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Deadline: 1 March 2017 for #AoIR2017 Submissions
by Michelle, AoIR Association Coordinator 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Deadline for submissions of papers, panels, fishbowls, experimental sessions, roundtables, and pre-conference workshops is *Wednesday, 1 March 2017*. This is your last full weekend to work on your submission! Other #AoIR2017 submission deadlines: 1 APRIL 2017 Nominations for Nancy Baym Book award and Best Dissertation Award due https://aoir.org/2017awardcriteria/ 20 MAY 2017 Applications due for conference travel SCHOLARSHIPS and for DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM 1 AUGUST 2017 Early Bird Registration Deadline for all presenters 30 SEPTEMBER 2017 Deadline for uploading accepted, non-blind, final version of paper and panel submissions - - - - - - - - Submission information is available here: https://aoir.org/aoir2017/subinfo2017/ - - - - - - - - Regards, Michelle AoIR Association Coordinator

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Deadline soon: CSCL 2017: interactive sessions, doctoral, early and mid-career workshops
by Gabriela Richard 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

***Deadline soon*** Instructions to Apply for the CSCL 2017 Doctoral Consortium (DC), Early Career Workshop (ECW), Mid-Career Workshop (MCW), and Interactive Events The organizing committees for the CSCL 2017 DC, ECW, MCW, and Interactive Events are pleased to accept applications. The instructions for applications to each event are detailed on the conference website, https://isls.org/cscl/2017, under the submissions tab. Applicants can submit materials until February 28, 2017 on the proposal submissions website (https://precisionconference.com/~cscl/ ) under the new submissions link. Please note that you can only attend a DC, ECW, or MCW workshop once, therefore repeat applications will not be considered. Repeat submissions to the Interactive Events are allowed. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of the review process by mid to late March. We look forward to receiving your application.

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Final Reminder: Deadline for Global mobileGov Awards
by emre＠mgovernment.net 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Dear Colleagues, Global mGov Awards will be one of the highlights of this year's mobileGov World Summit. Several entries and nominations have been received and are distributed globally including S. America, Europe, and Asia. This is to remind you that the deadline for the initial proposals is the 1st of March, only a few days away. We are soliciting entries of leading mobile services and apps implemented by public sector organisations as well as solutions for the public sector developed by the industry. Awards aim to inspire governments, businesses and citizens and spread successful implementations globally. The call for nominations is still open for the Global mobileGov Awards. Please remember the deadline for preliminary proposals for the Award is 1st of March, and for the full proposals it is 15th of April. We do refer you to the website www.m4life.org/conferences/mgovsummit2016/mgovawards/ for more info on the Awards and show interest, if you are willing to enter or nominate a project / solution for the Award. We are also looking for exhibitors making a showcase and demos of their solutions for the Public Sector. The draft program is ready on the site with pre-conference tutorials and workshops planned. The registrations are open too. We inform intended participants to make registrations and reservations for the accommodation as early as possible due to Brighton Festival, which starts beginning of May. I would be grateful if you could forward this information among your relevant network of professionals and organisations. Best Regards, -- Emre Simsek Researcher MobileGov UK http://www.mgovernment.net/ emre(a)mgovernment.org

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Deadline for Speaking Proposals - mobileGov World Summit
by emre＠mgovernment.net 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Dear Colleagues, The mobileGov World Summit 2017 is only about two months away. The organization is moving forward as planned with contributions from private companies and public sector professionals internationally. This is to remind you that deadline for speaking proposals is 1st of March. You can still send in your proposals for speaking / giving tutorials. We are also looking for exhibitors making a showcase and demos of their solutions for the Public Sector. The draft program is ready on the site with pre-conference tutorials and workshops planned. The registrations are open too. We inform intended participants to make there registrations and reservations for the accommodation as early as possible due to Brighton Festival, which starts beginning of May. To access the info on confirmed speakers, current agenda, programme highlights, registrations, exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities, please refer to conference website: www.m4life.org and show interest. I would be grateful if you could forward this information among your relevant network of professionals and organisations. Best wishes, -- Emre Simsek Researcher MobileGov UK http://www.mgovernment.net/ emre(a)mgovernment.org

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*Corrected link*: STS/Digital Society 12-month postdoc on climate change & social media
by Warren Pearce 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

The correct URL is http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AXL105/research-associate/ (Thanks to those that pointed out my error!) On 22 February 2017 at 11:40, Warren Pearce <warren.pearce(a)sheffield.ac.uk> wrote: > *Apologies for cross-posting* > > 12-month postdoc position now open working on the “Making Climate Social” > <http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=ES/N002016/1> project on social media > climate change communication, within the burgeoning STS and Digital Society > clusters at Sheffield. The postholder will use qual methods, including > ethnography, to investigate the contexts within which social media > communication take place. The Met Office is a partner organisation on the > project. > > The closing date is 21st March. Please forward to suitable candidates > and/or networks, and email me directly with any informal enquiries. > > Best wishes, Warren > > Dr Warren Pearce, > Faculty Fellow (iHuman), > The Department of Sociological Studies, > Faculty of Social Science, > Elmfield, Northumberland Road, > Sheffield, S10 2TU. > > @WarrenPearce > > > -- Dr Warren Pearce <http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/staff/staff-profiles/warren-pearce>, Faculty Fellow (iHuman), Room B06b, The Department of Sociological Studies, Faculty of Social Science, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, Sheffield, S10 2TU. @WarrenPearce <https://twitter.com/WarrenPearce>

