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UMD Journalism Post on Digital Media / Visual Communication -- Assistant or Associate Prof
by Sarah Ann Oates 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

Hi, we are hiring in an area that I think would interest a lot of people on the list. Please help us get the word out. If you have informal questions, get in touch! I am the search chair. Sarah Oates soates(a)umd.edu full ad is here https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/46536 but I will paste highlights below The Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland College Park invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Digital Media, with an emphasis on visual communication, to start in August 2017. We seek a scholar with a strong commitment to interdisciplinary research and excellence in teaching visual communication, including data visualization, design (including interaction design), visual media, virtual/augmented reality, and/or video storytelling. We are particularly interested in scholars whose work employing quantitative methods seeks to improve and advance journalistic practices and sustainability. The successful candidate will be able to translate research into teaching of journalistic practice to undergraduate and master’s students, as well as supervise Ph.D. students in Journalism Studies, and secure external research funding. The Philip Merrill College of Journalism is dedicated to training excellent journalists and producing world-leading research in the field of Journalism Studies. Our college is a limited-enrollment program at the University of Maryland and our high-achieving undergraduates and master’s students have an outstanding record of gaining jobs in the profession. In the past 10 years, 80 percent of our Ph.D. graduates have secured tenure-track jobs or are employed in the media or government agencies. As the most prominent journalism program in the Washington area, we provide students with unparalleled access to professional and research opportunities. Ph.D. at date of hire strongly preferred. As a multi-disciplinary college, Merrill has professors with doctoral degrees ranging from American Studies to Computer Science. Our primary interest is whether the candidate’s research is related to journalism and the fields outlined above. Previous teaching and/or mentoring experience is preferred, as well as a demonstrated track record of external research/project funding. The Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland College Park invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Digital Media, with an emphasis on visual communication, to start in August 2017. We seek a scholar with a strong commitment to interdisciplinary research and excellence in teaching visual communication, including data visualization, design (including interaction design), visual media, virtual/augmented reality, and/or video storytelling. We are particularly interested in scholars whose work employing quantitative methods seeks to improve and advance journalistic practices and sustainability. The successful candidate will be able to translate research into teaching of journalistic practice to undergraduate and master’s students, as well as supervise Ph.D. students in Journalism Studies, and secure external research funding. The Philip Merrill College of Journalism is dedicated to training excellent journalists and producing world-leading research in the field of Journalism Studies. Our college is a limited-enrollment program at the University of Maryland and our high-achieving undergraduates and master’s students have an outstanding record of gaining jobs in the profession. In the past 10 years, 80 percent of our Ph.D. graduates have secured tenure-track jobs or are employed in the media or government agencies. As the most prominent journalism program in the Washington area, we provide students with unparalleled access to professional and research opportunities.full ad is here https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/46536 -- Sarah Oates Professor and Senior Scholar Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland College Park, MD 20457 Email: soates(a)umd.edu Phone: 301 405 4510

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temporary position in Paris on the governance of alternative communication networks
by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

