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Call for papers: Digital Game. Anàlisi, issue 54, June 2016
by daniel aranda 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

We invite you to submit your paper on digital gaming, Game Studies or related disciplines focusing on digital game and gaming in all its theoretical dimensions and emerging applications. Digital technologies promote a transformation in the practice of gaming and the role it plays in contemporary society. From a broader perspective, the monograph aims to accommodate the widest possible set of approaches and scope of interest around the phenomenon of digital game taking into account primarily but not exclusively the following topics: - Digital game industry - Digital gaming and ideology - Relations between gaming and the cultural ecosystem: film, television, comics and literature. - Emerging genres like e-sports - Gamers and Youtube - Gayming - Gamergate - Music and video games: game music and sound play - Game literacy: Ludoliteracy - Ludofictional worlds in video games: semiotics, narrative and characters - Representation of the player and diversity - Advergaming or newsgame - Game Cultures: forms of social and recreational experiences - Productive relationships between players and devices (prosumers, mashups, modding) - Social perceptions about the digital game in today's society by players and/or no players - Treatment of digital game in the media (potentialities, fear, moral panics, technological optimism ...) The original can be presented in Catalan, Spanish or English before January 15th. Publication is scheduled for June-July 2016. *Editors* Dani Aranda @darandaj Jordi Sánchez-Navarro @jordisn Antonio José Planells @antonplanells Víctor Navarro-Remesal @VtheWanderer *Author Guidelines and Submissions* http://journals.uoc.edu/index.php/analisi/index -- Daniel Aranda Juárez Estudis de Ciències de la Informació i de la Comunicació Universitat Oberta de Catalunya 93 326 (3446) | darandaj(a)uoc.edu 22@ (Rambla Poblenou, 156 / 08018 Barcelona) @darandaj <https://twitter.com/darandaj> Blog <http://spider-uoc.blogspot.com/> Web <http://transfer.rdi.uoc.edu/ca/investigador/aranda-juarez-daniel> CoDirector Revista Anàlisi <http://journals.uoc.edu/index.php/analisi/> [image: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya] Aquest missatge s'adreça exclusivament a qui va destinat i pot contenir informació privilegiada o confidencial i dades de caràcter personal, la difusió de les quals és regulada per la Llei orgànica de protecció de dades i la Llei de serveis de la societat de la informació. Si no sou la persona destinatària indicada (o la responsable de lliurar-lo a qui va destinat), no heu de copiar aquest missatge ni lliurar-lo a tercers per cap concepte. Si heu rebut aquest missatge per error o l'heu aconseguit per altres mitjans, us demanem que ens ho comuniqueu immediatament per aquesta mateixa via i l'elimineu irreversiblement. Abans d'imprimir aquest missatge electrònic penseu en el medi ambient.

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NZ Internet Research Forum 2016
by Philippa Smith 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

Dear AOIR community, The second forum of the New Zealand Internet Research group will be held on 4th and 5th February, 2016 at Auckland University of Technology. This forum, organised jointly by AUT and InternetNZ, aims to bring together Internet researchers and interested parties to discuss their proposed, current and finished research with the New Zealand Internet community. Both technical and non-technical streams are incorporated as part of the forum with the objective to support the continued establishment of a network of researchers working in a wide range of fields such as social media, virtual worlds, cyber security, online activism, crowdsourcing, computer engineering, copyright, gaming, digital politics, online communities, the virtual public sphere, online journalism, and digital literacy. More information can be found here for those people wishing to attend. You are also welcome to distribute this information to others you think might be interested: https://internetnz.nz/new-zealand-internet-research-forum-0 You are also welcome to distribute this information to others you think might be interested. Kind regards Philippa [AUT]<https://www.aut.ac.nz/> Philippa Smith Senior Lecturer ICDC Auckland University of Technology [QS rankings]<https://www.aut.ac.nz/qs> [Facebook]<https://www.aut.ac.nz/facebook>[Twitter]<https://www.aut.ac.nz/twitter>[YouTube]<https://www.aut.ac.nz/youtube> P 09 921 9999 ext 8276 E philippa.smith(a)aut.ac.nz<mailto:philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz> W aut.ac.nz<https://www.aut.ac.nz> [https://www.aut.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0011/571817/teal-strip.gif]

