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New book: Handbook of Digital Politics
by Stephen Coleman 17 Sep '16

17 Sep '16

List members might be interested in the following new publication: Handbook of Digital Politics Edited by Stephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK and Deen Freelon, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, American University, Washington, DC, US Published by Edward Elgar Contents: 1. Introduction: Conceptualising Digital Politics Stephen Coleman and Deen Freelon PART I THEORIZING DIGITAL POLITICS 2. The Internet as a Civic Space Peter Dahlgren 3. The Social Foundations of Future Digital Politics Nick Couldry 4. The Fifth Estate: A Rising Force of Pluralistic Accountability William H. Dutton and Elizabeth Dubois 5. Silicon Valley Ideology and Class Inequality: A Virtual Poll Tax on Digital Politics Jen Schradie PART II GOVERNMENT AND POLICY 6. Online Voting Advice Applications: Foci, Findings and Future of an Emerging Research Field Fadi Hirzalla and Liesbet van Zoonen 7. Internet Voting: The State of the Debate Thad Hall 8. Digital Campaigning Daniel Kreiss 9. e-Petitions Scott Wright 10. Argumentation Tools for Digital Politics: Addressing the Challenge of Deliberation in Democracies Neil Benn PART III COLLECTIVE ACTION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 11. The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and The Personalization of Contentious Politics W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg 12. Youth Civic Engagement Chris Wells, Emily Vraga, Kjerstin Thorson, Stephanie Edgerly and Leticia Bode 13. Internet Use and Political Engagement in Youth Yunhwan Kim and Erik Amnå PART IV POLITICAL TALK 14. Everyday Political Talk in the Internet-Based Public Sphere Todd Graham 15. Creating Spaces for Online Deliberation Christopher Birchall and Stephen Coleman 16. Computational Approaches to Online Political Expression: Rediscovering a “Science of the Social” Dhavan V. Shah, Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Alex Hanna, Timothy Mcafee, and JungHwan Yang 17. Two-screen Politics: Evidence, Theory and Challenges Nick Anstead and Ben O’Loughlin PART V JOURNALISM 18. From News Blogs to News on Twitter: Gatewatching and Collaborative News Curation Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield 19. Research on the Political Implications of Political Entertainment Michael A. Xenos 20. Journalism, Gatekeeping and Interactivity Neil Thurman PART VI INTERNET GOVERNANCE 21. Internet Governance, Rights and Democratic Legitimacy Giles Moss 22. Social Media Surveillance Christian Fuchs PART VII EXPANDING THE FRONTIERS OF DIGITAL POLITICS RESEARCH 23. Visibility and Visualities: ‘Ways of Seeing’ Politics in the Digital Media Environment Katy Parry 24. Automated Content Analysis of Online Political Communication Ross Petchler and Sandra González-Bailon 25. On the Cutting Edge of Big Data: Digital Politics Research in the Social Computing Literature Deen Freelon ‘The Handbook of Digital Politics edited by Stephen Coleman and Deen Freelon is an incredibly rich and outstanding collection of essays on the ideologies, theories and methodologies that currently inspire the field of political science and communication. The editors brilliantly succeed in guiding us through this fascinating world – avoiding any rhetoric, or either a dystopian or utopian perspective on the subject. The articles collected here represent the golden section of the contemporary debate on digital politics.’ – Leopoldina Fortunati, Head of the Ph.D program in Multimedia Communication, University of Udine, Italy ‘Coleman and Freelon have deftly edited a series of essays that help us transition to the next big thing in political communication—an internet connecting many people over many kinds of devices, making large volumes of data. Digital politics is no longer so much about what happens in your browser, but about what happens when your devices talk to each other on their own. This collection helps us to get ready to understand the new infrastructure of political life.’ – Philip N. Howard, University of Washington, US Stephen Coleman Professor of Political Communication School of Media and Communication University of Leeds Recent publications: How Voters Feel: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relati… Can The Media Serve Democracy? http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/can-the-media-serve-democracy-stephen-c… Handbook of Digital Politics: https://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_main.lasso?currency=US&id=15497

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Archiving Facebook Group Posts
by Michael Deml 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

Hello, I am a Master's student in sociology at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. I am currently working on research involving a Facebook group as a sort of virtual ethnography. I was wondering if anyone knew of any researchers who work with archiving Facebook group discussions. I am looking for a way to better facilitate the archiving of my data, as I planned on creating a corpus based on 6 months of discussions within the Facebook group. Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Please respond offline to michaeljdeml(a)gmail.com. Best wishes, Michael Deml (michaeljdeml(a)gmail.com)

