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Fwd: Call for papers - Special issue 3/2017 “The Remaking of Truth in the Digital Age”
by Cecilia Tanaka 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

For your knowledge! <3 Ceci ------ "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Call for paper:/CS Journal of Media Performing Arts and Cultural Studies./ Special issue 3/2017 “The Remaking of Truth in the Digital Age” edited by Chiara Giaccardi and Nathan Jurgenson The deadline for abstract submission is: January 31st 2017 *The Special Issue * Many thought Brexit would not come to pass, that Donald Trump could not be elected, experts, pollsters, and probability models told us so, down to the decimal point. An entire media apparatus that was increasingly certain came to produce instead confusion. The manufactured character of news becomes dramatically exposed, as well as the entertainment-driven nature of electoral politics that increasingly look like reality shows. The vacuum left behind is threatened to be filled with the rising tide of hate speech, hoaxes, and so-called fake news. We introduce this project amidst this wave of anti-inclusionary and counter-informative forces. Populist movements around the globe are rallying against journalists, politicians, and other professionals and experts who themselves have failed to speak to and about the lives of these people. We are said to now be in a “post truth” time, one where debate over truth has been replaced by a chaos of facts, where the work of building knowledge feels exhausting and impossible, leading to a normalization of the surreal, the uncritical acceptance of heavily biased information as intuitive and unproblematic. This issue is about our moment of epistemic chaos, the decline of old knowledge gatekeepers, and the political ramifications of fake, misleading, and propagandistic information. We pay special attention to the role of new, digital, social technologies of knowledge and their relationship with politics. We cannot understand how and what people know without understanding the set of information technologies in which we inhabit. Those debates around the diminishing of traditional institutions being disrupted away by the rising tide and quickening flow of digitality are instructive, too, as institutions of epistemic authority, grapple with staying useful and relevant today. This issue is a meta-discourse on discourse in a time many have called “post truth.” What is it to do theoretical work in a so-called post-truth world without falling in the equally undesirable opposites of cynical functionalism (truth is merely what works, comforted in what they already know, and preserving the status quo) or a new positivism (paternalistic explainerism, where truth is a matter of numbers, and those in power claim a false objectivity). What might Foucault’s “parrhesia” mean today? And, ontologically, the disagreement over the basic shape of thing in the world might lead to useless possibilities like a radical constructivism where reality is merely what we do with it or an essentialism where reality can somehow be perfectly grasped using the right methodologies. If reality is hard to grasp, its consequences are hard to miss: people suffer injustice and tourture, strive to survive in impossibly harsh conditions, and find ways of resilience and resistance. Suffering and death has a concreteness that escapes any rhetorical strategy, a reminder of the limits of the defeatism of simply claiming everything is fake or a simulation. Is there room for a critical realism that recognizes that reality always exceeds our capacity to grasp it? One that could suggest respect and care over arrogance and exploitation? These crucial questions have precedent. A decade ago, conversations about the internet often centered on how truth and news and information more generally will flow when people have access to consume so much more information. And, only a little later, when so many more people can produce such information. Those debates around the introductions of Wikipedia, Google News, or Facebook Newsfeed are instructive today as we continue to struggle with how to incentivize, create, and sort information in ways that are