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Call for Participation: IC2S2 2017 - 3rd International Conference on Computational Social Science (early bird rates until May 25)
by Weller, Katrin 02 May '17

02 May '17

IC2S2 2017 - 3rd International Conference on Computational Social Science July 10-13, 2017 Cologne, Germany Web: https://ic2s2.org Twitter: #IC2S2 / @IC2S2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1859606284258118/ ----------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, we would like to inform you that registration is now open for the 3rd International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2017)! This international conference brings together scientists from different disciplines and research areas to meet and discuss computational problems in the study of social systems and dynamics, as well as research questions motivated by large datasets, either extracted from real applications (e.g. social media, communication systems), or created via controlled experiments or computational models The goal of the conference is to create a broad and interdisciplinary community of researchers, including academics, tech industry workers, open data activists, government agency workers, and think tank analysts, who are committed to advancing social science knowledge through computational methods. In addition to keynote speakers, paper and poster sessions, the conference will also include a series of training opportunities and tutorials. Based on the open call for submissions, we accepted 136 submissions as talks, and 114 as poster presentations. You can find an overview of accepted talks and posters at https://ic2s2.org/2017/elements/accepted_talks.html and https://ic2s2.org/2017/elements/accepted_posters.html. -------------------------------------- Keynote Speakers: -------------------------------------- This year the conference will feature keynotes by the following distinguished experts from different research areas in Computational Social Science: - Ulrik Brandes, University of Konstanz - Kathleen Carley, Carnegy Mellon University - Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation - Emily Falk, University of Pennsylvania - Justin Grimmer, Stanford University - Jeff Hancock, Stanford University - Ágnes Horvát, Northwestern University - Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge - María Pereda, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Daniel Romero, University of Michigan - Matt Taddy, Microsoft Research & University of Chicago - Milena Tsvetkova, London School of Economics and Political Science - Dashun Wang, Northwestern University -------------------------------------- Tutorials: -------------------------------------- On the pre-conference day (June 10) there will be the following tutorials: - A Practical Introduction to Spatial Datasets and Urban Applications (Bruno Gonçalves, Desislava Hristova, Anastasios Noulas) - Topic modeling European political debates with the EUSpeech dataset (Tatjana Scheffler, Damian Trilling, Cornelius Puschmann) - Social Media for Health Research (Ingmar Weber, Yelena Mejova) - Discovering and Mitigating Algorithmic Discrimination (Sara Hajian, Carlos Castillo) - Introduction to GIS using Google Maps and Google Earth (Toni Rouhana) - A Practical Introduction to Latent Semantic Analysis for Text (Jacob Miller, David Gefen, Jorge Fresneda) - Computational Sociolinguistics (Dong Nguyen) - Crowdcomputing and Citizen Science for Large-Scale Experimentst (Snehalkumar 'Neil' S. Gaikwad, Sohan Dsouza, Oana Vuculescu, Andrew Mao, Iyad Rahwan) - Digital Demographys (Ingmar Weber, Bogdan State) - A brief introduction to Exponential Random Graph Models for social networks (András Vörös) See details and abstracts at: https://ic2s2.org/2017/elements/tutorials.html -------------------------------------- Registration: -------------------------------------- Please visit our website for all information and for registering: https://ic2s2.org/2017/elements/registration.html Early bird tickets will be available until May 25, 2017. Registration will be open until June 22, 2017. We look forward to seeing you in Cologne! Kind regards, the IC2S2 Organizing Team (IC2S2(a)gesis.org<mailto:IC2S2@gesis.org>)

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Re: [Air-L] Motivational sentences
by Taylor-Smith, Ella 02 May '17

