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New book: Handbook of Digital Politics
by Stephen Coleman 17 Sep '16

17 Sep '16

List members might be interested in the following new publication: Handbook of Digital Politics Edited by Stephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK and Deen Freelon, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, American University, Washington, DC, US Published by Edward Elgar Contents: 1. Introduction: Conceptualising Digital Politics Stephen Coleman and Deen Freelon PART I THEORIZING DIGITAL POLITICS 2. The Internet as a Civic Space Peter Dahlgren 3. The Social Foundations of Future Digital Politics Nick Couldry 4. The Fifth Estate: A Rising Force of Pluralistic Accountability William H. Dutton and Elizabeth Dubois 5. Silicon Valley Ideology and Class Inequality: A Virtual Poll Tax on Digital Politics Jen Schradie PART II GOVERNMENT AND POLICY 6. Online Voting Advice Applications: Foci, Findings and Future of an Emerging Research Field Fadi Hirzalla and Liesbet van Zoonen 7. Internet Voting: The State of the Debate Thad Hall 8. Digital Campaigning Daniel Kreiss 9. e-Petitions Scott Wright 10. Argumentation Tools for Digital Politics: Addressing the Challenge of Deliberation in Democracies Neil Benn PART III COLLECTIVE ACTION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 11. The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and The Personalization of Contentious Politics W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg 12. Youth Civic Engagement Chris Wells, Emily Vraga, Kjerstin Thorson, Stephanie Edgerly and Leticia Bode 13. Internet Use and Political Engagement in Youth Yunhwan Kim and Erik Amnå PART IV POLITICAL TALK 14. Everyday Political Talk in the Internet-Based Public Sphere Todd Graham 15. Creating Spaces for Online Deliberation Christopher Birchall and Stephen Coleman 16. Computational Approaches to Online Political Expression: Rediscovering a “Science of the Social” Dhavan V. Shah, Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Alex Hanna, Timothy Mcafee, and JungHwan Yang 17. Two-screen Politics: Evidence, Theory and Challenges Nick Anstead and Ben O’Loughlin PART V JOURNALISM 18. From News Blogs to News on Twitter: Gatewatching and Collaborative News Curation Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield 19. Research on the Political Implications of Political Entertainment Michael A. Xenos 20. Journalism, Gatekeeping and Interactivity Neil Thurman PART VI INTERNET GOVERNANCE 21. Internet Governance, Rights and Democratic Legitimacy Giles Moss 22. Social Media Surveillance Christian Fuchs PART VII EXPANDING THE FRONTIERS OF DIGITAL POLITICS RESEARCH 23. Visibility and Visualities: ‘Ways of Seeing’ Politics in the Digital Media Environment Katy Parry 24. Automated Content Analysis of Online Political Communication Ross Petchler and Sandra González-Bailon 25. On the Cutting Edge of Big Data: Digital Politics Research in the Social Computing Literature Deen Freelon ‘The Handbook of Digital Politics edited by Stephen Coleman and Deen Freelon is an incredibly rich and outstanding collection of essays on the ideologies, theories and methodologies that currently inspire the field of political science and communication. The editors brilliantly succeed in guiding us through this fascinating world – avoiding any rhetoric, or either a dystopian or utopian perspective on the subject. The articles collected here represent the golden section of the contemporary debate on digital politics.’ – Leopoldina Fortunati, Head of the Ph.D program in Multimedia Communication, University of Udine, Italy ‘Coleman and Freelon have deftly edited a series of essays that help us transition to the next big thing in political communication—an internet connecting many people over many kinds of devices, making large volumes of data. Digital politics is no longer so much about what happens in your browser, but about what happens when your devices talk to each other on their own. This collection helps us to get ready to understand the new infrastructure of political life.’ – Philip N. Howard, University of Washington, US Stephen Coleman Professor of Political Communication School of Media and Communication University of Leeds Recent publications: How Voters Feel: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relati… Can The Media Serve Democracy? http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/can-the-media-serve-democracy-stephen-c… Handbook of Digital Politics: https://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_main.lasso?currency=US&id=15497

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New issue and call for submissions: Participations, the Journal for Audience and Reception Studies
by Rosenbaum-Andre, Judith E. 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Participations, The Journal for Audience and Reception Studies has published its latest issue online at http://www.participations.org This issue once again offers a rich variety of articles, including an innovative study into the role played by online participation into narrative spoilers, a discussion about new directions for methodologies in fan studies, as well as a themed section on “Media generations”. This themed section, which consists of nine different publications, discusses differences in generational usage of media from various perspectives. The journal is open to all users, so please check out this latest endeavor. Participations is also always on the lookout for new contributions in the field of mass/popular culture. Please see http://www.participations.org/submission_guidelines.htm for details on submitting an essay ------------------------------------------------ Judith E. Rosenbaum, PhD Associate Professor, Mass Communication Research Facilitator, Health Disparities Research Community Albany State University 504 College Drive Albany, GA 31705 Phone: 229.430.3684 Office: BCB 261/Wiley 304

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CALL FOR ACM IUI 2016 DEMOS AND POSTERS
