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Call for Papers: ProWeb 2017
by Coen De Roover 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

ProWeb 2017: 1st International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2017-papers Co-located with the <Programming> conference April 3, Brussels, Belgium ==================== Full-fledged web applications have become ubiquitous on desktop and mobile devices alike. Whereas “responsive” web applications already offered a more desktop-like experience, there is an increasing demand for “rich” web applications (RIAs) that offer collaborative and even off-line functionality —Google docs being the prototypical example. Long gone are the days that web servers merely had to answer incoming HTTP request with a block of static HTML. Today’s servers react to a continuous stream of events coming from JavaScript applications that have been pushed to clients. As a result, application logic and data is increasingly distributed. Traditional dichotomies such as “client vs. server” and “offline vs. online” are fading. ** Call for Papers ** The 1st International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web, or ProWeb17, is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share and discuss new technology for programming these and future evolutions of the web. We welcome submissions introducing programming technology (i.e., frameworks, libraries, programming languages, program analyses and development tools) for implementing web applications and for maintaining their quality over time, as well as experience reports about the use of state-of-the-art programming technology. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: * Quality on the new web: static and dynamic program analyses; code, design test and process metrics; development and migration tools; automated testing and test generation; contract systems, type systems, and web service API conformance checking; ... * Hosting languages on the web: new runtimes; transpilation or compilation to JavaScript, WebAssembly, asm.js, ... * Designing languages for the web: multi-tier (or tierless) programming; reactive programming; frameworks for multi-tier or reactive programming on the web; ... * Distributed data sharing, replication and consistency: cloud types, CRDTs, eventual consistency, offline storage, peer-to-peer communication, ... * Security on the web: client-side and server-side security policies; policy enforcement; proxies and membranes; vulnerability detection; dynamic patching, ... * Surveys and case studies using state-of-the-art web technology * Ideas on and experience reports about: how to reconcile the need for quality with the need for agility on the web; how to master and combine the myriad of tier-specific technologies required to develop a web application, .. * Position statements on what the future of the web should look like We solicit three kinds of submissions via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=proweb2017 - 6-page **technical papers** and **experience reports** that, when accepted, will be published in the workshop post-proceedings as part of of the ACM’s Digital Library. - 3-page **position statements** that, when accepted, will be published in the workshop post-proceedings as part of of the ACM’s Digital Library. - 1-page **presentation abstracts** that, when accepted, will be made available on the website. Submissions must follow the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format (9 point font, Times New Roman font family, numeric citation style). Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. We welcome submissions that identify new problems, or report on promising ideas in early stages of research. Submissions of the third kind are ideal to further disseminate existing ideas within the community, to demonstrate existing tools, or simply to instigate a discussion. More information: http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2017-papers ** Important dates (AoE) ** - Submission deadline: Wed 15 Feb 2017 - Author notification: Wed 1 Mar 2017 - Camera-ready version: Wed 15 Mar 2017 ** Organizers ** - Coen De Roover, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium - Anders Møller, Aarhus University, Denmark - Christophe Scholliers, Universiteit Gent, Belgium ** Program Committee (preliminary) ** - Vincent Balat, Université Paris Diderot, France - Nataliia Bielova, Inria, France - Avid Chaudhuri, Facebook, United States of America - Tobias Distiler, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany - Jan Martin Jansen, Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands - Frank Piessens, iMinds, Belgium - Rinus Plasmeijer, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands - Michael Pradel, TU Darmstadt, Germany - Andreas Rossberg, Google, Germany - Sukyoung Ruy, KAIST, South Korea - Manuel Serrano, Inria, France - Mario Südholt, Inria, France - Tom Van Cutsem, Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium - Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

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Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review
by Jeff Pooley 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

Thanks for raising this troubling episode. Like Zach says, this is no reason to impugn OA publishing, regardless of its many challenges (including the dominant author-pays model in the natural sciences and cynical OA opportunism of the Elsevier-buys-SSRN sort). I recently wrote about these issues in IJOC ("Open Media Scholarship: The Case for Open Access in Media Studies"): http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6154 In the wake of Elsevier's takeover of SSRN, if you're looking for a nonprofit OA preprint repository, the brand-new SocArxiv is superb (and built atop the Open Science Framework platform): https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv Jeff --------- Jeff Pooley, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Media & Communication Muhlenberg College 2400 Chew St., Allentown, PA 18104 484-664-3677 jeffpooley.com Begin forwarded message: > From: air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > Date: December 29, 2016 at 6:00:31 PM EST > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 149, Issue 43 > Reply-To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 15:58:02 +0000 > From: Andrew Herman <aherman(a)wlu.ca> > To: Charlie McNabb <mcnabbarchives(a)gmail.com>, > "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review > Message-ID: <1483027081383.69877(a)wlu.