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Hello to all
by Fardin Alikhah 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Hi All I recently joined the AIR from Iran. Below is my blog address. It could be helpful for those who follow Iran s media environment. Regards, https://sociosat.wordpress.com/ -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- *Fardin Alikhah* Sociology, Ph.D. Assistant Prof. Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Department of Social Sciences University of Guilan Rasht-Iran ------------------------------------------------ Links: -Office homepage http://staff.guilan.ac.ir/alikhah/ -personal Homepages: http://fardinalikhah.blog.ir/ -A Blog about Satellite TVs and new media in Iran http://socio-sat.blog.ir/ -A Blog about Social Impact Assessment http://social-impact.blog.ir/ <http://social-impact.blogfa.com/> -Linked-in Profile http://ir.linkedin.com/pub/fardin-alikhah/37/73a/793 -Telegram Channel Telegram.me/fardinalikhah ............................................................................. *برای اطلاع از آثار و نوشته های اخیر اینجا کلیک <http://fardinalikhah.blog.ir/> کنید.*

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 151, Issue 26
by Marcotte, Roxanne 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Dear list members, I have a colleague whose graduate student is writing an MA thesis looking at hashtags and Muslim activism after the January 2015 attacks in Paris. Are there "essential" readings on hashtags and activism he needs to read? Is there anything of substance on hashtags and Muslim activism that also need to be consulted? Many thanks for any leads that I'll pass on. Kind Regards Roxanne Marcotte Université du Québec à Montréal, UQAM “New Muslim Public Spheres in the Digital Age: Identity, Community, Diversity and Authority in Canada” project SSHRC Insight, grant 2013-2019 – http://canadianmuslimsonline.uqam.ca/en

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Ethics in studying reddit postings
by Glass, Grace 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Hello all- I'm designing a study of the self-improvement discourse on reddit, and how it's mediated by gender. User Posts will be central to the study, but I wanted to get your thoughts on how to handle the ethical piece. Conventional informed consent would not be possible due to the anonymity of the usernames/platform. Thoughts? Dr. Grace Glass Dean, School of Arts and Humanities American Public University System American Military University | American Public University 111 West Congress Street, Charles Town, WV 25414 T 304-885-5223 | Cell 703-965-7743 gglass(a)apus.edu| www.apus.edu<http://www.apus.edu/> This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system.

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4S 2017 CfP: STS, Critical Design, and the Critical Digital Humanities
by Malazita, James Wilson 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Call for Papers: STS, Critical Design, and the Critical Digital Humanities Society for Social Studies of Science 2017, Boston, MA Deadline: March 1 Organized by: James Malazita (malazj(a)rpi.edu<mailto:malazj@rpi.edu>), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute This track aims to bring together scholars working at the intersections of Science and Technology Studies, politically-engaged Design and Making work (including Speculative and Critical Design & Making), and the Critical Digital Humanities, in order to share perspectives on the methods, challenges, and stakes of “doing” STS and the humanities in material and digital form. This track is envisioned as a critical complement to the “Making and Doing” event—while the Making and Doing event affords the ability for scholars to showcase their design work, this track affords space for critically reflecting upon the spaces, ideologies, mediations, and politics embedded within and enacted through the intersections of critical scholarship and materially-engaged design work. Possible paper topics include critical analyses of current and previous critically-engaged design and digital projects (including the presenter’s own); reflections on the institutional, infrastructural, and ideological constraints of doing alternative and materially-engaged scholarship; issues of the power and position of scholars designing and making in academic and non/tangentially-academic spaces; potentials and risks of doing interpretive and critical scholarship via technologically-mediated design work; and future directions for STS and humanities design. We are particularly interested in critical perspectives on design from feminist, postcolonial, and queer standpoints, and in design and DH projects, spaces, and methods that specifically address questions of power, oppression, access, ontology, and materiality. We also extend invitations to “making and doing” scholars engaged in related work in intersecting fields, including Media Studies, Literature & Science, and Design. Abstracts must be submitted through the conference system no later than March 1, 2017. Submission information can be found at http://www.4sonline.org/meeting, Panel #77. Please email James Malazita, the organizer of this panel session, at malazj(a)rpi.edu with questions. Please note that The Society for Social Studies of Science has final say over acceptances and panel organization.

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Ethics in social media research
by Audun G. Løvlie 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Dear all, I'm sending this email in relation to my work with SERISS (www.seriss.eu <http://seriss.eu>), a project aimed at strengthening and harmonising social science research across Europe. The work package my task is part of focuses on ethical and legal issues related to the use of social media data in social scientific research projects *Case studies that link social media data and survey data?* We are interested in cases to use as examples, particularly research projects where social media data has been linked to survey data, and if it exists also where social media data has been linked to administrative data. (Linkage of social media data with interview data is of less interest, as we have sufficient examples of this.) We aim to review ethical and legal issues and challenges that exist, that have been experienced and that may come up when formulating research questions and lines of inquiry, when dealing with social media data.* * Furthermore, if you have any experiences that you can share on the ethical and legal aspects of the use of social media data in social scientific research in general and in particular on linkage as mentioned above, any help would be greatly appreciated. In advance, thank you very much for any insight you may be able to provide. -- Vennlig hilsen | Best wishes Audun G. Løvlie Rådgiver | Adviser Seksjon for personverntjenester | Data Protection Services T: (+47) 55 58 23 07 NSD – Norsk senter for forskningsdata AS | NSD – Norwegian Centre for Research Data Harald Hårfagres gate 29, NO-5007 Bergen T: (+47) 55 58 21 17 postmottak(a)nsd.no <mailto:postmottak@nsd.no> www.nsd.no <http://www.nsd.no>

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