by Denis Parra 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Apologies for cross-postings =========================== CALL FOR ACM IUI 2016 DEMOS AND POSTERS 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI’16) Sonoma, CA, USA March 7-10, 2016 Deadline: Dec 20, 2016 Notification: January 10, 2016 =========================== ACM IUI 2015 is the 20th annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We are also very interested in contributions from related fields, such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, etc. =========================== Demos =========================== The demonstrations track complements the overall program of the conference. Demonstrations show implementations of novel, interesting, and important intelligent user interface concepts or systems. We invite submissions relevant to intelligent user interfaces and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. All submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. The page limit for demo papers is 4 pages. Accepted demo papers will be published in the companion proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. =========================== Posters =========================== Posters provide an opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early stage work and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. We invite submissions on all topics of the conference. All submissions should convey a scientific result or work in progress that is not yet ready to be published as a full length research paper at a refereed conference. Submitting a draft poster along with your submission is not required but highly recommended. The page limit for poster papers is 4 pages. Accepted poster papers will appear in the companion proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. =========================== Submission Instructions ========================== Demo and poster submissions do not need to be anonymized. The page limit is 4 pages in HCI format. Submitting a draft poster along with your poster submission is not required but highly recommended. Submit your demos and posters at https://precisionconference.com/~sigchi/ =========================== Demo and Poster Chairs =========================== Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen, UK Matt Dennis, University of Aberdeen, UK Bongwon Suh, Seoul National University, Korea Contact: poster2016(a)iui.acm.org Denis Alejandro Parra Santander Profesor Asistente, DCC Escuela de Ingeniería, PUC Chile +56 (2) 2354-4442 http://web.ing.puc.cl/~dparra/

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In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Scicence Hub
by Seda Gurses 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Hello everyone, I am forwarding this initiative by Marcel Mars and others following the recent court case initiated by Elsevier against LibGen and SciHub. I am unfortunately not following these developments closely enough but I believe strongly that it is of interest to Air peeps and other academic communities. Please do consider spreading their message further even if you don’t agree but think that this is something we should be discussing and engaging in actively. Best, Seda # In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub In Antoine de Saint Exupéry's tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with the sole purpose of being able to buy more stars. The Little Prince is perplexed. He owns only a flower, which he waters every day. Three volcanoes, which he cleans every week. "It is of some use to my volcanoes, and it is of some use to my flower, that I own them," he says, "but you are of no use to the stars that you own". There are many businessmen who own knowledge today. Consider Elsevier, the largest scholarly publisher, whose 37% profit margin[^1] stands in sharp contrast to the rising fees, expanding student loan debt and poverty-level wages for adjunct faculty. Elsevier owns some of the largest databases of academic material, which are licensed at prices so scandalously high that even Harvard, the richest university of the global north, has complained that it cannot afford them any longer. Robert Darnton, the past director of Harvard Library, says "We faculty do the research, write the papers, referee papers by other researchers, serve on editorial boards, all of it for free … and then we buy back the results of our labour at outrageous prices."[^2] For all the work supported by public money benefiting scholarly publishers, particularly the peer review that grounds their legitimacy, journal articles are priced such that they prohibit access to science to many academics - and all non-academics - across the world, and render it a token of privilege[^3]. Elsevier has recently filed a copyright infringement suit in New York against Science Hub and Library Genesis claiming millions of dollars in damages.[^4] This has come as a big blow, not just to the administrators of the websites but also to thousands of researchers around the world for whom these sites are the only viable source of academic materials. The social media, mailing lists and IRC channels have been filled with their distress messages, desperately seeking articles and publications. Even as the New York District Court was delivering its injunction, news came of the entire editorial board of highly-esteemed journal Lingua handing in their collective resignation, citing as their reason the refusal by Elsevier to go open access and give up on the high fees it charges to authors and their academic institutions. As we write these lines, a petition is doing the rounds demanding that Taylor & Francis doesn't shut down Ashgate[^5], a formerly independent humanities publisher that it acquired earlier in 2015. It is threatened to go the way of other small publishers that are being rolled over by the growing monopoly and concentration in the publishing market. These are just some of the signs that the system is broken. It devalues us, authors, editors and readers alike. It parasites on our labor, it thwarts our service to the public, it denies us access[^6]. We have the means and methods to make knowledge accessible to everyone, with no economic barrier to access and at a much lower cost to society. But closed access’s monopoly over academic publishing, its spectacular profits and its central role in the allocation of academic prestige trumps the public interest. Commercial publishers effectively impede open access, criminalize us, prosecute our heroes and heroines, and destroy our libraries, again and again. Before Science Hub and Library Genesis there was Library.nu or Gigapedia; before Gigapedia there was textz.org; before textz.org there was little; and before there was little there was nothing. That's what they want: to reduce most of us back to nothing. And they have the full support of the courts and law to do exactly that.