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How significant is algorithmic personalization in searches for political parties and candidates?
by Cornelius Puschmann 16 Aug '17

16 Aug '17

Dear colleagues, apologies for crossposting. I want to point out a preliminary analysis of algorithmic personalization in search results related to the upcoming German national elections that may be relevant to some among you: https://aps.hans-bredow-institut.de/personalization-google/ If you want to have a look at the data: https://datenspende.algorithmwatch.org/en/index.html and https://datenspende.algorithmwatch.org/data.html Feedback is of course very welcome. All best, Cornelius -- Dr. Cornelius Puschmann Research Associate Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Französische Straße 9 10117 Berlin, Germany www.hiig.de Senior Researcher Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research Rothenbaumchaussee 36 20148 Hamburg, Germany www.hans-bredow-institut.de p: +49 40 450 217 55 <+49%2040%2045021755> e: cornelius.puschmann(a)hiig.de w: cbpuschmann.net *Recent paper:* Puschmann, C., & Scheffler, T. (2016). Topic modeling for media and communication research: A short primer (*HIIG Discussion Paper Series* No. 2016–5). Berlin. Retrieved from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/ papers.cfm?abstract_id=2836478

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Please Help Me With an Organizational Use of Social Media Marketing Survey!
by Ming-Yi Wu 16 Aug '17

16 Aug '17

Dear All, Greeting! I teach social media classes at Northeastern University. I am now conducting a survey (with IRB approval) to explore organizational use of social media marketing. If you are familiar with your organization’s usage of social media marketing, please feel free to fill out the online survey! Or, could you help me forward this online survey to colleagues or friends who are familiar with this topic? It may take 5-6 minutes to complete the online survey. Your inputs will be highly appreciated! Organizations (B2C, B2B, or NP) with different sizes are qualified. One person company is qualified, too. They key is that the organization is using social media, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, to communicate with key audience, such as students, alumni, customers, consumers, and donors. The results of this study will have both academic and practical values. I plan to use the findings to develop course materials for my social media classes. In addition, the findings of this study may be presented as a conference paper or published as an academic article. This survey is anonymous. Your participation is voluntary. If you are interested, please click the link. https://neu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eRILadzNBpjySEZ When you participate, please click the arrow to proceed! Thank you in advance! Sincerely, Ming-Yi Wu, Ph.D.

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Job Posting: Permanent position in Media Studies, Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand
by Taffel, Sy 16 Aug '17

16 Aug '17

Hi All, Massey University is hiring a permanent Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (US equivalent of Assistant/Associate Professor) in Palmerston North, Aotearoa New Zealand. Here's a link to the position description and application page: http://massey-careers.massey.ac.nz/9921/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-media-s…. The application deadline is 20 September. Please feel free to share, and let me know if you have any questions. Best, Sy Position overview Applications are invited for a full-time, ongoing Lectureship or Senior Lectureship in the Media Studies programme at Massey University. This position is based at the Manawatu campus in Palmerston North, New Zealand. We are looking for a candidate with research and teaching strengths in social and cultural approaches to media. All applications will be carefully considered, but we particularly encourage applicants with additional specialisations in one or more of the following areas: popular culture, critical and cultural theory, digital media, gender studies, critical race studies. Media Studies is offered as a major in both the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Communication. The undergraduate programme in both degrees currently includes courses across three major areas of specialisation: digital media production, social/cultural approaches to media, and medium-specific approaches/methodologies, including screen studies. An ability to contribute to more than one area, and to teach into the compulsory course 154.101 Introduction to Media Studies, may be an advantage. The graduate programme is available in the Master of Arts and Master of Communication, and offers a selection of courses in the above areas. Candidates are encouraged to view the full range of courses via our website at ems.massey.ac.nz. The successful applicant will have a PhD either completed or be very near to completion at the time of application. Experience of University-level teaching and academic publication or other evidence of ongoing research activity is essential. The level of appointment will depend on qualifications and experience. It is anticipated that the selected candidate will take up the appointment in January 2018. Enquiries should be directed to Associate Professor Jenny Lawn (j.m.lawn(a)massey.ac.nz<mailto:j.m.lawn@massey.ac.nz<mailto:j.m.lawn@massey.ac.nz%3cmailto:j.m.lawn@massey.ac.nz>> or +64 9 213 6337), School of English and Media Studies, Massey University. Applications close on 20 September, 2017 and should be submitted via the Massey Careers website http://www.massey.ac.nz/joinus/. Applications should include a full CV and names and addresses of three referees. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment. Sy Taffel, PhD Lecturer in Media Studies |Co-Director, Political Ecology Research Centre<http://perc.ac.nz/> College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Massey University Email: s.a.taffel(a)massey.ac.nz<mailto:s.a.taffel@massey.ac.nz> | Telephone: +64 (06 ) 356 9099 ext. 84527 Recently Published: Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498535694/Ecological-Entanglements-in-the-Anthr…>, edited by Nicholas Holm and Sy Taffel, Lexington Books Technofossils of the Anthropocene: Media, Geology and Plastics<http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/12/3/355.abstract>. Cultural Politics 2016:3, 355-375

