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Re: [Air-L] [ecrea] New Book: Feminist Activism and Digital Networks
by Adam Fish 13 May '17

13 May '17

New Book: Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States By Adam Fish Palgrave MacMillan This new book examines whether television can be used as a tool not just for capitalism, but for democracy. Throughout television’s history, activists have attempted to access it for that very reason. New technologies—cable, satellite, and the internet—provided brief openings for amateur and activist engagement with television. This book elaborates on this history by using ethnographic data to build a new iteration of liberalism, technoliberalism, which sees Silicon Valley technology and the free market of Hollywood end the need for a politics of participation. Three-part interview with Henry Jenkins, Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, about Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture. Part 1: http://henryjenkins.org/2017/04/what-ever-happened-to-the-promise-of-partic… Part 2: http://henryjenkins.org/2017/05/what-ever-happened-to-the-promise-of-partic… Part 3: http://henryjenkins.org/2017/05/what-ever-happened-to-the-promise-of-partic… Chapters Include: Introduction: Liberalism and Video Power Histories of Video Power Liberalism and Broadcast Politics Corporate Liberalism and Video Producers Technoliberalism and the Origins of the Internet Technoliberalism and the Convergence Myth Silophication of Media Industries Neoliberalism and Terminal Video Toward the Beginning of a New Participatory Culture Review: “Adam Fish's ambitious book is at once empirically and theoretically incisive; it charts the rise and fall of 'technoliberalism' as it confronts generation after generation of hopeful new media and their relentless incorporation within capital. It is an essential and creative clarification of the tangle of contemporary technologies, political theories of freedom and equality, and the desires involved in making and consuming media.” (Christopher Kelty, University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Publisher’s site: http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319312552#reviews Adam Fish is cultural anthropologist, video producer, and senior lecturer in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University. He employs ethnographic and creative methods to investigate how media technology and political power interconnect. Using theories from political economy and new materialism, he examines digital industries and digital activists. http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/about-us/people/adam-fish On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 12:08 AM, Carpentier Nico <nico.carpentier(a)vub.ac.be > wrote: > > "Feminist Activism and Digital Networks: Between Empowerment and > Vulnerability” > > By Aristea Fotopoulou > > Palgrave Macmillan > > > This book sheds new light on the way that, in the last decade, digital > technologies have become inextricably linked to culture, economy and > politics and how they have transformed feminist and queer activism. This > exciting text critically analyses the contradictions, tensions and > often-paradoxical aspects that characterize such politics, both in > relation to identity and to activist practice. Aristea Fotopoulou examines > how activists make claims about rights online, and how they negotiate > access, connectivity, openness and visibility in digital networks. Through > a triple focus on embodied media practices, labour and imaginaries, and > across the themes of bodily autonomy, pornography, reproduction, and queer > social life, she advocates a move away from understandings of digital > media technologies as intrinsically exploitative or empowering. By > reinstating the media as constant material agents in the process of > politicization, Fotopoulou creates a powerful text that appeals to > students and scholars of digital media, gender and sexuality, and readers > interested in the role of media technologies in activism. > > Table of Contents > > 1) Introduction: Conceptualising Feminist Activism and Digital Networks > > 2) Women’s Organisations and the Social Imaginary of Networked Feminism: > Digital and Networked by Default? > > 3) The Paradox of Feminism, Technology and Pornography: Value and > Biopolitics in Digital Culture > > 4) From Egg Donation to Fertility Apps: Feminist Knowledge Production and > Reproductive Rights > > 5) Space, Locality and Connectivity: The End of Identity Politics as We > Know It? > > 6) Epilogue: Looping Feminist Threads > > > Endorsements > > "How are new forms of political subject and political practice possible? > The focus of cultural studies for decades, this question acquires new > urgency in the digital era with its radically new possibilities for acting > together and in view of each other. Aristea Fotopoulou¹s exciting book > explores, across diverse and imaginatively selected case studies, the > potential for feminist and queer activists to establish new ground and, in > the process, change our vision of what politics might be. Highly > recommended.” > (Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK > And author of "Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics after > Neoliberalism") > "What do feminism and queer activism mean in an era when digital > technologies are so intimately entangled with cultural, economic and > political life? In Feminist Activism and Digital Networks, Aristea > Fotopoulou gives us an original take on this question, steering a careful > course between celebration and despair, and offering nuanced discussions > of contemporary digital biopolitics from alt porn to fertility apps to > anarcho-queer placed-based interventions.” > > (Rosalind Gill, City, University of London, UK) > > “Feminist Activism and Digital Networks is an urgently needed antidote to > what Dr. Fotopoulou refers to as the invisibility of gender and sexuality > as embodied practices in communication studies and social movement studies > alike. Focusing on the lively and important forms of feminism occurring in > digital networked cultures as spaces of tension and contradiction, > possibilities and foreclosures, Dr. Fotopoulou brilliantly helps us > understand the complex nature of activism and connectivity in contemporary > feminist theory and activism. This book should be required reading for > social justice classrooms.” > > (Carol Stabile, University of Oregon, USA, > Managing Editor, Fembot Collective, Co-editor Ada: A Journal of Gender, > New Media, and Technology) > > About the Author > > Dr Aristea Fotopoulou is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, > School of Media, University of Brighton, UK. She researches critical > aspects of digital culture, emerging technologies and social change. > Currently she writes about cultures, practices and subjectivities that > relate to self-tracking and big data, from a feminist perspective. > > Publisher website: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137504708 > > > > --------------- > The COMMLIST > --------------- > This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please > use it responsibly and wisely. > -- > To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/ > -- > Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at > http://commlist.org/ > -- > To contact the mailing list manager: > Email: nico.carpentier(a)vub.ac.be > URL: http://nicocarpentier.net > --------------- >