[^7] In Elsevier's case against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis, the judge said: "simply making copyrighted content available for free via a foreign website, disserves the public interest"[^8]. Alexandra Elbakyan's original plea put the stakes much higher: "If Elsevier manages to shut down our projects or force them into the darknet, that will demonstrate an important idea: that the public does not have the right to knowledge." We demonstrate daily, and on a massive scale, that the system is broken. We share our writing secretly behind the backs of our publishers, circumvent paywalls to access articles and publications, digitize and upload books to libraries. This is the other side of 37% profit margins: our knowledge commons grows in the fault lines of a broken system. We are all custodians of knowledge, custodians of the same infrastructures that we depend on for producing knowledge, custodians of our fertile but fragile commons. To be a custodian is, de facto, to download, to share, to read, to write, to review, to edit, to digitize, to archive, to maintain libraries, to make them accessible. It is to be of use to, not to make property of, our knowledge commons. More than seven years ago Aaron Swartz, who spared no risk in standing up for what we here urge you to stand up for too, wrote: "We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access. With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we'll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?"[^9] We find ourselves at a decisive moment. This is the time to recognize that the very existence of our massive knowledge commons is an act of collective civil disobedience. It is the time to emerge from hiding and put our names behind this act of resistance. You may feel isolated, but there are many of us. The anger, desperation and fear of losing our library infrastructures, voiced across the internet, tell us that. This is the time for us custodians, being dogs, humans or cyborgs, with our names, nicknames and pseudonyms, to raise our voices. Share this letter - read it in public - leave it in the printer. Share your writing - digitize a book - upload your files. Don't let our knowledge be crushed. Care for the libraries - care for the metadata - care for the backup. Water the flowers - clean the volcanoes. ---- [^1]: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0127502, http://svpow.com/2012/01/13/the-obscene-profits-of-commercial-scholarly-pub… [^2]: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-p… [^3]: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/10/20121017558785551.html [^4]: https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-tears-down-academias-illegal-copyright-pay… [^5]: https://www.change.org/p/save-ashgate-publishing [^6]: http://thecostofknowledge.com/ [^7]: In fact, with the TPP and TTIP being rushed through the legislative process, no domain registrar, ISP provider, host or human rights organization will be able to prevent copyright industries and courts from criminalizing and shutting down websites "expeditiously". [^8]: https://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-shutdown-of-libgen-bookfi-and-sci-hub… [^9]: https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt If you want to disseminate further: on twitter it says: http://custodians.online 4LibGen&Sci-hub: share this letter, read it in public, care for the libraries, water the ❀❀❀❀❀, clean the volcanoes. on facebook: "http://custodians.online In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-hub Share this letter - read it in public - leave it in the printer. Share your writing - digitize a book - upload your files. Don't let our knowledge be crushed. Care for the libraries - care for the metadata - care for the backup. Water the ❀❀❀❀❀ - clean the volcanoes." if you want to check few more variations or add your own, please: https://textb.org/t/bullhorn/

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Call for Book Chapters: "Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges”
by Michael T Zimmer 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Call for Book Chapters: "Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges” Editors: Michael Zimmer and Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda Publisher: Peter Lang: Digital Formations (Steve Jones, series editor) Synopsis: The Internet and related social media technologies and platforms have opened up vast new means for communication, socialization, expression, and collaboration. They also have provided new resources for researchers seeking to explore, observe, and measure human opinions, activities and interactions. Increasingly, social media tools are used to aid traditional research: subjects might be recruited through Facebook or Twitter, surveys are administered and shared online, and data is often stored and processed on social and collaborative Web-based platforms and repositories. Social media has also emerged as a preferred domain for research itself: ethnographies take place within massively online social environments, entire collections of Facebook profile pages are scraped for data analysis, and public Twitter streams are routinely mined for academic purposes. Process data such as timestamps or logs are allowing researchers to model usage across time and space employing new computational methods. In short, academic research has begun to fully