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admin thread related to e-mail lists and e-mail blocking
by Peter Timusk 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

admin thread related to e-mail lists and e-mail blocking Context I was starting to stop receiving a lot of e-mail then e-mail lists told me I was bouncing and eventually I was kicked off one list. That list was air-l Sympatico run by Bell Canada contracts it's e-mail out of Microsoft's hotmail. Here is an explanation by another list owner about yahoo. ________________________________________ From: JiscMail Helpline <helpline(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Sent: 11 April 2014 14:53 To: OWNERS-ANNOUNCE(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [OWNERS-ANNOUNCE] Issue affecting Yahoo email subscribers to lists OWNERS-ANNOUNCE: You have received this message because you are registered as an owner of a JiscMail mailing list. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo have recently changed the security settings on their email servers which is causing major issues with mailing list services across the world, including JiscMail. Yahoo have changed their security settings in a way that causes emails sent through a mailing list service to be identified as junk-mail by email providers that using certain security systems. This causes many email providers including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo themselves, to reject any list emails originating from a Yahoo account. These rejections, can in some cases, cause subscribers to be removed from lists due to the number of rejected messages. In order to protect our subscribers and our service we have been advised to stop Yahoo subscribers from posting to *any* JiscMail lists and we have implemented this change. Yahoo subscribers will still receive messages from lists. If a Yahoo subscriber tries to post to your list, the message will be forwarded to the list owner(s) with this message: The enclosed message, found in the L-SOFT mailbox and shown under the spool ID 278571919 in the system log, has been identified as a possible delivery Error notice for the following reason: mail origin is listed in the "Filter=" List header keyword (or its default value for the L-SOFT list). Unfortunately this message cannot be edited. We would also recommend that if you have subscribers on your list using Yahoo email accounts then we would ask you to: 1. Post a message to your list (or contact them off the list) and pass on the information from this message. 2. Ask your Yahoo subscribers to re-join your list using a non-Yahoo email service provider. 3. Ask your Yahoo subscribers to contact Yahoo to complain about the changes to their security settings. We are also posting this message to JISCMAIL-NEWSLETTER but are aware that not all of our subscribers are members of this list, so you may wish to post this message to your list. We have stopped email addresses being automatically deleted from lists - in case Yahoo subscribers have already posted to lists. More information on this issue can be read here: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247512/Yahoo_email_anti_spoofing_po…

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Fwd: Section 18: Information Technology and Politics : Nominations for Awards by the Section
by Leticia Bode 12 Apr '14

