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Quantitative analysis of online pornography
by Antoine Mazieres 22 Mar '14

22 Mar '14

Dear IRs, I am looking at available data of online pornography and looked at available studies made out of them. I'm very surprised to mainly only find studies on impact/effect of pornography on humans with almost none study on topology/dynamics/evolution of the object itself. Does some of you have some references in mind that dig in that direction ? (If I manage to arrange a dataset out of available data on public website, I would be glad to share it, let me know if you're interested.) Thanks for your help, All best, Antoine http://mazier.es/

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Call for Participation: WebSci 2014 Doctoral Consortium
by Howard Rosenbaum 22 Mar '14

22 Mar '14

Call for Participation: WebSci 2014 Doctoral Consortium at the ACM Web Science 2014 Conference (WebSci 2014) Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA 23 -26 June, 2014 http://ils.indiana.edu/faculty/hrosenba/www/web-sci-14/doc-consortium14.html Submission deadline: 15 April 2014 We invite doctoral students to participate in the WebSci 2014 Doctoral Consortium, which will take place as part of the ACM Web Science 2014 Conference in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. This half-day event is intended for those of you in the later stages (post-proposal) of your research on problems related to web science and information science. Description The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to provide you with a supportive and critical learning opportunity to discuss your work in progress and to receive feedback and guidance from senior web and information science scholars. You will be able to explain your dissertation research and highlight theoretical and methodological problems/issues for further discussion and inquiry both with senior mentors and Consortium participants. The Doctoral Consortium aims to broaden the perspectives and to improve your research and communication skills. We expect you to have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results and have sufficient time prior to completing your dissertation to benefit from the consortium experience. Generally, if you are in your second or third year of PhD work, you will benefit the most from this experience. In the Consortium, you will present your proposal and receive specific feedback and advice on how to improve your research plan. The Doctoral consortium also aim to develop a supportive community within which doctoral students can begin to develop their professional networks by interacting with peers and senior scholars in web science and information science. All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The international review committee will select the best submissions for presentation at the Doctoral Consortium. Submission information We ask you to submit an 8 page description of your PhD research proposal electronically via the EasyChair conference submission System: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=9144634.cxJz4ovCrZ6XBK9a Your submission must address each of the following questions: ● Problem Statement: What is the problem that you are addressing? ● Relevance: Why the problem is important? Who will benefit if you succeed? Who should care? ● Related Work: How have others attempted to address this problem? Why is the problem difficult? ● Research Question(s): What are the research questions that you plan to address? ● Hypotheses: What hypotheses are related to your research questions (if your work has hypotheses)? ● Approach: How are you planning to address your research questions and test your hypotheses? What will you measure? What is the main idea behind your approach? The key innovation? Provide an argument, based either on common knowledge or on evidence that you have accumulated, that your approach is likely to succeed. ● Evaluation plan: How will you measure your success - faster/more accurate/less failures/etc.? ● Preliminary results: Do you have any preliminary results that demonstrate that your approach is promising? ● Implications: What are the theoretical, methodological and practical contributions of your work? Additional submission requirements ● All submissions must be single-author submissions. Please acknowledge your PhD advisor(s) and other contributors in the Acknowledgements section. ● Students accepted to present at the Doctoral Consortium must plan to attend the full Doctoral Consortium in order to gain as much value as possible from the experience. ● Please remember that the DC submission is not the same as a research paper. ● Submissions must be in pdf and be formatted according to the ACM Publications format. Topics The Consortium has the same scope of technical topics as the main WebSci conference: ● 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 crowdsourcing, 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 Important Dates: ● April 15, 2014 - paper submission ● May 2, 2014 - notification ● June 23, 2014 - doctoral consortium Doctoral Consortium Schedule: 12:00-12:30: Welcome session with light lunch 12:30-1:00: Meet mentors, group introductions and discussion of the Colloquium activities 1:00-2:30: One on one meetings where students discuss their work and receive feedback and comments from mentors 2:30-3:00 Break 3:00-4:30: Students present their work to the group and receive feedback 4:30-5:30: Group discussion about career and professional issues in a Q&A session driven by the students From 3:00-4:30, participants will present their research briefly to familiarize each other with their dissertation project and highlight specific aspects they would like to have further discussion on. These may include specific problems that the student is seeking input on how to approach them; intriguing issues and tensions for web science and information science research generally; methodological problems that other Ph.D. students are likely to be confronting, or issues that have the potential of stimulating discussions of theoretical and methodological significance. If you have questions about this call, please contact the co-chairs ● Howard Rosenbaum, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University hrosenba(a)indiana.edu ● Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University fichman(a)indiana.edu ● Lora Aroyo, Computer Science, VU University Amsterdam lora.aroyo(a)vu.nl

