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WEBCAST TODAY: CITI – The FCC’s Incentive Auction: Lessons Learned
by Joly MacFie 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Apparently, while Columbia U undergoes some massive rebuilding, it's rather difficult to get rooms up there. Thus CITI has taken to online activities with some gusto. Check their website <http://www.citicolumbia.org/> for an ongoing series on Digital Finance webinars. Equitable spectrum redistribution is a vital issue, and something the Internet Society spoke out about <https://www.internetsociety.org/policybriefs/spectrum/> just two days ago. This should be good viewing. New post on *ISOC-NY NOTICE BOARD* [image: CITI] <http://www.citicolumbia.org/>Today *Thursday October 12th 2017* at *3:30pm ET* the *Columbia Institute for Tele-Information <http://www.citicolumbia.org/> *presents an online conference *The FCC's Incentive Auction: Lessons Learned <http://www.citicolumbia.org/index.php/fccauction/>*. Description: The Incentive Auction is the most complex spectrum auction ever conducted It successively cleared 84 MHz of TV spectrum and re-allocated 70 MHz for mobile services. However, it also took approximately 4 years to design and bidding last 1 year and 1 day. Repacking of the cleared spectrum will take over 39 months before the spectrum will become fully available for the winning bidders. On the TV side, single entities owned multiple stations in many markets. In addition, the pricing algorithm left many anomalies. On the buy side, only one of the four national mobile operators entered any bids after the first stage, and only of the two smaller operators, with limited low-band holdings ex ante was successful in closing the gap with the stronger rivals. This conference addresses how well the auction achieved its policy goals. What may be improved? Should the FCC or other countries try to run two sided auctions again to clear spectrum for re-purposing. Speakers include *Eli Noam*, *Paul Garrett*, Chair in Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Columbia University; *David Salant*, Visiting Professor, Toulouse School of Economics; *Jon Peha*, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University; and *Greg Rosston*, Director of the Public Policy Program, Stanford University. The event will be webcast live on the *Internet Society's Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/fccauction/>*. *View on Livestream*: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/fccauction *Twitter*: http://bit.ly/incentiveauction Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9487#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9487#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9487 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Two Career Opportunities: Asst. Registrar Systems & Technology and Data Analyst/CRM Admin
by AJ Kelton 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

At Montclair State we have an opening for an Asst. Registrar, Systems and Technology Montclair State University's Registrar's Office is seeking an Assistant Registrar for Systems and Technology. This position, reporting directly to the University Registrar, will lead the Registrar's Office in implementation, maintenance and training on student information systems within the Registrar's Office. For additional information, click on link: https://app1.montclair.edu/xf/hr_jobpostings/details.php?id=1250 I'm also sharing this for a colleague at Widener. Data Analyst/CRM Administrator https://www.higheredjobs.com/institution/details.cfm?JobCode=176578135&Titl… best, aj -- ----- AJ Kelton Director, Center for the Digital Humanities College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate, ABD Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Collaborate with Emerging Learning Design 2017 Conference Chair http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf <http://twitter.com/ELDConf> Hashtag: #ELD17 ELD Question? LIVE CHAT <http://eld.montclair.edu/> (lower right hand corner) ---------- Journal of Emerging Learning Design Co-Editor-in-Chief http://eldj.montclair.edu ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton <http://twitter.com/aj_kelton>

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Killing in the name of airtime?
by Peter Ada Sonia 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Apologies! The previous link to the interesting article does not seem to work. Here's the link. http://www.mei.edu/content/map/killing-name-air-time-global-mass-media-s-re… The essay is part of a series that explores the threat posed by the rise of ISIS in Asia, particularly Southeast Asia, and efforts that the governments of the region have taken and could/should take to respond to it. -- *Ada Sonia Peter, Ph.D* Director, Intl' Office and Linkages, Covenant University. 2017 SUSI Scholar on U.S. National Security and Foreign Policy-making, U.S. Department of State BIARI Alumnus Watson Institute for International Studies Brown University Emails. ada_peter(a)biari.brown.edu ada.peter(a)covenantuniversity.edu.ng diol(a)covenantuniversity.edu.ng

