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

Just Out: Online Courtship – Interpersonal Interactions Across Borders
by Geert Lovink 18 Jul '15

18 Jul '15

The Insitute of Netwok Cultures is proud to present Theory on Demand No. 16: Online Courtship – Interpersonal Interactions Across Borders URL: http://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/TOD16-OC.pdf Computer mediated interpersonal interactions are defining our daily lives as we know it. Studying this phenomenon with various methodologies, across different cultures and traditions is a crucial component in understanding social ties. This book brings together articles that approach online dating from a range of cultural and critical perspectives. The research decodes the level of engagement and manner of approaching online dating in various countries such as France, India, China, Turkey, Cuba, USA and Portugal. Mapping the history of dating and courtship shows the evolution of these practices even before the introduction of the online medium and traces parallels and differences between old and new traditions. Editors: I. Alev Degim, James Johnson & Tao Fu. Copy-editing and design: Jess van Zyl. Editorial support: Miriam Rasch. EPUB development: Gottfried Haider and Jess van Zyl. Printer: ‘Print on Demand’. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2015. ISBN: 978-90-822345-7-2.

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post-doc at University of Lancaster
by Seda Gurses 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

And, here is an announcement for a post-doc in Lancaster. Cheers, Seda PostDoc RA for RePriCo We are seeking to appoint a postdoc research associate to work on the RePriCo project (Resolving Multi-party Privacy Conflicts in Social Media) funded by the EPSRC. Hundreds of billions of items that are uploaded to Social Media are co-owned by multiple users, yet only the user that uploads the item is allowed to set its privacy settings (i.e., who can access the item). This is a massive and serious problem as users' privacy preferences for co-owned items usually conflict, so applying the preferences of only one party leads to privacy violations with severe consequences (e.g., users losing their jobs, being cyberstalked, etc.). Users are forced to try to resolve such conflicts manually (by e-mail, phone calls, etc.), which is exhausting because social networks are very dynamic and huge in scale. Even more importantly, the process of resolving conflicts manually starts too late, when one user has already posted the item and the privacy violation has occurred. RePriCo's main challenge is to understand how users reach agreements to solve multi-party privacy conflicts, uncovering what is actually acceptable for users under which situations and the factors that contribute to that. In particular, RePriCo aims to create a strong empirical base to inform the design of automated conflict resolution mechanisms in such a way that users accept the solutions proposed automatically most of the time and they do not need to resolve the conflicts manually. This empirical base will not only influence the development of automated conflict detection and resolution mechanisms but also help push research on the topic forward. In this project you will work together with Dr Jose M Such (Principal Investigator), and with industrial and academic collaborators (Dr Soren Preibusch, Google; and Prof Adam Joinson, UWE). You will join Lancaster University (top 10 UK university) and its Security Lancaster Research Centre – one of the very few UK’s Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research, with a thriving multi-disciplinary community of 70 researchers tackling current and future challenges to the protection of individuals, organisations, infrastructures and society-at-large. The Centre and the School of Computing and Communications (where you will be based) both offer a highly inclusive and stimulating environment for research career development. There is a strong expectation that you will actively contribute to the strong profile of the Centre and its multi-disciplinary ethos through participation in the development and publication of research results. Closing Date: Friday 21 August 2015 For more information and application details, please visit http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A1292

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PhD Position on Privacy and Security in Social Media
by Seda Gurses 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

