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CfP: The Empiricist's Challenge: Asking Meaningful Questions in Political Science in the Age of Big Data
by Mercea, Dan 28 May '15

28 May '15

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to the conference The Empiricist's Challenge: Asking Meaningful Questions in Political Science in the Age of Big Data, which will take place on 23 and 24 October 2015, at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim. A summary of the conference’s theme and objectives can be found in the Call for Papers below. More details about the conference, including topics, keynote speakers and funding opportunities can be found on the conference website (http://www.bigdatapoliticalscience.net) If you are interested in taking part in the conference, please send a paper title, an abstract of up to 500 words, 3-5 keywords and the names and affiliations of all authors to bigdatapolitics(a)uni-mannheim.de by July 13, 2015. We look forward to your contributions, Yannis Theocharis Andreas Jungherr ####Call for Papers#### The Empiricist's Challenge: Asking Meaningful Questions in Political Science in the Age of Big Data October 23-24, 2015, MZES, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany Submission deadlines: July 13, 2015 Keynote speakers W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington Sandra González-Bailón, University of Pennsylvania Jonathan Nagler, New York University Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam The continuously growing use of digital services has provided social scientists with an expanding reservoir of data, potentially holding valuable insights into human behavior and social systems. The potentials of the use of digital trace data in social science research has famously given rise to the terms “big data” and “computational social science”. Using such data, social scientists have argued, will enable us to better understand social, political and economic life through the generation of large datasets that are composed not of questions asked of citizens concerning their attitudes and behaviours, but of the digital traces of their actual behaviour as they navigate the online world. While the potentials of the use of digital trace data have been a continuous focus in public debate, scientific contributions using such trace data in political science usually come in the form of research-manifestos or isolated proofs-of-concept, only marginally contributing to current debates in the social sciences. Examples abound of descriptive analyses, maps and visualizations of citizens’ or candidates’ social media use during electoral campaigns, or of activists during social movement mobilisations. Even though there are many interesting and valuable contributions among these studies, for moving into the main stream of political research the field has to mature. This includes: developing standards for data collection, preparation, analysis and reporting; establishing more systematic links between the established body of research in the social sciences; and a move away from proofs-of-concepts towards the systematic development and testing of hypotheses. We aim to create a forum where leading practitioners, challengers and up-and-coming social scientists who work in the area of digital trace data meet and engage in debate. Any such endeavor needs to take interdisciplinary considerations into account. We are thus particularly interested in bringing together scholars from different scientific disciplines (such as political science, sociology, media and communication and computer science) who, although increasingly converge in their work around similar questions, often find it difficult to establish productive lines of communication and collaboration. The papers can address, but should not be limited to, the following topics: -- Which are the areas of political science where the use of digital trace data hold potential and how can this be illustrated systematically? -- Which current theories offer researchers using digital trace data a valuable context to frame their research question and develop and test hypotheses? -- What are the main challenges to be resolved before the use of digital trace data can enter the mainstream of political science? We invite papers that pursue these questions by specifically discussing the abovementioned challenges, as well as for analytical empirical studies that can serve as exemplars. In particular, we encourage papers discussing theoretical challenges of the use of digital trace data in the social sciences, linking the analysis of digital trace data with established research questions and topics in political science, and discussing on how to establish necessary methodological and procedural challenges in establishing digital trace data as standard elements of social science research. Authors of selected high quality contributions will be invited to submit their papers for consideration in a special issue of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics. These submissions will undergo the journal’s regular peer-review process. Funding Travel and accommodation support of up to 300€ for PhD students and postdoctoral fellows will be offered to one author for each accepted paper. By providing resources for the participation of more junior scholars we hope to further encourage their participation. In the case of co-authored work the authors themselves should decide who will receive this support if their paper is accepted. Conference meals, including a conference dinner will also be covered. Submissions Proposals including a paper title, abstract of up to 500 words, 3-5 keywords and the names and affiliations of all authors should be submitted to the following e-mail address no later than July 13, 2015. bigdatapolitics(a)uni-mannheim.de

