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CfPapers & Panels: "New Technologies in World Society: new frontiers for International Relations" | European International Studies Association
by Calderaro, Andrea 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Apologies for CrossPosting ----- Cf Papers & Panels New Technologies in World Society: New frontiers for International Relations European International Studies Association<http://www.eisa-net.org/> Annual Conference Izmir, Turkey, 7-10 September 2016 Section Chairs: Andrea Calderaro - Cardiff University Madeline Carr - Aberystwyth University This section calls for papers and panels addressing the latest theoretically driven and empirically grounded research in the field of International Relations with the goal of challenging and extending our understanding of world politics in the Information Age. Abstract It is becoming increasingly apparent that challenges and opportunities related to Internet technology raise questions beyond the technical. In fact, cyber-security, Internet governance, jurisdictional questions and the distribution of online resources are largely political issues that can reinforce, dispute or contest existing concepts and ideas about global politics in world society. While other disciplines like law, sociology and computer science have engaged closely with the Information Age, International Relations scholars have yet to bring the full analytic power of their discipline to developing our understanding of what new digital technologies mean for concepts like war, peace, security, cooperation, human rights, equity and power. This section’s goal is to establish clear lines of dialogue between empirical research and innovative methodological approaches to the Internet and global politics, from both a scholarly relevant as well policy oriented perspective. In this context, we expect to collect proposals around the following themes: 1) Internet Governance 2) Cyber security and Cyber Warfare 3) Digital Technologies and Transnational Politics 4) Internet and Human Rights 5) Digital Diplomacy Please find more information about the conference here: http://www.paneuropeanconference.org/2016/ And the section: http://www.paneuropeanconference.org/2016/section.php?s=96 Proposal must be submitted by the 8th January via the EISA conference tool<http://www.paneuropeanconference.org/2016/spage.php?s=52> (http://www.paneuropeanconference.org/2016/spage.php?s=52<https://www.conftool.pro/paneuropean2016/>) Please do not hesitate to contact section chairs for any inquires or to informally discuss your proposal. Andrea Calderaro (Andrea.calderaro(a)eui.eu<mailto:Andrea.calderaro@eui.eu>) - Madeline Carr (madeline.carr(a)aber.ac.uk<mailto:madeline.carr@aber.ac.uk>) ----------------------------------------------- Andrea Calderaro, PhD Lecturer in International Relations | Cardiff University Associate "Internet Policy Observatory" | Center for Global Communications Studies (CGCS) - Annenberg Centre/University of Pennsylvania Chair "Internet & Politics" Standing Group | European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) Research Fellow "Centre for Internet & Human Rights" | European University Viadrina Editor “Digital Technologies & Global Politics” Book Series | Rowman&Littlefield Latest Paper: Internet Governance Capacity Building in Post-Authoritarian Contexts. Telecom Reform & Human Rights in Myanmar. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2686095 ----------------------------------------------- Personal Page: www.andreacalderaro.net<http://www.andreacalderaro.net> Twitter: @andreacalderaro The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited without the express permission of the sender. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.

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Professor position at Umeå University
by Simon Lindgren 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Come work with us at Umeå University, Sweden, as our new Professor! This position is for an open professorship in Sociology, but competitive candidates from any other relevant disciplines are welcome to apply as well. Internet, digital media and society is one of our research areas, and we are in the process of launching an interdisciplinary unit for Digital Social Research at our faculty. The Department of Sociology hosts undergraduate and postgraduate programs in both Sociology and Library and Information Science. We presently have around 50 employees, including around 12 PhD students and 5 postdocs, all spanning a wide range of research areas. The successful candidate will be expected to lead research and development of the research environment at the department. The position guarantees 40-60 per cent (dependent on performance) research time as well as a one semester sabbatical every fourth year. Deadline for applications is January 18 2016. Full information: http://www.soc.umu.se/english/open-positions/ I look forward to possibly working with one of you in the future! all best, Simon Simon Lindgren : Professor Department of Sociology : Umeå University (+46)-70-5656-104 : http://simonlindgren.com