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Call for submissions - TEI 2018 (Stockholm) Arts Track
by Asreen Rostami 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Dear all, The call for entries to the TEI 2018 Arts and Performances is published. We welcome submissions of artworks and live performances from a wide range of practitioners and researchers in areas such as arts, design and technology including submissions from students and independent practitioners. Important dates: • November 4th, 2017 (HST): Submission deadline • December 4th, 2017 (HST): Notification of acceptance • December 18th, 2017 (HST): Camera ready deadline https://tei.acm.org/2018/arts-track/ <https://tei.acm.org/2018/arts-track/> We encourage you to share this call with your networks and those who might be interested in submitting to the arts track. ————————————————— Call for submissions: The Arts Track at TEI 2018 invites submissions of art installations and live performances exploring the post-digital. In our daily lives, the digital has become the mundane, inseparable from our everyday routines and bringing us the ability to be interconnected on a global scale. The digital is integrated in every step of our lives, however, it’s often valued for its utilitarian use rather than looking at it as a creative or provocative medium. One way of approaching the post-digital is to bring analogue to meet the digital. In the post-digital era, we see a turn to vintage materials and craftsmanship, natural materials have come to the fore, and along with the practices of making them are once more being cherished. Designing for the post-digital does not mean blindly embracing nostalgia or turning away from technology – it means demystifying the digital through the design process and encouraging designs that equalise the status of digital and analogue, both in the materials and the practices. We invite interactive artworks, live performances, video prototypes/mockumentaries or any other type of artworks that use the post-digital to enrich emotional, bodily and cultural experiences through aesthetic explorations. Rather than focusing on representations of data and information, we welcome projects aiming for more provocative and critical reflection on the role of technology in our life. We seek submissions that articulate viewpoints and facilitate dialogue around the TEI conference themes as well as topics including but not limited to: • Humanization or dehumanization of technology in our contemporary world • Manifestations of electronic media – analogue as well as digital – in the physical world, and it’s possible political implications • Critical or discursive designs that engage with how human physical interactions may get represented in digital realms • Artworks engage with the “post-truth” era • Live Wizard-of-Oz performances that present believable or unbelievable interactions • Body as experience, instrument and interface • Artistic explorations of shape-, weight-, colour- and size changing artefacts • Novel interactions realised through traditional crafts or unconventional materials, professional artistry, craft or musicianship • Ephemeral interfaces • Haptic and multi-modal experiences • Mixed reality (virtual or augmented) from a tangible and embodied interaction perspective • Aesthetic experience through tangible or full body interactions ————————————————— Submissions: Submissions should be in the form of a short (4-6 page Extended Abstract Template) paper in PDF format that will appear in the TEI Proceedings and will be indexed in the Extended Abstracts portion of the ACM Digital Library. They may also include a short (5 minute maximum) video documenting the artwork. Submissions should include the author(s) name and affiliation – in other words, they are not blind. In addition, applicants MUST submit an additional installation information form along with their Extended Abstract describing the technical and logistical requirements of exhibiting/performing their work. All papers must be submitted electronically (.pdf) via the TEI Precision Conference site (https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions <https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions>). ————————————————— Selection process: Submissions will be selected based on their artistic merits and their engagement with issues relevant to the field of tangible and embedded interactive art. In addition, the logistical constraints of the venue may determine the eligibility of submitted projects. Confidentiality of submissions will be maintained during the review process. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. Review Criteria: • Relevant – The work must have a tangible aspect, in the form of an installation, performance, object or physical event. • Artistic – It must operate significantly and compellingly through its formal, conceptual, and experiential properties. • Embodied – The work must engage the human body beyond the traditional screen-pointer interface. • Computational – It must involve computational technology (digital or analog) in some aspect of its form or function. • Positioning – The work must be positioned within related areas of theory and/or practice. Accepted work will be exhibited in a venue that is open to conference delegates. Artists (or their delegates) will need to be available for installation and bump-out, and for facilitating interaction with their artwork at scheduled times. One author of each accepted submission must register for the conference before the early registration deadline in order for the final paper version to appear in the conference proceedings. If you have questions about the Arts Track for TEI 2018, please contact chairs <mailto:arts_chairs@tei.acm.org <mailto:arts_chairs@tei.acm.org>> Roby Taylor, Asreen Rostami and Vygandas “Vegas” Šimbelis prior to deadline. --- Asreen Rostami Department of Computer and System Sciences Stockholms University, Sweden TEI’18 Art and Perfromance Chair: http://tei.acm.org <http://tei.acm.org/> Work Phone: +468161649