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AoIR Election: Renew or Join and Vote Now
by Kendall, Lori 27 May '15

27 May '15

Folks, This is shaping up to be a record-breaking election both in terms of numbers of people running for election and numbers of people voting. But there's one more record I'd like to break. Did you know that in most elections for the AoIR Executive Committee, less than one quarter of the membership votes? Let's make this election more representative of our membership. Voting is one small way to add your voice and direct the future of AoIR. If you find your membership has lapsed, renew now. If you are not yet a member, please consider joining, especially if you plan to attend the conference in October. You still have time to vote. There are just over four days left in the election, which ends at noon Eastern U.S. time on June 1. Voting instructions went out via email to members at the beginning of the election. We'll be sending a reminder through the membership system shortly. If you join or renew now, please contact our Association Coordinator, Anna Lauren Hoffmann (ac -- at -- aoir.org) to be added to the voting register. Thanks and I hope to see you in Phoenix in October! Lori Kendall President, AoIR

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Only 2 days left
by AJ Kelton 27 May '15

27 May '15

The 5th Annual Emerging Learning Design conference (http://eld.montclair.edu)is less than 2 days away. There are still a few Advanced Registrations available, but they are limited. Now that the semester is behind us, but before summer kicks in full swing, why not take some time and check out new, interesting, and exciting stuff! This all day event, including continental breakfast and buffet lunch, starts at only $135 <http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-emerging-learning-design-conference-ticket…> Or, join us for the special "After Party*", featuring our special guest, Keynote Presenter Dr. Rich Halverson. In addition, our event partner NMC.Org <http://nmc.org/> will be providing a FREE registration to the 6th Annual Emerging Learning Design Conference on June 3rd, 2016 as part of a drawing. Click HERE <http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-emerging-learning-design-conference-ticket…> to register. Here are some session titles: - 7 Technological Changes that are Reshaping Teaching and Learning (Keynote Presentation by Dr. Richard Halverson) <http://eld.montclair.edu/eld15-schedule/> - EdTech & Instruction for 21st Century Skill Building <http://eld.montclair.edu/eld15-schedule/> - Agile Course Design: Teaching & Learning with the OIRT Instructional Design Team <http://eld.montclair.edu/eld15-schedule/> - Incorporating Flipped Ideas in College Courses <http://eld.montclair.edu/eld15-schedule/> - Technology and the Intersection of Science and Humanities: Supporting Innovation, Creativity, and Hands-on Learning <http://eld.montclair.edu/eld15-schedule/> - Making Musical Interfaces with MaKey Makey and Scratch <http://eld.montclair.edu/eld15-schedule/> We hope to see you on Friday. best, AJ Kelton ELD16 Conference Chair You can also follow us on Twitter at @eldconf <http://twitter.com/eldconf> or find us on LinkedIn <http://linkd.in/eldlinkedin> and Google+ <http://bit.ly/eldgp> * There is an additional charge for the after party. See Registration <http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-emerging-learning-design-conference-ticket…> page for details. -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2015 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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JVWR CfP extended deadline: Futures of real & virtual worlds
by Tzafnat Shpak 27 May '15

