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Culture and politics of data visualisation: a one-day conference, 11th October 2016, University of Sheffield
by Helen 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

*Culture and politics of data visualisation: a one-day conference, 11th October 2016, University of Sheffield* * *As data become more and more abundant, the main way that most people get access to them is through their visualisation. To date, much academic research about data visualisation has focused on individualistic and micro-level factors like memorability and speed of comprehension and has not attended to the social, cultural, political work that visualisations do, the contexts in which they circulate, and the mutually constitutive relationships between visualisations and their contexts. More recently, critical perspectives have begun to emerge, which point to the ways in which visualisations can privilege certain viewpoints, perpetuate existing power relations or create new ones, and play a role in the generation and modification of knowledge, cognition, perceptions of objectivity and opaque forms of governance and control. These critiques exist alongside the apparently contradictory belief that data visualisations are a way of 'doing good with data', making data transparent and accessible and so enabling greater inclusion in data-driven conversations and societies. This one-day conference addresses the culture and politics of data visualisation, brings critical thought into dialogue with the practice and potential of visualising data and considers how they might inform each other. In this way, it is neither a 'show & tell' nor a critique of datavis as ideologically implicated, but a space for productive exchange between critical thinking and datavis practice. We invite you to join us to consider these questions: * How do data visualisations get made, used, circulated and consumed, and what are the implications of these processes for society, culture and politics? * What problems and opportunities does the spread of data visualisation bring with it? * To what extent do data visualisations get used in the interests of power or to act against power? * How can the belief that visualisation makes data transparent and accessible be brought together productively with critiques of visualisation-as-control? * How should we account for the affective dimensions of data visualisation? * How can visualisation be used in socially useful ways? * What does critically-informed, reflective data visusalisation look like? We invite participants to submit their own visualisations for presentation in an exhibition at the conference. Participants who wish to do so should indicate this on their paper proposals; organisers will then select visualisations from those proposed to exhibit. Confirmed keynote/plenary speakers include: * Catherine D'Ignazio, MIT Center for Civic Media/Emerson Engagement Lab, USA * Cath Sleeman, Quantitative Research Fellow, NESTA. * Important information* * Conference website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/events/culturedatavis * Submit 200 word paper proposals by 15^th June 2016 at http://datapower.group.shef.ac.uk/submission/index.php * Decisions will be communicated by 30^th June 2016. * The conference fee is £40 waged, £25 unwaged/student. * The conference is sponsored by the University of Sheffield's Digital Society Network (DSN). Find out more about the DSN here: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/social-sciences/digital-society-network. * For more information, please contact scs-events(a)sheffield.ac.uk <mailto:scs-events@sheffield.ac.uk>. * Registration will open at the end of May - return to this page for further details at that time. * The conference organisers are: Professor Helen Kennedy, Dr Annamaria Carusi and Dr Mark Taylor at the University of Sheffield. -- Professor Helen Kennedy Department of Sociological Studies / Faculty of Social Sciences Elmfield, Northumberland Road Sheffield S10 2TU T: 0114 2226488 E:h.kennedy@sheffield.ac.uk

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Hiring a Lecturer in Games Design @ Brunel University London
by kelly boudreau 16 Jun '16

16 Jun '16

*Lecturer in Game Design - Full time, permanent* For full application details - https://jobs.brunel.ac.uk/wrl/pages/vacancy.jsf?latest=01006622 The highly regarded, expanding and well established Games department at Brunel University London is seeking to recruit a new lecturer. The appointee will be expected to teach across a range of games modules that are all practice facing, but with strong theoretical integration. There will be an expectation that the appointee brings a games focused research interest to the department with the clear potential to produce world class outputs. The department prides itself on the excellence of its teaching, close relationships with its students and an extremely proactive, hardworking, collegial atmosphere that is all built around a love of and passion for games. The department has just launched three new strands to its undergraduate games programme (art, technology and games studies) and the extra role is needed to help support the art and/or technical strand. However, the teaching focus of the department is on experiential design for entertainment purposes and not on software training or programming. There is an expectation that any appointee will have software and/or art skills, but not necessarily highly developed technical capacities. The key attributes of the successful candidate will be the ability to engage with and teach practical skills whilst also adding to the research portfolio of the department. Closing date for applications: 18 July 2016 _________________________________________ Lecturer, Game Studies & Design Programme Director, MA Digital Games Theory & Design Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom kelly.boudreau(a)brunel.ac.uk

