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Re: [Air-L] looking for current research on teenagers' communication practices
by Julian Hopkins 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

I don't think it's been mentioned yet - Daniel Miller at al at UCL have some excellent ethnographic and comparative work that includes material on teenagers: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/why-we-post --- *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/> > > > Message: 6 > Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 15:14:15 -0500 > From: Paula Todd <paulatoddmedia(a)gmail.com> > To: Karin Hansson <khansson(a)dsv.su.se> > Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: Re: [Air-L] looking for current research on teenagers' > communication practices > Message-ID: <5DF9D079-7AE3-4424-B90C-691E3C954929(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hi Karin, > > In addition to Sharon's excellent suggestions, my book 'Extreme Mean: > Ending Cyberabuse at School, Work and Home)(Random House, 2014, paperback) > analyses online communication (youth and adult) within an abuse framework > and reaches, in some cases, darker conclusions than boyd's. I have also > reproduced previously unpublished online messaging, such as the Facebook > attacks in the Amanda Todd (no relation) suicide case to help explore the > machinations and mechanism of online communication. > > In-box me for more info or discussion - paulatoddmedia(a)gmail.com. > > Paula Todd > > > On Jan 28, 2017, at 9:53 AM, Sharon Haleva Amir <sharon(a)trebcon.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi Karin, > > > > First of all, danah boyd's great book (2014) on teenagers' communication > practices - "It's Complicated" - see full text here - > http://www.danah.org/books/ItsComplicated.pdf > > > > As well as Sonia Livingstone's work on teens communication and > technology - see this post for example - http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/ > parenting4digitalfuture/2015/11/13/tweens-teens-tech-and- > some-good-news-from-common-sense-media-study/ > > > > Good Luck, Sharon > > > > Best Wishes, > > Sharon Haleva Amir, PhD > > HCLT Fellow > > School of Communication, Bar Ilan University > > -------------------------------------------------- > > https://biu.academia.edu/SharonHalevaAmir > > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sharon_Haleva-Amir > > http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/he/Research/ResearchCenters/ > techlaw/Pages/staff.aspx > > SSRN Author Page: http://ssrn.com/author=1227022 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Karin > Hansson > > Sent: 27 January 2017 10:32 > > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > Subject: [Air-L] looking for current research on teenagers' > communication practices > > > > Dear Internet researchers, > > > > I am looking for recent and ongoing work on tween and teenagers' > communication practices online and offline. > > I am especially interested in ethnographies, but anything related is > interesting. > > > > The reason is a pilot study of Swedish school children Ï am planning (as > part of a larger research project on the transformation of work), and I am > happy to connect with other researchers in this area. > > > > Best regards, > > > > ____________________________________ > > Karin Hansson > > PhD > > > > Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences > > Stockholm University > > Postbox 7003, 164 07 Kista, SWEDEN > > > > Visiting address: Borgarfjordsgatan 12, Kista > > E-mail: khansson(a)dsv.su.se <mailto:khansson@dsv.su.se> > > > > people.dsv.su.se/khansson <http://people.dsv.su.se/khansson> > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association > of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or > unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > > > --- > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > ************************************** >

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DEADLINE APPROACHING - JAN 31: Visual Communication Studies Young Scholars ICA Preconference
by Giorgia Aiello 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

DEADLINE APPROACHING - JAN 31 2017 Visual Communication Studies Young Scholars ICA Preconference San Diego, CA - May 25, 2017 Are you a graduate student with a project in progress or at draft stage that would benefit from mentorship and senior scholar feedback? Confirmed Senior Scholars: Laurie Gries (University of Colorado, USA) Luc Pauwels (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Mary Bock (University of Texas, USA) Larry Gross (University of Southern California, USA) Katharina Lobinger (Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) Catherine Preston (University of Kansas, USA) Paolo Favero (University of Antwerp, Belgium) We've extended our deadline for the submission of abstracts to January 31. See more details at our website here: http://www.visualcommunicationstudies.net/ica-preconference-2017/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Giorgia Aiello Associate Professor in Media and Communication and Director of Research and Innovation School of Media and Communication University of Leeds Leeds, LS2 9JT United Kingdom Tel. : +44 (0)113 343 5828 Fax: +44 (0)113 343 5808 Twitter: @giorgishka Website: http://media.leeds.ac.uk/people/giorgia-aiello/ <https://twitter.com/giorgishka>

