social media and society today in a critical way? What are Critical Internet Studies, Critical Political Economy and Critical Theories of Social Media? * ICT&S2 The Internet, Karl Marx, and Marxist Theory: How can classical forms of critical theory and critical political economy – e.g. the works of e.g. Karl Marx, the Frankfurt School, Critical Political Economy of the Media and Communication, Critical and Marxist Cultural Studies, Socialist Feminism, Theories of Imperialism, Raymond Williams’ cultural materialism, etc – be used for understanding the Internet and social media today? * ICT&S3 The Internet, Commodities and Capitalism: What is the role of the Internet and social media in the context of the commodity logic in contemporary capitalism? * ICT&S4 The Political Economy of Online Advertising How can we best critically understand, analyse and combat the role of advertising on the Internet and the role of online advertising in capitalism? What are the problems of online advertising culture? How would a world without advertising and an advertising-free Internet look like? * ICT&S5 The Internet and Power: How do power structures, exploitation, domination, class, digital labour, commodification of the communication commons, ideology, and audience/user commodification, and surveillance shape the Internet and social media? What is the relationship of exploitation and domination on the Internet? * ICT&S6 Raymond Williams’ Cultural Materialism and the Internet: How can we use theoretical insights from Raymond Williams’ cultural materialism for critically understanding the Internet and social media today? * ICT&S7 Dallas Smythe and the Internet: How can we use insights from Dallas Smythe’s political economy of communication for critically understanding the Internet and social media today? * ICT&S8 Critical Cultural Studies Today: Stuart Hall, Richard Hoggart and the Internet: What is the legacy of Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart’s versions of cultural studies for critically understanding the Internet? What kind of cultural studies do we need in the 21st century? And what is in this context the relationship of culture and capitalism and the relationship of critical cultural studies to Marxist theory? * ICT&S9 The Frankfurt School and the Internet: How can insights of various generations of the Frankfurt School be used for critically theorising the Internet? What are commonalities and differences between a Frankfurt School approach and other forms of critical theory for understanding the Internet? * ICT&S10 Marxist Semiotics, Marxist Linguistics, Critical Psychology, Marxism and the Internet: How can Marxist semiotics and Marxist theories of language, information, psychology and communication (e.g. Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, Valentin Voloshinov, Klaus Holzkamp, Georg Klaus, Lev Vygotsky, Aleksei Leontiev, Mikhail Bakhtin, etc.) be used today for critically understanding the Internet? * ICT&S11 The Internet and Global Capitalism: What is the role of the Internet and social media in contemporary global capitalism? What is the role of developing countries, especially Africa, and emerging economies such as China and India in the world of the Internet and social media? * ICT&S12 The Internet and Neoliberalism with Chinese Characteristics: Chinese WWW platforms such as Baidu, Taobao, Qq, Sina, Weibo, etc. are besides Californian platforms the most prominent ones on the web. What is the role of social media in Chinese capitalism? What is the role of the Internet in networked working class struggles in China? * ICT&S13 The Political Economy of Digital Labour: What is digital labour and how do exploitation and surplus-value generation work on the Internet? Which forms of exploitation and class structuration do we find on the Internet, how do they work, what are their commonalities and differences? How does the relation between toil and play change in a digital world? How do classes and class struggles look like in 21st century informational capitalism? * ICT&S14 The Political Economy of the Internet and the Capitalist State Today: How does the relationship of capitalism, state power, and the Internet look like today? What is the role of state surveillance and surveillance ideologies in policing the crisis of capitalism? How does the relationship of the Internet and state power’s various forms of regulation, control, repression, violence and surveillance look like and what is the influence of capitalism on state power and vice versa in the context of the Internet? * ICT&S15 Ideology Critique 2.0: Ideologies of and on the Internet: What are ideologies of and on the Internet, web 2.0, and social media, how do they work, and how can they be deconstructed and criticised? * ICT&S16 Hegel 2.0: Dialectical Philosophy and the Internet: What contradictions, conflicts, ambiguities, and dialectics shape 21st century information society and social media? How can we use Hegel and Marxist interpretations of Hegel for critically understanding Internet dialectics? * ICT&S17 Capitalism and Open Access Publishing: What changes has academic publishing been undergoing in contemporary capitalism? What are the potentials of academic open access publishing for the re-organisation of the publishing world ? What problems do non-commercial open access publishing face in capitalism and capitalist academia? How can these problems be overcome? What are the problems of capitalist forms of open access publishing? What progressive political measures and demands should be made in order to foster non-commercial open access publishing? * ICT&S18 Class Struggles, Social Struggles and the Internet: What is the role of counter-power, resistance, struggles, social movements, civil society, rebellions, uproars, riots, revolutions, and political transformations in 21st century information society and how (if at all) are they connected to social media? What struggles are needed in order to establish a commonist Internet and a 21st century democratic-commonist society? How can we use critical theory for interpreting phenomena such as online leaking, Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, federated social networks, Anonymous, hacktivism, Pirate Parties, privacy advocates, the free/libre/open source (FLOSS) movement, the open source, open hardware and open content movement, etc., and what is the relationships of such political expressions to capitalism, anti-capitalism, liberalism, and socialism? * ICT&S19 Critical/Radical Internet Studies, the University and Academia Today: What are the challenges and problems for teaching and conducting research about the Internet a critical and radical perspective? What can be done to overcome existing limits and problems? * ICT&S20 The Internet and the Left: How could a 21st century Left best look like and what is the role of the Internet for such a Left? What is the historical, contemporary, and possible future relationship of Critical Internet Studies and the Left? What is the role of the Internet in left-wing movements? What problems do such movements face in relation to the media, communications, the Internet, and social media? * ICT&S21 Anti-Capitalist Feminism and the Internet Today: What is the role of and relationship of identity politics and anti-capitalism for feminist studies of the Internet today? How can we best study capitalist patriarchy in the context of the Internet and social media? * ICT&S22 The Internet, Right-Wing Extremism and Fascism Today: How do far-right movements and parties use the Internet and social media? How should a left-wing anti-fascist strategy that combats online right-wing extremism look like? * ICT&S23 An Alternative Internet: What is a commonist/communist Internet? What is an alternative Internet? What are alternative social media? How do they relate to the commons and commonism as a 21st century form of communism? Which problems do alternative Internet platforms face? What needs to be done in order to overcome these problems? Online SUBMISSION: http://sciforum.net/conference/isis-summit-vienna-2015/icts http://sciforum.net/conference/isis-summit-vienna-2015/page/instructions Please submit an extended abstract of 750-2000 words: First register and then select the conference “ISIS Summit Vienna 2015” and the conference stream “ICTS 2015” Only one submission per person will be considered Please indicate the number/ID of the panel to which you are submitting at the start of your abstract (ICTSxx). Submissions without panel identifier or that fall outside the topics covered by the 23 panels will not be further considered. Submission deadline: February 27, 2015 Registration Fee: 120 Euros (early bird registration in the ICTs and Society conference stream, registration no later than April 3, 2015)

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