27 May '15

[image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research] <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> Extended CfP deadline to June 30, 2015 - for JVWR special exploratory issue: Futures A special call for reflective papers about real & virtual worlds' possible futures Edited by: Yesha Sivan, Editor in Chief, the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Design the future This call is about the future, or more so, possible futures. We are looking for *reflective papers (1000-3000 words) *that will describe specific angles of / to the real and virtual worlds. We are exploring and defining our future. The collection of reflective futures will help us design the next 7 years of the journal. Topics include but are not limited to: - 3D fun - Mini robots - Social networks that change our mind - Artificial limps - New forms of hardware - Augmented and mixed environments - Wearables - User generated content - 3D printing - Visual data streaming - Immersive technologies - Shopping from home - Projections of the real - Wireless people - Portable friends - The Internet of Things - Virtual currencies - E-readers - … - And more… Motivation The journal, JVWR, is celebrating its 8th year anniversary in 2015. In 2015 we will also publish the book “*3D3C Platforms: Applications and Tools for Three Dimensional Platforms for Community, Creation and Commerce*” published by Springer, as a summary of this field’s state of the art. In 2008, when Jeremiah Spence founded* #JVWR*, the excitement of a flexible, user-generated world was very high. It seemed that the world of *Second Life(R)* had taken years of hardware, software, and social-ware experiences into a new level. That it would change” the world. This was yet another wave of promise of virtual reality. In 2008, users, business analysts and academics alike used to be at awe because Second Life had millions of users; commerce was done virtually; there were grievers in virtual worlds, and people could create 3D objects by themselves. In 2015 today, 7 years later, Facebook has more than 1.35 billion monthly active users; commerce is done with a fingerprint via Apple pay; cyber criminals are attacking real companies, and people are printing their own outfits and objects. Much has changed. *The virtual is becoming the real and the real is becoming the virtual*. It seems that the term “virtual worlds” as a key term for an academic domain, does not make sense anymore. It is time for us, as an academic journal, to take an “academic sabbatical” to define the future of our Journal in light the possible futures of both worlds (real and virtual. Of course, this will be an active Sabbatical where we try to grapple with several questions that revolve around the nature of the field, and on how we best advance it as an academic journal. Submission Instructions Authors are invited to *submit original scholarly papers of 1000-3000 words* including footnotes, references, and appendices. Interested authors should submit a *full paper* by the deadline indicated below. All submissions should be made via the JVWR publishing system (see www.jvwreserach.org > About JVWR > For Authors <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…>). All submissions will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published online in the Volume 8, Number 2 (2015) of the Journal. Deadlines and Timeline - Authors submit full paper: *June 30, 2015* - Editors return review report and initial decision: *July 15, 2015* - Authors submit revised paper: *August 15, 2015* - Editors return final comments and decision: *August 31, 2015* - Authors submit final version: *September 15, 2015* - Planned Publication: *September 30, 2015* Further Information Please contact: Yesha Sivan yesha.sivan AT jvwresearch DOT org Tzafnat Shpak tzafnat.shpak AT jvwresearch DOT org And of course, you are always welcome to: - Call details on *our website <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…>.* - Write to us directly to* info(a)jvwresearch.org. <info(a)jvwresearch.org>* - Visit us on our Facebook <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> page (TheJVWR). - Follow us on *twitter <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…>* @TheJVWR *Prof. Yesha Sivan* Editor in Chief *Tzafnat Shpak* Coordinating Editor The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research http:www.jvwresearch.org <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> © 2015 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research All rights reserved.

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REGISTRATION DEADLINE APPROACHING: Fan Studies Network Conference 2015
by Tom Phillips (HUM) 27 May '15

27 May '15

With apologies for cross posting. The University of East Anglia has been something of a popular cultural hub as of late; last year Joss Whedon brought his Avengers here to film, this past weekend has seen Radio 1's Big Weekend take place, and now - as all good things come in threes - the UEA's Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities is hosting the 2015 Fan Studies Network Conference! Taking place across 27-28th June, the deadline for registrations is fast approaching - you have until Sunday 31st May to book your place at the event. We have a really packed programme in store, including keynotes from Suzanne Scott and Lincoln Geraghty, a workshop discussing the role of ethics in fan studies research, over 40 speakers from across the globe, and a pub quiz featuring many excellent prizes! The programme is available to view here: https://fanstudies.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/fsn2015-programme-final-draf… You can register here for £85 (waged)/£50 (unwaged): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fan-studies-network-2015-conference-tickets-… Feel free to fire any questions over, or talk about the event on Twitter using #fsn2015 Hope to see you there! ------------------------------- Dr Tom Phillips Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park NR4 7TJ Co-chair The Fan Studies Network http://fanstudies.org/<http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/> +44 (0)1603 593149 @TheTomPhillips This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please accept my apologies; please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this email or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform me that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your co-operation.