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Final Call: James W. Carey Media Research Award 2014
by Mark D. Johns 22 Mar '14

22 Mar '14

The Carl Couch Center invites nominations or self-nominations for works to be considered for its annual James W. Carey Media Research Award. Welcome are works on topics that were central to Carey's scholarship. Submissions might focus on technology, time, space and communication, the nature of public life, the relation between journalism and popular culture -- among others -- taking these themes in new or different directions. Applications will be evaluated based on engagement with Carey's approaches and concepts, originality, and advancement of knowledge. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of: Prof. Paul C. Adams, University of Texas Prof. Stuart Adam, Carleton University Prof. Regina Marchi, Rutgers University Prof. John Pauly, Marquette University Prof. Jeff Pooley, Muhlenberg College Prof. Linda Steiner, University of Maryland Both single and multiple authored works will be accepted. All submissions must be works that have been published or have been accepted for publication in a book or journal. To be considered for the 2014 award, works should have been published or accepted in 2013. Submitted works should be sent to Mark D. Johns, executive director of CCCSIR at the address below, according to the following directions: Works may be submitted electronically in plain text, Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, or Adobe Acrobat format. If a book is submitted, please send a copy of the table of contents and front matter electronically. Then ask your publisher to furnish seven (7) review copies for consideration by the committee. The application deadline is April 1, 2014. Notification of award application will be sent out by June 15. The Award winner will receive the Carey Award plaque to be presented at the winner's choice of the 2014 annual convention of the International Communication Association (ICA), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), or National Communication Association (NCA). Questions and comments about the Carey Award, please contact: Mark D. Johns Communication Studies Luther College Decorah, IA 52101 USA E-mail: mjohns [at] luther.edu

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7th Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award || 6.000 Euros Award Sum || 19th August Deadline || Wake Up Call
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nokia Ubimedia Awards 2013 Wake-up Call for Entries 7th Annual International Competition on Ubiquitous Media 1st-3rd October 2013, Tampere FINLAND *** 6.000 Euros Award Sum *** Deadline: 19th August 2013 *** http://www.numa.fi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- as to date we received quite a few great entries to NUMA 2013, but our jury still hungers for more challenging projects. This is a "NUMA 2013 Wake-Up Call" for your ubimedia submissions and we hope that you all you aspiring Ubimedia innovators out there take the chance to join prople who won the competition in the previous years - one of them runs a successful startup. 6000 Euros price sum and travels paid to visit MindTrek 2013 for the three best projects. All we need is a description of your project and if possible a short demonstration video. And we need it til August 15th. We do especially encourage student and PhD-projects, as well as innovative start-ups. Good luck and see you in Tampere! More about the competition & submission system: http:/www.numa.fi Competition Chairs Artur LUGMAYR, EMMi Lab, Tampere Univ. of Technology, FINLAND Cai MELAKOSKI, School of Art, Music and Media, Tampere UAS (TAMK), FINLAND Ville LUOTONEN, Ubiquitous Computing Tampere Center of Expertise, Hermia Ltd., FINLAND Head of Jury Bjoern STOCKLEBEN, Project "Cross Media", University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, GERMANY

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2 Calls || Inform. Systems & Managment in eMedia/Creative Industries || Book Chapters (Springer-Verlag) || Workshop Papers (ICME 2014) ||
by artur.lugmayr＠tut.fi 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