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reSense: Call For Proposals @ Spektrum Berlin
by wallace 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

reSense [movement, performance, technology, art] Festival - 25-31 July 2016, SPEKTRUM  including the METABODY Forum Berlin with the artists Jonathan Reus + Sissel Marie Tonn reSense.MOV is a festival that will debate current questions of the intersections of motion, sensing, performance and technologies in art and sciences curated by Byrke Lou and Marcello Lussana in collaboration with SPEKTRUM. Deadline is soon, we are looking forward for your applications! http://spektrumberlin.de/open-calls/detail/call-for-participation-resensemo…

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Silvestri wins 2016 James Carey Award
by Mark D. Johns 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- June 15, 2016 IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Lisa Ellen Silvestri, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA is the winner of the 2016 James W. Carey Media Research Award competition sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (www.cccsir.com) Silvestri is author of the book, Friended at the Front: Social Media in the American War Zone, published in November 2015 by the University Press of Kansas. The Carey Award, established in 2004, is presented annually from among nominated or submitted books or journal articles accepted for publication in the previous year. The award honors the late Dr. James W. Carey (1934-2006). Dr. Carey was recognized as one of the North American pioneers in applying cultural approaches to the study of media technologies. To be worthy of the award, work must be of highest quality and employ Carey's theories to focus on communication and public life, journalism, or popular culture. The winning entry this year was chosen from an exceptionally strong field of works submitted by a long list of outstanding scholars. The book examines how social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, have altered the relationships between military personnel and their families and friends at home. Historically, troops in a war zone were exempt from home front relational commitments. In previous U.S. conflicts, and even earlier in Iraq and Afghanistan, a lack of communication with the home front was not only accepted but also expected. Today, U.S. troops have direct, instantaneous connection to civilian life back home and this communication is changing what it’s like to be “at war.” The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research is a non-profit organization established to promote the scholarship of the late Carl J. Couch and his academic associates. Couch is recognized as the founder of The New Iowa School in sociological and communication inquiry, and was a pioneer in the qualitative research of information technologies. The Center provides networking opportunities for students and scholars who conduct social and Internet research, inspired by Couch's work. - 30 - Contact: Dr. Mark D. Johns, Executive Director Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research c/o Department of Communication Studies, Luther College Decorah, Iowa 52101 USA Tel: (563) 387-1347 email: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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Final Call for Workshops and Tutorials: ICITST-2016 || December 5-7, 2016, Barcelona, Spain
by Yi-Ju Zhao 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

Kindly email this Call for Workshops and Tutorials to your colleagues, faculty members and postgraduate students. FINAL CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS *********************************************************************** ************************* The 11th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2016) Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spanish Section and IEEE Spanish Computer Chapter December 5-7, 2016 Barcelona, Spain www.icitst.org *********************************************************************** ************************* Important Dates: *Workshop or Tutorial Proposal Submission: June 15, 2016 *Notification of Workshop or Tutorial Acceptance: June 25, 2016 The organisers of the the 11th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2016) cordially invite you to submit a workshop or tutorial proposal. The ICITST has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice, Internet Technologies, Secured Transactions, Application of Agents, Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for Ubi-com, Cybernetics, Data Mining, E-Society, Web Services, Semantic Web and Ontology, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security, Digital Information Management and identify emerging research topics. The workshops and tutorials provide researchers the opportunity for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way. It offers a good opportunity for young researchers to present their work and to obtain feedback from an interested community. All the accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. The proposal must include: 1. The name of the workshop/tutorial. 2. A statement of goals for the workshop/tutorial. 3. The names and addresses of the organisers/tutorial. 4. The names of potential participants, such as program committee members. 5. A description of the plans for call for participation (e.g., call for papers). 6. The expected number of attendees and the planned length of the workshop/tutorial. 7. The topic of the workshop/tutorial should be relevant to the main conference and details of any previous workshops/tutorials. 8. The URL of the workshop/tutorial web site. If you are interested in organising workshop or tutorial for the ICITST-2016, please email your proposal to workshop-tutorial(a)icitst.org. Your proposal will be reviewed by the Steering Committee.