accurate and just. We should draw on the literature describing the history of political performance and propaganda. Global strategies of political misinformation and shaping information ecosystems to manufacture ideology and behavior shape and are shaped by the information technologies of their times, and these are lessons we need to draw from to understand our current moment. Is the epistemic vertigo being felt a feature or a flaw, a momentary readjustment or a new normal? Describing our current situation should also draw on past thinking about knowledge, politics, and technology. For instance, the debates about positivism, the myth of the neutrality and objectivity of numbers and science are instructive. From “big data” science to “data journalism”, numbers play a large part in our contemporary data flows, from metric-based incentives like clicks, shares, and followers to the ubiquity of polling and probabilistic forecasting of elections. Indeed, the most important global news media entity, Facebook, claims it does not have a political or editorial philosophy because it is merely “technology”, a nod to the history of claiming false neutrality. How do we describe epistemic responsibility and pedagogy within a tech culture of supposed objective disinterest? Is there room to move beyond reducing people to numbers? Is a different “proxemics” based on closeness possible? What is the role of social science in this discussion, especially with respect to new media technologies? Is there room for dialogue today, when information is consumed as a resource for belonging, for maintaining oppositional echo-chamber blocs, especially acknowledging the point that knowledge and understanding is never purely for its own sake but is always entwined with power? The knowledge-power link is no longer something that needs to be made convincing when more and more information is so overtly weaponized, targeted, in the Info Wars. And how can social science speak to and about our own epistemic bubbles? What about the epistemic gap between those with and without college educations, those who and who are not part of the knowledge-work economy? We welcome submissions about all of what we’ve talked about here, as well as the many more threads we did not mention relating to this complex theoretical topic. *Deadlines & Guidelines* Please send your abstract to: redazione.cs(a)unicatt.it <mailto: redazione.cs(a)unicatt.it> by *January 31, 2017*. Notifications of acceptance will be emailed shortly after the deadline. Abstracts must be from 300 to 400 words long, and may be presented in English. The proposal shall include 5 keywords, authors, institution, and contacts (e-mail), together with a short curriculum for each author. Authors will be asked to send the whole article (preferably in English, but Spanish, French and Italian are also welcome) by April 30, 2017. Contributions will be sent to two independent reviewers in a double-blind procedure prior to publication decision. Articles should be between 4,000-5,000 words (no more than 35,000 characters, spaces and notes included), but shorter articles will also be considered. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. A guide for authors, sample issues, and other relevant information is available on the journal’s website. For further information or queries regarding this Special Issue, please contact the editors: chiara.giaccardi(a)unicatt.it <mailto: chiara.giaccardi(a)unicatt.it>; nathanjurgenson(a)gmail.com <mailto: nathanjurgenson(a)gmail.com> CS is A-class rated journal by ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems) in the three academic disciplines: Cinema, photography and television (L-ART/06), Performing arts (L-ART/05), and Sociology of culture and communication (SPS/08). The journal obtained an international recognition by the French AERES - Agence de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur, being listed between its information and communication sciences journals. CS is included in the IATJ database – International Archive of Theatre Journals < http://www.iatj-journals.org/>, also accessible on the IFTR - International Federation for Theatre Research <http://www.firt-iftr.org/links>'s website and in SCOPUS.