-- sorry for crossposting -- Dear all, We are hiring a researcher to work on the European H2020 project netCommons (http://netcommons.eu/) on the governance of alternative communication networks. Thanks for forwarding our job offer to your networks: http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article2271 (also pasted below) -- Melanie Dulong de Rosnay http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article1558 Associate Research Professor (Permanent researcher) French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Institute of Communication Sciences (CNRS - Paris Sorbonne University - UPMC) -- Temporary research contract on the governance of alternative communication networks http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article2271 The Institute of Communication Sciences (CNRS - Paris Sorbonne University - UPMC) is recruiting a researcher in sociology or management of organizations (at the post-doctoral, PhD or master level with a research experience) for a period of 4 to 6 months to conduct research on the governance of alternative communications networks, as part of the European H2020 project netCommons (http://netcommons.eu/) The interdisciplinary project netCommons (2016-2018) focuses on the study of Internet community networks in Europe managed as commons. Within the project, part of the research focuses on the governance of these communities, which mostly operate as associative, cooperative or non-for-profit entities, and which bring together people with different skills to build and manage telecom networks, considered as commons. In partnership with researchers from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, which also participate in the project, the researcher will study the variety of governance tools implemented within these groups (statutes, regulations, by-laws, decision making processes, etc.) and formulate propositions for improvement to ensure the proper functioning, sustainability and expansion of these communities. Through the organization of interviews, workshops and meetings, this research-action will ultimately lead to monitoring the implementation of these recommendations within voluntary groups. The candidate will either hold a doctorate or be in the process of obtaining one, or hold a master degree in sociology and management of organizations. A good knowledge of the commons theory and of ICT will be appreciated. Very good command of English (written especially) is also necessary. Travels within Europe are expected. The candidate is invited to send to ISCC, before October 23, her/his application containing the following documents: - a resume; - a cover letter; - a selection of works (3 max.). The complete application must be submitted by email to felix.treguer(a)cnrs.fr indicating “Application netCommons” in the message title. Selected candidates will be contacted for an interview which will be held on November 3 afternoon in the premises of the ISCC, in Paris, or by video conference if necessary. The contract duration will be 4 to 6 months from February 2017, subject to availability and profile of the candidate who must demonstrate an address in Paris. The monthly salary will depend on the applicant’s level of education and on the remuneration grid of CNRS.

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Geneva Internet Platform WTO Public Forum session reports
by Joly MacFie 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

If Trade is your thing, very useful! http://digitalwatch.giplatform.org/events/wto-public-forum -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST WED: NY-Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference 2016
by Joly MacFie 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

As one of the community organizers of this event this year, we are very happy to announce that it is absolutely sold out! For those who missed out, we will be webcasting it, but with some qualifications:1) Larry Clinton's keynote will not be streamed. 2) only the main room (CPW) will be streamed live 3) the other three tracks will be recorded and streamed over subsequent days. To keep up it's suggested you 'follow' the event by clicking the heart on the Livestream page <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/nymjcsc>. joly posted: "On Wednesday October 5 2016 the NY-Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference will take place in NYC. The NYMJCSC is an annual collaborative event cooperatively developed, organized and sponsored by the leading area information security industry organizations " [image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/nymjcsc/>On *Wednesday October 5 2016* the *NY-Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference <http://www.nymjcsc.org/>* will take place in NYC. The NYMJCSC is an annual collaborative event cooperatively developed, organized and sponsored by the leading area information security industry organizations and chapters, including *InfraGard <http://www.nym-infragard.us/>*, *ISACA <http://www.isaca.org/chapters2/new-york-metropolitan/Pages/default.aspx>*, *OWASP <https://www.meetup.com/OWASP-NYC/>*,* (ISC)2 <https://isc2chapternj.org/>*, *ISSA <http://www.nymissa.org/>*, *ACFE <http://www.acfe.com/>, *and* ISOC-NY <http://isoc-ny.org/>*. The conference, which is sold out, will be webcast live via the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/>.* *What: NY-Metro Joint Cyber-Security Conference 2016 <http://www.nymjcsc.org/> Where: Microsoft Tech Center, NYC When: Wednesday October 5 2016 9am - 5pm EDT | 13:00-21:00 UTC Agenda: http://nymjcsc.org/event-page/ <http://nymjcsc.org/event-page/> Webcast: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/nymjcsc <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/nymjcsc> Twitter: #nymjcsc https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYMJCSC <https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYMJCSC>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8692#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8692#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8692 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Join us at the Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2016 in Asia or Submit for 2017 in Austria
by Noella Edelmann 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