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Postdoc position on fair recommender systems available!
by Ansgar Koene 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

Please see below regarding a postdoc job opening at U. Edinburgh on a project that we're also involved in. Cheers, Ansgar Dr. Ansgar Koene CaSMa - Citizen centric approaches to social media analysis Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/ http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:51:49 +0100 (BST) From: Michael Rovatsos <mrovatso(a)inf.ed.ac.uk> To: research-staff(a)inf.ed.ac.uk, phd-degree-students(a)inf.ed.ac.uk Subject: Postdoc position on fair recommender systems available! Dear all, we are offering a 2-year postdoc position in the EPSRC-funded unBias project (http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/N02785X/1) starting from 1st September - check out https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobs… for details. Closing date is 14th July - happy to respond to informal enquiries! Best Michael -- ... .. . .. ... .... ..... .... ... .. . .. ... .. . .. .. michael rovatsos senior lecturer school of informatics the university of edinburgh informatics forum 2.12a mrovatso(a)inf.ed.ac.uk +44 131 6513263 homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mrovatso . .. ... .... ..... .... ... .. . .. ... .... ..... .... . This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

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New LinkedIn Group on Remote Teaming
by Pam Estes Brewer 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

Dear Colleagues- Some of you have participated in my research projects to help remote teams work more successfully. Thank you. I have just started a new LinkedIn group: Remote Teaming Network. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8539985 Please join us if you would like to share and receive information on how to manage your remote teams successfully. Pam Pam Estes Brewer, Ph.D. Associate Professor Director MS in Technical Communication Management Department of Technical Communication School of Engineering Mercer University Brewer_pe(a)mercer.edu<mailto:Brewer_pe@mercer.edu> 478.301.4146

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EVENTS THIS WEEK: Cannataci on privacy, TheThingsNYC, nanog67, fragmentation, nynog tv, ipnsig virtual meeting
by Joly MacFie 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