embrace what Maria Azua describes in her book, “The Social Factor: Innovate, Ignite, and Win through Mass Collaboration and Social Networking,” as “the social age,” the leveraging of the Internet and pervasive connected devices to enhance communication, information exchange, collaboration, and social interactions. As a result, researchers studying the internet find themselves immersed in a domain where information flows freely but potentially bound by contextual norms and expectations, where platforms may oscillate between open and closed information flows, and where data may be user-generated or proprietary. They are confronted with new economies of attention, where algorithms, memes and crowdfunding play a role in what is made visible on the Internet. As in its offline counterpart, Internet and social media-based research raises critical ethical issues of risk and safety to the human subject. The many disciplines already long engaged in human subjects research (such as medicine, anthropology, psychology, communication) have long-standing ethical codes and policies intended to guide researchers and those charged with ensuring that research on human subjects follows both legal requirements and ethical practices, and ethical review boards are charged with approving, monitoring, and reviewing research involving humans to ensure the rights and welfare of the research subjects are protected. But in the so-called “social age” – where individuals increasingly share personal information on platforms with porous and shifting boundaries, the aggregation of data from disparate sources is increasingly the norm, and web-based services, and their privacy policies and terms of service statements change too rapidly for an average user to keep up – the ethical frameworks and assumptions traditionally used by researchers and review boards alike are frequently challenged and, in some cases, inadequate. Researchers using the Internet as a tool or a space of research – and their ethical review boards – are confronted with a continuously expanding set of ethical dilemmas: What ethical obligations do researchers have to protect the privacy of subjects engaging in activities in “public” Internet spaces? Which national or international ethical standards apply when researching global networks, communities, or information flows? How is confidentiality or anonymity assured online? How is and should informed consent be obtained online? How should research on minors be conducted, and how do you prove a subject is not a minor? Is deception (pretending to be someone you are not or withholding identifiable information) in online spaces a norm, or a harm? Is “harm” possible to someone existing online in digital spaces? What are researchers’ obligations in spaces which are governed by platform providers? How should contend with inequalities in data access and uncertainties about data provenance and quality? In recent years, a growing number of scholars have begun exploring this new domain of Internet research ethics, numerous scholarly associations have drafted ethical guidelines for Internet research, and government regulatory authorities are starting to confront the myriad of ethical concerns Internet-based research brings to light. “Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges” will provide a necessary update to this existing scholarship in four critical ways: • First, as Internet tools and platforms continue to evolve at a rapid pace, we will seek to include brief case studies highlighting unique uses — and related ethical concerns — of the current state-of-the-art technologies and platforms, including new social media platforms like Vine and Tinder, cloud and distributed computing, wearable devices, health tracking applications, and so on. • Second, we will strive to expand the disciplinary terrain impacted by Internet-based research, expanding the investigation of research approaches within the social sciences to include computer science, medicine, engineering, and business, resulting in a more inclusive umbrella of domains that must confront the challenges of Internet research ethics. • Third, we will strive for a more global approach to the challenges of Internet research ethics, soliciting contributions from researchers in diverse regulatory environments, as well as those dealing with the complex ethical dimensions of researching platforms and users that cross borders. • And fourth, we will also pay attention to the new ‘players’ in the domain of internet research ethics, such as platform providers and other commercial data owners who might engage in their own research, frequently disrupting traditional mechanisms of ethical review. Submissions: We envision two kinds of submissions for “Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Cases and Challenges”: - New Cases in Internet Research Ethics: We seek to include brief case studies highlighting unique uses — and related ethical concerns — of current state-of-the-art technologies and platforms within research contexts. Case studies can be descriptive and illustrative, and don’t necessarily need to resolve the ethical concerns. Cases could be examples from one’s own research, or an overview of various related projects in the field. Examples from industry, government, and academia are welcome. Topics for cases include, but are not limited to: • Social network analysis • Meta-data and log analysis • Digital ethnography • Mechanical Turk • Library of Congress Twitter archive • Mobile applications • Wearable computers • Facebook Emotion Contagion debate • Apple HealthKit • Internet shaming - New Challenges in Internet Research Ethics: Complementing the inclusion of various emerging cases, the 2nd part of the volume will provide broader discussions of new challenges in Internet research ethics. These chapters will tend to be more normative and analytical, engaging with the conceptual dimensions of Internet research ethics. We especially seek examples that consider a global perspective. Topics for discussion of challenges include, but are not limited to: • What constitutes a human subject? • What is the