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Call For Papers: Special issue of journal Media Studies
by Stephen Owen 01 Dec '15

01 Dec '15

Dear all, Apologies for the late notice on this CFP, but this might be of interest to some of you. Kind Regards, Stephen Owen CALL FOR PAPERS Radicalization and Media Logic: Surveillances and Self-Mediatization in Social Media and Politics A special issue of Medijske studije/ Media Studies Journal to be published in Vol. 8, issue 15 (June 2017) edited by Dr Robert Imre, University of Newcastle, Australia and University of Tampere, Finland Dr Stephen Owen, University of New South Wales, Australia About the issue The current state of usage of social media platforms and various types of communication tools gives us a new form of political expression at all levels. Pressed to mediatize themselves, political actors of all kinds—protestors, official political/party representatives, individual issue-drivers, and political participants—are all increasingly driven to involve themselves in complex processes of self-mediatization. The corollary of this increase in self- mediatization is a deepening engagement with the surveillance assemblage through what is often experienced (or presented to users) as mundane aspects of social-surveillance. The posting of material to, or consumption of content on social media communications makes constant interaction with the platforms de rigueur—and often compulsive—and ensures that levels of monitoring are continuing to press for these political actors to self-mediatize and monitor each others social media status and content. The standardised architectures and designs of these social media platforms, as well as the various discourses pertaining to the correct uses of them, encourage particular presentations of self and content. As a new form of political participation these social media platforms guarantee a privileging of specific and particular kinds of persona constructs that inhibit politics at one level, while developing an ever-expanding surveillance at another level. As the surveillance assemblage becomes more entrenched the surveillance gaze upon the users of social media platforms is also more apparent. This universal surveillance assemblage perpetually adds layers of content to the social media ensemble, and creates a politics that can no longer exist, by definition, outside of the surveilled social media framing. This creates the illusion of universal participation while at the same time constricting political dialogue as the civilizing and restraining effects of the social media spotlight are brought to bear on each participant using these platforms. Given these constraints, this special issue seeks papers dealing with some of the affects/effects when dealing with the phenomenon of radicalization. Topics can include but are not limited to:  Left-Wing Radicalization and the media  Right-Wing Radicalization and the media  Social Media and Radicalization: theoretical views  Religious radicalization and the media  Radicalizing youth  Surveilling Radicals  Legitimacy of the state and/or radical causes  Media Regulation and Radicalization Information about the journal: Media Studies is an interdisciplinary journal published by the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Science. The journal provides an international forum for the presentation of research and the advancement of discourse concerning media, communications, journalism, and public relations, within each field’s cultural, historical, political and/or economic contexts. The articles should not be published before (neither partially nor completely), nor currently be considered for publication by any other journal or book, nor should the submissions be a translation of previously published articles. The journal is indexed in the SCOPUS and ERIH Plus databases. For more see http://www.mediastudies.fpzg.hr Submission guidelines: Please send your abstract (500 – 700 words) and a short CV with contact information, to the guest editor and please make sure that it addresses the theoretical framework, method and (preliminary) conclusions. The deadline for abstracts is 1 December 2015 and authors will be notified by 20 December 2015. The deadline for full articles is 1 May 2016. Upon acceptance, manuscripts shall undergo a rigorous international double-blind peer review. Manuscripts should be written in English, using Times New Roman; size 12; 1.5 line spacing; all pages should be numbered appropriately. The main text of the article should be between 5,000 and 6,000 words (for more see Notes for authors at http://www.mediastudies.fpzg.hr) Please send your abstract or questions to the special issue editor: Robert Imre: Robert.Imre(a)uta.fi Stephen Owen: Stephen.Owen(a)unsw.edu.au --------------------------------- Ralf Hütter (Kraftwerk) - ‘The telephone is an antiquity — you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts work.’

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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 01 Dec '15

01 Dec '15

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