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Call for Abstracts: E-Vote-ID PhD Colloquium 2017
by Peter ROENNE 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

[Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS E-Vote-ID PhD Colloquium 2017 Second International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting Bregenz, Austria, 24-27 October 2017 www.e-vote-id.org (PhD Colloquium Abstract Submission Date: 7 July 2017) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: @evotingcc Hashtag: #EVoteID2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PhD Colloquium The colloquium continues the tradition of PhD workshops on e-voting. Since 2006 the PhD seminars have focused on various aspects of e-voting including technical aspects, legal challenges, identity management, verifiability of the vote, etc. The workshops took place in various locations in Austria, Catalonia, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. The goal of the colloquium is to foster understanding and collaboration between PhD students from various disciplines working on e-voting. To this end, the program allows plenty of space for discussion and initiating collaboration based on presentations by attendees. What makes this colloquium special is that it is truly interdisciplinary, where PhD students from legal backgrounds are joined by PhD students with computer science and cryptography backgrounds and by social scientists. Master students in e-voting and related areas are also welcome to participate. Each interested participant should submit his/her research proposal (or alternatively ideas for papers, open problems, or other issues where feedback from colleagues would be helpful etc.) of some two pages length using the conference platform. In addition to this proposal, participants are asked to fill out a questionnaire about their PhD project. This questionnaire will be send by email to participants who have submitted their proposal. The PhD Colloquium will take place on October 24, 2017, before the formal E-Vote-ID conference begins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Deadline for PhD Colloquium submissions: 7 July 2017 Notification of Acceptance: 17 July 2017 Deadline for Camera-ready Abstracts: 4 August 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract Submission Submissions are to be made using the EasyChair conference system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2017, which serves as the online system for the review process. During submission, please select PhD colloquium. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This E-Vote-ID conference is one of the leading international events for e-voting experts from all over the world. In 2016 the two previously bi-annually held conferences, EVOTE and VoteID, were merged into the annual E-VOTE-ID conference. The second joint conference will take place in October 2017. One of its major objectives is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary and open discussion of all issues relating to electronic voting. Cumulatively, since 2004 some 1,000 experts from all over the world have attended this conference to discuss electronic voting and related topics. The aim of the conference is to bring together e-voting specialists working in academia, politics, government and industry in order to discuss various aspects of all forms of electronic voting (including, but not limited to, polling stations, kiosks, ballot scanners and remote voting by electronic means) in the three following tracks below and a PhD colloquium: Track on Security, Usability, and Technical Issues Design, analysis, formal modeling or research implementation of: - Electronic voting protocols and systems; - Voter identification and authentication; - Ballot secrecy, receipt-freeness and coercion resistance; - Election verification including end-to-end verifiability and risk limiting audits; - Requirements; - Evaluation and certification, including international security standards, e.g. Common Criteria or ITSEC; - Human aspects of security mechanisms in electronic voting and in particular of verifiability mechanisms; - Or any other security and HCI issues relevant to electronic voting. Track on Administrative, Legal, Political, and Social Issues - Discuss legal, political and social issues of electronic voting implementations, ideally employing case study methodology; - Analyze the interrelationship with, and the effects of electronic voting on democratic institutions and processes; - Assess the cultural impact of electronic voting on institutions, behaviours and attitudes of the Digital Era; - Discuss the administrative, legal, political and social risks of electronic voting; - How to draft electronic voting legislations; - Public administrations and the implementation of electronic voting; - Understandability, transparency, and trust issues in electronic voting; - Data protection issues; - Public interests vs. PPP (public private partnerships). Track on Election and Practical Experiences - Review developments in the area of applied electronic voting; - Report on experiences with electronic voting or the preparation thereof (including project progress reports, case law, court decisions, legislative steps, public and political debates, election outcomes, etc.); Experience reports need not contain original research, but must be an accurate, complete and, where applicable, evidence-based account of the deployment. Submissions will be judged on quality of the system or of the analysis, and the applicability of the results to other democracies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venue The conference will be held in the beautiful Renaissance castle of Hofen at Lochau/ Bregenz on the shores of Lake Constance in Austria. On the evening of 24 October a welcome reception for all conference participants will be organized in castle Hofen, where also the conference dinner on 26 October will take place and feature the traditional "cheese road". ------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs Krimmer, Robert (Tallinn University of Technology, Ragnar Nurkse School, Estonia) Volkamer, Melanie (Karlstad University, Sweden & Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) PhD Colloquium Chairs Kulyk, Oksana (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) Weesing-Loeber, Leontine (PhD student at University of East Anglia, Netherlands) Outreach Chair Roenne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