nature of Informed consent in online environments? • Issues of privacy and anonymity • Tracking & location privacy • Citizen science & crowdsourcing data collection • Information security • Data sharing & openness • Transnational information flows • Internal and industry-sponsored research Submission details and timeline: Potential contributors are invited to submit a 2-3 page chapter proposal to InternetResearchEthicsBook(a)gmail.com by December 1, 2015, detailing the chapter’s contribution and fit with the book, and the structure of the proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by January 15, 2016 as to the status of their proposal and sent formatting requirements. Full chapters should be 5,000-8,000 words in length (case studies may be shorter) and are due on May 1, 2016. After a round of editorial reviews, final revised manuscripts will be due on August 15, 2016. Editors: Dr. Michael Zimmer School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dr. Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Institute for Web Science and Technologies at Koblenz University Publisher: The book will be published within the Peter Lang “Digital Formations” series, edited by Dr. Steve Jones (UI-Chicago). Target publication date is late 2016/early 2017. -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor and PhD Program Director, School of Information Studies Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org

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Second call for CSCW2016 workshop: Toward a typology of participation in crowd work
by Karin Hansson 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Second call for papers CSCW2016 workshop, February 28 Toward a typology of participation in crowd work Deadline for paper submissions December 7 http://ttpcw.blogs.dsv.su.se/ <http://ttpcw.blogs.dsv.su.se/> The development of technologies and practices of broad public participation are changing the notion of the public. As the use of participatory and social media has become widespread in society and enabled a more collaborative information production, the potential for a transformation of production relations through crowd-based activities affect many aspects of life. There are new potentials for transformative developments in government, work life, science, and emergency response. However, these new platforms for participation have not solved many of the pre-crowd problems regarding participation, such as lack of representativeness and flawed deliberative processes. Therefore it is important and relevant to look at the power relations within crowd production and to examine how different tools handle participatory processes in the crowd. This workshop examines different types of participatory process, in crowd work such as crowdsourced policymaking, crisis management, citizen science and paid crowd work, among other, focusing on relations and power dynamics within and beyond the crowds. We welcome researchers from a diversity of disciplines and perspectives to formulate a typology of participation in crowd work. Typologies of participation In the wider field of participation, in areas like participatory planning, design or participatory research, the power relations in the participatory setting are seen as central for the outcome of the participation. However, we haven’t seen a more structured overview of typologies of participation indicating levels of power and agency in the context of crowdwork. For this workshop, we therefore invite participants to look more closely at different types of participation within crowdwork, and at different levels of interaction. Possible sites of analysis could be the interaction between crowd workers, the participation in the work by different stakeholders, the potentially privileged levels of interaction with the data, or tensions in the agency of the crowdworkers in relation to the task. What types of ontologies exist in different types of crowdsourcing contexts, and how do these ontologies reflect one or more epistemologies? How is this expressed in the relations between the crowd and the sourcer, or in how different interfaces and tools support different roles and different modes of crowd participation? What are the relations between different attitudes towards knowledge and the social relations in the crowdsourcing process? What are the implications for power relations between different modes of participation? If we learn more about how participation in crowd work can be described in terms of power and relations, we might get a better understanding of how participation can be articulated, how different tools for crowd participation can be developed, and how the different perspectives and stakes in crowd work might be harmonized, or at least clarified. Suggested subthemes and topics Controlling economic structures in crowd work • Controlling levels of; access; transparency, secrecy, closeness, connectedness, alienation • Relation between crowd work control dynamics and power relationships outside the technology framework. • Differentiations in entry and exit points to the platform Intersecting belief systems in crowd work • Norms about crowds, collaboration and democracy • Balance between exclusive groups and democratic publics • Stakeholders’ different cultural assumptions • Tensions between individual scoring systems and collective sharing processes Community support in crowd work • Communication needs within the crowd • Available avenues of communication to support community • Apprenticeship models • Relations between the crowd and the “sourcers” • Navigating intersecting communities in crowd setting • Relations between different types of stakeholders in the crowd setting Going from crowd to public • Publics as performative states; co-constitution an interdependence • Ethics and power relations in crowd sourced research • The power relations between the designer/inventor and the crowd • Quantified selves, data sources or co-researchers Workshop activities This one-day workshop will explore the topics in mini presentations and brainstorming sessions. The objective with the workshop