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

17 Sep '16

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

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Archiving Facebook Group Posts
by Michael Deml 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

Hello, I am a Master's student in sociology at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. I am currently working on research involving a Facebook group as a sort of virtual ethnography. I was wondering if anyone knew of any researchers who work with archiving Facebook group discussions. I am looking for a way to better facilitate the archiving of my data, as I planned on creating a corpus based on 6 months of discussions within the Facebook group. Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Please respond offline to michaeljdeml(a)gmail.com. Best wishes, Michael Deml (michaeljdeml(a)gmail.com)

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Deadline approaching: Three tenture track assistant professor positions
by Weiyu Zhang (Ivy) 20 Dec '15

20 Dec '15

Dear Colleagues, The Department of Communication and New Media (CNM) at the National University of Singapore seeks outstanding candidates for three tenure-track Assistant Professor positions, with research that complements our strengths in new media studies. CNM is a dynamic group of researchers who specialize in emergent issues at the intersections of media and communication in today’s digitally networked media environment. We are seeking three individuals with expertise in one or more of the following broad areas: 1) Social media –computer-mediated communication, social and semantic network analysis, big data and computational methods, interaction design and analysis, digital risks and privacy, socially mediated relationships. 2) Critical theory and new media – ICTD, digital rhetoric and digital humanities, cultural studies of new media, political economy of new media, postcolonial theories of new media, new media mobilities, digital Marxist theory, performance studies and new media, new media policies and regulations, digital ethics. 3) New media and political communication – activism, elections and campaigns, power and politics, collective action, social movement, civic engagement, public opinion, political psychology and behavior. The Department is situated within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at NUS, Singapore. It offers degree programs at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels, and is ranked among the top Communication and Media Studies departments globally. Remuneration and work support provided are internationally competitive. Please submit: (1) Research and teaching interest statements, (2) Curriculum Vitae including publications and teaching experience, (3) names, affiliates, and contact details of PhD supervisor and three other references, (4) selected copies of up to 2 journal/conference articles or book chapters representing best work. To be fully considered for the positions, applications should arrive before *January 3, 2016.* The start-date for the position is July 1, 2016. Candidates who are at the ABD stage and can show strong evidence of PhD completion by 2016 summer are welcome to apply. We strongly uphold the principle of non-discrimination and encourage every qualified individual to apply. Enquiries and applications should be sent to Ms. Gayathri D/O Dorairaju at cnmcareer(a)nus.edu.sg. -- Weiyu Zhang (PhD, UPenn) Associate Professor Department of Communication and New Media National University of Singapore

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Call: The Power of Presence - Preconference for ICA 2016 in Japan
by Matthew Lombard 19 Dec '15