02 May '17

Dear Maria I'm wondering if it will be useful to think of these sentences (which are presumably presented as images) as a type of *meme* I'm particularly thinking of Daniel Miller and colleagues' concept: "Memes are particularly significant as a kind of moral police of the internet. By using them people are able to express their values and disparage those of others in less direct and more acceptable ways than before." Miller, D., Costa, E., Haynes, N., McDonald, T., Nicolescu, R., Sinanan, J., Spyer, J., Venkatraman, S. and Wang, X. (2016). How the world changed social media. London: UCL Press https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/how-world-changed-social-media Hope this helps -Ella ****I'm abseiling off the Forth Bridge on 28th May to raise money for Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity. If you'd like to sponsor me, that would be lovely: http://www.justgiving.com/EllaAbseil2017 ***** Dr Ella Taylor-Smith School of Computing Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith(a)napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm This message and its attachment(s) are intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied, disclosed, forwarded or relied upon by any person other than the intended addressee(s) without the permission of the sender. If you are not the intended addressee you must not take any action based on this message and its attachment(s) nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please respond to the sender and ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are deleted. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this message or its attachment(s), or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Emails entering Edinburgh Napier University's system are subject to routine monitoring and filtering by Edinburgh Napier University. Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373

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Postdoctoral Scholarships: Design & Creative Practice ECP Platforms
by Larissa Hjorth 02 May '17

02 May '17

RMIT’s Design & Creative Practice research is a leader in inventive, explorative and problem-solving techniques and methods at the intersection of the digital, new materiality and sustainability. The Design & Creative Practice ECP Postdoc Scholarships are an opportunity to deeply integrate talented researchers into the intellectual life of RMIT and to strengthen the University’s capacity as an incubator for innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration with real-world impact. We are seeking interdisciplinary candidates with expertise in the following areas: design, creative practice, digital media, ethnography, cultural and media studies and sociology. Application deadline: 30 May 2017 Details: *http://bit.ly/dcp-ecp-postdoc-apply <http://bit.ly/dcp-ecp-postdoc-apply>* Many thanks Larissa -- Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth Design & Creative Practice ECP director RMIT University GPO Box 2476 Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia www.larissahjorth.net Digital Ethnography Research Centre <http://www.digital-ethnography.net/> *Recent books include:* *Digital Ethnography <https://au.sagepub.com/en-gb/oce/digital-ethnography/book243111>* (2016) *Screen Ecologies: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/screen-ecologies>* (2016) *Research projects include:* *Locating the Mobile* <http://locatingthemobile.net/> *Games of Being Mobile <http://gamesofbeingmobile.com/>*

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PhD Scholarships: Design & Creative Practice ECP Platforms
by Larissa Hjorth 02 May '17

02 May '17

The Design & Creative Practice ECP Platform at RMIT University is currently looking for talented students to undertake a PhD focusing on the future of design and creative practice. The PhD Scholarship has been established to support an interdisciplinary approach in research areas such as design, creative practice, digital media, ethnography, cultural and media studies and sociology. Application deadline: 30 May 2017 Details: *http://www1.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=x0xjxtjtkodf <http://www1.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=x0xjxtjtkodf>* -- Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth Design & Creative Practice ECP director RMIT University GPO Box 2476 Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia www.larissahjorth.net Digital Ethnography Research Centre <http://www.digital-ethnography.net/> *Recent books include:* *Digital Ethnography <https://au.sagepub.com/en-gb/oce/digital-ethnography/book243111>* (2016) *Screen Ecologies: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/screen-ecologies>* (2016) *Research projects include:* *Locating the Mobile* <http://locatingthemobile.net/> *Games of Being Mobile <http://gamesofbeingmobile.com/>*

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Second CFP: Culture meets Data: Critical approaches. Brighton, UK
by Ryan Burns 02 May '17

