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REMOTE PARTICIPATION: IGF2015 in Joao Pessoa
by Becky Lentz 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

Thanks Joly, Am in Joao Pessoa now and thought the workshop on the Right to Protest Online might be of interest to the AIR community: https://right-to-protest.org/ Slides are available from the website (see Tuesday schedule at noon) using this link: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf-2015-schedule Cheers, Becky ---------------------- Becky Lentz, PhD Associate Professor of Communication Studies Department of Art History/Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West, Arts Building, W-265 Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0G5 Phone 514.398.4995 Fax 514.398.8557 Email: becky.lentz(a)mcgill.ca http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs

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Call for Panel, International Association for the Study of Commons, Regional European Meeting 2016, Bern
by Becky Lentz 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

Of potential interest to AIR colleagues working on the digital commons > >*Call for Panels, Papers, and Posters * > >*for IASC Regional European Meeting, * > >*Bern, Switzerland, 10-13 May 2016 * > >*Commons in a ³Glocal² World: * > >*Global Connections and Local Responses* > >Venue: University of Bern, Main Building > >Organized by the Institute of Social Anthropology (ISA), the Centre for >Development and Environment (CDE), and the Institute of Geography (IG) >in collaboration with the Institute of History the World Trade Institute >(WTI), University of Bern, Switzerland > >Main theme: Global Connections and Local Responses Research on the >commons deals either with the development of institutions for the >management of the commons, or with issues related to global change. >While the latter mainly focusses on drivers and effects of global >expansion of capitalist modes of production, consumption, and societal >reproduction, research on institutions for the management of the commons >deals with collective action and the effects and reactions within local >action arenas. However, the entangled institutional processes through >which global and local arenas referred to as ³glocal² interlock are >not yet addressed in a systematic way. Europe has been a major driver of >³glocal² processes. Therefore, the 4th Regional European Meeting of the >IASC is devoted to global connections and local responses. It provides a >space to advance our understanding of ongoing ³glocal² processes and to >analyse historically how commons in Europe have evolved and adapted to >³glocal² changes. By integrating political ecology with approaches of >New Institutionalism and Critical Theory in Anthropology, Human >Geography, Political Science and History, we propose to investigate the >impacts of external changes on the perception and evaluation of >resources by actors related to the commons. This raises the question of >local bargaining power, ideologies and discourses, and of the selection >and crafting of institutional designs, which in turn affect the access >to common-pool resources, as well as the distribution of benefits >related to the management of these resources. > >This conference therefore aims to look at the interfaces between local >and global processes in order to bring together research arenas that >have often been kept quite separate until now. We therefore call for >contributions focussing on: > > how global players such as multinational companies and organizations >affect local governance of the commons worldwide > > the role of international law and global trade in shaping the >interface between global actors and institutional processes of local >commons governance > > the impacts of external economic and political changes on the >perception and evaluation of resources and areas by actors related to >the commons > > local resistance and the development of political strategies >countering the transformation of collective into private or state-based >property rights as a consequence of economic and political changes > > the local crafting of institutional designs in global and local >arenas, and how these affect access to and distribution of natural >resources and related benefits among local to global actors using the >commons > > how the encounter of global and local processes affect bargaining >power, ideologies and discourses of global and local actors in governing >sustainability trade-offs. > >We especially welcome contributions that aim to address the above >mentioned themes through novel forms of integrating theoretical >approaches. In addition, the focus of the conference will be on a >dialogue among representatives of different academic disciplines (e.g. >geography, social anthropology, history, development studies, economics, >political science, and law) and between academics and non-academic >actors (e.g. practitioners, business representatives, policy makers, or >NGOs). > >For any additional information, please >visit >http://www.iasc-commons.org/conferences/regional/2016-iasc-european-region >al-conference > >*Deadline for submitting panel abstracts is November 15, 2015 * > >Please send your panel abstract (500 words) with at least two potential >presenters > >In case you have a single paper or a poster this can also be submitted >at this deadline. A second call for papers related to the panels will >follow on November 15, 2015 > >Please submit your abstract via the IASC Conference Registration Module: >http://conferences.iasc-commons.org/ > >Please contact us if you have questions: iasc-europe-2016(a)cde.unibe.ch > > >-- >Silke Helfrich >www.commonsblog.de

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Digital Humanities
by AJ Kelton 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

Greetings fine colleagues, I'm hoping you can help me gather a collection of awesome projects that represent efforts in the area of Digital Humanities. I already have http://dhcommons.org/projects (if you've not seen it, some neat stuff there). I'd love to get details on projects and ideas from your own experience at your institutions, but I'd also be appreciative of any projects you've stumbled on along the way that you think might be useful. best, aj -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate, ABD Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2016 http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf <http://twitter.com/ELDConf> ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton <http://twitter.com/aj_kelton>