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Julien is Winner of 2017 Couch Award
by Mark D. Johns 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- June 14, 2017 Contact: Dr. Mark D. Johns, Executive Director Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research c/o Department of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA 52101 email: mjohns(a)luther.edu Julien is Winner of Couch Award DECORAH, Iowa -- Chris Julien, a Ph.D. student in Sociology at The Pennsylvania State University, is the winner of the 2017 Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. The Couch Award is presented annually by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (www.cccsir.com) and recognizes excellent student-authored papers. Julien's paper, "The Information-Technological Media of Imgur, Reddit and Twitter," uses Couch’s foundational work on information technologies to evaluate some sociological research since the time of his writing, and to argue that each unique website studied constitutes a distinct information-technological medium. Julien holds a BA in Religious Studies from Grove City College in Pennsylvania, and recently completed his MA in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Couch Award was established by the Couch Center in 2002 as the centerpiece of an extensive awards program. Competition is open to graduate or undergraduate students of all disciplines, and winners are selected by a committee of university professors. The winner receives a cash award as well as the opportunity to present the paper at the international conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in October. The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research is a non-profit organization established to promote the scholarship of the late Carl J. Couch and his academic associates. The Center provides networking opportunities for students and scholars who conduct social and Internet research inspired by Couch's work. - 30 -

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice (Lancaster University)
by Deville, Joseph 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Dear colleagues, Some of you may be interested in this vacancy at Lancaster University: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice Sociology Salary: £33,943 to £55,998 Closing Date: Friday 14 July 2017 Interview Date: Tuesday 25 July 2017 Reference: A1880 Lancaster University’s Department of Sociology are looking for a full-time Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice. You will be a theorist and media-maker (broadly defined) with an established production practice whose work is created within, and circulated across, a range of media tools and digital platforms. You must have competency in a range of digital media authoring and computing tools, consistent with their theoretical and creative practice. You will be expected to teach undergraduate and advanced graduate seminars in the theory, history, or practice of critical digital media production, as well as supervise graduate student research. This is an open call and desired areas of expertise include video and audio production, new media journalism, software development, social media campaigns, participatory or community-based media design, DIY and mobile media, or hardware production and hacking. We especially welcome critical race, post-colonial, indigenous, and feminist approaches. Please refer to the job description and person specification to decide which grade to apply for. For informal enquiries please contact Dr Adam Fish by email a.fish2(a)lancaster.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)1524 592699 or Professor Corinne May-Chahal, Head of Department c.may-chahal(a)lancaster.ac.uk, telephone +44 (0)1524 594104. We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.

