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[2nd Call]: 2014 SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY CONFERENCE (#SMSociety14) - Sep 27-28, 2014, Toronto, Canada
by Anatoliy Gruzd 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

*Apologies for cross-posting* Call for Submissions: Papers (extended abstracts), Panels and Posters 2014 SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY CONFERENCE (#SMSociety14) September 27-28, 2014, Toronto, Canada Conference website: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ KEYNOTE: Keith N. Hampton, Rutgers University INDUSTRY KEYNOTE: John Weigelt, National Technology Officer, Microsoft Canada IMPORTANT DATES Paper & Panel Abstracts Due: April 18, 2014 Paper & Panel Notification: May 19, 2014 Poster Abstracts Due: May 23, 2014 Poster Notification: June 13, 2014 Conference Dates: September 27-28, 2014 DESCRIPTION We live in an era of “Big Data”. Petabyte and exabyte-size datasets are becoming increasingly common. Much of the data is coming from social media in the form of user-generated content. What do we do with all of these “social” data and how do we make sense of it all? What are the inherent challenges and issues surrounding working with social media data? How are social media platforms and the data that they generate changing us as individuals, changing our organizations and changing our society? Additionally what are the political, ethical, privacy, and security implications of the wide availability of these data? These are just a few questions that we have for this year’s participants of the 2014 Social Media & Society Conference (#SMSociety14). The Social Media & Society Conference is an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. Now, in its 5th year, the 2014 Conference will be held in Toronto, Canada from September 27 to 28. From its inception, the conference has focused on the best practices for studying the impact and implications of social media on society. The conference offers an intensive two-day program comprising of paper presentations, panel discussions, and posters covering wide-ranging topics related to social media. Organized by the Social Media Lab at Dalhousie University, the conference provides attendees an opportunity to exchange ideas, present their original research, learn about recently completed and work-in-progress studies, and strengthen connections with their peers. Last year’s conference hosted nearly 200 attendees, featured research from 90+ scholars and practitioners across several fields from over 60 institutions in 15 different countries. SUBMISSION PROCESS We invite you to submit papers (extended abstracts), panel proposals and posters on a variety of topics including (but not limited to!): Social Media & Big Data, Social Media Impact on Society, Theories & Methods, and Online/Offline Communities. Full papers are not required for this conference, only an extended abstract (~500 words, excluding references) on a completed or well-developed project related to the broad theme of “Social Media & Society.” All submissions will be peer-reviewed. If selected, the author(s) will be invited to give a 15-minute oral presentation followed by a 5 min Q&A period at the conference. Author(s) of accepted paper abstracts will also be invited to submit their full papers to the new Big Data & Society Journal published by SAGE. Instructions for authors and more information is available at http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com TOPICS OF INTEREST Social Media & Big Data - Visualization of Social Media Data - Social Media Data Mining - Scalability Issues and Social Media Data - Social Media Analytics Social Media Impact on Society - Private Self/Public Self - The Sharing/Attention Economy - Virality & Memes - Political Mobilization & Engagement - Social Media and Health - Social Media and Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.) - Social Media and Academia (Alternative Metrics. Learning Analytics, etc.) - Social Media and Public Administration - Social Media and the News Theories & Methods - Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches - Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis - Social Network Analysis - Theoretical Models for Studying, Analysing and Understanding Social Media Online/Offline Communities - Trust and Credibility in Social Media - Online Community Detection - Influential User Detection - Online Identity - Case Studies of Online and/or Offline Communities Formed on Social Media CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University, Canada Barry Wellman. University of Toronto, Canada Philip Mai, Dalhousie University, Canada Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada

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Call for Papers: International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2014)
by Clara Fernandez 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