12 Apr '14

Please see below for 2013 award nominations (due April 25) for the Information Technology and Politics section of APSA. Self-nominations are encouraged. I'm the chair of the dissertation award committee and would be happy to answer any questions. Best, ~Leticia ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: George Boynton via The American Political Science Association < DoNotReply(a)connectedcommunity.org> Date: Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:58 AM Subject: Section 18: Information Technology and Politics : Nominations for Awards by the Section To: lb871(a)georgetown.edu [image: The American Political Science Association]<http://community.apsanet.org/APSANET> APSA <http://community.apsanet.org/> | Communities<http://community.apsanet.org/communities/?MDATE=94%3c47569&UserKey=b1fb258f…>| All Discussions<http://community.apsanet.org/communities/alldiscussions/?MDATE=94%3c47569&U…>| All Discussions<http://community.apsanet.org/communities/alldiscussions/alldiscussions/?MID…>| Section 18: Information Technology and...<http://community.apsanet.org/communities/alldiscussions/digestviewer/?Group…> Nominations for Awards by the Section <#1453c7c18c36b85a_bm-1> <#1453c7c18c36b85a_bm1> From: George Boynton<http://community.apsanet.org/communities/alldiscussions/mybioview/?ContactK…> To: Section 18: Information Technology and Politics<http://community.apsanet.org/communities/alldiscussions/digestviewer/?Group…> Posted: Apr 07, 2014 9:59 AM Subject: Nominations for Awards by the Section Message: <http://community.apsanet.org/communities/alldiscussions/mybioview/?ContactK…> View Profile<http://community.apsanet.org/communities/alldiscussions/mybioview/?ContactK…> Add Contact<http://community.apsanet.org/communities/alldiscussions/mybioview/?ContactK…> Contact Author<http://community.apsanet.org/communities/alldiscussions/biomail/?ContactKey…> *Best paper presented at 2013 APSA meeting* Nominations are requested for the best paper presented on a panel of the Information Technology and Politics section in 2013. Nominations should be sent to Nanette Levinson (nlevins(a)american.edu) who is chair of the committee to make the selection. Nominations should be made by April 25, 2014 * Best book on information technology and politics published in 2013* Nominations are requested for the best book on information technology and politics published in 2013. David Karpf (davekarpf(a)gmail.com) is chair of the committee to make the selection and people wanting to submit a book should contact him to make arrangements. Nominations should be made by April 25, 2014. * Best dissertation about information technology and politics finished in 2013* Nominations are requested for best dissertation about information technology and politics completed in 2013. Nominations should be submitted to Leticia Bode ( lb871(a)georgetown.edu) who chairs the committee. Nominations should be made by April 25, 2014. *Best software award for research and teaching in the area of Information Technology and Politics* Nominations are requested for the best software written in 2013 used in either research or teaching about information technology and politics. Deen Freelon (dfreelon(a)gmail.com) is the chair of the committee to make the selection and anyone wanting to submit software for consideration should contact him to make arrangements. 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Call for Applications, 2014-2015 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence, Georgetown University
by kalev leetaru 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Washington, DC is now accepting applications for the position of 2014-2015 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence. The fellowship is supported by the Yahoo! International Values, Communications Technology, and Global Internet Fellowship Fund, which was established in 2007-08 at the School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University with the help of a $1 million gift from Yahoo! Inc. Every year, the fund supports one fellow attached to the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) and two junior fellows from the MSFS graduate program at SFS to conduct research on how international values apply to the development and use of new communications technologies. Additional information can be found on the Institute's website using the following links: http://isd.georgetown.edu/yahoo_application https://isd.georgetown.edu/sites/isd/files/Yahoo_Announcement.pdf ----- Kalev H. Leetaru 2013-14 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University 1316 36th Street NW Washington, DC 20057-1025

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Interesting what SAS can do with Internet data gathering
by Peter Timusk 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

I work with Statistical Analysis Software (SAS) every day at work. So I follow things when they do with Internet Research. SAS have a new Free version for Universities called Analytics U. You may find this blog on their support site fun as there is a video from the recent SAS Global Forum that looks at basic analysis in a humours way of Internet data. There is a windows app in here that can download your facebook for some data in a SAS program format but you can parse this program for the data if you don't have SAS as the programs are just text files. SAS Blogs Home <http://blogs.sas.com/content> > The SAS Dummy<http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy> > Confessions of a SAS Dummy<http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2014/04/06/confessions-of-a-sas-dummy/> Confessions of a SAS Dummy [image: Chris Hemedinger] Chris Hemedinger<http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/author/chrishemedinger> |April 6, 2014 http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2014/04/06/confessions-of-a-sas-dummy/ I have followed this list for may be a decade and attended IR14 but have not heard to much about SAS use by you scholars. So I thought I would bring it up. Peter Timusk social science support worker at some government agency I can't mention but it is not in the business of spying so relax.

