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CfP: One-day workshop on online commitment to collective action
by Mercea, Dan 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

Call for Papers: 'I Will if You Will, Too': Conditional Commitment in Collective Action Research Workshop 3 June 2016, City University London Deadline for Submissions: 25 April 2016 http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/international-politics/research/… This one day workshop convenes academics, activists and political practitioners investigating the potential and consequences of new-social and technological-participatory designs. The main focus of the meeting will be on conditional commitment (CC), a theoretical and practical solution to the perennial collective action problem that the attainment of a collective good by otherwise autonomous individuals is most likely to happen when everyone knows that everyone else will also act. As a collective action is proposed, conditional commitments to act are made. The action only takes place once a critical mass of commitments are made. Conditional commitment represents a new "digital" syndicalism-citizens, organising outside the walls of the state, challenging political power via digitalised collective aggregation. What excites a small but growing number of academics and political practitioners is the new viability of this mechanism afforded by the collapse of the transaction costs in the three way communication needed for this process to take place: the naming of the target critical mass; conditional commitments to that target; informing that the target has been reached. While in the analogue age the costs of this communication over a dispersed space were prohibitive, with social media technology space and time constraints are effectively removed. Some specific questions to be considered are: How can conditional commitment, which is now well established in the economic and cultural sphere (e.g. Groupon and Kickstarter), be effectively transferred to the political realm? Is conditional commitment subject to its own cultural collective action problem - people do not know about it and therefore do not use it - and how can be this be overcome? What are the potentialities of hybrid models which combine offline and online communication of CC to lever collective action? The use of face to face canvassing to tell people about the target critical mass was piloted in the recent UCL rent strike in London by one of the workshop organisers (http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jan/25/london-students-refuse-to-…) What are the various applications of CC in the contemporary political field, in social and community relations, culture and the creative industries and how can they be promoted with a view to creating a more equitable and just society? We invite 250 word abstracts that outline academic research, practical examples or case-studies as well as experience-led assessments of these and related questions. Abstracts should be emailed to Roger Hallam at roger.hallam(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:roger.hallam@kcl.ac.uk> . Proposals will be evaluated on a rolling basis. The deadline for submission is 25 April. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out at the earliest opportunity and no later than 9 May 2016. Organisers: Roger Hallam (King's College London, roger.hallam(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:roger.hallam@kcl.ac.uk>) Dan Mercea (City University London, dan.mercea.1(a)city.ac.uk<mailto:dan.mercea.1@city.ac.uk>) Matt Wall (University of Swansea, M.T.Wall(a)swansea.ac.uk) Dan Mercea Sociology, City University London St John Street, EC1V 0HB +44(0)2070404529 http://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/dan-mercea iCS Special Issue Protest Communication Ecologies http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/19/3

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Information, Communication and Society featuring the best of AoIR in 2015 is available
by Megan Finn 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

Dear AIR-L, It is our pleasure to announce that a special issue of Information, Communication and society featuring articles from AoIR in 2015 (IR16) is now available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/19/6 The special issue includes the following pieces -- please check them out! "The work that visualisation conventions do" by Helen Kennedy, Rosemary Lucy Hill, Giorgia Aiello & William Allen http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1153126 "Impediment to insight to innovation: understanding data assemblages through the breakdown–repair process" by Anissa Tanweer, Brittany Fiore-Gartland & Cecilia Aragon http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1153125 "Internet control points as LGBT rights mediation" by Laura DeNardis & Andrea M. Hackl http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1153123 "(B)Locked sites: cases of Internet use in three British prisons" by Bianca C. Reisdorf & Yvonne Jewkes http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1153124 "Bot-based collective blocklists in Twitter: the counterpublic moderation of harassment in a networked public space" by R. Stuart Geiger http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1153700 "Introduction: Imagining the Internet" by Megan Finn & Ben Light - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1153126 We appreciate the excellent authors featured in this issue for meeting short deadlines. And a hearty thanks to the AoIR conference organizers and the community for another great conference! Sincerely, Megan Finn and Ben Light > >Megan Finn > >megfinn(a)uw.edu >206.221.1432 > >University of Washington >The Information School >Mary Gates Hall, Suite 370 >Box 352840 >Seattle, WA 98195-2840 > >www.meganfinn.org >

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Reminder: Kevin Driscoll & Lana Swartz April 1, talk in Aarhus
by Annette Markham 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