CIDS 2014: Call for Papers The 7th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2014) 3-6 November 2014, Singapore View this call online at: http://narrativeandplay.org/icids2014/call.html Submission deadline: 16 June 2014 The International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) is the premier venue for researchers, practitioners and theorists to present recent results, share novel techniques and insights, and exchange ideas about this new storytelling medium. Interactive digital storytelling is an exciting area in which narrative, computer science and art converge to create new expressive forms. The combination of narrative and computation has considerable untapped potential, ranging from artistic projects to interactive documentaries, from assistive technologies and intelligent agents to serious games, education and entertainment. The ICIDS conference series has a long-standing tradition of bringing together theoretical and practical approaches in an interdisciplinary dialogue. We encourage contributions from a range of fields related to interactive storytelling, including computer science, human-computer interaction, game design, media production, semiotics, game studies, narratology, media studies, digital humanities and interactive arts criticism. * Suggested Topics * We particularly welcome research on topics in the following four areas: 1. Theoretical Foundations - Theories and Aesthetics of Interactive Storytelling - Current and Future Usage Scenarios 2. Technical Advances - Story/World Generation and Experience Management - Virtual Characters and Virtual Humans - Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems - Semantic Knowledge Representation and Reasoning about Stories - Natural Language Generation and Understanding - User Modelling and Narrative User Interfaces - Authoring Modes and Tools for Interactive Digital Storytelling 3. Practical Applications - Collaborative Storytelling Environments and Multi-User Systems - Social, Ubiquitous and Mobile Storytelling - Interactive Narratives in Digital Games - Interactive Cinema and Television - Interactive Non-fiction and Interactive Documentaries - Interactive Narratives in E-learning, Training and Edutainment 4. Retrospective Analyses - Evaluation and User Experience Reports - Critical Close Readings of Creative Works - Case Studies, Post-mortems and Best Practices * Submissions * All submissions must follow the Lecture Notes in Computer Science format, available at: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Papers must be written in English, and only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered for review. The submission categories accepted are: - Full papers (10-12 pages in the main proceedings) describing interesting, novel results or completed work in all areas of interactive digital storytelling and its applications. - Short papers (6-8 pages in the main proceedings) presenting exciting preliminary work or novel, thought-provoking ideas that are in their early stages. - Demonstrations and posters (2-4 pages in the backmatter of the proceedings) describing working, presentable systems or brief explanations of a research project. Submissions that receive high ratings in the peer review process will be selected for publication by the program committee as Springer LNCS conference proceedings. For the final print-ready version, the submission of source files (Microsoft Word/LaTeX, TIF/EPS) and a signed copyright form will be required. Detailed submission instructions, including links to the online submission system, can be found here: http://narrativeandplay.org/icids2014/call.html#submissions The review process for ICIDS will be double blind. Authors should remove all identifying information from their submissions. * Workshop Proposals * Workshops are an integral part of the ICIDS conference. Workshops at ICIDS 2014 will be held on Thursday, 6 November 2014. Please see the separate call for proposals for workshops for details on submitting workshop proposals. * Art Exhibition * Continuing the tradition started at ICIDS 2013, there will also be an art exhibition as part of the conference. The ICIDS 2014 art exhibition will be held from 2-6 November 2014 at ArtScience MuseumTM at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, and will be open to the public. Please see the separate call for artworks for details on submitting to the art exhibition. * Important Dates * Deadline: June 16, 2014 Submission deadline for all categories. The precise deadline for paper submissions is 11:59PM on June 16, 2014, Hawaii Standard Time. Authors are strongly advised to upload their submissions well in advance of this deadline. July 28, 2014: Accept/reject notifications sent to authors. August 18, 2014: Camera-ready copy due. November 3-6, 2014: ICIDS Conference. ICIDS 2014 will be hosted by the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore (http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cnm) in collaboration with the Keio-NUS CUTE Centre (http://cutecenter.nus.edu.sg) * Organizing Committee * General Chair Alex Mitchell, National University of Singapore Program Chairs Clara Fernandez-Vara, New York University David Thue, Reykjavík University Art Exhibition Chair Jing Chiang, National University of Singapore * More Information * Additional information about the conference can be found online at: http://icids.org/2014 Questions about the conference should be directed to the organizers via email at: icids2014(a)gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent by icids2014(a)gmail.com to clarafervar(a)gmail.com Not interested?Unsubscribe - http://zc1.maillist-manage.com/ua/optout?od=11287eca4cd203&rd=1cb345e53386c… Update profile - http://zc1.maillist-manage.com/ua/upc?upd=1cb345e533860af&r=1cb345e53386c78… ICIDS | http://icids.org.