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Re: [Air-L] AoIR seeks an Association Coordinator
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Quick follow-up that it looks like the email address in text is correct but the linkto is incorrect. Please email resume and cover letter to prez(a)aoir.org<mailto:prez@aoir.org> (or just directly to me if there is concern). Apologies for the snafu. ~JSG From: Jennifer Stromer-Galley Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 1:49 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: AoIR seeks an Association Coordinator Hi everyone - AoIR needs a new Association Coordinator (AC), as Anna Hoffman, our current AC, transitions to full-time academic life. The AC is our one paid staff member who provides ongoing management and support to keep the Association running like clockwork. Below is the job ad. Please feel free to circulate among friends, colleagues, and relevant job lists. Perhaps, some of you might consider applying. If anyone has questions, don't hesitate to email me. ~JSG Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University Director, Center for Computational and Data Science President, Association of Internet Researchers jstromer(a)syr.edu<mailto:jstromer@syr.edu> www.stromer-galley.com<http://www.stromer-galley.com> +++++ The Association of Internet Researchers (www.aoir.org<http://www.aoir.org>) is an academic association dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies. It is a member-based support network promoting critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders. The association is international in scope. We hold a yearly interdisciplinary academic conference. Our upcoming conference is in October in Berlin. AoIR seeks an energetic and responsible Association Coordinator to support the mission of the Association. The AC provides support for all aspects of Association business, including: managing the website and the email list of 5,000 subscribers, monitoring and contributing to social media, managing the membership lists, supporting our online publication of conference proceedings, and assisting with conference management. Required skills include: strong technical abilities and an ability to successfully trouble-shoot software systems, such as WordPress for managing our website, ConfTool for conference management, and Wild Apricot for membership management. We have an open-access publishing system that also requires troubleshooting, updating, and management. The applicant must possess strong communication and writing skills, an understanding of community management, and an ability to work proactively and independently. Experience with academic associations is strongly preferred. This is an Independent Contractor position of 10-15 hours a week. Pay is commensurate with experience. Non-U.S. applicants will be subject to withholding and taxes. Review of applications will begin February 8, 2016 until the position is filled. Please send a cover letter and resume to Prof. Jennifer Stromer-Galley at prez(a)aoir.org<mailto:president@aoir.org>.

