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Conference: Freedom and Control of Expression
by Earl, Jennifer Suzanne - (jenniferearl) 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

Please Share Widely - Conference Call for Papers Freedom and Control of Expression<http://www.iast.fr/conference/freedom-and-control-expression-digital-afterm…> In the Digital Aftermath of the 2015 French Attacks After the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices were attacked in January 2015, debate and discussion flourished about freedom of expression, in France and abroad. This debate intensified after the Paris attacks of November 13th. At the epicenter is the role of the Internet and free speech. An enormous wave of worldwide indignation expressed itself after both events, including a deluge of hashtag solidarity. But this social media storm eventually revealed cultural, political and social divides inside France, as well as globally. Much like after the 9/11 attacks, France passed laws allowing state surveillance of online communication. At the same time, social media censored posts about the attacks that were considered to be provocative or shocking. The variety of reactions, including indifference or, on the contrary, the expression of very different points of view - sometimes even surveilled or censored - showed that one hashtag is neither unifying nor a universal view shared by everyone. This event magnified the notion that the digital public sphere is a conflicting arena of not just what is being said (or kept quiet) online but also what the limits are. Undoubtedly, the Internet is the main means of massive public expression for millions. Yet it is still the result of a complex set of power relations established between professional media, amateur content producing communities, which sometimes defend particular interests, as well as corporate intermediaries. The resulting online content embodies rival editorial, political and industrial strategies. Recently, scholars have begun to question the idea of digital participatory democracy in terms of a level playing field. This workshop aims to progress this debate by addressing the following central question: Who controls freedom of expression and online content in the digital era, and how? Embedded in this question are the challenges and constraints of expression, such as the tension between a bottom-up or top-down digital public sphere or who is left out as a digital player. Also central to this question are the role of three broad actors: the state, market and civil society. Possible topics for submissions include the following State - What is the government's role - from subsidizing digital participation to censorship and surveillance? What is the role of political ideology, broadly defined, in freedom of expression? What is the relationship between media institutions and the state when it comes to online free speech? Market - What is the interplay of market dominance, algorithms, censorship and Big Data? How are transformations in news production and consumption, especially in terms of platforms like Facebook, shaping freedom of expression? How do different types of capitalist economic systems shape freedom of expression? How do market constraints upon corporate media, and mainstream journalism shape freedom of expression? Civil society - Who is creating content, and if so, who is listening, watching and clicking? How does race, class, ethnicity and gender factor in? Who is marginalized? How effective is Internet use as an extension or part of activist and social movement practices vis-à-vis political expression. What is the role of alternative, independent and citizen media in this digital era of online expression? Target Audience and Scholars: This is an interdisciplinary workshop but geared toward sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, economists and communication scholars. Scholars at all levels are encouraged to participate. A small number of travel grants may be available to permit outstanding junior scholars (under 35 years at the date of the conference) to attend. Please state in your paper submission whether you wish to apply for such a travel grant. Dates: October 13 & 14, 2016 Format: The workshop will feature speakers, panels and paper presentations. Submissions: Full paper submissions based on empirical research of conference topics (maximum 25 pages including references and tables/figures) due by Friday, April 1. Theoretical papers will also be considered. Please submit papers to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fceda15pa. We will notify you of acceptance by May 6. You will have to create an account in Easychair in order to submit. Registration: Register for the conference by June 30. Space is limited. Registration information coming soon. Cost: Free Location: Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France. Organizers: Jen Schradie (IAST), Sandra Vera Zambrano (Sciences Po Toulouse - LASSP), Nikos Smyrnaios (University of Toulouse - LERASS) with support from the Jean-Jacques Laffont Digital Chair of the IAST and TSE. Web Site: http://www.iast.fr/conference/freedom-and-control-expression-digital-afterm… Questions? freedomcontrol.conf(a)iast.fr<https://gremaq.univ-tlse1.fr/owa/redir.aspx?C=8e92a16a689747f5bf0842d1beb14…> *********************************** Jennifer Earl Professor of Sociology Social Sciences 440 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0027 Twitter: @profearl Website: http://jearl.faculty.arizona.edu/ Phone: (520) 621-3296 Fax: (520) 621-9875 ***********************************

