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Re: [Air-L] Help with researching radical jihadist groups on Telegram and other social media
by Kramer, Howard 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Thanks you Azer and everyone else for your very specific tips and resources. This is incredibly helpful. Regards, Howard On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Azer, Evronia (2015) < Evronia.Azer.2015(a)live.rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear Howard, > > > Since the type of content you are looking for is usually removed, you > might want to search for keywords (on social media or Google) like the > IS news agency Aamaq https://twitter.com/search?q=%23aamaq&lang=en-gb , > and their online magazine Dabiq > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabiq_(magazine) > > You may want to do that in Arabic as well. > > > I suggest you search twitter archives, using websites like Topsy (which > doesn't exist now so you may want to search for alternatives), or other > means. > > > Good luck! > > > Best, > > Evronia > > > -------- > > *Evronia Azer* > *PhD Candidate * > *Technology and Information Management* > > Royal Holloway University of London > School of Management > Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Kramer, > Howard <hkramer(a)iliff.edu> > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 7, 2017 7:39:22 PM > *To:* air-l(a)aoir.org > *Subject:* [Air-L] Help with researching radical jihadist groups on > Telegram and other social media > > I'm working on a dissertation proposal on the topic of Jihadist > Fanboys/Fangirls: the Role of Social Media and Fandom in Attracting Young > Western Audiences to ISIS and Other Radical Groups. > > The heart of this study will focus on the social media content and > networking (via Twitter, Telegram and other networks) of ISIS and other > jihadist sympathizers, perhaps outright members and supporters. Since ISIS > has been more or less chased off Twitter I've been trying to find and > follow their social media activities on Telegram but have had a hard time > locating their channels on that platform. I'm writing to see if anyone can > provide any guidance on accessing this type of content on Telegram and > other social media. > > Regards, > Howard Kramer > PhD Candidate > DU/Iliff Joint PhD Program in the Study of Religion > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ >

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Fwd: ESRC Funded PhD Studentship on social media and disaster resilience
by Paul J Reilly 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

ESRC Funded PhD Studentship on social media and disaster resilience Dr Tina McGuinness (Management School, University of Sheffield) and I are looking for applications for an ESRC PhD studentship, entitled "social media and community resilience: a process based study of South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Services." Funded by the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership Collaborative award, the successful applicant will work with SYFR to evaluate how sites such as Facebook and Twitter can be used to promote community disaster resilience and encourage citizens to fully participate in disaster risk management and reduction initiatives. Further details on the studentship can be found here <http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AXW312/phd-studentship-social-media-and-community…> and the closing date for applications is *20 March 2017*. If you have any questions about this then please feel free to email me ( p.j.reilly(a)sheffield.ac.uk) or Tina (martina.mguinness(a)sheffield.ac.uk) Best Wishes Paul Dr Paul Reilly Faculty Officer for PGR Student Affairs (Social Sciences) Senior Lecturer in Social Media & Digital Society Information School University of Sheffield 235 Regent Court 211 Portobello Sheffield S1 4DP Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 2647 <+44%20114%20222%202647> Email: P.J.Reilly(a)sheffield.ac.uk Twitter: @PaulJReilly <http://www.twitter.com/PaulJReilly> Voted number one for student experience Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2014-2015 Keep it green: do you need to print this email? Visiting the university? Try to travel sustainably: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/visitors/mapsandtravel

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16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2017): Second Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals
by Announce Announcements 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

*** Second Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals *** 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning mLearn 2017 Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 30 October - 1 November, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… In Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP The International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn) (www.iamlearn.org) is the custodian of the mLearn conference series. mLearn is the leading annual international conference for researchers, policy makers, educators, developers and solutions providers in the fields of mobile, ubiquitous and contextual learning, as well as learning with emerging ambient and wearable technologies. mLearn attracts a large number of participants from more than 60 countries representing all continents, and is, therefore, the