19 Dec '15

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PARTICIPATION The Power of Presence: Using Telepresence Theory, Research and Applications to Enhance Mediated Communication Experiences in the 21st Century A preconference of the 2016 conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) Co-sponsored by the International Society for Presence Research (ISPR) June 8, 2016 (with optional demonstrations and guided sightseeing events June 7) Submission of extended abstracts: February 8, 2016 Full details: http://tinyurl.com/ICA-ISPR-2016 OVERVIEW Join us in Kyoto, Japan for an enlightening and enjoyable conference event two days before the 66th annual conference of the International Communication Association (http://www.icahdq.org/conf/) in Fukuoka, 9-13 June. (Tele)presence is a state or perception in which we overlook or misconstrue the role of technology and feel present in the environments and/or connected to the people or things we experience via technology. It´s increasingly relevant to a wide range of media experiences and application areas. This preconference will introduce the centrality, pervasiveness, value, and power of presence phenomena, theory and research to scholars and practitioners within and beyond communication and deepen and update knowledge for those already familiar with presence. The event will include a full day of invited and peer reviewed state-of-the-art presentations, and demonstrations; a keynote address from renowned Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University, creator of amazing humanoid robots (see http://www.geminoid.jp/en/index.html) and co-author of "Human-Robot Interaction in Social Robotics" (2012, CRC Press); and informal discussion, networking and fun. At the end of the day, all attendees are invited to a social dinner at an (affordable) nearby restaurant; we also hope you´ll join us for all or part of a day of demonstration visits and guided sightseeing on June 7 (the day before the event). OBJECTIVES The primary objective of the preconference will be to introduce communication scholars and practitioners to the centrality, pervasiveness, value, and power of presence phenomena, theory and research within and beyond the diverse field of communication. A secondary goal will be to deepen and update knowledge of those already familiar with presence. The overarching goal is to help integrate and increase collaborative, scholarship on presence. SUBMISSIONS Topics We seek original, high quality papers and demonstrations that contribute to our collective understanding of the power and breadth of presence phenomena and presence applications in any/every aspect of life. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): o Presence theory o Measures of presence o Presence and emotion o Presence and education o Presence and social interaction o Gender and Presence o Neuroscience approaches to Presence o Presence in gaming and entertainment o Philosophical perspectives on presence o Ethics of presence o Presence technologies and applications (e.g. in business, arts, medicine and therapy) o The future of presence research All accepted submissions will be collected in the official conference proceedings (with ISBN) and will be permanently available for download in the ISPR conference archive. We invite researchers and practitioners to submit an EXTENDED ABSTRACT for their Paper (up to 30 pages), Short Paper (up to 12 pages), Poster or Demonstration/Exhibit. All submissions are to be in APA format and except for the separate title page not identify the author(s) directly or indirectly (for blind peer review). The extended abstracts should not be longer than 12 pages excluding references, figures and appendices. Procedure Submissions are to be sent as two e-mail attachments in Word (.docx) format: 1) the title page containing all author names, affiliations and contact information; and 2) a completely anonymized version of the entire paper. Send the files to Matthew Lombard at lombard(a)temple.edu. Timing Submission deadline: February 8, 2016 Notification of acceptance decisions: March 1, 2016 Finished, camera-ready papers due: May 31, 2016 REGISTRATION Registration will be accomplished through the main ICA website, http://www.icahdq.org/conf/. Registration for the event is open to anyone and the costs (in addition to ICA fees) are modest: $50.00 USD for academics, $40.00 USD for students, and $90.00 USD for industry. (This includes lunch and snacks through the day; venues for the social dinner and June 7 activities will be selected to limit additional expenses.) LOCATION/VENUE The preconference will take place at Kyoto Shigaku Kaikan (http://www.kyt-shigakukaikan.or.jp/) in Kyoto, Japan. The city and venue are easily accessible, and near both the main ICA conference site in Fukuoka and the Kyoto-Kobe-Osaka triangle of interesting visitor sites. ORGANIZERS Matthew Lombard, Temple University Cheryl Bracken, Cleveland State University Jihyun Kim, Kent State University SongYi Lee, Temple University Kun Xu, Temple University Hocheol Yang, Temple University Fabienne Darling-Wolf, Temple University FOR MORE INFORMATION For much more information, including transportation, accommodations, demonstrations, and sightseeing events for June 7, please see the event website: http://tinyurl.com/ICA-ISPR-2016 Contact: Matthew Lombard - lombard(a)temple.edu ISPR website - http://ispr.info

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Season’s Greetings from Global Kids Online
by Sonia Livingstone - Global Kids Online 19 Dec '15

19 Dec '15

View this email in your browser (http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=6ed42cda03012774a98ca3add&id=a39d494e9…) Season’s Greetings from Global Kids Online May peace, hope and happiness be yours during this holiday season and throughout the New Year! If the image in this message doesn’t open in your email, please check in your browser to see our new logo. And do keep an occasional eye on our website at www.globalkidsonline.net to see how our project is progressing. The Global Kids Online team. ============================================================ ** (http://www.twitter.com/) ** (http://www.facebook.com) ** (http://mailchimp.com) Copyright © 2015 London School of Economics and Political Science, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you expressed interest in our project. You can unsubscribe from this list at any moment. Our mailing address is: London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom Want to change how you receive these emails? You can ** update your preferences (http://lse.us10.list-manage2.com/profile?u=6ed42cda03012774a98ca3add&id=b5b…) or ** unsubscribe from this list (http://lse.us10.list-manage2.com/unsubscribe?u=6ed42cda03012774a98ca3add&id…)

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19 Dec '15

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CFP: CSCW'16 Workshop on Algorithms at Work (due 12/30)
by Min Kyung Lee 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