Hi All, with the usual apologies for crossposting, here's a reminder of the upcoming lecture by fellow AoIR members Kevin Driscoll & Lana Swartz, who are visiting Aarhus University from Microsoft Research New England. If you're in the area, drop by for their talk this Friday! Friday April 1, 2016 14:00-16:00, INCUBA building, Large Auditorium Aarhus University, Aabogade 15, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark *Title: Reinventing the past and future of taken-for-granted media infrastructures* *Abstract: *The stories that we tell about the past shape our expectations for the future. The media infrastructures that undergird our everyday lives are sustained by origin stories and tales about the past. Well-known narratives about the origin of our media ecologies tend to feature particular people, places, technologies, and institutions while obscuring the contributions of others. In particular, this lecture will focus on technologies-- payment systems and social media-- that most of us use many times a day without giving them much thought. By interrogating the myths around these taken-for-granted systems, we bring alternative narratives to the surface. Amid the messy terrain of dead ends, paths-not-taken, and missed opportunities, a space of possibility is opened for imagining new futures. *Lana Swartz* (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and, beginning Fall 2016, an assistant professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Most of her research is about money and other communication technologies. She has written about the complicated politics of Bitcoin, the history of the credit card, and perpetually emergent cashless society. *Kevin Driscoll* (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England. His research concerns the popular and political cultures of networked personal computing with special attention to myths about internet infrastructure. He recently completed a dissertation tracing the pre-history of social media through the dial-up bulletin board systems of the 1980s and 1990s. Currently, he is writing a cultural history of Minitel. http://cc.au.dk/…/friday-lecture-reinventing-the-past-and-…/ <http://cc.au.dk/en/news-and-events/event/artikel/friday-lecture-reinventing…> 14:00-16:00, Friday, April 1, 2016 Store Auditorium, INCUBA, Aarhus University, Aabogade 15 Best Regards, annette ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Professor MSO, School of Communication & Culture, Aarhus University Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham(a)gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 140, Issue 28
by ralf.friedrich＠gepros.com 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, bis zum 10. April 2016 befinde ich mich im Ausland. Meine E-Mails werden in dieser Zeit nicht weitergeleitet und nur unregelmäßig gelesen. In dringenden Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an meine Assistentin, Sandra Müller (Mail: sandra.mueller(a)gepros.com, Mobil: +49 151 46641253). Vielen Dank für Ihr Verständnis! Schöne Grüße, Ralf Friedrich ________________________________________ Dear Sir or Madam, Thank you for your message. I am currently out of the office and will be back on 10 April. Your e-mail will not be forwarded. I will answer it when I am back. For urgent matters please contact Sandra Müller (Mail: sandra.mueller(a)gepros.com, Mobile: +49 151 46641253). Thank you for your understanding. Sincerely yours, Ralf Friedrich

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Fwd: ICTD2016 - Call for Participation
by Heather Horst 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

[Please forward to relevant groups. Apologies for cross-posting.] Registration <http://ictd2016.info/registration> is now open for the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2016), June 3-6: http://ictd2016.info/registration. ICTD2016 features an exciting program with 26 Papers presented in plenary sessions, 36 Notes presented as posters, 32 interactive Open Sessions, and two incredible keynotes: Deepak Mishra is co-director of the World Bank's 2016 World Development Report: Digital Dividends; and Tererai Trent is the Drexel University global health professor featured in "Half the Sky" who began her adult life as a rural Zimbabwean mother of three with no formal education. The conference schedule is available at http://ictd2016.info/schedule/. Recommendations for accommodations, with discounted rates are available at http://ictd2016.info/accommodations/. Book early, as the rooms being held will be released in late April / early May. Early registration <http://ictd2016.info/registration> will close on April 30, so register early! Note also that standard registration will end on May 30, several days before the conference; on-site registration is extremely expensive, so we encourage you to register in advance. If you have any problems or questions, please send an email to ictd2016info(a)umich.edu. See you in Ann Arbor! Kentaro Toyama ICTD2016 General Chair University of Michigan School of Information http://ictd2016.info

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WEBCAST TUE-FRI: South School on Internet Governance 2016 #SSIGOAS
by Joly MacFie 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