I felt a tad guilty last week that I got so wrapped up in the excellent Hong Kong <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8535> and Curacao <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8539> events that I never sent out notices on Eurodig <http://www.eurodig.org/eurodig-2016/>, which was packed with ISOC speakers <http://www.internetsociety.org/events/eurodig-2016>, and the Decentralised Web Summit <http://www.decentralizedweb.net/> which had folks like Vint and Tim. I expected that everyone knew already, and also I could later link to the nicely segmented archived webcasts. Delay Tolerant Networking one might call it. Perhaps I was over optimistic. Because as far as Eurodig goes, the only video currently available is the Council of Europe's Director General briefly bemoaning bad stuff on the web <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUNXpvB1Irs>, and as for the other, just one huge decentralized 8 hour block <https://youtu.be/Yth7O6yeZRE>. At least you can go straight to Vint <https://youtu.be/Yth7O6yeZRE?t=1369> . The Internet really has been taking it from all sides it seems these last few days, Vint had to defend it's capitalization <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/03/capitalize_internet_or_not/>, while Ken Burns, speaking at Stanford, blamed "an amoral Internet" <https://youtu.be/ze5DZn_F310?t=265> for Donald Trump! At least he capitalized it.. So this week I hope to get ahead of the game with a full a la carte menu. Plenty to pick and choose, and if you fancy some F2F, tonight's Things Network Meetup is the place to be. Very much looking forward to Dave Farber's take on Fragmentation on Weds, and don't worry that will be recorded. As will, and I think I can take some credit for this, the ISOC BoT Public Forums at the weekend. Oh and, speaking of Delay Tolerant Networking.. don't miss Vint and co. on Thursday. joly posted: "Plenty of events online and off this week, depending on where you are. All times are NYC/EDT = UTC-4 Tuesday 14 June 10:30am-6:30pm NANOG 67 in Chicago, Day 2 Not everything will be webcast, but plenty will http://nanog.org/meetings/nanog67/agenda 11am-" Plenty of events online and off this week, depending on where you are. All times are NYC/EDT = UTC-4 *Tuesday 14 June* *10:30am-6:30pm* NANOG 67 in Chicago, Day 2 Not everything will be webcast, but plenty will http://nanog.org/meetings/nanog67/agenda *11am-Noon* UN Special Rapporteur on privacy - Prof. Joseph Cannataci ISOC Members webinar on privacy http://bit.ly/isocprivacy *5:30pm-8pm* The Things Network NYC Community meetup #3 (no webcast) Burgeoning Open IoT Network's NYC team get together - https://thethingsnetwork.org/c/newyork/ *Wednesday 15 June* *8:30am-10am* Is the Internet Fragmenting? Part 2: The Technical Lens ISOC-DC and Microsoft ongoing series about keeping it together, or not. Opening keynote from Dave Farber https://livestream.com/internetsociety/fragmentation2 *10:00am-6:00pm* NANOG 67 in Chicago, Day 3 Not everything will be webcast, but plenty will http://nanog.org/meetings/nanog67/agenda *2pm-3pm* ISOC-NY TV Show - NYC’s Current State of Network Infrastructure The recent inaugural NYNOG meetup - http://www.mnn.org/LIVE/2-LIFESTYLE-CHANNEL *Thursday 16 June* *4pm-5pm* IPN-ISOC Virtual Chapter Meeting - http://bit.ly/ipnisoc2016 Code: 923 494 316 Password: 7pQcvHDF An opportunity to virtually meet with leading interplanetary networking experts like Vint Cerf, Keith Scott, Scott Burleigh and Jay Wyatt. *Friday 17 June* A big Happy Birthday to ISOC Chapters Director Joyce Dogniez! *Saturday 18 June * *10am-6pm* ISOC Board of Trustees Meeting #132 in Cancun – Day 1 http://www.internetsociety.org/board-meeting-agenda-no-132 Not all will be webcast (but Open Forum *5:30pm-6pm* will be and archived) *Sunday 19 June * *10am-5pm* ISOC Board of Trustees Meeting #132 in Cancun – Day 2 http://www.internetsociety.org/board-meeting-agenda-no-132 Not all will be webcast (but Open Forum *10:30am-11am* will be and archived) Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8547#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8547#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8547 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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ICCR 2016: The 21st Century Consumer: Vulnerable, Responsible, Transparent?
by Bala Christian 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