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Fellowship opportunities with Ranking Digital Rights
by Nathalie Marechal 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

Greetings, Ranking Digital Rights is recruiting graduate students and seasoned researchers with background in computer science, engineering, Internet and telecommunications law, communication studies (other relevant field) for fellowship opportunities in 2016. Fellows must be committed to advancing respect for digital rights worldwide and have prior academic research experience or professional work related to freedom of expression, censorship, privacy, and surveillance in the ICT sector. Speaking from personal experience, I have found working with RDR to be a terrific complement to PhD coursework, providing me with a much richer understanding of technology policy and Internet governance than graduate school alone would have. I would be delighted to speak with anyone on this list about the project. Please see https://rankingdigitalrights.org/2016/02/16/fellowship-opportunities-with-r… for more information. Best, Nathalie *Nathalie Maréchal* Doctoral Candidate, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Senior Information Controls Fellow, Ranking Digital Rights Marechal(a)USC.edu | @MarechalUSC | www.nathaliemarechal.net PGP Fingerprint - EB43 3CE8 A759 5419 52C0 2FF1 B721 C0BF 0F43 0663

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FW: PhD Courses: Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies 2016 (OPEN)
by hanne-k.hallingby＠telenor.com 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

Hi all, Excellent summer school courses at University of Oslo - I have attended two courses. I especially recommend the course of my Telenor colleague: Data Science for the Social Sciences, Senior Data Scientist Pål Sundsøy, Telenor Research, Norway. Best regards Hanne-Stine Hallingby, Industry Phd Canidate UiO and Telenor --- Greetings! We have by now received many applications for the upcoming PhD summer school 2016. However, we still welcome more applications for many of our PhD courses. The most helpful thing you can do for us is to forward this announcement to any PhD program facilitator / administrator at your university or research institution that can help bring out the information to your fellow PhD students, perhaps by using a mailing list. The Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies provides several PhD research courses that aim to cover all of the academic disciplines within the social sciences. You may see the listing of courses offered in 2016 below. ----------------------- FURTHER INFORMATION AND ONLINE APPLICATION FORM: http://www.sv.uio.no/oss/index.html ----------------------- OSLO SUMMER SCHOOL IN COMPARATIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDIES 2016 PhD Courses 25 - 29 July 2016: 1: Case Study Research Methods, Professor Andrew Bennett, Georgetown University, USA. 2: The Theory of Innovative Enterprise, Professor Wiliam Lazonick, The University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA. 3: Elites, Institutions, and Good Societies: A Comparative Perspective, Professor Lena Wängnerud, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 4: Comparative Policy Studies: Theories, Methods, and Emerging Issues, Professor Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Columbia University, New York, USA. 5: The Nordic Welfare State Model in a Comparative and European Perspective, Associate Professor Caroline de la Porte, Roskilde University, Denmark. 6. Religion in the Secular State: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Challenges, Professor Christian Joppke, University of Bern, Switzerland. ----------------------- PhD Courses 1 - 5 August 2016: 7: Madness and Everyday Life, Associate Professor Clara Han, Johns Hopkins University, USA. 8: Data Science for the Social Sciences, Senior Data Scientist Pål Sundsøy, Telenor Research, Norway. 9: Mixed Methods: Towards a Methodological Pluralism, Professor Giampietro Gobo, University of Milan, Italy. 10: Climate Change Adaptation and Transformations towards Sustainability, Professor Karen O'Brien, University of Oslo, Norway. 11. The Politics of the Welfare State in an Era of Reform: Voters, Interest Groups, and Political Responsiveness, Professor Jane Gingrich, University of Oxford, UK. 12. A Journey through Psychology as an Academic Discipline and Cultural Force: Theory, Practice and Critique, Professor Ian Parker, Leicester University, UK. ----------------------- FURTHER INFORMATION AND ONLINE APPLICATION FORM: http://www.sv.uio.no/oss/index.html Best regards, Tron Harald Torneby Coordinator, Oslo Summer School Faculty of Social Sciences University of Oslo P.O.Box 1084 Blindern N-0317 Oslo Norway Phone: +47 22 85 44 49 ******************************************** Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Sciences Studies http://www.sv.uio.no/oss/index.html ********************************************

