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Barcelona CFP 2016 Bridging Gaps: What are the media, publicists & celebrities selling?
by Dr Samita Nandy 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

*The following CFP might be of strong interest to faculty and students examining social media and online celebrities.* *CALL FOR PAPERS* *Bridging Gaps**: What are the media, publicists, and celebrities selling?* Red Room, Four Points by Sheraton Barcelona Diagonal Barcelona, Spain July 3rd - 5th, 2016 Public personalities hold the power to draw attention to products, services, and charities through their endorsement. Celebrity activists, for example, can help to change the world. From Elizabeth Taylor to George Clooney, celebrities have proven that their status can help raise awareness and funds for issues such as aids, poverty and global warming. However, many activists have also gained fame by standing up for their beliefs such as Harvey Milk, Dian Fossey, Malala Yousafzai, and Rosa Parks, thereby bridging gaps between celebrity activists and activists as celebrities. Thanks to social media, people today have a platform to share their views and gain a following, meaning activism is now in the power of the people. They can bring communities together from around the world to make a difference. We invite you to send in abstracts about media control, activism, and celebrity status to interrogate, draw attention to the good that is being done, and suggest ways we can improve the world. What actions need to be taken and how can celebrity status help achieve this? How much power does a celebrity really have? Can someone create celebrity status through their activism? What role does public relations and the media play in promoting messages from beauty ideals to saving the planet? The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) *Bridging Gaps* conference series aims to connect scholars with industry professionals and generate a discussion and practice that will inspire change. CMCS in association with sponsors Centre for Ecological, Social, and Informatics Cognitive Research (ESI.CORE) and WaterHill Publishing, invite academics, filmmakers, journalists, publicists, advertisers, charity organizers, and guests to attend, speak and collaborate at the international conference. Attendees may present papers, take part in a workshop or create a roundtable discussion on the theme of celebrity activism, media ethics and endorsements. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in an edited book by WaterHill Publishing, while others will be invited for the opportunity to publish work in the *CrossBridge* Journal. We also invite people to send in videos for the *Celebrity Chat* Award. The best video/documentary will be selected based on its ability to draw attention to a significant matter, be relevant to the conference theme and inspire change. *Registration includes*: Your printed conference package*,* catered lunch, coffee / tea breaks, evening drinks, professional development workshop, access to evening receptions, eligibility to publish in edited book, and consideration for the $100 best paper and screen awards. *Submission guidelines:* - 250-word abstract or workshop / roundtable proposal - Include a title, your name, e-mail address, and affiliation if applicable - Submit to conference Chairs Dr Jackie Raphael and Dr Celia Lam at email address: *celeb.studies(a)gmail.com* <celeb.studies(a)gmail.com> - Deadline for abstract submission: *December 20, 2015* - Notification of acceptance: *January 20, 2016* - Full text due: *June 4, 2016* - Pre-Conference Reception*: July 3, 2016* - Conference presentation: *July 4-5, 2016* - Publication of edited book: *Approximately November 30, 2016* *Celebrity Chat** Video Submissions:* - Video length should be 10-20 minutes - Include a title, your name, e-mail address, and affiliation if applicable - Submit to conference Chairs Dr Jackie Raphael and Dr Celia Lam at email address: *celeb.studies(a)gmail.com* <celeb.studies(a)gmail.com> - Deadline for submission: *December 20, 2015* - Notification of acceptance: *January 20, 2016* - Conference screening: *July 4-5, 2016* *Topics include but are not limited to:* - Mass media and social media - Public relations and publicity - Social Advocacy - Human rights and animal rights - Environmental sustainability - Celebrity activists - Activists as celebrities - Endorsements - Advertising - Branding - Persona - Journalism and newsworthy topics - Fame and Fortune - Beauty Ideals - Interviews - Audiences - Fandom - Literature - Film and Video - Television - Photography - Laws and Policies - Theory and Methods - Research Agenda - Business Models - Ethics and Morality - Cognition and Memory - Media Literacy - Social Innovation and Change - Education and Advocacy - Community Building - Business and Community Partnerships *Conference Chairs*: Dr Jackie Raphael and Dr Celia Lam *Conference Committee Members*: Dr Samita Nandy, Dr Louis Massey, Josh Nathan, and Andrea Marshall *Conference URL* http://cmc-centre.com/conferences/barcelona/

