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Remote Participation / Webcast: African Internet Governance Forum 2017 in Sharm Al Sheik
by Joly MacFie 05 Dec '17

05 Dec '17

A lot of very good discussion at the AfIGF this year. It was preceded by two days of North Africa IGF, so participants are well up to speed. The GoToMeeting works quite well, although audio has had the occasional drop. Translators have been working overtime! Check the opening keynote <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/afigf17/videos/166786775> from Dr. Alexander Trigona. [image: AfIGF] <http://afigf.org/?q=AfIGF%202017>The *6th African Internet Governance Forum <http://afigf.org/?q=AfIGF%202017>* (AfIGF2017) is being held from *4 to 6 December 201**7* in *Sharm El Sheikh*, Egypt. The Conference has the theme *Enabling an Inclusive Digital Transformation of Africa*. Remote participation is available via GoToMeeting. Certain sessions are being webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/afigf17>*. Egypt is UTC+2 = 7 hours ahead of NYC. *What: 6th African Internet Governance Forum <http://afigf.org/?q=AfIGF%202017> (AfIGF2017)Where: Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptWhen: 4 to 6 December 2017Agenda: http://bit.ly/afigf2017agenda <http://bit.ly/afigf2017agenda>Webcast: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/afigf17 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/afigf17>RP: https://www.gotomeet.me/AFIGF-2017-Grand-BallRoom-2 <https://www.gotomeet.me/AFIGF-2017-Grand-BallRoom-2> (Main)https://www.gotomeet.me/AFIGF-2017-Grand-BallRoom-1 <https://www.gotomeet.me/AFIGF-2017-Grand-BallRoom-1>https://www.gotomeet.me/AFIGF-2017-Grand-BallRoom-3 <https://www.gotomeet.me/AFIGF-2017-Grand-BallRoom-3>https://www.gotomeet.me/AFIGF-2017-Regency-BallRoom-4 <https://www.gotomeet.me/AFIGF-2017-Regency-BallRoom-4>Twitter: #afigf2017 http://bit.ly/afigf2017 <http://bit.ly/afigf2017>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9669#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9669#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9669 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CFP "Affordances and Architectures" 4S Sydney
by Jenny Davis 04 Dec '17

04 Dec '17

Submissions open! 4S Panel: "Affordances and Architectures: A Materialist Approach to Digital Design." (CFP below). 4S will take place August 29 - September 1 2018 (https://4s2018sydney.org/) 32. Affordances and Architectures: A Materialist Approach to Digital Design Jenny Davis, Australian National University; Timothy Graham (Australian National University); Baptiste Brossard (Australian National University) The design of technological objects and systems cannot be separated from the social structures within which they arise and operate. People and things are mutually influential and co-constitutive. This simple idea—that people shape technologies and technologies shape people—undergirds recent advancements in affordance theory and platform/infrastructure studies. Across disciplines, scholars are developing precise language and robust frameworks for understanding how social dynamics are built into socio-technical systems and how socio-technical systems structure social dynamics. These theoretical advancements arise through and alongside critical work on digitization and automation as an integral component of personal and public life (see especially Nagy and Neff 2015; Plantin et al. 2016; Davis and Chouinard 2017; and Evans et al. 2017). This panel seeks to implement, build on, and apply clear conceptualizations of “affordance” to better understand how the architectures of digital platforms and infrastructures take shape and exert force. An affordance perspective on digital architectures fosters questions about the social antecedents to design decisions as well as questions about social and institutional effects. For instance, what is the interplay between administrative medical interfaces and physician-patient relations? How do dating apps with “swipe” functions (re)formulate intimacy and courtship rituals? What agendas are embedded in digital maps, and how do these mappings inform experiences of space and place? How do vote-based visibility algorithms encourage or discourage dissent? We seek to strengthen a theoretical orientation towards the materialist study of digital design through serious treatment of technological affordances Open panel paper submissions should be in the form of abstracts of up to 250 words. They should include the paper’s main arguments, methods, and contributions to STS. When submitting papers to open panels on the abstract submission platform, you will select the Open Panel you are submitting to. Papers submitted to an open session will be reviewed by the open session organizers and will be given first consideration for that session. Papers not included in the session to which they were submitted will be considered for other sessions. Best, Jenny Jenny L. Davis Lecturer, School of Sociology The Australian National University Co-Editor: Cyborgology<https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/> <https://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis> Twitter: @Jenny_L_Davis<https://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis>