world's largest international conference on mLearning and emerging ambient technologies. Conference Themes The overarching conference theme is 'mLearning and Design for Social Change and Innovation'. Higher education institutions are called upon to provide for the competencies and skills that foster design for social change and innovation. In addition, knowledge and skills alliances are encouraged by funding bodies to cultivate, share and disseminate competencies that foster social entrepreneurship and innovation. However, little is known on how mlearning can facilitate this process, how it can contribute towards social change, innovation and entrepreneurship. The topics of interest can go beyond the conference theme, and can include any of the following: · The development, deployment and implementation of mlearning in the context of social entrepreneurship, innovation and social change · mLearning as a tool that fosters social change and social entrepreneurship · Innovations in mlearning theory and pedagogy · From pilot projects to mainstream implementation: strategies for the deployment of mLearning · Mobile technology to support open and distance learning · Mobile technology for teaching and learning support · Assessment techniques and practices in mLearning · Design and development of learning material for mLearning · Learning objects and metadata for mLearning · Informal and lifelong learning with the aid of mobile technologies · Challenges for mLearning in developing countries · Building and implementing mLearning strategies in educational institutions, companies and public sector organisations · mLearning management systems (mLMSs) · Computer tablets · Creating interactive and collaborative mLearning environments · Future trends in mLearning technology, including the impact of emerging technologies · Emerging hardware and software for mLearning including wearable technologies · Location-aware technologies · Contextual and situated learning · Augmented reality · Serious gaming and simulations · Ambient intelligence and ubiquitous learning Submission Information The conference solicits regular papers (no more than 8 pages), short papers (no more than 4 pages), as well as posters (no more than 2 pages). The Program Committee may require an accepted paper to be adapted into a short paper or poster. All papers must be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template format (see the conference web site for further information). The papers must be original contributions not submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. A submitted contribution should clearly indicate the conference topics it targets. For an accepted contribution to be included in the proceedings, at least one author must register and present the paper at the conference. For further information, see the submission guidelines on the conference web site. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM ICPS and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Important Dates · Submission of Workshop Proposals: 31 March 2017 · Notification for Workshop Proposals: 7 April 2017 · Submission Deadline for Conference Papers: 1 June 2017 · Submission Deadline for Workshop Papers: 21 July 2017 · Accept/Reject Notification for Conference Papers: 15 July 2017 · Accept/Reject Notification for Workshop Papers: 25 August 2017 · Camera-Ready Submission of all Papers: 1 September 2017 Information on registration categories and registration fees for the mLearn 2017 is available online at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…. Organization General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Fernando Loizides, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom · Nicos Souleles, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…

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[CfP] Deadline = Today WebSci17
by Marie Joan Kristine Gloria 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Hello AoIR, Just a friendly reminder that the deadline to submit an intent for WebSci17 main track is today. More info below. Thanks! *WEB SCIENCE 2017: Call for Papers and Abstracts* Troy, NY (websci17.org) *Key dates:* - *DEADLINE: March 8, 2017 (intent to submit)* - *DEADLINE: March 16, 2017 *(Submission of long papers and short papers only) - Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci17 - Deadline for Posters/Extended Abstracts is May 1, 2017 The Web Science conference is a unique venue where different disciplines are brought together in a creative and critical dialogue with the aim of understanding the Web. It welcomes participation from all fields including (but not limited to) art, anthropology, computer and information sciences, communication, economics, humanities, informatics, law, linguistics, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology. We particularly welcome contributions that seek to cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. We are seeking papers and abstracts that describe original research, analysis, and practice in the field of Web Science, as well as work that discusses novel and thought-provoking ideas and works-in-progress. *Topics* Possible topics for submissions include (but are not limited to) the following: Current theoretical, methodological, and epistemological challenges of Web Science: - Ethical challenges of technologies, data, algorithms, platforms, and people in the Web - Interdisciplinarity in Web Science - Modeling Web-related structures, data, users and behaviours - Impact of big data on the development of Web Science - Web Science approaches to data science, data analytics, and the Web of data - Detecting, preventing and predicting anomalies in Web data - Data curation and stewardship in Web Science - Sharing Web research data, Web archiving, and scholarly uses of Web archives - The psychological, sociological, legal and technological aspects related to the temporal and spatial dimensions of the web as a repository of information Web practices of individuals, collectives, institutions, and platforms: - The architecture and philosophy of the Web - Social machines, collective intelligence, and collaborative production - Health and well-being online - Humanities, arts, and culture on the Web - Web Science and the Internet of Things - Web economics, social entrepreneurship, and innovation - Analysis of online social and information networks, social media analyses Governance, democracy, access, intellectual property: - Personal data and privacy - Anonymity, security and trust for Web access - Web access, literacy, divides, and development - Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web *IMPORTANT DATES* *MARCH 8, 2017* (WEDNESDAY) - Intention to submit: Intent to submit long and or short papers via EasyChair <( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci17)> *MARCH 16, 2017* (WEDNESDAY) - Submission of long papers and short papers. PDFs of these submission must be uploaded by this date. APRIL 26, 2017 (WEDNESDAY) - Notifications: acceptance and rejections of long and short papers MAY 1, 2017 (MONDAY) - Submission of extended abstracts: PDFs of these must be uploaded by this date MAY 17, 2017 (WEDNESDAY)- Notification: acceptances and rejections of extended abstracts MAY 24, 2017 (WEDNESDAY): Presenters who do not opt out of having their contribution appear in the proceedings must upload the camera-ready copy of their paper to EasyChair by this date. -- Kristine Gloria, Ph.D. @gloriakt gVoice: (562) 448-2697 Skype: gloriakt1

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New Open Access Book: Visualising Facebook (Daniel Miller/Jolynna Sinanan)
by Major, Alison 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

***We apologise for any cross-posting*** UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to readers of this list: Visualising Facebook by Daniel Miller and Jolynna Sinanan. Download free: https://goo.gl/WVPD9g ******************************************************* Visualising Facebook Daniel Miller and Jolynna Sinanan Download free: https://goo.gl/WVPD9g ******************************************************* Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundreds of examples, readers can see for themselves the differences between postings from a village north of London, and those from a small town in Trinidad. Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as carnival and suburbia expressed visually? Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their local context. The book aims to highlight the importance of visual images today in patrolling and controlling the moral values of populations, and explores the changing role of photography from that of recording and representation, to that of communication, where an image not only documents an experience but also enhances it, making the moment itself more exciting. Download free: https://goo.gl/WVPD9g ******************************************************* www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press> Follow us on Twitter @UCLpress

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9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Last Call for Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals
by Announce Announcements 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

*** Last Call for Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals *** 9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence ICCCI 2017 Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 27 - 29 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Firm Deadline: 15th March 2017 *** Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems. Topics of Interest We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited) to the following topics: · Agent Theory and Application · Automated Reasoning · Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems · Collective Intelligence · Collective Processing · Computational Biology · Computer Vision · Computational Intelligence · Computational Security · Consensus Computing · Cooperative Systems and Control · Cybernetics for Informatics · Data Integration · Data Mining for Social Networks · Distributed Intelligence · Evolutionary computing · Fuzzy Systems · Geographic Information Systems · Grey Theory · Group Decision Making · Hybrid Systems · Information Retrieval and Integration · Information Hiding · Intelligent Architectures · Intelligent Applications · Intelligent Buildings · Intelligent Control · Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring · Intelligent Image Processing · Intelligent Networks · Intelligent Transportation Systems · Knowledge Integration · Knowledge Representation · Knowledge-Based Systems · Logic in Intelligence · Machine Learning · Mobile Intelligence · Multicriteria Decision Making · Natural Language Processing · Optimization and Swarm Intelligence · Pattern Recognition · Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning · Rough Sets · Semantic Web · Smart Living Technology · Smart Sensor Networks · Soft Computing · Social Networks · Ubiquitous Computing · Web Intelligence and Interaction Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops to be held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session or Workshop will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the main topics of ICCCI 2017. The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. All the Special Sessions and Workshops will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the regular papers. Please send the Special Session and Workshop proposals with the following information: · Title & acronym of the special session · Brief profiles of special session organizers · General description of the special session scope · List of topics · Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited) The format for the Special Session or Workshop proposal should follow the pattern of the template available on the conference web site. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the Special Sessions or Workshops and the conference including the Special Sessions and Workshops webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session and Workshops Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session and Workshop). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper should obtain at least two reviews. For Special Sessions and Workshops Issues please contact: Bogdan Trawinski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland bogdan.trawinski(a)pwr.edu.pl Important Dates · Special Session & Workshop Proposals: March 15, 2017 (*** firm ***) · Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: March 22, 2017 · Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017 Organization Honorary Chairs · Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada · Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland General Chairs · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs · Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania · Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan Organising Chair · Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Doctoral Track Chair · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair · Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Committee · Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Rafa Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committee · Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland · Piotr Jdrzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland · Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam · Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia · Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea · Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland · Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia · Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan · Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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Call for Paper: Int. Workshop on Health Recommender Systems co-located with ACM RecSys 2017
by Christoph Trattner 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Health Recommender Systems, to be held in Como (Italy) co-located with ACM RECSYS 2017 (https://recsys.acm.org/) Website: http://132.199.138.79/healthrecsys/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** June, 6th, 2017 Paper submission deadline ** June, 27th, 2017 Notification to authors ** July, 10th, 2017, Camera-Ready Version ** August, 27th-31st, 2017, HRS Workshop, RecSys conference Workshop Organizers: ==================== David Elsweiler (University of Regensburg, Germany) Santiago Hors-Fraile (University of Seville, Maastricht University) Bernd Ludwig (University of Regensburg, Germany) Alan Said (University of Skövde, Sweden) Hanna Schaefer (TU München, Germany) Christoph Trattner (MODUL Univeristy Vienna, Austria) Helma Torkamaan (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) André Calero Valdez (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Program Committee: ==================== TBA Objectives & Topics: ==================== Health is at the center of our everyday lives. During the 1st Health Recommender Systems workshop we elaborated a great variety of fields in which recommender systems can improve our awareness, understanding and behavior regarding our own health. At the same time these application areas bring new challenges into the recommender community. Recommendations that influence the health status of a patient, need to be either liable or accompanied by domain experts. To make the recommender liable, complex domain specific user models need to be created, which on the other hand creates privacy issues. While trust into a recommendation needs to be explicitly earned by transparency, explanations and empowerment, other systems might want to persuade users into beneficial actions that would not be willingly chosen otherwise. The variety of those challenges also results from the number and diversity of stakeholders involved in health systems. Taking the patient perspective, simple interaction and safety against harmful recommendations might be the prior concern. For clinicians and experts, on the other hand, what matters is precise and accurate content. Finally, health care providers, insurance companies, and clinics are interested in success rates, study results, and