December 2015 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

CfP: Surveillance and Security in the Age of Algorithmic Communication (Leicester, 26 July 2016, IAMCR pre-conference)
by Lina Dencik 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

>Surveillance and Security in the Age of Algorithmic Communication >An IAMCR 2016 pre-conference >University of Leicester >26 July 2016 > >Deadline for abstracts: (500 words): January 15, 2016 >More information: http://iamcr.org/leicester2016/algorithmic-surveillance >The call as pdf: >http://iamcr.org/sites/default/files/AlgoSurveillancePreconferenceCfP_0.pd >f > >The Snowden leaks have put mass surveillance on the public and academic >agendas. Data collection, interception and analysis by both state and >commercial actors are increasingly discussed and investigated, and >instances of mass data leaks underline the challenges of big data >gathering and storage. So what does the reality of surveillance and the >precarity of data security mean as our world is increasingly structured >by algorithmic decision-making, artificial intelligence, the internet of >things, and robotic cultures? What are the challenges and solutions, and >what new concepts and practices need to be considered? What next? > >Academic debates on posthumanism, futuristic philosophical endeavours, >and scholarly fields such as science and technology studies have >approached these questions, but they have not been very prominent at >IAMCR. This preconference will therefore address these current debates >on the future of media and communications. > >We welcome researchers who are eager to discuss the consequences of >algorithmic communication and artificial intelligence to the field of >media and communication. We particularly invite studies on the long-term >challenges to privacy and surveillance in digital networks as they are >emerging in the area of ethics and politics of algorithmic >communication, and on the employment of AI in areas such as policing, >healthcare, social services, education, the digital economy and the >cultural industries. > >For this pre-conference workshop we are interested in the following >themes: > >- The politics and ethics of algorithmic communication and security >- Challenges of the employment of AI in policing, social services, etc. >- Privacy and security in the context of the internet of things >- Roles and implications of corporate, governmental and civil society >production of algorithmic communication >- Accountability and agency in the ?black box society? >- The role of human/civic rights in the context of AI and algorithmic >security >- Necessary policies, regulatory frameworks, and relevant standards >- Robot protests: sociopolitical cyberconflicts and resistance to >algorithmic security >- The pre-conference is associated with the projects The Common Good: >Ethics and Rights in Cyber - Security and Digital Citizenship and >Surveillance Society. > > > >---------------- > >Dr Arne Hintz > >Senior Lecturer | Director MA Digital Media and Society > >School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies | Cardiff University > >Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue | Cardiff CF10 3NB > >Principal Investigator | ESRC project 'Digital Citizenship and >Surveillance Society' > >Fellow | Center for Media, Data and Society | Central European University > >Email: HintzA(a)cardiff.ac.uk >

1 0

CFP: Machine Communication (Deadline Soon)
by Zach McDowell 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

(Apologies for cross posting) *CFP – Machine Communication* *communication +1* invites submissions for its upcoming issue, Machine Communication. *Edited by David Gunkel and Zachary McDowell* Within this issue we hope to explore the boundaries of communication outside of the human, that which is inevitably radically other – the machine. We seek articles that interrogate the implications and the various problematics that emerge around, within, and from the engagement with the machine. What does the machine have to say about our history, our present, or our future? Whether the question of human-machine interaction, machine-machine interaction, or machines interacting with themselves, we hope to find and collect articles probing the boundaries of concern for machine communication. Topics may include but are not limited to: Algorithmic Culture – Influence of machines on human or other non-machine culture; Robotic Automation – Drones, Robots, or other automated systems that exist in the corporeal world and take part in a variety of tasks; Artificial Intelligence – Either soft-AI and its effects or hard-AI and its possible futures / implications. Other topics might include Cybernetics, Bioinformatics, Knowledge Representation, or various applications of Software Theory. Please submit short proposals of no more than 500 words by December 13th, 2015 to communicationplusone(a)gmail.com. Upon invitation, full text submissions will be due April 5th, 2013, with expected publication in September, 2016. *About the Journal* The aim of *communication +1* is to promote new approaches to and open new horizons in the study of communication from an interdisciplinary perspective. We are particularly committed to promoting research that seeks to constitute new areas of inquiry and to explore new frontiers of theoretical activities linking the study of communication to both established and emerging research programs in the humanities, social sciences, and arts. Other than the commitment to rigorous scholarship, *communication +1* sets no specific agenda. Its primary objective is to create is a space for thoughtful experiments and for communicating these experiments. *communication +1 *is an open access journal supported by University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries and the Department of Communication * Editor in Chief: Briankle G. Chang, University of Massachusetts Amherst * Managing Editor: Zachary J. McDowell, University of Massachusetts Amherst *Advisory Board* Kuan-Hsing Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Bernard Geoghegan, Humboldt-Universität, Germany Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University Catherine Malabou, Kingston University, United Kingdom Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton, United Kingdom John Durham Peters, University of Iowa Johnathan Sterne, McGill University Ted Striphas, Indiana University Greg Wise, Arizona State University For more information about the project in general, as well as short pieces, lectures, and interviews, visit communicationplusone.org. For more information or to participate in the communicationplusone.org project, please email communicationplusone(a)gmail.com best, Zach -------------------- Zachary J. McDowell Doctoral Candidate (ABD) Department of Communication University of Massachusetts, Amherst Doctoral Fellow, National Center for Digital Government <http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/people/fellows.html> Wikipedia Teaching Fellow <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_Massachusetts…> Managing Editor, communication +1 <http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/>