Please circulate this invitation widely. Hope to see you in Bonn in September. Sorry for cross-postings. Thank you! Regards, Christian The 21st Century Consumer: Vulnerable, Responsible, Transparent? September 26-27, 2016 Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn, Ahrstr. 45, 53175 Bonn North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany The Competence Center of Consumer Research North Rhine-Westphalia (CECORE NRW) invites to the second International Conference on Consumer Research (ICCR) 2016 scheduled for September 26-27, 2016 at the Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). The theme of the conference is "The 21st Century Consumer: Vulnerable, Responsible, Transparent?". The aim of the conference is to discuss different views, concepts, and models of consumers and the implications for policy-making. The ICCR 2016 addresses questions like: Is there a way to protect vulnerable consumers more efficiently? Can responsible consumers get new tools to achieve healthy and sustainable societies? Is transparency an asset or a threat to consumers? Does nudging help to unfold self-governance of consumers? For further informations see below or visit our website: http://www.verbraucherzentrale.nrw/iccr-2016. Contact lab concepts on behalf of Consumer Association of North Rhine-Westphalia Bonner Talweg 64, D-53113 Bonn, Germany, E-Mail: ICCR2016-programme(a)lab-concepts.de Competence Center of Consumer Research | CECORE NRW Mintropstr. 27, D-40215 Düsseldorf, Germany, E-Mail: verbraucherforschung(a)verbraucherzentrale.nrw Internet: www.verbraucherforschung-nrw.de | Twitter (@kvf_nrw): www.twitter.com/kvf_nrw The ICCR 2016 is funded by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia Registration and Information Registration: https://lcem.lab-concepts.de/registration/iccr2016/en (External link | An online service of lab concepts GmbH) Hotel Reservation: http://www.bonn-region.de/events/iccr-2016.html (External link | A service of the Tourismus & Congress GmbH Region Bonn / Rhein-Sieg / Ahrweiler) Venue: http://www.stifterverband.de/pdf/wz_bonn_flyer_english.pdf (External link | Leaflet by the Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn) Programme Day 1: September 26, 2016 08:00 | Registration / Get Together 09:00-09:30 | Welcome Opening Remarks by Wolfgang Schuldzinski | Chairman of the Consumer Association of North-Rhine Westphalia Welcome Address by Svenja Schulze | Minister of Innovation, Science and Research of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia Welcome Address by Johannes Remmel | Minister of Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Conservation and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 09:30-10:15 | Keynote: The 21st century consumer: Living in a smart dictatorship? Prof. Dr Harald Welzer (Germany) | FUTURZWEI Foundation, Potsdam 10:15-10:30 | Award ceremony for excellent young consumer researches in North-Rhine Westphalia Moderation: Wolfgang Schuldzinski | Chairman of the Consumer Association of North-Rhine Westphalia Svenja Schulze | Minister of Innovation, Science and Research of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia Johannes Remmel | Minister of Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Conservation and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia Laudatory Speech: Prof. Dr Jörn Lamla (Germany) | University of Kassel and CECORE Scientific Advisory Board 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break 11:00-12:00 | Round-table discussion: The future of consumer research: Challenges, needs and wants Moderation: Wolfgang Schuldzinski | Chairman of the Consumer Association of North-Rhine Westphalia Prof. Dr Mirjam Jaquemoth (Germany) | Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences and CECORE Scientific Advisory Board Prof. Dr Jörn Lamla (Germany) | University of Kassel and CECORE Scientific Advisory Board Prof. Robert Walker (United Kingdom) | University of Oxford Prof. Dr Harald Welzer (Germany) | FUTURZWEI Foundation, Potsdam N. N. | European Commission, DG Research and Innovation (requested) 12:00-13:00 | Lunch 13:00-15:30 | Sessions Session 1 | The (self-)quantified consumer: Wearables and life-logging Chair: Prof. Dr Remi Maier-Rigaud | Rhein-Main University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden Rapporteur: Sarah-Lena Böning | University of Cologne Opening Speech Prof. Dr Stefan Selke (Germany) | Furtwangen University Citizen empowerment through ICT – a Swedish case David Andersson (Sweden) | Chalmers University of Technology The influence of self-quantification on individuals’ power perceptions Julia Wakonig and Prof. Dr Bernadette Kamleitner (Austria) | Vienna University of Economics and