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Call for Workshop Proposals: ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2018
by Yong Zheng 04 Dec '17

04 Dec '17

*** Please forward to anyone who might be interested *** -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL for WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018) to be held in Vancouver, Canada, 2nd-7th October, 2018 https://recsys.acm.org/recsys18/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- RecSys 2018 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide additional venues for discussing novel ideas as well as recent results of research in progress. In 2018 our goal is to have a balanced workshop program which comprises workshop formats of different types and a combination of newly emerging, currently evolving, and historically understudied topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop formats are possible, for example: ● Workshops with novel interactive workshop formats and a relatively small number of participants. Such workshop formats might for example target at the exploration of a certain topic during the workshop through a moderated discussion or breakout sessions, resulting in a draft paper or report to be completed and published after the workshop. Particular priority will be given to these formats which require the active involvement of the participants. ● Workshops with the traditional workshop format on specialized topics; such workshops typically have their own paper submission and review processes. Proposals for continuations of existing workshop series are welcome, however, please include a brief statement on the necessity for the new edition, including a description of the outcomes of previous years and the expected novelty of this edition. In both cases, a subset of workshop papers selected by workshop chairs will also be allocated a presentation slot in a poster session to encourage discussion and follow up between authors and attendees. We encourage you to contact us by email to workshops2018(a)recsys.acm.org in advance with workshop ideas; we will work with prospective workshop organizers to help them design successful proposals. In particular for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats we are happy to assist you in further developing and implementing your ideas. Please contact us at least three weeks before the deadline. We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit proposals. PROPOSAL FORMAT AND SUBMISSION The workshop proposal should be a PDF document no more than 4 pages long, submitted by e-mail to workshops2018(a)recsys.acm.org and organized as follows: ● Workshop title ● A short description of the workshop including the rationale for the workshop and how and why it fits the audience of RecSys. This description should include also the topic, format, and details about what type of submission is requested from prospective attendees. Please also add an explanation on how the workshop complements, rather than duplicates, the topics of the main conference. ● Name, email address, and affiliation for workshop organizer(s) and a brief description of their experience in organizing such events. ● Requested duration (half day or full day), and expected number of participants. ● Description of workshop activities. Outline how the workshop will be organized and how the time will be spent. In particular, please sketch how you will engage participants to foster more interactivity and engagement during the workshop. For more interactive workshop formats, also outline the process of selecting or inviting the participants. ● Description of plans for promoting the workshop and disseminating the results. ● History of prior workshops on this topic (e.g., including the number of submissions and attendees), if any. EVALUATION CRITERIA ● Ability of the topic to contribute to the continued development of the field of recommender systems. ● Level of complementarity of the topic to the main conference. ● Clear plan for attracting submissions, making the workshop itself productive, and disseminating results. ● Evidence that this plan will be successful. ● Experience of the organizers. IMPORTANT DATES ● Workshop proposal submission deadline: March 5th, 2018 ● Workshop proposal notification: March 26th, 2018 ● Workshop summary camera-ready deadline: August 6th, 2018 ● Workshop dates: October 6th and 7th, 2018 Example deadlines (workshop organizers are free to apply their own deadlines, although we encourage the organizers to follow the suggested deadlines): ● Call for Papers publication: April 9th, 2018 ● Paper submission deadline: July 16th, 2018 ● Reviewer deadline: August 3rd, 2018 ● Author notification: August 13th, 2018 ● Camera-ready version deadline: August 27th, 2018 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. WORKSHOP CHAIRS ● Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain ● Martha Larson, Radboud University, The Netherlands

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Re: [Air-L] Advice: pitching STS work to AI scientists (MG)
by Taylor-Smith, Ella 04 Dec '17