Apologies for Cross Posting! ***************************** Dear All, We kindly invite you to join us at CeDEM Asia 2016 or submit a paper to CeDEM17 in Austria. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CeDEM Asia 2016 7-9 December 2016 in Daegu, South Korea In collaboration with #DISC2016-conference www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedemasia2016 Keynotes: * Michael L. Best: Institute on Computing and Society, United Nations University, Macau * Rich Ling: Shaw Foundation Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Eun-Ju Lee: Department of Communication at Seoul National University, Seoul Find the talks and panels of CeDEM Asia 2016 on the conference website. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CeDEM 17 17-19 May 2017, Danube University Krems, Austria Submission deadline: 12 December 2016 www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem17 CfP: http://tinyurl.com/cedem17cfp Keynotes: *Ramon Gil-Garcia (Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, US) *Ines Mergel (Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, Germany) *Wolfgang Drechsler (Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Technical University Tallinn, EST) *Further keynotes to be confirmed. Tracks: *E-Democracy and E-Participation *Social Media, Public Administration and Citizen Engagement *Open Collaborative Government *Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation *Citizens' Participation in Democratic Governance Processes through ICT in Africa *Open Access *Communities, Participation and Civic Engagement *Information Visualization for the People *Connected Smart City *E-Voting *Political Communication & Public Spheres in a Digital Age *Identity, Privacy and Security *Emerging Issues in E-Democracy and Open Government You Can Also Submit: *Reflections *Workshop Proposals *PhD Papers (PhD Bursary: http://tinyurl.com/cedem17phd) *Open Space - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Would you like to review CeDEM17 papers? Register your interests here: http://goo.gl/forms/u4nW0iD9hU Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cedem.community - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Best regards Noella Noella Edelmann BA, MSc, MAS Research Fellow Department for E-Governance and Administration Danube University Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30 3500 Krems Austria www.donau-uni.ac.at/egov CeDEM Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem JeDEM eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government www.jedem.org Digital Society Lab http://digitalgovernment.wordpress.com/

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CFP: Illness Narratives, Networked Subjects, and Intimate Publics
by Tamara Kneese 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience *Call for Papers* *Edited by Tamara Kneese and Beza Merid* We invite submissions to a peer-reviewed, themed section of *Catalyst* on the topic of “Illness Narratives, Networked Subjects, and Intimate Publics.” Illness, injury, dying, and death have been recent sites of scholarly investigation in fields like feminist critical theory, STS, and medical anthropology (Braidotti 2013, Fassin 2007, Jain 2006, Mialet 2012, Serlin 2010). Through the production and circulation of personal narratives about experiences with pain and loss, new publics are created while networked subjectivities are negotiated. Complex publics and subjectivities form through encounters between patients and caregivers, among networks of mourners, and through subjects who trade paradigms for “how best to live on, considering” (Berlant 2011). Those who are sick or dying may describe their affective, embodied, psychological, and existential conditions over social media platforms, through illness blogs or comedy performances, over Kickstarter campaigns seeking money to help with medical costs, during in-person support group meetings, or in emails sent to update established social networks. Caregivers may give voice to their own experiences through similar outlets, producing and circulating knowledge about their position as care workers who, facing burnout or illness, need care themselves. Face-to-face interactions, privately sent emails, posts on semi-public Facebook walls, and the public comment sections of personal illness blogs all participate in the production of both subjects and publics. Given the complex, relational aspects of illness, injury, dying, and death, submissions might take inspiration from a range of voices, including those in feminist work on affect and embodied care. Possible themes of accepted papers might include: - The relationship between social media platforms and care work - Digital media where experiences of and knowledge production about illness are shared - Imaginings of the self in relation to illness, injury, or mortality - Networks formed, reinforced, or maintained through sickness, dying, and death - New taxonomies of kinship induced by networked publics and experiences of illness - Articulations of and negotiations with biomedical risk - The affects/effects of health and illness - The conceptualization of health as a personal, moral, and civic responsibility - Performances and narratives surrounding illness, death, and enduring - The temporal experiences of illness, dying, and care - Institutional, infrastructural, and personal life spans Titles and abstracts for submissions must be received by *November 30, 2016*. Please send abstracts to illnessnarrativescfp(a)gmail.com. Selected authors will then be asked to submit draft articles to Catalyst through the online submission portal by *March 15, 2017*. Selected submissions will be published pending peer review. See the announcement online at http://catalystjournal.org/ojs/index.php/catalyst/announcement/view/4