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Job Vacancy: Junior Professorship (Media Society)
by Leif Kramp 25 Nov '15

25 Nov '15

**** EXCUSES FOR CROSS-POSTING ***** New job vacancy at the ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen: Junior Professorship (W1) "Communication and media studies with a focus on media society". Application deadline: 3rd December 2015 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 will now strengthen research and development by awarding temporary professorships in a number of defined dynamic areas. One of these areas is the main research field of “Media Change”, which investigates the communicative figurations of mediatized cultures and societies.The University of Bremen, Faculty 9 Cultural Studies invites applicants for the following position: *Junior Professorship *Pay grade: W1 for the duration of 3 years (with a renewal option of further 3 years, depending on a successful interim evaluation) Communication and media studies with a focus on media society (Code number: JP 892/15) Applicants should have expertise in media and communication research with a focus on social communication and medial moulding of social processes. The research should focus on a cross-media perspective within at least two of the following main areas: appropriation and user practices of digital media; cultural, social and economical contexts of digital media; opportunities and risks of data collection; digital methods/computer-assisted collection and analysis procedures. An engagement within the main research field “Media Change” within the Faculty of Cultural Studies, the acquisition of third-party funding and interdisciplinary research cooperation within the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) and its research group “Communicative Figurations of Mediatized Worlds” are expected. Teaching is dedicated to the BA and MA programs of the Institute for Historic Journalism, Communication and Media Studies (IPKM) and should include thematic courses in social communication and medial moulding of social processes as well as basic principles of communication and media studies and their methods. An interest in further establishing postgraduate programs is also expected. In addition to the pre-conditions of civil service law, a relevant doctoral dissertation and other relevant academic achievements of outstanding quality are required. A further requirement is that the successful candidates can evidence their pedagogical-didactic suitability by documented teaching experience. Applicants are expected to have acquired teaching skills in the German language after a period of 2-3 years. Junior professors will be unburdened from teaching in the initial stage to further qualify themselves academically. The teaching duties account for 4 semester periods per week. 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 the head of the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (andreas.hepp(a)uni-bremen.de) Please send your application by 3rd December 2015 including CV, a list of publications and teaching experience, research profile and relevant certificates citing the reference number to: Dean of Faculty 9 – Cultural Studies Prof. Dr. Dorle Dracklé University of Bremen Postfach 330 440 28334 Bremen Germany Further information can be found on the ZeMKI website: http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/start.html

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Social media data collection tools
by Deen Freelon 25 Nov '15

25 Nov '15

Hi all, This is just a quick note to let everyone know that I've migrated my list of social media data collection tools away from Google Docs and onto Wikidot. I've also removed all dead links: http://socialmediadata.wikidot.com/ The new version looks much nicer--unfortunately some jerks had defaced the Google Doc (under their real names too ;-P), which I always knew was a possibility but never expected with such a niche topic. Anyway, potential contributors now have to create a Wikidot account first, which is kind of annoying but should cut down on abuse. If necessary I'll lock it down, but I'd like to leave it open for as long as possible. Best, ~DEEN -- Deen Freelon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor American University School of Communication Office: McKinley 325 http://dfreelon.org/ @dfreelon

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Sussex Humanities Lab Inaugural Lecture: Jonathan Sterne, Lorna Huges, Caroline Bassett
by Kate O'Riordan 25 Nov '15

25 Nov '15

Sussex Humanities Lab Inaugural Lecture Thursday, 3 December 2015 >From 18:30 to 21:30 The RSA<https://www.thersa.org/contact/> 8 John Adams Street London WC2N 6EZ All welcome, places are free but limited. Guest Speakers Lorna Hughes, Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Glasgow; Jonathan Sterne, James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology, McGill University, Montreal Respondents and Chair: Members of the Sussex Humanities Lab (SHL) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sussex-humanities-lab-inaugural-lecture-regi…