Dear Airolines, A colleague is announcing a position in a CS department on Social Media. I hope it is of interest to your networks. Please feel encouraged to pass it on. Thank you! Seda > > The Working Group Software Engineering (Head Prof. Dr. Maritta Heisel) of the Department of Computational and Cognitive Sciences invites applications for a PhD position on > > Privacy and Security in Social Media > > within the newly formed > > Graduate School (DFG Research Training Group/DFG-Graduiertenkolleg) > > User-Centred Social Media (UCSM) > > at the University of Duisburg-Essen starting in October 2015. > > The PhD research will aim to develop a privacy-preserving software requirements analysis and design method for social media, with a particular emphasis on supporting awareness and empowerment of social media users. Furthering previous research of the working group, the thesis work will identify patterns for privacy requirements and privacy-aware design patterns for social media. Building on components for privacy-enhancing technologies, software architectures reconciling privacy needs of different individuals will be defined. > > This research will be carried out within the Graduate School UCSM (http://ucsm.uni-due.de) that provides an interdisciplinary research environment with Computer Science and Psychology as the main contributing disciplines. From this interdisciplinary perspective, it addresses research challenges related to Social Media which are understood as complex socio-technical systems characterized by features such as user-generated content, social interaction and awareness, and emergent functionality. > > The Graduate School includes a qualification programme with courses on basic methods from all disciplines as well as advanced courses to deepen and extend specific areas of knowledge related to the graduate school. It is accompanied by workshops, retreats, an international summer school, a peer-reviewed colloquium, as well as interdisciplinary work groups. PhD students will be introduced to international research at a very early stage and instructed to publish the results of their work on an international level. They will have the possibility of a three-month stay abroad during their graduation phase, which will broaden their view of the field, stimulate new ideas and further develop their independence as researchers. > > Applicants should hold a Master-level degree in Computer Science or a related field and, ideally, have prior knowledge and experience in privacy and security engineering for social media. > > The position is paid according to German TV-L E13 (starting from 43,000 €/year before taxes), for a duration of three years. > > The University of Duisburg-Essen aims to promote the diversity of its members (see http://www.uni-due.de/diversity/international.shtml) It also aims to increase the share of women in the scientific personnel and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply. Women will be preferentially considered when equally qualified according to the state equality law. Applications from disabled or equivalents according to § 2 Abs. 3 SGB IX are encouraged. > > Applications should comprise a curriculum vitae, documentation of academic degrees and certificates and two academic contacts that can provide references. In addition, a written statement of the applicant’s research interests and related experience should be submitted as well as electronic copies of the applicant’s master thesis and/or relevant publications. > > For more information on this position, feel free to contact Prof. Maritta Heisel at maritta.heisel(a)uni-due.de > > The submission page on http://ucsm.uni-due.de will be re-opened shortly. Deadline for application is August 13, 2015. > > > >

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new Center for Technology, Society & Policy at Berkeley
by Galen Panger 16 Jul '15

16 Jul '15

Just wanted to put this on people's radar screens here. We soft launched a new Center for Technology, Society & Policy <http://ctsp.berkeley.edu> at UC Berkeley yesterday, with four focus areas: engineering ethics, technology and well-being, standards and governance, and digital citizenship. My co-director Nick Doty and I are trying to do things a little bit differently: prioritizing funding to support promising graduate students and postdocs, tying fellowships to collaborative projects with concrete, time-delimited outcomes, and hosting a "proposalthon" (we'll come up with a better name) to encourage people to meet across disciplines and write proposals together. We'll have a blog, too, and hope to host interesting voices and perspectives. Hope you'll sign up <http://eepurl.com/bs-ILb> for our email list, and encourage others who might be interested to do so as well. Some links to share / tweets to retweet if the mood strikes... http://ctsp.berkeley.edu/ https://twitter.com/BerkeleyISchool/status/621359650143797248 http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/07/15/center-for-technology-society-and-polic… https://www.facebook.com/BerkeleyISchool/posts/10153574492830984 Sincerely, Galen and Nick -- galen(a)ischool.berkeley.edu / @gpanger

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS> The 2015 Social Informatics Best Paper Award
by Rosenbaum, Howard S. 16 Jul '15

16 Jul '15

The 2015 Social Informatics Best Paper Award Call for nominations for the 2015 Social Informatics Best Paper Award The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI) are seeking nominations for an award for the best paper published in a peer reviewed journal on a topic informed by social informatics during the 2014 calendar year. The author or authors will present their paper at the 11th Annual SIG-SI Symposium on Saturday, November 5, 2015 and receive a $1,000 cash award at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in St. Louis in November, 2015. Nomination letters should be sent to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba(a)indiana.edu) or Pnina Fichman (fichman(a)indiana.edu) by August 15, 2015 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and a copy of the article. Self nominations are acceptable. Winners will be notified by September 5, 2015. For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI): http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com For more information about the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI): http://rkcsi.indiana.edu Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum Department of Information and Library Science School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS> The 2015 Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award
by Rosenbaum, Howard S. 16 Jul '15