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WEBCAST TODAY: Quartz’s The Next Billion: New York
by Joly MacFie 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

This has just started, Larry Lessig will be up at 3:50pm (20:50 UTC) joly posted: "Today, Monday November 16 2015 Quartz will be holding a full day conference The Next Billion - one of a global series exploring the next generation of technologies and strategies that will help companies and individuals around the globe prepare for the n" [image: The Next Billion] <http://events.qz.com/event/thenextbillionnewyork2015/>Today, *Monday November 16 2015 Quartz <http://qz.com/>* will be holding a full day conference *The Next Billion <http://events.qz.com/event/thenextbillionnewyork2015/>* - one of a global series exploring the next generation of technologies and strategies that will help companies and individuals around the globe prepare for the next billion internet users to come online. Speakers include: *Phil Libin*: Founder and Chairman, Evernote; *Luis von Ahn*: Founder & CEO, Duolingo; *Catherine Hoke*: Founder & CEO, Defy Ventures; *Jocelyn Wyatt*: Executive Director, IDEO.org; *Lawrence Lessig*: Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School. The event will be webcast live via *Quartz's Livestream Channel <http://livestream.com/quartz/tnbnewyork>*. *What: Quartz's The Next Billion: New York <http://events.qz.com/event/thenextbillionnewyork2015/> Where: Conrad, NYC Agenda: http://events.qz.com/event/thenextbillionnewyork2015/#schedule <http://events.qz.com/event/thenextbillionnewyork2015/#schedule> When: Monday November 16 2015 9:30am-4:30pm EST | 14:30-21:30 UTC Webcast: http://livestream.com/quartz/tnbnewyork <http://livestream.com/quartz/tnbnewyork> Twitter: #qznextbillion. <https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23qznextbillion&src=typd>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8191#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8191#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8191 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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analysis of how much of the web wayback machine is really archiving
by kalev leetaru 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Apologies for cross-posting. Thought many of you would find of considerable interest some of the statistics from my new analysis, out this morning, of what's really in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and the oddities and skew of how its crawlers ingest the web: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2015/11/16/how-much-of-the-interne… One of the biggest themes that emerges is the need for greater transparency and understanding of the algorithms and collection processes of large web archives and dialog with the scholarly research community around what they collect and the impacts of those decisions on how and in what ways the archives can be used for research on the evolution of the web. ~Kalev http://kalevleetaru.com/ http://blog.gdeltproject.org/

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PhD Fellowships in Journalism Studies at University of Maryland
by Sarah Ann Oates 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

The digital age is both changing journalism and offering great opportunities for understanding how news is produced and consumed. This is a key research area for the Philip Merrill College of Journalism Ph.D. program. A deep understanding of the past, present, and future of journalism is critical to democracy We foster this inquiry through faculty members at the College who research journalism, a network of courses and colleagues across the university who teach our students in related subjects (including courses at the UMD iSchool), as well as elite cohorts of Ph.D. students who pursue the in-depth study of journalism in its current and evolving forms. Are you interested in joining us? We are accepting applications for full fellowships (tuition and living expenses) to our program until February 1st. We offer a supportive, personalized teaching experience within the broader context of a range of opportunities across the University of Maryland. Small class sizes and a tradition of joint research with faculty members foster a collegial atmosphere and successful students. More than 80 percent of our Ph.D. graduates go on to the careers in university teaching, including a significant number in tenure-track jobs. We are seeking people who want academic and research careers in the field of journalism studies. The program is focused on a range of topics including studies of the audience in the digital age, journalistic practice and ethics, journalism history, and journalism in the global context. We benefit from our proximity to Washington, D.C., a short metro ride away, as well as from an inquisitive and international community of scholars at the University of Maryland. For more details of our program, see http://merrill.umd.edu/academics/phd-program/. In addition, you can contact the Director of Doctoral Studies (Prof. Sarah Oates) at soates(a)umd.edu for more information. Here is a link to some frequently asked questions: http://merrill.umd.edu/academics/phd-program/ph-d-faq/ Sarah Oates Professor and Senior Scholar Philip Merrill College of Journalism 2215 John S. and James L. Knight Hall 7765 Alumni Drive University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7111 phone: +1 301 405 4510 Email: soates(a)umd.edu ________________________________________