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looking for current research on teenagers' communication practices
by Karin Hansson 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

Dear Internet researchers, I am looking for recent and ongoing work on tween and teenagers' communication practices online and offline. I am especially interested in ethnographies, but anything related is interesting. The reason is a pilot study of Swedish school children Ï am planning (as part of a larger research project on the transformation of work), and I am happy to connect with other researchers in this area. Best regards, ____________________________________ Karin Hansson PhD Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences Stockholm University Postbox 7003, 164 07 Kista, SWEDEN Visiting address: Borgarfjordsgatan 12, Kista E-mail: khansson(a)dsv.su.se <mailto:khansson@dsv.su.se> people.dsv.su.se/khansson <http://people.dsv.su.se/khansson>

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Literature recommendation on Social Media and Crowdsourcing in Cultural Heritage Studies
by Volodymyr Kulikov 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

Dear all, I am preparing to deliver a short course on using social media and crowdsourcing in cultural heritage studies. I plan to build the course on the case method, i.e. to analyze the most popular GLAM pages in social media and the best-known crowdsourcing projects. Regarding crowdsourcing, I have a copy of “Crowdsourcing Our Cultural Heritage” book Ed. Mia Ridge. However, I still cannot find a good literature on social media. I have come across quite a bit of literature about social media in marketing and social media for public organizations, but these publications either too theoretical or giving too simple and banal advice. If you have any literature recommendations about both topics, but especially the social media, I would be very grateful. Thank you for your help! With kind regards, Volodymyr Kulikov Kharkiv National University, Ukraine

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Re: [Air-L] looking for current research on teenagers' communication practices
by Burns, Kelli 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