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CNH Conference program on AOIR mailinglist
by Gianluigi Negro 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Dear colleagues, apologies for cross posting We would like to post the programme of a conference on computer networks histories to be held in Lugano, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in December (you can find the plain text below). The conference is open to public. For any further information don't hesitate to mail us. Best regards, Gianluigi Negro, Paolo Bory, Gabriele Balbi *Computer Networks Histories: Local, National and Transnational Perspectives* *USI -Università della Svizzera italiana*, Lugano, Switzerland. 14-15 December 2017 The association Geschichte und Informatik, the Institute of Media and Journalism & China Media Observatory at USI Università della Svizzera italiana, and infoclio.ch are proud to announce the program for the International Conference *Computer Networks Histories: Local, National and Transnational Perspectives* The conference aims to develop new frameworks and a space of discussion on the historical role of computer networks; 28 speakers coming from 13 countries will present and discuss the multiple trajectories of computer networks histories worldwide. There is no conference-fee and the event is open to the public. Keynote Speakers: Prof. Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa) & Hu Yong (Peking University) Conference website: www.cnh.usi.ch Programme: http://www.cnh.usi.ch/programme CFP: http://www.cnh.usi.ch/call Conference email address: nethistories(a)gmail.com *Conference Programme* *14th December 2017 USI - Università della Svizzera italiana* 8:00 / 9:00 Registration / Introduction speech 9:00 / 10:00 Keynote Speaker - Hu Yong, Peking University 10:30 / 12:00 Panel 1 / Focus on China - Chair: Hu Yong, Peking University Bo An, Yale University Infrastructure, amateurism, and radical Networking: FidoNet in China (1995-1998) Liu Jinhe, Tsinghua University Regime evolution of China's regulation on transborder flow of data：From 1994 to 2017 Clément Renaud, École Polytechnique de Lausanne Grégory Bahde, Université Jean Monnet St Etienne From Davos to Beijing : the historical trajectory of the concept of sovereignty in Internet territories 12:00 / 13:00 Lunch 13:00 / 14:30 Panel 2 / The legacy of the 1980s’ - Chair: Enrico Natale, Infoclio.ch Camille Paloque-Berges, CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers Gerard Alberts, University of Amsterdam Beyond the protocol wars: 1980s user cultures in Dutch inter-net nodes Valérie Schafer, ISCC – Institut des Sciences de la Communication Benjamin Thierry, Université Paris Sorbonne The Internet and the Web as a “Super Minitel” Kevin Driscoll, University of Virginia Thou shalt love thy BBS: a framework for the moderation of online communities 15:00 / 16:30 Panel 3 / European Histories - Chair: Christiane Sibille, Geschichte und Informatik Mato Brautovic, University of Dubrovnik Origins and development of Internet in Croatia: times of transition from communism to democracy and war for independence Félix Tréguer, ISCC - Institut des Sciences de la Communication Dominique Trudel, Concordia University From internet access provider to political advocacy: the history of the French data network Luciano Lenzini, Fabio Gadducci, Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa On the Italian pioneering network projects: issues and challenges 17:00 / 18:30 Visit at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) 20:00 Conference Dinner *15th December 2017 – USI - Università della Svizzera italiana* 9:00 / 10:00 Keynote Speaker - Benjamin Peters, University of Tulsa The network and the historian: opportunities, challenges, surprises, disobedience 10:30 / 12:00 Panel 4 / Infrastructures – Chair: Simone Natale, Loughborough Univ. Christian Henrich-Franke, University of Siegen Computer networks on copper cables Paolo Magaudda, University of Padova The rising of Tor and the history of a network “in the dark” Sebastian Gieβmann, University of Siegen Networking with/out computing? Remarks on the longue durée of networking practices 12:00 / 13:00 Lunch 13:00/14:30 Panel 5 / A taste of BRICS’ histories - Chair: Benjamin Peters, University of Tulsa Sophie Toupin, McGill University Hacking Apartheid Marcelo Savio de Carvalho, IBM Brazil Henrique Luiz Kukierman, Federal University of Rio The dawn of the internet in Brazil Manushi, Indian Institute of Mass Communication Towards Digital India: Internet in India 15:00 / 16:30 Panel 6 / Networking Memories - Chair: Marco Colombetti, USI Raúl Carnota, FCEN Argentina Lucas de Almeida Pereira, UNESP Brazil SHIALC: History and memory of computer science in Latin America Guido Koller, Swiss Federal Archives Of men and register. The foreigner’s central register in Switzerland – An early digital federal administrative network Benedetta Campanile, University of Bari Robert Fano, an Italian computer scientist from Project Mac to Internet 16:30 / 17:00 Closing Remarks