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PhD in Communication at City University of Hong Kong
by Nathaniel Poor 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

(forwarded for a colleague) Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to inform you that applications for Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program in Communication at City University of Hong Kong are now open for the 2016 entry – the application deadline is December 7th, 2015. We are particularly interested in applicants whose interests lie in the following areas: - Computational communication research - Health communication - Media institutions & society - Political communication - Social and psychological impact of new media The Department of Media and Communication at City University of Hong Kong is a top-ranked communication program in Hong Kong according to the latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in 2014 and currently has 14 full-time faculty and 35 PhD students. To learn more about the Department of Media and Communication please visit: http://www.cityu.edu.hk/com/ Applicants seeking admission to the PhD program at CityU are encouraged to apply for the "Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme", a generous fellowship from the HKSAR Government, aimed at attracting the best and brightest students in the world to pursue their research degrees in Hong Kong. The Fellowship provides a monthly stipend of HK$20,000 (~US$2,600) and conference and research related travel allowance of HK$10,000 (~US$1,300) per year for the awardees for a maximum period of three years. The application deadline for this fellowship scheme is December 1st, 2015. I would be grateful if you could circulate this message among your students or others who may be interested in our PhD program. Regards, Marko M. Skoric PhD Program Coordinator Associate Professor Department of Media and Communication City University of Hong Kong ------------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. http://natpoor.blogspot.com/ https://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/

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2nd CFP and Update SEADE-CHIIR Workshop on Serendipity
by Lori McCay-Peet 16 Nov '15

16 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 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. **UPDATE** 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 enables erendipity 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/ Important dates * Submission Deadline: December 1, 2015 * Notification: December 15, 2015 * Workshop date: March 17, 2016 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 — Lori McCay-Peet, PhD Assistant Professor School of Information Management Faculty of Management Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building 6100 University Avenue PO Box 15000 Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2 (902)494-6119

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Palgrave Texts in Cyberpsychology - Call for manuscript proposals
by Binder, Jens 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Following a highly successful launch in 2014/15, proposals are invited for Palgrave Texts in Cyberpsychology, a new series of short texts dedicated to all psychologically relevant research on digital phenomena. Scope - The series follows an inclusive approach and covers research from the whole spectrum of disciplines using psychological theories or methods, from Media and Communication Studies to Computer Science and HCI. Empirical work that highlights current research programs and/or provides and elaborates on links between published studies is welcome. Similarly, theoretical work that addresses, integrates and expands current research in the field is suitable. Format - A Pivot text has a length of 25,000 to 50,000 words. Palgrave, part of global publishers Palgrave Macmillan and the Springer Nature Group, are pioneers in the field of short texts with an extremely fast production cycle. All Pivot texts are produced within 12 weeks once a final manuscript has been received. All titles are available in digital collections, as e-books, and in hardback. Process - Once a proposal for a title has been accepted, manuscripts are typically to be written within 12 months or less. All proposals are subject to external peer review Contact - Sharla Plant, Senior Commissioning Editor sharla.plant(a)palgrave.com<mailto:sharla.plant@palgrave.com> and Jens Binder, Series Editor jens.binder(a)ntu.ac.uk<mailto:jens.binder@ntu.ac.uk> Further Information: http://www.palgrave.com/series/palgrave-studies-in-cyberpsychology/PSC/ http://www.palgrave.com/page/about-us-palgrave-pivot/ With best wishes Jens Dr Jens Binder, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU, UK DISCLAIMER: This email is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. In this case, please reply to this email to highlight the error. Opinions and information in this email that do not relate to the official business of Nottingham Trent University shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by the University. Nottingham Trent University has taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are virus-free, but we do advise that the recipient should check that the email and its attachments are actually virus free. This is in keeping with good computing practice.