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Re: [Air-L] Twitter data collection tools
by Maurice Vergeer 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

you could look at R's twitterR package. See https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/twitteR/twitteR.pdf But then you would need to know how to use R. Not that difficult but yet a new program. One benefit: you have it directly ready for analysis Hope that helps Maurice On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Gohar F. Khan <gohar.feroz(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello list members: > > I am looking for tools which can help extract all possible Twitter > statistics (such as, number of tweets, followers, followings, mentions, > re-tweets, favorites) for a list of Twitter handlers (around 120 > accounts). *In > particular, I look for a tool that can take the IDs as a single file and > provide the desired statistics for each ID. * > > The Webometrics Analyst has this functionality, but unfortunately it only > provides followers and followings data. I am also familiar with the several > other tools including the ones mentioned in the Dean Freelon's curated list > < > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UaERzROI986HqcwrBDLaqGG8X_lYwctj6ek6ryq… > >, > but > non of these can extract all the information I need. Some tools provide > more statistics, but they work with one ID at time. > > I will greatly appreciate any suggestions. > > > Thank you, > > -- > > 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/>|| > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- ________________________________________________ Maurice Vergeer To contact me, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/5 To see my publications, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/1 ________________________________________________

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Winners of the 2014 McGannon Book Award (& soliciting nominations for 2015)
by Alice E. Marwick 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

The Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University is pleased to announce the co-winners of the 2014 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Technology Research: Low Power to the People (MIT) by Christina Dunbar-Hester of Rutgers University and the University of Southern California and The War on Learning (MIT) by Elizabeth Losh of the College of William and Mary. This is the first award under the center’s revised mission to further understanding of the ethical and social justice dimensions of media and communication technologies. Both books were deemed by the review committee to make substantial contributions to the study of the social and ethical implications of communication technologies. More: http://www.mcgannoncenter.com/?p=180 About the Donald McGannon Book Award Each year, via the Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Technology Research, the McGannon Center seeks to honor the best in book-length research in the social justice and/or ethical dimensions of communication technology, broadly defined. The award carries with it a $2,000 prize and is named in the honor of Donald H. McGannon, former CEO of Westinghouse Broadcasting and a 1940 graduate of Fordham University. If you want to nominate a book for the 2015 award (must have been published for the first time in 2015 and pertain to the ethical and social justice dimensions of communication technologies), please drop me a line. Guidelines are here: http://www.mcgannoncenter.com/?page_id=53 Thanks! Alice -- Alice E. Marwick, PhD Director, McGannon Center Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University amarwick(a)fordham.edu http://www.mcgannoncenter.com http://www.tiara.org <http://www.tiara.org>

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Call: Conference Panel ”The Marxist Critique of the Political Economy of the Media” at the 2nd Marx Conference
by Christian Fuchs 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

Call for Abstracts: Conference Panel ”The Marxist Critique of the Political Economy of the Media” (2 sessions) Part of the 2nd Marx Conference, Stockholm, Sweden. October 14-16, 2016. Venue: ABF-huset, Sveavägen 41. Website: http://www.marx2016.org Convenors: Arwid Lund, Uppsala University, Sweden; Christian Fuchs, University of Westminster, UK. Supported by the open access journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique (http://www.triple-c.at) Details: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/26 Abstract submission: max. 250 words. Deadline January 31, 2016. Submission to: arwid.lund(a)abm.uu.se. Please indicate to which of the two sessions you submit (see below). Each session will consist of a panel of four speakers, 15 min. for each presentation, and half an hour for concluding questions and discussions. In 2013, a very successful Marx conference was held in Stockholm, gathering 2000 activists and scholars, with keynote speakers such as Michael Heinrich and Wolfgang Haug. The main topic of the conference was Marxist theory as a tool for analysing contemporary society. 2016’s follow-up conference (Marx2016) aims at political openings and potentials for a world beyond capitalism based on a thorough analysis of contemporary society. The general theme of the conference is To change a changed world. The conference consists of four main tracks. One of the sub-tracks will focuses on Marxist studies of media, communication and information There will be two sessions based on the following questions and themes: Theme 1: Digital labour, Marx and Dallas Smythe: In 1977, almost 40 years ago, Dallas Smythe published his seminal article “Communications: Blindspot of Western Marxism”, in which he introduced the notions of audience labour and the audience commodity. This session asks: What is the relevance of “audience labour” for the political project of Marxism and the analysis of online participants and user generated content in the age of commercial social media such as Facebook, YouTube and Google? Does it matter for Marxism as a political project if the analysis of digital capitalism is based on the concepts of surplus-value or rent? Theme 2: Exploitation 2.0: Class and Exploitation in the Digital Age: Capitalism is a dynamic, dialectical system that changes in order to maintain its fundamental structures of exploitation. The rise of the computer, digitisation and the Internet’s role in the economy and society has brought about changes of class structures. This session asks: How have class and exploitation changed in the age of digital media? How can we analyse unpaid activities on commercial platforms with the help of class and other concepts such as the multitude and exploitation? What is the role of conflicts and struggles between users and the owners of corporate Internets platforms (such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, Weibo, Amazon, Pinterest, Tumblr, Flickr, etc.). Can peer production and non-commercial, alternative online media challenge capitalism? What are the implications of digital Marxism and media Marxism for Marxist theory and socialist politics? The sub-theme of The Marxist Critique of the Political Economy of the Media will be accompanied by one keynote talk in a general plenary session that provides a general introduction to the Marxist political economy of media, information and communication: Christian Fuchs: “The Marxist Critique of the Political Economy of Media in the Age of Digital Capitalism”.