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CfP: Special Issue on Mining Social Semantics on the Social Web
by Robert Jäschke 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Call for papers: Special Issue on Mining Social Semantics on the Social Web In recent years the amount of data available on the social web has grown massively. Consequently, researchers have developed approaches that leverage this social web data to tackle interesting challenges of the semantic web. Among them are methods for learning ontologies from social media or crowdsourcing, extracting semantics from data collected by citizen science and participatory sensing initiatives, or for better understanding and describing user activities. The rich data provided by the social web can be used to learn and construct the semantic web. This can be facilitated by learning basic semantic relationships, e.g., between entities, or by employing more sophisticated methods that are able to construct a complete knowledge graph or ontology. Other methods enrich content from the social web and link it to the semantic web. The proposed special issue is open to all submissions that utilize data from the social web a) with the help of semantic web technologies, b) for inferring and extracting semantics, or c) for enriching and linking content with/to the semantic web or existing knowledge structures like the linked open data cloud. Any kind of data can be utilized as long as it has a connection with the social web, e.g., tags from Flickr, tweets from Twitter, check-ins from Foursquare, articles from Wikipedia, shared mobile sensor data, data from participatory mapping, crowd-sourced data, etc. Examples include approaches for inferring the semantics of tags, extracting semantics from Wikipedia articles, or enriching tweets with named entities. The resulting knowledge can be integrated into structures like the linked open data cloud. == Topics of Interest == We welcome original high quality submissions on (but are not restricted to) the following topics: - - linked open data and the social web - - machine learning for the semantic web on social web data - - semantic enrichment (e.g., sentiment detection, polarity, named entity recognition, ...) of user-generated texts (e.g., Wikipedia articles, tweets, blogs, …) - - extraction and modelling of arguments and discourse - - never-ending language learning from user-generated content - - ontology learning from user-generated content - - semantics of social tagging (e.g., inferring semantics of tags, identifying relationships between tags, learning ontologies from tags, ...) - - mining Wikipedia (e.g., extracting semantics from articles, semantic enrichment of articles, inter-language analyses, mining the Wikipedia category graph, ...) - - temporal and spatial semantics of content from the social web - - inferring semantics from user data, usage logs, mobile sensing, ... - - extracting location-based semantics from Foursquare, OpenStreetMap, ... - - leveraging crowd-sourcing for the semantic web - - capturing the semantics of user interactions - - inferring semantics from user data and usage logs == Submissions == 31 January 2016 - Paper submission deadline Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/. Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the special issue on Mining Semantics in/from the Social Web. Submissions are possible as full research papers or surveys. While there is no upper limit, the paper length must be justified by content. == Important Dates == - - Call for papers: September 2015 - - Submission deadline: 31 January 2016 - - Notification: 31 March 2016 == Guest editors == Please use the e-mail address social-semantic-issue(a)l3s.de for inquiries. - - Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany - - Robert Jäschke, L3S Research Center, Germany - - Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California, United States <http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-mining-s…> - -- Prof. Dr. Robert Jäschke L3S Research Center/Leibniz University Hannover http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~jaeschke/ +49-(0)511-762-17775 <<<<< please participate: http://researchersontwitter.appspot.com/ >>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWQajgAAoJEPZY2c/EvlKYER0P/2X6/VU+DuOBU2o+3Q6yT4lO FBKrgTyp5OrTaF8yE2eJ70nd7MZeCZevMuu//Mg+U9wYlvhIOVm1NTMS12UEDj/j bxaCkl0p+E4RX6VuDsUlJtC/Pk+3Wr/Ya6DP8BwX19txs1bK2zfYdMg7HXxDdeUs c2cTlmbpekY2ZYUxkX4Dpd2/QQvxFMh/kVe11d5npq33fW4Ydb7Mdp5jqI9/TZ7D tV0GmzoqEBoBDbdXkaKkmlbY776gEoEpvp/oYetofUjC+ks0vr29J/YPsKF2/RaE ohwrN1O/2voTG0lTTIvZ+/G7sfbJCkpYYLKgePC/IrzCv8ROvmV7F8lR1ADvIVfD f4jbLed7If4IN0ow1dFwJfyncMVvMnjQZrZFnQM7aME4wXMaOhAh9L/ol2vHHGJp qrHXHg1JPP/3ECPZ6tu4/IlaqyzBhQZD+jqjLydCabqI/HI3nyREmO0HaGed6zYO asvC3LLZw0RnjRME+1aU4h6Modd8xwZHvDUXOkmd+gtg5MqKiEXdvvfiSLPUzf8q LWH9siKeabeGYKgx33DSsKB3w3a66nMOzwvFt0FwQ+76ljez8B7gAWVQ2BT76ixa Q8HbjbFZLQJNRNMgdq+AxMz+Qz4jhmtgXY2hU1YXW6VeV6Xi1Pqa8viA/hGsrM5J Iq3oOVqNIxYcaZlsOFet =QZR1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Job: Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Multimedia Communication
by Tery G 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi all, I apologize for sending this under the wrong subject line. It's been a while since I used an email list on gmail and I was not careful enough with my reply. The Multimedia Communication Department at Wesley College has an opening for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Multimedia Communication. If you're interested, you can read more about it here: https://www.higheredjobs.com/state/details.cfm?JobCode=176159253&Title=Assi… Tery Griffin Associate Professor and Chair Department of Multimedia Communication Wesley College 120 North State St Dover DE 19901