Dear All, Two interesting possibilties: - Call for book chapters (Springer-Verlag): Information Systems & Management in eMedia and Creative Industries (ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 15th APRIL 2014) - Call for Papers (ICME2014): Workshop on Information Systems & Managmeent in Multimedia, Arts, Education, Entertainment, and Culture (DEADLINE 2nd APRIL: 2014) PLEASE READ BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS: 1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Book Chapters Information Systems and Management in eMedia and Creative Industries Springer-Verlag Artur Lugmayr, Emilija Stojmenova, Katarina Stanoevska, and Robert Wellington (Eds.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Focus on NEW Approaches in the eMedia Industries, or Approaches HOW eMedia Support Information Systems: Strategic Importance of IT ans IS&M in Media, Big Data, Crowd, Open Data, Linked Data, Cloud Application, New Business Analytics, Information Visualization, Workflow Management, IS&M as Basis of New Business Models of New Media Products, and Global Digital Production Pipelines. * Management, Marketing, Business Aspects and Strategic Importance of IT and IS&M in Creative eMedia Industries * Technology Perspective of the Usage of Media in IS&M in Media Industry and the Application of Media in IS&M across Domains: Technology, Processes, Workflows, Infrastructures and Global Production Pipelines * Methods, Approaches, and Importance of IT and Information Systems and Management in Media - Media and Content as Part of IS&M across Application Domains * Content, Service, Application, and Artistic Viewpoint on IS&M in Media and Creativity Industries Upcoming Deadline: 15th April (abstract), 15th June (manuscript), 30th Aug. (reviews) Book Website: http://www.tut.fi/emmi/WWW/ameamain/ismemedia Email List: https://listmail.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/ism-emedia Submission System: http://www.tut.fi/emmi/Submissions/2014ISMeMedia/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ismemedia/ Contact us: lartur(a)acm.org or emilija.stojmenova(a)ltfe.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ? MIS-MEDIA 2014 2nd international workshop on information systems in multimedia arts, education, entertainment, and culture (MIS-MEDIA 2014) 14th-18th July 2014 http://www.tut.fi/emmi/WWW/ameamain/mis-media2014 Chengdu, China ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- in conjunction with ICME 2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo http://www.icme2014.org/ EXTENDED DEADLINE: 2nd APRIL 2014 !!!!!!!!!!!!! in cooperation with the International Asscocation for Ambient Media (iAMEA) and the Assocation for Information Systems (AIS) SIG-eMedia (http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org and http://aisnet.org/group/SIG-eMedia) Paper Submission: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICME2014W/ - please tick the correct * Big Data & Multimedia Systems * Cross-media offering, distribution channels and convergence * Media business information management for multimedia * Media information system design in multimedia * Business intelligence in media industries * Knowledge management systems applications * Workflow management, operational efficiency and new capturing technologies * Home platforms, mobility, multi-play and network convergence * Systems for management reporting, analysis, and decision support * Standards to enable technical convergence * Data warehousing in converging environments * Integration of analogue and digital media productions * E2E systems and solutions in converging media environments * Asset management and metadata management * E2E systems, infrastructures and solutions * Integration of analogue and digital media production and distribution * Information systems and decision support systems * Speech, audio, image, video, and text processing in information management * Marketing information systems * Content analysis, matching, and retrieval in information management * Technologies in media art, education, entertainment, environment, and culture * Consumer experience and quality assessment in MIS * Theoretical foundations of entertainment computation * Production process management * Multimedia databases, digital libraries, and eLearning in MIS * Technology and management of E2E media delivery * Business information management in media * Standards, policies, and regulation for MIS in media industry * Mobility, Social media, ambient media, eLearning * Practical media art, education, entertainment, and cultural applications ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Why rush home?
by AJ Kelton 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

Why rush home? The 2014 Emerging Learning Design Conference has negotiated special rates at nearby hotels. Come the day before or stay a day after - New York City is only 14 miles away. Find all the travel and venue information for #ELD14 at http://eld.montclair.edu/travel-venue/ Registration is currently open - http://eld14.eventbrite.com/?aff=14wsm140321 ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2014 http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf <http://twitter.com/ELDConf> ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton <http://twitter.com/aj_kelton>

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Science and Justice at UCSC invites visiting scholars for 2014-2015
by Kate O'Riordan 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

Big data, informatics and bioinformatics have been key themes at the center this year - and are likely to continue to be - so could be a good location for some on this list: ------------------------------------------ UC Santa Cruz: 2014-2015 Solicitation for Visiting Scholars, Artists, and Graduate Students The Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz: http://scijust.ucsc.edu is now accepting applications for the 2014-2015 academic year Visiting Scholar Program. SJRC offers opportunities for visiting scholars and artists in residence at all levels of their career to join us and participate in our community. SJRC is not an academic department, so we encourage visitors to identify other members of the university with whom they would like to work with in activities such as teaching a seminar, offering an academic talk, or attending courses. We can help facilitate such activities. All applicants are encouraged to look at our past events: http://scijust.ucsc.edu/public-events/past-events/ when developing a proposal for an event as our colloquia have a unique format. Visitors are encouraged to visit for at least one full term, however we will consider shorter visits. The application deadline for the 2014-2015 academic year is April 15, 2014. Our applications are reviewed by an interdisciplinary advisory board. Application materials or questions can be submitted to scijust(a)ucsc.edu. For more information on becoming a visiting scholar, visit: Visiting Scholar Program: http://scijust.ucsc.edu/what-we-do/research-center/visiting-scholar-program/ For current University of California graduate students at other campuses, also visit: UC Intercampus Exchange Program: http://scijust.ucsc.edu/what-we-do/research-center/visiting-scholar-program…

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Join us at the Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 21-23 May
by Noella Edelmann 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