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Call for papers: Crowd Dynamics: Exploring Conflicts and Contradictions in Crowdsourcing (CHI 2016)
by Karin Hansson 25 Nov '15

25 Nov '15

Call for papers: Deadline December 21, 2015. Crowd Dynamics: Exploring Conflicts and Contradictions in Crowdsourcing A one-day workshop at CHI 2016, 7 or 8 May 2016, San Jose, CA, USA In this workshop we explore the reasons, processes, power relations, and dynamics of conflicts within crowdsourcing. We invites participants to contribute with insights from different types of crowd-work, and thereby deepen our understanding about the relations in contexts such as crowdsourcing, crowd-funding, peer-production and citizen science. Furthermore, we examine strategies for accommodating differences in crowdsourcing environments. This one-day workshop explores the topics in mini presentations and brainstorming sessions, and will result in a research agenda for addressing these questions. Subthemes and topics can for example be: Citizen empowerment versus control in open government Various levels of transparency in the implementation of crowdsourcing Clash of needs between people and systems Conflict management and conflict resolution in crowdsourcing Conflicting discourses and theories about crowd work: E.g. solidarity versus the “economic man” Conflicts of expectations in crowd contexts Distribution of labor and capital in crowd work Dynamics of inclusion/exclusion in crowd work, reflecting societal issues of race, gender, identity, and geography Social capital and community engagement in crowd work conflicts Research ethics in citizens’ science (or other types of crowd work) The position-paper should be 2-4 pages and follow the CHI formatting guidelines for the CHI extended abstract format <https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/guide-to-submission-formats/>. Send submissions and inquiries to the following email address: crowddynamicschi2016(a)gmail.com <mailto:crowddynamicschi2016@gmail.com> Deadline is Monday, December 21, 2015. At least one author of the position paper must attend the workshop. All participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the conference. The workshop is organized by: Karin Hansson (Stockholm University), Michael Muller (IBM Research), Tanja Aitamurto (Stanford University), Lilly Irani (University of California), Athanasios Mazarakis (Kiel University), Neha Gupta (University of Nottingham), and Thomas Ludwig (University of Siegen). More information is available at http://crowddynamics.blogs.dsv.su.se/ <http://crowddynamics.blogs.dsv.su.se/>

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CFP WWW'16 Workshop: 7th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2016) - Behavioral Analytics on the Web
by Christoph Trattner 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2016) Behavioral Analytics on the Web to be held on April 12, 2016, Montreal, Canada co-located with ACM WWW 2016 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2016/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** Submission Deadline: Dec 22, 2015 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time) ** Notification of Acceptance: Feb 2, 2016 ** Camera-Ready Versions Due: Feb 8, 2016 ** Workshop date: April 12, 2016 Workshop Organizers: ==================== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany: atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA: alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria: trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com For the 7th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working in the field of behavioral analytics using web and social media data. Behavioral analytics is an important topic, e.g., concerning web applications as well as extensions in mobile and ubiquitous applications, for understanding user behavior. We would also like to invite researchers in the data and web mining community to lend their expertise to help to increase our understanding of the web and social media. Thus, we invite submissions which may include the following topics, but are not limited to: * Behavioral analytics methods or frameworks for social media, big data and the web * Approaches for personalization and recommendations * Methods for social structure and community discovery * Methods for tie strength or link prediction * Methods for extracting and understanding user and group behavior * Methods for predicting user behavior * Methods for user modeling and profiling * Applications of behavioral analytics * Privacy and security in behavioral analytics * Applications of any of the above methods and technologies The goal of this workshop is to apply behavioral analytics approaches and algorithms on social media, big data and the web. Hence, the workshop aims to attract and discuss various novel aspects of personalization, recommendation, community discovery, profiling and prediction from social media. Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-6 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm16 Program Committee: ================== Alejandro Bellogin, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, IN3 - UOC, Spain Guanling Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Stephan Doerfel, University of Kassel, Germany Ruth Garcia, Oxford University, UK Daniel Gayo-Avello, University of Oviedo, Spain Mouzhi Ge, University of Bolzano, Italy Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, Netherlands Sharon Hsiao, Arizona State University, USA Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Barcelona Media, Spain Mark Kibanov, University of Kassel, Germany Bart Knijnenburg, University of California, Irvine, USA Simon Koo, Jesuit Liberal Arts College, Hong Kong, China Florian Lemmerich, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Harold Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Kjetil Nørvåg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Denis Parra, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Philipp Singer, GESIS, Germany Alan Said, Recorded Future, SE Su Yang, Fudan University, China Shengdong Zhao, National University of Singapore, Singapore Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK Proceedings: ============ Contributions will be included in the Companion volume of the ACM WWW2016 conference, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. However, to make that happen at least one author of the accepted paper has to register. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; * occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2016 Contact: ======== Martin Atzmueller - atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Alvin Chin - alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Christoph Trattner - trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com Follow us on: ============= Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/527164050627185/ Twitter https://twitter.com/msm_workshop -- ------------------------------------------------------- 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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skype address in Brazil last week about the Kindle revolution
by Paul Levinson 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