04 Dec '17

Hi Maya, It doesn't look as though you have any replies to the list, so here are my thoughts, based on doing case studies in a different area, but using STS-style (social informatics) approach. There are undoubtaedly many people working in AI that take ethics very seriously -could you identify these practices and include them in your critical appraisal? You would be doing the AI community a service to map what's happening and the gaps in that map would fascinating from an STS perspective. Hope this helps -Ella Dr Ella Taylor-Smith School of Computing Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith(a)napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm Message: 1 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 14:58:21 +0100 From: MG <mayamemes(a)riseup.net> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Advice: pitching STS work to AI scientists Message-ID: <4ec8b41e-2812-903c-7f2c-c62733245340(a)riseup.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi AOIR list, I'm writing to ask for advice on pitching doctoral work grounded in an STS approach to AI scientists at an ethics and society conference. (They expressly ask for early stage PhD and Masters students to apply). Does anyone have advice on how to shape work that is mostly critical of how AI science approaches questions of ethics to the AI science community itself? I imagine that anyone doing any kind of critical STS work and engaging with scientists working in that discipline might have insights and references. It would be nice to have my abstract accepted, but I'm also interested in engaging with this community. Thanks, Maya -- Doctoral candidate, Leuphana University Die Fakult?t Kulturwissenschaften / ICAM T: @mayameme W: bodyofwork.in Fingerprint: D108 EA05 471F 709B E644 18E6 2A9F A109 16D7 EE98 This message and its attachment(s) are intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied, disclosed, forwarded or relied upon by any person other than the intended addressee(s) without the permission of the sender. If you are not the intended addressee you must not take any action based on this message and its attachment(s) nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please respond to the sender and ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are deleted. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this message or its attachment(s), or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Emails entering Edinburgh Napier University's system are subject to routine monitoring and filtering by Edinburgh Napier University. Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373

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Data & Society Call for 2018-2019 Fellows
by danah boyd 04 Dec '17