CeDEM14 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 21-23 May 2014, Danube University Krems (Austria) (apologies for cross-posting!) I am pleased to announce that the CeDEM14 programme - 3 days packed with international keynotes, workshops, presentations, a film viewing („Blueberry Soup“) followed by a discussion with the filmmaker Eileen Jerret, an Open Space for you, opportunities for networking - is now available (www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem) CeDEM14 Programme 21-23 May 2014 21-22 May: paper presentations, workshops, reflections and keynotes. The conference dinner is held on 21 May 2014. 23 May: Viewing of the Film „Blueberry Soup“ and Podium Discussion with Eileen Jerrett ( Filmmaker); CeDEM Open Space. CeDEM14 Keynotes „Scientific Citizenship“ Alexander Gerber (innocomm Research Center for Science & Innovation Communication, Germany); „Open Data“ Jeanne Holm (Evangelist, Data.gov, U.S. General Services Administration, US); „Statehood, the Deep Web, and Democracy“ Philipp Müller (University Salzburg, Austria); „(E)ngaging communities through global thinking for local actions“ Mohamed El-Sioufi (United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT); CeDEM14 Open Space 23 May 2014 The CeDEM Open Space is an opportunity for participants to organise their own presentations, sessions, events, workshops, birds of a feather, networking, etc. If you are interested in attending and/or presenting at the Open Space, get in touch with Michael Sachs (michael.sachs(a)donau-uni.ac.at) CeDEM14 Further Details: www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem Registration: http://bit.ly/1d2ZR1F I look forward to seeing you in Krems! Noella Noella Edelmann BA, MSc, MAS Researcher CeDEM14 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem JeDEM eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government www.jedem.org Digital Government Blog http://digitalgovernment.wordpress.com/ Centre for E-Government Danube University Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30 3500 Krems Austria www.donau-uni.ac.at/egov

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JOB OPP: Project Manager, Data Science, USC Annenberg Innovation Lab
by Meryl Alper 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Passing along this job opportunity to work at USC Annenberg on a large-scale social media data project. Please share. Best, Meryl * * * Project Manager, Data Science, USC Annenberg Innovation Lab (Funded by IBM Grant) The incumbent will be responsible for driving the development of innovative methods in audience research that bridge traditional and emerging approaches. In particular, we are dedicated to making meaning of large-scale social media data. The incumbent will also assist the Principal Investigator of our on-going data science research projects, fulfilling grant reporting requirements and insuring compliance with budget regulations. Additionally, the successful candidate will serve as a liaison among our researchers and work closely with our partners in the media and entertainment industries. As the Project Lead of the Lab's data science efforts, the incumbent will help integrate the data science research with other research efforts of the Lab, and contribute data science knowledge and perspective to larger Lab efforts, such as designing and implementing executive workshops and presentations. The ideal candidate will bring a unique perspective on audience research and be able to communicate with both academic and industry audiences. A background in both quantitative and qualitative approaches to audience research is strongly preferred; including some combination of surveys, interviews, focus groups, social media, and automated data-collection (e.g., Nielsen set-top boxes, Arbitron meters.) The successful candidate will be expected to implement an in-house system for large-scale data analysis. Experience with one or more programming languages and database management systems is required. Python, R, Java, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB preferred. Previous experience working with social media data is a plus. Apply here: https://jobs.usc.edu/postings/19629 -- Meryl Alper Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Southern California malper(a)usc.edu merylalper.com

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CF Participant for NCA Panel on Information Politics
by Rysavy, Wayne Erik 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Hello, My colleague, Bryan Behrenshausen, and I have organized a panel we plan to submit to the Media Ecology Division of the 2014 National Communication Associaion conference. We already have a confirmed chair/respondent and another participant, but are looking for one more person to join our panel. Below, I've included our rationale. We are particularly interested in bringing someone on who has interest in information politics and explores information and/or theories of information and information flow from a critical perspective employing critical theory, discursive analysis, and/or historiographic analysis. Interested participants should email me at wrysavy(a)email.unc.edu. Inquiries about the panel are also welcome. Rationale: A fiercely contested term, commodity, and palliative, "information" is neither static nor neutral; it is relational, contextual, and deeply implicated in power relations that traverse the personal, social, cultural, and economic. As an object purportedly central to many contemporary techniques and technologies, information participates in various processes of social organization that bear decidedly political aims. It positions people and things, and it generates contexts for the ongoing work of managing their relations. Information is material, yet ephemeral—an object to be "owned" and "managed," and yet indecipherable outside the particular political and economic relations that valorize it. In precise but shifting relation with "data" and "knowledge," information authorizes and mobilizes multiple—often fractured and contradictory—truth claims. Information's historic (re)articulations persist today, shaping the ways in which popular discourses of "information" make discussing, using, and interpreting it possible. Examining information and information technologies through critical theoretical, historiographic, and discursive analyses, this panel re-contextualizes information, tracks its role in everyday systems of meaning and power, and explores the way past discourses of information influence the way we conceptualize it in the present. Thank you for your interest. Wayne Erik Rysavy, M.A. Doctoral Student and Teaching Fellow Department of Communication Studies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 115 Bingham, CB#3285 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 wrysavy(a)email.unc.edu "If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." –Ludwig Wittgenstein

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