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WEBCAST Jan 24: Will The Internet Always Be American?
by Joly MacFie 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

This was set for late last year and got postponed <http://Will The Internet Always Be American>. You might call it eagerly awaited. It's going to be rapid fire with all those speakers! Should be great. joly posted: "On Tuesday January 24 2017 Future Tense will hold a lunchtime discussion - Will The Internet Always Be American? at the New America Foundation in Washington DC. Many leading Internet players are U.S. firms. What will resurging nationalism portend for the " [image: Future Tense] <http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/03/future_tense_…>On *Tuesday January 24 2017 Future Tense <http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/03/future_tense_…>* will hold a lunchtime discussion - *Will The Internet Always Be American? <https://www.newamerica.org/future-tense/events/will-internet-always-be-amer…>* at the New America Foundation in Washington DC. Many leading Internet players are U.S. firms. What will resurging nationalism portend for the future of the American-centric internet and the values that initially defined it? Speakers: *Rebecca MacKinnon*, Director, Ranking Digital Rights, New America; *Emily Parker*, Future Tense Fellow, New America; *Nu Wexler*, Senior Manager of Communications, Twitter; *Carolyn Nguyen*, Director of Technology Policy, Microsoft; *Ross Schulman*, Senior Policy Counsel, Open Technology Institute; *Jennifer Daskal*, Associate Professor of Law, American University; *Hao Wu*, Fellow, New America; *Ellery Roberts Biddle*, Advocacy Director, Global Voices; *Joshua Keating*, Staff Writer, Slate. Moderator: *Andrés Martinez*, Editorial Director, Future Tense. The event will be webcast live on the *New America YouTube Channel <https://youtu.be/pGGMb1l2KGE>*. Viewers are requested to *RSVP <http://newamerica.cvent.com/d/2vqx8c/4W>*. *What: Will The Internet Always Be American? <https://www.newamerica.org/future-tense/events/will-internet-always-be-amer…> Where: New America Foundation, Washington DC When: January 24, 2017 12:00pm-2:00pm (17:00-19:00 UTC) Webcast: https://youtu.be/pGGMb1l2KGE <https://youtu.be/pGGMb1l2KGE> RSVP (including webcast): http://newamerica.cvent.com/d/2vqx8c/4W <http://newamerica.cvent.com/d/2vqx8c/4W> Twitter: #AmericanInternet https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericanInternet <https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericanInternet>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8920#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8920#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8920 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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[CfP] Studying User Perceptions and Experiences with Algorithms Workshop @ ICWSM
by Nicholas J Proferes 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