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Setting Up a Honeypot
by Roderick Graham 12 May '17

12 May '17

AOIR List: I am interested in collecting spam emails for analysis. Does anyone know of a "how to guide" or website that gives a tutorial on setting up a "honeypot"? I know that the basic idea is to create fake emails...but after that I am kind of in the dark. Rod Graham Roderick Graham Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice Old Dominion University 6012 Batten Arts and Letters Norfolk, VA 23508 Phone: 757-683-5539

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Earn a Certificate in Social Media Analysis from Boston University w/ Gratis Access to Crimson Hexagon
by Jacob Groshek 12 May '17

12 May '17

After selling out our inaugural event, we are hosting a workshop at Boston University this May 31 - June 2, 2017 on social media analysis called "Making Social Media Matter: How to Analyze, Visualize & Interpret Social Networks in 3 Days." In addition to covering the theoretical bases of working with and modeling big data, the training in this workshop will include access and use of leading data platforms, namely Crimson Hexagon, the Boston University Twitter Collection and Analysis Toolkit (BU-TCAT), and Gephi. Please let me know any questions and share widely with colleagues, students, or professionals that might be interested to attend. For more details, please visit http://sites.bu.edu/social-media-analysis/ In summary, the tools demonstrated in this workshop for network analysis, geolocation, and machine learning are at the forefront of social media research and will equip attendees — even those with no computational training — with expert understanding of how to collect, analyze, visualize, and interpret social media data for internal and public use. Media researchers, students, and anyone wanting to make sense of social media will benefit from attending this workshop. All participants that successfully complete this workshop will: • Earn a Certificate in Social Media Analysis: Principals and Practices for Big Data from Boston University. • Have free access for 3 weeks to the industry-leading the ForSight data analysis platform from Crimson Hexagon. • Receive training in exclusive data analysis tools that can collect, analyze and visualize millions of units of social media content. • Go beyond simple analytic dashboards and dive deep into data to take their analytic skills to the next level. Again, please let me know any questions and share widely with colleagues, students, or professionals that might be interested to attend. Space is limited, and registration is open at https://www.bu.edu/com/soci al-media-analysis/ Thanks much, Jacob -- Dr. Jacob Groshek Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Studies Communication Research Center <http://sites.bu.edu/crc/about-crc/> Fellow Hariri Institute <http://www.bu.edu/hic/> Junior Faculty Fellow Boston University jgroshek.org <http://www.jgroshek.org/> Founding Editor, *Journal of Communication and Technology* Boston Civic Media Consortium <http://bostoncivic.media/> Founding Member Previously: Research Fellow, Erasmus Uni <http://www.eshcc.eur.nl/english/research/research_centres/erasmus_research_…> | Full Member, NeSCoR <http://nescor.socsci.uva.nl/>| Visiting Scholar, IAST <http://www.iast.fr/> @jgroshek <https://twitter.com/jgroshek> | google scholar <https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=G1XXhccAAAAJ&hl=en>