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CfP: LAK16 Edinburgh 25-29th April 2016
by Simon Knight 27 May '15

27 May '15

*** Call for papers Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference *** The 6th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference will be held in Edinburgh, UK April 25-29th 2016, co-located with ACM Learning @ Scale 2016. http://lak16.solaresearch.org/?page_id=6 This annual conference provides a multidisciplinary forum for addressing the critical issues and challenges confronting the education sector today. The conference theme this year is: "Enhancing Impact: Convergence of Communities for Grounding, Implementation and Validation". The theme for the LAK16 conference aims to explore the multidisciplinary connections that effectively illustrate how learning analytics can provide critical insights into the individual and collective learning process. It embraces the convergence of these disciplines to provide theoretical and practical insights that will further advance the field - through research, adoption and implementation and ultimately provide a foundation for informing government and institutional policy. We invite research and practice papers that address the "convergence of communities" in LAK and bring a novel perspective and approach for reflecting on the field. ** SUBMISSIONS ** The conference welcomes researcher and practitioner submissions of the following kinds: 1. Full papers: 10 pages. 2. Short papers: 5 pages. 3. Panel proposals: 4 pages plus 2 separated pages with information about the confirmed panelists. 4. Workshop proposals: 2 pages. 5. Tutorial proposals: 2 pages (will not be included in the proceedings). 6. Demonstrations: 2 pages. 7. Posters: 2 pages. 8. There will also be a doctoral consortium (details to be announced) ** RELEVANT DATES ** * 31 October 2015: Deadline for all submissions * 30 November 2015: Notification of acceptance for workshop and tutorial proposals. * 18 December 2015: Notification of acceptance for full/short papers, panel proposals, demonstrations and posters * 5 February 2016: Final version of accepted papers due * 25-29 April 2016: LAK conference * Archiving post conference: Conference proceedings will be published in ACM Digital Library

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Netnography and law research
by Mariateresa Garrido Villareal 27 May '15

27 May '15

Dear all, I'm a PHD student at University for Peace and I'm researching limitations to freedom of expression suffered by Citizen Journalists in Latin America. I want to know what is happening to the people using social media, and how they think they can be protected against illegal limitations to their freedom of expression. The main goal is to create a legal instrument that can address their concerns. I'm thinking in using netnography and I want to ask you if any of you have use it before and if you can share your experience with me. I'm really interested in knowing if someone have use it to collect data that will be used later for legal analysis. Thanks for the help! M.A. Mariateresa Garrido Phd Student University for Peace Dep. International Law www.upeace.org<http://www.upeace.org/>

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AOIR meetup at IAMCR in Montreal this July?
by Becky Lentz 26 May '15

26 May '15

Picking up on Sonia¹s post, I¹ve set up a Doodle poll to see who might be available and interested in a face-to-face meetup in Montreal in July to brainstorm about a potential AOIR convergence at the 2016 WSF in Montreal. In Montreal, happy hour is called a Cinq à sept (or 5-7pm), so I¹ve taken the liberty to add that as well as a lunch time for possibilities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinq_%C3%A0_sept http://doodle.com/gttzxh9gkcmfagbd all the best, Becky -----Original Message----- From: "Livingstone,S" <S.Livingstone(a)lse.ac.uk> Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 2:28 AM To: Cameran Ashraf <chashraf(a)ucla.edu> Cc: Becky Lentz <roberta.lentz(a)mcgill.ca>, "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: RE: [Air-L] Towards a people's Internet >Great point. Just to say that I won't be at AoIR sadly but if there's >going to be folk meeting at IAMCR in Montreal (as I think raised in an >earlier message?) I would love to join the conversation ftf. I will even >have drafted my paper on the 'one in three' (subtext: the days of >imagining internet governance primarily as in the interests of privileged >white adults must be firmly put behind us) > >Best, Sonia

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FW: 2015 Social Media, Activism, and Organisations Symposium (#SMAO15)
by Earl, Jennifer Suzanne - (jenniferearl) 26 May '15