CfP: Studying User Perceptions and Experiences with Algorithms Workshop ICWSM 2017 – Montreal, Canada May 15th, 2017 The 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-17) *Overview:* >From Facebook’s News Feed algorithm that shapes the posts and updates we see, to Spotify’s recommendation service that introduces us to new music that we might love, to dating site algorithms that attempt to match us with potential romantic partners, algorithms play an increasingly important role in shaping many aspects of our daily lives. We seek to bring together a community of researchers interested in taking a human-centered perspective on studying the experience of algorithms. To this end, we will be holding a half-day workshop on Monday, May 15th, 2017 in Montreal, Canada. The objective of this workshop is to articulate the grand challenges of studying the user-algorithm relationship and to bring together participants interested in developing projects to address these grand challenges. This workshop is action oriented, and we welcome participants from a variety of disciplinary perspectives who are interested in starting new projects on studying user perceptions and experiences with algorithms or who are in the early stages of an ongoing project. This workshop is part of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM). *Participation:* Participants must submit a 1 – 2 page position paper to studyingusers(a)gmail.com by March 4, 2017 (see important dates). The submissions will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee on the basis of quality and fit to the workshop theme. The position papers may address any of the following: + What are the grand challenges of studying user perceptions and experiences with algorithms? + What are the methodological or theoretical entry points for studying this relationship? + A potential empirical study or an early stage project dealing with user perceptions and experiences with algorithms. + Design implication or policy position papers that address how we can design systems such that users can better identify algorithmically mediated experiences or can better understand how specific algorithms work. Topic areas might include things such as: trust in algorithms, user belief about how algorithms work, algorithmically mediated experience, transparency and algorithm black-boxing, how different groups of users engage with algorithms, filter bubbles, user interventions with algorithms, or the discursive construction of algorithms. There will be no formal Proceedings for the work submitted. *Important Dates:* + Proposal Submission: March 4, 2017 + Proposal Notification: March 16, 2017 *Contact Info:* More information about the workshop can be found at: www.studyingusers.org You can reach the organizers with any questions at studyingusers(a)gmail.com -- ----- Nicholas Proferes Postdoctoral Scholar @ Ethics and Values in Design Lab College of Information Studies University of Maryland, College Park

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Facebook Post Content Analysis
by Jessika Tremblay 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

Dear all, I am preparing to deliver a workshop about how to analyze and interpret the content of a *Facebook post*, specifically from an anthropological perspective. I've come across quite a bit of literature about the significance of Facebook and social media for contemporary social science research, but little in the way of actual methods and techniques for interpreting data once you return from the field. If you have any literature recommendations about this I would be very grateful. A focus on anthropology would be great, but of course I'm interested in learning more about how other internet researchers go about this. thanks, -- Jessika Tremblay Ethnography Lab Coordinator PhD Candidate Department of Anthropology University of Toronto, Room 332 19 Russell Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S2

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Fwd: [RCC] Open Tenure Track Position in Wireless Communications at Tampere University of Technology, Finland
by Simona Lohan 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

fyi -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [RCC] Open Tenure Track Position in Wireless Communications at Tampere University of Technology, Finland Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:53:38 +0000 From: Mikko Valkama <mikko.e.valkama(a)TUT.FI> To: rcc(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear Colleagues, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, has an open tenure track position in the area of Wireless Communications. Applications for the position are invited within the broad field of Wireless Communications and Communications Engineering in general. **Application deadline is January 26th, 2017** Link for more information and to apply: -http://www.tut.fi/en/about-tut/careers-at-tut/open-positions/index.htm => Tenure Track in Wireless Communications General information about TUT: -http://www.tut.fi/en/home I am happy to provide more information based on needs. I would also appreciate if you could please distribute this message within your organizations and among interested colleagues. Best Regards, Mikko Valkama __________________________________ Mikko Valkama, Professor Tampere University of Technology Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering P.O.Box 553, FI-33101 Tampere, FINLAND Mobile: +358-40-8490756 Email:mikko.e.valkama@tut.fi <mailto:mikko.e.valkama@tut.fi>