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Big Data from the South: reserve your (free) ticket
by lists＠stefaniamilan.net 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Dear colleagues ((apologies for cross-posting)) if you plan to attend IAMCR 2017 in Cartagena, Colombia, please consider participating to an exciting pre-conference on July 15: "Big Data from the South: From media to mediations, from datafication to data activism". We want to rethink 'big data' and related scholarship from an 'epistemology(ies) of the South' perspective. Reserve your ticket online: http://bit.ly/2tkMJ8l It is free of change but seating is limited! The event is organized by Emiliano Trerè (Scuola Normale Superiore), Stefania Milan and Guillen Torres (University of Amsterdam). It is sponsored by the DATACTIVE project (data-activism.net)/the European Research Council, Foundación Karisma (https://karisma.org.co/) and the Law School of the Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia). The line up is impressive: check the preliminary program here: http://bit.ly/2tkMJ8l. Read the event description: http://cartagena2017.iamcr.org/big-data/ We look forward to see you in Cartagena! Best, Stefania, Emiliano and Guillen ---------------------- Stefania Milan, PhD University of Amsterdam || mediastudies.nl || Principal Investigator, DATACTIVE || data-activism.net Councilor, Generic Names Supporting Organization, ICANN mobile: [31] 62 7875 425 (NL) || [1] 647 - 973 - 6533 (CA) || [+39] 333 - 2309945 (I) stefaniamilan.net || @annliffey fingerprint: 7606 4526 3D24 20B2 C850 EA42 A497 CB70 04B5 A3B

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CfPs: Int. Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Digital Humanities co-located with i-Know 2017 (Graz, Austria)
by Christoph Trattner 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Digital Humanities to be held in Graz, Austria co-located with i-Know 2017 (http://i-know.tugraz.at/) Website: https://snandig.github.io/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** June 19th, 2017 - Paper submission deadline ** July 17th, 2017 - Notification to authors ** August 21st, 2017 - Camera-Ready Version ** October 11th/12th, 2017 - 10:30-17:00 - Workshop Workshop Organizers: ==================== Christian Guetl (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Denis Helic (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Elisabeth Lex (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Christoph Trattner (MODUL University Vienna, Austria) Objectives & Topics: ==================== We invite original submissions addressing all aspects of social networks analysis and digital humanities. Online social networks and social media sites enable numerous users to collaboratively create online information by producing new content and by establishing new links between people, information, and services. At the same time, these user leave digital traces on the Web, which provide unparalleled research opportunities for studying questions in sociology, psychology, behavioral science, or political and economic science. While the study of human digital traces has attracted attention from different communities, understanding human social behavior via non-invasive methods remains a challenging task and an open problem. Tackling this challenge requires new methods, instruments and techniques as well as an interdisciplinary effort from researchers across disciplines such as computer science, humanities, social sciences and others. This workshop seeks original submissions on either methods or practices at the crossroads of these various disciplines. We invite submissions that may include the following topics, but are not limited to: ** Studies of online communities ** Communities of practice, online participation ** Graph partitioning and community discovery ** Link prediction ** Location-aware social networks and mobility ** Expertise and trust in online social networks ** Crowdsourcing and social media ** Information diffusion in social networks ** Social influence ** Opinion formation in social networks ** Social bots and their role in shaping of public opinion ** Studies of human culture based on online social networks and encyclopedia, computational methods to assess human culture along different dimensions (such as language, food, music, literature etc.) ** Using social media to study psychological and social phenomena, and corresponding methods to assess such phenomena via web-based investigations ** Biases in social media, such as population biases, channel bias, self-selection bias, etc and computational methods for assessment and correction ** The study of limitations of tools used in digital humanities, extension of traditional source criticism into the development of systematic "tool criticism" ** Social and individual inequalities on the web, e.g. gender or race disparities, computational methods and instruments to assess and track inequalities ** Studies of political processes and dynamics on the web, such as elections, political unrest, grassroots movements ** Predictions with social media, e.g. stock markets, spread of language, culture, memes or diseases ** Longitudinal studies of social phenomena and social change on the web ** Computational methods to assess and improve social and/or individual well-being via the web ** Studies investigating the role and causal impact of algorithms in facilitating social interactions on the web Submissions: ============ Submissions: We solicit research papers (max. 8 pages) in the ACM conference paper style. Acceptance of the papers will be either as full (regular) or short/demo papers with the corresponding presentation slots. Papers accepted as full will be published in the ACM Digital Library and papers accepted as short/demo will be published in special online workshop proceedings. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iknow2017. Please select "Social Network Analysis" as a track in EasyChair. 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 (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) 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; 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. Location: ========= The workshop will take place at the Messe Congress Graz, Austria and will be held in conjunction with i-Know 2017. Further information of this location can be found on the i-Know website: http://i-know.tugraz.at/. Contact: ======== Christian Guetl - c.guetl(at)tugraz.at Denis Helic - dhelic(at)tugraz.at Elisabeth Lex - elisabeth.lex(at)tugraz.at Christoph Trattner - christoph.trattner(at)modul.ac.at -- ------------------------------------------------------- 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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From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism - TripleC journal special issue
by Gerbaudo, Paolo 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to announce the publication of the TripleC special issue ">From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism" edited by Todd Wolfson, Emiliano Treré, Paolo Gerbaudo, and Peter N. Funke: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/36 Vol 15, No 2 (2017)<http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/36> triple-c.at International Peer Reviewed Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society kumpulan berita terkini hari ini The special issue explores the transformation of digital activism across a number of recent waves of protest and radical politics, from the global justice protests around the turn of the millennium to the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests and the rise of new left parties such as Podemos. Table of contents Multiple Temporalities of the Movements / Michael Hardt >From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism / Peter N. Funke, Todd Wolfson Comparing Digital Protest Media Imaginaries: Anti-Austerity Movements in Greece, Italy & Spain / Emiliano Treré, Sandra Jeppesen, Alice Mattoni Social Reproduction in the Live Stream / Elise Thorburn Technopopulism: The Emergence of a Discursive Formation / Marco Deseriis The Alternative to Occupy: Radical Politics Between Protest and Parliament / Emil Husted, Allan Dreyer Hansen >From Cyber-Autonomism to Cyber-Populism: An Ideological Analysis of the Evolution of Digital Activism / Paolo Gerbaudo Occupy and the Temporal Politics of Prefigurative Democracy / Kamilla Petrick (Digital) Activism at the Interstices: Anarchist and Self-Organizing Movements in Greece / Eugenia Siapera, Michael Theodosiadis Student Protests. Three Periods of University Governance / Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat, Bob Jeffery ----------------- best, Paolo Gerbaudo [https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif] Dr Paolo Gerbaudo, Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, Department of Digital Humanities Director of the Centre for Digital Culture King's College London, Room 224, 2nd Floor, 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2, England Phone: +44 (0)20 78481576

