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

ran out of Ello invites!
by sava saheli singh 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

I've run out, sorry! but I think I sent out close to 30 invites to people on this list, so reach out to someone here =) enjoy! -- sava saheli singh PhD Candidate | Adjunct Instructor | Program Assistant Educational Communication and Technology Program <http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/alt/ect> NYU Steinhardt

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Social Networking on the Dark Web
by Robert W. Gehl 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Hi, all -- While we're on the topic of alternative social media sites such as Ello, I thought I'd bring a new article of mine to the list's attention. It's called "Power/freedom on the dark web: a digital ethnography of the Dark Web Social Network." It will be published in New Media and Society, and you can see an advance version here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2498629 The article explores a social network that is only accessible through Tor. Despite this, the site has grown quite a bit in the past year, with many privacy-conscious members signing up on this non-commercial, anti-surveillance social networking site. Regards, Rob Gehl -- Robert W. Gehl Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Affiliated Faculty, University Writing Program The University of Utah www.robertwgehl.org | @robertwgehl Sent from our OS on our Internet Please read my book: Reverse Engineering Social Media http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2275_reg.html

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Experience as Evidence? Symposium - Registration closing Sun, Sept 28
by Fadhila Mazanderani 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Apologies for cross-posting. This is a reminder for anyone interested in this event: registration closes SUNDAY, the 28th of September. ---- EXPERIENCE AS EVIDENCE? A Symposium on the Sciences of Subjectivity in Healthcare, Policy and Practice St Hugh’s College, Oxford 13-14 October 2014 ‘Experience’ has long been referenced as a valuable, if ‘subjective’, resource in a variety of fields. Especially in healthcare, highly personal, embodied understandings of illness have been studied as an alternative to ‘objective’ biomedical knowledge and are often used to critique biomedical reductionism. In the wake of this critique, as well as burgeoning patient activism and health consumerism, over the last fifty years an industry has emerged that aims to capture, process and distribute the patient ‘experience’. This raises a number of questions about the nature of the knowledge generated by these ‘technologies of experience’: – What does it take to turn experience into evidence? What new methods and expertise are emerging in this field? – What promises, pitfalls and politics come with these approaches? – And what are the implications for research, policy and practice? The symposium brings together a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars and practitioners to discuss these and related questions, critically engaging with how the concept of ‘experience’ is articulated, studied, and developed within medical sociology, science and technology studies (STS), health services research, healthcare policy and practice. Speakers include: Samantha Adams, Madeleine Akrich, Havi Carel, Trisha Greenhalgh, Tiago Moreira, Jeannette Pols, Vololona Rabeharisoa, Glenn Robert, Tanja Schneider, Paul Wicks, Alex Wilkie, Kaiton Williams. For more information and registration, see: http://experience-as-evidence.org/ Organizing committee: Angela Martin, Fadhila Mazanderani, Louise Locock, John Powell, Steve Woolgar, Sue Ziebland, Malte Ziewitz Hosted by the University of Oxford’s Health Experiences Research Group (HERG) and made possible with the support of NIHR, the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness and the Wellcome Trust. http://experience-as-evidence.org

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Tenure-track position in Science, Technology and International Affairs at Georgetown
by Meg Ambrose 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service is looking for a tenure track faculty member to join the Science, Technology and International Affairs program. They are particularly interested in someone whose research includes the words cyber, policy, and international. Please feel free to pass along the following post to anyone who might be interested. Anyone can feel free to contact me or Joanna Lewis (contact info below) with questions or for further information. *Tenure-track position in Science, Technology and International Affairs at Georgetown* The Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor to start in August 2015. Successful applicants will have a research focus that combines the international policy dimensions of one or several topics that are core to the STIA program with scientific or technical expertise. The program has a particular interest in candidates with research and teaching interests in the areas of science, technology and security policy (such as cyber security/intelligence; geospatial intelligence; or conventional and non-conventional weapons); or business, growth and development policy (such as information technology and development, or innovation and competitiveness); but all exceptional candidates will be considered. Further information about the School of Foreign Service and the STIA program are available atsfs.georgetown.edu. We seek a scholar who has demonstrated potential for excellence in research, teaching, and service. The STIA program is home to a unique, inter-disciplinary undergraduate program that produces graduates with the tools needed to understand the complex problems at the intersection of scientific and technical issues and international affairs. Our faculty members are trained in a wide variety of fields in the natural and social sciences and our research occurs at the intersection of science, technology and international policy issues. Applicants should provide a cover letter, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, recent teaching evaluations (if available), and copies of recently published papers or working papers. Applications for this position must be made via Georgetown’s online application management system athttps://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/4595 Faxed, mailed or emailed applications will not be accepted. Review of applications will begin on October 15 and will continue until the position is filled. Questions about the online application system should be directed to Olivia Payne, Manager of Faculty Affairs at ofp(a)georgetown.edu. Questions about the position should be directed to Dr. James Reardon-Anderson, Acting Dean at reardonj(a)georgetown.edu. Georgetown University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer fully dedicated to achieving a diverse faculty and staff. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability or other categories protected by law. More info at: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/4595 Joanna Lewis, Ph.D. Associate Professor | Science, Technology and International Affairs | Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service |Georgetown University ICC 512 | 37th & O Streets NW, Washington, DC 20057 Tel. +1.202.687.7284 | Email: Joanna.Lewis(a)georgetown.edu Website*: *http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/jil9/ -- Meg Leta Ambrose, Ph.D., J.D. Assistant Professor Communication, Culture & Technology Georgetown University MA1318(a)Georgetown.edu MegLeta.com <http://megleta.com/>