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22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017): Call for Participation
by Announce Announcements 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

** Call for Participation *** 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI 2017 St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus March 13-16, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Early Registration Deadline: February 7, 2017 *** ACM IUI 2017 is the 22nd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. The conference brings together people from academia, industry and non-profit organizations and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. It is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and doctoral consortium for graduate students. The 22nd edition of the conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol (or Lemesos) is a multicultural bustling town, flanked by two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, and guarded by the Amathusian Aphrodite and Appolo Hylates. It is a town of great visual diversity and contrast from spectacular seafront views, historic places like the mediaeval Castle, and Byzantine churches. Along the 17 km long sandy beaches, two Marinas, world renowned 5 star hotels, and a most exciting dining, shopping, nightlife and yachting scene create a year-round vibrant lifestyle well beyond the expectations of a Mediterranean island. The conference venue is the well known 5* beach hotel St. Raphael Resort, situated on one of the largest Blue Flag accredited beaches, only a short coastal drive from the lively centre of town, approximately 10 minutes away (http://www.raphael.com.cy) The Larnaca International Airport is 35 minutes away, and Paphos International Airport is 55 minutes away. There are shops, restaurants and bars within walking distance and a bus stop exactly outside the hotel. The conference organizers have secured very competitive rates for accommodation, both at the venue hotel as well as a number of other hotels at close distance (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…) In addition, the conference organization offers airport transfers to and from the hotels at very reasonable prices. This year IUI attracted an overwhelming number of submissions for all types of contributions (papers, posters, demos, etc.). The list of accepted contributions can be found here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . The program will consist of paper presentations, posters and demos sessions, a Student Consortium and several workshops and tutorials. This exciting program will be further enhanced with 3 keynotes by the Distinguisheed ACM Speaker Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology), George Samaras (University of Cyprus) and Shumin Zhai (Google). The technical program will be complemented with a rich social program, including a welcome reception and a conference dinner at a local traditional Greek taverna with live entertainment. We cordially invite you to attend IUI 2017 and the co-located workshops and tutorials. Registration is open (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…) Committees General Chairs · Tsvika Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee Chairs · Fang Chen, NICTA, Australia · Carlos Duarte, University of Lisbon, Portugal · Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Posters/Demos Chairs · Andrina Granic, University of Split, Croatia · Denis Parra. PUC, Chile · Jingtaw Wang, University of Pittsburgh, USA Workshops/Tutorials Chairs · Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia · Bart Kninijnburg, Clemson University, USA Student Consortium Chairs · Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA · Katrien Verbert, KULeuven, Belgium Student Volunteers Chairs · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Microsoft Research, UK · Julia Sheidin, University of Haifa, Israel Sponsorship Chairs · Daniel Sonntag, DFKI, Germany (for Europe) · Feng Tian, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (for Asia) Treasurer · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Proceedings Chair · Daniel Afergan, Google, USA Web Master · Marios Christou, Easy Conferences, Cyprus · Kyriakos Georgiades, Easy Conferences, Cyprus

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PhD opportunity - University of Bath - Cybersecurity and behavioural science
by Adam Joinson 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

[apologies for cross postings] [[I'm recruiting a new PhD position - please see below, and contact me for any questions -- Adam]] =================================================================== To help support the University of Bath’s world-class research environment and to provide doctoral training for outstanding individuals who want to pursue professional academic careers, the School of Management is seeking applications for its PhD Studentships. The PhD studentship will be linked with the EPSRC ‘Cyber Security Across the Life Span’ (cSALSA) project, under the supervision of Professor Adam Joinson. PhD Studentships worth approximately £19,500 pa for 3 years (to cover home/EU tuition fees, maintenance and training support grant), are open to International, EU and UK candidates who have both (i) exceptional academic qualifications and (ii) a strong commitment to acquiring a professional research training to become academics. Research interests in any field related to behavioural science and cyber-security would be considered, with specific interest focussed on one of the following: - - Parent-child interaction and cyber security / privacy - - Developmental Psychology and children’s understanding of cyber risk - - Message framing, language and cyber security - - Cyber security within organisations - - Measurement of cyber-security (e.g. within organisations, psychometrics etc) It is strongly advised that potential candidates discuss possible areas for study with Prof. Joinson (A.Joinson(a)bath.ac.uk) Candidates should fulfil the following criteria: 1. must hold at a minimum a bachelor degree (a First or Upper-second or GPA equivalent) 2. Are fluent in English. 3. Are strongly committed to, and potentially capable of, high-quality academic research in an area that is consistent with the cSALSA research project using quantitative or mixed methods. Suitably qualified candidates should apply directly online https://www.bath.ac.uk/study/pg/applications.pl Closing date for applications: 12noon (GMT) 24th Feb 2017 ========================== Adam Joinson Professor of Information Systems Information, Decisions and Operations Division School of Management East Building Room 3.1 University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY 01225 383319 E: A.Joinson(a)bath.ac.uk W: www.joinson.com T: @joinson ==========================