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Call for Participation: Computational Social Science Winter Symposium, at GESIS Cologne, Dec 2-3 2015
by Weller, Katrin 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

============================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - REGISTRATION OPEN UNTIL NOV. 18, 2015 ============================================================== 2nd COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WINTER SYMPOSIUM Cologne, Germany Main symposium dates: December 2-3, 2015 Pre-symposium workshops and tutorials: December 1, 2015 Website: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/ Hashtag: #cssws15 ============================================================== The main program for the CSS Winter Symposium 2015 has be announced: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/program/ We are looking forward to: * an exciting program featuring a eight invited talks that will provide different perspectives on current advances and limitations of computational social science * 70 contributed posters and 11 presentations of recent research from the area of computational social science * the opportunity to participate in workshops and tutorials on the day prior to the symposium * plenty of possibilities for interdisciplinary networking including an informal evening event at the famous Cologne Christmas markets ----------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ----------------------------- Andrea Baronchelli (City University London): The Spontaneous Emergence of Social Conventions - An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution Johan Bollen (Indiana University): Modeling critical transitions in mental health from longitudinal social media data Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Tech): Communities in Distress: Opportunities and Challenges of Social Media in Mental Well-being Noshir Contractor (Northwestern University): Leveraging Computational Social Science to address Grand Societal Challenges Andreas Flache (University of Groningen): Ethnic segregation and the fragility of opinion pluriformity in a diverse society Sune Lehmann (Technical University of Denmark): The fundamental structures of complex social systems Jürgen Pfeffer (Carnegie Mellon University): Know Your Data! Know Your Methods! Ralph Schroeder (University of Oxford): Big Data and Social Theory --------------------- REGISTRATION --------------------- Registration is free of charge and open until November 18th, 2015. PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately we cannot take responsibility for support on visa related issues. ------------------- VENUE ------------------- The CSS Winter Symposium will take place at the heart of Cologne, at Maternushaus within walking distance of the central train station and the Cologne cathedral. ------------------- CONTACT ------------------- CONFERENCE CHAIR: ----------------- Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 Köln Germany E-mail: markus.strohmaier(a)gesis.org<mailto:markus.strohmaier@gesis.org> Twitter: @mstrohm Phone: +49 (221) 47694-225 WORKSHOPS/TUTORIALS CHAIR: ------------------------------ Dr. Katrin Weller GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 Köln Germany E-mail: katrin.weller(a)gesis.org<mailto:katrin.weller@gesis.org> Twitter: @kwelle Phone: +49 221 47694472 LOCAL ORGANIZATION: ---------------------- Diana Lindner, M.A. GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 Köln Germany Email: diana.lindner(a)gesis.org<mailto:diana.lindner@gesis.org> Phone: +49 (0221) 47694-401

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FW: From the Digital Divide to Digital Citizenship
by Michael Gurstein 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Some may find this of interest. https://gurstein.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/from-the-digital-divide-to-digital -citizenship/ M

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Two Job Positions - Content Producer Lecturer & Media Law/Ethics Open Rank (UNT)
by Jacqueline Vickery 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

The Department of Media Arts a the University of North Texas is hiring two positions for Fall 2016 that may be of interest to this listserv. Open-rank position in Media Law & Ethics. We would love someone with research/expertise/teaching experience in intellectual property and digital media. http://www.rtvf.unt.edu/people/faculty-position-media-law-ethics The second is a a Lecturer position for Content Production. We are interested in someone with experience in multi-platform storytelling and emerging platform production. Digital media production skills desired. http://www.rtvf.unt.edu/people/lecturer-content-production Committee will start reviewing applications on Nov. 15, and the application will remain open until the position is filled. The University of North Texas is the 3rd largest university in the state of Texas (37,000+ students) & has a diverse student body (47% students of color). It is located 30 miles north of Dallas (many faculty & students commute from Dallas & Ft Worth) and is a great college town with a lot of creativity, live music, chef-owned restaurants, local beer, festivals, diversity, and culture. Feel free to circulate widely, - jacqueline *Dr. Jacqueline Vickery, Ph.D.* Assistant Professor Department of Media Arts | http://rtvf.unt.edu/ University of North Texas Personal website | http://jrvickery.com/