16 Jul '15

Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award Call for nomination for the 2015 Social Informatics Best Student Paper Award The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI) are seeking nominations for an award for the best paper written by a doctoral student on a topic informed by social informatics. Nominations may include a published paper in a peer reviewed journal during 2014 or a conference paper presented in 2014. The author or authors will present their paper at the 11th Annual SIG-SI Symposium on Saturday, November 5, 2015 and receive a $500 cash award at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in St. Louis in November, 2015. Nomination letters should be sent to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba(a)indiana.edu) or Pnina Fichman (fichman(a)indiana.edu) by August 15, 2015 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and a copy of the article. Self nominations are acceptable. Winners will be notified by September 5, 2015. For more information about the Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI): http://asistsigsi.wordpress.com For more information about the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI): http://rkcsi.indiana.edu Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum Department of Information and Library Science School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University

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Googleplex visit opportunity at AEJMC conference in San Francisco on August 5
by Louisa Shu Ying Ha 16 Jul '15

16 Jul '15

Dear colleagues: I organized a trip to Google's headquarters for the AEJMC San Francisco conference participants. We added a second group. There are only 2 spots left. If you are interested, please contact Louisa Ha immediately at louisah(a)bgsu.edu<mailto:louisah@bgsu.edu> . First come first served. Please provide your institutional affiliation when e-mailing me. Your name and institiutional info will be sent to Google for security record. Googleplex Visit--Group 2 Wednesday, August 5, 8:00am-3:00pm ($30, limited to 14 participants, MMEC) Thanks to Google, we are now able to offer additional spots for the Googleplex tour in Mountain View, CA. Join the Media Management & Economics Division to learn about the latest developments in YouTube, Google Search and Google Play, and how they are changing the media industry. Shuttle bus will transport to and from the hotel, however lunch at Google cafeteria cannot be provided on-site for Group 2. (Food options will be available nearby for purchase.) Louisa Ha, Ph.D. Editor, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly Professor, Department of Telecommunications School of Media and Communication Bowling Green State University 419-3729103 http://works.bepress.com/louisa_ha/ https://bgsu.academia.edu/LouisaHa Twitter: @LouisaHaJMCQ

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Job Opening: Postdoc in Games, Play, and Motivational Design @ Northeastern University
by Sebastian Deterding 16 Jul '15

16 Jul '15

Apologies for cross-posting, please share widely: I you are or know someone who might want to work with me and the fab faculty at the Northeastern University on game design, gameful design, embarrassment, motivation, and all that fun stuff: I have a postdoc position open immediately. Of course, if you have any questions, feel free to ask. # General Info Position Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate Requisition Number: STFR002325 Division/College: College of Arts, Media and Design Location: Boston Main Campus Full-time/Part-time: Full Time Posting Date: 07/13/2015 Link: https://neu.peopleadmin.com/postings/36635 # Responsibilities The Playable Innovative Technologies (PLAIT) Lab at Northeastern University is seeking a Post Doctoral Research Associate (Post Doc) to join our fast-growing game research group (www.northeastern.edu/games) The position involves assisting in quantitative and qualitative empirical studies, helping in the design of applied games and playful experiences, and writing research papers around designing for engagement and enjoyment in and beyond game play. Additional responsibilities include grant proposal preparation and laboratory management. Game play is a subject-environment ecology purposefully designed to create enjoyment, motivation, and engagement. The Post Doc will be involved in advancing the state of knowledge of how design features and contextual circumstances together afford motivation and enjoyment in and beyond games, and how to translate such knowledge into a form useful for designers. The Post Doc will help in writing review articles and grant proposals on particular motives. The main responsibilities will be to help set up and run research studies and publish about these. The Post Doc will get the opportunity to become involved in the development of motivational systems and to supervise graduate and undergraduate students. Current example projects are developing a system for automatic difficulty balancing of citizen science games (http://j.mp/1KvX7Ae) identifying how embarrassment acts as a hurdle to engagement and how to reduce it (http://j.mp/1RUOKgu) or understanding how the context of serious games in schools affects their experience and effectiveness. Work will be performed under the guidance of Dr. Sebastian Deterding, an Assistant Professor of Game Design. As most projects will involve collaborations with other PLAIT members and faculty across Northeastern University and around the globe, the Post Doc will have the opportunity to interact with and become visible to a wide variety of researchers and industry partners. # Qualifications We seek candidates who hold a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Cognitive Science, Learning Science, Psychology, Sociology or related areas at the time of starting their position. Successful candidates will have an interdisciplinary background, an clear research interest in games, and expertise in quantitative and qualitative empirical research. Candidates should ideally have experience with game or user experience design, the development of interactive systems, and grant preparation. # Additional Information This is a 1-year position with the possibility of 1 year renewal contingent on funding and performance. We hope to fill this position as soon as possible and we will review applications as they arrive. The position is open until filled. For more information, please contact Dr. Sebastian Deterding (deterding(a)neu.edu) Best Dr. Sebastian Deterding Playable Innovative Technologies Lab College of Arts, Media, and Design Northeastern University http://codingconduct.cc