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Great suggestion, Charlie! > ________________________________________ > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Charlie McNabb <mcnabbarchives(a)gmail.com> > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 10:55 AM > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review > > May I also suggest, those of you in academic institutions, forward this > thread to your librarian. This is a tailor made lesson in both publishing > practices and source evaluation. Undergraduate students tend to trust > whatever comes out of a database. > > And your librarian might hassle Elsevier too. :) > > Charlie McNabb, MA, MLIS > http://mcnabbarchives.wordpress.com/ > http://beyondhankycode.wordpress.com/

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"Gamevironments of the Past", #5 (2016), and 2 new CfP: regular issue + "Jewish Gamevironments"
by Xenia Zeiler 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

Dear all, we are happy to announce this year's Special Issue of GAMEVIRONMENTS by Derek Fewster and Ylva Grufstedt (Helsinki) on gaming and history! "Gamevironments of the Past", #5 (2016), includes articles, reports on current activities/trends, and interviews - all from the field of gaming and history: Derek Fewster and Ylva Grufstedt: Introduction: Gamevironments of the Past – A Broad Take on Games and History Robert Houghton: Where did you learn that? The self-perceived educational impact of historical computer games on undergraduates. Samir Azrioual: Developing Time: Representing Historical Progression through Level Structures Jayme Dale Mallindine: Ghost in the Cartridge: Nostalgia and the Construction of the JRPG Genre Vinicius Marino Carvalho: History and Human Agency in Videogames Brittany Kuhn: The Architecture of Bioshock as Metaphor for Ayn Rand’s Objectivism Cassone & Thibault: The HGR Framework: A Semiotic Approach to the Representation of History in Digital Games Sarah Zaidan: The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Developing a Historical Superhero Video Game Owen Gottlieb: Who Really Said What? Mobile Historical Situated Documentary as Liminal Learning Space Xenia Zeiler: The Indian Indie Game Development Scene – History and Cultural Heritage as Game Themes Cecilia Trenter: Interview with the Lead Designer Mike Laidlaw and Lead Writer David Gaider (and Lucas Christiansen) at BioWare about the Dragon Age games. All articles are available on http://www.gamevironments.org. Enjoy! _________________________________ In addition, we announce two new CfP: 1) The next regular issue of gamevironments will be published in summer 2017. We invite submissions (articles, reports, interviews, game/book reviews) by: 31.01. Full Chapter Submission 31.03. Review Results Returned 15.05. Revised Chapter Submission summer Online-Publication All submitted articles will be reviewed on a double-blind peer-review basis. Please get in touch with us if you have questions. 2) The next Special Issue of gamevironments, "JEWISH GAMEVIRONMENTS" by Owen Gottlieb, will be published in Dec 2017. The journal invites researchers to submit their work to gamevironments (http://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/) for possible publication in a special issue due for publication December 2017. Whether by console, PC, mobile phone, VR headset, or other interface, video games and modern Jewish expression are now often intertwined. Jews who grew up with video games over the last forty years and who are growing up today are literate in the mechanics, visuals, sound effects, music, tropes, trends, and storylines of these games. That literacy necessarily can frame and bend contemporary Jewish practices. Likewise, those immersed in Jewish cultural and religious expression read video games through sensibilities informed by their Jewish journeys. Educator-researchers now develop video games for the purposes of the acquisition of Jewish cultural practices, such as understanding Jewish history, literature, and ethical reasoning. Players explore religious and cultural through game interfaces. In an effort to collect new research and perspectives on these and related themes, gamevironments seeks paper proposals for an issue with focus on Jewish cultural practices, including religious expression. We wish to collect results as well as theoretical, analytical, methodological, and other social science and humanities approaches to Jewish expression and video games, in a broad sense. Papers may explore any aspect of the relationship between video games and Jewish cultural practices, including religious practices. For example, but not limited to: Video games as Jewish cultural expression or practice Video game practices intersecting with contemporary Jewish cultural and religious practices Jewish studies approaches to video games; video game approaches to Jewish studies Design principles based on data and scholarly theoretical frameworks known in the humanities and the social sciences Interreligious or interfaith studies of video games including Jewish cultural practices Analysis of video game culture through Jewish scholarly lenses Expressions of Jewish life in video games, regardless of genre Video game studies, critical and cultural analysis on Jewish topics Jewish cultural expression or history in the video game industries The use of Jewish sources for creating environments, styles, art, soundscapes, traditions, languages, lore, myths, religions or any sense of adaptation of Jewish sources Space, time, and/or place: the use in video games of Jewish conceptions of time, maps tied to Jewish history, and/or of Jewish locations The use of Jewish tropes, allusions, stereotypes, storylines, literary references, or narrative structures Approaches to creating speculative/fictional religious systems influenced by Judaism Issues of Jewish journeys, beliefs, ideas, ideologies, politics, ethics, morality, and agency in video games Video games as elements, adjusters, or renewers of a collective and narrative memory Video games as history, politics, including e.g. themes of historical traumatization, nationalism, anti-Semitism, emancipation, gender, totalitarianism, heritage, Jewish ethnic identities, Serious games, games for social impact, games for learning related to Jewish life. Studies related to any of the above-mentioned ideas, or other similar topics, are welcome as submission to this issue. Submission deadlines: Title and abstract submission (approx. 