financial benefits of the new systems. In this workshop, we want to go deeper into the discussions started last year and establish a roadmap of possible research topics in Health Recommender Systems. Our aim is to enhance the results of the first workshop in the following areas: ** Elaborate discussion topics of the first workshop ** Strengthen the community of researchers working on Health in RecSys ** Attract scientists from other domains to RecSys (e.g. health, psychology, ...) ** Find cross-domain collaboration projects and funding targets ** Establish shared infrastructure (datasets and tools) We invite submissions that may include the following topics, but are not limited to: ** Algorithms for HRS ** Domain Knowledge Representation ** Regulations and Standards ** Behavioral Change ** Medical evaluation techniques ** User Profiling ** Pervasive Systems ** Personalization ** Persuasion ** Social Motivation ** Gamification ** Empowerment ** Trust ** Explanations ** Nudging ** Patient Needs/Satisfaction ** User Interaction Design ** Expert-in-the-Loop ** Privacy ** Ethics The goal of this workshop is to share and discuss research and projects that reach beyond classic recommender techniques and discuss health domain related challenges of recommender systems. Submissions: ============ We solicit short research papers (4 pages) and short position papers (2 pages), both in the ACM conference paper style. Participants can decide between a research focused submission, resulting in a workshop presentation, and a project focused submission, resulting in a workshop poster. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to the submission page. ** Submission category research: innovative research ideas, preliminary results or system prototypes ** Submission category project: funded research projects, industry and research collaborations or health-care and research collaborations Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must: ** Be written in English; ** Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; ** Be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template with a font size no smaller than 9pt; ** Be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; Link or demo in attachment are preferred in both cases. All papers will be peer-reviewed, must not be under review in any other conference, workshop or journal (at the time of submission), and must contain novel contributions. Accepted papers will be published according to the ACM RECSYS 2017 WS publication rules. Please use the workshop's EasyChair submission page for submitting your paper. Location: ========= RecSys 2017 will be hosted in Como, Italy, at the Teatro Sociale di Como from August 27-31, 2017. Please visit the RecSys 2017 website for more information about this location: https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/location/ Contact: ======== If you have questions regarding the workshop, do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs. David Elsweiler - david.elsweiler(a)ur.de Santiago Hors-Fraile - sanhorfra(a)gmail.com Bernd Ludwig - bernd.ludwg(a)ur.de Alan Said - alansaid(a)acm.org Hanna Schaefer - hanna.schaefer(a)tum.de Helma Torkamaan - h.torkamaan(a)acm.org Christoph Trattner - trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com André Calero Valdez - calero-valdez(a)comm.rwthaachen.de -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Assistant Professor MODUL University Vienna Department of New Media Technology E-mail: christoph.trattner(a)modul.ac.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info -------------------------------------------------------

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CFP (Workshop): Watchful Citizens: Policing from Below and Digital Vigilantism Université de Montréal, 2-3 November 2017
by Daniel Trottier 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

CFP: Watchful Citizens: Policing from Below and Digital Vigilantism Université de Montréal, 2-3 November 2017 http://www.cicc.umontreal.ca/en/events/colloques/cicc-2017-2018-scientific-… In Europe and America, political mobilizations have emboldened citizens to monitor and harass individuals based on categories of suspicion, for instance illegal aliens. These mobilizations in turn have spawned counter-movements seeking to render perpetrators of hate- speech and harassment visible and accountable. Depending on the cause defended and the political context, governments may explicitly or implicitly support citizen groups that publicize and denounce suspected wrongdoing by other citizens. Digital media cultures facilitate the sharing of evidence of offensive acts, but also the shaming of targeted individuals and a broader moralising against criminal or otherwise undesirable populations. Visibility, as manifest through the public and open distribution of a target’s personal details, stands as a central feature of contemporary vigilante campaigns. What is new with digital vigilantism? If the digital sphere is definitely a crucial aspect of this visibility, one also has to consider a more profound transformation in societal participation, or how the population relates to and perceives its authorities when social, political, cultural, religious, national and security issues are at stake. As shown in assessments of late modernity, liberal and neo-liberal politics have deputized citizens by rendering them responsible for their own security, social order and fate, thus leading