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ICIDS 2015 - Last extension: Final Deadline July 10th
by ICIDS Announcements 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Dear all, Due to numerous requests for a few days more to finish the ICIDS 2015 papers, we have decided to extend the final deadline to the 10th of July. Please submit your full, short, demo or poster paper at: icids2015.aau.dk/calls/ The first two keynote speakers at ICIDS 2015 are: Chris Crawford and Paul Mulholland. icids2015.aau.dk/program/keynote-speakers/ <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ficids2015.aau.dk%2Fprogram%2Fkey…> If you are interested in arranging a workshop, please take a look here: icids2015.aau.dk/workshops/ Finally, there is also the option to contribute with your artwork at the International Art Exhibition on Interactive Digital Storytelling here: icids2015.aau.dk/exhibition/ <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ficids2015.aau.dk%2Fexhibition%2F…> See you in Copenhagen, The ICIDS 2015 team P.s. If you are interested, you still have a few hours left to support Chris Crawford's Siboot Kickstarter campaign here: kickstarter.com/projects/544670315/siboot <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fkickstarter.com%2Fprojects%2F544…>

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Research in Verifying User Generated Content - Platforms and Initiatives?
by R.A. Larsen 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Hello all, My name is Rebekah Larsen, and I'm a current grad student at the University of Cambridge. I'm part of a project researching how to make it easier for citizen witnesses of human rights violations to capture the attention of journalists and human rights defenders, which includes facilitating the verification of social media. More information on the project can be found at the link below. http://www.smhr.sociology.cam.ac.uk/blog/TheWhistleOverview We are currently surveying the range of online platforms or initiatives already being developed with potential for social media verification, both commercial (e.g., Storyful) and non-profit (e.g., CheckDesk). If anyone can point me towards any other examples, resources, research, etc., it would be much appreciated! Best, and many thanks, Rebekah

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Lecturer in Media, Lancaster University
by Adam Fish 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies*Sociology* *Salary: * £33,242 to £45,954 *Closing Date: * Wednesday 22 July 2015 *Interview Date: * Tuesday 11 August 2015 *Reference: *A1295 We are looking to appoint a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies to teach across the Media & Cultural Studies degree programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. You should hold a PhD (or award within 12 months) in the social sciences, humanities or related disciplines and have the ability to conduct original and innovative research. You should have a developing portfolio of research publications and demonstrate excellent teaching abilities. You will contribute actively to the life of the Department, enjoy working as part of a team, and possess the ability to adapt to the demands of working in an intensive and exciting interdisciplinary environment. Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Dr Bronislaw Szerszynski, tel +44 (0)1524 592659, e-mail: bron(a)lancaster.ac.uk. The Department’s webpage is at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/ http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A1295

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Fwd: New Job at Leuphana: Ethnography of Anonymity
by Goetz Bachmann 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Our new anonymity project at Leuphana in Lüneburg, Germany, has an open position for a doctoral researcher (ethnographer): http://www.leuphana.de/bewerben/jobs-und-karriere/forschung-lehre/ansicht-f… Maybe of interest to some? G.

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New Book Announcement: 7 Layers of Social Media Analytics
by Gohar F. Khan 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Dear colleagues: I am pleased to announce my new book <http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Layers-Social-Media-Analytics/dp/1507823207/ref…> on *social media analytics*. The book offers concepts, tools, tutorials, and cases studies to understand and analyze the seven layers of social media data, including *text, actions, networks, apps, hyperlinks, search engine, and location layers. * It is non-technical in nature best suited for business (and information systems) students, professors, and manager. Here is how the book is structured: Chapter 1: The Seven Layers of Social Media Analytics Chapter 2: Understanding Social Media Chapter 3: Social Media Text Analytics Chapter 4: Social Media Network Analytics Chapter 5: Social Media Actions Analytics Chapter 6: Social Media Apps Analytics Chapter 7: Social Media Hyperlinks Analytics Chapter 8: Social Media Location Analytics Chapter 9: Social Media Search Engine Analytics Chapter 10: Aligning Social Media Analytics with Business Goals The book also comes with a companion site (http://7layersanalytics.com/) which offers Updated Tutorials, Power-Point Slide, Case Studies, Sample Data, and Syllabus. It is available through Amazon Store <http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Layers-Social-Media-Analytics/dp/1507823207/ref…> and CreateSpace <https://www.createspace.com/5264856> Store. I am sorry if you receive multiple copies of this email. Sincerely, -- Gohar Feroz Khan, PhD Assistant Professor Korea University of Technology & Education (KoreaTECH) 1600 Chungjol-ro Byungcheon-myun Cheonan city, 330-708, South Korea Office: 82-41-560-1415; Mobile: +82-10-5510-8071 email: gohar.feroz(a)kut.ac.kr ------------------------------------------------------- Director Centre for Social Technologies <http://centreforsocialtech.com> Associate Editor Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia <http://eastasia.yu.ac.kr/> I blog here <http://gfkhan.wordpress.com/dr-khan/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Stay tuned for my new book on 7 Layers of s <http://7layersanalytics.com/introduction-to-the-book/>ocial media analytics to be available soon... <http://7layersanalytics.com/introduction-to-the-book/>.