We are most of the way through day one, but there's plenty to go. Vint's opening keynote is superb. joly posted: "From Tuesday March 29 to Friday April 1 2016 the Eighth South School on Internet Governance (SSIG) will be held at the Organization of American States (OAS) Headquarters in Washington, DC. The main objective of the South School on Internet Governance is t" [image: SSIG 2016]From *Tuesday March 29 to Friday April 1 2016* the *Eighth South School on Internet Governance <http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/> *(SSIG) will be held at the Organization of American States (OAS) Headquarters in Washington, DC. The main objective of the South School on Internet Governance is to train new leaders of opinion in all aspects related with Internet Governance, from a global perspective and with focus on the Latin America and Caribbean Region. The program trains university and postgraduate students from the region and from the rest of the world in understanding the complexity related with Internet Governance and its importance in the future of the Internet. Speakers include *Vint Cerf*, *Veni Markovski*, *Raquel Gatto*, *Larry Strickling*, *John Curran*, *Bill Drake*, and *Danny Sepulveda*. The entire event will be *webcast <http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/>* in both English and Spanish. The English version will be relayed and archived on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ssigoas>*. *What: Eighth South School on Internet Governance <http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/> (SSIG)* * Where: Organization of American States (OAS) HQ,Washington, DC* * When: Tuesday March 29 to Friday April 1 2016* * Agenda: http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SSIG_schedule.… <http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SSIG_schedule.…>* * Webcast: http://livestre.am/5l2tN <http://livestre.am/5l2tN> (English relay / archive)* * http://original.livestream.com/oasspanish2 <http://original.livestream.com/oasspanish2> (spanish)* * Twitter: #SSIGOAS https://twitter.com/hashtag/SSIGOAS <https://twitter.com/hashtag/SSIGOAS>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8390#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8390#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8390 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Call for Abstracts: Boston University, Dept. of Emerging Media Studies
by Bonnie Dickson 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Hi Everyone, The graduate students at Boston University's Department of Emerging Media are pleased to announce our second annual #Screentime conference <http://sites.bu.edu/demsconference/> on Emerging Media. We're calling for abstracts across multiple fields. Information is below. Please pass along to any interested parties. Cheers, *CALL FOR ABSTRACTS* *#SCREENTIME: Technological Affordances and Constraints in Mediated Life* *GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE* *Deadline for Abstracts* May 1, 2016 *Conference Date* June 23, 2016 Boston University College of Communication 9am - 5pm The graduate students of Boston University’s Division of Emerging Media Studies are calling for abstracts for their second annual Conference on Emerging Media. <http://sites.bu.edu/demsconference/> #Screentime aims to explore the social, emotional, and civic implications of today’s media landscape. Social forces and technological elements are driving changes in this developing field of study. This conference is an opportunity to bridge diverse perspectives on the roles of users and technology in new media, and will lay the groundwork for future research. Emerging Media Studies is an inherently interdisciplinary field, and as such we welcome abstracts from a variety of perspectives and disciplines on a range of topics, including but not limited to: - Civility, sub-cultures, and online discourse - Uses and effects of mobile communication technologies - Digital distribution and industry disruption - Data mining of social networks - Emerging technologies’ effects on users - Video games and virtual worlds - Digital communication and public health The conference is free of charge to both presenters and attendees. This conference is aimed at graduate students to showcase their research, and as an opportunity to network with peers. *Deadline for Abstracts: *May 1, 2016. Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words. Papers will be peer reviewed. To submit, please send an e-mail of your abstract to demsconf(a)bu.edu. Include your name and institutional affiliation (department/university), program and year of study, research focus/interests, and contact information (email and phone number) with all submissions. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance on a rolling basis no later than June 1, 2016. For additional information, visit, http://sites.bu.edu/demsconference/. -- *Division of Emerging Media Studies* Boston University, College of Communication Twitter: @DEMSatBU <https://twitter.com/DEMSatBU> Website: #Screentime <http://sites.bu.edu/demsconference/> -- *Bonnie Dickson*Division of Emerging Media Studies BU College of Communication cell: 209-915-4695 e-mail: bkd(a)bu.edu *“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.” H.S. Thompson*