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ACLS Public Fellows (and other ACLS Competitions and Deadlines)
by Becky Lentz 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

The ACLS Public Fellows program places recent PhDs from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Fellows participate in the substantive work of these organizations and receive professional mentoring. The fellowship provides a stipend of $65,000 per year as well as individual health insurance. https://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows/ other: https://www.acls.org/programs/comps/ --- Becky Lentz, McGill University

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CFP: The Cultural Legacies of Ada Lovelace
by Joly MacFie 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

(a little off-topic, but not without charm) *Texts and Contexts: The Cultural Legacies of Ada Lovelace* *“That brain of mine is more than merely mortal; as time will show.”* A workshop for graduate students and early career researchers Tuesday 8th December 2015 Mathematics Institute and St Anne’s College, Oxford The mathematician Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), daughter of poet Lord Byron, is celebrated as a pioneer of computer science. The notes she added to her translation of Luigi Menabrea’s paper on Charles Babbage’s analytical engine (1843) are considered to contain a prototype computer program. During her short life, Lovelace not only contributed original ideas to the plans for this early computer; she also imagined wider possibilities for the engine, such as its application to music, and meditated on its limitations. Lovelace leaves a legacy not just as a computer scientist, but also as a muse for literary writers, a model to help us understand the role of women in science in the nineteenth century, and an inspiration for neo-Victorian and steampunk traditions. As part of the University of Oxford’s celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of Lovelace’s birth, this one-day workshop will bring together graduates and early career researchers to discuss the varied cultural legacies of this extraordinary mathematician. The day will feature an expert panel including graphic novelist *Sydney Padua* and biographer *Richard Holmes*. The day will conclude with a reception and buffet when there will be opportunities to meet with speakers from the Ada Lovelace 200 Symposium, which will also take place in the Mathematics Institute on the following two days (9th-10th December). Researchers from all disciplines are invited to submit proposals for papers on the influences of Lovelace’s work, on topics including, but not limited to, literature, history, mathematics, music, visual art, and computer science. This might include: - Lovelace’s place in the study of the history of science. - Lovelace and *women in science* in the nineteenth century - Early nineteenth-century *scientific networks*, including Lovelace’s relationship with such individuals as Charles Babbage and Mary Somerville. - Lovelace and discussions about the *role of the imagination in scientific practice* in the nineteenth century. - Lovelace as *translator and commentator*. - *Mathematics and music*, and the musical possibilities Lovelace envisaged for Babbage’s engine. - Lovelace’s own *textual legacies*, such as her correspondence, childhood exercises and mathematical notes held in the Bodleian. - Lovelace’s *technological legacies*, from her seminal work on Babbage’s Analytical Engine to her impact on computer programming today. - Lovelace’s role in the *steampunk tradition*, from Gibson and Sterling’s *The Difference Engine* to Sydney Padua’s *The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage*, and neo-Victorian fashion. - Efforts and activities to *commemorate and memorialise *Lovelace, from the recent Google Doodle to the annual Ada Lovelace Day. Proposals, not exceeding 250 words, for 15-minute papers should be submitted to adalovelaceworkshop(a)ell.ox.ac.uk <https://owa.nexus.ox.ac.uk/owa/adalovelaceworkshop@ell.ox.ac.uk/redir.aspx?…> by *5pm, Friday 28th August 2015*. Those who are accepted to speak at this graduate workshop will also be offered free registration for the Ada Lovelace 200 Symposium taking place on the following two days. For more information, please visit https://adalovelaceworkshop.wordpress.com <https://owa.nexus.ox.ac.uk/owa/adalovelaceworkshop@ell.ox.ac.uk/redir.aspx?…> .

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