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New book: Posthumanism and the Massive Open Online Course: Contaminating the Subject of Global Education
by KNOX Jeremy 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

Dear AoIRists, I would like to thank the community for positively shaping my new book with Routledge: Posthumanism and the Massive Open Online Course: Contaminating the Subject of Global Education https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138940826 Feedback from my pecha kucha on stage at IR13 in Manchester, as well as from my paper at IR14 in Denver, was immensely valuable. Please forward to your libraries if interested. Regards New book: Posthumanism and the Massive Open Online Course: Contaminating the Subject of Global Education https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138940826 <http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/education/about-us/people/academic-…>Dr Jeremy Knox<http://www.ed.ac.uk/education/about-us/people/academic-staff/profile.php?pe…> Lecturer in Digital Education Centre for Research in Digital Education<http://www.de.ed.ac.uk/> University of Edinburgh +44 131 651 6347 jeremyknox.net @j_k_knox The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Literature, bibliography and books about APP (mobile applications)
by SU, Chao 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

Dear friends, I am working on my PhD dissertation that focus on mobile apps and the social implications. I am wondering if you have some good literature, bibliography, or books in mind about "app", "app culture", "app economics", and "app conceptualization". I prefer literature in the field of communication and sociology, but other interdisciplinary ones are also appreciated. Thanks a lot! Best regards, Chris Chris CHAO SU Ph.D. Student School of Journalism and Communication The Chinese University of Hong Kong chris_su(a)link.cuhk.edu.hk<mailto:chris_su@link.cuhk.edu.hk> (852)5488-2017

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Visiting Assistant Professor Position at Coker College in New Media/Strategic Communication
by Peter Gloviczki 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

Friends, We are hiring at Coker College. The position is for a Visiting Assistant Professor who is a communication generalist with emphasis in new media and strategic communication. To apply, please visit: < https://coker.edu/hr-jobs/68-jobs-faculty/2624-asst-vist-prof-comm.html>. As Chair of the Search Committee, I am glad to answer any questions off-list. Thanks very much, Peter -- *Peter Joseph Gloviczki, Ph.D.* *Assistant Professor of Communication and Coordinator of the Communication Program* *p* 843-383-8379 | *e* pgloviczki(a)coker.edu 300 E. College Ave. | Hartsville, SC coker.edu | cokercobras.com

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4S Abstracts due Feb 21
by Joan Donovan 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

Headed to 4s this summer? Consider submitting to our track! Infrastructures of Evil: Participation, Collaboration, Maintenance Convenors: Christopher Kelty (UCLA), Joan Donovan (UCLA), Aaron Panofsky (UCLA) Description: Explores the dark side of infrastructure and how participation, collaboration and maintenance can be looked at from the perspective of illegitimacy, inequality, and evil. Papers will address under-researched, unintended or surprising aspects of science, engineering and infrastructures. Submit you paper abstract here: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst_4s2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3975

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4S Abstract due Feb 21
by Joan Donovan 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

Headed to 4s this summer? Consider submitting to our track! Infrastructures of Evil: Participation, Collaboration, Maintenance Convenors: Christopher Kelty (UCLA), Joan Donovan (UCLA), Aaron Panofsky (UCLA) Description: Explores the dark side of infrastructure and how participation, collaboration and maintenance can be looked at from the perspective of illegitimacy, inequality, and evil. Papers will address under-researched, unintended or surprising aspects of science, engineering and infrastructures. Submit you paper abstract here: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst_4s2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3975

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Call for Papers: Rethinking Power in Communicative Capitalism. Critical Perspectives on Media, Culture and Society
by Marisol Sandoval 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