500 words plus Harvard style references to be included): 29.03.2017 Full text submission: 12.07.2017 Review results returned: 13.09.2017 Revised text submission: 8.11.2017 Online publication: 31.12.2017 Please consult the gamevironments submission style sheet before submitting your paper, http://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/gv-style… , as well as the Help Desk http://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/submission-guideline/ for some general principles. Note: All abstracts must include Harvard style references. Please send any queries, texts and articles as RTF files to the issue editor, Owen Gottlieb using the subject header “gamevironments:” _____________________________________________ All the best and a Happy New Year to all! Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Xenia Zeiler (editors-in-chief) -- Prof. Dr. Xenia Zeiler Associate Professor South Asian Studies P.O. Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38B) 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland +358 50 4482713 http://tuhat.halvi.helsinki.fi/portal/en/person/zeiler

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Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review
by Andrew Herman 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

Hi Zach Again, you are absolutely correct. And I think that "growing pains" is the right metaphor for describing what is going on in OA publishing at the moment. In Canada, for example, the principal government agencies that fund academic research now demand that any publications that emerge from publicly funded research MUST be published in OA journals. This sounds great on the face of it, but many OA publishers are seeing this an opportunity to squeeze grant recipients and their institutions for as much as they can get away with. At York University, the faculty spent what the university allocated for OA fees for the entire 2016-2017 fiscal year in just one month. Just yesterday, my wife received an invoice for $3000 to publish an article in an cutting edge anthropology journal, expecting either her university or her grants to pay for it. Moreover, at no point in the review, revision or copy edit process was it ever mentioned that such an invoice was to be expected. That is not right. Andrew ________________________________ From: Zachary McDowell <zachary.mcdowell(a)umass.edu> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 8:16 AM To: Andrew Herman Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review Agreed. However, these publishers are often the same publishers who previously did not have an OA option and are now trying to find a way to maintain their profitability. Much of this pay-to-publish "gold" OA is being driven by our publish-or-perish (but only in top tier journals) model, as newer, "platinum" (completely free) OA, journals often are not given the credibility they deserve. Additionally, due to recent OA mandates by Princeton, Yale, and MIT (who followed most of Europe in this regard), as well as US Federal Government funding sources (under development), there has emerged a market for that can demand OA fees to be paid by the institution (and many have a fund for this, due to the "Serial Crisis" in research libraries), so many journals have shifted to that model where the market will bear it. This is a two-headed beast here - it is not just an issue of OA fees, but that fees are charged by journals who demand that fee, often owned by larger conglomerates. There are many of us running platinum (read: completely free for everyone) OA journals (link to mine in signature) for free (albeit with minimum institutional support for hosting). I see this as part of a growing pain for academia - how to reconfigure our notions of value on publishing platforms towards avenues that support our ability to retain copyright and distribute freely. Or, what is the cost that we are willing to pay for access and can "free" journals be just as credible if they aren't part of a major corporation? As for repositories ("green" OA), there are many credible ones, but self-archiving systems will always potentially have this issue. One of the things I wrote to SSRN is that their hosting of that article destroys their credibility, so they should not only take it down but also post a disclaimer about the previously hosted article (so that those who link to it can see). best Zach -------------------- Zachary J. McDowell, PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Digital Government Research Fellow, Wiki Education Foundation Editor, communication +1<http://communicationplusone.org> www.zachmcdowell.com<http://www.zachmcdowell.com> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman(a)wlu.ca<mailto:aherman@wlu.ca>> wrote: But there are emerging problems with OA in terms of its political economy that we need to be attentive to, viz., OA publishers charging outrageous fees to authors to publish articles. ________________________________ From: Zachary McDowell <zachary.mcdowell(a)umass.edu<mailto:zachary.mcdowell@umass.edu>> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 7:43 AM To: Andrew Herman Cc: Sharon Greenfield; air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review Andrew and Sharon, This indeed seems to be a frightening issue, but I would be remiss to mention that this level of "open access" is merely a (badly managed) repository, and anyone with remedial research skills would recognize this paper as one without credibility. I do hope we don't lump them in with "the problems of open access publishing" because there are multiple types of OA, and this "article" is essentially a blog post that got past Elsevier's censors (if they actually have any). Lumping these practices in with OA, or even "problems with OA" is like lumping in fake news sites with