02 May '17

Dear AoIR Colleagues I hope you will be interested in this call for papers for "Digital Culture meets Data: Critical Approaches" http://dccecrea.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-2017-conference/ * Call for Papers Digital Culture meets Data: Critical approaches ECREA Digital Culture and Communication Section Conference. 6th –7th November 2017, University of Brighton, UK Abstract deadline: 20 May 2017 Keynote speakers: · Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland · Helen Thornham, University of Leeds, UK Conference theme: Algorithms and big data are today shaping our sociocultural and technical relations and our everyday experiences. Digital culture and communication are inevitably changing as media infrastructures, media practices and social environments become increasingly ‘datafied’. We may think of surveillance, algorithmic profiling and self-tracking for example. Wearable technologies such as fitness trackers allow people to understand the body as a data-producing object. Our use of commonplace media technologies is mediated by data in ways that we do not ask for, nor even necessarily know about or consent to. Data interpellate us. Yet data are obscure and enigmatic. But what does this turn to data mean for our research, scholarship and pedagogic practice? Has the data paradigm arrived as an unquestionable unifying concept for studies of digital culture and digital media, communication, technology? It may be that a shift of focus on algorithms and data is fundamentally disruptive to the ways in which we see our research and disciplines. It may even appear to limit the theoretical and methodological tools through which we increasingly try to understand mediation, the formation of identity, social life, politics and the creative industries. To others, the ‘datalogical turn’ may be plainly repeating the processes of earlier instances of technological innovation. And for some, it may provide an opportunity to frame new theoretical concepts and methodological tools for a whole new set of social, cultural and political phenomena. The ECREA DCC Conference “Digital Culture meets data: Critical approaches” asks the question: what theoretical and empirical perspectives on data and the digital can be used to augment and diversify our research and educational approaches? And how might we challenge data paradigms or aim to show alternative or complementary ways to address digital culture and communication? We invite empirical and theoretical research papers and panels that address themes such as: - Media studies and datafication - Researching media and culture using data methods - Data visualisation, art and design - Data and the role of the imaginary, fantasy and myth - Data cultures and neoliberalism - Data activism and citizen engagement - Data and critical literacy - Data and gender, race, class inequalities - Datafication and the creative industries - Feminist approaches to data - Machine learning and AI - Mobile and locative media - Quantified self and data cultures - Smart cities, data and sustainability - Social bots and the management of sociality The Conference will also host a YECREA Workshop entitled: ‘The ambitious early-career scholar in an age of precarity: questions, challenges, opportunities’ (Chaired by Ysabel Gerrard, University of Leeds). This workshop will facilitate open discussion between academics at various stages in their careers about some of the issues confronting ambitious early-career scholars in an increasingly competitive international job market. Submission details, individual papers: Please submit abstracts of 250-350 words, written in English. Abstracts should contain a clear outline of the argument, the theoretical framework, methodology and results (if applicable), and how this links to the theme and topics of this conference, or to the general concerns of digital culture and communication. Please include 3-5 keywords that describe your work, and a Bio note (max 100 words, stating affiliation). Submission details, panels: We welcome panel submissions, numbering 4 speakers. Please submit abstracts of 250-350 words per paper, plus a 250-350 word rationale for the panel. Individual abstracts should contain a clear outline of the argument, the theoretical framework, methodology and results (if applicable), and how this links to the theme and topics of this conference, or to the general concerns of digital culture and communication. Please include 3-5 keywords that describe each individual abstracts, plus 3-5 keywords that describe the panel, and Bio note for each individual abstract (max 100 words, stating affiliation). All abstracts and rationale should be sent together as a single document by the panel proposer. Details for abstract submission: Please provide abstracts as .PDF, .DOC or .DOCX file types. Abstracts should be emailed to brightondcc(a)gmail.com<mailto:brightondcc@gmail.com>. Deadline for paper and panel submissions is May 20, 2017. Notification of acceptance: June 20th, 2017. You do not need to be an ECREA or DCC section member to apply. For updates, please visit https://dccecrea.wordpress.com For CFP http://dccecrea.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-2017-conference/ Registration fees: Academic Employed full time …….... £65 Academic Employed Part Time …..... £40 Students / Unwaged ………….……… £20 Organising committee: Ryan Burns, Aristea Fotopoulou, Leighton Evans, Ysabel Gerrard, Ana Jorge, Theodore Koulouris, Sander De Ridder, Maria Sourbati. ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx

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Workshop Mutual Shaping of Human-Robot Interaction @RO-MAN'17
by Somaya Ben Allouch 01 May '17

