February 2014 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Research on Africans and mobile photography?
by Terri Senft 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

Hi All, While putting together the Selfies Research Network, I find myself at a complete loss for names of researchers who have studied mobile photography practices in Africa. Anybody have names of authors or articles that come to mind? Better yet, if you are a scholar studying these practices yourself, we'd love to have you join our international group. Feel free to drop me a line personally, and our Facebook group is at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292 Many thanks! Terri -- <http://goog_689013053> <http://goog_689013053> Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net <http://goog_689013053>* (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft

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IR15 Submission System OPEN
by Erika Pearson 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

Dear colleagues We are pleased to open submissions for proposals for IR15: Boundaries and Intersections (Bangkok, October, 2014). To re-familiarize yourself with the call for papers and types of submissions solicited, please see: http://ir15.aoir.org/?page_id=19 . If you submitted a proposal to the conference last year (through ConfTools) your login credentials should be the same (tied to your email address). When submitting your proposal, please take the time to read the submission categories and topics carefully, as they are different from previous years. If you have any queries about the submission process, please email conference chair Erika Pearson ( ir15programchair(a)aoir.org ). We look forward to seeing your proposals. To go directly to the submission site: https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/ Yours Erika Pearson IR15 Program Chair

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Selfies Research Network
by Terri Senft 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

Selfies Research Network, anyone? Yes we made on. Yes ,it's already fantastic, Yes you are invited if you are researching in the area of selfies, digital photography, autobiography, performance, etc. Yes, we are ESPECIALLY interested to hear from you if you do research with populations outside of North America or Europe, or work in languages other than English. Our Facebook group is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292/ See you there! Terri p.s. Scholars from China and other places Facebook is blocked. I desperately want to hear from you, and am open to thoughts about how to include you in the conversation/research. Please write me personally to think through these issues. We will figure something out, I promise!! -- <http://goog_689013053> <http://goog_689013053> Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net <http://goog_689013053>* (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft

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Scratch Big Data Summit at MIT-- sharing 5 years of online community data
by Andrés Monroy-Hernández 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

Hello, AIR, I'm writing to let you know about a workshop that we're organizing on March 21 at the MIT Media Lab, bringing together researchers who are interested in studying the Scratch online community <http://scratch.mit.edu>. At the workshop, we'll be sharing a dataset with the first five years of public data from the Scratch community, and discussing ways that people might use this dataset. Here's a website with more information about the workshop and how to apply: https://sites.google.com/site/scratchdatameeting/ Cheers.

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History of "accounts"
by Michelle Forelle 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

Hi all, I'm working on a project which requires me to look into the history of the concept of "accounts," as in bank accounts or social media accounts. What is it that identifies something as an "account," where did that definition come from, and what is at stake in it? I'm having a hard time finding a foothold, though - it's brutal trying to search for it point-blank given the many usages of the word "account" in the literature. Does anyone know of a history of bank accounts, social media accounts, or any other form of "account" that might be able to get me started? Much appreciative of any help, Michelle C Forelle -- PhD student USC Annenberg School of Communication @mcforelle on the tweet machine (407) 864-2225 <http://bostonmakesmusicvideos.wordpress.com/>

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Pace University Faculty Positions
by Cathy Dwyer 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems invites applications for several anticipated full-time tenure-track faculty positions in Computer Science or Information Technology. The selected faculty members will be expected to: conduct research, supervise doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students, teach computer science or information technology courses, at all levels and serve on committees at both department and school level. Appointment will be at one or more of our three campuses in NYC and Westchester. Candidates must possess an earned doctorate in computer science, information systems or a related field. They should have proven teaching and research potential, preferably in rapidly evolving areas such as telehealth, cybersecurity, software engineering and Big Data analytics. The anticipated positions will start in fall 2014. Review of applications will begin as they are received. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, sample publications, and three letters of recommendation (sent directly from references) to Faculty Search Committee chair Dr Constance Knapp atSeidenberg_Search(a)pace.edu. Only electronic submissions will be considered. https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000808217-01 -- Catherine Dwyer, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Information Technology - NYC campus Pace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science & Information Systems 163 William Street #240 New York, NY 10038 212-346-1728 http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer/