CALL FOR PAPERS CSCW 2016 workshop on Algorithms at Work CSCW: http://cscw.acm.org/2016 <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fcscw.acm.or…> Sunday, February 28th, 2016 San Francisco, CA, USA Workshop website: algorithmsatwork.wordpress.com <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2falgorithmsa…> Submission deadline for a short position paper (1-4 pages): December, 30th, 2015 Notification deadline: January 5th, 2016 WORKSHOP The algorithms at work workshop critically discusses computational algorithms and the diverse ways in which humans relate to them—focusing particularly upon work practices and investigating how algorithms facilitate, regulate, and require human labor, as well as how humans make sense of and react to them. The purpose of this workshop is threefold: first, to chart the diversity of algorithmic technologies as well as their application, appropriation, use and presence in work practices; second, to probe analytic vocabularies that account for empirical diversity; third, to discuss implications for design that come out of our understandings of algorithms and the technologies through which they are enacted. HOW TO PARTICIPATE We invite participants to submit a brief 1-4 page position papers with their bio in any format. Participants should email the papers at algorithms.cscw16(a)gmail.com Topics may include (but are not limited to): * Reflection on the current use of algorithms in many digital work platforms such as Uber, TaskRabbit, mTurk, Wikipedia and Upwork * The role of algorithms and algorithmic technologies in the workplace in all their guises * How workers engage in sense-making to understand algorithmic management * Types of new workplaces and work practices that algorithms enable * Challenges in building a work platforms mediated by algorithms * Analytic vocabularies for algorithms * Analysis of meanings that “algorithm” has taken on in CSCW and/or CHI research * Design studies or ideas for algorithms at work or technologies through which the algorithms are enacted and which enable effective use * Design principles that promote, rather than stile, worker agency in algorithmic workplace * Ethical issues for algorithms at work We welcome early research, as well as more developed analyses. CONTACT If you have any questions, please contact us at algorithms.cscw16(a)gmail.com Workshop website: algorithmsatwork.wordpress.com <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2falgorithmsa…> ORGANIZERS Susann Wagenknecht, Siegen University Min Kyung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University Caitie Lustig, UC Irvine Jacki O’Neill, Microsoft Research Himanshu Zade, Microsoft Research

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#Microposts2016 workshop at WWW 2016 - 2nd Call for Papers
by Danica Radovanović 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