is to develop a typology of participation in crowd work based on an overview of the field. Furthermore, selected contributions from the workshop will be considered for a special issue in a HCI journal. Submission Participants are selected based on their submitted position-papers. The maximum length of a paper is 2,000 words. Deadline for submissions is December 07. Send submissions and inquiries to: crowdtypologies(a)gmail.com <mailto:crowdtypologies@gmail.com> Organization The workshop builds on four earlier successful workshops: Back to the Future of Organizational Work: Crowdsourcing Digital Work Marketplaces, Structures for Knowledge Co-creation between Organizations and the Public hosted at ACM CSCW 2014, The Morphing Organization – Rethinking Groupwork Systems in the Era of Crowdwork hosted at ACM GROUP 2014, and Examining the Essence of the Crowds: Motivations, Roles and Identities at ECSCW 2015. (2) This workshop is organized by: Karin Hansson PhD, the Department of Computer & Systems Sciences at Stockholm University. Michael Muller, PhD, the Cognitive User Experience group of IBM Research, Cambridge MA USA Tanja Aitamurto, PhD, Deputy Director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the School of Engineering at Stanford University. Ann Light, Professor of Design and Creative Technology at the University of Sussex and leader of the Creative Technology Group. Athanasios Mazarakis, PhD, Web Science at Kiel University. Neha Gupta, PhD student at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK. Thomas Ludwig, Ph.D. student at the Institute for Information Systems at the University of Siegen, Germany. More information about the workshop and the organizers can be found on the website: http://ttpcw.blogs.dsv.su.se/ <http://ttpcw.blogs.dsv.su.se/>

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Deadline extended SEADE-CHIIR Workshop on Serendipity
by Lori McCay-Peet 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Call for Papers (CFP): The Serendipity Factor: Evaluating the Affordances of Digital Environments SEADE (pronounced ‘seed’) Workshop at CHIIR 2016 (ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval) http://sigir.org/chiir2016/ March 17, 2016, 9:00am-5:00pm, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States Important dates Submission Deadline: December 1, 2015 January 8, 2016 Notification: December 15, 2015 January 22, 2016 Workshop date: March 17, 2016 Conference dates: March 13-17, 2016 Workshop overview For two decades, research has sought to understand serendipity and how it may be facilitated in digital environments such as information visualization systems, search systems, and social media. The motivation for investigating serendipity comes from its association with positive outcomes that range from personal benefits to global rewards. To date, research has made significant headway in defining and mapping the process of serendipity and new tools are emerging to support it. But we lack robust methods of evaluating new or enhanced features, functions, and tools. The goal of the Workshop is to examine how we balance the tension between diversity and novelty in designing digital environments and subsequently how we evaluate the ‘serendipitousness’ of those environments. We invite participants from a range of disciplines (e.g., information science, HCI, digital humanities, cognitive science) and research perspectives to help us solve this wicked problem. Keynote “Is There Anything Serendipity Research Can Learn from Creativity Research?” John Gero, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University John Gero is the author or editor of over 50 books and more than 650 papers and book chapters <http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/publications/progress.html> in the fields of design science, design cognition, design computing, artificial intelligence, computer-aided design and cognitive science. He has been a Visiting Professor of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Design and Computation or Mechanical Engineering at MIT, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia and CMU in the USA, at Strathclyde and Loughborough in the UK, at INSA-Lyon and Provence in France and at EPFL in Switzerland. http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/ How to participate Submit a 2-page paper using the ACM SIG Proceedings Template<http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates> about your ongoing work, recent results, or study methods related to serendipity, either published, or work in progress. Possible themes for these papers may include, but are not limited to: Evaluating whether or how digital environments enable serendipity 1. Use of qualitative methods such as interviews and think-aloud to evaluate user perceptions 2. Modifications to quantitative evaluation methods such as controlled experiments and log file analyses to test designs 3. Identification of factors other than the environment (e.g., context, individual differences, strategies, emotions, attitudes) that influence serendipity that should be taken into consideration during evaluation Designing elements and functions in digital environments so that serendipity is facilitated 1. Application of theory and models in the design (or evaluation) of affordances related to serendipity 2. Design of serendipitous digital environments (e.g., information visualization systems, recommender systems, digital libraries, search engines) Authors of selected papers will be asked to A) give “lightning talks” on their work through a 5-minute presentation; or B) participate in a “show and tell event” to demonstrate their project or prototype. In addition, just prior to and during the workshop we will be conducting a whirlwind Delphi study to identify essential and novel measures for assessing “serendipitousness.” The results of the group effort will be discussed at the Workshop to highlight pertinent measures. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and all participants much register for the workshop. **Submissions and inquiries can be sent to Lori McCay-Peet [mccay(a)dal.ca<mailto:mccay@dal.ca>]** Workshop website: http://sociodigital.net/2015/11/03/cfp-seade/ Conference Organizers Lori McCay-Peet, Dalhousie University, Canada Elaine G. Toms, The University of Sheffield, UK Anabel Quan-Haase, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Program Committee Members Naresh Argawal, Simmons College, USA Jamshid Beheshti, McGill University, Canada Lennart Björneborn, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Sanda Erdelez, University of Missouri, USA Jannica Heinström, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Christoph Lutz, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Stephann Makri, City University London, UK Kim Martin, University of Western Ontario, Canada Xu Sun, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China Simon Wakeling, University of Sheffield, UK