OA as well - its just not helpful for the discourse about OA. As for the article itself, the red flags are all over the abstract, let alone the writing (this wouldn't be passable in an undergraduate seminar for the writing alone, let alone the terrible research methods). The issue here seems to be that Elsevier's repository rules are incredibly lax. From their FAQ under "Is my paper eligible for inclusion and public display in SSRN's eLibrary": "A paper must be part of the world-wide scholarly discourse covered by one or more of SSRN's subject area networks to be eligible for inclusion and public display in SSRN's eLibrary. Every submitted paper is reviewed by SSRN staff to ensure that the paper is a part of the scholarly discourse in its subject area. SSRN does not provide peer review for papers in the eLibrary." They might not do "peer review" but they do say that the articles need to be "part of scholarly discourse" and there is ample evidence to suggest this pile of garbage does not fit the bill. I will be offering "feedback" (to the right of the article) asking for it to be taken down, as well as through their contact information. If anyone knows of more of these, similar feedback should be given (maybe shaming them into doing their job, if not there should be something publicly written about this). This is indeed very dangerous as I've already found blogosphere references to the article. This should be relatively easy enough to combat. Lets just not throw this in with OA, as OA has quite a lot to offer all of us (particularly OA journals with proper peer review). best Zach -------------------- Zachary J. McDowell, PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Digital Government Research Fellow, Wiki Education Foundation Managing Editor, communication +1 www.zachmcdowell.com<http://www.zachmcdowell.com><http://www.zachmcdowell.com> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman(a)wlu.ca<mailto:aherman@wlu.ca><mailto:aherman@wlu.ca<mailto:aherman@wlu.ca>>> wrote: Sharon Thanks for the bring this to the attention of the list. This is an area of great concern and certainly is an aspect of the Gramscian war of position against the racist "alt-right" what she should be engaged in. This also points to one of the problems of open access publishing that we are now beinning to encounter. Is anybody doing research on this facet of the tactics of the right? Andrew ________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org><mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>>> on behalf of Sharon Greenfield <sharon.greenfield(a)rmit.edu.au<mailto:sharon.greenfield@rmit.edu.au><mailto:sharon.greenfield@rmit.edu.au<mailto:sharon.greenfield@rmit.edu.au>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2016 11:09 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org><mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org>> Subject: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review The other day I was told by someone not in academia that there are regularly planted independently written 'articles' (quotes mine) to places like the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) https://www.ssrn.com so as to give a 'credible source' for right wing racist media pundits and those who follow them. Thoughts on this process? SSRN is an arm of Elsevier. As apparent by below planted 'article' (quotes again mine) and the multitude of scientific errors, there is no peer review. Does this 'open access' of research journals from Elsevier dilute any credibility they have? Would love to chat with someone at Elsevier about this. I do understand what a tough place the publishing industry is in right now. I was pointed to below link which is being used to back up quotes like "97% of women with children by black male partners get ZERO financial help from their partner." : https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2625893 Ninety Two Percent: Examining the Birth Trends, Family Structure, Economic Standing, Paternal Relationships, and Emotional Stability of Biracial Children with African American Fathers Tiffany N. Calloway <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2418846> Independent June 2, 2015 *Abstract: * This study examines the birth trends, family structure, economic standing, paternal relationships, and emotional stability of biracial children with African American fathers. For study implementation quantitative research methods were used. Questions were asked through a questionnaire that was administered to 1000 women spanning the united States that were equally ranging from 3 different racial groups; Caucasian, Asian, and Hispanic. Participants were recruited through the internet, radio, and news. This study finds that 92% of biracial children with African American fathers are born out of wedlock and 82% end up on government assistance. The results of this study make it very clear that biracial children with African American fathers are fatherless on a scale much larger than the public may realize. *Number of Pages in PDF File:* 12 *Keywords:* Biracial, out of wedlock, fatherless, black fathers, interracial -------------------------- *Sharon Greenfield* PhD Researcher School of Media and Communication RMIT University, Australia *I and RMIT acknowledge the Wurundjeri people as the traditional owners of **the land * *on which the University stands and respectfully recognise Elders past and present.* _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org><mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org>> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org><mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org>> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review
by Andrew Herman 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

