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Interesting conferences?
by Jill Walker Rettberg 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Can anyone share interesting conferences or events on the East Coast of the USA this fall? I have a sabbatical coming up (Aug-Dec 2017) and will be in Boston/Providence and would love to know about anything happening that's related to AoIR-ish topics! Do we have a global calendar of events and cfps of interest to AoIR people, btw? Jill Dr Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen + 47 55588431 Blog - http://jilltxt.net Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt My book "Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves" is out on Palgrave as an open access publication - buy it in print or download it for free! http://jilltxt.net/books

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social media nd society -- speakers
by Barry Wellman 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

We are very pleased to announce two distinguished Keynotes for the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society (July 28-30, 2017, Toronto, Canada): Lee Rainie Director, Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project, USA. The man behind the tables Ronald Deibert Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada. Black Code enlightened July 28-30 Plus I will be doing a Social Network for N00bs workshop See you there https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2016/2017-keynotes/ Barry Wellman A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head Step by step, link by link, putting it together Streisand/Sondheim _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Network FRSC INSNA Founder http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman http://amzn.to/zXZg39 _______________________________________________________________________

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interesting conference in Free North America
by Barry Wellman 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Social Media and Society, July 28-30 in vibrant downtown Toronto Migrants and Americans welcome https://socialmediaandsociety.org/ Barry Wellman A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head Step by step, link by link, putting it together Streisand/Sondheim _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Network FRSC INSNA Founder http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman http://amzn.to/zXZg39 _______________________________________________________________________

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WEBCAST TODAY: Digital SouthWest Regional Broadband Summit in Mesa AZ
by Joly MacFie 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

This is just kicking off. It should be a great forum on the state of rural broadband, and is the first major address by Ms. Clyburn since recent FCC developments. [image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/digitalsw>Today *Tuesday April 18 2017** Next Century Cities <http://nextcenturycities.org/>* presents *Digital SouthWest: A Regional Broadband Summit <http://nextcenturycities.org/digital-southwest/>*. This full-day event will bring together broadband champions from federal, state, and local government, as well as community leaders and broadband policy experts from the Southwest and across the nation. The Summit will feature stories of broadband deployment success, digital inclusion initiatives, financing opportunities, and more. Speakers include FCC Commissioner *Mignon Clyburn* and Congressman *Andy Biggs*. The event will be webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/digitalsw>*. Mesa is on MST, 3 hours behind NYC. *What: Digital SouthWest: A Regional Broadband Summit <http://nextcenturycities.org/digital-southwest/>Where: Mesa AZWhen: Digital SouthWest: A Regional Broadband Summit <http://nextcenturycities.org/digital-southwest/>Agenda: http://nextcenturycities.org/agenda-for-digital-sw-in-mesa-az-april-18-2017/ <http://nextcenturycities.org/agenda-for-digital-sw-in-mesa-az-april-18-2017/>Webcast: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/digitalsw <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/digitalsw>Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/DigitalSW <https://twitter.com/hashtag/DigitalSW>Facebook: https://facebook.com/hashtag/DigitalSW <https://facebook.com/hashtag/DigitalSW>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9131#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9131#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9131 --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Digital Ethics submissions
by Heider, Donald 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Call for abstracts The Center for Digital Ethics & Policy at Loyola University Chicago (digitalethics.org) will be holding its 7th annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics on October 13th, 2017. The keynote speaker will be Cathy O'Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction. We are looking for papers on digital ethics. Topics might include privacy, anonymity, griefing, free speech, intellectual property, hacking, scamming, surveillance, information mining, transparency, digital citizenship, or anything else relating to ethical questions and digital technology. This is an interdisciplinary symposium, we welcome all backgrounds and approaches to research. Abstracts should propose original research that has not been presented or published elsewhere. The abstract should be between 500 and 1,000 words in length (not including references) and should include a discussion of the methodology used. Authors of accepted papers will be eligible for up to $400 in travel funds to be able to attend the Chicago symposium. The author(s) of the top student paper will be eligible for up to $1,000 in travel funds. Abstracts are due by midnight CST on April 23rd, 2017, and should follow APA or MLA. Send your submission in a MS Word document attachment to contact(a)digitalethics.org<mailto:contact@digitalethics.org>, and please write Digital Ethics Symposium submission in the subject line. You can send questions to the same email address.