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WEDS: BBC Radio4 ‏ Aleks in Wonderland: The Story of the Internet – Episode 1
by Joly MacFie 15 Aug '17

15 Aug '17

Looking forward to this. Each episode is just 30 mins, and will be available on demand for 30 days subsequent to broadcast. [image: BBC] <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090y9zt>On *Wednesday August 16 2017* at *08:00 UTC* (repeated at *20:30 UTC*) *BBC Radio 4* <http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4> will broadcast the first of a 4 part-series *Aleks in Wonderland: The Story of the Internet <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09254ll/episodes>*. As the BBC puts it: In this series Aleks Krotoski unravels the complexity of the internet, meeting the people who really invented it, looking behind the myths and cultural constructs to explain what it actually is and how it came to exist outside of conventional regulation. We'll ask whether the nature of the net itself really is cause for concern - and if so what can be done to reign in the negatives of the internet without restricting the positives? This first episode is entitled '*The International League of Geeky Gentlemen <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090y9zt>*". Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9334#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9334#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9334 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Minitel: Welcome to the Internet
by Kevin Driscoll 15 Aug '17

15 Aug '17

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the publication of our new book, Minitel: Welcome to the Internet. Minitel: Welcome to the Internet Julien Mailland & Kevin Driscoll The MIT Press, June 2017 https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/minitel In the 1980s, the French Minitel network was the first online system to reach mass-market penetration at the level of a country. With its unusual balance of public and private control, Minitel offers an alternative model for thinking about platforms, policy, and public culture. For a taste of our argument and approach, check out this recent article in the IEEE Spectrum, "The Online World France Built Before the Web": http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/minitel-the-online-world-france… And for a deeper dive, visit the Minitel Research Lab, an independent digital archive featuring hundreds of Minitel artifacts, from terminal hardware to synthpop records: http://minitel.us/ Sincerely, Kevin Driscoll and Julien Mailland

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ACM RecSys'17: FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Christoph Trattner 15 Aug '17

