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Reminder - Spring Virtual Research Fellows
by Jason Radford 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

Dear Colleagues, I am writing to remind you that the deadline to apply for the Virtual Research Fellows program with Volunteer Science <https://volunteerscience.com/> is *next Friday December 29th.* The semester-long fellowship is for researchers interested in creating online studies using the platform. During the fellowship, researchers will receive free access to Volunteer Science’s researcher portal, free training in building online web applications with Volunteer Science, and weekly coding sessions and hands on support from Volunteer Science staff. The expectation is that fellows will use this time to create, deploy, and analyze data from their application by the end of the fellowship. Please see the attached Call for Applications for details on eligibility, application instructions, and the calendar of events for the Spring. Please email me with any questions. Anyone interested in conducting research on Volunteer Science is invited to sign up for a research team <https://www.volunteerscience.com/research/> where you will be able to create web applications, deploy them on a personal team page, and recruit volunteers, students, or workers on Mechanical Turk. Very Best, Jason Radford * Volunteer ScienceVirtual Research Fellows ProgramCall for Applications, Spring 2018Applicant Deadline: December 29* *Program summary* Volunteer Science is launching an Virtual Research Fellows program for researchers interested in creating web applications using the platform. *The* *program is completely online* and intended to provide a supportive community of researchers. During this semester-long program, fellows receive free access to Volunteer Science’s researcher portal, free training in building online applications, weekly coding sessions, and hands on support from Volunteer Science staff. The program lasts for one semester with the option to renew for an additional semester. The expectation is that fellows will use this time to create, test, and deploy their web app. *Application* To be considered, fellows must email 1) a* study abstract*, 2) a *participant recruitment abstract*, and 3) *contact information* (name, institution, and email) for the applicant and other researchers involved in the study to Jason Radford at j.radford(a)northeastern.edu. The study abstract should be 200-300 words and include a description of the research question(s), study design, and expected outcomes. The participant recruitment abstract should be a 200-300 word description for how you the fellow plan to recruit participants, whether volunteers, students, or online workers. For ideas of the types of studies conducted on Volunteer Science, please see our experiments <https://volunteerscience.com/experiments/> and surveys <https://volunteerscience.com/experiments/survey/> pages. *Eligibility and Selection* Any researcher in a university, government agency, or private company performing research for publication is eligible to apply. Applicants will be selected based on whether the web application is a good fit for Volunteer Science (i.e. whether it takes advantage of online methods to create web apps and/or recruit participants). Special preference to those whose study utilizes the unique features <https://volunteerscience.com/docs/> of Volunteer Science. Preference will also be given to traditionally under-resourced researchers, such as graduate students, junior faculty, and researchers outside R1 and Western institutions. *Institutional Review* All research involving human subjects on Volunteer Science requires proof of human subjects review. We recommend all applicants submit institutional review documents now to ensure the process is complete by the time your study will be finished. You may find current IRB documents for Volunteer Science at https://volunteerscience.com/our_science/. *Calendar of Events* · *Dec 29*: Deadline for Applications · *Jan 8*: Fellows announced · *Jan 19*: Mandatory Online Training · *Jan 26*: Weekly hacking sessions begin · *April 6*: Study Release Day · *May 4*: Spring 2017 Fellowship ends -- Jason Radford Doctoral Student, Sociology, University of Chicago Visiting Researcher, Lazer Lab, Northeastern University *Connect*: Website <http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Ejsradford/>, LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jsradford>, Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/jsradford> *Play Games for Science at Volunteer Science <http://www.volunteerscience.com>*

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New Issue of CyberOrient
by Vit Sisler 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