I would also recommend a book by Nancy Jo Sales called "American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers." http://www.nancyjosales.com/books/ Best, Kelli Burns Associate Professor Zimmerman School of Ad and Mass Comm University of South Florida <http://www.nancyjosales.com/books/> <http://www.nancyjosales.com/books/> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 6:00 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 150, Issue 34 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Air-L Info Page - Air-L -- Association of Internet Researchers<http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> listserv.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers is an academic association dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies. or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CFP for ICA pre-conference: The challenges and promises of participatory policy-making: Communication practices, design considerations and socio-technical processes. (Tanja Aitamurto) 2. Re: looking for current research on teenagers' communication practices (Sharon Haleva Amir) 3. A discussion about AI between John Searle and Luciano Floridi - hosted by The New York Review of Books Foundation and Fritt Ord (Luciano Floridi) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:05:14 -0800 From: Tanja Aitamurto <tanja.aitamurto(a)gmail.com> To: Air-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] CFP for ICA pre-conference: The challenges and promises of participatory policy-making: Communication practices, design considerations and socio-technical processes. Message-ID: <CADj_40ABwmVXt2NkVEaBopfAr9KnUCAN6nUB2roMGS9Py71miQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi all, We are organizing a pre-conference at ICA, May 25th, about participatory policy-making, for instance, crowdsourced policy-making. The deadline for extended abstracts is Feb 10th. Please see the call below, and let us know if you have any questions. best, Tanja CALL FOR PAPERS: 2017 International Communication Association Preconference Hosted by: CalIT2, UC San Diego Supported by: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Berkeley Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago Co-sponsored by: ICA Communication and Technology Division ICA Communication Law and Policy Division Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) May 25, 2017 | San Diego, CA Room 5302, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego *Extended abstracts due: Feb 10th, 2017* * Final manuscripts due: May 1st, 2017 Submit at: **http://tinyurl.com/ica2017policy <http://tinyurl.com/ica2017policy>* Tied to the ICA ’17 conference theme of interventions, this pre-conference asks to unpack how the socio-technical design of online civic engagement in policy-making may “alter and disrupt” democratic processes, practices, and occurrences. As such it explicitly deals with “communication practices that engage with a political event, social phenomena, industrial or socio-cultural practice.” The growth of online tools for civic engagement has ignited the imagination of researchers and practitioners of democratic participation. The internet harbored great promise for cheaper, broader and more inclusive public engagement in politics through self organization, dissemination of information, and transparency. It has also harbored a promise to disrupt the ways government interacts with its citizens through open data, provision of services or engagement of citizens in policy deliberation and crowdsourcing. Interactive, informed, and meaningful civic engagement in government decision-making processes has been viewed as the pinnacle of participatory government efforts. In the US, on his second day in the office, President Obama addressed senior staff and cabinet secretaries, urging them to “find new ways of tapping the knowledge and experience of ordinary Americans.” In Iceland, the government used crowdsourcing in drafting a new constitution. Locally, municipalities experiment with combining both online and offline methods to engage members of the public in participatory budgeting exercises. In the area of internet governance, remote participation has been an important component in efforts to develop effective arrangements for multistakeholder deliberations and decision-making. There is a variety of activities that fit under the broad umbrella of civic engagement or e-participation in policy-making. Those range from purely consultative engagements such as virtual town halls, through policy ideation and crowdsourcing, to binding decision making such as participatory budgeting, rulemaking or the development of internet standards. While significant focus has been placed (in both research and practice) on technological solutions involved in effective online civic engagement in participatory and direct democracy activities, less attention has been paid to the systemic understanding of how these technological solutions interact with the social, political, institutional, and educational arrangements of such engagements and their potential to disrupt and alter traditional democratic practices. This pre-conference focuses on unpacking the black box of online civic engagement for planning and policy-making activities from a systemic perspective. We invite competitive submissions of empirical analysis, case studies, and conceptual work that review the continuum of offline and online participation arrangements through a socio-technical systems lens—an interaction between human participants, institutional arrangements, and affordances of online participatory tools. We envision this workshop as a boundary searching—or boundary expanding—exercise that will tackle three major aspects of research of online civic engagement: (a) conceptual and theoretical work for describing and analyzing the socio-technical nature of online participatory policy-making tools, (b) methodological approaches to studying those phenomena with an emphasis on interdisciplinarity and system design, and (c) cases and datasets that invite and enable systemic analysis of both tools and social, political, institutional, and educational arrangements as they traverse both online and offline environments. Our goal is to engage with scholarship on digital divide, online cooperation, informed participation, psychology, internet governance, and computer mediated communication, in order to inform research on civic engagement that goes beyond the analysis of solely technical aspects of platform design and data mining. Theoretical areas and empirical contexts may include but are not limited to: - Conceptual and empirical work on participatory and crowdsourced policy-making. - Empirical case studies of the use of online