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DEADLINE EXTENDED - CFP - ECPR General Conference Oslo (6-9 Sept. 2017) "Political Sciences and the Big Data Challenge From Big Data in Politics to the Politics of Big Data"
by Elena Pavan 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

*** Apologies for cross-posting*** In occasion of the next ECPR General Conference (Oslo 6-9 September 2017) we invite papers for any of the panels in the section "Political Sciences and the Big Data Challenge From Big Data in Politics to the Politics of Big Data". More detailed info on panels and the overall section can be found below. Please submit paper proposals to elena.pavan(a)sns.it <mailto:elena.pavan@sns.it> and alice.mattoni(a)sns.it <mailto:alice.mattoni@sns.it> by *January, 30^th 2017* including the following info: - papers titles and abstracts (no more than 500 words) - institutional affliliation - institutional email address We will then arrange the selected papers in panels and submit them to the ECPR via their electronic platform. Please note that paper authors must be registered in the ECPR electronic platform with the email address they will include in the paper proposals. All the best Alice Mattoni and Elena Pavan *** *CALL FOR PAPERS* *ECPR General Conference – 6-9 September 2017, Oslo* ** *Section title* *Political Sciences and the Big Data Challenge From Big Data in Politics to the Politics of Big Data* *Section organizers* Chair: Elena Pavan, Scuola Normale Superiore Co-chair: Alice Mattoni, Scuola Normale Superiore *Section outline and themes* This section aims to open a much-needed space for developing within the ECPR context a critical and informed reflection on the multi-faceted nexus between Big Data and political science. It understands Big Data not solely in terms of large-scale datasets of textual or digital data that require us to tune our research practices. More radically, it starts from a conceptualization of Big Data as a complex set of cultural, political and scientific knowledge practices that challenge the traditional modes in which research questions are posed and framed, analyses are performed, as well as the ways in which results are communicated to the public and thus affect public discourse and debates. Consistently, the section comprises a set of panels that aim to investigate two interrelated aspects. On the one hand, panels will engage with how Big Data are leveraging our understanding of political dynamics within complex societies. In this respect, the section will consider applications of Big Data in connection to public opinion and institutional politics (party dynamics, political communications, etc.) as well as in relation to the study of contemporary forms of collective action and unconventional political participation (social movements, digital activism and the like). On the other, panels will develop a specific take on Big Data, considering how they become a contested research and political terrain, and thus inviting critical reflections on methodological and epistemological implications but also on the power dynamics that entwine with the increased datification of our societies. In this sense, this Section offers a unique occasion to foster the convergence of scholars and researchers currently working on the value of Big Data for studying politics but also on the politics of Big Data themselves. With this aim in mind, the panels in this Section will welcome papers employing different theoretical, empirical and methodological approaches on Big Data, with a single-case or a comparative multinational and/or multiplatform perspective. More specifically, the Section will welcome papers on the following topics. *Big data, public opinion and institutional politics* Digital social behaviors and, particularly, social media communications and interactions are increasingly considered a fundamental component of electoral campaigns, governmental and legislative dynamics as well as of the relationships and the interactions between party members and political leaders with their constituencies. Thus, it is in the online public discourse unravelling on social media platforms that politicians and policy-makers lean to an increasing extent to have the pulse of ongoing and ever evolving political trends and public opinions. This panel invites papers that apply Big Data to the study of contemporary political institutional and/or public opinion dynamics with national or comparative perspectives thus providing a space to inquiry about how this type of data and related methodological and analytical practices can leverage our understanding of traditional political science topics. *Big data and unconventional political participations* The rapid diffusion and increased use of social media platforms in grassroots politics has relevant consequences for the organization of social movements and their forms of protest. While more traditional forms of collective actions still exist, grassroots politics often follows a logic of connective action according to which collective actors are less central than in the past for the success of mobilizations. Moreover, activists lean increasingly on web-based platforms and internet services that produce Big Data flows worldwide. This panel invites papers that investigate to what extent Big Data are changing the way in which activists organize and protest with national or comparative perspectives thus providing a space to inquiry about how this type of data and related methodological and analytical practices can leverage our understanding of grassroots political participation today. *A paradigm shift for political science? Discussing Big Data epistemology and its implication for political studies* Recent events, such as the last USA Presidential elections, have clearly shown the potentials and, perhaps, even to a larger extent, the criticalities of predictive analytical practices in the study of political dynamics. The time seems more than ripe to begin re-addressing the methodological practices that underpin our understanding of sociopolitical dynamics – in particular in relation to our extensive use of large-scale digital and textual datasets which are deemed to be “representative” of citizens’ political preferences, desires, and priorities. Consistently, this panel invites papers that address, theoretically or empirically, the potentialities and the criticalities of Big Data as a new epistemological practice for producing valid and socially relevant scientific knowledge in the field of political science. *Big data as a political terrain: deconstructing and approaching critically datification* Big Data are not a neutral field of practice and knowledge, in particular when it comes to politics. Political actors, economic actors and media actors understand in different ways the concept of big data. More precisely, when political parties and social movements engage with Big Data, they often evoke specific, and contrasting, understanding of what datification processes means in and for politics. This panel invites papers that deconstruct and approach critically processes of datification in contemporary politics by looking at the intersections between different political cultures and (big) data cultures, focusing on the discourses and imaginaries that political actors develop around Big Data, and investigating the media practices related to the construction, manipulation and subversion of Big Data within the political realm. *How to submit a paper* Please submit paper proposals to elena.pavan(a)sns.it <mailto:elena.pavan@sns.it> and alice.mattoni(a)sns.it <mailto:alice.mattoni@sns.it> by *January 30^th, 2017* including the following info: - papers titles and abstracts (no more than 500 words) - institutional affliliation - institutional email address We will then arrange the selected papers in panels and submit them to the ECPR via their electronic platform. Please note that paper authors must be registered in the ECPR electronic platform with the email address they will include in the paper proposals. -- Elena Pavan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali Scuola Normale Superiore Palazzo Strozzi - Piazza degli Strozzi, 1 50123 Firenze email: elena.pavan(a)sns.it telephone: +39 055 2673330 Adjunct Professor Dipartimento Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale Università di Trento via Verdi 26 38122 Trento email: elena.pavan(a)unitn.it telephone: +39 (0)461 28 1378 --- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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2nd CFP: Web Science Summer School
by Olessia Koltsova 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