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Call for Abstract: 2014 Social Media & Society Conference
by Hazel Kwon 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Dear AOIRers, As a program committee member, I would like to invite you to the 5th Social Media and Society Conference, an annual gathering of leading social media researchers around the world. It will be held in Toronto, Canada from September 27 to 28. Last year’s conference hosted nearly 200 attendees, featured research from 90+ scholars and practitioners across several field from over 60 institutions in 15 different countries. The conference calls for an extended abstract (~500 words), panel proposals and posters on the variety of topics including, but not limited to: Social Media & Big Data, Social Media Impact on Society, Theories & Methods, and Online/Offline Communities. For more information, please find http://socialmediaandsociety.com/?p=629 and for more inquiries, feel free to send an email to the organizer: Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd (gruzd(a)dal.ca) or to me: Dr. Hazel Kwon (khkwon(a)asu.edu) Thanks! K. Hazel Kwon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Social and Behavioral Sciences Arizona State University https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/1949238 k.hazel.kwon(a)gmail.com

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5th ERQ Conference - Call for abstracts: It's a free work... When work relations become passionate
by Maurizio 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Apologies for Cross-Posting --- Dear colleague, we are pleased to send you the call for abstracts of the session *It**'s a free work... When work relations become passionate.* Your contribution to the proposed session will be greatly appreciated! We take this occasion to remind you that the keynote speakers for the V Etnography and Qualitative Research Conference are *Michael Burawoy*, University of California Berkeley, and *Marc Abélès*, LAIOS - Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociales. On the conference website and below you can find the text of the call for abstracts. Proposals should be sent by* Februay 17, 2014 *to: annalisa.murgia(a)unitn.it maurizio(a)ahref.eu Please, also CC the conference address: workshop.etnografia(a)unibg.it Each proposal, of a maximum length of 1000 words, should contain: * the title of your talk; * your contact details (full name, email address, post address and affiliation) and those of your co-author/s, if any. Contributions will be accepted both in *Italian* and *English*. Acceptance of proposals will be notified by March 17, 2014. Contributors must register by April 21, 2014 to be included in the program. With best wishes, Annalisa Murgia & Maurizio Teli -- Call for abstracts V Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference. Bergamo, Italy 5-7 June 2014 website: http://www.etnografiaricercaqualitativa.it/?p=13 *It's a free work... When working relations become passionate* Convenors:* Annalisa Murgia* (Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento) & *Maurizio Teli* (Fondazione <ahref, Trento) In contemporary knowledge society, both creativity and the ability to put into play personal resources are recognized as precious and valuable competences. With this workshop, we want to stimulate a reflection within the debate on free work (Beverungen et al. 2013; Chicchi et al. 2013), starting with the ambivalent meaning of the word free, referring both to the absence of a price and to the domain of freedom. We invite to elaborate on the double face of contemporary work: on one side, it is characterized by low or absent wages, it is so intrusive to become totalizing; on the other side, it is often based on informal registers, on subjects' desire for freedom, and on the confusion between free time and working time. Drawing upon the contribution on free software development by the anthropologist Christopher Kelty (2008), we can frame this social phenomenon as the expansion of voluntary activities that intertwine with work activities in many forms. What is common among software developers - and among others who describe their work primarily as a passion - is not only the individual expression of creativity, but also the translation of the playful-affective dimension in recursive processes of relation, processes that bring to a preoccupation for the institutional, technological, political and economical conditions which the particular community and its productive activities are based on. These are, therefore, working experiences (paid or unpaid) in which the subjects' identification and self-expression are conveyed both by putting life itself at work (Morini e Fumagalli 2010; Fleming 2012) and by questioning the social relations within which work is realised (Borghi et al. 2011). The proposed subject of analysis is as wide as heterogeneous, and it includes knowledge work, the creative industries and high tech production chains, emotional and caring work, all sharing the ambivalences of free work. What are the characteristics of the activities wherein subjects invest their affections and desires and that become incorporated by the rhetoric of work as a mission? If, on one side, free work makes economically valuable free expert activities, can it allow the emergence of new forms of collective action? How can we understand the main traits of such phenomenon, in particular from a methodological perspective?