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5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2017): Last Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 12 May '17

12 May '17

*** Last Call for Papers *** 5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems ECBS 2017 Lordos Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 31 August - 1 September, 2017 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… In Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP, SIGOPS and SIGSOFT *** Final Extension Deadline: 1 June, 2017 *** ECBS 2017 is a formal meeting dedicated to formulating and advancing methods, techniques, and tools for engineering of computer-based systems. The conference is devoted to the design, development, deployment, and analysis of the complex systems whose behavior is largely determined or controlled by computers. Such systems are characterized by functional, performance, and reliability requirements that mandate the tight integration of information processing and physical processes. ECBS integrates software, hardware, and communication perspective of system engineering through its many facets that include system modeling, requirements specification, simulation, architectures, safety, security, reliability, human-computer interaction, system integration, verification and validation, high performance/parallel computing, cloud-based technologies, and project management. The conference provides a bridge between industry and academia, blending academic research and industrial development. The proceedings will be published in the International Conference Proceedings Series of ACM and after the conference they will be accessible in the ACM Digital Library. A Best Paper Award will be presented to the best paper presented at the conference, and a Best Student Paper Award will be presented to the best paper written solely or mostly by students. Scope Papers are sought which reflect this intent in fundamental ECBS technologies and application domains including, but not limited to the following topics: · Agile and Lean Approaches and Human Aspects of Software Development · Architectures · Advanced Modularity · Cloud-based Applications · Co-Design · Component-Based System Design · Cyber-Physical Systems · Parallel & Distributed Systems · Parallel Programming Methodologies and Languages · FPGA Systems Design · ECBS Infrastructure (Tools and Environments) · Education and Training · Embedded Real-Time Software Systems · Integration Engineering · Lifecycle Processes and Process Evolution · Model-Based System Development · Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems · Networked Control Systems · Reengineering & Reuse · Reliability, Safety, Dependability, and Security · Software Engineering · System Assessment, Testing, and Metrics · Verification and Validation Industrial reports of practical solutions, trends, and new system characteristics for ECBS, taking an integrated systems approach, are particularly welcome. They may target application domains such as: Aerospace Systems, Command and Control, Continuous and Discrete Manufacturing, Environmental Systems, Instrumentation and Control Applications, Internet Technology and Applications, Intelligent Highway- Vehicle Systems (IHVS), Medical Systems, High Performance Computing Development Environments and Applications, and Telecommunications. Submission of Papers The conference solicits regular (no more than 10 pages) and short papers (no more than 4 pages). The Program Committee may require an accepted paper to be adapted into a short paper or extended abstract (no more than 2 pages and poster presentation only). 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 Papers: 1 June, 2017 (firm) · Notification of Acceptance: 1 July, 2017 · Camera-ready Submission: 17 July, 2017 · Registration and Payment for Authors: 17 July, 2017 · Early Registration for Non-Authors: 9 August, 2017 Organization General Chair · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chair · Ondrej Rysavy, Brno University of Technology , Czech Republic Program Co-Chair · Valentino Vranic, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia Steering Committee · Hassan Charaf, ECBS-EERC 2013 General Chair · George Angelos Papadopoulos, General Chair · Miroslav Popovic, ECBS-EERC 2009 General Chair · Ondrej Rysavy, ECBS-EERC 2015 General Chair · Valentino Vranic, ECBS-EERC 2011 General Chair Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…

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reminder:deadline June 1st for Summer course on social media in political communication and journalism approaching
by Maurice Vergeer 12 May '17

12 May '17

Reminder: deadline approaching (June 1st) for entering the 2017 Radboud summer course "Social media theory and data in journalism and political communication". It is intended for BA(advanced)- and MA-level students. The course will take place in the second week of August, 2017 at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The course will focus on theoretical approaches and on collecting and analyzing social media data. The program is available here https://goo.gl/NQ3yqw . There are already enough participants to proceed with the course, but you can still enroll till June 1st. Detailed information about my course and how to enroll can be found here: http://www.ru.nl/radboudsummerschool/courses/2017/social-media-theory-data- journalism-political/ Hope to meet up with you in Nijmegen! Maurice Vergeer -- ________________________________________________ Maurice Vergeer To contact me, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/5 For yesterday's news in perspective: http://www.echovannl.nl/ To see my publications, see http://mauricevergeer.nl/node/1 PGP public key: https://keys.mailvelope.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search= 0xE7BF24D19BE34017 ________________________________________________