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Killing in the name of Airtime?
by Peter Ada Sonia 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

*An Interesting read: *http://www.mei.edu/conte nt/map/killing-name-air-time-global-mass-media-s-representation-isis The essay is part of a series that explores the threat posed by the rise of ISIS in Asia, particularly Southeast Asia, and efforts that the governments of the region have taken and could/should take to respond to it. -- *Ada Sonia Peter, Ph.D* Director, Intl' Office and Linkages, Covenant University. 2017 SUSI Scholar on U.S. National Security and Foreign Policy-making, U.S. Department of State BIARI Alumnus Watson Institute for International Studies Brown University Emails. ada_peter(a)biari.brown.edu ada.peter(a)covenantuniversity.edu.ng diol(a)covenantuniversity.edu.ng

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Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Emerging Journalistic Practices at Colorado State University
by Switzer,Jamie 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

The Journalism and Media Communication department at Colorado State University has a tenure-track position opening for an Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Emerging Journalistic Practices. Applications must be received by Tuesday, October 31, 2017. The complete job description and application instructions are at https://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/50412. JS ___________________________________________ Dr. Jamie S. Switzer Associate Professor Department of Journalism and Media Communication Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO, USA, 80523-1785 jamie.switzer(a)colostate.edu<mailto:jamie.switzer@colostate.edu> 1-970-491-2239

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Human-Machine Communication Scholars Meet-up at AoIR 2017
by Andrea Guzman 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

Hello all, I am organizing a Human-Machine Communication Scholars Meet-up at AoIR 2017. This is an informal gathering of scholars interested in the study of people's interactions with technology, including robots, AI, algorithms, etc., as well as the individual and societal implications of such interactions. We will be getting together during the lunch break on Thursday, Oct. 19. If you are interested, please e-mail me off-list, and I will send along further details in the next few days. If you would like more information about HMC, there will be an HMC panel on Thursday morning, or you can look at last year's ICA preconference program to get a sense of what we are about: https://hmc2017.wordpress.com (We also will have another preconference in 2018. CFP forthcoming). You also can join our very low-key listserv: https://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=HMC-SCHOLARS Looking forward to seeing everyone in Tartu! - Andrea _____ Andrea L. Guzman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Northern Illinois University alguzman(a)niu.edu

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8th Annual Emerging Learning Design Conference - Call for Proposals
by AJ Kelton 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

8th Annual Emerging Learning Design Conference - Call for Proposals Emerging Learning Design is now accepting proposals for the 8th Annual Emerging Learning Design Conference (#ELDc18) May 31st - June 1st, 2018 at Montclair State University. The theme for this year’s conference is >From Learner Centered to Learner Experience (LX) Education has changed more in the last 25 years than the 250 before that. Whereas once the norm was teacher-focused, sage-on-the-stage, a shift is still going on that places the learner at the core of the learning experience. Driven by the wide adoption of design thinking and user experience processes, LX pushes to make sure the learner voice is integrated more purposefully by sharing the experience development and iteration process with those for whom it is designed. >From an emphasis on scaffolding and creating software with Learner Centered Design to the wide adoption of design thinking and user experience processes with Learning Experience (LX) Design the goal continues to be to create effective and meaningful experiences for the learner. ELDc18 seeks to bring together diverse voices and innovative approaches to designing with the learner in mind. The following topics are examples, but are in no way exhaustive or limited: - How might learners be involved in the design and evaluation of learning experiences? - What are examples of personalized learning and what can we learn from these experiments? - How can we use learning analytics to better understand aspects of learning experiences? - What are some organizational approaches to incorporating user experience research and iteration into the learning design process? Submission are encouraged that tie to the theme, our mission, or, any of our ELDc18 Keywords ELDc18 Submission Information - Proposal Deadline: November 1, 2017 - Visit the ELDc18 Conference Website <http://eld.montclair.edu/eld-conference-2018/> for - Proposals Submission Form - Session Types & Keywords - FAQs ------------------------------ Join our digital community Google Group at bit.ly/eldcommunity Join us on Facebook for ELDc <https://www.facebook.com/EmergingLearningDesign> and ELDj <https://www.facebook.com/ELDJournal/>, Google+ <https://plus.google.com/communities/118160556051901444209>, Twitter <https://twitter.com/eldconf>, and LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4338445>! ELD conferences provide physical space for the ongoing discussion of how pedagogy, research, and scholarship can be be enhanced and transformed by technology. The ELD Annual Conference is a space designed to showcase innovation as well as to engage in a vibrant and dynamic discourse. The ELD <http://eld.montclair.edu/> Annual Conference makes its home at Montclair State University (MSU.) Please contact eldc.program(a)gmail.com for more information. -- ----- AJ Kelton Director, Center for the Digital Humanities College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate, ABD Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Collaborate with Emerging Learning Design 2017 Conference Chair http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf <http://twitter.com/ELDConf> Hashtag: #ELD17 ELD Question? LIVE CHAT <http://eld.montclair.edu/> (lower right hand corner) ---------- Journal of Emerging Learning Design Co-Editor-in-Chief http://eldj.montclair.edu ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton <http://twitter.com/aj_kelton>