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ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14), June 23-26, 2014
by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

*** Apologies for multiple postings *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS & ACCEPTED SATELLITE EVENTS ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci'14), June 23-26, 2014 Bloomington, Indiana, USA websci14.org / @WebSciConf / #WebSci14 Deadline for papers: Feb. 23rd 2014 Web Science is the emergent science of the people, organizations, applications, and of policies that shape and are shaped by the Web, the largest informational artifact constructed by humans in history. Web Science embraces the study of the Web as a vast universal information network of people and communities. As such, Web Science includes the study of social networks whose work, expression, and play take place on the Web. The social sciences and computational sciences meet in Web Science and complement one another: Studying human behavior and social interaction contributes to our understanding of the Web, while Web data is transforming how social science is conducted. The Web presents us with a great opportunity as well as an obligation: If we are to ensure the Web benefits humanity we must do our best to understand it. Call for Papers The Web Science conference is inherently interdisciplinary, as it attempts to integrate computer and information sciences, communication, linguistics, sociology, psychology, economics, law, political science, philosophy, digital humanities, and other disciplines in pursuit of an understanding of the Web. This conference is unique in the manner in which it brings these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue, and we invite papers from all the above disciplines, and in particular those that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Following the success of WebSci'09 in Athens, WebSci'10 in Raleigh, WebSci'11 in Koblenz, WebSci '12 in Evanston, and WebSci'13 in Paris, for the 2014 conference we are seeking papers and posters that describe original research, analysis, and practice in the field of Web Science, as well as work that discusses novel and thought-provoking ideas and works-in-progress. Possible topics for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Analysis of human behavior using social media, mobile devices, and online communities * Methodological challenges of analyzing Web-based * large-scale social interaction * Data-mining and network analysis of the Web and human communities on the Web * Detailed studies of micro-level processes and interactions * on the Web * Collective intelligence, collaborative production, and social computing * Theories and methods for computational social science on the Web * Studies of public health and health-related behavior on the Web * The architecture and philosophy of the Web * The intersection of design and human interaction on the Web * Economics and social innovation on the Web * Governance, democracy, intellectual property, and the commons * Personal data, trust, and privacy * Web and social media research ethics * Studies of Linked Data, the Cloud, and digital eco-systems * Big data and the study of the Web * Web access, literacy, and development * Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web * People-driven Web technologies, including crowd-sourcing, open data, and new interfaces * Digital humanities * Arts & culture on the Web or engaging audiences using Web resources * Web archiving techniques and scholarly uses of Web archives * New research questions and thought-provoking ideas Submission Web Science is necessarily a very selective single track conference with a rigorous review process. To accommodate the distinct traditions of its many disciplines, we provide three different submission formats: full papers, short papers, and posters. For all types of submissions, inclusion in the ACM DL proceedings will be by default, but not mandatory (opt-out via EasyChair). All accepted research papers (full and short papers) will be presented during the single-track conference. All accepted posters will be given a spot in the single-track lightning talk session, and room to present their papers during a dedicated poster session. Full research papers (5 to 10 pages, ACM double column, 20 mins presentation including Q&A) Full research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers should present substantial theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Short research papers (up to 5 pages, ACM double column, 15 mins presentation including Q&A) Short research papers should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers can present preliminary theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Posters (up to 2 pages, ACM double column, lightning talk + poster presentation) Extended abstracts for posters, which should be in English, can be up to 2 pages. Submission instructions Full and short paper and poster submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) Please make use of the ACM 1998 classification scheme (http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998/) and submit papers using EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci2014. Other creative submission formats (flexible formats) Other types of creative submissions are also encouraged, and the exact format and style of presentation are open. Examples might include artistic performances or installations, interactive exhibits, demonstrations, or other creative formats. For these submissions, the proposers should make clear both what they propose to do, and any special requirements they would need to successfully do it (in terms of space, time, technology, etc.) Review The Web Science program committee consists of a program committee that covers all relevant areas of Web Science. Each submission will be refereed by three PC members and one short meta review written by a Co-PC chair, to cover both the research background of each submission as well as the necessary interdisciplinary aspects. (Optional) Archival Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library All accepted papers and posters will by default appear in the Web Science 2014 Conference Proceedings and can also be made available through the ACM Digital Library, in the same length and format of the submission unless indicated otherwise (those wishing not to be indexed and archived can "opt out" of the proceedings). Satellite Events The following is the list of accepted satellite events. All workshops will be held on June 23. Full