1 0

New Issue of "Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet"
by Simone Heidbrink 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

Dear all, The editors of "online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet" (http://online.uni-hd.de) are pleased to announce the publication of a new issue (09-2015), featuring a broad range of articles on all different aspects of religion online. In February 2016 a new special issue on "religion and digital games" will follow. The journal is always keen to collect high quality scholarship on issues relating to religions on the Internet and welcomes submissions pertaining to all aspects of theses matters anytime to be published in one of our next issues. Submissions and queries should be send to the following address: online.religion(a)zegk.uni-heidelberg.de. Best regards on behalf of the editors Simone Heidbrink (secretary to the editorial board) -- Simone Heidbrink, M.A. Institut für Religionswissenschaft Zentrum für Europäische Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften (ZEGK) Universität Heidelberg Akademiestr. 4-8 D - 69117 Heidelberg fon: ++49-(0)6221-54 74 82 fax: ++49-(0)6221-54 76 24

1 0

UTS:CIC - 3 PhD Scholarships in Learning Analytics (Sydney, 2016)
by Simon Knight 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

The Connected Intelligence Centre at the University of Technology Sydney is currently advertising 3 PhD scholarships for 2016 on the following topics/themes: * Learning Analytics, Agency and Algorithmic Accountability * Learning Analytics for Student Writing Practices * Learning Analytics Across Digital and Physical Spaces http://utscic.edu.au/research/phd CIC’s mission is to invent, evaluate and theorise the design of human-centered data science and learning analytics to advance the UTS Teaching & Learning program. As you will see from our Research Themes and the three PhD topics advertised, a core theme is analytics techniques to nurture in learners the creative, critical, sensemaking qualities needed for lifelong learning, employment and citizenship in a complex, data-saturated society. The website contains further detail on the topics, and CIC's context. We welcome informal contacts in the first instance. Please do pass this information along to anyone/group who might be a good candidate to apply. Simon Knight <http://utscic.edu.au/research/phd>

1 0

First chapter of "This Program is Brought to You By…" available free on Culture Digitally
by Joshua Braun 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

With the kind permission of Yale University Press, /Culture Digitally /has made available the first chapter of my new book, /This Program is Brought to You By: Distributing ///Television/ News Online/, for free: http://culturedigitally.org/2015/12/dialogue_braun/ It's accompanied by some terrific commentaries from other scholars I greatly respect and for whose participation I'm immensely grateful. I hope those of you who're interested will check it out. Here's the catalog description. <http://wideaperture.net/?view=book> All the Best, Josh -- Josh Braun, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies Journalism Department University of Massachusetts Amherst @josh_braun Skype: wideaperture http://wideaperture.net/ "Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more." William Least Heat-Moon

1 0

more on the NY Times front page
by Paul Levinson 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

here's the gist of what I had to say http://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-front-page-editorial-in-new-yo…

1 0

McLuhan on New Zealand radio
by Paul Levinson 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

So I just worked Marshall McLuhan, and his brilliant point in The Mechanical Bride that you can tell the state of the world just by looking at the front-page configuration of a newspaper, into my interview on New Zealand "Breakfast" radio about yesterday's NY Times front page editorial advocating gun control

1 0

social media content in documentary films
by Tori Holmes 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

Dear colleagues, Does anyone know of any research (published or in progress) specifically on the inclusion of internet/social media content in documentary films, e.g. footage/screenshots of social network site pages or video sharing platforms relating to the subject matter of the film and the story being told? I would very much welcome any suggestions you might have of work I could read on this topic. Thanks in advance for your help. Best wishes, Tori Dr Tori Holmes Lecturer in Brazilian Studies Department of Spanish & Portuguese School of Modern Languages 9 University Square (Rm 301) Queen's University Belfast Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland Tel: +44 (0)28 9097 3632 Email: t.holmes(a)qub.ac.uk<mailto:t.holmes@qub.ac.uk> Web: http://www.qub.ac.uk/ml