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Call: The Power of Presence - Preconference for ICA 2016 in Japan
by Matthew Lombard 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PARTICIPATION (note: new venue in Kyoto) The Power of Presence: Using Telepresence Theory, Research and Applications to Enhance Mediated Communication Experiences in the 21st Century A preconference of the 2016 conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) Co-sponsored by the International Society for Presence Research (ISPR) June 8, 2016 (with optional demonstrations and guided sightseeing events June 7) Submission of extended abstracts: February 8, 2016 Full details: http://tinyurl.com/ICA-ISPR-2016 OVERVIEW Join us in Kyoto, Japan for an enlightening and enjoyable conference event two days before the 66th annual conference of the International Communication Association (http://www.icahdq.org/conf/) in Fukuoka, 9-13 June. (Tele)presence is a state or perception in which we overlook or misconstrue the role of technology and feel present in the environments and/or connected to the people or things we experience via technology. It´s increasingly relevant to a wide range of media experiences and application areas. This preconference will introduce the centrality, pervasiveness, value, and power of presence phenomena, theory and research to scholars and practitioners within and beyond communication and deepen and update knowledge for those already familiar with presence. The event will include a full day of invited and peer reviewed state-of-the-art presentations, and demonstrations; a keynote address from renowned Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University, creator of amazing humanoid robots (see http://www.geminoid.jp/en/index.html) and co-author of "Human-Robot Interaction in Social Robotics" (2012, CRC Press); and informal discussion, networking and fun. At the end of the day, all attendees are invited to a social dinner at an (affordable) nearby restaurant; we also hope you´ll join us for all or part of a day of demonstration visits and guided sightseeing on June 7 (the day before the event). OBJECTIVES The primary objective of the preconference will be to introduce communication scholars and practitioners to the centrality, pervasiveness, value, and power of presence phenomena, theory and research within and beyond the diverse field of communication. A secondary goal will be to deepen and update knowledge of those already familiar with presence. The overarching goal is to help integrate and increase collaborative, scholarship on presence. SUBMISSIONS Topics We seek original, high quality papers and demonstrations that contribute to our collective understanding of the power and breadth of presence phenomena and presence applications in any/every aspect of life. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): o Presence theory o Measures of presence o Presence and emotion o Presence and education o Presence and social interaction o Gender and Presence o Neuroscience approaches to Presence o Presence in gaming and entertainment o Philosophical perspectives on presence o Ethics of presence o Presence technologies and applications (e.g. in business, arts, medicine and therapy) o The future of presence research All accepted submissions will be collected in the official conference proceedings (with ISBN) and will be permanently available for download in the ISPR conference archive. We invite researchers and practitioners to submit an EXTENDED ABSTRACT for their Paper (up to 30 pages), Short Paper (up to 12 pages), Poster or Demonstration/Exhibit. All submissions are to be in APA format and except for the separate title page not identify the author(s) directly or indirectly (for blind peer review). The extended abstracts should not be longer than 12 pages excluding references, figures and appendices. Procedure Submissions are to be sent as two e-mail attachments in Word (.docx) format: 1) the title page containing all author names, affiliations and contact information; and 2) a completely anonymized version of the entire paper. Send the files to Matthew Lombard at lombard(a)temple.edu. Timing Submission deadline: February 8, 2016 Notification of acceptance decisions: March 1, 2016 Finished, camera-ready papers due: May 31, 2016 REGISTRATION Registration will be accomplished through the main ICA website, http://www.icahdq.org/conf/. Registration for the event is open to anyone and the costs (in addition to ICA fees) are modest: $50.00 USD for academics, $40.00 USD for students, and $90.00 USD for industry. (This includes lunch and snacks through the day; venues for the social dinner and June 7 activities will be selected to limit additional expenses.) LOCATION/VENUE The preconference will take place at Kyoto Research Park (http://www.krp.co.jp/english/spatial_services/convention/) in Kyoto, Japan. The city and venue are easily accessible, and near both the main ICA conference site in Fukuoka and the Kyoto-Kobe-Osaka triangle of interesting visitor sites. ORGANIZERS Matthew Lombard, Temple University Cheryl Bracken, Cleveland State University Jihyun Kim, Kent State University SongYi Lee, Temple University Kun Xu, Temple University Hocheol Yang, Temple University Fabienne Darling-Wolf, Temple University FOR MORE INFORMATION For much more information, including transportation, accommodations, demonstrations, and sightseeing events for June 7, please see the event website: http://tinyurl.com/ICA-ISPR-2016 Contact: Matthew Lombard - lombard(a)temple.edu ISPR website - http://ispr.info

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CALL FOR PAPERS
by Yogesh K. Dwivedi 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