Dear colleagues, it is my pleasure to announce that a new issue of the CyberOrient journal is available online! All the best, Vit Sisler Managing Editor CyberOrient, Vol. 11, Iss. 2, 2017 Editor-in-Chief: Daniel M. Varisco Managing Editor: Vit Sisler http://www.cyberorient.net/ Articles Behind the Screen: the Syrian Virtual Resistance Billie Jeanne Brownlee http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=9852 Big Data in the MENA Region: The Next Path towards Socio-economic and Cultural Development Ilhem Allagui & Mohammad Ayish http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=9861 Comments Transnational Religious Practices on Facebook Seyedehbehnaz Hosseini http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=9866 About CyberOrient CyberOrient (http://www.cyberorient.net/) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Anthropological Association, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. The aim of the journal is to provide research and theoretical considerations on the representation of Islam and the Middle East, the very areas that used to be styled as an “Orient”, in cyberspace, as well as the impact of the internet and new media in Muslim and Middle Eastern contexts. -- Vit Sisler, Ph.D. Charles University Faculty of Arts Institute of Information Science and Librarianship New Media Studies http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/

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Good/recent undergrad reading on Online Cooperation
by Joseph Reagle 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

Kollock's (1999) "The Economies Of Online Cooperation: Gifts And Public Goods In Cyberspace" [1] was great because it distinguished between some theoretic concepts (gifts, public goods, digital goods) and touched on motivations and limits. It is, also, very old---not many students know what Usenet and The WELL are. Any suggestions for a similar, high level, overview of the why, how, and limits to online cooperation? (There's tons of literature on all those topics of course, but I'm struggling to find something pithy, comprehensive, and current.) Thanks for any suggestions! [1]: http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/3824/Working_Draft.p…

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Competition for 2-year post-doctoral grants in Estonia
by Andra Siibak 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

Dear all, ESTONIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL HAS ANNOUNCED A COMPETITION FOR 2-YEAR POST-DOCTORAL GRANTS - FOR CANDIDATES INTERESTED IN WORKING AT ESTONIAN UNIVERSITIES. Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, invites interested emerging scholars to contact us for and discussing common research interests and for submitting an application. We have a good track record in winning and hosting post-doctoral grants. In particular we are inviting potential post-doctoral researchers in the innovative fields of digital sociology, social informatics, (new) media studies and (critical) data studies. Our faculty members are interested in supervising and working together on the following broad topics: * Digital methods (techniques, methods, epistemologies) * Critical data studies (data inequalities, data discrimination, data power) * Critical algorithm studies (algorithmic selection, algorithmic governance) * Comparative big data studies * Social network analysis * (Digital) social transformations * Digitalisation and mobile lives (everyday mobilities, immigration) * The datafied self and privacy * Privacy and social media * Micro-celebrities /influencers / online celebrity * New media audiences * Media generations * Mediatization * Disconnection and social media See more about Institute of Social Studies (https://www.yti.ut.ee/en) and about the Call (http://www.etag.ee/en/funding/mobility-funding/mobilitas-pluss/mobilitas-pl… [1]). The deadline for applications is January 31st, thus we encourage interested people to make contact ASAP. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE DROP ME A LINE: Andra Siibak, Professor of Media Studies, Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu andra.siibak(a)ut.ee Links: ------ [1] http://www.etag.ee/en/funding/mobility-funding/mobilitas-pluss/mobilitas-pl…

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Good/recent undergrad reading on Online Cooperation
by Gabriella "Biella" Coleman 20 Dec '17

20 Dec '17

I think this piece is quite good at differentiating different forms of cooperation and participation online http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17530350.2011.563069 BIRDS OF THE INTERNET Towards a field guide to the organization and governance of participation Adam Fish <http://www.tandfonline.com/author/Fish%2C+Adam>,Luis F.R. Murillo <http://www.tandfonline.com/author/Murillo%2C+Luis+FR>,Lilly Nguyen <http://www.tandfonline.com/author/Nguyen%2C+Lilly>,Aaron Panofsky <http://www.tandfonline.com/author/Panofsky%2C+Aaron> &Christopher M. Kelty <http://www.tandfonline.com/author/Kelty%2C+Christopher+M> Pages 157-187 | Published online: 09 May 2011 * Download citation <http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.1080%2F17530350.201…> * https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2011.563069 * On 2017-12-20 07:18 AM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:44:34 -0500 > From: Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011(a)reagle.org> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Good/recent undergrad reading on Online Cooperation > Message-ID: <162760b0-ce96-9418-7d6d-88a0955491f6(a)reagle.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 -- Gabriella Coleman Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy Department of Art History & Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, PQ H3A 0G5 http://gabriellacoleman.org/ 514-398-8572