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Reddit dataset
by Katy Pearce 05 Jul '15

05 Jul '15

Someone posted a link to a dataset of Reddit posts to the AOIR Facebook page. I wonder what the AOIR community members feel about this in terms of this being "public" data.

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ICIDS 2015 - Reminder: Submission deadline July 6th
by ICIDS Announcements 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

Dear all, Do you want to visit cozy Copenhagen in December and discuss the state-of-the-art of Interactive Digital Storytelling with like-minded researchers, guests and the industry? This is a kind reminder of the July 6th submission deadline for the eight International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, which will take place in Denmark at Aalborg University’s campus in central Copenhagen. http://icids2015.aau.dk/calls/ The first two keynote speakers at ICIDS 2015 have already been announced: Chris Crawford and Paul Mulholland. http://icids2015.aau.dk/program/keynote-speakers/ You are still very welcome to submit your full, short, demo or poster paper at: http://icids2015.aau.dk/calls/ If you are interested in arranging a workshop, please take a look here: http://icids2015.aau.dk/workshops/ Finally, there is also the option to contribute with your artwork at the International Art Exhibition on Interactive Digital Storytelling here: http://icids2015.aau.dk/exhibition/ All the best, The ICIDS 2015 team P.s. If you are interested, you have a few days left to support Chris Crawford's Siboot Kickstarter campaign here: http://4kickstarter.com/projects/544670315/siboot ------------------------------------------------------------ ICIDS 2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERACTIVE DIGITAL STORYTELLING View this call online at: icids2015.aau.dk Nov. 30 - Dec. 4, 2015 Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 6TH, 2015 [Extended] This year, the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 8) will take place in Denmark at Aalborg University’s campus in central Copenhagen. ICIDS has its origin in a series of related international conferences that ran between 2001 and 2007 (www.icids.org/) Since 2008, ICIDS became the premier annual venue that gathers researchers, developers, practitioners and theorists to present and share the latest innovations, insights and techniques in the expanding field of interactive storytelling and the technologies that support it. The field re-groups a highly dynamic and interdisciplinary community, in which narrative studies, computer science, interactive and immersive technologies, the arts, and creativity converge to develop new expressive forms in a myriad of domains that include artistic projects, interactive documentaries, cinematic games, serious games, assistive technologies, edutainment, pedagogy, museum science, advertisement and entertainment, to mention a few. The conference has a long-standing tradition of bringing together academia, industry, designers, developers and artists into an interdisciplinary dialogue through a mix of keynote lectures, long and short article presentations, posters, workshops, and very lively demo sessions. We welcome contributions from a large range of fields and disciplines related to interactive storytelling, including computational narrative, narratology, computer science, human-computer interaction, media studies and media production, game studies, game design and development, semiotics, museum science, edutainment, virtual and augmented reality, cognitive science, digital humanities, interactive arts and transmedia studies. We encourage original contributions in the forms of research papers, position papers, posters and demonstrations, presenting new scientific results, innovative theories, novel technological implementations, case studies and creative artistic projects in the field of Interactive Digital Storytelling and its possible applications in different domains. We particularly welcome research on topics in the following four areas: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS ▪ Theories and aesthetics of interactive storytelling ▪ Narratology for interactive media ▪ Cognitive, conative and affective aspects of narrative interactive systems ▪ Models of narrative logic ▪ The role of the author/designer in interactive storytelling TECHNICAL ADVANCES ▪ Story/world generation and experience management ▪ Virtual characters and virtual humans ▪ Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems ▪ Synthetic actors ▪ Semantic knowledge representation and reasoning about stories ▪ Natural language generation and understanding ▪ Non-verbal interactive stories ▪ User modelling and narrative user interfaces ▪ Authoring modes and tools for interactive digital storytelling ▪ Media, VR and game technologies