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CFP UMAP'16: The 24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
by Christoph Trattner 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- UMAP 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS The 24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization to be held on July 13-17, 2016, Nova Scotia, Canada co-located with ACM Hypertext 2016 http://www.um.org/umap2016/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Scope: ================== UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH) conferences that were merged in 2009. UMAP 2016 covers a wide variety of research areas where adaptation may be applied. This include (but is in no way limited to) a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation: recommender systems; adaptive educational systems; intelligent user interfaces; eCommerce; advertising; digital humanities; social networks; personalized health; entertainment, and many more. Key Areas / Tracks: ================== UMAP 2016 will explore, study and shape a broad range of dimensions faced by modern user adaptive systems, covering the following Key Areas chaired by leading researchers. * User Modelling for Recommender Systems ** Semantic recommenders ** Social recommenders ** User Experience, Explanations, Trust, Control ** Context-aware recommender systems ** Conversational recommender systems ** Implicit and explicit user feedback ** Preference elicitation ** Machine learning for recommender systems ** Case studies of real-world implementations * Adaptive & Personalized Educational Systems ** Learner modeling ** Intelligent tutoring systems ** Adaptive and personalized learning support ** Collaborative and group learning ** Emerging environments such as MOOCs and educational games ** Educational data mining and learning analytic modeling techniques ** Learning at scale ** Modeling affective, motivational, and metacognitive aspects of learning ** Case studies of real-world implementations * Personalization in the Social Web & Crowdsourcing Era ** Data-driven approaches and big data techniques ** Deep learning for personalization with social and crowd-generated data ** Social network analysis ** Modeling individuals, groups, and communities ** Engagement & sustainability for personalization ** User awareness and control ** Privacy, perceived security, and trust ** Adaptations based on personality, society, and culture ** Mining of social media and crowd-generated data ** Human computation and machine intelligence for personalization ** Harnessing wisdom of the crowd for personalization ** Case studies of real-world implementations * Adaptive, Intelligent, & Multimodal User Interfaces ** Multimodal user models ** Natural interaction (speech, language, gestures) ** Brain-computer interfaces ** Adaptive information visualization ** Adaptive hypermedia systems ** Adaptive collaboration support ** User modeling for special needs ** Case studies of real-world implementations * Architectures, techniques & methodologies for UMAP ** Models of perception, action, cognition, and affect ** Neurobiological and physiological models ** User experience ** Ongoing continuous modeling ** Lifewide modeling ** Data-driven approaches ** Non-standard database representations (networks, graphs) ** Sensor networks ** Handheld and mobile devices ** Standards and specifications ** Interoperability, semantics ** Evaluation methodologies and metrics ** Case studies of real-world implementations Submissions: ================== UMAP 2016 will include high quality peer-reviewed papers related to the above key areas. Maintaining the high quality and impact of the UMAP series, each paper will have three reviews by program committee members and a meta-review presenting the reviewers' consensual view; the review process will be coordinated by the program chairs in collaboration with the corresponding area chairs. * Long and Short papers Peer reviewed, original, and principled research papers addressing both the theory and practice of UMAP and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome. * Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed. Short papers should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but within each category. Papers that receive high scores and are considered promising by reviewers, but didn't make the acceptance cut, will be directed to the poster session of the conference and will be invited to be resubmitted as posters. Publication: ================== Accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. Submission details will appear soon. Important Dates: ================== * 23 February 2016: Abstracts for Full and Short Papers (compulsory) * 1 March 2016: Full and Short Papers * 1 April 2016: Doctoral consortium papers * 15 April 2016: Notification for full, short, posters & DC papers * 1 May 2016: Camera-ready for Full, Short, Posters & DC papers (main proceedings) * 7 May 2016: Workshop papers & Demos, Late-Breaking Results papers * 1 June 2016: Notification of workshop papers & Demos, Late-Breaking Results papers * 7 June Camera-ready for Workshop papers & Demos, Late-Breaking Results papers (extended proceedings) * 1 May 2016 - Author registration for main proceedings * 7 June 2016 - Early registration and author registration for extended proceedings * 12 July - Regular registration * 13-17 July 2016: UMAP 2016 Conference The submissions times are 11:59pm Hawaii time. Organization: ================== Program Chairs: Lora Aroyo and Sidney DíMello General Chairs: Julita Vassileva and James Blustein Follow us on: ================== Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UMAP2016/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/UMAPconf -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Know-Center Research Center for Big Data Analytics & Data Driven Business Graz University of Technology, Austria E-mail: ctrattner(a)know-center.