26 May '15

2015 Social Media, Activism, and Organisations Symposium (#SMAO15) <http://www.social--media.org/> Call for Submissions Social media (from mainstream platforms such as Twitter to organization-specific tools) have become increasingly pervasive. This is exemplified by the diversity of uses ranging from Twitter and Facebook use during the Arab spring to the use of Snapchat by highly surveilled activist groups. Many social movements have increasingly seen social media as a means to collaboratively crowdsource, to network and communicate with diverse stakeholders. In large organizations, social media is often supported because the technology can help foster the sense of a "digital village", where individuals are able to "see" the lives of others within their organization and feel closer to them. However, the literature on social movements and social media has not fully grasped just how much social media has fundamentally changed the landscape of organizational communication, ranging from stakeholders being able to directly mobilize resources to making grassroots transnational social movements more organizationally feasible. Social Media, Activism, and Organisations (#SMAO15)<http://www.social--media.org/> seeks to better our understandings of how social media has shaped social movement organizations and the organization of social movements. The Social Media, Activism, and Organisations symposium will be held in London, England on November 6, 2015 at Goldsmiths, University of London. The symposium is sponsored by The Sociological Review<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-954X>, The Centre for Creative & Social Technologies at Goldsmiths<http://www.gold.ac.uk/cast/>, and the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths<http://www.gold.ac.uk/global-media-democracy/>. We invite you to submit short papers which explore the social media-influenced intersections of social movements and organisations. Full papers are not required for this conference, only short papers (~2500 words, excluding references) related to the broad theme of "Social Media, Activism, and Organisations". Papers should be submitted by September 7, 2015 via Easy Chair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smao15> at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smao15 and there is no preset template for submission. If selected, the author(s) will be invited to give a 15-minute oral presentation followed by a 5 min Q&A period at the symposium. Author(s) of accepted paper abstracts may also be invited to submit full papers to a special issue of The Sociological Review, published by Wiley. #SMAO15 TOPICS OF INTEREST * Organisational communication and social media * Democratizing organisational structures via social media * Gender, social media, activism, and organisations * Activist knowledge aggregation techniques * Enterprise applications and social activism * Collaboration, social media, and activism * Virtual teams, social media and activism * Activist networks and organizational communication * Social media and organizational leadership * Communicating organizational messages via social media * Social media and advocacy organizations * Inter-movement organizational communication and social media * Visual social media and organisations * Implications of anonymous social media We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers and the symposium seeks to showcase a variety of case studies to advance our understandings of how social media has shaped social movement organizations and the organization of social movements.

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CFP - IndiaHCI'15 - IIT Guwahati, India
by Shriram Venkatraman 26 May '15

26 May '15

--- call for papers @ IndiaHCI'15 --- We are pleased to inform you that that HCI Professionals of India have partnered with Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati to organize “7th International Conference on HCI – IndiaHCI 2015” during 17-19, December, 2015 at IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, India. This premier research event proposes to bring together the best minds in academia, research and industry to discuss the recent developments and innovations in HCI. Technical sessions will cover topics like gestural, tangible, persuasive interfaces, user research and usability studies, novel interaction methods, approaches and systems, cognitive psychology, evaluation methods and frameworks and HCI in education, health, agriculture, e-governance and accessibility. There will be full and short papers, workshops, industrial case studies, PhD consortium, panel discussion and student presentations of latest works from the HCI community. Links for each track is given below. The last conference proceedings have been published by ACM proceedings, and we hope to continue the tradition this year as well. The conference presents a forum for direct contact with eminent academicians, researchers and students in the area of HCI, from India and abroad. We invite researchers, industry professionals, students, scholars and faculty members from your organization to actively contribute research activities to this prestigious event. Conference website: http://indiahci2015.com/ Full papers: http://indiahci2015.com/fullpapers.html Short papers: http://indiahci2015.com/shortpapers.html Industrial case studies: http://indiahci2015.com/ics.html PhD consortium: http://indiahci2015.com/phd.html Student Research Consortium: http://indiahci2015.com/src.html Student Design Consortium: http://indiahci2015.com/sdc.html Thanks, Shriram Venkatraman *http://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-social-media <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-social-media>*

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