for interactive storytelling ANALYSES AND EVALUATION OF SYSTEMS ▪ Methods for testing user experience in interactive storytelling ▪ Evaluation of interactive storytelling applications ▪ Reviews, critical and normative analysis of creative works ▪ Case studies, post-mortems and best practices CURRENT AND FUTURE USAGE SCENARIOS AND APPLICATIONS ▪ Collaborative storytelling environments and multi-user systems ▪ Social, ubiquitous and mobile storytelling ▪ Interactive narratives in digital games ▪ Interactive cinema and television ▪ Interactive storyworlds ▪ Interactive non-fiction and interactive documentaries ▪ Interactive narratives as tools for learning in teaching, e-learning, training and edutainment ▪ Interactive narratives used in health, rehabilitation and exercise ▪ Interactive storytelling in roleplay, larps, theatre and improvisation ▪ Collaborative authoring ▪ Interactive narrative in the real world (live installations) ▪ Interactive narratives in museums ▪ Future applications SUBMISSIONS The review process for ICIDS will be double blind. Authors should remove all identifying information from their submissions. If you are uncertain as to how to anonymize your submission, the following guidelines are worth looking at: http://www.chi2005.org/cfp/anonymous.html All submissions must follow the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format, available at: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Papers must be written in English, and only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered for review.Submissions that receive high ratings in the peer review process will be selected for publication by the program committee as Springer LNCS conference proceedings. For the final print-ready version, the submission of source files (Microsoft Word/LaTeX, TIF/EPS) and a signed copyright form will be required. All submissions will be processed using the Easychair Online Conference System. Authors are advised to register a new account well in advance of the paper submission deadline: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icids2015 THE SUBMISSION CATEGORIES ARE: ▪ Full papers (10-12 pages in the main proceedings) describing interesting, novel results or completed work in all areas of interactive digital storytelling and its applications. ▪ Short papers (6-8 pages in the main proceedings) presenting exciting preliminary work or novel, thought-provoking ideas in their early stages. ▪ Demonstrations and posters (2-4 pages in the backmatter of the proceedings) describing working, presentable systems or brief explanations of a research project. IMPORTANT DATES ▪ Submission deadline [Extended] - July 6th, 2015 (11:59 pm. Hawaii Standard Time) Authors are strongly advised to upload their submissions well in advance of this deadline. ▪ August 21st, 2015 - Accept/reject notifications sent to authors. ▪ September 7th, 2015 - Camera-ready copy due. ▪ November 30-December 4, 2015 - ICIDS Conference. WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Workshops can vary in length, from half a day to a full day. Proposals for workshops should be two to four pages in length, and include the following information: 1. A brief technical description of the workshop, explaining its goals, topic and expected outcome. A format and proposed schedule, including audience, and a short draft of the call for participation. 2. The names, affiliations and email addresses of the proposed organizing committee. This committee should consist of two to four people recognized in the area. 3. The primary contact for the organizing committee. 4. If available, a list of tentatively confirmed attendees. Workshop organizers must submit their proposals including the information listed above to: icids2015(a)gmail.com by July 19, 2015. INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION Since 2010, ICIDS has been hosting an international art exhibition open to the general public. A separate call for the International Art Exhibition has been issued here: http://icids2015.aau.dk/exhibition/ ORGANIZATION The conference will be hosted by the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology (media.aau.dk/) in collaboration with the Center for Applied Game Research, the Augmented Cognition Lab, and the ReCreate Center. Organising committee chairs: Luis Emilio Bruni, Aalborg University, Copenhagen Henrik Schoenau-Fog, Aalborg University, Copenhagen Programme Committee Chair: Sandy Louchart, The Glasgow School of Art (Digital Design Studio) Programme Committee and Organization: Please see: icids2015.aau.dk/committees/ CONTACT Questions about the conference should be directed to the organizers at: icids2015(a)gmail.com For further information and for updates please visit the webpage at http://icids2015.aau.dk/ Please feel free to distribute this call for papers further.