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CFP: A Safe Refuge? Minorities and the State in Iranian Cyberspace
by Vit Sisler 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

A Safe Refuge? Minorities and the State in Iranian Cyberspace Call for Papers CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East Editor-in-Chief: Daniel Martin Varisco Guest Editor: Bronwen Robertson and James Marchant Submission deadline: 30 April 2015 (Full Papers) Aim The Iranian state has consistently restricted spaces for minorities to express their identities, especially where such identities are construed as representing a threat to the religious, political and sexual orthodoxies promulgated by the clerical establishment. As a result, many members of assorted Iranian minority groups have taken to cyberspace to build communities, articulate self- and group-identities, organise to overcome discriminatory practices, and connect with their allies from across national borders and around the world. With the election of Hassan Rouhani to the presidency there have been renewed hopes for an improvement in the position of Iran’s minorities, though tangible improvements have been slow to materialise. Whilst the state is slow to take steps that would improve the position of Iran’s minorities, it is ultimately down to these communities to organise and find solutions to their myriad concerns. This special issue of CyberOrient invites contributors to explore how Iranian minority groups have embraced technology to overcome state marginalization, strengthen communities, and push back against entrenched societal prejudices. Topics might include the role of online networks in community formation; the impact of state filtering programmes upon minorities; the effectiveness of phone apps in providing communities with support and education; the extent of access to communications technology by minority communities; and the capacity for diaspora organisations and communities to affect the position of Iranian minorities. About CyberOrient CyberOrient (http://www.cyberorient.net/) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Anthropological Association, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. The aim of the journal is to provide research and theoretical considerations on the representation of Islam and the Middle East, the very areas that used to be styled as an “Orient”, in cyberspace, as well as the impact of the internet and new media in Muslim and Middle Eastern contexts. Submission Articles should be submitted directly to Bronwen Robertson (bronwen(a)smallmedia.org.uk) James Marchant (james(a)smallmedia.org.uk) and Vit Sisler (vit.sisler(a)ff.cuni.cz) Articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including references), and follow the AAA style in referencing and citations. Upon acceptance, articles will be published online with free access in Fall 2015. More information can be found here: http://www.cyberorient.net/detail.do?articleId=3682 -- Vit Sisler, Ph.D. Charles University in Prague Faculty of Arts Institute of Information Science and Librarianship New Media Studies http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/

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CAMRI Seminar Oct 1: Jenny Chan - Dying for an iPhone: The Labour Struggle of China’s New Working Class
by Christian Fuchs 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Dying for an iPhone: The Labour Struggle of China’s New Working Class Jenny Chan CAMRI Research Seminar Wednesday, October 1, 2014 University of Westminster Harrow Campus, 14:00-16:00 Room A7.01 Attendance: register per e-mail to christian.fuchs(a)uti.at until Monday, Sep 30, 20:00 http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/dying-for-an-iphone-th… CAMRI Research Seminars – Autumn 2014 programme: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars This sociological research analyzes the ways in which the integration of the electronics manufacturing industry in global supply chains has intensified labour conflicts and class antagonism. The Taiwanese transnational corporation Foxconn Technology Group holds more than 50 percent of market share in global electronics manufacturing. Its 1.4 million employees in China far exceed its combined workforce in 28 other countries that comprise its global empire. I assess the conditions of a new generation of Chinese workers on the basis of the intertwined policies and practices of Foxconn, international brands (notably Apple), and the local government, as well as the diverse forms of collective actions workers deploy to defend their rights and interests. Within the tight delivery deadlines, some Foxconn workers leveraged their power to disrupt production to demand higher pay and better conditions. While all of these labor struggles were short-lived and limited in scope to a single factory, protestors exposed the injustice of “iSlavery,” garnering wide media attention and civil society support. Contradictions of state-labor-capital relations, however, remain sharp. In the authoritarian regime, notwithstanding the resilience of the Chinese state in the face of sustained popular unrest over the last two decades, my ethnographic study highlights the unstable nature of precarious labor in its hundreds of millions. Jenny Chan was Chief Coordinator of SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior) http://sacom.hk/ between 2006 and 2009. Educated at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong, she went on to pursue her doctorate in sociology and labour studies as a Reid Research Scholar at University of London. She was awarded the Great Britain-China Educational Trust for dissertation writing (PhD diss. 2014). On September 1 2014 she joined the University of Oxford as Departmental Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Studies, the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies. Her recent articles have appeared in Current Sociology, Modern China, The Asia-Pacific Journal, The South Atlantic Quarterly, Global Labour Journal, New Labor Forum, Labor Notes, New Internationalist and New Technology, Work and Employment. http://www.ccsp.ox.ac.uk/dr-jenny-chan

