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CFP: Special issue of Social Media + Society – Infancy Online
by Tama Leaver 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

Dear colleagues, Special Issue of Social Media + Society http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202332 Infancy Online Eds Tama Leaver (Curtin University) and Bjorn Nansen (University of Melbourne) >From the sharing of ultrasound photos on social media onward, the capturing and communicating of babies’ lives online is an increasingly ordinary and common part of everyday digitally mediated life. Online affordances can facilitate the instantaneous sharing and joys of a first smile, first steps and first word spoken to globally distributed networks of family, friends and publics. Equally, from pregnancy tracking apps to baby cameras hidden inside cuddly toys, infants are also subject to an unprecedented intensification of surveillance practices. Reflecting both of these contexts, there is a growing set of questions about the presence, participation and politics of infants in online networks. This special issue seeks to explore these questions in terms of the online spaces in which infants are present; the forms of online participation enabled for and curated on behalf of infants, and the range of political implications raised by infants’ digital data and its traces, for both their present and future lives. Ideally papers will focus on the impact of digital technologies and networked culture on pre-birth, birth and the early years of life, along with related changes and challenges to parenthood and similar domains. Possible areas of focus include, but are by no means limited to: • Social media and infant presence and profiles • Cultural and national specificities of infant media use and presence • Digital media in the everyday lives of young children • The app economy, and capture of infant attention • “Mommy blogs,” and online curation • Identity and impression management • Ethics, persistence and the right to be forgotten • Geographies of infant media use • Infant interfaces and hardware • Cultural responses to parenting, “oversharing”, privacy and surveillance • Erasure of maternal bodies in digitising infancy • Apps and services targeting infants as a consumer market Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted to both Tama Leaver t.leaver(a)curtin.edu.au and Bjorn Nansen nansenb(a)unimelb.edu.au by Friday, 1 April. Where appropriate, please nominate an author for correspondence. On the basis of these short abstracts, invitations to submit full papers (of no more than 8000 words) will then be sent out by 15 April 2016. Full papers will be due by 1 July 2016, and will undergo the usual Social Media + Society review procedure. Please note that an invitation to submit a full paper for review does not guarantee paper acceptance. -- Dr Tama Leaver Senior Lecturer in Internet Studies Faculty of Humanities, MCCA, Curtin University GPO Box U1987 Perth WA Australia 6845 Ph: (+61 8) 9266 1258 Fax: (+61 8) 9266 3166 Email: t.leaver(a)curtin.edu.au Web: www.tamaleaver.net Twitter: @tamaleaver CRICOS Provider Code: 00301J (WA) 02637B (NSW)

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Postgraduate workshop in Digital Sociology, 26-27 May, Manchester, UK
by Adi Kuntsman 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

Are you curious about Digital Sociology? Consider, oralready conducting, a postgraduate study on the subject?Want to explore the relations between Data, Society and theSelf? Want to meet digital sociologists?Come and enjoy two days of roundtables, masterclasses, aresearch workshop and a keynote, with experts from Manchester MetropolitanUniversity and further afield. The workshop is aimed at postgraduate students but is open to all. 26-27 May 2016, The Shed, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityOrganised by Tom Brock, Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake,Digital Transformations Research Network, MMU Keynote: Prof. Patricia Clough, CUNY Speakers:Dr. Tom Brock, Department of Sociology, MMUDr. Mark Carrigan, Centre for Social Ontology, Department ofSociology, Warwick UniversityDr. EJ Gonzales-Polledo, Department of Methodology, LSEDr. Adi Kuntsman, Department of Languages, Information andCommunications, MMUDr. Esperanza Miyake, Department of Languages, Informationand Communications, MMU Funding available for free attendanceFurther details and registration herehttps://sites.google.com/site/digitalsociologyworkshop/home

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DiGRA/FDG First Joint International Conference – Registration Open
by Kathryn Slater 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

DiGRA/FDG First Joint International Conference – Registration Open For the first time, the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA <http://www.digra.org/>) and the Foundations of Digital Games conferences (FDG <http://www.foundationsofdigitalgames.org/>) will join together in an unprecedented gathering of games researchers. Hosted by Abertay University <http://www.abertay.ac.uk/> in Dundee, Scotland, this first joint conference will take place August 1 – 6, 2016. Registration is now open for this landmark exchange of ideas for academics and educators within games research! Visit the conference website <http://digra-fdg2016.org/> to book now! Kathryn Slater Senior Events Producer on behalf of the DiGRA/FDG Local Organising Committee speakeasy mobile: 07900 274548 kathryn.slater(a)speak.co.uk <mailto:jonathan@speak.co.uk> www.speak.co.uk <http://www.speak.co.uk/> Wildwood House, Stanley, Perth, PH1 4PX t: 01738 828524 10 Old Tolbooth Wynd, Calton Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8EQ t: 0131 557 1288 28 St Johns Square, London, EC1M 4DN t: 0207 336 6066