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Re: [Air-L] Open Internet (speech) and Economics
by Becky Lentz 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

You might consider posting your question to ³commoners" doing very interesting work/thinking on economic commons issues: http://www.schoolofcommoning.com/ http://www.onthecommons.org/ http://www.onthecommons.org/work/commons-field B. Lentz ---------------------- Becky Lentz, PhD Associate Professor of Communication Studies Department of Art History/Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West, Arts Building, W-265 Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0G5 Phone 514.398.4995 Fax 514.398.8557 Email: becky.lentz(a)mcgill.ca http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs

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CFP Internet Policy Review
by Uta Meier-Hahn 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

Dear colleagues, Please kindly take note of the Internet Policy Review’s quarterly call for papers. The Internet Policy Review is calling for submissions: http://policyreview.info/authors <http://policyreview.info/authors> The Internet Policy Review is a journal on internet regulation in Europe – peer-reviewed, fast-track and open access. It analyses public regulatory changes as well as private policy developments which are expected to have long lasting impacts on European societies. The journal contributes research to contemporary debates about media, information technology, telecommunications and internet governance. The journal is open to research papers and scholarly essays of up to 25,000 characters on the following topics: * Internet infrastructure & Standards * Business & Trade * Access & Content * Copyright & Intellectual Property Rights * Privacy & Security * Procedures & Governance Please send your submissions to the editors (editor(a)hiig.de <mailto:editor@hiig.de>) at any time. There is no deadline. The Internet Policy Review is committed to facilitating short review cycles and publishes articles on an ongoing basis. — About — The Internet Policy Review was established in 2013 as the first peer-reviewed journal that aims to be a resource on internet policy for academics, civil society advocates, entrepreneurs, the media and policy-makers alike. It is published on an ongoing basis by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin) in cooperation with CREATe (Glasgow) and the Institut des sciences de la communication CNRS (Paris-Sorbonne). The advisory board currently consists of Professor Jeanette Hofmann (Berlin Social Science Center WZB), Professor Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay (CNRS), Professor Martin Kretschmer (CREATe, Glasgow) and Professor Wolfgang Schulz (Hans Bredow Institute, Hamburg). If you have any questions or would like to discuss if there is a fit with your paper, do not hesitate to get in touch. Kind regards, Uta Meier-Hahn Academic Editor

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Open Position, DEADLINE soon: Research Project Manager Internet Policy & Governance
by Christian Katzenbach 02 Jul '15

02 Jul '15

Hi all, here at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin we currently have an open position for Research Project Manager Internet Policy & Governance. The successful candidate will practically lead and manage the research of the governance group (from a social science perspective) at our Institute. I can tell, it’s a top-ace job. Actually the position is a stand-in for my (part-time) parental leave. See full details below. Two things you need to know: - Professional Proficiency in GERMAN is a must (lot of coordination and communication within/outside the institute) - We are already reviewing applications, so please send me short note if you are interested in the position, so that I can feed you into the process. Best, Christian #### From 1 September 2015, in the context of parental leave cover, the team at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) is looking for an excellent ** Project manager for the Internet Policy & Governance Research Unit ** (TV-L 14 plus family allowance, depending on qualifications, 75%, limited to 12 months with an option to extend) The Internet Policy & Governance Research Unit studies prominent fields of Internet regulation such as copyright, freedom of expression and infrastructure. The research programme contributes to debates on Internet regulation that have so far been shaped by legal scholarship and adds a social scientific approach, hence allowing us to understand rule-making on the Internet as a social process. The holder of the position will coordinate research in the field of Internet policy & governance for the duration of the leave. In addition to conceptual work, the position includes research management as well as the acquisition of third-party funding. _What we expect from you:_ • Coordination and organisation of the unit’s research activities, incl. mentoring doctoral candidates, leading the colloquium as well as budget and HR responsibility for the research unit. • Further development of the research programme in the field of Internet policy & governance, ideally related to infrastructure, algorithms and governance • Project management and role of academic editor at the open access journal Internet Policy Review • Development of a system for monitoring and evaluating funding lines and applications; writing of third-party funding applications in the field of Internet policy and governance • Development and maintenance of collaborations and partnerships, and the development of ideas for thematically appropriate conferences and workshops _What you can offer:_ • A high degree of self-reliance, an implementation focus and a creative drive • An interest in interdisciplinary research in the field of Internet policy & governance and the ability to identify and make use of connections to other disciplines • An understanding of the relevant scientific literature (e.g. Internet governance and regulation, copyright, infrastructure, STS) and political debates, as well as publications in refereed journals in the field of Internet policy & governance are desired • Experience in project/research management and in applying for third-party funding • Some initial experience in HR management, an ability to motivate and steer project teams and very good communication skills • An excellent PhD thesis in a social science subject (at least submitted) • Proficient in German, very good English skills are a basic requirement _What we offer:_ • The chance to independently develop and steer a research unit with a broad range of tasks. • The opportunity to independently establish themes in an international research environment and to develop structures cooperatively • A diverse, dynamic team with dedicated colleagues from various disciplines in a pioneering institute in the heart of Berlin. _Application_ Please submit your application with a cover letter, curriculum vitae and a list of selected publication using the online form at bottom of page. The selection of the applications will begin on 29 June 2015. We will continue to accept applications until a suitable candidate is found. Interviews are expected to take place on 13 July 2015. Applicants with severe disabilities will be given special consideration where aptitude, qualifications and skills are otherwise substantially equal. As we are already reviewing applications, please send a short note directly Research Group Leader Christian Katzenbach (katzenbach(a)hiig.de) if you are interested in the position. http://www.hiig.de/en/call-for-applications-project-manager-internet-policy…

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