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Re: [Air-L] Vian Bakir
by andymcstay 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

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Call for Full Book Chapters (30th October 2014): Information Systems and Management in eMedia and Creative Industries: Springer-Verlag
by Artur Lugmayr 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

=============================================================================================================== 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. =============================================================================================================== Upcoming Deadline: 30th October (manuscript), 20th Dec. (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.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014ISMEMEDIA/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ismemedia/ Contact us: lartur(a)acm.org or emilija.stojmenova(a)ltfe.org =============================================================================================================== In the context of eMedia and creative industry: information systems, information management, knowledge management, decision management, workflow management, electronic media, IT systems, human factors of IT systems, management technology, digital services, big data, open data, linked data According to Gartner published in Techcrunch, communications media and services are the 3rd largest IT systems spenders with a yearly growth rate of 4.4% with a share of approx. $4 billion in 2011, after banking & securities and manufacturing & natural resources [1]. For example, the TV industry was faced with tremendous change in technologies during the past decade, such as the digital switchover, the introduction of HDTV, or the provision of 3D content. Large scale asset repositories and different workflows in the content production process had to be introduced. Other media industries faced similar challenges, as the emergence of digital publishing, digital content distribution, or advancement of in-house customer relationship management infrastructures, and the digitalization of workflows. This change towards digital implies a more holistic view of information systems and management in media industries to provide optimal system solutions, and eventually cut costs. Where other industries are well researched in terms of their IT system solutions, in media industries the discussion around content repositories, media management solutions, and digital workflows seems to be predominant. Within the context of this publication, a more holistic view towards information systems and management in media industries shall be introduced, and emphasize the importance of research of business information management and systems in media industries. The media and entertainment industry is the third largest industry segment for investments in information systems. And this particular industry segment is faced with tremendous challenges in terms of organizational, transformational, leadership, customer behaviour, and technological changes. One particular challenge is the transformation of the analogue media world into its digital counterpart. As of today, the successive research of business information management and systems focusing on media and entertainment industries is rather fragmented and stretches over a wide area of research islands such as social media, eCommerce, or eBusiness. To face this challenge, this book focuses on information management and systems for media and entertainment industries and highlighting their particular needs in production, distribution, and consumption. The book shall gather a scientific community around the theme of business information management and systems in the larger context of media and entertainment industries. Special Focus on the Notion NEW approaches of Content and Media in Information Systems & Management Applications in Particular in Application Areas as: Big Data, Crowd, Open Data, Linked Data, Cloud Application, New Business Analytics, Information Visualization, Workflow Management, and Global Digital Production Pipelines. =============================================================================================================== Topics of Interest =============================================================================================================== =============================================================================================================== Management, Marketing, Business Aspects and Strategic Importance of IT and IS&M in Creative eMedia Industries =============================================================================================================== o IS as basis of new business models/new media products o business process modelling o customer intelligence either in real-time / non-real-time o enterprise systems and project management o subscriber management & marketing o business model innovations and analytics o personalized and individualized offerings to increase consumer loyalty o increase revenue from intellectual property (IP) rights and royalties o financial performance management o marketing and targeted marketing for media services and consumer feedback management o subscriber management & marketing o target niche groups and create new revenue streams o increase revenue from intellectual property (IP) rights and royalties o financial performance management =============================================================================================================== Consumer, Audience, Human-Computer-Interaction, and User Viewpoints =============================================================================================================== * perception of media content in systems * understanding audiences, advertisement statistics, audience trends, and audience preferences * social media analysis and marketing * collaborative productions * customer intelligence either in real-time / non- real-time * marketing and targeted marketing for media services and consumer feedback management * target niche groups and create new revenue streams * personalized and individualized offerings to increase consumer loyalty * the behavioural, cognitive, motivational and affective aspects of human and technology interaction in media and content production * digital documents/genres; human information seeking and web navigation behaviours; human information interaction; information visualization in media industries * behavioural information security and information assurance; privacy and trust in human technology interaction * user interface design and evaluation for various applications in business, managerial, organizational domains in media * integrated and/or innovative approaches, guidelines, and standards or metrics for human centred analysis, design, construction, evaluation, and use of interactive devices and information systems * information systems usability engineering; universal usability * the impact of interfaces/information technology on people's attitude, behaviour, performance, perception, and productivity * the elderly, the young, and special needs populations for new applications, modalities, and multimedia interaction in content/media industry * user-centred/participatory/informed design and evaluation for different types of applications in a variety of contexts in the media and content 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 =============================================================================================================== o digital content End-to-End o data warehousing; digital archiving & asset management o data warehousing o digital archiving & asset management o digital workflows and workflow management o workflow management applications o process automation o IT supporting new services: cloud, big data, crowd, linked data, and open data o Decision making systems using media content o ? =============================================================================================================== Methods, Approaches, and Importance of IT and Information Systems and Management in Media - Media and Content as Part of IS&M across Application Domains =============================================================================================================== o impact of media in IS&M (e.g. business case calculation) o information systems research methods o system analysis and design o design methods and approaches, including visual design o methods in human-computer-interaction and IS&M o information quality and measurement o evaluation of the impact of IS in media o methods for performance management, business model innovations, and analytics o ? =============================================================================================================== Content, Service, Application, and Artistic Viewpoint on IS&M in Media and Creativity Industries =============================================================================================================== o IS & media services targeted to the end consumer o open data and linked data applications o Big Data related to media industry and for vertical industries (government, healthcare, ?) o crowd-funding and crowd-sourcing applications and for market research and innovation o media for/media industry and cloud applications o digital production management applications o knowledge visualization & management o digital storytelling (serious and entertainment contexts) o ? We strongly welcome other topic suggestions dealing with the topic matter. Please feel free to submit. However, we do NOT want chapters outside the information systems & management context. =============================================================================================================== 30th October 2014 submission of full book chapters =============================================================================================================== * please follow the manuscript formatting guidelines below, and only submit the original version (in Microsoft Word) * each final manuscript should be 15-17 pages long (depending on the number of submissions longer manuscripts will also be accepted) and follow the guidelines on http://www.springer.com/authors/book+authors?SGWID=0-154102-12-417900-0 * Manuscript submission website: http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014ISMEMEDIA/