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#ELD14 Keynote Announcement
by AJ Kelton 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Please feel free to share this with your colleagues and networks. The 2014 Emerging Learning Design Conference is pleased to announce our full schedule at http://bit.ly/eld14sched and especially our keynote speaker, Dr. Punya Mishra, who will be presenting on "Transforming Education for the New Learner: The Role of Technology & Creativity" You can find the description of his talk at http://bit.ly/eld14keynote. Registration is currently open and starts are only $135 for the full days events, including breakfast and lunch! Seats are limited at that price, so register today and join us on May 30th, 2014. #ELD14 http://eld14.eventbrite.com/?aff=14wsm140410 -- ----- 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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2nd CFP: The 2014 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'14 | Bournemouth, UK
by icais 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS * * * The 2014 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'14 September 08th - 10th, 2014 Bournemouth, UK http://computing.bournemouth.ac.uk/ICAIS/ icais(a)bournemouth.ac.uk Sponsored by - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society - The International Neural Network Society -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * PLENARY TALKS * * * Prof. Ludmila I Kuncheva, Bangor University, UK (Talk: Feature Extraction for Change Detection) Prof. João Gama, University of Porto Porto, Portugal (Talk: Distributed Data Stream Mining) Prof. Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, DE (Talk: Music Lessons and Other Exercises) * * * AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE * * * The ICAIS'14 conference aims at bringing together international researchers, developers and practitioners from different horizons to discuss the latest advances in system learning and adaptation. ICAIS'14 will serve as a space to present the current state of the art but also future research avenues of this thematic. Topics of the conference cover three aspects: Algorithms & theories of adaptation and learning, Adaptation issues in Software & System Engineering, Real- world Applications. ICAIS'14 will feature contributed papers as well as world-renowned guest speakers (see webpage), interactive breakout sessions, and instructional workshops. * * * IMPORTANT DATES * * * - Workshop & Special Session proposal: April 13, 2014 - Full paper submission: June 10, 2014 - Acceptance notification: July 01, 2014 - Final camera ready: July 11, 2014 * * * CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS * * * Proceedings will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series. * * * SPECIAL ISSUES / BOOK * * * A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers will be considered for possible inclusion in one of the following special issues or book: - Special Issue of Evolving Systems (Springer) on Clustering and Classification in Dynamic Environments. - Special Issue of Neurocomputing (Elsevier) on Neurocompting for Dynamically Changing Systems. - Book in the Series of Studies in Computational Intelligence (Springer). * * * MAIN TOPICS (but not limited to) * * * - Track 1: Self-X Systems o Self-adaptation o Self-organization and behavior emergence o Self-managing o Self-healing o Self-monitoring o Multi-agent systems o Self-X software agents o Self-X robots o Self-organizing sensor networks o Evolving systems - Track 2: Incremental Learning o Online incremental learning o Self-growing neural networks o Adaptive and life-long learning o Plasticity and stability o Forgetting o Unlearning o Novelty detection o Perception and evolution o Drift handling o Adaptation in changing environments - Track 3: Online Processing o Adaptive rule-based systems o Adaptive identification systems o Adaptive decision systems o Adaptive preference learning o Time series prediction o Online and single-pass data mining o Online classification o Online clustering o Online regression o Online feature selection and reduction o Online information routing - Track 4: Dynamic and Evolving Models in Computational Intelligence o (Dynamic) Neural networks architectures o (Dynamic) Evolutionary computation o (Dynamic) Swarm intelligence o (Dynamic) Immune and bacterial systems o Uncertainty and fuzziness modeling for adaptation o Approximate reasoning and adaptation o Chaotic systems - Track 5: Software & System Engineering o Autonomic computing o Organic computing o Evolution o Adaptive software architecture o Software change o Software agents o Engineering of complex systems o Adaptive software engineering processes o Component-based development - Track 6: Applications - Adaptivity and Learning o Smart systems o Ambient / ubiquitous environments o Distributed intelligence o Robotics o Industrial applications o Internet applications o Business applications o Supply chain management o etc. * * * SUBMISSION * * * Papers must be in PDF, not exceeding 10 pages and conforming to Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes guidelines. Author instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Papers must be submitted through the submission system ( http://computing.bournemouth.ac.uk/ICAIS ). Short papers describing novel research visions, work-in-progress or less mature results are also welcome. All submission will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 qualified reviewers. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one author have to attend the conference to present the paper. * * * ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE * * * General Chair: - Abdelhamid Bouchachia, Bournemouth University, UK International Advisory Committee: - Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University, New Zealand - Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK - Djamel Ziou, University of Sherbrooke, Canada - Plamen Angelov, University of Lancaster, UK - Witold Pedrycz, University of Edmonton, Canada - Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Organization Committee: - Hammadi Nait-Charif, Bournemouth University, UK - Emili Balaguer-Ballester, Bournemouth University, UK - Damien Fay, Bournemouth University, UK - Jane McAlpine, Bournemouth University, UK Publicity Chair: - Markus Prossegger, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria

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CFP: Interactivos? Birmingham: Responsive and immersive future technologies
by Medialab-Prado Comunicación 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

Interactivos? Birmingham: Responsive and immersive future technologies <http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivosbirmingham> Open Call for Projects <http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivosbirmingham> Birmingham City University (UK), Medialab-Prado (Madrid), Sampad (UK), mac birmingham (UK), and BBC Birmingham (UK) and are issuing an Open Call for projects to be collaboratively developed and presented during *Interactivos? Birmingham* (*June 16 -- 28, 2014*), with the participation of advisors and technical assistants. *Venue: mac birmingham <http://www.macarts.co.uk/>* Deadline: April 30, 2014 Interactivos? Birmingham is a UK based, two week international seminar and open innovation prototyping workshop. The Interactivos? model, conceived by Medialab-Prado as a hybrid between an innovation production workshop, seminar and exhibition showcase. It is a space for reflection, research, collaboration and creation, in which proposals selected by an international open call are developed, completed and displayed. The process will be open to the public from beginning to end. Interactivos? is widely regarded as a model of best practice, and in bringing the project to Birmingham, this will be the first time the Interactivos? project will have been hosted in the UK. In doing so, regional and national based individuals will connect to an international network of creative and digital professionals for collaboration and technological production. http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivosbirmingham -- Nerea García Garmendia Comunicación y contenidos Web en Medialab-Prado Plaza de las Letras Calle Alameda, 15. 28014 Madrid T. 912 191 157 nerea(a)medialab-prado.es http://www.facebook.com/MedialabPradoMadrid Twitter: @medialabprado <https://twitter.com/medialabprado> // /Este correo y sus documentos adjuntos pueden contener información confidencial y/o privilegiada que sólo podrá ser utilizada por su destinatario para el fin del cual es objeto el presente correo. Si usted no es el destinatario o lo ha recibido por error rogamos nos lo comunique y proceda a su eliminación advirtiéndole que toda copia, revelación, distribución y/o cualquier otro uso queda terminantemente prohibido pudiendo incurrir en responsabilidades legales. En cumplimiento de lo dispuesto en el artículo 5 de la Ley Orgánica 15/1999, de 13 de diciembre, de protección de datos de carácter personal, MADRID DESTINO CULTURA TURISMO Y NEGOCIO, S.A. (en adelante, MADRID DESTINO) le informa que sus datos personales o de contacto profesional facilitados serán incorporados en nuestros ficheros de datos personales con la finalidad de gestionar el envío de comunicaciones informativas, así como la relación promocional, comercial y/o negocial (incluyendo, como tal finalidad, la formalización y gestión de contratos y la gestión contable, fiscal, laboral y administrativa) que MADRID DESTINO pudiera mantener con usted. Si lo desea, puede ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, cancelación y oposición dirigiéndose a MADRID DESTINO CULTURA TURISMO Y NEGOCIO, S.A. sita en Madrid, c/ Montalbán 1, 7ª planta, 28014. *El medioambiente es cosa de todos: antes de imprimir este e-mail, piense bien si es necesario hacerlo. * This email and the attached documents may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the exclusive use of the person named above for whom this message is intended. If you are not the designated recipient or have received it by mistake, please notify us and delete this message. You are also hereby notified that copying, revealing, distributing and/or using the contents of this email in any other way is strictly prohibited and may have legal consequences. In accordance with the stipulations of Spanish Data Protection Law, MADRID DESTINO CULTURA TURISMO Y NEGOCIO, S.A. (hereinafter, MADRID DESTINO) hereby informs you that the personal or professional contact details you provide will be recorded in our personal detail files for the purposes of sending announcements and notices and for managing the promotional, commercial and/or business relationship (including, for such purposes, the formalisation and management of contracts as well as accounting, fiscal, labour and administrative management) that MADRID DESTINO may have with you. If you wish, you may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation or objection by writing to MADRID DESTINO CULTURA TURISMO Y NEGOCIO, S.A. situated at c/ Montalbán 1, 7ª planta, 28014 Madrid. *We are all responsible for the environment: please think before you print this email."*/**