Call for Papers Rethinking Power in Communicative Capitalism. Critical Perspectives on Media, Culture and Society ESA RN18 Mid-Term Conference 2016 Venue: ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Date: September 8-10, 2016 Website: http://esarn18.tumblr.com Keynote Speakers: Jodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY, USA): Communicative capitalism and class struggle Christian Fuchs (University of Westminster, UK): Karl Marx and communicative capitalism Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: May, 15, 2016 Notification of selected abstracts: June, 10, 2016 Conference dates: September 8-10, 2016 Please send your 250-400 words abstract to Romina Surugiu (University of Bucharest) romina.surugiu(a)fjsc.ro, Roy Panagiotopoulou (University of Athens) rpanag(a)media.uoa.gr, and Marisol Sandoval (City University London) marisol.sandoval.1(a)city.ac.uk Call for Papers: The proliferation of digital media in the 21st century has once again shown the deeply ambivalent and contradictory potentials of technological development. Digital technologies have been celebrated for enabling new levels of democratic communication, participatory media production, community building and media activism. From Wikipedia, to open source programming, open access publishing, and peer-to-peer file sharing, we have witnessed the rise of a range of alternative forms of communication and media production that seemed to challenge established media business models and momentarily contested corporate power. However, far from decreasing the dominance of corporate media, the expansion of digital culture, the Internet and social media further strengthened the power of multinational corporations over media culture and human communication. Despite the rhetoric of ‘social’ media, sharing, community and collaboration, the majority of the digital media sphere remains privately owned and controlled. In this corporate media system, multinational corporations maintain almost exclusive control over large parts of the media and communication technology, infrastructure and content. Power in communicative capitalism is uneven and corporate control confronts us with a range of problems such as the systematic surveillance of Internet users, an increasingly commercialised online environment, devastating environmental impacts of the production and usage of media technologies and the global exploitation of digital labour. (Digital) media technologies are deeply entangled with the on-going economic, social, environmental and political crises. Mobilising the empowering qualities of digital technologies and their potential to contribute to progressive social change requires an effective critique of corporate dominance, challenging power inequalities and strengthening radical alternatives. This conference invites contributions that offer a critical analysis of corporate media culture and alternatives to it and thus contribute to rethinking power in communicative capitalism. Questions that can be addressed include, but are not limited to the following ones: - Theorizing communicative capitalism How does power work in communicative capitalism, how can it be theorised and rethought? - Ideology in communicative capitalism What are the main forms of ideology in communicative capitalism and how do they operate in the media? Which forms and approaches of ideology critique do we need to understand them? How are contemporary right-wing extremist, far-right populist, fascist, neoliberal, patriarchal, racist, anti-socialist, pro-capitalist and religious ideologies expressed on the Internet and social media and what are the ways of expressing their petitions for challenging them? - The environmental impact of communicative capitalism What are the environmental impacts of the production of media and communication technologies along global supply chains? What are the environmental impacts of media usage and ‘cloud computing’? What are key drivers of negative environmental impacts and how can they be confronted? - Labour in communicative capitalism How does exploitation and alienation work in communicative capitalism? What is the relation between various forms of digital labour? How do working conditions look like in the global production of media and communication technologies? What are the limits and potentials of a global solidary labour movement in communicative capitalism? How can we best think of the relation between work and communication, labour and profit, the economy and culture? How do we have to rethink or even revise the concepts of the “base” and the “superstructure”? - Marxism and communicative capitalism What is the role, importance and legacy of Karl Marx’s works and Marxist theory in the age of communicative capitalism? - Gender and sexuality in communicative capitalism What is the role of and