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CABS 2014: Papers deadline extended to March 13
by Mary Beth Watson-Manheim 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------- CABS 2014: Full paper deadline extension until Thursday 13 March --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upon multiple request the CABS'14 full paper deadline will be extended to Thursday 13 March. 5th ACM International Conference on Collaboration Across Boundaries (CABS): Culture, Distance and Technology http://cabs.acm.org/ August 20-22, 2014, Kyoto, Japan Collaboration across Boundaries: Culture, Distance, & Technology 2014 (CABS 2014) is an international and interdisciplinary conference focused on exploring the nature and ways to facilitate intercultural collaboration, including improvements enabled by technology. CABS 2014 is the 5th international conference in the series formerly held as International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration (ICIC). CABS aims to be a multidisciplinary forum that integrates the socio-cultural and technical perspectives, with the objective of exchanging the latest results of studying and supporting intercultural collaboration. ---------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------------------------- March 13, 2014: Submission Deadline for Full Papers, Panels, and Workshops. April 30, 2014: Notification of Acceptance for Full Papers, Panels, and Workshops. May 21, 2014: Submission Deadline for Late-Breaking Papers. June 4, 2014: Notification of Acceptance for Late-Breaking Papers. June 25, 2014: Final camera-ready papers due (Full Papers, Late-Breaking Papers, Panels, Workshops). ---------------------------------- Full Papers Full papers must present original work with contributions to research and practice of intercultural collaboration. All full papers will be evaluated using a double-blind review process. Accepted authors have the option of having their paper included or NOT to be included in the ACM digital library (http://portal.acm.org/) If the authors choose not to have their full paper included, only the abstract of the paper will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Those unpublished papers can be re-submitted and published at other conference proceedings (including ACM conferences) or journals. Full papers can be up to 10 pages long. Submission for a full paper should be thoroughly anonymized and formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI Publications Format using the SIGCHI Papers Template. Papers should be submitted through the Precision Conference System (www.precisionconference.com/~cabs) Please see the SIGCHI author instruction page (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform) for more information and the downloadable templates. To facilitate the interdisciplinary reviewing process, authors of full papers are asked to categorize their papers by theme (one of three themes) to help us direct papers to the most appropriate reviewers. The three themes are: Communication & Management, Computer-Mediated Collaboration, and Cross-linguistic Collaboration. Although some papers will fit within multiple themes and others may not be an ideal fit for any of them, we ask the authors to choose the closest theme. We will strive to recruit the most appropriate reviewers for all papers. Below are examples of types of contributions a paper in any of the three themes can make to CABS: - DESCRIPTIONS of intercultural and multilingual experiences: Dynamics of global teams, social networks and communities of practice, globally distributed work in virtual context, language use in multicultural and global teams. - METHODOLOGIES and frameworks for studying global collaboration: Developing instruments for measuring culture including surveys, experimental paradigms, computational frameworks, etc.. - THEORIES and models for understanding cultures such as modeling culture, intercultural collaboration, and language varieties. - EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS of intercultural collaboration: Field studies of intercultural collaboration in global organizations and/or in local communities, ethnographic studies on different infrastructure and media use across nations, laboratory studies on the use of technologies, etc.. - TRANSLATION and transition of language and practice: Use of language on the Internet, translating different norms and shaping new practices in global teams, issues of translating language and practices, effects of e-learning on culture diversity. - DOMAIN-SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS for collaboration across boundaries: Education/learning, global enterprise, information and knowledge management/sharing. - INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES for collaboration across boundaries: HCI technologies, robots, conversational agents, language and speech technologies to overcome culture and language barriers. Late-Breaking Papers (Work in Progress) Authors are encouraged to submit their late-breaking papers to present as posters during the conference. Late-breaking papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library, if the authors wish to do so (see above). Late-breaking papers should be no longer than 4 two-column pages in length, formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI template. Please see the SIGCHI author instruction page (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform) for more information and downloadable templates. Late-Breaking Papers should be submitted through the Precision Conference System (www.precisionconference.com/~cabs) Late-breaking papers will not be blind reviewed. Authors should include their complete names and contact information at the top of their submitted PDF file. Submitted late-breaking papers will not be divided into three subcommittees. They will be reviewed by a panel of distinguished researchers in the area of intercultural collaboration. General Co-Chairs Vanessa Evers (University of Twente, Netherlands) Naomi Yamashita (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan) Program Co-Chairs ・Computer Mediated Collaboration: Susan Fussell (Cornell University, USA) ・Cross-linguistic Communication: Carolyn Rose (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) ・Management and Communication: Mary Beth Watson-Manheim (University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA) Program Committee ・ Computer Supported Collaboration Pernille Bjorn (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Hideaki Kuzuoka (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine, USA) John Thomas (IBM, USA) Hao-Chuan Wang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) ・ Cross-linguistic Communication Seza Dogruoz (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Rohit Kumar (BBN Technologies, USA) Kristine Lund (University of Lyon, France) Stephan Vogel (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar) Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh, USA) ・ Management and Communication Wai Fong Boh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Miriam Erez (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Paul Leonardi (Northwestern University, USA) Michael O'Leary (Georgetown University, USA) Sundeep Sahay (University of Oslo, Norway) -- Mary Beth Watson-Manheim Associate Professor MIS PhD Program Director Department of Information & Decision Sciences Department of Communications University of Illinois, Chicago

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Reading List on Cultures of Production in Internet/Social Media/App Firms
by Andrew Herman 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Hi All I am putting together a reading list on "Cultures of Production in Internet/Social Media/App Firms" or something like that. I am particularly interested in empirical, qualitative work that is theoretically informed (i.e. by work on digital/immaterial/affective labour though not limited to that perspective) but does a deep dive in the quotidian cultures of work and work life in the industry. I am already rockin' the work of Gina Neff, Alice Marwick, Melissa Gregg, Richard Sennett, David Stark and Ursula Huws. I am also broadly familiar with the cultural industries literature and am looking for work specifically on internet/mobile and social media/software app enterprises. Work on the gaming industry would also be valuable. Thanks Andrew Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5