to a distributed regulatory network rather than strictly top-down governance of society (Bayley & Shearing, 2001). Yet deputized citizens are not only following their authorities’ recommendations; they are also self-directed in what they consider the good march of society. According to Walsh’s argument (Walsh, 2014), such a transformation in societal participation led to a shift from a deputization to an autonomization paradigm, referring to the voluntary, or self-appointed, involvement of citizens in the regulatory gatekeeping network. This refers to grassroots mobilization, rather than governments mobilising the public, with groups of citizens spontaneously aligning themselves with authorities’ arms and objectives (Walsh, 2008). Autonomization also refers here to a context in which an ideal-typical state claims to monopolize law enforcement functions, in contrast to groups acting strictly autonomously, or as challengers of state law enforcement institutions. However, underlying these transformations should not lead to underestimate historical continuities with classical forms of citizens’ involvement in denunciation, law enforcement and vigilante justice. One of the most recurrent forms of autonomization is vigilantism as a form of societal participation. Even if it is formally unsolicited, vigilantism represents an outgrowth of state activity” (2014: 249). According to Walsh, “while operating without official authorization, the organizations do not perceive their actions as overriding or transgressing the local order but construct themselves as self-anointed guardians rescuing national sovereignty, citizenship and the law’s moral sanctity, from cultural elites, moneyed interests, inept bureaucrats and a sclerotic state” (2014: 249). According to Favarel-Garrigues and Gayer, vigilantism may be defined as “collective coercive practices undertaken by non-state actors in order to enforce norms (social or judicial) and/or to take the law in their own hands – a term that mostly refers to punishing, but also to societal ideals. In targeting the offenders that are external to their community, but also their own offenders, vigilantes are both involved in the fight against crime and social control. Their activities are known because they either are conducted in public, in the name of a community of reference, or because the witnesses to more secretly conducted punishing expeditions spread the information and nourish the group’s reputation” (Favarel-Garrigues & Gayer, 2016: 17). If pioneers’ work established a first definition of vigilantism based on history (Brown, 1975; Abrahams, 1998; Johnston, 1996), more recent sociological and anthropological works have focused on vigilante practices and activities on the field (Favarel-Garrigues & Gayer, 2016; Pratten & Sen, 2007). More specifically, and considering the recent developments in media and communication, we want to focus on the impacts and interactions between vigilantism and the digital sphere. On this matter, Daniel Trottier defines digital vigilantism as “ a process where citizens are collectively offended by other citizen activity, and respond through coordinated retaliation on digital media platforms, including mobile devices and social media platforms. The offending acts range from mild breaches of social protocol to terrorist acts and participation in riots. These offensive acts are not meant as a provocation in the context in which vigilantism is situated. Therefore, the targets of digital vigilantism are typically unaware of the conflict in which they have been enrolled” (Trottier, 2015: 218). Digital vigilantism refers, but is not limited, to a basic principle of “naming and shaming”, or through a ‘weaponisation of visibility’, that is sharing the target’s personal details by publishing/distributing them on public sites (‘doxing’). According to Trottier: “The visibility produced through digital vigilantism is unwanted (the target is typically not soliciting publicity) intense (content like blog posts, photos and videos evidence circulate to hundreds of thousands or even millions of users within a few days) and enduring (the vigilantism campaign may be the first item to appear when searching the individual’s name online, and may become a cultural reference in its own right)” (Trottier, 2015: 219). He then argues that: “the emergence of social, geolocated, ubiquitous media has led to a dissolution to any such barrier, to the extent that digital media activity can have lasting consequences in both a local and global context” (Trottier, 2015: 220). Digital vigilantism implies a paradigm shift with regard to the context in which digital media are used, pointing to the end of a yet well-established distinction between online activity and offline consequences (Trottier, 2015; 2016; Reagle, 2015). Digital communication comes with “context collapse”, where the “lack of spatial, social, and temporal boundaries makes it difficult to maintain distinct social contexts” (boyd, 2008: 34). As Reagle puts it: “ Comment’s reactivity, shortness, and asynchronicity mean that it is especially contextual but that its context also is easily lost as it is forwarded and retweeted” (Reagle, 2015: 79). The coming workshop, which will launch the International Center for Comparative Criminology’s 2017-2018 scientific season, will focus on digital vigilantism. Considering both the raising of the autonomization paradigm and the digital sphere, we will address