ideation and participatory tools in rulemaking, participatory budgeting or internet governance deliberation. - Studies of controversies, successes, and failures in technology-driven participatory civic engagement. - Conceptual and empirical explorations of socio-technical considerations in the design of participatory platforms. - Analysis of interactions between offline and online processes and practices of policy-making. - Unpacking of tensions between expert and citizen knowledge and authority in policy deliberation. - Discussions of contextual factors that influence online civic engagement in policy-making (e.g., digital divide, literacy, motivation, political efficacy). *Submission details* At this time we invite authors to submit extended abstracts (800-1000 words) that describe the main thesis, research goals, and to the extent possible, the methodological background and findings of their paper. All extended abstracts must be uploaded through EasyChair at http://tinyurl.com/ica2017policy by February 10th 2017, with all identifying information removed. All contributions will be blindly peer-reviewed, and acceptance notifications will be sent out by March 10th. Authors of the accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a full original manuscript of approximately 4000 to 8000 words, which has not been published elsewhere, by 1 May 2016. *Pre-conference logistics* The preconference will take place on Thursday, 25 May 2017 in Room 5302, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego. Presenters are expected to register for the pre-conference, but registration is open to both presenters and non-presenters. At the moment, the registration fees stand at 25 USD. *Timeline* - Extended abstracts due by Feb 10 (via EasyChair) - Notifications sent by March 10 - Full paper drafts due by May 1 *Organizing Committee* - Brandie Nonnecke, PhD, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Berkeley (Questions or concerns? Please email nonnecke(a)berkeley.edu) - Dmitry Epstein, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago - Tanja Aitamurto, PhD, Stanford University Dr. Tanja Aitamurto Postdoctoral Scholar Management Science & Engineering Stanford www.tanjaaitamurto.com<http://www.tanjaaitamurto.com> [http://snapshot5.flavors.me/u/brokenfence/]<http://www.tanjaaitamurto.com/> Tanja Aitamurto<http://www.tanjaaitamurto.com/> www.tanjaaitamurto.com Tanja Aitamurto, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Engineering at Stanford. She examines the impact of civic technologies on human behavior and society. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 16:53:28 +0200 From: "Sharon Haleva Amir" <sharon(a)trebcon.com> To: "'Karin Hansson'" <khansson(a)dsv.su.se>, <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] looking for current research on teenagers' communication practices Message-ID: <011c01d27976$4d72d9c0$e8588d40$(a)trebcon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Karin, First of all, danah boyd's great book (2014) on teenagers' communication practices - "It's Complicated" - see full text here - http://www.danah.org/books/ItsComplicated.pdf As well as Sonia Livingstone's work on teens communication and technology - see this post for example - http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/11/13/tweens-teens-tech… Parenting for a Digital Future – Tweens, teens, tech and ...<http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/11/13/tweens-teens-tech…> blogs.lse.ac.uk Tweens, teens, tech and some good news from Common Sense Media study Good Luck, Sharon Best Wishes, Sharon Haleva Amir, PhD HCLT Fellow School of Communication, Bar Ilan University -------------------------------------------------- https://biu.academia.edu/SharonHalevaAmir https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sharon_Haleva-Amir Sharon Haleva-Amir (Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan) on ...<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sharon_Haleva-Amir> www.researchgate.net Sharon Haleva-Amir of Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan with expertise in Law, Information Technology and Politics, Political Communication is on ResearchGate. Read 11 ... http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/he/Research/ResearchCenters/techlaw/Pages/staff.a… SSRN Author Page: http://ssrn.com/author=1227022 -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Karin Hansson Sent: 27 January 2017 10:32 To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] looking for current research on teenagers' communication practices Dear Internet researchers, I am looking for recent and ongoing work on tween and teenagers' communication practices online and offline. I am especially interested in ethnographies, but anything related is interesting. The reason is a pilot study of Swedish school children Ï am planning (as part of a larger research project on the transformation of work), and I am happy to connect with other researchers in this area. Best regards, ____________________________________ Karin Hansson PhD Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences Stockholm University Postbox 7003, 164 07 Kista, SWEDEN Visiting address: Borgarfjordsgatan 12, Kista E-mail: khansson(a)dsv.su.se <mailto:khansson@dsv.su.se> people.dsv.su.se/khansson <http://people.dsv.su.se/khansson> _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 16:53:21 +0000 From: Luciano Floridi <lfloridi(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] A discussion about AI between John Searle and Luciano Floridi - hosted by The New York Review of Books Foundation and Fritt Ord Message-ID: <6E78FD24-00F2-4351-9486-701D27EE9894(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Perhaps this may be of interest to members of the list? "On 20–21 October 2016 The New York Review of Books Foundation and Fritt Ord hosted the conference ‘Technology and the Human Future.’ This is the recording of the discussion about AI between John Searle and Luciano Floridi”. The video is now freely available on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmEuKkV3Y8c <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmEuKkV3Y8c> Best wishes, LF ____________________________________________ Luciano Floridi Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Oxford Internet Institute | University of Oxford Faculty Fellow | The Alan Turing Institute, London PA Ms Jessica Antonio | pa.floridi(a)oii.ox.ac.uk <mailto:pa.floridi@oii.ox.ac.uk> 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1865 287202 | @Floridi ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ ------------------------------ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 150, Issue 34 **************************************