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Articles introducing digital ethnography?
by Evelina Liliequist 12 May '17

12 May '17

Hello! I have been asked to teach students about digital ethnology, is there anyone here who can recommend a good article that introduces this? It is likely to be the students' first teaching opportunity on this field, so I'm looking for articles that fits in as an introduction. Thanks in advance, Evelina Liliequist Postgraduate student Ethnology, Digital humanities Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå University Umeå University SE-901 87 Umeå Sweden Tel: +46 90 7866305 Email: evelina.liliequist(a)umu.se<mailto:evelina.liliequist@umu.se>

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IJoC Publishes Special Section on Venture Labor (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 11 May '17

11 May '17

A real nice set of short papers, including NetLab's summary of how Networked Researchers operate, with implications for Networked Work. 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 _______________________________________________________________________ > See below and http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/index#more5. > > > *Do workers now see taking big risks as the only way to get ahead? * > > > > *What is the impact of the high-stakes technology startup culture on the > rest of the U.S. economy? * > > > > *What lessons do the trends in media and communication jobs teach us about > the future of work? * > > * ________________________________________________________* > > > > Edited by Laura Robinson, Gina Neff, and Jeremy Schulz, this *Special > Section on Venture Labor *begins to answer these and other timely questions > about work and workers today. > > > > A broad-ranging group of international scholars explores the concept of > venture labor from multiple perspectives. Venture labor is the explicit > expression of entrepreneurial values by non-entrepreneurs. As contributors > argue, venture labor leads to the normalization of risk-taking in work, > even when the odds are long and the winners are few. Nonetheless, a spirit > of risk-taking, once seen as restricted to technology start-ups, now > attracts workers across many industries willing to forgo the benefits and > safety nets of traditional employment in exchange for new risks and > opportunities. > > > > Venture labor contributes to the shift of risk away from the social > collectivity to the individual. This collection of essays covers venture > labor phenomena including self-branding, social media professional > marketing, entrepreneurial journalism, anytime-anywhere work, > entrepreneurial self-actualization, crowdsourcing, and labor on âspecâ and > other unpaid labor are all part of the venture labor trend covered in. > > > > The Special Section brings together voices from multiple social science > perspectives including communication, sociology, and media studies, with > contributions from *Laura Robinson, Jeremy Schulz, Alice E. Marwick, Nicole > S. Cohen, C.W. Anderson, Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Enda Brophy, Gina Neff, > Paul Hirsch, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Ofer Sharone, Barry Wellman, Dimitrina > Dimitrova, Tsahi Hayat, Guang Ying Mo, Beverly Wellman, and Antonio > Casilli. *Together, these contributors grapple with the power of > contradictory forces remaking the workplaces of the 21st century. > > > > We invite you to read these 14 essays that published in the *International > Journal of Communication* on May 10, 2017 at *ijoc.org > <http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/index>.* > > ________________________________________________________________ > > > *Larry Gross Arlene Luck* > > *Editor Managing > Editor* > *Laura Robinson, Gina Neff, Jeremy Schulz* > *Guest Editors*

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Couch Award 2017 Final Call
by Mark D. Johns 11 May '17