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Self-(Re)Presentation Now Special Issue of Popular Communication
by Nancy Thumim 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Apologies for cross-posting. I am delighted to announce the publication of Self - (Re)Presentation Now, a special issue of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture. 15(2), guest editor, Nancy Thumim. Contents below. Best wishes Nancy Introduction Self-(re)presentation now Nancy Thumim Pages: 55-61 Article Verified: Self-presentation, identity management, and selfhood in the age of big data Alison Hearn Pages: 62-77 Article Symbolic bordering: The self-representation of migrants and refugees in digital news Lilie Chouliaraki Pages: 78-94 Article Expecting penises in Chatroulette: Race, gender, and sexuality in anonymous online spaces Jenny Ungbha Korn Pages: 95-109 Article "Sharenting," parent blogging, and the boundaries of the digital self Alicia Blum-Ross & Sonia Livingstone Pages: 110-125 Article "I will not hate myself because you cannot accept me": Problematizing empowerment and gender-diverse selfies Son Vivienne Pages: 126-140 Article Sick bunnies and pocket dumps: "Not-selfies" and the genre of self-representation Katrin Tiidenberg & Andrew Whelan Pages: 141-153 Dr Nancy Thumim Postgraduate Tutor Lecturer in Media and Communication School of Media and Communication University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT http://media.leeds.ac.uk/people/nancy-thumim/

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CfP: ComplexRec 2017 (RecSys'17 Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios)
by Toine Bogers 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

==================================================================================== RecSys'17 Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios (ComplexRec 2017) http://complexrec2017.aau.dk Como, Italy August 27-31, 2017 ==================================================================================== --------------- Important dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline: June 6, 2017 (before midnight, anywhere on Earth) * Notification of acceptance: July 9, 2017 * Camera-ready deadline: July 18, 2017 * RecSys 2017: August 27 or 31, 2017 ------------------------ Description & Objectives ------------------------ Over the past decade, recommendation algorithms for ratings prediction and item ranking have steadily matured. However, these state-of-the-art algorithms are typically applied in relatively straightforward scenarios. In reality, recommendation is often a more complex problem: it is usually just a single step in the user's more complex background need. These background needs can often place a variety of constraints on which recommendations are interesting to the user and when they are appropriate. However, relatively little research has been done on these complex recommendation scenarios. The ComplexRec 2017 workshop aims to address this by providing an interactive venue for discussing approaches to recommendation in complex scenarios that have no simple one-size-fits-all solution. ------------------ Topics of interest ------------------ We invite original contributions about recommendation in complex scenarios. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Task-based recommendation -- Approaches that take the user's background tasks and needs into account when generating recommendations * Feature-driven recommendation -- Techniques for eliciting, capturing and integrating rich information about user preferences for specific product features * Constraint-based recommendation -- Approaches that successfully combine state-of-the-art recommendation algorithms with complex knowledge-based or constraint-based optimization * Query-driven recommendation -- Techniques for eliciting and incorporating rich information about the user's recommendation need (e.g., need for accessibility, engagement, socio-cultural values, familiarity, etc.) in addition to the standard user preference information * Interactive recommendation -- Techniques for successfully capturing, weighting, and integrating continuous user feedback into recommender systems, both in situations of sparse and rich user interaction * Context-aware recommendation -- Methods for the extraction and integration of complex contextual signals for recommendation * Complex data sources -- Approaches to dealing with complex data sources and how to infer user preferences from these sources * Evaluation & validation -- Approaches to the evaluation and validation of recommendation in complex scenarios ----------- Submissions ----------- We encourage authors to submit short papers and position papers of 2-4 pages in length dedicated to any aspect of recommendation in complex scenarios. Accepted submissions will then be invited for short 10-minute presentations with equal time for discussion. Evaluation criteria for acceptance will include novelty, diversity, significance for theory/practice, quality of presentation, and the potential for sparking interesting discussion at the workshop. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. All submissions should be in English and should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=complexrec2017) Submissions will be published in the workshop proceedings (CEUR-WS). ---------- Organizers ---------- * Toine Bogers (toine(a)hum.aau.dk) Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark * Marijn Koolen (marijn.koolen(a)gmail.com) Huygens Institute, the Netherlands * Bamshad Mobasher (mobasher(a)cs.depaul.edu) DePaul University, USA * Alan Said (alansaid(a)acm.org) University of Skövde, Sweden * Alexander Tuzhilin (atuzhili(a)stern.nyu.edu) NYU Stern School of Business, USA For further questions, please contact a member of the organizing committee.