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ACM IUI 2016: Late registration deadline tomorrow (March 2nd)
by Denis Parra 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

ACM IUI 2016 late registration deadline is tomorrow, March 2nd. Don't miss it! http://iui.acm.org/2016/attending.html ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- ACM IUI 2016: ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------- Sonoma, CA, USA March 7 - 10, 2016 http://iui.acm.org/ The time for this year's IUI conference is fast approaching and a few seats are still open to attend the conference and learn about the latest advances in intelligent user interfaces! We have a fantastic program headlined by 2 keynotes and featuring 49 long and short papers, 21 demos and posters, and the presentation of several recently published papers from TiiS. See the full program here: http://iui.acm.org/2016/program.html Unfortunately, the early registration deadline has passed, but we are now offering one-day registrations for those on a budget! For info on the conference location and how to register, please visit: http://iui.acm.org/2016/attending.html We look forward to seeing you in Sonoma, CA! Jeffrey Nichols, Jalal Mahmud, John O'Donovan General Chairs, IUI 2016 Denis Alejandro Parra Santander Profesor Asistente, DCC Escuela de Ingeniería, PUC Chile +56 (2) 2354-4442 http://web.ing.puc.cl/~dparra/

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the ischool @telecom-bretagne, France, is hiring an Associate Professor in the field of Social science (Digital economy, platforms, quantitative analysis)
by Nicolas Jullien 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Hello, and sorry for cross-posting. this email to inform you that we are opening a position of Associate Professor @ Telecom Bretagne (French public school of Engineering and iSchool). speaking French is not compulsory (course can be taught in English). Details here: http://www.telecom-bretagne.eu/about/recruitment/job-offers/ap-social-scien… Application deadline : April, 29, 2016 (midnight, CET) Interview dates : May, 30 2016 Contact: me or the head of department, philippe.lenca(a)telecom-bretagne.eu Nicolas Jullien -- Maître de Conférences (HDR) / Associate Professor. LUSSI - iSchool, M@rsouin-ICI. Institut Mines-Télécom Bretagne & UBL In charge of the Master "Information Systems Project Management and Consulting" http://www.telecom-bretagne.eu/studies/msc/information-systems-management/ Co-animator of the "ICT and Society" Institut Mines-Telecom's research network https://nicolasjullien.wp.mines-telecom.fr/ Skype: Nicolas.Jullien1 Tel +33 (0) 229 001 245 Télécom Bretagne, Technopôle Brest Iroise CS 83818 29238 BREST CEDEX 3

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Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems summer research institute
by Haythornthwaite, Caroline 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