04 Dec '17

Please forward as you see fit. Note that this year, we are intentionally accepting faculty fellows. <grin> Data & Society Call for 2018-2019 Fellows https://datasociety.net/initiatives/fellows-program/ <https://datasociety.net/initiatives/fellows-program/> We are now accepting applications for our 2018-19 fellows class. The deadline to apply is January 15, 2018. Please direct inquiries about the fellows program or application process to fellowsapp(a)datasociety.net <mailto:fellowsapp@datasociety.net> . Questions will not reflect negatively on your application. Don’t hesitate to get in touch! *Program* Data & Society is assembling its fifth class of fellows to join us from September 1, 2018. (Please meet our current and past fellows classes at https://datasociety.net/people/fellows/ <https://datasociety.net/people/fellows/> .) Data & Society works towards a future in which the values that shape technology are visible and intentionally chosen with respect for human dignity. We conduct interdisciplinary research and build a field of actors to ensure that knowledge guides development and governance of technology. Our annual fellows program helps ensure that new connections and perspectives deepen and expand our community’s understanding of the challenges and opportunities society faces in a data-centric world. Data & Society fellows have pursued academic research, written code, created art, brought together communities of activists and practice, run workshops, worked closely with Data & Society’s in-house research team and each other, and much more. Current and past fellows are academics and researchers, artists and activists, coders and technologists, journalists, lawyers, and community organizers concerned with the implications of data-centric technology’s role in reconfiguring society. We are engaged, individually and together, in interrogating and articulating those implications and developing frames that can help society address emergent tensions. The fellowship is intentionally broad and inclusive of a range of output and engagement. As we build the 2018-19 class, we’re continuing to embrace breadth and diversity, but we are providing some categories to help better guide applicants and to ensure fellows are supported within Data & Society’s programs and productively connected to others in the Data & Society community. *2018-19 Fellowships* For the coming year, we are seeking 8-10 fellows across four categories: 1) Arts and Culture: Artistic and cultural production can advance public understanding of the complexities of data-centric technologies and can drive individual and collective imagining of multiple futures. We are looking for arts and culture fellows who will connect to Data & Society research topics and whose work challenges commonplace narratives running through debate and public discourse around technology. 2) Organizational Bridging: Fellows from other organizations, companies, or public sector entities who are grappling directly with questions around data-centric technologies and automation bring a crucial, practical frame to Data & Society’s work. Bridge fellows will come with a mandate from their organization to explore a particular question or issue during their time at Data & Society and to bring that knowledge back to their home institution. With the fellow, we will actively seek to build a strong relationship over the course of the fellowship between Data & Society and the fellow’s home institution. We’re especially interested in applicants who play a legal or policy role in their home institution. 3) Computer and Data Science: Technical fellows at Data & Society bring a core research question to their time within the organization; they are also looking to explore the social, cultural and political implications of technological choices. Technical fellows may come from academia, industry, civil society, or the public sector. We expect technical fellows will have an advanced degree in computer or data science or equivalent, relevant experience. 4) Faculty Fellows: We are seeking faculty fellows whose Data & Society fellowship project will contribute to an existing, in-house research initiative. In this category, we invite applications from faculty of any rank who are at least three years beyond receipt of their Ph.D. by the start of the fellowship. Eligible fields include the social sciences (anthropology, sociology, political economy, science and technology studies, history, etc.); law, jurisprudence, or policy; business; or a social science or humanistic field as long as the applicant’s work engages the social and cultural implications of data-centric technologies and automation. *Participation & Cohort* While we are prioritizing four kinds of fellows for the 2018-19 year, the core intent of the program has not changed: This is not a fellowship for those who want to spend a year head-down on an independent project. Rather, this is a program for people who are looking for ways to create impact both within and beyond their field, who can see the value of their work within an interdisciplinary community – and on a bigger stage. Fellows commit to being in residence at the D&S loft in New York City for two days each week. Each fellow, over the course of their fellowship, will pursue a project or set of activities of their own design. Fellows are also asked to engage with D&S – both at the organizational level and with the broader community. This engagement can take a number of different forms, from organizing small group sessions with visitors, to developing workshops, to working on in-house publications, and much, much more. We ask that all fellows either participate in or lead a monthly reading group, as well as participate in a lightweight round of regular D&S activities designed to strengthen community and research connections. Beyond that, the choice of where and how to participate is part of the fellowship design process between the fellow and D&S staff. Together with our in-house research team and postdocs, fellows form the annual Data & Society cohort – a group of approximately 45 colleagues who come together as the core of Data & Society’s research and field-building efforts. Beyond the in-house cohort, Data & Society fellows are also connected to past fellows, our affiliates, and a broad field of actors both in New York City and beyond who regularly pass through D&S for workshops, seminars, social gatherings, and talks. *Projects & Themes* Potential fellows are invited to imagine a specific project or set of activities, in one of the four categories above, that they will execute to help society’s understanding of a world permeated by data. Successful fellowship projects inform, convene, intervene, or provoke – with an eye to broader impact. We are open to a wide range of potential outputs, from papers and op-eds to events, code, and art installations. We are also interested in creating connections and exchange between our in-house research and fellows’ projects. We also love it when our fellows experiment with new ideas or stretch our work and network in unexpected directions. We expect that the themes that run through our 2018-19 fellows class will be a combination of the familiar and the unexpected. Some of Data & Society’s ongoing, in-house research topics include: artificial intelligence; precision medicine and heath; media manipulation and disinformation; the future of labor; human rights, data, and refugee populations; and fairness, accountability, and transparency in technical systems. Again, we welcome applications that pose entirely new questions and topics and push D&S in new directions, as well as applications that complement and expand our current research themes. *Term* Residency typically runs from September 1 through June 30 of the following year. If you would like to apply for a fellowship but cannot commit to a full term, please flag that in your application, as we may be able to accommodate some variations. *Funding* Fellows commit to two days a week in residence for the full term and are offered a stipend of $25,000, with additional, approved project costs available to them. If we are able to accommodate a fellowship period shorter than ten months, the stipend will be pro-rated on a monthly basis. All fellows will have access to desks/workspaces, meeting rooms, email addresses, etc., and programmatic and organizational support to advance their work. As a 501(c)(3) organization, we support fellows in applying for both federal and philanthropic grants, and we work with fellows currently holding grants to craft an appropriate fellowship that allows them to honor commitments to grantors. While we welcome applications from outside the United States, we are currently unable to support the acquisition of visas. If you are applying from outside the United States and are accepted, you will need to secure your own visa and, depending on your situation, work permit. *Application Process* To apply for a Data & Society fellowship, we’ll ask you to complete an application at Submittable. You’ll be submitting information about yourself and your work to date, including: - cover letter; - resume or CV; - work samples; - project summary and brief (1000 word) proposal; - names and email addresses of three references. Note that references will automatically receive an email from Submittable, the application platform, prompting them to submit a letter of reference to Data & Society. Please make sure your references whitelist submittable.com. *First-round applications are due January 15, 2018.* Second-round applicants will be contacted for an interview with D&S staff, fellows, and/or advisors, and may be asked for additional information such as project budgets as they move through the review process. Successful applicants will be notified in the spring, with a public announcement to follow. If you are interested in applying to be a Data & Society fellow, please complete the application form at http://datasociety.submittable.com <http://datasociety.submittable.com/> by *January 15, 2018*. To view this call for fellows online, as well as an FAQ, visit https://datasociety.net/initiatives/fellows-program/ <https://datasociety.net/initiatives/fellows-program/> The work and well-being of Data & Society is strengthened by the diversity of our network and our differences in background, culture, experience, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, and much more. We welcome applications from people of color, women, the LGBTQIA community, and persons with disabilities. ###