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AoIR preconference on Metaphors of Internet: June 20 deadline coming up.
by Annette Markham 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Hi Colleagues, Note the upcoming June 20 deadline for this AoIR 2017 Tartu Pre-conference on "Understanding and Distorting the Internet, Metaphors of Experience in 2017" This AoIR Preconference (Tartu, 18 October 2017) invites participants to submit abstracts for a workshop exploring contemporary metaphorical frameworks for making sense of lived experience in/of networked publics. Almost 20 years ago Annette Markham (1998, 2003) proposed a framework of the internet as a tool, as a place and as a way of being. Though not mutually exclusive, these three metaphors invoke and foster divergent ways of making sense of networked and technologically-mediated communication. This full day preconference workshop invites internet researchers to engage with these metaphors to discuss, extend, build on or challenge Markham’s framework We invite colleagues to a discussion of the (changing) metaphors of everything internet. This includes, but is not limited to metaphors of internet as used by or in various networked publics, metaphors of publics and publicness as used in various discourse, and metaphorical analysis of the concept of (networked) publics itself. Your own abstract might focus on such things as: *study of contemporary lived experiences of the internet through the lens of metaphors – in particular, Markham’s (1998, 2003) framework; *conceptual, historical and theoretical visions of the shifts in dominant metaphors of “the internet”; *extensions or challenges to existing frameworks; *theoretical implications of engaging with metaphors to conceptually describe experience and sensemaking; or *something else relevant to the CFP Deadline to submit a short abstract for consideration to one of the 20 reserved seats: June 20, 2017: See more at https://aoir.org/aoir2017/preconworkshop/#UDI <https://aoir.org/aoir2017/preconworkshop/#UDI> Best Regards, and looking forward to seeing you in Tartu! Annette Markham (along with my co-facilitators Katrin Tiidenberg, Nancy Baym, Cindy Tekobbe, and Terri Senft)