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Re: [Air-L] Seeking studies on women bloggers, gender and blogging in Switzerland and Germany
by Jacqueline Vickery 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Hi Stine, Perhaps you are already familiar with it, but if not, I recommend Tanja Carstensen's article "Gender Trouble in Web 2.0: Gender Relations in Social Network Sites, Wikis, and Weblogs" published in the International Journal of Gender, Science, and Technology. It focuses on German websites and is available online: http://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/article/viewFile/18/31 Best, - jacqueline ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jacqueline Vickery, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of North Texas Department of Radio-TV-Film -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Linkedin dataset
by Babiga Birregah 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

hi, Is there anyone who has datasets extracted from linkedin to share? regards -- -- BIRREGAH Babiga, Phd Joint Research Unit in Sciences and Technologies for Risk Management Department of Operational Research, Applied Statistics and Simulation QR: http://goo.gl/Et0A4

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Seeking data on distribution messages in virtual worlds
by L Holly 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Dear AIR members, Could you point me to any research showing the distribution of the trust level of messages? In other words, not all messages exchanged in a virtual community are supportive, many will be neutral and some will be non-supportive or hostile. What does that distribution look like? What percentage of messages are non-supportive/hostile, neutral, supportive? I am developing an agent-based model of social system and need this information to govern the messages generated. I would like the messages exchanged between agents to mimic real messages distributions. Thnk you for your time and consideration -- Leo Holly Doctoral Candidate Executive Leadership Doctoral Program The George Washington University "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Reading list on technology and society (with a communication twist)
by Rich Ling 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Dear all, I am trying to think of a readings list on technology and society. I want to have a bit of a bias towards communication, but that it not the only technology. I have put together the following list. The two areas that I realize I don't have much on is steam technology (is there a book similar to Eisenstein for steam?) and transport/automobilism. These are mostly books. Key articles are also of interest. My current list (starting with the older technologies) is as follows: · The Printing press as a agent of change, Eisenstein · Shaping the day, Glennie and Thrift · Latitude, Sobel · The Victorian internet, Standage · The Control Revolution, Beniger · Technics and civilization, Mumford · Electrifying America: Social meanings of a new technology, David Nye · When old technologies were new, Marvin · The social construction of technical systems, Bijker · America Calling, Fischer · Crabgrass Frontier, Jackson · Virtual communities, Rheingold · The rise of the network society, Castells · 6 Degrees, Watts · Taken for grantedness (maybe New Tech, New Ties), Ling · Configuring the User as Everybody: Oudshoorn, Rommes, Stinestra · Sociology beyond societies, Urry · In the Age of the Smart Machine, Zuboff · Play between worlds, Taylor · Where the action is, Dourish -- Rich L.

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Re: [Air-L] Reading list on technology and society (with a communication twist)
by Neal Thomas 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Hi Rich -- here's a few more you might want to include in your pile, though they lean more in the direction of philosophy and social theory: Barney / Prometheus Wired Borgmann / Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life Borgmann / Holding on to Reality Braidotti / The Posthuman Durham Peters / Speaking Into the Air Feenberg & Hannay / Technology and the Politics of Knowledge Feenberg / Questioning Technology Feenberg / Transforming Technology Genosko / Remodelling Communication Heidegger / The Question Concerning Technology Ihde / Bodies in Technology Ihde / Technology and the Lifeworld Kittler / Film, Gramophone, Typewriter Lanier / You are Not a Gadget Marx / The Grundrisse Mattelart / Networking the World Pacey / Meaning in Technology Scharff and Dusek / Philosophy of Technology: An Anthology Simpson / Technology, Time & the Conversations of Modernity Slack & Wise / Culture and Technology: A Primer Stiegler / Technics & Time 1,2 Terranova: Network Culture Wiener / The Human Use of Human Beings Winner / The Whale and the Reactor Winner / Autonomous Technology Best, Neal -- ___________ Neal Thomas Assistant Professor of Media and Technology Studies Department of Communication Studies The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3285 USA

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Seeking studies on women bloggers, gender and blogging in Switzerland and Germany
by Kristin Dagmar Eckert 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Dear AIR members I am seeking academic studies and articles on women bloggers and/or gender and blogging in Switzerland and Germany in English and/or German (I am a German native). Alternatively, I am also looking for articles in the quality press of each country on women bloggers or gender and blogging. I looked through the data bases my university provides and have not had much luck. I just want to make sure I am not missing out on something. Thank you very much for your hints and links! Best, Stine Stine Eckert Ph.D. Candidate Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland 2100N Knight Hall www.stineeckert.com @stineeckert

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