For doctoral students and early career faculty. For questions, please contact Steve Sawyer (ssawyer(a)syr.edu<mailto:ssawyer@syr.edu>). The Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST) Calls for Participation in the 2016 Summer Research Institute When: 27 June to 1 July, 2016 Where: Skamania Lodge, Stevenson WA (one hour east of Portland, OR) To learn more about the venue, see: http://www.skamania.com<http://www.skamania.com/>. Deadline: Apply by 29 March, 2016, notifications by end of April, 2016 Personal health and well-being; open innovation, eScience, and citizen science; co-production, open source, and new forms of work; cultural heritage and information access; energy management and climate change; civic hacking, engagement and government; disaster response; cybersecurity and privacy; education and learning – these are just a few problem domains where effective design and robust understanding of complex sociotechnical systems are critical. To meet these challenges, a trans-disciplinary community has come together, drawing in scholars from intellectual communities such as CSCW, HCI, social computing, organization studies, information visualization, social informatics, sociology, information systems, medical informatics, computer science, ICT for development, education, learning science, journalism, and political science. Through Summer Research Institutes, extended workshops, preconference workshops, and other activities, this community of researchers from academia and industry has developed a strong focus on problems and opportunities arising from the interplay of social and technological systems that span individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. For 2016, we are delighted to have commitments from the following scholars who will serve as mentors. We anticipate that several other scholars will join this group: Jenna Burrell (Berkeley) Sue Fussell (Cornell) Tom Erickson (IBM) Erik Johnston (Arizona) Carsten Oesterlund (Syracuse) John Sherry (Intel) Magy Seif El-Nasr (Northeastern) Lynnette Yarger (Penn State) The 2016 Summer Research Institute builds on and extends this tradition to strengthen and expand this diverse community by bringing together graduate students, post-doctoral students, faculty, and other researchers in three groups: Doctoral students, post-doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers – Mentoring, peer networking, and skill-building tutorials will help doctoral students, post-doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers identify substantive ways that the theories, approaches, and tools within the larger community can advance their work with the design and study of sociotechnical systems. Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams – Groups of researchers seeking to develop cross-disciplinary collaborations will work with mentors to refine problem statements and research goals; connect with collaborators with complementary skills and interests; and create actionable research agendas and funding proposals. Preference will be given to groups interested in designing and studying sociotechnical systems that address societal grand challenges such as (but not limited to) healthcare; energy management and climate change; cybersecurity and privacy; education and learning; disaster response; technology development and innovation; economic development and work; and civic engagement and participation. Research infrastructure development teams – Groups of researchers interested in creating computational or analytic tools, data resources, training materials, or other infrastructure to support the design and study of sociotechnical systems will come together to work on new challenges. These infrastructure “hackathon” sessions will result in community resources such as use cases, prototypes, draft materials, and deployable systems. Applying for CSST 2016 Summer Research Institute We encourage applications from all academic, industry, NGO, and public sector organizations worldwide. To apply for the 2015 Summer Research Institute, select the group that best fits your needs and situation: Doctoral students, post-doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers should send their CV and a short (up to 300 words) response to the question “How does/will your work advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?” Include three relevant references to situate your work within the larger research community. Doctoral students should have completed their dissertation proposal prior to attending and should seek a letter of recommendation from their advisor/department chair indicating their expected graduation date as well as how the CSST Summer Research Institute will advance their scholarship. Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (up to 500 words) response to these questions: “What is the research focus/problem domain? What types of activities/studies are needed to engage that domain? How will pursuing this agenda help advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?” Include references and potential funding sources, if known, to situate the proposal within the larger research community. Your team may have from three to six people. Preference will be given to cross-institutional teams in which junior/mid-career researchers play significant leadership roles. Research infrastructure development teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (up to 500 words)) response to these questions: “What is the problem you are seeking to address? What will you do to address that problem? How will creating these technologies, tools, materials or infrastructure improve our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?” Include references to examples from other domains, if possible, to situate your proposal. Your team may have from three to six people from multiple disciplines and institutions. Lodging, meals, and other onsite costs will be covered for all Summer Research Institute participants. Limited travel support is available, if needed, for participants from US institutions (with preference given to doctoral and post-doctoral students). To be considered for all available financial support you should provide the following information when you apply: * What college or university do you attend? * What is your primary department affiliation? Send your application materials to Summer Research Institute Co-Director Steve Sawyer at ssawyer(a)syr.edu<mailto:diane.bailey@ischool.utexas.edu> by 29 March, 2016. The CSST Summer Research Institute Advisory Group will review applications beginning 2 April, 2016 using the following criteria: * Clear articulation of the hoped-for contribution to the theory, practice, or design of sociotechnical systems * Likelihood of Summer Research Institute participation providing significant practical benefit for the individual/team * Contribution to a balanced and diverse group of participants The number of participants we select will depend on the available funding and the fit between applicants’ interests and CSST goals. We expect to share out invitations by late April, 2016. For more information about the Summer Research Institute, contact the Steve Sawyer (ssawyer(a)syr.edu<mailto:ssawyer@syr.edu>). For information about the broader community of researchers interested in design and study of sociotechnical systems, see: CSST (www.sociotech.net<http://www.sociotech.net/>), the “Researchers of the Socio-Technical” Facebook group, or the CSST listserv (csst(a)listserv.syr.edu<mailto:csst@listserv.syr.edu>).

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Recent data on digital media/internet studies in higher education
by Julian Hopkins 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Dear All, does anyone know of a good resource to get an overview of the following: * Postgraduate and undergraduate courses that address the internet and digital media * Publications in the field - social science and internet * Numbers of postgraduate dissertations that address the internet/new media Any kind of general statistics would be useful. I keep seeing new Masters in varying forms of digital/internet studies, etc., and I'm wondering if anyone has come across a resource or article summing up recent developments in this area. Thanks for any help Julian --- *DR JULIAN HOPKINS* Lecturer in Communication School of Arts & Social Sciences Building 2, Level 6, Room 16 (2-6-16) Monash University Malaysia Jalan Lagoon Selatan 47500 Bandar Sunway Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia T: +60 3 5514 4920 E: julian.hopkins(a)monash.edu W: sass.monash.edu.my <http://www.sass.monash.edu.my/>

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