relationship of identity politics and anti-capitalism for feminist media sociology today? - Global perspectives on communicative capitalism What global power inequalities and asymmetries shape communicative capitalism? - Communicative capitalism and the public sphere How can we best theorise and understand potentials and limits for the mediated public sphere in communicative capitalism? - Media and communicative capitalism How have the media changed in recent years? Are there scopes beyond the capitalist media? How can we best use critical/Marxist political economy and other critical approaches for understanding the media today? What is the role of media and communication technologies in the acceleration and globalization of the capitalist economy? What are the conditions of working in the media, cultural and communication industries in the contemporary times? Who owns the media and ICTs? What are specific characteristics of knowledge and the media as property? - Resisting communicative capitalism What are strategies for left politics to effectively resist and challenge communicative capitalism? What is the role of media activisms today? And the relation between the street activism and the media activism (“Tweets and the streets”…)? And how the unions and other kind of non-governmental associations use the media? How their uses differ from the uses made by the newly social movements? Which are the opportunities and the limits of media activisms? - Alternatives to communicative capitalism What are the problems and post-capitalist potentials of alternative projects such as cultural and media co-operatives, left-wing and radical media projects, alternative social media, alternative online platforms, alternative media, community media projects, commons-based media, peer production projects, etc.? - Communicative capitalism and the common What are the potentials or the common to challenge and offer an alternative to communicative capitalism? How can the threat of co-optation be resisted? - Communicative capitalism and state power How does the relationship of media, communication and state power influence the various forms of regulation, control, repression, violence and surveillance? Abstract submission Submission deadline for abstracts: May, 15, 2016. An abstract should be sent to: Dr. Romina Surugiu (University of Bucharest) romina.surugiu(a)fjsc.ro, Dr. Roy Panagiotopoulou (University of Athens) rpanag(a)media.uoa.gr, and Dr. Marisol Sandoval (City University London) marisol.sandoval.1(a)city.ac.uk Abstracts should be sent as e-mail attachment (250-400 words abstract, title, author name(s), email address, institutional affiliations). Please insert the words “ESARN18 submission” in the subject. Conference fees 80 Euro for ESA RN18 members / 100 Euros for non ESA RN18 members (conference dinner included) 60 Euro for ESA RN18 members / 80 Euros for non ESA RN18 members (without conference dinner) 25 Euro for students (Bachelor and Master) (without conference dinner) / 45 Euros (conference dinner included) The registration details, including the registration form, will be available on the DINÂMIA’CET-IUL website (http://dinamiacet.iscte-iul.pt/) on June 1, 2016. You can become a member of ESA RN18 by joining the ESA and subscribing to the network. The network needs material support, so we encourage you to join or renew your membership. The network subscription fee is only 10 Euros: http://www.europeansociology.org/member/ Participation support for 4 PhD students and/or independent researchers will be available. This will not cover all costs, but part of them (accommodation and full conference fee). Preference will be given to presentations that suit the overall conference topic. If you want to apply for participation support, please indicate this in your abstract submission by adding the sentence “I want to apply for participation support for PhD students / independent researchers”. The notifications about participation support will be sent out together with the notifications of acceptance or rejection of presentations. Additional information to prove your condition as PhD student or independent researcher will be requested. Conference venue The conference will be hosted by ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon http://www.iscte-iul.pt/en/home.aspx ISCTE-IUL is located at Av das Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal http://iscte-iul.pt/en/quem_somos/localizacao.aspx The organisation will be carried on by DINÂMIA’CET-IUL http://dinamiacet.iscte-iul.pt/ The local organising committee is led by Paulo Marques Alves, Assistant Professor at ISCTE-IUL and researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-IUL. The RN18 organising committee is led by Dr. Romina Surugiu, University of Bucharest and Dr. Marisol Sandoval, City University London.