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Reminder: CFP Special Issue of the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Journal on Rhetoric of Public Health
by Molloy, Cathryn S - molloycs 04 Dec '17

04 Dec '17

Dear All, Just a reminder on the opportunity to contribute to the first special issue <http://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/announcement/view/8> of the new Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Journal on the Rhetoric of Public Health! There is still one week to go until the due date, so get your proposals together! This special issue will be co-edited by guest editor, Jennifer Malkowski and RHM editor Lisa Meloncon. Special issue manuscripts will undergo the same review process as regular submissions. This issue is scheduled for 2019. Please email 500-1000 word proposals (word count does not include citations) to rhm.journal.editors(a)gmail.com by December 11, 2017. (Please note that the email address in the original call was misprinted). Completed manuscripts for accepted proposals will be due April 2, 2018. More details can be found in the CFP on the journal's site via the link below. Questions via email from potential contributors are welcome and encouraged to Jennifer Malkowski (JMalkowski(a)csuchico.edu) http://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/announcement/view/8 Thanks very much for considering submitting, Cathryn Molloy

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Call for Spring Virtual Research Fellows
by Jason Radford 04 Dec '17

04 Dec '17

Dear Colleagues, I am writing to announce our call for Virtual Research Fellows for the Spring Semester with the online laboratory Volunteer Science <https://volunteerscience.com/>. This semester-long fellowship is for researchers interested in creating web applications 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. The deadline for applications is* December 29th*. 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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Cultures of fact travel CfP: 4S Sydney 2018
by Heather Ford 04 Dec '17

04 Dec '17

Chris Anderson, Lucas Graves and I are facilitating an Open Panel at 4S Sydney, August 29 - September 1 2018 (https://4s2018sydney.org/) around "Cultures of Fact Travel". Abstracts close: Feb 1st, 2018. If you're looking at production/evaluation/distribution of factual knowledge in digitally-mediated environments, please apply! 79. Cultures of fact travel Organisers: Dr Heather Ford, University of New South Wales; Professor Christopher W. Anderson (University of Leeds), Dr Lucas Graves (University of Oxford) This panel invites research that addresses how facts and knowledge claims are represented in online spaces, how they are evaluated and verified, the ways in which they face opposition or reach consensus, and/or how they travel through the infrastructures of the Internet. A large variety of sites and practices have emerged to host and distribute facts in online environments. New facts are born digital in the form of databases, data visualisations, online dictionaries and encyclopaedic entries while facts that existed before the Internet are digitised and encoded using the rules and grammar of software. In this environment, facts are produced and represented using software for visualising data and exporting visualisations into Web-friendly formats, where facts are verified on fact checking platforms and where facts are distributed and shared using software such as the ‘share this’ button at the end of a newspaper article, a ‘cite this’ button on a scientific journal article, or a retweet function on Twitter. In order for a fact to travel, it needs to move from beyond its origins in the lab, the institution, company, field, or community to new audiences. Sometimes this translation happens between institutions, sometimes it happens between fields, or between countries, continents or languages. This panel will host different approaches to the production, evaluation, and distribution of facts in digitally-mediated environments. Open panel paper submissions should be in the form of abstracts of up to 250 words. They should include the paper’s main arguments, methods, and contributions to STS. When submitting papers to open panels on the abstract submission platform, you will select the Open Panel you are submitting to. Papers submitted to an open session will be reviewed by the open session organizers and will be given first consideration for that session. Papers not included in the session to which they were submitted will be considered for other sessions.

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ICADIWT 2018
by ijwa＠dline.info 03 Dec '17

03 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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Online Survey about Bots in social Networks: Your participation is desired
by Johann Burger - Danube University Krems, Austria 03 Dec '17

03 Dec '17

Dear AoIR Members, enclosed you find a link to an online survey, which is part of my Master Thesis about 'Acceptance of Bots in social Networks'. The survey includes some closed questions related to the categories trust, acceptance, ethics and technology. With the exceptional possibility to get feedback from a global Internet research community regarding this topic I am asking for your participation. To start the survey, please follow this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/acceptance_of_social_bots Feel free to forward this survey to other researchers and groups; it helps to get a comprehensive collection of data. Thank you for your participation and Best Regards from Austria, Johann Student at the Danube University Krems, Austria

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