But there are emerging problems with OA in terms of its political economy that we need to be attentive to, viz., OA publishers charging outrageous fees to authors to publish articles. ________________________________ From: Zachary McDowell <zachary.mcdowell(a)umass.edu> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 7:43 AM To: Andrew Herman Cc: Sharon Greenfield; air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review Andrew and Sharon, This indeed seems to be a frightening issue, but I would be remiss to mention that this level of "open access" is merely a (badly managed) repository, and anyone with remedial research skills would recognize this paper as one without credibility. I do hope we don't lump them in with "the problems of open access publishing" because there are multiple types of OA, and this "article" is essentially a blog post that got past Elsevier's censors (if they actually have any). Lumping these practices in with OA, or even "problems with OA" is like lumping in fake news sites with OA as well - its just not helpful for the discourse about OA. As for the article itself, the red flags are all over the abstract, let alone the writing (this wouldn't be passable in an undergraduate seminar for the writing alone, let alone the terrible research methods). The issue here seems to be that Elsevier's repository rules are incredibly lax. From their FAQ under "Is my paper eligible for inclusion and public display in SSRN's eLibrary": "A paper must be part of the world-wide scholarly discourse covered by one or more of SSRN's subject area networks to be eligible for inclusion and public display in SSRN's eLibrary. Every submitted paper is reviewed by SSRN staff to ensure that the paper is a part of the scholarly discourse in its subject area. SSRN does not provide peer review for papers in the eLibrary." They might not do "peer review" but they do say that the articles need to be "part of scholarly discourse" and there is ample evidence to suggest this pile of garbage does not fit the bill. I will be offering "feedback" (to the right of the article) asking for it to be taken down, as well as through their contact information. If anyone knows of more of these, similar feedback should be given (maybe shaming them into doing their job, if not there should be something publicly written about this). This is indeed very dangerous as I've already found blogosphere references to the article. This should be relatively easy enough to combat. Lets just not throw this in with OA, as OA has quite a lot to offer all of us (particularly OA journals with proper peer review). best Zach -------------------- Zachary J. McDowell, PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Digital Government Research Fellow, Wiki Education Foundation Managing Editor, communication +1 www.zachmcdowell.com<http://www.zachmcdowell.com> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman(a)wlu.ca<mailto:aherman@wlu.ca>> wrote: Sharon Thanks for the bring this to the attention of the list. This is an area of great concern and certainly is an aspect of the Gramscian war of position against the racist "alt-right" what she should be engaged in. This also points to one of the problems of open access publishing that we are now beinning to encounter. Is anybody doing research on this facet of the tactics of the right? Andrew ________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> on behalf of Sharon Greenfield <sharon.greenfield(a)rmit.edu.au<mailto:sharon.greenfield@rmit.edu.au>> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2016 11:09 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review The other day I was told by someone not in academia that there are regularly planted independently written 'articles' (quotes mine) to places like the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) https://www.ssrn.com so as to give a 'credible source' for right wing racist media pundits and those who follow them. Thoughts on this process? SSRN is an arm of Elsevier. As apparent by below planted 'article' (quotes again mine) and the multitude of scientific errors, there is no peer review. Does this 'open access' of research journals from Elsevier dilute any credibility they have? Would love to chat with someone at Elsevier about this. I do understand what a tough place the publishing industry is in right now. I was pointed to below link which is being used to back up quotes like "97% of women with children by black male partners get ZERO financial help from their partner." : https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2625893 Ninety Two Percent: Examining the Birth Trends, Family Structure, Economic Standing, Paternal Relationships, and Emotional Stability of Biracial Children with African American Fathers Tiffany N. Calloway <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2418846> Independent June 2, 2015 *Abstract: * This study examines the birth trends, family structure, economic standing, paternal relationships, and emotional stability of biracial children with African American fathers. For study implementation quantitative research methods were used. Questions were asked through a questionnaire that was administered to 1000 women spanning the united States that were equally ranging from 3 different racial groups; Caucasian, Asian, and Hispanic. Participants were recruited through the internet, radio, and news. This study finds that 92% of biracial children with African American fathers are born out of wedlock and 82% end up on government assistance. The results of this study make it very clear that biracial children with African American fathers are fatherless on a scale much larger than the public may realize. *Number of Pages in PDF File:* 12 *Keywords:* Biracial, out of wedlock, fatherless, black fathers, interracial -------------------------- *Sharon Greenfield* PhD Researcher School of Media and Communication RMIT University, Australia *I and RMIT acknowledge the Wurundjeri people as the traditional owners of **the land * *on which the University stands and respectfully recognise Elders past and present.* _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review
by Andrew Herman 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