2 1

Charting the Digital: Play, Discourse, Disruption
by Alex Gekker 06 Dec '15

06 Dec '15

Dear list, The following might be relevant for those engaged with data, interfaces and/or platform studies, as well as general research into space and place. Apologies for cross-posting. regards, Alex. ======== (A handy PDF version of the call can be found here <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15825733/DisseminationProjectCFP%20Fina…> ) 8-9 October 2016, Venice (Italy) First call for papers Organised by the ERC funded Charting the Digital team: Sybille Lammes (Principal Investigator), Chris Perkins (Senior Research Fellow), Sam Hind (PhD candidate), Alex Gekker (PhD candidate) and Clancy Wilmott (PhD candidate and Research Fellow). ____ Whether a navigation device that adjusts its route-display according to where the driver chooses to go, or a map in a computer game that is co-produced by players’ input, digital mapping has transformed our daily lives and how we engage with and shape our worlds. During this final conference of the ERC project Charting the Digital we will share and discuss what this transformation means. Over the last 4 years the Charting team has interrogated what this shift entails, taking on board new developments in the field as well as novel technological possibilities. This has encompassed the deployment of theoretical and methodological frameworks in order to analyse a broad spectrum of digital mapping applications, platforms and devices - from the use of mobile apps such as Google/Apple Maps, Citymapper, Ingress, TripAdvisor, Waze and many more to revolutionary platforms like Google Earth and OSM and devices from smartphones and watches to fitness trackers. Using an interdisciplinary approach we have examined digital maps in relation to each other, to ‘traditional’ non-digital cartographies and to other media forms concerned with mapping and navigation. In so doing we have expanded concepts of navigational interfaces; play, playfulness and playful mapping; casual politics; cartographic reason and logic; and mapping experimentation, risk and failure. Now it is time to set up the next stage of this inquiry. Through discussion with scholars whose ideas influence, challenge or resonate with our work, we wish to open the question of what digital mapping is, has become, or could become in the future. ____ We are interested in a variety of themes, which include, but are not limited to: Playful cartography - videogames and maps - minimaps, player representation, post-colonialism - location-based games - pervasive games with/out maps - mapping as play, play as mapping: the relations between game maps and physical movement - actions/activities/manoeuvres - situationism and pyscho-geography - cheating Mapping and discourse - systems of thought - interoperable logics - rationalism - authority - transformations - transplantations - abstraction and formalisation - cartographic reason - maps and culture Performative mapping - embodiment - materiality - new technologies - new vocabularies - imaginaries - spatialities - limits to representation - temporality (immediacy, ephemerality, (a)synchronicities) Big data, small data, ‘sweaty’ data in digital mapping practices - empirical/ethical challenges - ‘offline’ to ‘online’ articulation - visualisation: the transformation from data to map (layering, inscription) - cartographic politics of big data - issues of representation/scale - applicability of big data metaphors (‘fumes’, ‘sweat’, stacks etc.) Disruptive cartographies - tactical/strategic/logistic - interrelation between disruption, disobedience, disorientation and dislocation - risk and excess (and play) - cartographies of care - autonomous mapping practices - ‘disruption’ as innovation (critique of) - post-colonial mapping - new epistemologies/ways of mapping/unmapping - hacking, hacker culture and crypto-politics - failure (systemic, glitches, inter-active/haptic, capture/collect, privacy/crypto concerns, as productive/non-binary, entrepreneurial/motivational discourse) Mapping methods - in pedagogy - design and making - conceptual frameworks (situatedness, moments, traces, instantiations, models etc.) - playful mapping as method - interdisciplinarity - mobile methods & fieldwork Future Maps and future mapping - self-driving cars and mapping - predictive maps and crisis maps - embodied, sensory maps/wearable technology - personalised maps - ‘dumb’ phones, un-mapping and non-maps We invite contributions from methodological, theoretical and practical vantage points, and are particularly interested in bringing together a wide range of approaches, from junior and senior researchers, and from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Please send a proposal of 500 words (including keywords) before 30 January 2016 to: chartingthedigital(a)gmail.com Thank you in advance, The Charting the Digital team ======= Alex Gekker, PhD Candidate (Promovendus), Media and Culture, Utrecht University. Charting the Digital http://www.digitalcartography.eu/ http://alexgekker.com a.gekker(a)uu.nl

1 0

CALL FOR PAPERS - Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!
by Yogesh K. Dwivedi 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

Dear Colleagues We invite the submission of research papers to the 15th IFIP I3E Conference to be held 13-15th September 2016 in Swansea, UK. The theme of the conference is ‘Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!’. Deadline for submission of papers for review is 15th March 2016. Please visit the conference website http://www.swansea.ac.uk/som/i3e2016/ for further information and submission instructions. We welcome any queries regarding the conference and/or submission via email y.k.dwivedi(a)swansea.ac.uk / ykdwivedi(a)gmail.com. Please do let me know if you wish to be involved as a PC member that would involve reviewing just one submission. We look forward to your involvement with and contribution to this conference. Many thanks Kind Regards Yogesh -- Professor Yogesh K. Dwivedi, PhD Professor of Digital and Social Media Head of Management and Systems Section (MaSS) School of Management Room #1, Haldane Building Swansea University, Singleton Park Swansea, SA2 8PP, Wales, UK. TEL (Office): +44 (0) 1792 602340 FAX (Office): +44 (0) 1792 295626 Email: y.k.dwivedi(a)swansea.ac.uk ; ykdwivedi(a)gmail.com Home page:http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/som/academic-staff/y.k.dwivedi/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associate Editor - European Journal of Information Systems Associate Editor for Digital Marketing Section - European Journal of Marketing Senior Editor (Europe/Africa/Middle East) - Journal of Electronic Commerce Research

1 0