day events Altmetrics14 - Expanding Impacts and Metrics http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics14 Judit Bar-Ilan, Rodrigo Costas, Paul Groth, Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Lariviere, Isabella Peters and Mike Taylor Massive Data Flow: Understanding the Complex Dynamics of the Web Seth Bullock, Takashi Ikegami and Mizuki Oka Computational Approaches to Social Modeling (ChASM) http://www.chasm.ws Andrea Baronchelli, Bruno Goncalves, Nicola Perra, Claudia Wagner, Markus Strohmaier, Noshir Contractor, and Emilio Ferrara The web of scientific knowledge: current trends and future perspectives in the big data era Filippo Radicchi, Stasa Milosevic, Ying Ding, Cassidy Sugimoto, Vincent Leriviere, and Min Song Yonsei Doctoral Consortium Howard Rosenbaum, Pnina Fichman, Susan Davies, Lora Aroyo Half-day events Interdisciplinary Coups to Calamities http://www.icc.ecs.soton.ac.uk Clare J. Hooper, David Millard and Norhidayah Azman Web Science Education: Sharing experiences and developing community http://webscience-education-workshop.net Stephane B. Bazan, Su White, Steffen Staab, Michalis Vafopoulos, Susan Halford, Clare Hooper, Hans Akkermans and Mark Weal Research Methodologies for analyzing Cybercrime and Cyberwar http://webscience-cybercrime-workshop.net Dominic Hobson, Neil Macewan, Lisa Sugiura, Stephane B. Bazan and Craig Webber 2nd International Workshop on Building Web Observatories (B-WOW2014) https://sites.google.com/site/bwow2014 Ramine Tinati, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ian Brown and Wendy Hall Deadlines Full & Short Papers: * 23 February 2014: Submissions of full and short papers * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for papers * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of papers and posters due Late Breaking Posters: * 23 March 2014: Submissions of posters * 13 April 2014: Notification of acceptance for posters * 11 May 2014: Camera-ready version of posters due Authors take note: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (If proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date is the first day of the conference.) Conference calendar and rough program * 23 June 2014: workshops, opening reception and keynote * 24 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, poster reception * 25 June 2014: keynote(s), technical program, social event * 26 June 2014: keynote, technical program, closing General chairs * Fil Menczer, Indiana University * Jim Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * Bill Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Program chairs * Markus Strohmaier, University of Koblenz and GESIS (Computing) * Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation (Physics) * Eric T. Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (Social Sciences) Program Commiteee * Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University * Luca Maria Aiello, Yahoo! Research * William Allen, University of Oxford * Sitaram Asur, HP Labs * Alain Barrat, CNRS * Fabricio Benevenuto, Federal University of Minas Gerais * Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc * Paolo Boldi, Universita degli Studi di Milano * Niels Brugger, Aarhus Universitet * Licia Capra, University College London * Carlos Castillo, Qatar Computing Research Institute * Lu Chen, Wright State University * Cristobal Cobo, Oxford Internet Institute * David Crandall, Indiana University * Pasquale De Meo, VU University, Amsterdam * David De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre * Pnina Fichman, Indiana University * Alessandro Flammini, Indiana University * Matteo Gagliolo, Universite libre de Bruxelles * Laetitia Gauvin, ISI Foundation, Turin * Daniel Gayo Avello, University of Oviedo * Scott Golder, Cornell University * Bruno Goncalves, Aix-Marseille Universite * Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California * Scott Hale, Oxford Internet Institute * Noriko Hara, Indiana University * Bernhard Haslhofer, University of Vienna * Andreas Hotho, University of Wuerzburg * Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft * Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University * Ajita John, Avaya Labs * Robert Jaschke, L3S Research Center * Haewoon Kwak, Telefonica Research * Renaud Lambiotte, University of Namur * Matthieu Latapy, CNRS * Silvio Lattanzi, Google * Vili Lehdonvirta, Oxford Internet Institute * Sune Lehmann, Technical University of Denmark * Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California * David Liben-Nowell, Carleton College * Yu-Ru Lin, University of Pittsburgh * Huan Liu, Arizona State University * Jared Lorince, Indiana University * Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University * Massimo Marchiori, University of Padova and UTILABS * Yutaka Matsuo, University of Tokyo * Jaimie Murdock, Indiana University * Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham * Eni Mustafaraj, Wellesley College * Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover * Andre Panisson, ISI Foundation, Turin * Hanwoo Park, Yeungnam University * Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano * Leto Peel, University of Colorado, Boulder * Orion Penner, IMT Lucca * Nicola Perra, Northeastern University * Rob Procter, University of Warwick * Cornelius Puschmann, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society * Daniele Quercia, Yahoo! Labs * Carlos P. Roca, Universitat Rovira i Virgili * Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam * Daniel Romero, Northwestern University * Matthew Rowe, Lancaster University * Giancarlo Ruffo, Universita di Torino * Derek Ruths, McGill University * Rossano Schifanella, Universita di Torino * Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute * Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin * Xiaolin Shi, Microsoft * Elena Simperl, University of Southampton * Philipp Singer, Knowledge Management Institute * Marc Smith, Connected Action Consulting Group * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich * Lei Tang, @WalmartLabs * Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota * Sebastiano Vigna, Universita degli Studi di Milano * Claudia Wagner, GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences * Jillian Wallis, UC Los Angeles * Stan Wasserman, Indiana University * Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute * Matthew Weber, Rutgers University * Lilian Weng, Indiana University * Christopher Wienberg, University of Southern California * Ben Zhao, UC Santa Barbara * Arkaitz Zubiaga, Dublin Institute of Technology