*The 15th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society (**I3E 2016)* *“**Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!**”* *http://www.swansea.ac.uk/som/i3e2016/ <http://www.swansea.ac.uk/som/i3e2016/> * *13-15 September 2016* *Swansea, United Kingdom* The ubiquity of social media has had a profound effect on the way we communicate and is of significant importance to society and business. Social media tools have helped break down geographical barriers that once restricted communication and have led to an explosion of e-participation, virtual presence, and online communities. Professional benefits of social media include sharing of information, publicity, and giving and receiving support and advice. Consumers have become increasingly empowered to exert an influence on brands through online communities and businesses are able to acquire rapid feedback and garner insight into individual preferences without observer effects. Analysis of social media content via automated techniques and systems can also help to safeguard society from organized crime but such uses remain a delicate issue. With seemingly endless benefits it is easy to overlook the disadvantages of social media, which are an increasingly important consideration as social media platforms continue to proliferate. Social media has facilitated a loss of ownership and control of content as private, public and institutional domains increasingly overlap. There is a need for careful balancing of professionalism and freedom of speech, to ensure that posts do not cause offence or harm reputations. Other drawbacks include time pressure, plagiarism, misrepresentation, addiction, and negative psychological consequences. While providing a means to protect public safety, social media also provides a means of threatening it and enabling new forms of cyber-crime. This conference aims to bring together a variety of disciplines and a community for the advancement of knowledge regarding the adoption, use, impact, and potential of social media. To achieve this goal, we invite researchers and practitioners to present their ideas and findings at the 15th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society to be held at Swansea University, UK in 2016. Theoretical and empirical papers employing quantitative, qualitative, and/or critical methods are welcomed. *Topics of submission *may include but are not limited to: · Adoption and diffusion of social media · Blogging and microblogging · Challenges of social media · Citizen participation via social media · Collaboration and knowledge management · Content and information analysis · Corporate social networks · Crisis management enabled by social media · Crowdsourcing · Cyberbullying and trolling · Definition and taxonomy of different types of social media · Disaster prevention using social media · Marketing campaigns · Disruption as a result of social media · Economic and social effects of social media · Effects of social media on consumer choice · Ethical issues relating to social media · Impact of social media on consumer behaviour · Impact of social media on marketing strategy · Innovation through social media · Managing presence and reputation on social media · Personnel recruitment/management · Policy challenges · Political and social · Privacy issues with social media · Rigour in social media research · Sentiment analysis · Social media and policy · Social media and public governance · Social media data mining, analytics and intelligence · Social media for B2B marketing · Social media research and theory development · Social media strategy and integration · Social media to support education · Social media, product innovation, and product life cycle · Social media transparency, openness, and anti-corruption · The future (good/bad/ugly) of social media *LOCATION* The 15th IFIP Conference will be held at Swansea University’s brand new Bay Campus located on the majestic sweep of Swansea Bay and within easy reach of the vibrant City Centre. As an industrial powerhouse of the 19th century, Swansea and the surrounding areas are rich in history which can be explored in a number of local museums. To the west of the City is the Gower Peninsula where you can find Rhossili Bay voted Britain’s Best Beach and 9th best in the world by TripAdvisor’s Travellers’ Choice. *IMPORTANT DATES* - Paper Submission: *15 March 2016* - Authors Notification: *30 April 2016* - Early Bird Registration: *30 May 2016* - Conference dates: *13 to 15 September 2016* *PAPER SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS * Authors should submit (*Submission website:* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i3e2016) original, unpublished research papers. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions should not be under consideration for any other conference or journal outlet. The Conference Co-Chair, Professor Yogesh K. Dwivedi, welcomes any queries regarding the conference and/or submission via email y.k.dwivedi(a)swansea.ac.uk Many thanks Kind Regards Yogesh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Professor Yogesh K. Dwivedi, PhD * Personal Chair and Director of Research School of Management | Yr Ysgol Reolaeth Swansea University | Prifysgol Abertawe Bay Campus |Campws y Bae Fabian Way |Ffordd Fabian Swansea | Abertawe Wales | Cymru SA1 8EN *Phone | Ffôn *+ 44 (0)1792 602340 *Email | Ebost *y.k.dwivedi(a)swansea.ac.uk *www.swansea.ac.uk* <http://www.swansea.ac.uk/>* | **www.abertawe.ac.uk* <http://www.abertawe.ac.uk/> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Associate Editor* - *European Journal of Information Systems* *Associate Editor* for Digital Marketing Section - *European Journal of Marketing* *Associate Editor* - *Government Information Quarterly* *Senior Editor (Europe/Africa/Middle East)* - *Journal of Electronic Commerce Research*

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publication platform?
by Marina Boechat 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Dear colleagues, As part of my thesis research, I have made a series of interviews with a few european researchers in the field of digital humanities (especially sociology, design and media studies), about the uses of visualisation and visual data analysis in digital research methods and to public debate. I think these interviews could be an interesting read for people who work in similar subjects. So, now that I've defended the thesis, it could be nice to publish them in small and free e-book. Do you suggest any specific publishing or distributing platform? Or should I just make a small site and offer the files in different versions for download? I will appreciate any suggestions or ideas. Thanks! Best regards, Marina Boechat.

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salient points at McLuhan in an Age of Social Media book salon
by Paul Levinson 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

If you missed the Book Salon at McLuhan Centre Coach House at the University of Toronto on Wednesday, here is a summary of some of the salient points, made via Tweets, and collected by Leora Kornfeld (Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University) http://demassed.blogspot.com/2016/01/quick-posttonight-as-tomorrow-is.html <http://demassed.blogspot.com/2016/01/quick-posttonight-as-tomorrow-is.html?…>

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Call for Papers: Researching disinformation within hybrid media ecologies. Where we are and where we are going (AOIR 2016 Panel)
by Fabio Giglietto 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