the impacts of such dimensions on the practices, activities and dynamics of vigilantism, but also how vigilantism and the autonomization of societal practices with regard to gatekeeping and social control impacts vigilantism. As examples of communications, we would welcome propositions addressing (but not limited to) the following issues: - How do vigilantes promote and enforce their norms and/or values in practice using digital media? - How do digital media help, transform and contribute to the coordination of embodied activities in the context of vigilante activities? - How do digital media contribute to the renegotiation and reassertion of collective (ex: nationalist) identities in the context of vigilante activities? - How can scholarship contribute to a better understanding of the relation between on- and offline in the context of vigilante activities? - What link can we draw between digital vigilantism and the social, political and economic discourses of the vigilantes? - Aside from mediated visibility as social harm, what other outcomes might targets or participants of digital vigilantism face in consequence? - How can we (re)imagine relations between states (broadly defined to include law enforcement agencies) and vigilant(e) citizens beyond frameworks of contestation/substitution/complementarity? - How are digital vigilantism initiatives related to official law-enforcement institutions (cooperation/challenge/conflict)? - How is mediated visibility understood by vigilantes (but also other relevant social actors such as states, journalists and digital media platforms) as a means to combat criminal and otherwise offensive acts? - How are specific mediated acts such as online shaming and ‘doxing’ both leveraged and rendered meaningful in the context of vigilante activities? - How can we articulate social control (low crime) and societal control (high crime) with regard to digital vigilantism? - What do we know about the commercial dimension of digital vigilantism? - How are digital vigilantism initiatives related to existing political parties, social movements, associations, lobbies or private firms? - How do the vigilantes communicate about their activity on the web? How do they show their campaigns on Youtube? How do they edit the videos they post? - What do vigilantes defend? Legal norms, moral prescriptions, own values and interests? Practical information The workshop will take place at Université de Montréal, 2-3 November 2017. Proposals should include a title, a clear identification of the author(s), as well as an affiliation and should be no longer than 500-600 words. Proposals may be grounded in different academic and disciplinary perspectives including, but not limited to sociology, political science, anthropology, criminology, media studies, history. They should be sent to samuel.tanner(a)umontreal.ca by 22nd May 2017. Authors will receive an answer by 1st July 2017. Organizers Gilles Favarel- Garrigues (SciencesPo – CERI) Daniel Trottier (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Samuel Tanner (Université de Montréal – International Center for Comparative Criminology)

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Fwd: Call for proposals: Joint digital rights research/advocacy projects
by Nathalie Marechal 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Funding opportunity for joint research projects between academics and advocacy groups. Nathalie >> From: Internet Policy Observatory <internetpolicy(a)asc.upenn.edu> >> Date: March 8, 2017 at 12:00:14 PM GMT+1 >> To: <marechal(a)usc.edu> >> Subject: Call for proposals: Joint digital rights research/advocacy projects >> Reply-To: Internet Policy Observatory <internetpolicy(a)asc.upenn.edu> >> >> >> >> Call for Proposals: Joint Digital Rights & Internet Policy Research Projects >> Within the constellation of actors engaged in internet policy and digital rights debates, academics are uniquely positioned to mobilize evidence-based research for advocacy and policymaking. However, the research conducted within academic communities is often siloed within disciplinary spaces and only occasionally produced in collaboration with activists and with impact objectives in mind. >> >> The Internet Policy Observatory at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania invites organizations and individuals to apply for funding for research projects that have specific and tangible policy & advocacy impact objectives. Individual or joint applications are encouraged from civil society organizations, those working in digital rights advocacy and policymaking, and those engaged in academic research. The goal of this call for proposals is to generate collaborative research projects on topics of relevance to the internet freedom community that are empirically rigorous as well as pertinent to current international, regional, or local digital rights advocacy efforts. >> >> Requirements: >> >> Applications should propose a research project that would provide empirical weight and further advocacy efforts in an area related to digital rights and internet freedoms. Topics of relevance include but are not limited to access to online resources, freedom of expression online, the economic and social effects of internet policies, ICT companies and human rights, privacy and surveillance online. Applicants should be able to justify the need for the research and are expected to produce a set of deliverables that are relevant