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CFP: “Data Cultures, Culture as Data” – Special Issue of Cultural Analytics
by Amelia Acker 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

*CFP: “Data Cultures, Culture as Data” – Special Issue of Cultural Analytics* Guest editors – Amelia Acker & Tanya Clement, University of Texas at Austin *“Mathematically, visually, and narratively, it matters which figures figure figures, which systems systematize systems” Donna Haraway Environmental Humanities 6 (2015), p. 160.* Data have become pervasive in research in the humanities and the social sciences. New areas, objects, and situations for study have developed; and new methods for working with data are shepherded by new epistemologies and (potential) paradigms shifts. But data didn’t just happen to us. We have happened to data. Karen Barad writes that “We are responsible for the world in which we live not because it is an arbitrary construction of our choosing, but because it is sedimented out of particular practices that we have a role in shaping” (102). Yet where is our agency in that responsibility? What is the role we play in the data cultures/culture as data we form around sociomaterial practices? How can we better understand how these practices effect, and affect, the materialization of subjects, objects, and the relations between them? How can we engage our data culture in practical, critical, and generative ways? In every field, boundaries have been drawn between data and human as if making meaning with data is innocent work, but these boundaries are never innocent. Questions are emerging about data cultures and culture as data—urgent questions that range across concerns with the datafication of culture including the codification (or code-ification) of social and cultural bias; the integrity of data and of human agency, subjectivity, and identity. This special issue of Cultural Analytics invites responses to these concerns. We invite submissions related (but not limited) to: *Proximity and distance between the creation of data and its collection *The nature of data as object or content *Modes of data circulation; dissemination and preservation *Data audiences *Histories and imaginary data futures *Data expertises and folkways *The environmental impact of data work *Data and technological progressivism *Data Accessibility and ethics *Data ontologies *The cultivation, taming, cleaning, and standardization of data *The ethical and social implications of data mining *The cultures, communities, and consciousness of data production *Data literacies Cultural Analytics is looking for Research or theory articles (7,000 to 8,000 words) Data reviews or Case studies of datasets (2,000 to 3,000 words, including visualizations or demonstrations) Opinion pieces (4,000 to 5,000 words) Timetable for Submissions Deadline for abstracts (250-500) -- early November 15, 2017 Deadline for paper submissions – June 15, 2018 Deadline review papers – August 15, 2018 Deadline revised papers – October 15, 2018 Publication of special issue December 1, 2018 Send abstracts and submissions to: cultures.data(a)gmail.com About the journal Cultural Analytics is an open-access journal dedicated to the computational study of culture. Its aim is to promote high quality scholarship that intervenes in contemporary debates about the study of culture using computational and quantitative methods. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief is Andrew Piper. Contact For more information please contact: Amelia Acker aacker [at] ischool.utexas.edu -- Dr. Amelia Acker Assistant Professor School of Information University of Texas at Austin 1616 Guadalupe Suite #5.434 Austin, TX 78701-1213 http://www.ameliaacker.com/

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