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aWEAR'16 call for participation
by srecko joksimovic 02 Oct '16

02 Oct '16

Dear All, This is a call for the participation at the aWEAR'16: "Wearable technologies, knowledge development, and learning" conference on November 14-15, 2016 at Stanford University. The conference is organized for the first time and aims at establishing a community of researchers that would define directions and goals of further development in the field. aWEAR'16 will feature 7 paper sessions, panels, and a conference reception. We are also pleased to have exciting keynote speakers Dr. Sidney D'Mello, Dr. Thecla Schiphorst, Dr. Thérèse Dugan, and Dr. Dragan Gašević. We look forward to two days of fascinating discussion and networking at the beautiful Stanford campus. For more details, please visit the conference website http://awear16.interlab.me/. Registration URL: http://bit.ly/awear-register. Sincerely, Conference Chairs

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looking for data on #BringBackOurGirls
by Donald Matheson 02 Oct '16

02 Oct '16

Dear colleagues, A Masters student here at Canterbury University in Aotearoa New Zealand, Emma Murphy, is researching tweets around the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. She's not on this list, so I'm posting on her behalf: Can we ask if anyone has some (reliable) numbers on the use of the hashtag over the past two years or so they'd be willing to share? Many thanks, Donald This email may be confidential and subject to legal privilege, it may not reflect the views of the University of Canterbury, and it is not guaranteed to be virus free. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the message and any attachments. Please refer to http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/emaildisclaimer for more information.

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CfP: NIPS symposium on Machine Learning and the Law
by Jat Singh 02 Oct '16

02 Oct '16

NIPS 2016 Symposium on Machine Learning and the Law ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please forward to others who may have interest. Important Dates ---------------------- Submission Deadline: Nov 3, 2016 Decision to Authors: Nov 18, 2016 Final Papers Due: Dec 1, 2016 (papers may be revised following the symposium) Symposium Date: Dec 8, 2016 Note that to come to any of the three NIPS symposia, you must be registered either for the main NIPS conference or for the workshops. Early registration with reduced pricing ends at 12:59am on October 6. Website www.MLandtheLaw.org Symposium on Machine Learning and the Law -------------------------------------------------------------- Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence mean that predictions and decisions of algorithms are already in use in many important situations under legal or regulatory control, and this is likely to increase dramatically in the near future. Examples include deciding whether to approve a bank loan, driving an autonomous car, or even predicting whether a prison inmate is likely to offend again if released. This symposium will explore the key themes of privacy, transparency and fairness specifically as they relate to the legal treatment and regulation of algorithms and data. Our primary goals are (i) to inform our community about important current and ongoing legislation (e.g. the EU’s GDPR); and (ii) to bring together the legal and technical communities to help form better policy in the future. We welcome machine learners, lawyers and anyone interested in social policy. Although the impact of machine learning on jobs in the legal profession is an important topic, that is not a key focus of this symposium. Call for Papers --------------------- Authors are invited to submit research abstracts on topics that relate broadly to the themes of machine learning and the law, including but not limited to issues of privacy, liability, transparency and fairness as they relate to algorithms and data. Submissions should be up to 6 pages in NIPS format (short submissions are welcome, longer submissions may be accepted, please contact us if this would help you). Submissions need not be anonymized. Given the novelty of the field, we welcome a wide range of submissions, whether technical, legal or careful thought pieces to stimulate debate and discussion. We are happy to consider submissions that survey and comment on relevant work that has been previously published. We aim to highlight a few submissions in spotlight presentations by authors at the symposium. All accepted papers will be made available on our symposium website, and will appear in an issue of JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings (unless authors prefer not). Please see www.MLandtheLaw.org for submission details. Submissions are due Nov 3, 2016 (11:59PM PDT). Sponsors: We gratefully acknowledge support from the Center for the Study of Existential Risk, and the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence.