You are absolutely right, Zachary. ________________________________ From: Zachary McDowell <zachary.mcdowell(a)umass.edu> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 7:43 AM To: Andrew Herman Cc: Sharon Greenfield; air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review Andrew and Sharon, This indeed seems to be a frightening issue, but I would be remiss to mention that this level of "open access" is merely a (badly managed) repository, and anyone with remedial research skills would recognize this paper as one without credibility. I do hope we don't lump them in with "the problems of open access publishing" because there are multiple types of OA, and this "article" is essentially a blog post that got past Elsevier's censors (if they actually have any). Lumping these practices in with OA, or even "problems with OA" is like lumping in fake news sites with OA as well - its just not helpful for the discourse about OA. As for the article itself, the red flags are all over the abstract, let alone the writing (this wouldn't be passable in an undergraduate seminar for the writing alone, let alone the terrible research methods). The issue here seems to be that Elsevier's repository rules are incredibly lax. From their FAQ under "Is my paper eligible for inclusion and public display in SSRN's eLibrary": "A paper must be part of the world-wide scholarly discourse covered by one or more of SSRN's subject area networks to be eligible for inclusion and public display in SSRN's eLibrary. Every submitted paper is reviewed by SSRN staff to ensure that the paper is a part of the scholarly discourse in its subject area. SSRN does not provide peer review for papers in the eLibrary." They might not do "peer review" but they do say that the articles need to be "part of scholarly discourse" and there is ample evidence to suggest this pile of garbage does not fit the bill. I will be offering "feedback" (to the right of the article) asking for it to be taken down, as well as through their contact information. If anyone knows of more of these, similar feedback should be given (maybe shaming them into doing their job, if not there should be something publicly written about this). This is indeed very dangerous as I've already found blogosphere references to the article. This should be relatively easy enough to combat. Lets just not throw this in with OA, as OA has quite a lot to offer all of us (particularly OA journals with proper peer review). best Zach -------------------- Zachary J. McDowell, PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Digital Government Research Fellow, Wiki Education Foundation Managing Editor, communication +1 www.zachmcdowell.com<http://www.zachmcdowell.com> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman(a)wlu.ca<mailto:aherman@wlu.ca>> wrote: Sharon Thanks for the bring this to the attention of the list. This is an area of great concern and certainly is an aspect of the Gramscian war of position against the racist "alt-right" what she should be engaged in. This also points to one of the problems of open access publishing that we are now beinning to encounter. Is anybody doing research on this facet of the tactics of the right? Andrew ________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> on behalf of Sharon Greenfield <sharon.greenfield(a)rmit.edu.au<mailto:sharon.greenfield@rmit.edu.au>> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2016 11:09 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review The other day I was told by someone not in academia that there are regularly planted independently written 'articles' (quotes mine) to places like the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) https://www.ssrn.com so as to give a 'credible source' for right wing racist media pundits and those who follow them. Thoughts on this process? SSRN is an arm of Elsevier. As apparent by below planted 'article' (quotes again mine) and the multitude of scientific errors, there is no peer review. Does this 'open access' of research journals from Elsevier dilute any credibility they have? Would love to chat with someone at Elsevier about this. I do understand what a tough place the publishing industry is in right now. I was pointed to below link which is being used to back up quotes like "97% of women with children by black male partners get ZERO financial help from their partner." : https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2625893 Ninety Two Percent: Examining the Birth Trends, Family Structure, Economic Standing, Paternal Relationships, and Emotional Stability of Biracial Children with African American Fathers Tiffany N. Calloway <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2418846> Independent June 2, 2015 *Abstract: * This study examines the birth trends, family structure, economic standing, paternal relationships, and emotional stability of biracial children with African American fathers. For study implementation quantitative research methods were used. Questions were asked through a questionnaire that was administered to 1000 women spanning the united States that were equally ranging from 3 different racial groups; Caucasian, Asian, and Hispanic. Participants were recruited through the internet, radio, and news. This study finds that 92% of biracial children with African American fathers are born out of wedlock and 82% end up on government assistance. The results of this study make it very clear that biracial children with African American fathers are fatherless on a scale much larger than the public may realize. *Number of Pages in PDF File:* 12 *Keywords:* Biracial, out of wedlock, fatherless, black fathers, interracial -------------------------- *Sharon Greenfield* PhD Researcher School of Media and Communication RMIT University, Australia *I and RMIT acknowledge the Wurundjeri people as the traditional owners of **the land * *on which the University stands and respectfully recognise Elders past and present.* _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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New York Review of Books Foundation: a debate about Artificial Intelligence between John Searle and Luciano Floridi - YouTube video
by Luciano Floridi 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

Perhaps this may be of interest to some members of the list? The New York Review of Books Foundation recently organised two lectures on Artificial Intelligence by John Searle and myself and a debate between the two of us with Q&A on the same topic. The video is available on YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/floridi/videos <https://www.youtube.com/user/floridi/videos> Best wishes, Luciano ____________________________________________ Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Oxford Internet Institute | University of Oxford Faculty Fellow | The Alan Turing Institute, London PA Ms Jessica Antonio | pa.floridi(a)oii.ox.ac.uk <mailto:pa.floridi@oii.ox.ac.uk> 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1865 287202 | @Floridi