===================================================================== the 6th Making Sense of Microposts Workshop (#Microposts2016) at WWW 2016 http://microposts2016.seas.upenn.edu 11/12th Apr 2016 ===================================================================== THEME: Big things come in small packages ------------------- Microposts – "information published on the Web that is small in size and requires minimal effort to publish" – remain a popular means for communicating information. Microposts include tweets (using plain text or with embedded links and objects); social network endorsement using Instagram hearts; check-ins via Facebook and Foursquare, pins on Pinterest; links to brief, pre-recorded and streaming video via Snapchat and Meerkat. Microblogging apps for the ubiquitous smartphone and other small, personal devices, which support capturing photos and short videos, allow these to accompany text or serve in themselves as the Micropost. Services such as those provided by WhatsApp, Viber, Snapchat, LINE and Saya, piggybacking on SMS/MMS and augmented with social media features, are also growing in popularity, especially in emerging markets where the Internet is often accessible mainly via mobile networks. Such services typically sync with desktop or web front-ends, allowing seamless switching between devices. Microposts are also used as a portal to other services, alerting users to, e.g., live video streams on Periscope and Meerkat. Individual Microposts typically focus on a single thought, message or theme, often written on the go or in the moment, as events transpire. Collectively, however, Microposts comprise a very large amount of heterogeneous data – a source of valued, collective intelligence about a range of topics that may be mined for a variety of end uses, including opinion mining and crowd tracking, emergency response and community services. The #Microposts workshops aim to continue to provide a forum to enable discussion and hence, improve understanding of the social and cultural phenomena that influence the publication and reuse of Microposts; to assess different approaches to gleaning the information content. Enabling the understanding and application of Microposts in various contexts requires techniques and tools that function at scale, and that are able to handle the very high rate of publication. Despite advances in tools to tackle the specific challenges inherent to Micropost data, applications and approaches for analysing Microposts still rely on third party text extraction tools. An important aim of the workshop is to promote formal evaluation of the accuracy of text extraction tools specifically for Micropost data, as opposed to more typical comparative assessment using corpora of well-formed, normal length, natural language documents. To address this issue, starting in 2013 the workshop hosted an information extraction challenge in which participants detected named entities typed with corresponding concepts. In 2014, the challenge was extended to require also the linking of entities extracted to relevant DBpedia sources. 2015 saw further extension that tested the accuracy and runtime efficiency of entrants' systems for entity extraction and linking. #Microposts2016 will consolidate the 2015 task and provide a base from which participants will deploy live systems. Evolution of the challenge each year addresses a current need of researchers and others who rely on the output of text extraction tools specifically built to support or adapted to Micropost data, and where reliability and computation time are important when dealing with large-scale datasets. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------- #Microposts2016 will focus on topics including, but not exclusive to, the three areas below: MAKING SENSE/UNDERSTAND – focusing on the human in Micropost data generation and analysis, we encourage submissions that look at understanding how situation and context drive individual and collective generation of Microposts, whether targeted at the general public, a specific person or other entity, e.g. a ruling government or a cause. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary work and that driven by research in Social & Computational Science and Information and Web Sciences, that lead to deeper understanding of Micropost content, and how this content influences the contribution of Micropost data to, among others: - Collective awareness - Education & citizen empowerment, data & citizen journalism - Civil action, media & politics - Political and polemical aspects of Microposts - Ethics, legal and privacy issues - Psychological profiling and psychological aspects of Micropost-based interaction - Cultural, generational and regional differences in access and use of Microposts - Humans as sensors - Impact of effortless posting and wearable devices on communication DISCOVER – The extraction of information content from Microposts and subsequent analysis contribute to the discovery of patterns and trends in the data. This information is key to further knowledge discovery and application, using a number of approaches including: - Emergent semantics - Data mining from Microposts - Opinion mining, sentiment and sentic analysis - Network analysis and community detection - Influence detection and social contagion modelling - Prediction approaches - Linking Microposts into the Web of Linked Data (i.e. entity extraction and URI disambiguation) APPLY – Applications papers and case studies describing systems that make use of Micropost data. This includes tools developed to support the generation and sharing of Microposts using a variety of devices and media, piggybacking where necessary on other communication methods, including SMS/MMS and even radio. Areas of interest include: - Collective intelligence, user profiling, personalisation & recommendation - Business analytics & market intelligence with particular attention to big data - Event & topic detection and tendency tracking - Microposts as a second screen to television, large screens and stages at public events - Geo-localised, Micropost-based services - Public consensus & citizen participation - Security, emergency response & health - Linking social and physical signals for, e.g., crowd tracking - Identification and use of geo-location information embedded in or attached to Microposts - Increasing importance of multilingual and non-English Microposts #Microposts2016 BEST PAPER AWARD -------------------------------------- The best paper award for the main track will be sponsored by the MK:Smart project (http://www.mksmart.org) with an award of £500. (COMPUTATIONAL) SOCIAL SCIENCES TRACK -------------------------------------- To foster collaboration between Computer Science and (Computational) Social Science, and continue to encourage contribution from the latter domain to improve on 'Making Sense of Microposts', we will include again a special track dedicated to Social Science papers and other related fields. The best paper award for this track will for the second time be sponsored by GESIS, Germany, with an award of €300. This track will be chaired by Katrin Weller (GESIS, Germany). Further detail will