15 Aug '17

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017) to be held in Como, Italy, 27th-31th August 2017 https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCATION - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/location/ --------------- RecSys 2017 will be hosted in Como, Italy, at Villa Erba from August 27-31, 2017. Villa Erba, an architectural jewel of the 18th century, is located in Cernobbio, 10 minutes by ferry from Como (shuttle service will be provided). The frescoed rooms, the botanical park of and the astonishing view of the lake will help RecSys 2017 to be an unforgettable event. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/keynotes/ ------------------------------- *** Recommender Systems and the New New Economics of Information by George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) *** Improving Higher Education—Learning Analytics & Recommender Systems Research by George Karypis (University of Minnesota, USA) *** Personalization is a Two-Way Street by Ronny Lempel (Outbrain, Israel) *** Memory Networks for Recommendation by Jason Weston (Facebook, USA) TUTORIALS - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/tutorials/ ---------------- *** New Paths in Music Recommender Systems Research by Markus Schedl, Peter Knees and Fabien Gouyon *** Privacy for Recommender Systems by Bart Knijnenburg and Shlomo Berkovsky *** Deep Learning for Recommender Systems by Alexandros Karatzoglou and Balázs Hidasi *** Product Recommendations Enhanced with Reviews by Muthusamy Chelliah and Sudeshna Sarkar *** Open Source Tools for Online Learning Recommenders by Róbert Pálovics, Domokos Kelen and András A. Benczúr WORKSHOPS - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/workshops/ ------------------- *** VAMS: Value-Aware and Multi-Stakeholder Recommendation - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/vams/ *** DLRS: Workshop on Deep Learning for Recommender Systems - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/dlrs/ *** ComplexRec: Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/complexrec/ *** RecTemp: Workshop on Temporal Reasoning in Recommender Systems - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/rectemp/ *** Recover: International Workshop on REbooting the COnVErsational Recommender Systems - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/recover/ *** RecSysKTL: Workshop on Intelligent Recommender Systems by Knowledge Transfer & Learning - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/recsysktl/ *** FATREC: Workshop on Responsible Recommendation - https://recsys.acm.org/ recsys17/fatrec/ *** IntRS: Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/intrs/ *** RecTour: Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism - https://recsys.acm.org/ recsys17/intrs/ *** KidRec: International Workshop on Children & Recommender Systems - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/kidrec/ *** CitRec: Recommender Systems for Citizens - https://recsys.acm.org/ recsys17/citrec/ *** HealthRecSys: International Workshop on Health Recommender Systems - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/healthrecsys/ *** LSRS: Large Scale Recommendation Systems Workshop - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/lsrs/ *** RecSys Challenge 2017 Workshop - https://recsys.acm.org/ recsys17/challenge-workshop/ SESSION TOPICS - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/program/ ------------------------- Ranking - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/session-1/ Human Interaction - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/session-2/ Unbiased and Private - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/session-3/ Games and Travel - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/industry-session-1/ Session-Based RS - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/session-6/ Algorithms I - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/session-7/ Algorithms II - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/session-8/ Interesting Domains - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/industry-session-2/ Diversity - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/session-9/ Conversations - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/session-10/ Novel and Practical - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/session-11/ Deep Learning - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/session-12/ Semantics and Sentiment - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/session-13/ Algorithms - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/industry-session-3/ A detailed program of ACM RecSys’17 can be found here: https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/program/ REGISTRATION - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/registration/ ---------------------- On-line registration (and more information) can be found at https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/registration/ ACCOMMODATION - https://recsys.acm.org/recsys17/accommodation/ --------------------------- Information regarding accommodation can be found at https://recsys.acm.org/ recsys17/accommodation/ ------------------------------------------------------- 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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Call for Participation: Workshop on Critical GIS
by ryan burns 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

*Call For Participation: workshop on Critical GIS* This is a call for participation in a workshop on emerging theories in Critical Cartography and GIS to be held during the North American Cartographic Society (NACIS) meeting. For consideration, we are seeking emergent work and epistemological interventions with respect to geographic information (e.g., spatial media). Contributions might apply theoretical insights to spatial knowledge politics not only of the visual, but also to processes that influence the visual and society at large. For example, how are current theories of Critical GIS related to data provenance, data handling, spatial knowledge politics, narrative framings of the world, or spatial decision making procedures? How are processes of GI acquisition and analysis related (or not) to the visual outputs they often produce? How have these processes come to be mediated and by what sociotechnical systems? Our goal is not to rehash the substantive critiques of the 1990’s; powerful and influential though they may be. Rather, we wish to solicit established and emerging scholars to think through how new social theoretical frames, new domains of knowledge production, and new technologies may fit together to produce new knowledges. We are especially interested in expanding our ideas of both what ‘critical’ and ‘geospatial’ might mean in relation to fields like the digital (geo)humanities, Science and Technology Studies, library science, spatial cognition, citizen science, smart cities and Internet of Things, political ecology, and others. We intend for this workshop to catalyze discussions with long-term implications for the discipline. To facilitate such fresh approaches to the field(s), we encourage co-authored, rather than single-authored, contributions. To this end, we expect workshop participants to submit for consideration to a special issue of International Journal of GIS, which we will commence organizing in late 2017. The workshop will be held at McGill University on Friday October 13, concurrent with Workshop Day at NACIS in Montreal. Please respond to this call and specify which of the following applies to you: 1. You would like us to partner you with someone who has a different view point from you and we think you would come up with interesting ideas together, related to critical GIS. 2. You have a co-author who has a different view point who you have never written with and you would like to write with. 3. You can attend the NACIS workshop. To be considered for this workshop, please submit a 500-1000 word (1-2 pages) short paper outlining your position with respect to new theories of Critical GIS and/or Cartography by August 31. Please submit the short papers to renee.sieber(a)mcgill.ca. We recognize that the timing between the end of August and the middle of October is quite short. Therefore, all people who submit short papers will be accepted to attend the NACIS workshop. *Organizers*: Renee Sieber, Associate Professor, McGill University Luke Bergmann, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Seattle Ryan Burns, Assistant Professor, University of Calgary Britta Ricker, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Tacoma Jim Thatcher, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Tacoma -- Ryan Burns, PhD Dept of Geography University of Calgary http://burnsr77.github.io