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ACM UMAP 2016 Call for Papers
by Christoph Trattner 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

ACM UMAP 2016 Call for Papers The 24th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 13-17 July 2016 http://www.um.org/umap2016/ (collocated with Hypertext 2016) UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH) conferences that were merged in 2009. It is sponsored by ACM SIG CHI and SIG WEB, and organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc. ACM UMAP 2016 covers a wide variety of research areas where adaptation may be applied. This include (but is in no way limited to) a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation: recommender systems; adaptive educational systems; intelligent user interfaces; eCommerce; advertising; digital humanities; social networks; personalized health; entertainment, and many more. Key Areas: UMAP 2016 will explore, study and shape a broad range of dimensions faced by modern user adaptive systems, covering the following Key Areas chaired by leading researchers. User Modelling for Recommender Systems (Area Chairs: Alexander Felfernig & Pasquale Lops) - Semantic recommenders - Social recommenders - User Experience, Explanations, Trust, Control - Context-aware recommender systems - Conversational recommender systems - Implicit and explicit user feedback - Preference elicitation - Machine learning for recommender systems - Case studies of real-world implementations Adaptive & Personalized Educational Systems (Area Chairs: Antonija Mitrovic & Kalina Yacef) - Learner modeling - Intelligent tutoring systems - Adaptive and personalized learning support - Collaborative and group learning - Emerging environments such as MOOCs and educational games - Educational data mining and learning analytic modeling techniques - Learning at scale Modeling affective, motivational, and metacognitive aspects of learning Case studies of real-world implementations Personalization in the Social Web & Crowdsourcing Era (Area Chairs: Alessandro Bozzon & Harith Alani) - Data-driven approaches and big data techniques - Deep learning for personalization with social and crowd-generated data - Social network analysis - Modeling individuals, groups, and communities - Engagement & sustainability for personalization - User awareness and control - Privacy, perceived security, and trust - Adaptations based on personality, society, and culture - Mining of social media and crowd-generated data - Human computation and machine intelligence for personalization - Harnessing wisdom of the crowd for personalization - Case studies of real-world implementations Adaptive, Intelligent, & Multimodal User Interfaces (Area Chairs: Julien Epps & Hatice Gunes) - Multimodal user models - Natural interaction (speech, language, gestures) - Brain-computer interfaces - Adaptive information visualization - Adaptive hypermedia systems - Adaptive collaboration support - User modeling for special needs - Case studies of real-world implementations Architectures, techniques & methodologies for UMAP (Area Chairs: Stephan Weibelzahl & Mihaela Cocea) - Models of perception, action, cognition, and affect - Neurobiological and physiological models - User experience - Ongoing continuous modeling - Lifewide modeling - Data-driven approaches - Non-standard database representations (networks, graphs) - Sensor networks - Handheld and mobile devices - Standards and specifications - Interoperability, semantics - Evaluation methodologies and metrics - Case studies of real-world implementations Submission Categories and Review Process UMAP 2016 will include high quality peer-reviewed papers related to the above key areas. We welcome original, and principled research papers addressing both the theory and practice of UMAP and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts. Authors will be asked to indicate one or more key areas (from the five listed below) at the time of submission. Submissions should be made into one of two categories - long and short papers as defined below. Long papers (8 pages + references) should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed. Short papers (4 pages + references) should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies, although some form of validation is desirable. Maintaining the high quality and impact of the UMAP series, each paper will be single-blind reviewed by three program committee members and meta-reviewed to present the reviewers' consensual view; the review process will be coordinated by the program chairs in collaboration with the corresponding area chairs. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories but within each category. Papers that receive high scores and are considered promising by reviewers, but didn't make the acceptance cut, will be invited to be resubmitted as posters and/or demos. Submission Details and Publication: Page limits: Long papers - 8 pages + references; Short pages: 4 pages + references. Note that reference do not count towards page limits. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Submissions should be single-blinded, i.e. the authors can have their names in the paper. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG proceedings template and submitted via EasyChair. Submission templates: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Easychair submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2016 Accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference by May 1, 2016 for the paper to be included in the proceedings. Authors are expected to attend the conference and present the paper there. Important Dates: 23 February 2016: Abstracts for Full and Short Papers (mandatory) 1 March 2016: Full and Short Papers due 25 March 2016: Doctoral Consortium (DC) papers 15 April 2016: Notification for Full, Short and DC papers 1 May 2016: Camera-ready for Full, Short and DC papers (main proceedings) Author Registration Deadline for main proceedings 7 May 2016: Workshop Papers, Posters & Demos, Late-Breaking Results (LBR) 1 June 2016: Notification of Workshop Papers, Posters & Demos, LBR papers 7 June 2016: Camera-ready for Workshop papers & Demos, LBR papers (extended proceedings) Early Registration Deadline (author registration for extended proceedings) 12 July 2016: Regular Registration Deadline 13-17 July 2016: UMAP 2016 Conference On-site Registration The submissions times are 11:59 pm Hawaii time. Organization: General Chairs: Julita Vassileva and James Blustein Program Chairs: Lora Aroyo and Sidney DíMello Workshop Chairs: Federica Cena and Jie Zhang Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Vania Dimitrova and Maria Bielikova Posters and Demos Chairs: Darina Dicheva and Michel Desmarais Publicity Chairs: Christoph Trattner and Denis Parra Conference Website http://www.um.org/umap2016/ Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Lada Adamic (Facebook) and Sandra Carberry (University of Delaware). -- ------------------------------------------------------- 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 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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