be sent out in a separate call for papers. Web page: http://microposts2016.seas.upenn.edu/socsci_track.html NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION AND LINKING CHALLENGE ----------------------------------------------- Held since 2013, each year the challenge has allowed a valuable overview of the state of the art and has received expressions of interest and submissions from both industry and academia. We have also seen continued interest after publication of the results each year. We expect this to continue in 2016 with further extension of the challenge and with the provision of a base for the deployment of live systems. In line with the overall workshop goals, we envisage that the outcomes of the challenge will continue to advance work in the domains of named entity recognition and disambiguation, with a specific focus on function over the short length information snippets in Microposts. A detailed description of the challenge will be published in a separate call, with intent to participate to be registered in Jan 2016. Web page: http://microposts2016.seas.upenn.edu/challenge.html WORKSHOP STRUCTURE ------------------- We aim to start with a keynote address, followed by regular paper presentations and brief overviews of selected submissions to the Challenge. We will hold a poster and demo session to trigger further, in-depth interaction between workshop participants. The workshop will close with the presentation of awards. SUBMISSIONS ------------ Full papers: 8 pages Short and position papers: 4 pages Demos & Posters: 3 & 2 pages resp. Social Sciences track: 6 pages (full); 3 pages (short) Challenge extended abstracts: 3 pages (with challenge results) All written submissions should be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) should include author names and affiliations, and 3-5 author-selected keywords. Where a submission includes additional material submission this should be made as a single, unencrypted zip file that includes a plain text file listing its contents. Submission is via EasyChair, at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=microposts2016 Each submission will receive, in addition to a meta-review, at least 2 peer reviews, with full papers at least 3 peer reviews. We aim to publish the #Microposts2016 proceedings as a single volume containing all three tracks, via CEUR. The same publication conditions however apply as for other workshop proceedings included in the WWW conference companion: "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." Note this caveat does not apply to extended abstracts submitted to the special Social Sciences track summarising or discussing previously published work or presenting position statements. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- Main Track submission deadline: *06 Jan 2016* Social Sciences Track submission deadline: *13 Jan 2016* Notification: 02 Feb 2016 Camera-ready (hard) deadline (Main & Social Sciences tracks): 08 Feb 2016 NEEL Challenge - Release of training set: *from 7 Dec 2015* - Release of dev set: *30 Dec 2015* (all deadlines 23:59 Hawaii Time) Workshop - 11/12 Apr 2016 (registration open to all) CONTACT ------- E-mail: microposts2016(a)easychair.org Twitter persona: @Microposts2016 Twitter hashtag: #Microposts2016 W3C Microposts Community Group: http://www.w3.org/community/microposts ORGANISERS ----------- A. Elizabeth Cano, KMi, The Open University, UK Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro, University of Pennsylvania, USA Danica Radovanović, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Aba-Sah Dadzie, KMi, The Open University, UK ADVISORY COMMITTEE & PUBLICITY ------------------------------- Milan Stankovic, Sépage & STIH / Université Paris-Sorbonne, France Program Committee ------------------ Nikolaos Aletras, Amazon, UK Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari, Italy Julie Birkholz, CHEGG, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Marco A. Casanova, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Óscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Guillaume Erétéo, Vigiglobe, France Miriam Fernandez, KMi, The Open University, UK Lucie Flekova, TU Darmstadt, Germany Anna Lisa Gentile, University of Sheffield, UK Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Mathieu Lacage, Alcméon, France Maria Liakata, Warwick University, UK Vasileios Lampos, University College London, UK Yelena Mejova, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar José M. Morales del Castillo, El Colegio de México, Mexico Fabrizio Orlandi, University of Bonn, Germany Bernardo Pereira Nunes, PUC-Rio, Brazil Harald Sack, HPI, University of Potsdam, Germany Bernhard Schandl, mySugr GmbH, Austria Victoria Uren, Aston Business School, UK Andrea Varga, The University of Sheffield, UK Svitlana Volkova, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania, USA Alistair Willis, The Open University, UK Wei Xu, University of Pennsylvania, USA Ziqi Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK (COMPUTATIONAL) SOCIAL SCIENCES TRACK --------------------------------------- CHAIR: Katrin Weller, GESIS, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BEST PAPER AWARD: sponsored by GESIS, Germany ( http://www.gesis.org ) Award: €300 to highest ranking submission ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee ----------------------------------------- Gholam R. Amin, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Julie Birkholz, CHEGG, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Jordan Carpenter, University of Pennsylvania, USA A. Seza Doğruöz, Tilburg University, Netherlands Fabio Giglietto, Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy Athina Karatzogianni, University of Leicester, UK José M. Morales del Castillo, El Colegio de México, Mexico Raquel Recuero, Universidade Católica de Pelotas, Brazil Luca Rossi, Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy Victoria Uren, Aston Business School, UK Alistair Willis, The Open University, UK CHALLENGE EVALUATION COMMITTEE: -------------------------------- CHAIR: Giuseppe Rizzo, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy Marieke van Erp, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Program Committee -------------------------------- Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari, Italy David Corney, Signal Media, UK Grégoire Burel, KMi, Open University, UK Milan Dojchinovski, Leipzig University, Germany / CTU in Prague, Czech Republic Guillaume Erétéo, Vigiglobe, France Anna Lisa Gentile, The University of Sheffield, UK José M. Morales del Castillo, El Colegio de México, Mexico Bernardo Pereira Nunes, PUC-Rio, Brazil Giles Reger, The University of Manchester, UK Irina Temnikova, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Victoria Uren, Aston University, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ADDITIONAL WORKSHOP SPONSORS: WWBP - the World Well-Being Project (http://wwbp.org) EDSA - the European Data Science Academy (http://edsa-project.eu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Danica Radovanović web site <http://www.danicar.org> | twitter @danicar <http://www.twitter.com/danicar>