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Twitter Data Collection Tools: Summer of the Responses:
by Gohar F. Khan 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Hello list members: Thank you to those who provided great suggestions and insights. Here is a summery of the responses. Most of the tools/applications lists below are supposed to be capable of bulk Twitter data collection. Though I haven't tested all, I found some very useful including DiscoverText, NodeXL, Twitonomy, and Nexalogy. 1.* Twitter Data extraction applications (does not require programming skills)* - DiscoverText: http://www.screencast.com/t/VKLqaekPz - Demographics Pro: http://www.demographicspro.com/ - NodeXL: https://nodexl.codeplex.com/ - Twitonomy: http://www.twitonomy.com/ - RapidMiner: http://docs.rapidminer.com/studio/how-to/cloud-connectivity/twitter.html - KPI6: https://www.kpi6.com/ - Talend: http://www.datalytyx.com/twitter-sentiment-analysis-using-talend/ - KNIME: https://www.knime.org/blog/knime-twitter-nodes - Pentaho: http://www.patlaf.com/query-twitter-api-with-pentaho-pdi-kettle/ - iScience Maps: http://maps.iscience.deusto.es/ - Nexalogy: https://nexalogy.com/ 2. *Tools/Scripts/Modules (require programming skills)* - Twarc: https://github.com/edsu/twarc - Twitter for Python: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twitter - getUserTimeline.py script by Prof. Libby: https://github.com/casmlab/user-timeline-tools - R's twitterR package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/twitteR/twitteR.pdf - Erik Michaels-Ober's Ruby gem 't': https://github.com/sferik/t 3. *Help Resources* - Twitter API documentation - tweets: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/tweets; - users: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/users; - hashtags: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/entities-in-twitter-objects. - Getting Twitter Data with R: http://www.r-bloggers.com/getting-started-with-twitter-in-r/ - Example study on iScience Maps: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/iscience/reips/pubs/papers/2011ReipsGaraizar_fin… For the sake of folks not on this list, I also made it available here <http://centreforsocialtech.com/analytical-tools/twitter-analytical-tools/>. Thank you once again. Regards, GFK --------------------- Gohar Feroz Khan, PhD Adjunct Faculty & Research Adviser Korea Advance Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) Global Information and Telecommunication Technology Program (ITTP) 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea. --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- Check out my new book on social media analytics <http://7layersanalytics.com/>! ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- Please consider submitting your work to the social media analytics track at PACIS201 <http://www.pacis2016.org/Page/Index/71>6. ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- Social Identities: || Blog <http://gfkhan.wordpress.com/> || Twitter <https://twitter.com/gfkhan> || LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gohar-feroz-khan/7/62b/42> || Research Centre <http://centreforsocialtech.com/>||

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Anybody workiing assessing web sites for accessibility and safe browsing
by Peter Timusk 15 Nov '15

15 Nov '15

I wonder if anyone is interested in working on a study with me independently (I am outside of a school research program at least funding wise. My employer also would not support my work on this.) on this theme.? My paper idea for #IR17 or #IR18 ( I like the idea of going to Estonia). News and entertainment web sites and poor design for accessibility and safe browsing: a survey of North American Entertainment Media websites from a code and performance quality perspective. I would welcome help with constructing a sampling frame list of web sites that would be better than my own subjective understanding "North American Entertainment Media websites". I would like to have a large sample that produces more than a 1000 web site study units. Given underlying web code may be in English perhaps the sample could work more internationally but there my socio-cultural knowledge would fail to know what web sites are what. May be every world cities (> 100,000 people) former print newspaper's current web site. I would also welcome another coder like myself who would like to help with downloading/scrapping web site code or other ways of seeing the web sites like inaccessible colour schemes or suspicious linking and autoplay features. The artifacts from these web sites would then show poor design and we would otherwise analysis the code or web site designs in an accessibility and code performance assessment. I may have my own limitations with understanding how web site construction affects performance and accessibility though I do read and follow accessibility in web design. May be someone who knows design philosophy could be helpful constructing the analysis. The results would be useful for a number of uses including building better web sites in the future and assessing just how badly old media like city newspapers have become online. Of course we could produce statistics like most commonly used web design content management systems etc. or most commonly used colour.

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