Dear all, sorry for cross-posting, and please find our 2nd CFP for annual WSTNet Web Science Summer School 2017 (http://wwsss17.com/) Wendy Hall, Cua Tat-Seng, Jeremy Wyatt and Peter Burnap are among confirmed speakers. Web Science is a new interdisciplinary field seeking to understand how the Web is transforming society. The school invites participants from a wide range of disciplines interested in the Word Wide Web as a socio-technical system. Students are expected to have a great interest in latest trends in the field, in acquiring data mining skills and in team work experience. General application deadline is February 15, 2017. School fee is only 200 euros; a limited number of travel grants will be available. HSE & ITMO students – free (on competitive basis). Dates & location: 1-8 July 2017, St.Petersburg, Russia. CFP: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0BxclrWrMD6W1RTZVQ1FRcEZrUDA Best, Olessia Koltsova Director, Laboratory for Internet Studies National Research University Higher School of Economics room 216, 55/2 Sedova St., 190008, St.Petersburg, Russia Phone: +7 (812) 560-00-55 www.linis.hse.ru E-mail: ekoltsova(a)hse.ru http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747

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Re: [Air-L] Government website harvesting
by Grotke, Abigail 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

Hi Joy, I'm working on the End of Term government web archive which you've seen mentioned in the news, and my colleague Jefferson wrote a nice writeup today on the Internet Archive blog: https://blog.archive.org/2016/12/15/preserving-u-s-government-websites-and-…. Our project team has been working together for years, you can see our 2008 and 2012 archives here: http://eotarchive.cdlib.org/ . Some of the projects in the recent news are tangentially related to ours but being organized by others and without our coordination, with nominations are being contributed to our effort via this form: http://digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/eth2016/ . More about how to contribute appears here: http://freegovinfo.info/node/11477 Some preservation efforts that we're heard about are separate entirely, and we aren't coordinating with everyone but focused on our specific activity. We can answer questions anyone has about our archive - email EOT-info(a)archive.org to reach me and other members of the team who can help respond. Thanks for the interest! Abbie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Abbie Grotke ~ Lead Information Technology Specialist ~ Web Archiving Team ~ Library of Congress abgr(a)loc.gov ~ @agrotke ~ 202-707-2833 Message: 2 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:43:51 +0000 From: Joy McNally <JMcNally(a)ucsusa.org> To: Ogden J.R. <Jessica.Ogden(a)soton.ac.uk>, kalev leetaru <kalev.leetaru5(a)gmail.com> Cc: "Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Government website harvesting Message-ID: <2444D81D29DD4142B3465983D3E8DEE80BA232E3(a)UCXSREX054147.ucs.usa> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Thanks, Jess! I didn't realize that one was quite as collaborative as it was. I'll dig a little deeper. Joy McNally Brandow Research Support Coordinator Union of Concerned Scientists | Cambridge MA T: +1 617 301-8048 | E: jmcnally(a)ucsusua.org -----Original Message----- From: Ogden J.R. [mailto:Jessica.Ogden@soton.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 4:35 PM To: kalev leetaru; Joy McNally Cc: Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Government website harvesting There’s the End of Term 2016 web archive that is being coordinated by the Internet Archive, Library of Congress, University of North Texas and others: https://github.com/end-of-term/eot2016<http://eotarchive.cdlib.org/2016.html> There’s other links there to nomination tool hosted at UNT, background information and their listserv. Hope that helps, Jess -- Jessica Ogden PhD Researcher Web Science Centre for Doctoral Training University of Southampton Profile: Social Sciences<http://www.southampton.ac.uk/sociology/postgraduate/research_students/jro1v…> Email: jessica.ogden(a)soton.ac.uk<http://mailto:jessica.ogden@soton.ac.uk/> Twitter: @jessogden<http://www.twitter.com/jessogden> On 13 December 2016 at 21:23:50, Joy McNally (jmcnally(a)ucsusa.org<mailto:jmcnally@ucsusa.org>) wrote: Thanks, Kalev. I had read that as a solicitation around the results and reaction, not necessarily government pages that will be updated after the transition. I’ll reach out to the Internet Archive for clarification. Thanks! Joy McNally Brandow Research Support Coordinator Union of Concerned Scientists | Cambridge MA T: +1 617 301-8048 | E: jmcnally(a)ucsusua.org<mailto:jmcnally@ucsusua.org> From: kalev leetaru [mailto:kalev.leetaru5@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 4:18 PM To: Joy McNally Cc: Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Government website harvesting Joy, the good folks over at the Internet Archive are actually running a special collection push along these very lines: http://blog.archive.org/2016/11/11/contribute-to-the-2016-u-s-presidential-… Kalev On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Joy McNally <JMcNally(a)ucsusa.org<mailto:JMcNally@ucsusa.org>> wrote: I was wondering if someone has created a running list of who is harvesting government websites ahead of the US government transition next month. There have been a few articles published in the past couple of days focusing on individual efforts, but it seems a lot of groups might be overlapping what they are archiving. Here's a good article discussing a few of the efforts: Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/13/scient… Thanks for any leads! (And apologies if it's off-topic) Joy McNally Brandow Research Support Coordinator Union of Concerned Scientists | Cambridge MA T: +1 617 301-8048<tel:%2B1%20617%20301-8048> | E: jmcnally(a)ucsusua.org<mailto:jmcnally@ucsusua.org><mailto:jmcnally@ucsusua.org<mailto:jmcnally@ucsusua.org>> _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@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/ _______________________________________________ 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/ ------------------------------ 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 149, Issue 21 **************************************

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