Business Session 2 | The well-fed Consumer: Sustainable and healthy food Chair: Prof. Dr Wiltrud Terlau | Bonn Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences Rapporteur: Dr Darya Hirsch | Bonn Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences Opening Speech Prof. Dr Christoph Klotter (Germany) | Fulda University of Applied Sciences The costs of a healthy diet Luca Casetti (Switzerland) | Bern University of Applied Science Making sustainability palatable? Changing practices of middle class food consumption in Bangalore Sunayana Ganguly (India and Switzerland) | Freie University Berlin Session 3 | The educated consumer: Chances and limits of consumer education Chair: Prof. Dr Birgit Weber | University of Cologne Rapporteur: Anja Bonfig | University of Cologne Opening Speech Prof. Sue McGregor (Canada) | Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax and McGregor Consulting Group Identifying the strategic conditions to develop and strengthen sustainable social innovations as enablers of sustainable living through consumption hot spots analysis and participatory (bottom-up) processes Georgina Guillen-Hanson (Germany) | Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production, Wuppertal Consumer education and socio-economic heterogeneity Ulrike Danier (Germany) | University of Cologne 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break 16:00-18:30 | Sessions Session 4 | The nudged consumer: The rise of behavioural governance Dr Kathrin Loer | University of Hagen Rapporteur: Dr Holger Straßheim | Humboldt-University Berlin and Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg Opening Speech Prof. Rhys Jones (United Kingdom) | Aberystwyth University Nudging the government – How open data can be used to make behavioural governance work both ways Prof. Dr Ulrich Greveler (Germany) | Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences Do health apps and wearables contribute to the individualisation of consumers? An empirical analysis of user behaviour and regulatory implications Prof. Dr Remi Maier-Rigaud (Germany)| Rhein-Main University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden Sarah-Lena Böning (Germany) | University of Cologne Session 5 | The poor consumer: Poverty, debt overload and income inequality Chair: Prof. Dr Till van Treeck | University of Duisburg-Essen Rapporteur: Jan Behringer | Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK), Düsseldorf Opening Speech Prof. Robert Walker (United Kingdom) | University of Oxford Insecure employment and pro-environmental consumption: An empirical analysis Dr Ortrud Leßmann (Germany and Austria) | ifz. International Research Centre for Social Ethics, Salzburg Torsten Masson (Germany) | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig Exploring consumers' financial fragility in Europe: Over-indebtedness, rainy days funds and the role of financial literacy Gianni Nicolini, Ph.D. (Italy) | University of Rome "Tor Vergata" Session 6 | The modest consumer: Good and sufficient lifestyles Chair: Prof. Dr Reinhard Loske | University Witten/Herdecke Rapporteur: N .N. Opening Speech Prof. Anders Hayden (Canada) | Dalhousie University Anti-consumption beliefs in the general public Jonas Nässén, Ph. D. (Sweden) | Chalmers University of Technology Göteborg Second-hand consumption as a lifestyle choice Prof. Dr. Adrienne Steffen (Germany) | Internationals University Heidelberg 18:30 | Get-together Day 2: September 27, 2016 09:00-10:00 | Round-table discussion: Sharing, access or gig economy? Moderation: N. N. Prof. Fleura Bardhi (United Kingdom) | Cass Business School, City University London Gerd Billen (Germany) | State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection Oliver Bremer (Germany) | BlaBlaCar (Comuto Deutschland GmbH) Prof. Dr Justus Haucap (Germany) | University of Düsseldorf David Weingartner (Germany) | OuiShare 10:15-12:45 | Sessions Session 7 | The scored consumer: Privacy and Big Data Prof. Dr Ulrich Greveler | Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences Rapporteur: Timo Jakobi | University of Siegen Opening Speech Dr Walter Peissl (Austria) | Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Personalizing consumer information with Big Data: an opt-in model for data-driven personalization of consumer law Prof. Dr Christoph Busch (Germany) | Osnabrück University Personalized pricing in the light of consumer conversations Prof. Dr Sarah Hosell (Germany)| HMKW - University of Applied Sciences for Media, Communication and Business, Cologne Prof. Dr Michael Schleusener (Germany) | Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences Session 8 | The political consumer: From activism to slacktivism, from advocacy to adhocracy? Chair: Prof. Dr Sigrid Baringhorst | University of Siegen Rapporteur: Katharina Witterhold | University of Siegen Opening Speech Prof. Michele Micheletti (Sweden) | Stockholm University The second-curve model: A promising framework for ethical consumption? Veganism as a case study Estela M. Díaz (Spain) | Comillas Pontifical University "By any means necessary": Political consumption and political participation in the United States Meredith A. Katz (USA) | Virginia Commonwealth University Session 9 | The ethical consumer: From corporate to consumer social responsibility? Chair: Prof. Dr Christian Wey | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Rapporteur: Miriam Thöne | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Opening Speech Prof. Timothy M. Devinney (United Kingdom) | Leeds University Business School The new meat consumers? Exploring the discourse on alternative meats and acceptance of radical change Minna Kanerva (Germany) | University of Bremen Company's monetary benefits from consumer social responsibility Dr Friederike Paetz (Germany)| Clausthal University of Technology Dr Daniel Guhl (Germany) | Humboldt University Berlin 12:45-13:45 | Lunch 13:45-16:15 | Sessions Session 10 | The new consumer: Sharing economy, collaborative consumption and peer production Chair: Prof. Dr Justus Haucap | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Rapporteur: Lisa Hamelmann | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Opening Speech Prof. Fleura Bardhi (United Kingdom) | Cass Business School, City University London Prosumption among young consumers – some research insights from Poland Prof. Maciej Mitrega and Agnieszka Malecka (Poland) | University of Economics, Katowice The responsible, sharing consumer – a closer look at the motivation of potential private durable goods‘ suppliers in the sharing economy Vita Zimmermann and Prof. Dr Michael Schleusener (Germany) | Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences Session 11 | The European consumer: Patterns and development of EU consumer policy Prof. Dr Christoph Strünck | University of Siegen Rapporteur: Anne-Kathrin Schwaab | University of Siegen Opening Speech Prof. Dr. Martin Schmidt-Kessel (Germany) | University of Bayreuth The 21st century digital consumer and international law – dilemmas in a brave new global consumer world Itai Apter (Israel) | University of Haifa The encroachment of Food Deserts in urban markets: Implications for public policy and consumer protection Marko Grünhagen (USA and Croatia) | Eastern Illinois University and University of Rijeka Irena Guszak Cerovecki (Croatia) | Rochester Institute of Technology Croatia Session 12 | The sustainable consumer: Patterns of consumption in private households Chair: Prof. Dr Christa Liedtke and Dr Carolin Baedeker | Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Rapporteur: Julia Nordmann | Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy Opening Speech Prof. Dr Doris Fuchs (Germany) | University of Münster Thinking green but buying thoughtless? An empirical examination of the attitude behaviour gap among German clothing consumers Kathleen Krause, Lars Petersen, Jacob Hörisch and Dirk Battenfeld (Germany) | University of Potsdam 50 shades of green: The variability of values in sustainable family homes Dr Elaine L. Ritch (United Kingdom) | Glasgow Caledonian University 16:30-17:15 | Closing remarks: The way to the 21st century consumer: A historical perspective Prof. Frank Trentmann (United Kingdom) | Birkbeck University of London

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Marconi Young Scholar Awards - deadline 30June
by Joly MacFie 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

(Via Karen Schofield-Leca, Director, Foundation & Government Funding, Internet Society) The Marconi Society offers an annual award to about 10 young scholars in science and engineering – including telecommunications. The Paul Baran Young Scholar Award includes a cash prize of $4000 plus $1000 expenses to attend the Society’s annual awards gala. These awards recognize outstanding young scientists and engineers anywhere in the world who have demonstrated exceptional capabilities and potential. A nomination must be submitted on behalf of the candidate by a faculty or technical advisor. The deadline is June 30, 2016. To be eligible for this year’s awards, nominees must have been born in 1988 or later. By their own admission, they'd like to see more women apply. So check it out and apply or nominate now! **Deadline fast approaching for ‪@MarconiSociety Young Scholar Awards. Nominate by 6/30 at ‪http://bit.ly/1RZv36g -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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