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[Technology Non-use] Special Issue of First Monday
by Eric P. S. Baumer 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Non-use of Technologies: Perspectives and Approaches This special issue provides an opportunity to rethink how we approach, study, and conceptualize human relationships with, and through, technology. The authors in this collection take a multiplicity of approaches on diverse topics to develop a rigorous theoretical understanding for non-use, setting crucial groundwork for future research. Table of Contents <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/current/showToc> Why study technology non-use? <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6310> Eric P.S. Baumer, Morgan G. Ames, Jenna Burrell, Jed R. Brubaker, Paul Dourish Lines of power: Availability to networks as a social phenomenon <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6283> David A. Banks Pulling the plug visually: Images of resistance to ICTs and connectivity <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6286> Ricardo Gomez, Kirsten Foot, Meg Young, Rose Paquet-Kinsley, Stacey Morrison The gender-technology divide or perceptions of non-use? <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6300> Neha Kumar Technologies of avoidance: The swear jar and the cell phone <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6295> Ethan R. Plaut The user as network <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6281> Karen E.C. Levy Smartphone resistance as media ambivalence <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6307> Rivka Ribak, Michele Rosenthal Exploring ethnographic techniques for ICT non-use research: An Amish case study <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6312> Lindsay Ems Entangled with technology: Engagement with Facebook among the young old <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6311> Nancy A. Van House Replicants, imposters and the real deal: Issues of non-use and technology resistance in vintage and software instruments <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6302> Claes Thorén, Andreas Kitzmann

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REMOTE PARTICIPATION: IGF2015 in João Pessoa
by Joly MacFie 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

The 2015 IGF gets seriously underway today. Remote participation is via webex and one has to register by the session at http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf2015-cast - as far as today goes all eyes are on the ISOC WSIS+10 Session at 13:00 (11:00 EST | 16:00 UTC) in Workshop 2. Before attending the session one can bone up by reading ISOC Comments on WSIS+10 Zero Draft. After one can hop over to the Main Meeting Room for the High Level Meeting which will also be webcast at https://youtu.be/qYbrmKYaRXs joly posted: " The 2015 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will take place on 10-13 November 2015 in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil and in a series of remote hubs located around the world. Quick Links Schedule of sessions involving Internet Society participants R" [image: IGF 2015 in Brazil] The 2015 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will take place on 10-13 November 2015 in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil and in a series of remote hubs <http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/remote-participation/list-of-remote-hubs> located around the world. Quick Links - Schedule of sessions involving Internet Society participants <https://www.internetsociety.org/igf2015/isoc-schedule> - Remote participation information <http://www.internetsociety.org/igf2015/remote-participation> - Resources and documents for IGF 2015 participants <https://www.internetsociety.org/igf2015/resources> - Internet Society Policy Briefs covering many of the IGF 2015 themes <https://www.internetsociety.org/policybriefs> - Biographies of Internet Society IGF 2015 Ambassadors <https://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/education-and-leadership-program…> - Internet Society blog posts related to IGF 2015 <https://www.internetsociety.org/tags/igf2015> - Internet Governance Forum (IGF) main website <http://intgovforum.org/cms/> - IGF 2015 host website (about the meeting) <http://www.igf2015.br/> Featured Blog Posts - *On My Way To IGF 2015 <https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2015/11/my-way-igf-2015>*, by Internet Society President & CEO Kathy Brown - *IGF 2015: Tackling key challenges with everyone at the table* <https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2015/11/igf-2015-tacklin…>, by Constance Bommelaer Overview Focused on the theme of "*Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development*", the 2015 IGF focuses on eight primary themes: - Cybersecurity and trust - The Internet economy - Inclusiveness and diversity - Openness - Enhancing multistakeholder cooperation - The Internet and human rights - Critical Internet resources - Emerging issues The Internet Society has strongly supported the IGF <https://www.internetsociety.org/igf> from its launch after the original World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) <https://www.internetsociety.org/wsis>. In 2015 Internet Society staff and chapter leaders will be active in João Pessoa - ISOC chapters are also providing some of the remote hubs <http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/remote-participation/list-of-remote-hubs>. 2015 IGF Ambassadors The Internet Society will once again be sponsoring a set of "Ambassadors" to the IGF. Please read their biographies <https://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/education-and-leadership-program…> . More Information Please see these websites for more information about the IGF 2015: - http://www.igf2015.br/ - https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/ Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8183#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8183#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8183 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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