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CfP - conference: Fomenting political Violence - Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, Essex University, 9-10 Sept. 2016
by Steffen Krueger 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Dear colleagues, here a Call for Papers that I hope will be of interest to many of you! *Fomenting political violence – Phantasy, Language, Media, Action.* A two-day international conference at the *Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, * *University of Essex*, UK, September 9 – 10 2016, in co-operation with * Bournemouth University* and the *University of Oslo* (UiO), Norway. Steffen Krueger, postdoc and lecturer, Dept. of Media and Communication, University of Oslo Karl Figlio, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. Barry Richards, Professor of Political Psychology, Bournemouth University. This two-day conference invites researchers from a wide range of disciplines to address the relationship between phantasy, language, media and action. Do language and phantasy feed into one another, especially in the contemporary mediascape, fostering an extremist mentality that foments violent political action? And, if so, how can we understand the relationship between action on the one side, and phantasy and language in their specific forms of mediation on the other? Although it is difficult to establish causal links between, for example, racist slurs and racist violence, we can nevertheless observe how increases in ethnocentric, xenophobic and fundamentalist speech in online forums and on social networking sites go together with increases in right-extremist criminal acts, as is presently the case in Germany. Various traditions of research into prejudice, extremism, violence and the media have taken different routes in conceptualising the links between the above concepts. Discourse analysis, for example, has pointed to the subtle ways in which language use can help make symbolic violence permissible. Social psychology, and especially the social identity tradition, has shown how typical tendencies in group dynamics suggest certain fault lines for larger-scale political behaviour. Media effect studies, in turn, have suggested a string of concepts based on social-psychological work, such as “uses-and-gratifications”, the “spiral of silence”, “agenda setting”, and “frame theory”, which can be instrumental in conceiving how people’s construction of reality, facilitated by media, might lead to widely held dispositions for the legitimation of socio-political action and/or the restraining and containing of such action. Although there is a substantial psychoanalytic literature on prejudice, ethnic and religious hatred, and fundamentalism, there is little on the process of fomenting violence, which moves from phantasy through language into action. With a view to intervening in and advancing the above traditions, the conference invites papers inquiring into how psychoanalysis can help understand the build-up to eruptions of violence. How can conceptions of sociality, relationality, divisiveness, exclusion and affect, developed in various psychoanalytic traditions, shed light on the often invisible ties that link what we do to what we feel, imagine, hear, see, read or say – or to an atmosphere of extremism? Can psychoanalysis contribute to deliberations around policy and practice in relation to freedom of speech, ‘hate speech’ and media regulation, as well as foster a sensitivity to implied prejudice in everyday encounters? The attempt to gain a more rounded, situated and dialectical way to understand these phenomena suggests ‘scenic’ methodology, for which the work of Alfred Lorenzer – a psychoanalytic-social theorist not well known in the English-speaking world – is central. We plan to reserve one session to explore his work, but we invite you imaginatively to address the full range of issues relevant to the topic of the conference. We encourage an open, exploratory manner and look forward to engaging discussions. *Indicative **fields of research include*: - Psychodynamics and social dynamics of political violence, and their enmeshment / co-constitution. - Spaces, scopes and fields of action. - Gendered forms / gender dynamics. - Media discourses / media performances. - (Symbolic) interactions. - Internal and external worlds. - Freedom of expression vs blasphemy and prejudice. - -isms, -phobias and psychopathologies. - Methodological and/or theoretical reflections. - Researching across cultures. - Historical studies. - Humiliation and violence. - Violence and purification. - Bystanders and collusion with political violence. - Psychotic realities: Paranoia and delusions of threat. - Hate speech and hate actions. If you would like to offer a paper to the conference, relating to the above fields or to other aspects of the overall conference theme, please send an abstract of 300-400 words to: *cpsfv(a)essex.ac.uk <cpsfv(a)essex.ac.uk>* Deadline for abstract submission: May 15, 2016. (Delegates are informed about the inclusion of their papers within two weeks from the deadline.) Conference fee is £150 (£100 for students and unemployed). Affordable accommodation is available on campus. If you have questions regarding the conference or call for papers, please write to: steffen.krueger(a)media.uio.no. *Booking your place at the conference: * *http://www.essex.ac.uk/online_shop/cps/events.aspx* <http://www.essex.ac.uk/online_shop/cps/events.aspx> *Book your on campus accommodation here: **https://kx.essex.ac.uk/BnB/* <https://kx.essex.ac.uk/BnB/> *Promotional code: CPS2016* -- Steffen Krüger, PhD lecturer and postdoctoral researcher Dept. of Media and Communication University of Oslo Forskningsparken II Gaustadalléen 21 0349 OSLO Norway skype: steff.krueger mob. 0047 4580 6466