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ERB Members for IJICTHD
by Hakikur Rahman 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

Dear Colleagues, We are in the process of including some new members for the Editorial Review Board (ERB) of the indexed journal, International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development (IJICTHD). If you are interested, please send a short bio with your intention to be an esteemed member of the Board. Thanking you. Best Regards, Hakikur Rahman Chief Editor, IJICTHD www.igi-global.com/ijicthd

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A discussion about AI between John Searle and Luciano Floridi - hosted by The New York Review of Books Foundation and Fritt Ord
by Luciano Floridi 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

Perhaps this may be of interest to members of the list? "On 20–21 October 2016 The New York Review of Books Foundation and Fritt Ord hosted the conference ‘Technology and the Human Future.’ This is the recording of the discussion about AI between John Searle and Luciano Floridi”. The video is now freely available on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmEuKkV3Y8c <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmEuKkV3Y8c> Best wishes, LF ____________________________________________ Luciano Floridi Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Oxford Internet Institute | University of Oxford Faculty Fellow | The Alan Turing Institute, London PA Ms Jessica Antonio | pa.floridi(a)oii.ox.ac.uk <mailto:pa.floridi@oii.ox.ac.uk> 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1865 287202 | @Floridi

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CFP for ICA pre-conference: The challenges and promises of participatory policy-making: Communication practices, design considerations and socio-technical processes.
by Tanja Aitamurto 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