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info ------------------------------------------------------- New book: Mining, Modeling, and Recommending 'Things' in Social Media* by M. Atzmueller, A. Chin, C. Scholz, C. Trattner (eds.) http://link.springer.com/978-3-319-14723-9 -------------------------------------------------------

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Job Vacancies: Research Associates with a focus on Comparative Cultural Analysi
by Leif Kramp 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

**** EXCUSES FOR CROSS-POSTING **** The University of Bremen, a mid-sized university with 250 professorships and 19,000 students, offers a broad range of disciplines and competes internationally in top-level research. With an ambitious institutional strategy the university was successful in the Excellence Initiative as one of eleven universities in Germany. The University of Bremen, Faculty 9 Cultural Studies invites applicants for the following two positions: Research Associate (EG 13 TVL, 50%), for the duration of 3 years The appointed candidates will ideally commence on 1 March 2016. Both positions are based within the research unit “Media and Communication Studies with the Special Area Comparative Cultural Analysis“(Prof. Dr. Christine Lohmeier). Research focuses on transcultural and international communication, the intersections between media and culture, memory studies and the advancement of innovative qualitative research methods. A critical-reflective perspective and an appreciation of concepts around mediatization are key features of our approach to research. Tasks: - Teaching (2 hours per week) in the BA programme “Communication and Media Studies” and the M.A. “Media Culture” (especially in the area of qualitative methods classes) - Participation in the development and carrying out of research projects, including grant writing - Support and facilitate international relations of the department - Development of a PhD project in line with the research interests outlined above Requirements: - Master degree in communication and media studies or a related discipline (sociology, anthropology, cultural studies) - Very good knowledge of qualitative research methods, ideally including ethnographic research - Previous experience or strong interest in the research areas outlined above - Excellent English language skills and ideally good command of German The University of Bremen has received a number of awards for its diversity policies. We strive to increase the number of female researchers and particularly solicit applications from suitably qualified female candidates. International applications and applications on the part of academics with a migration background are explicitly welcome. Disabled persons with the same professional and personal qualifications will be given preference. For further information please contact Prof. Dr. Christine Lohmeier (christine.lohmeier(a)uni-bremen.de <mailto:christine.lohmeier@uni-bremen.de>). Please send your application including a letter of motivation, a CV and relevant certificates citing the reference number A240/15 by 18 December 2015 to: Universität Bremen Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung (ZeMKI) z. Hd. Frau Nadja Agua Postfach 33 04 40 28334 Bremen Germany

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VOSON SocialMediaLab R package now available
by Robert Ackland 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

SocialMediaLab is an R package that provides a suite of tools for collecting and constructing networks from social media data. It provides easy-to-use functions for collecting data across popular platforms (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube) and generating different types of networks for analysis. SocialMediaLab also collects the associated text data from social media platforms (e.g. Tweets, Facebook fan page posts and comments, YouTube video comments). SocialMediaLab was created by Timothy Graham from the University of Queensland (who is also the maintainer of the package) and Robert Ackland from the Australian National University. The latest 'official' version of the package can be found here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SocialMediaLab/index.html The development version, support and further information can be found here: https://github.com/voson-lab/SocialMediaLab Also, see the SocialMediaLab page on the VOSON Lab website: http://voson.anu.edu.au/SocialMediaLab - this has several "how to" guides, including an "Absolute Beginners Guide to SocialMediaLab" tutorial aimed at people with little or no programming experience. The following 5-day course (Canberra, 18-22 January 2016) will have a strong focus on SocialMediaLab: https://www.acspri.org.au/summerprogram2016/big-data-analysis-social-scient… We are also available for in-house/customised training sessions! SocialMediaLab would not be possible without key packages by other authors in the R community, particularly: igraph, Rfacebook, instaR, twitteR, data.table, tm, and httr. Please feel free to send us suggestions and report bugs (via github page), and we welcome contributions to SocialMediaLab! -- Dr Robert Ackland Associate Professor, School of Sociology and Centre for Social Research and Methods Leader, Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) Lab <http://voson.anu.edu.au> Australian National University

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