Hi everyone, Laura Iannelli, Luca Rossi, Augusto Valeriani and I are seeking panelists for an #AOIR2016 panel on "Researching Disinformation Within Hybrid Media Ecologies. Where We Are And Where We Are Going" (tentative title). --------- Panel description On friday November 13, a group of coordinated attacks hit Paris causing more than 130 victims. The frantic moments following the first fragmented news, the spread of rumors and the wide media coverage of the following days, highlighted all the strength and fragility of an hybrid media system in which new and old media logics compete and integrate. During the hours following the attacks, we have witnessed the spread of testimonies published on social media and widely diffused by legacy media, we have observed the emergence of forms of cooperation aimed at supporting the search for the missing and we have participated in the ritual of collective mourning with the hashtag #PrayforParis. At the same time, however we have also read numerous reports that, although eventually proved to be false, have contributed to shape the representation of those events. Contemporary information ecologies, by simplifying processes of production and circulation of news, could also facilitate the diffusion of false information and/or unverified news. In this context, new digital elites (i.e. bloggers, social media power users etc.), legacy media actors and non-elites are still in search of a strategy for real time verification and debunking. Previous studies emphasized the importance of echo chamber effects and "confirmation bias" (the tendency to consider true information that confirms what we already believe true) as the cognitive process that, at the same time, makes misinformation easy to spread and difficult to debunk. Peer networks play an important role as a source of confirmation or disconfirmation of rumors. As a result, homophilic and polarized communities represent a fertile ground for disinformation. Recent studies also pointed out the combined effect of "confirmation bias" and online communities often characterized by a high degree of homogeneity. Additional multidisciplinary research is needed to enlighten changes and continuities in the participatory processes that invest the media sphere and more specifically: - to understand the diverse forms of disinformation and their effects on the quality of contemporary democracies; - to explore the diverse existing practices of fact-checking and debunking in the disinformation cycle; - to analyse values and norms of newer and older dominant media companies, their policies and decisions on what contents and actors can become popular and can have voice in the hybrid media system; - to explain the relations among the broader participation of non-elite media actors in the production of misinformation and disinformation and the other forms of political participation involving citizens in contemporary democratic societies. --------- To be considered for this panel, we would need the AOIR-standard 1200-word abstract by *February 15, 2016* sent to fabio.giglietto(a)uniurb.it. We will notify our selected panelists by February 20 with any revisions required ahead of the AOIR deadline of March 1. Best regards, Fabio Giglietto Laura Iannelli Luca Rossi Augusto Valeriani

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McGannon Book Award: Nominees for 2015?
by Alice E. Marwick 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Hi all, Please email me if you have any suggestions for nominations! Even just an author/title and we'll do the rest. Thanks! Alice *Call for Nominees: McGannon Book Award* http://www.mcgannoncenter.com/?p=197 The McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University announces its 2015 McGannon Book Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Technology Research. Nominations for the 2015 Award currently are being accepted. Please note that last year we changed the focus of the award. Nominees should consist of book-length research published in 2015 that addresses or informs the social justice and/or ethical dimensions of communication technology, broadly defined. Authors of the winning book will be awarded $2,000 and receive a plaque commemorating the award. Nominations should consist of a cover letter briefly summarizing the book’s research focus and findings, along with four copies of the book. Self-nominations are welcome, as are submissions from early career researchers and scholars from diverse backgrounds. Edited volumes are not eligible for consideration. Deadline for consideration is March 1st, 2016. Send nominations to: McGannon Book Award McGannon Communication Research Center Faculty Memorial Hall, Room 430 Fordham University Bronx, NY 10458 ABOUT THE MCGANNON CENTER The McGannon Communication Research Center was founded in 1986 and is dedicated to furthering understanding of the ethical and social justice dimensions of media and communication technologies, particularly how such technologies affect the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within society. The Center engages in, sponsors, and promotes interdisciplinary academic research that provides an empirical foundation for informed technological development, policy-making, and debate. McGannon serves as a hub at Fordham University for faculty, scholars, students, and visitors interested in the social, legal, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of communication technologies and emerging media. The center’s Director is Dr. Alice Marwick, who conducts research into the social, cultural, and policy implications of social media. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION www.mcgannoncenter.com Email: mcgctr(a)fordham.edu -- Alice E. Marwick, PhD Director, McGannon Center Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University amarwick(a)fordham.edu http://www.mcgannoncenter.com http://www.tiara.org <http://www.tiara.org>

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ACM IUI 2016: Last opportunity for early bird registration
by Denis Parra 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM IUI 2016: ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Early Bird registration extended until January 31st, 2016 Sonoma, CA, USA March 7 - 10, 2016 http://iui.acm.org/ We have confirmed two amazing keynote speakers: - Elisabeth André, Augsburg University "Socially-Sensitive Interfaces: From Offline Studies to Interactive Experiences" - Xavier Amatriain, VP of Engineering at Quora "Past, present, and future of Recommender Systems: an industry perspective" ACM IUI 2016 is the 21st annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. Registration for the ACM IUI conference is open! Details about prices for students, ACM members, early and late registration: http://iui.acm.org/2016/attending.html Direct link to registration: https://www.regonline.com/acmiui2016 Looking forward to see you in Sonoma, CA! Denis Alejandro Parra Santander Profesor Asistente, DCC Escuela de Ingeniería, PUC Chile +56 (2) 2354-4442 http://web.ing.puc.cl/~dparra/

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