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Ethical problem in a Twitter reaserch
by Lior Beserman 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

Dear Air-L Community, I have encountered an ethical problem which I am sure I am not the first to encounter and so would appreciate your say on the matter. I am doing a discourse analysis on a twitter hashtag and I have no way to discern that I am not using under age (under 18) users tweets. As there are completely different questions and guidelines to research minors from an ethical perspective, I was wondering how other people have dealt with this problem in their research? Thank you, Lior Beserman Navon, Ph.D. Candidate The Department of Sociology & Anthropology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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3-year Doctoral Studentship on The Ethics of AI, Oxford University - OII - Digital Ethics Lab
by Luciano Floridi 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

University of Oxford Oxford Internet Institute Digital Ethics Lab Applications are invited for a three-year doctoral studentship on The Ethics of AI: Challenges and Opportunities Deadline 12:00pm GMT on Friday 19 January 2018 The studentship will commence in October 2018. The successful candidate will investigate the ethical aspects, requirements, and desiderata underpinning the design and development of AI, and develop original and innovative research to foster value-based and ethically sound solutions to the problems posed by AI. The student will be supervised by Prof. Luciano Floridi and Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo, and will be a member of, and collaborate with, the OII’s Digital Ethics Lab (DELab) http://digitalethicslab.oii.ox.ac.uk/ <http://digitalethicslab.oii.ox.ac.uk/> The studentship is supported by funding donated by Google. For the application pack and further details on application process please see: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/new-positions/ <https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/new-positions/> Best regards, Luciano Floridi ____________________________________________ Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Director, Digital Ethics Lab http://digitalethicslab.oii.ox.ac.uk/ <http://digitalethicslab.oii.ox.ac.uk/> Oxford Internet Institute | University of Oxford Turing Fellow | Chair of the Data Ethics Group 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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ICADIWT 2018
by ijwa＠dline.info 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

CALL FOR PAPERS The Ninth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2018) June 25-27, 2018 Porto, Portugal http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt The Ninth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2018) is a forum for researchers to present the intensive and innovative research, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Computer Communications, Communication networks, Communication Software Communication Technologies and Applications, and other related themes. This conference (ICADIWT Edition IX) will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. Digital Technologies is embeeded in the research activiites of large number of people and it ensures the Ubiquitous reaching of more number of people in the recent years. Research in digital technologies has been carried out in many directions using various resources and tools and on the other side, the application issues are addressed by more volume of researchers not necessarily limited to information and computing technology. Thus the proposed conference series realize its value and potential and manifest the requirements in the form of the international conference. This edition will address the following outlined themes (but not limited to) Internet Communication Internet Technologies Web Applications Internet Software Data Access and Transmission Digital Communication Software Digital Networks Web Communication Interfaces Adaptive Systems Internet of Things Internet of breath Augmented Reality Databases and applications Web Systems Engineering Design Intelligent Agent systems/ Semantic Web Studies Adaptive Web applications and personalization Actuators and sensors Robotics and Machine Vision Smart cities and structures Control Automation Human-machine interfaces Real-time simulation Digital Technologies for Mechanical and other designs Publication and Indexing The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and submitted for inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be submitted for indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be indexed in many databases as given at http://www.frontiersinai.com/?q=indexing The accepted papers will be published as a post-conference publication. During the conference, the pre-conference volume will be distributed. Important Dates Submission of papers- April 01, 2018 Notification-May 10, 2018 Camera ready-June 10, 2018 Registration-June 15, 2018 Conference Dates-June 25-27, 2018 PROGRAM COMMITTEES Honorary Chair Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, (Opole University, Poland) General Chairs Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India Program Chairs Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Submissions at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/ Contact diwt(a)dirf.org or icadiwt(a)socio.org.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------