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Fake News Detection: A Twitter Data Challenge for Students
by Shulman, Stu 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

DiscoverText is sponsoring a student data challenge on “fake” news detection using a corpus of 20 million “Trump” Tweets collected between April and August 2016. The Challenge – Build a model of fake news on Twitter – Submit the model using a short video (=<60 seconds) Requirements – Teams must use our dataset and online collaborative tools, which we will provide for free. – Data export is prohibited. – The model must focus on the nature and scope of fake news itself, not external analyses of it. – Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods models are all welcome. – Collaborative teams must include 2 or 3 students at any educational institution. – Faculty supervisors may join one or more teams. – Entry Deadline is March 1, 2017: Links to videos presenting the model in 60 seconds or less on YouTube must be Tweeted with the hashtag #fakenewsdetection. Prizes 1st Prize: $100 for each student. 2nd Prize: $50 for each student. 3rd Prize: $25 for each student. Every team that submits a video will retain an academic DiscoverText license for the remainder of 2017. Background There are many ways to explore the metadata, Tweet text data, images, news links (both fake and real), to test and refine student hunches about the scope and nature of fake news disseminated on Twitter. Our goal is to share these models with academic research community and to support a variety of methodologies for human or automated fake news detection. Start Here – Have each member of the team sign up for a free trial DiscoverText account. – http://discovertext.com/start-a-free-trial/ – Send an email to info(a)discovertext.com with your team name and a list of team member names and emails. – Identify a student team leader who can manage the project and serve as a point of contact. Training – Schedule a web meeting to go over some of the e-discovery, human coding, and machine-learning techniques. – Review the DiscoverText help guides and FAQs: https://texifter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us – Check out some use cases and methods in previous scholarly mentions of DiscoverText: http://discovertext.com/publications/ For more information, contact us at info(a)discovertext.com. -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman

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2nd [CfP] WWW'17 Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2017)
by Christoph Trattner 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2017) Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media to be held on April 3-7, 2017, Perth, Australia co-located with WWW 2017 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/msm2017/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** Submission Deadline: Jan 7, 2017 (23:59 Australian Western Standard Time) ** Notification of Acceptance: Jan 31, 2017 ** Camera-Ready Versions Due: Feb 14, 2017 ** Workshop date: April 3-7, 2017 (exact date to be determined) Workshop Organizers: ==================== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu.au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com In this workshop, we aim to attract researchers from all over the world working on Machine Learning and AI models for social media data analytics and predictive insights. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have paved the way for generating huge amount of diverse data in a short period of time. Such social media data require the application of big data analytics to produce meaningful information to both information consumers and data generators. Machine learning and AI techniques are particularly effective in situations where deep and predictive insights need to be uncovered from such social media data sets that are large, diverse and fast changing. We aim to focus on machine learning and AI driven data analytics and predictive modeling on social media and the web. We invite researchers that are interested in going beyond standard analytics approaches and discovering the knowledge/insights hidden in the large and fast-changing social media data. In this context, we would also like to invite researchers in the machine learning, AI, natural language processing, data and web mining community to lend their expertise to help to increase our understanding of the web and social media. We are interested in receiving papers related to the following topics which include but are not limited to: * AI, machine learning and natural language processing for social media, big data and the web * Learning analytics methods or frameworks for social media, big data and the web * Learning activities, applications and interventions * Approaches for social influence learning * Learning methods for social link prediction * Methods for learning social activities and behavioral analytic metrics * Approaches and algorithms for efficient learning * Evaluation of learning analytics frameworks and metrics * Applications of any of the above methods and technologies The goal of this workshop is to study the application of machine learning and AI approaches and algorithms to social media, big data and the web. Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-6 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair tohttps://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2017 Program Committee: ================== Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo, IN3 - UOC, Spain Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick, UK Shaghayegh Sahebi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Sharon Hsiao, Arizona State University, USA Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Germany Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mark Kibanov, University of Kassel, Germany Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany Denis Parra, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA Su Yang, Fudan University, China Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, Netherlands Proceedings: ============ Contributions will be included in the Companion volume of the ACM WWW2017 conference, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. However, to make that happen at least one author of the accepted paper has to register. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a WWW submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at the WWW conference. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; * occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices. It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2016 Contact: ======== Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany;atzmueller(a)cs.uni-kassel.de Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia; shlomo.berkovsky(a)csiro.au Alvin Chin, BMW Group, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Jianxin Li, University of Western Australia, Australia; Jianxin.li(a)uwa.edu.au Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com Follow us on: ============= Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/527164050627185/ Twitter https://twitter.com/msm_workshop -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Know-Center Research Center for Big Data Analytics & Data Driven Business Graz University of Technology, Austria E-mail: ctrattner(a)know-center.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 <+43%20650%202402801> Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info ------------------------------------------------------- New book: Mining, Modeling, and Recommending 'Things' in Social Media* by M. Atzmueller, A. Chin, C. Scholz, C. Trattner (eds.) http://link.springer.com/978-3-319-14723-9 -------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Contributions: Social Media and Demographic Research, ICWSM'17 Workshop
by Ingmar Weber 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

Social Media and Demographic Research: Applications and Implications Montreal, Canada, 15 May 2017 Call for contributions: This Research Workshop, sponsored by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Big Data and Population Processes, is a side event at the 11th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-17, http://icwsm.org/2017/) taking place in Montreal, Canada, 16-18 May 2017. Organizers: Emilio Zagheni, Ingmar Weber, Tom Le Grand Deadline for submissions: 16 March 2017 Direct access to the workshop website: https://sites.google.com/site/smdrworkshop/ The IUSSP Panel on Big Data and Population Processes (http://iussp.org/en/panel/big-data-and-population-processes) invites contributions from colleagues interested in Computational Demography. The Panel encourages submissions from researchers who wish to present their work, as well as the attendance of scholars interested in broadening their exposure to the topic. Demography has been a data-driven discipline since its birth. Data collection and the development of formal methods have sustained most of the major advances in our understanding of population processes. The global spread of Social Media has generated new opportunities for demographic research, as individuals leave an increasing quantity of traces online that can be aggregated and mined for population research. At the same time, the use of Social Media and Internet are affecting people's daily activities as well as life planning, with implications for demographic behavior. There are clear benefits inherent in connecting demography and data science. As ever more complex population-level data become available, demography can offer rigorously-developed concepts, measures and methods to those involved in the 'big social data' revolution. As social media services become a major source of social scientific data, the interaction with data science holds great potential to advance demographic research as well. Despite the great potential involved in these interactions, there is unfortunately very limited communication between population researchers and data scientists. This workshop is intended to favor communication and exchange between the two communities and would revolve around the main theme of applications and implications of social media for demographic research. Topics that are relevant for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Population research with social media data * Demographic features of online communities or services * Sentiment analysis associated to demographic events like immigration * Implications of social media and Internet for demographic behavior * Nowcasting fertility, mortality or migration with online data * Understanding population health with social media data * Methods for extracting information from non-representative samples * Applications of demographic methods to online populations Submissions: Participants who would like to present must submit an extended abstract (2-4 pages) or a full paper via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smdr17) by March 16, 2017 (see https://sites.google.com/site/smdrworkshop/important-dates) The submissions will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee on the basis of quality and fit to the workshop theme. Accepted abstracts and papers will be presented as short presentations, lightning talks or posters. Participants who are interested in attending but do not submit a research paper or a position paper should submit a paragraph explaining why they are interested in participating, what they would gain from participation, and how they can contribute to the workshop. There will be no formal Proceedings for the abstracts and papers submitted. However, authors of high quality submissions will be invited to submit their papers to a special issue on Social Media and Demographic Research of the open access journal Demographic Research (http://www.demographic-research.org/) one of the top journals in the field. The issue would include a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at workshops organized in collaboration with the IUSSP Panel on Big Data and Population Processes (http://iussp.org/en/panel/big-data-and-population-processes) For questions about the workshop, please email the organizers at smdrworkshop2017(a)googlegroups.com. 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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