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Analysing YouTube comments
by Anna E. Haverinen 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

Hello list members, I am looking for tools to extract YouTube comment sections or any other relevant applications that would aid me in that kind of data collection and analysis. Any suggestions? Thank you already in advance, Anna Haverinen _________________________ Anna E. Haverinen, PhD Visiting Scholar, Existential Terrains research program (DIGMEX) University of Stockholm, Sweden Postdoctoral Researcher Digital Culture University of Turku, Finland Chairwoman of the Finnish Death Studies Association www.kuolemantutkimus.com www.thanatos-journal.com anna.haverinen(a)utu.fi http://www.annahaverinen.com @Ahaverine

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Re: [Air-L] Analysing YouTube comments
by Maurice Vergeer 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

you might want to consider http://infoextractor.org/ hope that helps On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Anna E. Haverinen <aehaverinen(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello list members, > > I am looking for tools to extract YouTube comment sections or any other > relevant applications that would aid me in that kind of data collection and > analysis. > > Any suggestions? > > Thank you already in advance, > > Anna Haverinen > > _________________________ > Anna E. Haverinen, PhD > Visiting Scholar, Existential Terrains research program (DIGMEX) > University of Stockholm, Sweden > > Postdoctoral Researcher > Digital Culture > University of Turku, Finland > > Chairwoman of the Finnish Death Studies Association > www.kuolemantutkimus.com > www.thanatos-journal.com > > anna.haverinen(a)utu.fi > http://www.annahaverinen.com > @Ahaverine > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- ________________________________________________ Maurice Vergeer To contact me, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/5 To see my publications, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/1 ________________________________________________

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Twitter data collection tools
by Gohar F. Khan 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

Hello list members: I am looking for tools which can help extract all possible Twitter statistics (such as, number of tweets, followers, followings, mentions, re-tweets, favorites) for a list of Twitter handlers (around 120 accounts). *In particular, I look for a tool that can take the IDs as a single file and provide the desired statistics for each ID. * The Webometrics Analyst has this functionality, but unfortunately it only provides followers and followings data. I am also familiar with the several other tools including the ones mentioned in the Dean Freelon's curated list <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UaERzROI986HqcwrBDLaqGG8X_lYwctj6ek6ryq…>, but non of these can extract all the information I need. Some tools provide more statistics, but they work with one ID at time. I will greatly appreciate any suggestions. Thank you, -- 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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CFP WWW'16 Workshop: 7th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2016) - Behavioral Analytics on the Web
by Christoph Trattner 10 Nov '15

10 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=msm2016 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, Germany 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 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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Fwd: Expertise Graduate Student Conference CFP
by Burcu Baykurt 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

Please feel free to circulate far and wide. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Luciana de Souza Leao <ldl2112(a)columbia.edu> Date: Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 7:48 AM Subject: Fwd: Expertise Graduate Student Conference CFP Dear friends, I would greatly appreciate your help circulating this call for papers for the graduate student conference *"Expertise from Margin to Center: Science, Politics and Democracy".* The conference will be held at Columbia University in the City of New York on April 14th-15th 2016, and it offers a great opportunity for students interested in the theme of expertise and the intersection between science and politics more broadly to present their work. We have an awesome line-up of discussants: Alondra Nelson, Gil Eyal and Diane Vaughn, and Sheila Jasanoff will be our keynote speaker -- it is a great opportunity to get extensive feedback of your work and meet other STS-oriented young scholars! We will offer meals for the two days, and travel grants will be available for some participants. For more information please visit: http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/skat/graduate-conference/ Many thanks, -- Luciana de Souza Leão Ph.D. Student Columbia University Department of Sociology - Knox Hall 606 W. 122nd Street, room 506 New York, New York 10027

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Online Reviewing as Unpaid Labor
by Gallagher, John 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

Hi everyone, I’m currently looking for resource about online reviewing as unpaid labor/value creation (in particular Amazon reviews, but online reviewing generally would work). Would anyone happen to know of articles that focus specifically on this topic? Sincerely, John John R. Gallagher, PhD Visiting Assistant Professor English Department University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign johng(a)illinois.edu<mailto:johng@illinois.edu>

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