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CfP: Digital Data for Nutrition, Healthy Eating and Exercise; Deadline Nov 30
by Ingmar Weber 01 Oct '16

01 Oct '16

If you're using Internet data for health studies, then the following call for paper might be of interest. The "Frontiers" journals are top-notch in terms of Impact Factor (https://blog.frontiersin.org/2015/06/23/more-frontiers-journals-receive-imp…) == Special Journal Issue: Digital Data for Nutrition, Healthy Eating and Exercise http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/5186/digital-data-for-nutritio… Dietary behavior surveillance is central for monitoring both public and individual health, as well as understanding its underlying cultural, social, and psychological mechanisms. Heart disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, and even cancer have all been linked to weight gain, and the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates some 35% of adults in US are obese, with medical care and other expenses associated with obesity costing up to $190 billion a year (as of 2012). Large-scale dietary studies of food consumption use questionnaires and food diaries to keep track of the daily activities of their participants. Public health awareness campaigns then use data on dietary behavior across various population segments to tailor their message and intervention techniques. Recently, the Quantified Self revolution has involved the individual in personalized health management, with easy diet tracking, gamification approaches to a more active lifestyle, and online social support networks, opening opportunities for quantitative study both at individual and population levels. The availability of online data is creating unprecedented opportunities to study these issues from new angles as many dietary related behaviors leave digital traces: users search for diet advice on Google, they upload cooking suggestions to allrecipes.com, they turn to online communities for help with eating disorders, they check in at their gym on Foursquare, and they share their #FoodPorn pictures on Instagram. Though such online data comes with its own set of challenges, in particular related to quality and selection biases, recent work shows the potential benefits online data offers concerning scale, richness, social network information, as well as low latency and cost. While computer scientists have the technical expertise to collect and analyze such data, they typically lack the domain expertise to ask the right, impactful research questions and to position their work within the existing body of knowledge. At the same time nutritionists and public health experts might not know how tools such as machine learning can be used to deal with large amounts of messy online data. Through this special issue we hope to strengthen interdisciplinary work that critically analyzes the value that online data holds for dietary studies. We welcome novel contributions that use online data -- including, but not limited to, social media, web logs, search logs, multimedia, social network data, online communities, smartphone applications and mobility data -- to study dietary behavior and healthy weight management for applications both in individual and public health. Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be in line with the scope of the specialty and field to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Manuscripts discovered during any stage of peer review to be outside of the scope may be transferred to a suitable section or field, or withdrawn from review. Submission Deadline 30 November 2016 There will be a short turn-around time with the first round of decisions out by late January 2017. Articles will be published online soon after their final decision, without a need to wait for all articles in this issue to have finished the process. Topic Editors Ingmar Weber (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3YDUbP0AAAAJ, http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/256504/overview, http://ingmarweber.de/publications/) Yelena Mejova (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iXWFZMQAAAAJ, http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/365536/overview, https://sites.google.com/site/yelenamejova/publications) Hamed Haddadi (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gkA7zvoAAAAJ, http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/242287/overview, http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~hamed/publications.html) Contact me for questions on the special issue (or "Research Topic" in Frontiers lingo) or if you're generally interested in the topic. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments transmitted with it are confidential and intended for the use of individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you have received this email in error, please delete it immediately and inform the sender. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, disclose, copy or distribute this email or any attachments included. The contents of this email, including any attachments, may be subjected to copyright law. In such cases, the contents may not be copied, adapted, distributed or transmitted without the consent of the copyright owner.

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