11 May '17

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2017 Sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research http://www.cccsir.com/ The Carl Couch Center issues an international call for student-authored papers to be considered for Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Center welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers that apply symbolic interactionist approaches to internet studies. According to basic symbolic interactionist premises, what we understand as self, identity, relationship, and cultural formations are constructed dialogically and interactively. While the works of George H. Mead, Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman and other leading symbolic interactionists have been integral to the study of social interaction, Carl Couch was among the first from this tradition to suggest the importance of engaging in the study of mediated interaction. It is critical that symbolic interactionists move boldly forward, beyond Couch's initial suggestion, to study what has become for many a dominant form of communication in their everyday life. Whether we research identities, emotion, memory, family, work, career, presentations of self, deception, love, loss or other areas, the impact of mediated communication is felt by those interacting within it. As internet-related media continue to influence our everyday interactions--not only with other people but also with technologies, devices, algorithms, platform parameters, and so forth--it becomes crucial for symbolic interactionists to attend to the role of these mediating factors in the interaction process. We encourage any paper that uses a symbolic interactionist approach in internet studies. We also encourage papers that explore the interface between deliberate social interaction and structured (or automated) interactions sponsored or enacted by various technological features, exploring not only how identities, relations, and social formations are negotiated through social interactions, but also how these interactions are mediated further through the use or capacities of various technologies. Papers will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of symbolic interactionist approaches and concepts, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Those contemplating entering should note that an interactionist approach demands thoughtful analysis, and not mere description, of social interactions. Evaluation will be administered by a Review Committee of: Dr. Mark D. Johns, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Dr. Camille Johnson-Yale, Lake Forest College, Illinois Dr. Lois Scheidt, Indiana University, Bloomington Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines. Works that are published or accepted for publication are not eligible for award consideration. Entries should be in English and not exceed 30 pages (approximately 7500 words) in length, including references and appendices. Limit of one entry per student per year. The top paper will receive Couch Award to be presented at the 2017 meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (aoir.org) in Tartu, Estonia. The top paper will be awarded a certificate and a cash prize of $300 US and the author will be invited to present their work at a session of the AoIR conference, University of Tartu, October 18-21, 2017. Candidates should send a copy of their paper electronically, along with information concerning the location and level of their studies, to Mark Johns at mjohns(a)luther.edu Application deadline is May 15, 2017. Notification of award will be sent by June 15. Those with questions or comments about Couch Award application, please contact: Mark D. Johns Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Phone: 563-387-1347 E-mail: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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CFP: Contagion - First Forum USC Graduate Conference
by Debjani Dutta 11 May '17

11 May '17

Possibly of interest to some on this list. *Contagion * USC Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Conference Los Angeles, CA October 20th-21st, 2017 First Forum invites submissions that explore the multiple valences of the term ‘contagion’ in relation to the movements of cinema and media. Embedded in medicalized discourses of the body, the word has often been negatively associated with the spread of disease and illness. Even as theories of globalization imagine the uninterrupted flow of information and commodities, the fear of contagion calls for the containment of populations and territories. The Ebola virus, the terrorist, the computer bug, and the zombie alike threaten to breach the boundaries of the body and the nation. Derived from the Latin con (together with) and tangere (to touch), the word ‘contagion’ also implies a proximity of sentiments and sensations. While it may be connected to the risk of contamination and danger, the term might also open up a zone of empathetic contact. Taking its etymological potential as a starting point, this conference seeks out papers that consider the broad implications of the term. Can ‘contagion’ be a productive model for thinking about the movement and organization of ideas, cultures, and peoples? How can contagious border crossings queer seemingly stable categories of identity, revealing the artificial and arbitrary nature of their construction? What impact do existing representations of contagion -whether of affect, disease, or environmental agents -have on our cultural imaginaries? Can cinema be considered a contagious medium that invites bodily and sensory engagement rather than relying on the distant gaze? How are the material dimensions of this contagious transmission reconfigured through the networks of digital circulation? Topics may include but are not limited to: - Swarms, insect, and viral media - Touch, haptics and phenomenologies of film - Zombies, vampires, and body horror - Discourses of racial purity and miscegenation - Gender-bending and queer representations in cinema - Immigrants, refugees and diasporas in film and media - Biopower, technology, and national security - Environmental contamination, pollution, and ecocide - HIV/AIDS and other epidemic media - Medical media (radiography, stethoscopy, and medical imaging) - Educational and pedagogical films on contagion In addition to panel presentations, we will have a keynote speaker, alumni respondents, and a faculty roundtable. Please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words for a 20 minute panel presentation and a short bio. Non-traditional, creative projects are welcome, as are individual papers or pre-constituted panels. Please email your submissions and inquiries to firstforumusc(a)gmail.com by June 20th, 2017. Debjani Dutta PhD Candidate, Division of Cinema and Media Studies School of Cinematic Arts University of Southern California

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CfP: Int. Workshop on Health Recommender Systems co-located with ACM RECSYS 2017
by Christoph Trattner 11 May '17

11 May '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://healthrecsys.ur.de -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** June, 22nd, 2017 Paper submission deadline ** June, 13th, 2017 Notification to authors ** July, 27th, 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 Skoevde, Sweden) Hanna Schaefer (TU Muenchen, Germany) Christoph Trattner (MODUL University Vienna, Austria) Helma Torkamaan (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Andre Calero Valdez (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) 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: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=healthrecsys17 ** 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 Andre 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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