Hi all, We are organizing a pre-conference at ICA, May 25th, about participatory policy-making, for instance, crowdsourced policy-making. The deadline for extended abstracts is Feb 10th. Please see the call below, and let us know if you have any questions. best, Tanja CALL FOR PAPERS: 2017 International Communication Association Preconference Hosted by: CalIT2, UC San Diego Supported by: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Berkeley Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago Co-sponsored by: ICA Communication and Technology Division ICA Communication Law and Policy Division Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) May 25, 2017 | San Diego, CA Room 5302, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego *Extended abstracts due: Feb 10th, 2017* * Final manuscripts due: May 1st, 2017 Submit at: **http://tinyurl.com/ica2017policy <http://tinyurl.com/ica2017policy>* Tied to the ICA ’17 conference theme of interventions, this pre-conference asks to unpack how the socio-technical design of online civic engagement in policy-making may “alter and disrupt” democratic processes, practices, and occurrences. As such it explicitly deals with “communication practices that engage with a political event, social phenomena, industrial or socio-cultural practice.” The growth of online tools for civic engagement has ignited the imagination of researchers and practitioners of democratic participation. The internet harbored great promise for cheaper, broader and more inclusive public engagement in politics through self organization, dissemination of information, and transparency. It has also harbored a promise to disrupt the ways government interacts with its citizens through open data, provision of services or engagement of citizens in policy deliberation and crowdsourcing. Interactive, informed, and meaningful civic engagement in government decision-making processes has been viewed as the pinnacle of participatory government efforts. In the US, on his second day in the office, President Obama addressed senior staff and cabinet secretaries, urging them to “find new ways of tapping the knowledge and experience of ordinary Americans.” In Iceland, the government used crowdsourcing in drafting a new constitution. Locally, municipalities experiment with combining both online and offline methods to engage members of the public in participatory budgeting exercises. In the area of internet governance, remote participation has been an important component in efforts to develop effective arrangements for multistakeholder deliberations and decision-making. There is a variety of activities that fit under the broad umbrella of civic engagement or e-participation in policy-making. Those range from purely consultative engagements such as virtual town halls, through policy ideation and crowdsourcing, to binding decision making such as participatory budgeting, rulemaking or the development of internet standards. While significant focus has been placed (in both research and practice) on technological solutions involved in effective online civic engagement in participatory and direct democracy activities, less attention has been paid to the systemic understanding of how these technological solutions interact with the social, political, institutional, and educational arrangements of such engagements and their potential to disrupt and alter traditional democratic practices. This pre-conference focuses on unpacking the black box of online civic engagement for planning and policy-making activities from a systemic perspective. We invite competitive submissions of empirical analysis, case studies, and conceptual work that review the continuum of offline and online participation arrangements through a socio-technical systems lens—an interaction between human participants, institutional arrangements, and affordances of online participatory tools. We envision this workshop as a boundary searching—or boundary expanding—exercise that will tackle three major aspects of research of online civic engagement: (a) conceptual and theoretical work for describing and analyzing the socio-technical nature of online participatory policy-making tools, (b) methodological approaches to studying those phenomena with an emphasis on interdisciplinarity and system design, and (c) cases and datasets that invite and enable systemic analysis of both tools and social, political, institutional, and educational arrangements as they traverse both online and offline environments. Our goal is to engage with scholarship on digital divide, online cooperation, informed participation, psychology, internet governance, and computer mediated communication, in order to inform research on civic engagement that goes beyond the analysis of solely technical aspects of platform design and data mining. Theoretical areas and empirical contexts may include but are not limited to: - Conceptual and empirical work on participatory and crowdsourced policy-making. - Empirical case studies of the use of online ideation and participatory tools in rulemaking, participatory budgeting or internet governance deliberation. - Studies of controversies, successes, and failures in technology-driven participatory civic engagement. - Conceptual and empirical explorations of socio-technical considerations in the design of participatory platforms. - Analysis of interactions between offline and online processes and practices of policy-making. - Unpacking of tensions between expert and citizen knowledge and authority in policy deliberation. - Discussions of contextual factors that influence online civic engagement in policy-making (e.g., digital divide, literacy, motivation, political efficacy). *Submission details* At this time we invite authors to submit extended abstracts (800-1000 words) that describe the main thesis, research goals, and to the extent possible, the methodological background and findings of their paper. All extended abstracts must be uploaded through EasyChair at http://tinyurl.com/ica2017policy by February 10th 2017, with all identifying information removed. All contributions will be blindly peer-reviewed, and acceptance notifications will be sent out by March 10th. Authors of the accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a full original manuscript of approximately 4000 to 8000 words, which has not been published elsewhere, by 1 May 2016. *Pre-conference logistics* The preconference will take place on Thursday, 25 May 2017 in Room 5302, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego. Presenters are expected to register for the pre-conference, but registration is open to both presenters and non-presenters. At the moment, the registration fees stand at 25 USD. *Timeline* - Extended abstracts due by Feb 10 (via EasyChair) - Notifications sent by March 10 - Full paper drafts due by May 1 *Organizing Committee* - Brandie Nonnecke, PhD, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Berkeley (Questions or concerns? Please email nonnecke(a)berkeley.edu) - Dmitry Epstein, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago - Tanja Aitamurto, PhD, Stanford University Dr. Tanja Aitamurto Postdoctoral Scholar Management Science & Engineering Stanford www.tanjaaitamurto.com

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Seeking Organizers for the AoIR Early Career Scholars Workshop
by Jeff Hemsley 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

We are seeking 2 to 4 Jr. Faculty or Post Docs to help organize the Early Career Scholars Pre-conference Workshop for AoIR 2017 – Oct 18-21, 2017 in Tartu in 2017. Last year the workshop was a great success and we expect a good turnout this year as well. We need 2 to 4 more people to help us organize the event by promoting to Jr. Scholars, reaching out to Sr. Scholars willing to work with us and help with logistics and other organizational tasks. Please join us if you: 1. Can attend AoIR 2017 in Tartu 2. Are a Jr. Faculty or Post Doc 3. Want to work with some fun people and learn from Sr. Scholars. If you are interested, please send an email to both Jeff Hemsley ( jjhemsle(a)syr.edu) and Andrea L. Guzman (alguzman(a)niu.edu) https://aoir.org/aoir2017/ -- Jeff Hemsley Assistant Professor School of Information Studies Syracuse University Author of 'Going Viral', Polity Press, 2013 Twitter: @JeffHemsley my.ischool.syr.edu/People/jjhemsle www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhemsley

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Deadline extended: Data Power Conference 2017 call for abstracts
by Tracey Lauriault 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

*DATA POWER 2017* A two-day, international conference organized by Carleton and Sheffield universities. *Dates*: 22nd & 23rd June 2017 *Venue*: School of Journalism & Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada *New submission deadline*: ***Friday 3rd February 2017*** *Call for abstracts/panel proposals* Increasingly pervasive in our daily lives, data are constituted through converging technologies and practices such as the internet of things, smart cities, drones and precision agriculture; global finance, credit scoring and data brokerage firms; surveillance, predictive policing and customer relation management systems, to name a few. Data are also generated by and flow through applications, software, platforms, and infrastructures that reshape how we play, work, eat, socialise, see ourselves, and know the world. In an era of data power, data have become agentic, especially when input into black-boxed algorithms and systems whose outputs are used to profile and sort us, influence the political economy, and for purposes for which no consent was given. Is this a 'fait accompli'? To answer this question, the Data Power 2017 conference asks: How can we reclaim some form of data-based power and autonomy, and advance data-based technological citizenship, while living in regimes of data power? Is it possible to regain agency and mobilize data for the common good? To do so, which theories help to interrogate and make sense of the operations of data power? What kind of design frameworks are needed to build and deploy data-based technologies with values and ethics that are equitable and fair? How can big data be mobilized to improve how we live, beyond notions of efficiency and innovation? This conference follows the successful Data Power 2015 Conference held in the UK and creates a space to reflect on these and other critical issues relating to data’s ever more ubiquitous power. To date, the following keynote speakers and commentators on data power have been confirmed: - *Helen Nissenbaum*, New York University, co-author of *Obfuscation: A User’s Guide to Privacy and Protest* with Finn Brunton (2015), and PI of the Values in Design project; - *Paul N.Edwards*, University of Michigan, author of *A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming * (2010); - *Stefania Milan*, University of Amsterdam, author of *Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change* (2016), and PI of the DATACTIVE project; - *Frank Pasquale*, University of Maryland, author of *The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information* (2015). Papers and session/panel proposals are invited on the following - and other relevant - topics: - The political economy of data - Data and journalism - Theorizing data - The politics of data visualization - Data labour - The social life of data and data-driven methods - The politics of open and linked data - Data-driven governance, surveillance and control - Data, discrimination and inequality - Social, ethical and legal issues - Data citizens - Data activism, citizen engagement and advocacy - Data, genealogy and power - Data power and violence - Critical cultural and feminist approaches to data - Resistance, agency and appropriation. *Information/details* - Whilst we welcome papers and sessions of all kinds, please note that this conference focuses on critical questions about data’s power and also papers that are critical and/or reflective with regards to the social and cultural consequences of the rise of data's power. - Please submit *250-300 word *paper or panel proposals using the following online submission system: *https://ocs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/datapower/datapower2017 <https://ocs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/datapower/datapower2017>*. - The deadline for paper proposals is ****Friday 3rd February 2017*****.* - The conference fee is $225 (CAD) for all, and $90 (CAD) for students. - The organizing committee will select papers for a special issue on Data Power in the following peer reviewed journals: *The Canadian Journal of Communication* and *Online Information Review*. - Ottawa is Canada’s Capital, and is celebrating its 150th Anniversary in 2017. The City is home to numerous international museums and galleries, and Carleton University is set along the beautiful Rideau River and the Rideau Canal. Best wishes, The Data Power Conference team *Tracey, Helen, Jo, Ganaele, Ysabel *& *Merlyna* *datapower2017(a)gmail.com <datapower2017(a)gmail.com>* Tracey P. Lauriault & Merlyna Lim, Carleton University, Canada Helen Kennedy & Jo Bates, University of Sheffield, UK Ganaele Langlois, York University, Canada Ysabel Gerrard, University of Leeds, UK

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