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Director Search for the Center for Interactive and Immersive Media, UT Austin
by Becky Lentz 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

Please post/forward as appropriate and excuse any unavoidable cross postings DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR INTERACTIVE AND IMMERSIVE MEDIA ASSOCIATE/FULL PROFESSOR, MOODY COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN The Moody College of Communication and The University of Texas at Austin seek a visionary leader to serve as the Founding Director of the new Center for Interactive & Immersive Media (CIIM), to be appointed at the rank of tenured associate or full professor (with possible endowment support), beginning in the Summer or Fall 2018. For the last decade, UT Austin¹s Moody College of Communication has actively pursued diverse scholarly and creative initiatives related to interactive media and immersive media, which have led to continuous innovations in many of its programs including film and media production, journalism, advertising, organizational communication and technology, and health communication. By leveraging the College¹s existing expertise in interactive design and media, immersive media technology (including virtual and augmented reality), 3D production, experiential storytelling, and social science research, and by partnering with programs and faculty throughout campus, CIIMwill aim to transform both pedagogy and practice, creating new and innovative applications of next generation immersive technologies through interdisciplinary collaboration. Reporting directly to Dean Jay Bernhardt of the Moody College of Communication, the new Director will be charged with providing an innovative and inclusive vision for CIIM as a shared strategic resource for interactive and immersive media partners, both on and off campus. CIIM will provide a world class interdisciplinary research infrastructure, bringing together scholars, practitioners, production professionals, and students in support of collaborative research efforts from a wide array of disciplines across UT Austin¹s campus, as well with industry and the federal government through partnerships forged by shared interests and projects. The Director will be responsible for elevating the center¹s presence on campus, making CIIM a natural partner for many researchers and creative professionals, leading to increased extramural research support. The new Director will have an academic appointment as a tenured Associate or Full Professor in one or more of Moody College¹s academic units most relevant to his/her area of area of research/expertise. For more information, please visit https://moody.utexas.edu/ <https://moody.utexas.edu/> . To be eligible for such an appointment, the successful applicant must, at a minimum, have a bachelor¹s degree and at least 10 years of academic and/or professional experience. A graduate degree such as an M.F.A. or Ph.D. (or equivalent) in a relevant field is preferred, but not required. Preference will be given to candidates with prior administrative experience in academia, as well as an outstanding record of scholarly research and/or professional accomplishment in one or more of the following CIIM areas: interactive media, immersive media, gaming, technology communication, human computer interaction, multi-media studies, or other relevant fields. The successful candidate will also have (1) demonstrated experience in fostering collaboration and building consensus amongst colleagues in an academic setting, (2) a demonstrated ability developing collaborative partnerships with industry; and (3) a successful record of receiving external financial support and/or managing externally funded research, as well developing plans to secure future funding. For the complete position description, please click here <https://adobe.ly/2vToJ1m> or copy and paste the following link in a browser: https://adobe.ly/2vToJ1m The University of Texas at Austin and the Moody College of Communication has engaged Opus Partners to support the recruitment of this Director. Applicants are invited to email a PDF containing a brief letter describing their interest and qualifications and curriculum vitae/resume to: jennifer.rumain(a)opuspartners.net <mailto:jennifer.rumain@opuspartners.net> . Nominations, recommendations, expressions of interest, and inquiries should be sent to the same address. Applications received by October 31, 2017 will receive full consideration. UT policy requires that a background check be conducted on the selected candidate. All possible discretion will be exercised to maintain the privacy of applicants through the search process. The Moody College of Communication is committed to achieving diversity in its faculty, students, and curriculum, and it strongly encourages applicants who can help achieve these objectives. The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions. UT Austin is a tobacco-free campus; for more information visit http://www.utexas.edu/tobaccofree/ <http://www.utexas.edu/tobaccofree/> .