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CfP: The politics of metadata in participatory approaches: Opportunities, practices, and conflicts (DHN 2018)
by Karin Hansson 19 Dec '17

19 Dec '17

Call for proposals Workshop at the conference Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 7 March 2018 at the University of Helsinki This workshop seeks to expand critical perspectives on metadata in relation to public cultural heritage image collections online. In our image-saturated time, the definition of therticipatory online practices such as crowdsourcing enable cultural heritage institutions to accelerate the development of digi also be seen as platforms for audience engagement, creating a deep connection to cultural heritage through online collaboration. Furthermore, open data and enhanced standards enabling interoperability might support new forms of collaboration between institutions, researchers, and the general public. However, these participatory open science practices create new challenges due to the character of the networked publics involved and the established structures between and within institutions, but also new opportunities and practices when it comes to understanding and defining our shared images. Therefore, critical perspectives on metadata in relation to photographic collections online are vital. This calls for an interdisciplinary approach in the intersection between computer science, image studies, and cultural studies. For this workshop, therefore, we invite participants to look more closely at different types of participatory practices online in relation to the cultural heritage domain, and at different levels of interaction. Possible sites of analysis could be the interaction between participants, the participation in the work by different stakeholders, the potentially privileged levels of interaction with the metadata, or tensions in the agency of the participants in relation to the task. This half-day workshop explores the topics in mini presentations and brainstorming sessions, and will result in a research agenda for addressing these questions. The position-paper should be 2-4 pages and using the Springer LNCS templates. Send submissions and inquiries to the following email address: politics-of-metadata(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:politics-of-metadata@googlegroups.com> Deadline is Wednesday, January 31, 2018. For more information visit the website: http://politicsofmetadata.blogs.dsv.su.se/

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CFP EASST18 - Open design & manufacturing in the platform economy -
by Raúl Tabarés 18 Dec '17

18 Dec '17

Dear all, Please consider to submit paper proposals to our panel "Open design & manufacturing in the platform economy" at next EASST18 conference that will be held in Lancaster. The event will be held from 25-28 of July and will bring together a lot of STS and SSH scholars. The call will be open till the 14th of February of 2018. A description of the panel is included below. Feel free to contact us in case of any doubt. Papers can be submitted here-> https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6189 - Open design & manufacturing in the platform economy - Short abstract Open design and manufacturing paradigms have been recently embraced for promoting technological appropriation as well as enablers for transforming traditional fabrication. In this panel we explore the role that these concepts can have in a post-industrial society. Long abstract With the popularization of the Web 2.0 paradigm, digital platforms have become cultural intermediaries in a growing technology mediation environment that has been framed by various scholars as "platform economy". This recent phenomenon has favored the establishment of different "black box" systems that impede us from discovering the inner workings of these new socio-technological brokers. Different self-organized communities and grassroots initiatives have simultaneously appeared thanks to the Internet and the emergence of new makerspaces that have a subset of digital fabrication tools. These groups promote citizen empowerment through technological appropriation and rely on digital commons such as open designs, software and knowledge. In this sense, especially relevant has been the emergence of new discourses aligned with these non-proprietary technologies like open design and manufacturing, which are conceived to promote a radical change in the fabrication towards a more sustainable relationship between production processes and goods. How can digital platforms be designed in order to facilitate encounters between people, things and environments within open design & manufacturing? How can we understand the impact of such digital platforms on society? In this panel we would like to invite authors to analyze the emergence of these phenomena and critically examine the opportunities, contradictions, challenges and tensions that this combination of new tools and mindsets bring for technological appropriation in a post-industrial society. We welcome submissions that can explore alternative paths for R&D systems and innovation policies but also for reconfiguring design and production processes. -- ------------------------------ All the best, Raúl @faraondemetal http://es.linkedin.com/in/rtabares <http://blogs.tecnalia.com/inspiring-blog/author/raultabares/>

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