01 May '17

-------------------------------- Call for Papers The Mutual Shaping of Human-Robot Interaction A workshop, held in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2017) in Lisbon, Portugal, August 28-31, 2017. www.mutualshapinghri.com ---------------------------------- **Submission Deadline: June 1, 2017** Workshop topic The field of robotics has rapidly advanced over the last decades and shown great promises in different fields. After robots were introduced in industry decades ago, advancements in robotic systems have enabled them to increasingly enter and affect our everyday lives. Nowadays, we see robotic systems being introduced as assistants, team-mates, care-takers, and companions, in diverse contexts such as education, health and eldercare, the home, and in search and rescue. This development has started the discussion on the emotional, ethical and societal consequences of the increasing confrontations and interactions between humans and robots. Studies in human-robot interaction have shown that, when robots enter different contexts of our everyday lives, they can influence and change that particular context beyond its intended use purpose alone. The term mutual shaping explains the detailed process of technological design suggesting that society and technology are not mutually exclusive to one another and, instead, influence and shape each other. Society changes as a direct result of the implementation of technology that has been created based on society�s wants and needs. The mutual shaping of technology and society approach focuses on analyzing how social and cultural factors influence the way technologies are designed, used, and evaluated, as well as how technologies affect our construction of social values and meanings. The decisions made in the design, adoption, use, and evaluation process affect human�s attitudes towards, uses of, and even their conceptualizations of these (socially) interactive systems. Social norms, values and morals are both implicitly and explicitly intertwined with technologies, reinforcing or altering our beliefs and practices. Once a robot has entered a social environment, it will alter the distribution of responsibilities and roles within that environment, including how people act in that situation or use context. Accordingly, studies that show how use practices of robot systems and the social environment mutually shape each other, and what forms this mutual shaping process takes, is crucial for the future development of robots for broad societal use. This knowledge is required to inform the design and acceptance of new and existing robot systems. Call for papers The aim of this workshop is to inform the robotics community and its many stakeholders about lessons learned so far about the mutual shaping of robots and society. We will focus on how social factors affect whether people choose to use robots, and how robot design factors affect the social contexts in which robots are used. We welcome prospective participants to submit extended abstracts (max. 4 pages including references) covering any relevant topic contributing to the discussion on the mutual shaping effect(s) of robots and society. The goal is to discuss a wide variety of contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect with the development and evaluation of robot systems (e.g. Human-Human Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Robot Interaction, Human Factors User-Experience, engineering, computer sciences, (interactive) design, sociology, anthropology, psychology, etc.). We invite a diversity of topics from researchers and practitioners from a wide variety of fields who address strategies and lessons learned about mutual shaping of robots and society including, but not limited to: · Human-robot (non)use · Human-Robot interaction · Mutual shaping of robots and society · Evaluation of robot applications and contexts of use · Socially intelligent robotics · Multimodal assessment technologies · Design of robotics systems · Social analysis of robotics · Social cognitive systems The manuscripts should use the conference format. Please submit a PDF copy of your manuscript to [1]s.benallouch(a)saxion.nl and [2]maartje_de_graaf(a)brown.edu. Timeline June 1, 2017: Submission deadline for workshop papers June 22, 2017: Notification of acceptance July 5, 2017: Camera-ready workshop papers deadline July 10, 2017: Workshop program finalized August 27 or September 1, 2017: Workshop day August 28 � August 31, 2017: Main conference Workshop organizers Somaya Ben Allouch � Saxion University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Maartje de Graaf � Brown University, USA Selma Sabanovic � Indiana University, USA Friederike Eyssel � Bielefeld University, Germany __________________________________________________________________ Please consider the environment and do not print this email unless absolutely necessary. Encourage environmental awareness. This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of Saxion University of Applied Sciences. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. 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call for manuscripts: Transdisciplinary Studies
by Jeremy Hunsinger 01 May '17

01 May '17

Transdisciplinary Studies https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/ transdisciplinary-studies/ Series Editors: Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University and Jason Nolan, Ryerson University Aims and Scope: Transdisciplinary Studies is an internationally oriented book series created to generate new theories and practices to extricate transdisciplinary research from the confining discourses of traditional disciplinarities. Within transdisciplinary domains, this series will publish empirically grounded, theoretically sound work seeking to identify and solve global problems that conventional disciplinary perspectives cannot capture. Transdisciplinary Studies seeks to accentuate those aspects of scholarly research which cut across todays learned disciplines in an effort to define new axiologies and forms of praxis. This series intends to promote a new appreciation for transdisciplinary research to audiences that are seeking ways of understanding complex, global problems that many now realize disciplinary perspectives cannot fully address. Scholars, policy makers, educators and researchers working to address issues in technology studies, public finance, discourse studies, professional ethics, political analysis, learning, ecological systems, modern medicine, and other fields clearly are ready to begin investing in transdisciplinary models of research. It is for those many different audiences in these diverse fields that we hope to reach, not merely with topical research, but also through considering new epistemic and ontological foundations for of transdisciplinary research. —— Currently there are five books in the series: 1. Towards Human Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media and Ethics by Naomi SUnderland, Phil Graham, Peter Isaacs, and Bernerd McKenna 2. Making a Difference: Science, Action and Integrated Environmental Research by Lorrae von Kerkhoff 3. Ontologies for Developing Things: Making Health Care Futures Through technology by Casper Bruun Jensen 4. Putting Knowledge to Work & Letting Information Play by Timothy W. Luke and Jeremy Hunsinger 5. Drawing as Language: Celebrating the Work of Bob Steele by Marni J. Binder & Sylvia Kind We are seeking manuscript proposals that fit our aims and scope. Manuscripts can be submitted at any time to Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University at jhuns(a)vt.edu or Jason Nolan, Ryerson University at jnolan(a)ryerson.edu There is a listserv related to the book series for people interested in transdisciplinary studies at: http://lists.tmttlt.com/listinfo.cgi/ transdisciplinarystudies-tmttlt.com