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Gnip and Twitter Bringing Social Data to Academic Researchers
by Stuart Shulman 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

Gnip and Twitter Bringing Social Data to Academic Researchers http://blog.gnip.com/twitter-data-grants/ >From the Gnip blog: "What if the next generation of data scientists could have access to social data for their research? And what if we could help increase the quantity and quality of published research using social data? Exploring what might be possible has led to an exciting new collaboration between Twitter and Gnip. Today, we're announcing the pilot of the Twitter Data Grants program, a new initiative designed to support research and fuel innovation in our industry." On a related note: I have taken on the task of setting up 1-2 academic panels for the next Big Boulder conference. If you are an academic doing work with Twitter data and you are interested in potentially appearing on a Big Boulder panel, please send me a brief synopsis of your project and a link to any web-based materials about it. For more about past Big Boulder conferences, please visit: http://blog.gnip.com/big-boulder-the-worlds-first-social-data-conference/ and http://blog.gnip.com/big-boulder-2013-recap/ For information about the Big Boulder Initiative: http://blog.gnip.com/social-data-industry-organization/ ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman people.umass.edu/stu Founder and CEO, Texifter texifter.com <http://www.texifter.com> LinkedIn: linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stuart-shulman/10/351/899> Twitter: twitter.com/#!/StuartWShulman<http://twitter.com/#%21/StuartWShulman>

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