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CYPSY21, Dublin – Extension of abstract submission deadline
by Grainne Kirwan 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

With apologies for cross-postings... Due to popular demand, and the current festive season, we are extending the deadline for abstract submissions for the 21st CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy, and Social Networking conference until 15th January 2016. The conference will be held from June 27th-29th in Dublin, Ireland. Many high quality abstracts have already been received, but we are keen to have as diverse a range of presentations and posters as possible, so please do consider submitting an abstract of no more than 250 words via the ‘Abstract Submission’ page on http://interactivemediainstitute.com/cypsy21/ <http://interactivemediainstitute.com/cypsy21/> We do hope that you and your students will be able to attend and present at the conference. For conference updates, please do follow us on Twitter (@CYPSYConference) and if you’d like to tweet about the event, the conference hashtag is #CYPSY21 We’re also on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/InteractiveMediaInstitute <https://www.facebook.com/InteractiveMediaInstitute> If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at cybertherapy(a)vrphobia.com or grainne.kirwan(a)iadt.ie <grainne.kirwan(a)iadt.ie> Kind regards Grainne Kirwan (Conference Co-Chair)

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CFP Mediated Intimacies Special Issue of Journal of Gender Studies DEADLINE EXTENDED
by Feona Attwood 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

CFP Mediated Intimacies DEADLINE EXTENDED Mediated Intimacies Call for Papers: Special Issue of Journal of Gender Studies to be published in March 2017 edited by Feona Attwood, Jamie Hakim, Alison Winch EXTENDED DEADLINE - 30th January 2016 In what ways does media convergence culture represent, intervene in, exploit and enable intimate relations? How is intimacy being reconfigured under neoliberalism? On the one hand we are living in atomized and individualistic times where relationships are increasingly strategic and competitive. On the other the media has become, as Beverly Skeggs argues, intensely intimate. This special issue on mediated intimacies aims to explore how understandings of intimacy are (re)constructed and experienced, particularly in digital cultures. In addition, we are interested in the ways in which the apparently alienated entrepreneurial self is constructed through and by forging intimate connections and simultaneously how these networks are mined and monetized by corporate culture. This special issue of Journal of Gender Studies is developed from a symposium held in July 2014 on Mediated Intimacies where the speakers explored, among other topics, girls’ online friendships, ‘expert’ sex advice in printed media, male seduction communities, and how pornography reconceptualises the very idea of intimacy itself. Potential papers could explore the affective dimensions of intimate practices reflecting the pleasures and pains of life lived under neoliberalism, including how precarity and class impact on the ways in which intimacy is forged. Because digital culture is primarily corporate driven (Taylor 2014) we are interested in how user-generated media employs self-branding strategies. For example, in the refashioning of the body or gendered and sexual identities, or the ways in which intimacy can be a form of self-promotion. Feminist and queer perspectives seek to expand the reach of what is constituted as belonging, love, connection and intimacy. Whereas recession culture has reestablished normative gender categories (Negra and Tasker 2014) contemporary digital cultures have the potential to challenge and rework gender and sexual identities (McGlotten 2013). This issue hopes to explore these productive tensions. Potential papers could also explore how sexuality, sex, sexual knowledges and sexual pleasure function by looking, for example, at Do-It-Yourself porn, sexual subcultures and alternative sex practices. A final consideration underpinning this issue is how different intimacies intersect along axes of class, race, disability, age and geographical location. Possible topics could include: ● adapting and resisting gendered and sexed identities ● forging new normative gendered identities ● mediatised kinship (families, parenthood and fertility) ● geolocation technology ● dating and hook up apps, sex dating and relationship cultures ● selfies ● role of experts (e.g. sex advisors and agony aunts), including their changing meaning in peer-driven contexts ● mediated romance ● fitness apps and body culture ● use of social networking sites, including instagram, Facebook, Twitter ● self-branding ● the mediation of friendship ● rebranding feminism ● pornography ● monetization of intimacy, including big data, content generation and PR/advertising Please send 7000 word completed essays by 30th January 2016 through Scholar One Manuscripts: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjgs20/current. Please direct enquiries to Alison Winch, Feona Attwood and Jamie Hakim a.winch(a)uea.ac.uk f.attwood(a)mdx.ac.uk j.hakim(a)uea.ac.uk Publication schedule: 30th January - deadline for submissions February: Papers to peer reviewers April: Comments to authors September: Authors final revisions December 2016: Final accepts Feona Attwood Professor of Cultural Studies, Communication and Media Middlesex University, UK Porn Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rprn20#.VW8jTlxViko Sexualities https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/sexualities/journal200950 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University.

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