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CFP: Global mobileGov Awards 2017
by Ibrahim Kushchu 01 May '17

01 May '17

mobileGov World Summit and Global mobileGov Awards 2017 7-9 May, 2017 - Brighton UK - www.m4life.org ——————————————————————————— ** Designing the future of eGovernment ** — GLOBAL mobileGOV AWARDS Since Early developments in 2000s governments are now moving from providing mobile applications and services as they emerge to being more strategic in using mobile technologies centrally or locally. This has resulted significant advances in the practice. In order to recognise these achievements, mLife events in collaboration with mobileGov UK, which has for many years helped governments in strategic design and implementations of mobile solutions, launched Global mobileGov Awards. In a week time, at mobileGov World Summit, the leading implementers of the mobile technologies in the public sector for providing services to citizens are receiving their awards and presenting their knowledge and experiences gained in running their projects and achieving results. Internationally, top three the best mobileGov implementers and various other nominees competed to prove their 'excellence in designing the future of eGoverment' using mobile technologies will receive their awards at a ceremony in Brighton UK. For more please visit www.m4life.org — mobileGOV WORLD SUMMIT In addition to the Global Awards, mLife events proud to present, yet another prime gathering of mobile solution providers and the public sector professionals to discuss technology, strategies and policies, implementation and participation models in designing the future of eGovernment. Highlights of the Agenda: — Public Sector Leaders share accumulated knowledge and experience of implementing mobileGovernment strategically: The core of the Summit is a panel of public sector change makers from various governments to present know-how and experience in implementing mobile governments in their respective countries. Some of the other panels and sessions include: • Limits of IoT Intelligence • Smart Mobile Technologies • mobileHealth • mobile and wireless security • mobileEducation and Learning • mobileID • Inclusive mGovernment For more please the conference program: http://www.m4life.org/conferences/mgovsummit2016/program-2/ mLife events, organisers of conferences on mobileGovernment, mobileLife, mobileDevelopment since 2005, invites you to celebrate with winners of the Global mobileGov Awards; participate and contribute to the exchange of knowledge of practice of mobileGovernment via panels, demos and exhibitions. For attending, exhibiting, or sponsorship opportunities and more, please see www.m4life.org and register to the Summit. Best wishes, ====== Ibrahim KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Founding Director, mobileGov UK http://mgovernment.net/ ik(a)mgovernment.net +44 7740143135 - Visit mLife Conferences http://www.m4life.org

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elections reminder
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 01 May '17

01 May '17

Hi everyone, Just a friendly reminder that if you are a dues-paying member of AoIR, voting is under way for the Executive Committee. Members have received emails with information on how to cast their ballots. If you're a member and haven't yet voted. Take a few minutes, search your email for "Vote for the Next AoIR Executive Committee", and follow the directions to vote. It would be an amazing expression of the strength of this community to see a majority of the membership cast their ballots! ~Jenny Jennifer Stromer-Galley | Professor Director, Center for Computational and Data Sciences President, Association of Internet Researchers School of Information Studies 220 Hinds Hall Syracuse, New York 13244 e jstromer(a)syr.edu<mailto:jstromer@syr.edu> My 2016 political social media project: illuminating.ischool.syr.edu<http://illuminating.ischool.syr.edu/>

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