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Re: [Air-L] Fwd: FREE OHRP Webinar on Internet Research - May 8, 2014
by Scott MacLeod 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Hi Mary and AIR-L, The talk you announced yesterday looks fascinating - "Conducting Internet Research: Challenges and Strategies for IRBs, Presenter: Laura Odwazny, JD" http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?live=13932&bhcp=1 - but not accessible - http://videocast.nih.gov/ . Any suggestions, besides waiting for it be archived? I'll add it to the main, beginning, 'Research,' wiki, subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research - at C.C., accrediting, MIT OCW-centric World University and School, planned for all 7, 105 languages and 242 countries. Thanks, Scott - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm - World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010. On Mon 07/04/14 3:19 PM , "Mary L. Gray" qcentral(a)indiana.edu sent: > cool. > ?! > > Mary L. Gray > Associate Professor Communication and Culture > Adjunct Faculty, American Studies; Anthropology; Gender Studies > Indiana University, Bloomington > > Senior Researcher Microsoft Research > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Irene Stith-Coleman <I > rene.Stith-Coleman(a)HHS.GOV>> Subject: FREE OHRP Webinar on Internet Research > - May 8, 2014> Date: April 7, 2014 at 7:00:59 AM EDT > > To: <OHRP-L@LI > ST.NIH.GOV>> Reply-To: Irene Stith-Coleman <I > rene.Stith-Coleman(a)HHS.GOV>> > > OHRP is pleased to invite you to the next > presentation in our free continuing Webinar Lecture Series designed to > address critical issues of importance to everyone involved in the > protection of human research subjects:> > > Conducting Internet Research: Challenges and > Strategies for IRBs> > > Presenter: Laura Odwazny, JD, Legal Counsel to > OHRP, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Health and Human > Services (HHS)> > > Date: May 8th, 2014 > > > > Time: 2-3 pm EDT. > > > > Cost: Free > > > > WEBINAR DESCRIPTION: > > > > The current HHS regulations for the protection > of human subjects in research were promulgated well before the widespread > use of the Internet in the conduct of human subject research, and assessing > how the regulatory requirements apply to this type of research can be > challenging for both investigators and IRBs. > > > This session will address how specific > requirements of the HHS regulations apply to research using the Internet > and discuss strategies for managing the relevant ethical issues and > regulatory considerations, including:> > > • assessing the privacy and identifiability > of subject information obtained via the Internet;> • the use of the Internet for subject > recruitment and retention; > • informed consent procedures; > > • and maintaining confidentiality in an > online environment. > > > In light of the July, 2011 Advance Notice of > Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) published by the U.S. Department of Health and > Human Services seeking comment on possible changes to the Common Rule, this > session will also discuss the related ANPRM proposals that are being > contemplated on the Federal level. > > > SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: > > > > Laura M. Odwazny is a Senior Attorney with the > Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health and Human > Services. Ms. Odwazny’s primary client is the Office for Human > Research Protections, which interprets and enforces the HHS regulations > that provide protections for human research subjects. > > > Throughout her 14 years with the Office of the > General Counsel, Ms. Odwazny has provided legal advice to various other > agencies within HHS, including the Office of the Assistant Secretary for > Health, the Program Support Center Division of FOIA Services, the Health > Resources and Services Administration, the Substance Abuse and Mental > Health Administration, and the Office of Research Integrity. > > > Ms. Odwazny is a graduate of the University of > Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and received a M.A. > in Bioethics through the History and Philosophy of Science Department at > the University of Pittsburgh.> > > > > HOW TO LOG IN TO THE WEBINAR: > > > > The event will be accessible live and archived. > There is no charge to access the webinar.> > > To log in, go to: http://videocast.nih.gov > > > We will also have a link to the archived > recording at the OHRP website, www.hhs.gov/ohrp, a > few weeks after the session. > > > If you require technical support during the > Webinar, please call 301-496-4357 (local), 866-319-4357 (toll-free), or > 301-496-8294.> > > Please contact Michelle Feige, Acting Director > for the Division of Education and Development (DED) at Michel > le.Feige(a)hhs.gov if you have general questions about the > webinar. > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L > @listserv.aoir.org mailing listis provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.orgSubscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > >