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NEO UBIMEDIA MINDTREK AWARD 2014 (the ubimedia competition) - deadline extended till the 30th September
by Artur Lugmayr 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

============================================================================== NEO UBIMEDIA MINDTREK AWARD 2014 CALL FOR COMPETITION ENTRIES THE award for the pervasive, ubiqutious, and ambient intelligent community EXTENDED Award submission DEADLINE: 30th SEPTEMBER 2014 4th-6th November, Tampere Finland http://www.numa.fi, http://www.mindtrek.org Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/numa.award/ In cooperation with MindTrek Association, Internatinal Ambient Media Association (iAMEA), and the AIS SIG-eMedia ============================================================================== NUMA 2014 - THE award for pervasive, ubiquitous, ambient technologies, media, services, user experience, concepts, and applications. We refurbished the competition for 2014 after having received over 220 competition entries over the past seven years. We want to integrate all the latest trends in the world of smart media, as we want to see incredible re-interpretations of the original notion of ubimedia, pervasive media, and ambient media. Any new fresh idea is welcome in this area! The vision of ubimedia today spreads in smart city concepts, smart cards, and smart phones - and starts to become mainstream - there are still many more exciting, seamless, and unobtrusive experiences that need to be discovered. We still seek for cutting edge tech innovations, and look for makers that single-handedly engineer fascinating new ubimedia services and devices on a shoestring budget. We welcome all ubimedia masterminds, pervasive computation enthusiasts, and ambient intelligent researchers to participate in writing the next chapter for the most innovative, inspiring, and sometimes slightly mad competition in ubimedia's history and seek projects, applications, services, technological solutions, concepts, or new media environment as competition entry. Note, there will be also a price sum giving to the very best three entries. Possible themes, topics, and areas where your application could contribute to: - smart environments (smart cars, smart houses, smart devices, smart cities) - cyber, social, and physical computing - human computer interaction in the era of ubiquitous computation - smart robots, interaction with robots, and robotic applications - new interaction devices (Google glasses, Pebble, ?) - big data concepts for pervasive computation - the ?quantified? self and the digital human - sensor data, context awareness, and intelligence - mobile phone applications, NFC technologies, and embedded systems (e.g. Arduino) - wearable technologies, smart watches, smart glasses, and smart gadgets - cyber physical systems (CPS) - urban informatics and smart transportation - security and safety of environments - smart saving of energy, and sustainable environments - production and industrial applications that are smart - information systems and management in smart environments - entertainment applications (e.g. pervasive games, ambient television, ...) - artisic works, apps, and creative designs - ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and consumer experience - software, hardware, and middleware frameworks NUMA is looking for your bold, irritating and mind-opening ideas, no matter if you are a student, seasoned researcher, entrepreneur or artist. Whether thesis, project or product - our only condition is: you must be able to demo it, otherwise you are out! You will have to prove your idea with a working prototype, and if you are nominated you will need to demonstrate your work during MindTrek. As we are a cross-disciplinary competition, we created the following categories, to cope with all the latest trends: - ?NUMA-TEC? - You have been pushing the boundaries of sensors and ubiquitous computing or invented some incredible new pervasive hardware? This award focuses on advances in ?Technology?. - ?NUMA-KERS? - You have mastered the odds of physical computing and rapid prototyping and want to expose your devices beyond the maker community? This award focuses on the community of ?Makers?. - ?NUMA-UX? - You are an interaction, experience designer, or artist and have gone where no content has been seen before? This award focuses on the ?Experience?. - ?NUMA-CONTENT? - You are a content creator, application developer, designer, artist, game designer, or new media developer? This award focuses on new ambient, ubiquitous, and pervasive content. NUMA 2014 gives all of you the chance to show your work to an interdisciplinary international jury and win a the award! Winners will also be invited to become part of the great MindTrek 2014 event and community with travel costs covered. To submit your entry, please go to http://www.numa.fi (http://www.numa.fi/call-open) If you would like to get more information or have questions, please send your email to: chairs(a)lists.numa.fi. Subscribe to our email list on: http://lists.numa.fi/mailman/listinfo/numa. The competition is organized in cooperation with the MindTrek Association (http://www.mindtrek.org) and the International Ambient Media Association (iAMEA) (http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org) the AIS SIG-eMedia (http://aisnet.org/group/SIG-eMedia) and part of the MindTrek Festival. The chairs of the competition are Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FINLAND; Bjoern Stockleben, Univ. of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, GERMANY; and Timothy Merritt, Aarhus School of Architecture, DENMARK. Website: http://www.numa.fi (http://www.numa.fi/call-open) Contact Email: chairs(a)lists.numa.fi EMAIL List: http://lists.numa.fi/mailman/listinfo/numa Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/numa.award/

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two new datasets - knowledge graph over academic literature and over human rights reports
by kalev leetaru 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

I thought many of you would find of great use two new GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) datasets released late yesterday. The first is the set of underlying GKG datasets behind our paper that data mined more than 21 billion words of academic literature from JSTOR, DTIC, CORE, CiteSeerX, CIA, and the Internet Archive ( http://dlib.org/dlib/september14/leetaru/09leetaru.html) In the hopes of seeding new kinds of research that incorporate the cultural knowledge of the world's academic literature, we are making the GKG datasets behind that paper available for open research. NOTE that these do NOT contain the text of the articles themselves, only the metadata computed from each article, which includes computed metadata of the references cited in each paper, allowing applications such as identifying the most cited authors and institutions relating to specific geographies, topics, and socio-political groups. The full GKG dataset collection of around 40GB is available: http://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-the-africa-and-middle-east-global-a… We have also released a new Human Rights GKG, which encodes in quantitative form a cross-section of the world’s public knowledge of human rights issues across the world, scattered across the hundreds of thousands of textual reports, calls to action, alerts, field interviews, and other material published by organizations throughout the globe. This initial GKG encodes over 110,000 documents encoding a number of the major international human rights report archives, offering a computable overview of global human rights issues over the decades: http://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-the-new-human-rights-global-knowled… The GDELT GKG format encodes lists of social groups, organizations, locations, major themes, emotions, and a range of other metadata computed from each document, making it possible to conduct a wide array of studies that blend spatial, semantic, citation, and network analyses ( http://blog.gdeltproject.org/introducing-gkg-2-0-the-next-generation-of-the… ). We're very much looking forward to seeing what you all are able to do with these new GKG collections! For more information on the GDELT Project more broadly, see the main site (http://www.gdeltproject.org/) or the blog ( http://blog.gdeltproject.org/) ~Kalev

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