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Postdoctoral position in media studies with special focus on visual images of conflicts (University of Copenhagen)
by Mette Mortensen 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Postdoctoral position in media studies with special focus on visual images of conflicts The Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites applications for a 20-month postdoctoral position to be filled by September 1 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate will be situated within the Images of Conflict, Conflicting Images (ICCI) core group project supported by the Velux Foundation (2017-2021). Deadline for applications is May 15 2017. Please see this link for details about the position: http://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=901474. More information about ICCI may be found on the project website: http://mcc.ku.dk/research/focus-areas/icci/. Kind regards, Mette Mette Mortensen, PhD Associate professor Section of Film, Media and Communication Department of Media, Cognition and Communication University of Copenhagen Karen Blixensvej 4 (+45)3532 9181<file://///localhost/tel/%2528%252B45%25293532%209181> metmort(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:metmort@hum.ku.dk> http://mcc.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/182931 Principal investigator of Images of Conflict, Conflicting Images (ICCI): http://mef.ku.dk/forskning/fokusomraaderogprojekter/images-of-conflicts---c… Recent books: - Journalism and Eyewitness Images: Digital Media, Participation, and Conflict. Routledge (2015). http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415828499/ -News Across Media. Production, Distribution and Consumption. Routledge: 2016. Co-edited with Jakob Linaa Jensen & Jacob Ørmen. https://www.routledge.com/News-Across-Media-Production-Distribution-and-Con… -The Dynamics of Mediatized Conflicts. Peter Lang: 2015. Co-edited with Mikkel Fugl Eskjær & Stig Hjarvard. https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/31130

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WEBCAST TODAY: The Future of Broadband Privacy and the Open Internet—Who Will Protect Consumers?
by Joly MacFie 17 Apr '17

17 Apr '17

This has just started. I got a lot of response to my earlier posting of the Princeton forum <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9106> on this topic.There's definitely concern. Susan Crawford wrote an Op-Ed <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/opinion/donald-trumps-multi-pronged-atta…> in the NY Times today. New America points out that Congress Act hobbles the FCC from enacting similar rules in the future, pushing the ball firmly into the FTC's court. Can they field it? joly posted: "Today, Monday April 17 2017 at 3pm EDT (19:00 UTC) the Open Technology Institute and Public Knowledge will host The Future of Broadband Privacy and the Open Internet—Who Will Protect Consumers?, which will discuss the recent Congressional repeal of the FC" [image: Open Technology Institute] <https://www.newamerica.org/oti/>Today, *Monday April 17 2017* at *3pm EDT* (19:00 UTC) the* Open Technology Institute <https://www.newamerica.org/oti/>* and *Public Knowledge <https://www.publicknowledge.org/>* will host *The Future of Broadband Privacy and the Open Internet—Who Will Protect Consumers? <https://www.newamerica.org/oti/events/future-broadband-privacywho-will-prot…>*, which will discuss the recent Congressional repeal of the FCC's ISP privacy rules. Speakers: *Terrell McSweeny*, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission- @TMcSweenyFTC; *Laura Moy*, Deputy Director, Georgetown Center for Privacy and Technology - @lauramoy; *Tom Struble*, Policy Counsel, Tech Freedom - @tstruble. Moderator: *Sarah Morris*, Director of Open Internet Policy, Open Technology Institute - @sarmorris. The event will be webcast live on the *New America YouTube Channel <https://youtu.be/vR1ltcwByDM>*. *View on YouTube*: https://youtu.be/vR1ltcwByDM Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9124#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9124#comments> *Perrmalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9124 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Anonymizing Twitter handles
by Ye Na Lee 16 Apr '17

16 Apr '17

Dear subscribers to Association of Internet Researchers, I am currently going through IRB process for a research on Twitter data and I was told to anonymize Twitter handles completely. Are there any online programs with which I could anonymize usernames? I don`t think I should create fake Twitter handles for every single tweet that I quote on my paper. I`d really appreciate any suggestions on anonymizing Twitter handles! Thank you in advance!

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