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ISMI'14 - registration is now open
by Charles Ess 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Dear AoIRists, The 3rd International Symposium on Media Innovations (ISMI) will take place this coming April 24-25 in the Smalltalk Auditorium, Ole-Johan Dahls hus, Gaustadalléen 23B, Oslo. The Symposium will feature three keynote addresses: Thor Gjermund Eriksen, Director General of NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation): "Conditions for Innovations in Public Broadcasting² Bjørn Taale Sandberg, Senior Vice President, Telenor Research: ³Who will fund the media highway of the future?" -The (possible) need for new business models to avoid a tragedy of the commons, And our very own Steve Jones, Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago: ³Living the Good Life: IT Innovations and Human Augmentics² (For more details on the Symposium, including the Program, please see: <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/symposi um/index.html> Registration is free but required as space is limited. The registration link can be found on the Symposium website, or you can go directly to: <https://nettskjema.uio.no/answer/48233.html> Please pass on to potentially interested colleagues and research / practice communities. With all best wishes, - charles Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/> Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> University of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo Norway email: charles.ess(a)media.uio.no

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CFP: HICSS Citizen Journalism and Social Media Archiving
by Bahareh Heravi 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Call for Papers: HICSS Citizen Journalism and Social Media Archiving http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS_48/Tracks/DSM/DSMCitizen.pdf Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 48 January 5-8, 2015, Grand Hyatt, Kauai, Hawaii PAPERS DUE: June 15, 2014 via the HICSS conference system http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm Twitter hashtag: #hicss_sja The exponential growth of social media as a central communication practice, and its agility in announcing breaking news events more rapidly than traditional media, has changed the journalistic landscape: social media has been adopted as a significant source by professional journalists, and conversely, citizens are able to use social media as a form of direct reportage. Social media content now forms a significant part of the digital content generated every day, and provides a platform for voices that would not reach the broader public through traditional journalistic media alone. In this emerging environment, citizen microblogs and other user- generated content constitute an important part of history and popular memory, in particular when attempting to capture significant events and the varied perspectives that accompany these events. The flow of citizen generated reporting through social media is ephemeral and disordered; it quickly becomes inaccessible if not captured and stored in some way. This is in contrast to traditional journalism, which has well-developed archival practices, enabling the news production life cycle to reuse and rediscover content. This new landscape calls for technologies and methodologies to 1) rapidly and efficiently capture, filter and verify content in a way that generates immediate value for journalistic purposes; and 2) properly annotate and archive this information for longer-term preservation, access and reuse in the news life-cycle (e.g. for contextualization, investigative reporting or comprehensive storytelling). If not preserved, or if preserved without careful attention to subsequent access and discoverability, there is a risk of losing the diversity this rich social narrative contributes to traditional news media. This multidisciplinary minitrack is part of Digital and Social Media track and is focused on the areas of citizen/social journalism and social media archiving, which pose distinct, yet complementary, research challenges. By pairing these topics in one multidisciplinary minitrack we hope to stimulate an exchange of ideas between multiple domains of research and industry, including news media, digital archiving and preservation, social network analysis, semantic web and linked data, communication studies and cultural studies. To this end we welcome papers in either of these two areas or papers that address their intersection. In this minitrack we are interested in addressing a variety of research questions from both theoretical and pragmatic perspectives. For example, how we can best utilize social media for news production? What technologies can we use for breaking news detection, filtering, aggregation and contextualization? How can we assess the veracity of social media content and sources? What moral, legal, and ethical issues arise