the Internet revolution continues - the video <https://youtu.be/f1bUCeCa3oU> -PL Just published several weeks ago, a new essay, in effect a new chapter in Digital McLuhan - McLuhan in an Age of Social Media <http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01711U3GG/ref=nosim/?tag=dexter2a-20>

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call for teacher education collaborators for AoIR16
by Kiersten Greene 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Dear Colleagues, *If you are a teacher educator who is interested in connecting with other teacher educators through AoIR, please read on...* The purpose of this email is to initiate a discussion around scholarship at the intersection of K-12 education and the internet. Though I initially considered producing a call for proposals for a panel presentation for AoIR16, I thought it might be more effective to find more of you out there, first, and then figure out ways in which we might collaborate, second. So much comes to mind in the context of K-12 education when considering the theme of next year's conference, 'internet rules!' As a teacher educator in New York State in the U.S. who looks at the gap between policy and practice, I am interested in understanding how decisions around technology integration in classrooms are being made. And as a practitioner who teaches aspiring teachers how to teach writing, I am curious to further understand the ways in which the process of writing is both changing and being changed by screens and other digital tools with which we compose. If you are interested in connecting with other teacher education scholars, *please complete this quick form by December 15th* <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14deKGfA_Mdks_aIrvtANnJdNvCVb8DY9K3q_HyYn8m…> . I will follow up shortly after the 15th to connect everyone who responds to this call. At that point, we can talk about how to continue the discussion toward producing a panel proposal for AoIR16 in Berlin. I look forward to connecting with you! Best wishes, Kiersten -- kierstengreene.net brookerhollow.com

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New Program: Civic Media Art and Practice (CMAP)
by Eric Gordon 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Dear Friends, We are thrilled to announce our new MA program in Civic Media, Art & Practice at Emerson College. This is an intense, 12-month MA experience oriented towards the production of a participatory design project with a community partner. Students work with faculty at the Engagement Lab @ Emerson College, as well as community partners. It is the perfect "think and do" space to bring together media & tech production, creative civic engagement and social change. We would love your help getting the word out to potential applicants. We will launch with a small cohort in Fall 2016. We are accepting applications now through March 1, 2016. http://elab.emerson.edu/cmap Thanks, Eric Gordon, Director and Associate Professor Paul Mihailidis, Director and Associate Professor Catherine D'Ignazio, Fellow and Assistant Professor Engagement Lab @ Emerson College Eric Gordon, ph.d. Associate Professor, Emerson College Director, Engagement Lab Faculty Associate, Berkman Center for Internet and Society Harvard University http://elab.emerson.edu (617) 824-8828

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