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An open invitation to Inauguration Lectures by Annette Markham & Peter Lauritsen
by Annette Markham 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Dear Colleagues, If you're around Aarhus, Denmark on April 7th, we extend an open invitation to the inagural lectures of Annette Markham and Peter Lauritsen, marking our appointments as Professors MSO at Aarhus University's Department of Information Studies. Our short talks will be followed by a celebration reception: Thursday 7, April, 2016 14.00-16.00 Peter Bogh Andersen Auditorium Nygaard Building (5335), Finlandsgade 21, 8100 AARHUS N A celebration reception will begin around 16:00 in the open area outside the auditorium. http://cc.au.dk/fileadmin/dac/Forskning/Invitation-Tiltraedelsesforelaesnin… *Annette Markham: * *Future Making: A case for ethnographic research as ethical intervention* Why train people to become ethnographers of their own digital lived experience? Why shift from the question of ’What is going on here?’ to a future ori-ented speculative research that asks ’What might we become’? This talk addresses the ethical value and methodological challenges of shifting one’s purpose from description to intervention in an era that conti-nues to intertwine human experience with Internet technologies. (40 minute lecture will be given in English) *Peter Lauritsen:* *Overvågning efter 1984: totalitarisme, velfærd og en empirisk overvågningsforskning* Det er billedet af Big Brother, som holder øje med os fra toppen af samfundspyramiden, der har domi-neret overvågningsdebatten og til en vis grad også forskningen i de sidste mange år. Men billedet er begrænsende. Overvågning gennemtrænger vores hverdagsliv, og er således også knyttet til omsorg og underholdning – og det er et helt fundamentalt kendetegn ved vores velfærdssamfund. At få disse aspekter til at træde frem kræver imidlertid en forsk-ning, som ikke på forhånd har bestemt sig til, hvad overvågning er og hvilke konsekvenser den har. Der er med andre ord brug for en stærk analytisk og må-ske endda eksperimentel overvågningsforskning. (40 minute lecture will be given in Danish) Best Regards, and hope to see some of you Danish colleagues there, annette

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Fw: ICT 2016: request to PC members for call dissemination
by A. MARTURANO 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students CALL FOR PAPERS ICT 2016 - Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 15 April 2016 -- 9th International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings 2016 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 1 - 3 July 2016 (http://www.ict-conf.org/) Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2016) Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 1 - 4 July 2016 (http://www.mccsis.org) * Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Professor emerita Gunilla Bradley, Informatics, School of ICT, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden * Conference Scope The effects of ICT on human beings as well as the interaction between ICT, individuals, and society are all within the focus of this conference. Both analyses of interactions and effects are important. Changes in behaviour, perspectives, values, competencies, human and psychological aspects and feelings are all of interest. Reflections on past, present, and future challenges - especially planning to handle the future - are encouraged. The conference pays attention to societal changes, global and more local organisational and institutional changes, changes in values and in lifestyles, as well as individual cognitive effects and changes, motivational and emotional changes. It also appeals to solution-building in terms of desirable goals and actions for reaching a Good Information Society. In general all types of research strategies are encouraged, and especially cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary studies. Case studies, broader empirical field studies, theoretical analyses, cross-cultural studies, scenarios, ethnographic studies, epistemological analyses may all be presented. For more details please check http://www.ict-conf.org/call-for-papers . * Paper Submission This is a blind peer-reviewed conference. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English through the conference submission system by April 15, 2016. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously. * Important Dates: - Submission Deadline (2nd call): 15 April 2016 - Notification to Authors (2nd call): 13 May 2016 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call): Until 6 June2016 - Late Registration (2nd call): After 6 June 2016 * Paper Publication The papers will be published in book and electronic format with ISBN, will be made available through the Digital Library available at http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/showsearch. The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation by IET's INSPEC, Elsevier, EI Compendex, Scopus, Thomson Reuters Web of Science, EBSCO and other important indexing services. The best papers will be selected for publishing as extended versions in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers. * Conference Contact: E-mail: secretariat(a)ict-conf.org Web site: http://www.ict-conf.org/ * Organized by: International Association for Development of the Information Society * Registered participants in the ICT, Society and Human Beings conference may attend the other conferences part of MCCSIS 2016 free of charge.

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