when professional journalists use social media as a source? How can we organize, interpret, and retain a record of social media around news events? What does this record contribute to our larger understanding of news, and the writing of news? How can rigorous archiving and preservation of social media help researchers and journalists in their work on social movements, citizen engagement, political events, and network formation? Keeping the application domains of the minitrack in mind, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • The role of user generated content in the news production life-cycle  • Veracity, trust and provenance of social media sources and content • Approaches to archiving social media content • Event and topic detection and clustering  • Information and entity extraction  • Social network and community analysis • Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies for archival, discovery and enrichment of social media content • Opinion mining and sentiment analysis  • Story curation, contextualisation and recommendation  • Ethical challenges in archiving and broadcasting social media content For more information please visit minitrack web page on http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS_48/Tracks/DSM/DSMCitizen.pdf. You can also follow minitrack updates on http://hujo.deri.ie/hicss-sja/. Co-chairs Bahareh Heravi, Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway (formerly known as DERI), Bahareh.Heravi(a)deri.org, @Bahareh360 (Primary Contact) Natalie Harrower, Digital Repository of Ireland, n.harrower(a)ria.ie, @natalieharrower Stefan Decker, Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway (formerly known as DERI), Stefan.Decker(a)deri.org, @Stefanjdecker ABOUT HICSS CONFERENCES http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm HICSS conferences are devoted to the most relevant advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation are included in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and maintained in the IEEE Digital Library. HICSS is the #1 IS conference in terms of citations as recorded by Google Scholar. Recent research that shows HICSS ranked second in citation ranking among 18 Information Systems (IS) conferences, ranked third in value to the MIS field among 13 Management Information Systems (MIS) conferences, and ranked second in conference rating among 11 IS conferences. The Australian Government's Excellence in Research project (ERA) has given HICSS an "A" rating. How to Submit a Paper: Follow Author Instructions on the conference web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm HICSS papers must contain original material. They may not have been previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process. Abstracts are optional, but recommended. You may contact the Minitrack Chair(s) for guidance or verification of content. Submit a paper to only one Minitrack. If a paper is submitted to more than one minitrack, then either paper may be rejected by either minitrack without consultation with author or other chairs. If you are not sure of the appropriate Minitrack, submit an abstract to the Track Chair(s) for determination, and/or seek informal opinion(s) of Minitrack Chair(s) before submitting. Do not author or co-author more than 5 papers. This means that an individual may be listed as author or co-author on no more than 5 submitted papers. Track Chairs must approve any names added after submission or acceptance on August 15. IMPORTANT DATES June 15, 2014 - SUBMIT FULL MANUSCRIPTS FOR REVIEW as instructed. The review is double-blind; therefore, this initial submission must be without author names. Aug 15, 2014 - Review System emails Acceptance Notices to authors. It is very important that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference. Therefore, all travel guarantees – including visa or your organization’s fiscal funding procedures – should begin immediately. Make sure your server accepts the review system address https://precisionconference.com/~hicss. Sep 15, 2014 - SUBMIT FINAL PAPER. Add author names to your paper, and submit your Final Paper for Publication to the site provided in your Acceptance Notice. (This URL is not public knowledge.) Oct 1, 2014 - EARLY REGISTRATION FEE DEADLINE. At least one author of each paper should register by this date in order secure publication in the Proceedings. Fees will increase on Oct 2 and Dec 2. Oct 15, 2014 - Papers without at least one paid-in-full registered author may be deleted from the Proceedings and not scheduled for presentation; authors will be so notified by the Conference Office. ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Bahareh R. Heravi Group Leader, Digital Humanities and Journalism (http://hujo.deri.ie/) INSIGHT @NUIG (DERI) Tel: +353 91 495339 Web: http://bahareh.net/ @Bahareh360 ------------------------------------------------------------

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