to academic, advocacy, and policymaking communities. >> >> The organizing committee will accept several categories of applications. These include: >> >> Individual academics looking to partner with a relevant advocacy organization to integrate his/her research into current advocacy campaigns or policymaking debates. >> Civil Society organizations currently engaged in advocacy campaigns that seek to identify a research partner able to operationalize a particular research question of interest/relevance to the organization’s current work. >> Joint applications between a researcher/research team and one organization engaged in advocacy, activism, or policymaking. Joint applications can come from newly established partnerships or from groups that have worked together in the past. >> For the first two types of applicants, the IPO team will work with promising individuals and groups who apply after the initial application process to help identify relevant partners and build the project. >> >> Funded projects will be expected to include the following deliverables: >> >> An academic paper/report to be submitted for peer review and/or published with the IPO. >> A shorter-form, digestible, media-ready product to be distributed to appropriate stakeholders (policymakers, politicians, the public). >> Examples include short reports, user guides, primers, infographics, etc. >> A publicity plan for impact: How will your team publicize the findings amongst relevant stakeholders to maximize policy and advocacy impact. This can include a media plan, small launch event or private meeting with stakeholders, among other ideas. >> The IPO invites applications on a rolling basis. The closing date for all applications for review will be April 30. Applications should include a concept note between 3-5 pages (detailed information on application requirements are available here). Joint proposals will be provided up to $15,000 USD as seed funding for pilot projects that could later become larger and longer-term collaborative initiatives. >> >> For more information, please see the full call here or email internetpolicy(a)asc.upenn.edu. >> >> >> Reminder: Apply to the 19th Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute >> Held this June 26- July 7, the Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute brings together top early career communications scholars, media lawyers and regulators, human rights activists, and policymakers from countries around the world to discuss the effects of technology and policy from a global and multidisciplinary perspective. The Summer Institute provides participants with an intensive two week curriculum that combines expert instruction from media policymakers and scholars with hands-on activities such as stakeholder mapping, policy analysis, group case studies, and participant presentations. Applications are due April 3. For more information, please click here. >> >> Contact us >> Interested in learning more about the Internet Policy Observatory? Have an idea for impactful research? Working on a project we should know aboutPlease send us an email at internetpolicy(a)asc.upenn.edu. >> >> >> >> >> Copyright © 2017 Internet Policy Observatory, All rights reserved. >> You are receiving this email because you signed up for the Internet Policy Observatory at the Annenberg School's newsletter. If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please feel free to unsubscribe. >> >> Our mailing address is: >> Internet Policy Observatory >> 3901 Walnut St >> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 >> >> Add us to your address book >> >> >> Want to change how you receive these emails? >> You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list >> >>

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Ethics & data collection on Facebook
by Denise N. Rall 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Dear AIR-ers - One of my students is working on Fb ethics to collect data from three Fb sites that she manages to market &resell womens’ 1950-style clothing (yes I work in fashion now). I know we already had a long series of posts on reddit - but I would very much appreciate any references I can pass along to her. She’s got a few papers off google scholar, I just think she might be missing the significant contribution from one of the AoIR members. [Note: I’m back on Air-l after a 7 year absence and now looking forward to seeing a few familiar faces in Brisbane in 2019 - on MY side of the world! Lismore is about 2.5-3 hours from Brisbane]. Cheers, Denise Dr Denise N. Rall, Adjunct Fellow School of Arts & Social Sciences, Southern Cross University, Australia Currently in Madison, Wisconsin, USA Mob +614 8993 4477 http://scu.edu.au/staffdirectory/person_detail.php?person=9843 <http://scu.edu.au/staffdirectory/person_detail.php?person=9843> Dr Denise N. Rall, Adjunct Fellow School of Arts & Social Sciences, Southern Cross University, Australia Currently in Madison, Wisconsin, USA Mob +614 8993 4477 http://scu.edu.au/staffdirectory/person_detail.php?person=9843 <http://scu.edu.au/staffdirectory/person_detail.php?person=9843> Dr Denise N. Rall, Adjunct Fellow School of Arts & Social Sciences, Southern Cross University, Australia Currently in Madison, Wisconsin, USA Mob +614 8993 4477 http://scu.edu.au/staffdirectory/person_detail.php?person=9843 <http://scu.edu.au/staffdirectory/person_detail.php?person=9843>

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