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Seeking literature to inform workplace policy around OH &S implications of social media moderation
by Kath Albury 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Hello all, I'm trying to find literature to support a friend who is responsible for running (and moderating) his employer's Twitter account. He is required to 'log' all material from accounts that @ his employer - and is consequently becoming increasingly distressed by the volume of graphic images he encounters. I know there is some good literature on digital labour & content moderation - but I'm having a hard time finding work that links also explores the implication for workplace policies. Any tips would be most welcome. Cheers, Kath Kath Albury, PhD Associate Professor School of Arts and Media UNSW Australia CRICOS Provider Code: 00098G

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UPDATE AND REMINDER - Gender, sexuality and digital culture: A half day symposium at City, University of London, 20 June 2017
by Ehrstein, Yvonne 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

***Update and reminder*** GENDER, SEXUALITY AND DIGITAL CULTURE A half day symposium at City, University of London, University Building B200, Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB June 20th 2.00-7.30pm //// Wine reception @7.30PM Keynotes: Winnie M Li and Rowan Ellis New and established scholars and activists reflect on old questions and new challenges. Please join us for an afternoon of talks and discussion at City, in central London, to be followed by drinks and refreshments. Sue Jackson (VUW, New Zealand) talks about her work with girls on feminism Samantha Mannix (Melbourne, Australia) discusses ‘healthy’ relationships and gender (in)equality in postfeminist times Roisin Ryan Flood (Essex) reports on her interviews about internet dating Josie Reade (Melbourne, Australia) opens up new ways of thinking about ‘fitspo’ Maree Martinussen (Auckland, New Zealand) explores practices of intimacy in female friendships. Anastasia Powell (RMIT, Australia) talks about her new book Sexual Violence in a Digital Age Laura Thompson (City, London) explores sexual harassment on mobile dating apps Celiya Koster (activist/student, London) discusses co-founding a new intersectional feminist magazine, Typical Girls We are delighted that the symposium will be followed by two very special keynote presentations by Winnie M Li and Rowan Ellis (6-7.30PM) Winnie M Li, author, activist, researcher (LSE) will talk about her extraordinary new novel Dark Chapter, discussing ‘Narrating Lived Experiences of Sexual Violence through Crime Fiction’ @Winniemli Rowan Ellis, an advocate for women’s rights and LGBT+ issues, will discuss her phenomenal campaign to get YouTube to lift their LGBTQ+ restrictions: '"We Are Not Inappropriate" - YouTube's Restricted Mode in LGBTQ+ History' @HeyRowanEllis Followed by a wine reception at 7.30PM Free and open to all but booking essential. Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-sexuality-and-digital-culture-a-half-… Organised by the Gender and Sexuality Research Forum at City and supported by the Department of Sociology https://blogs.city.ac.uk/gsrf/ http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/sociology

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Fully-Funded PhD at the University of Abertay (Dundee, Scotland)
by Xavier Bellekens 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Dear colleagues, [apologies for cross-posting] I have a scholarship to look at Deep Learning Intrusion Detection Systems for IoT https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061263/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=77223 I would be grateful if you circulate the position to potentially suitable candidates. The scholarship is fully funded for a period normally expected to be three-and-a-half years. The deadline for applications is the 10th of July 2017 You can redirected all informal inquiries to me. Kind Regards, Xavier. — Dr Xavier Bellekens Lecturer in Computer Security & Privacy Division of Computing and Mathematics University of Abertay, Kydd Building Bell Street, Dundee DD1 1HG Scotland, UK Tel : +44 (0) 1382 30 8482 Mobile: +44 (0) 7548 71 7049 email : x.bellekens(a)abertay.ac.uk<mailto:x.bellekens@abertay.ac.uk> The University of Abertay is a charitable body, registered in Scotland number SC016040 This email and any attachements may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you must take no action based on the email or its attachements, nor must you copy them to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error.

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