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Reminder: [JVWR] Call for Editors -- "Augmented Mind"
by Tzafnat Shpak 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> Augmented Mind View this email in your browser <http://mailchi.mp/d353c3d57c75/jvwr-call-for-editors-and-papers-on-augmente…> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *Call for Editors and Papers on "Augmented Mind" * Call for a prime editor, co-editor(s), and papers on "*Augmented Mind*", for a special issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research to be published 2018 Q2. Motivation and Scope: The JVWR seeks to develop a special issue dedicated to an exploration of the *Mind* as an umbrella concept of research with relations to virtual worlds. *Suggested topics may include but are not limited to the following concepts:* - Mindfulness - Flow - New ways of teaching - Psychology - Digital media studies - Games of the mind - Relevant hardware - EEG / fMRI Call for Prime and Co- Editors: We are looking for a *prime guest editor* (with potentially one co-editor) to manage the process. This is a great opportunity to influence the state of our field. You will: - Develop a detailed call - Review and decide on abstracts and full papers - Coordinate reviewers - Use our publication system -- extensively (be versed also with Google docs, Skype, and other current tools.) - Be a deadline-targeted & taking-charge person. - Work as single editor or add one or more co-editors. - Able to write a short intro including your view / vision / insight on the field. - Get the academic credit as an editor. Please reply by *August 15, 2018,* to info(a)jvwresearch.org <info@jvwresearch?subject=Editor%20for%20Assembled%202016> with an academic CV and a cover letter listing your publishing and editing experience. If you have colleagues who may be interested in becoming editors or co-editors, please feel free to forward this call further. Call for Papers: For papers, kindly email <info(a)jvwresearch.org> your ideas on the topic, abstracts, or send us your feedback. This will also help us develop the call. Deadlines and Timeline: To be announced Full papers will be reviewed by expert referees using the JVWR *double-open policy*. Double-open policy means that in general, authors do not need to anonymize their papers, and reviewers' identities are also known to authors. For more details about it see JVWR site --> About JVWR --> For Authors --> Our double-Open Policy. Further Information: The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (*#TheJVWR*) ( http://www.jvwresearch.org/ <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…>) is an online, open access academic journal that engages a wide spectrum of scholarship. We welcome contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect with virtual worlds research. Subscribe <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> to receive announcements about new calls and issues. For additional information about the journal, please contact: info(a)jvwresearch.org <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> *Copyright © 2017 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, All rights reserved.*

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CfP: Special issue 'Women and Tech in the Post-Soviet Context: Intelligence, Creativity, Transgression’, Studies in Russian, Eurasian, and Central-European New Media
by Mariëlle W. 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

*Studies in Russian, Eurasian, and Central-European New Media *( www.digitalicons.org) invites submissions for its upcoming special issue *'Women and Tech in the Post-Soviet Context: Intelligence, Creativity, Transgression'* Guest editors: Saara Ratilainen (University of Helsinki), Mariëlle Wijermars (University of Helsinki) and Justin Wilmes (East Carolina University) The development of the internet as a democratizing tool fostering freedom of information, grass-roots activism, and peer-to-peer support is closely related to and engrained in hacker communities. In the early days of the internet’s development, these groups consisted primarily of young white men from with access to higher education and technology. In popular culture, the image of the successful programmer, software developer and ‘hacktivist’ remains predominantly male and is based on such well-known examples as Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Edward Snowden, and Pavel Durov. Meanwhile, there are few if any stories or representations of women who have led the hacker revolution. As access to computer-programming-based technology becomes democratized on the user-end, gender (and other) inequalities on the developer side continue to persist with women drastically underrepresented in tech professions. These representations contradict what we know from history, including the fact that there are several women who have led crucial advancements in math and computing. Ada Lovelace, Victorian mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, was notably the inventor of algorithms. She introduced the ‘calculating machine’ one hundred years before the existence of modern computers. Another pioneering female computer scientist and feminist figure, Joan Clarke, worked as a cryptanalyst in the British Government’s Code and Cypher School with the task of decrypting the German Enigma machine code during World War II. Clarke’s work was brought to the attention of international film audiences by *The Imitation Game *in 2014 and biographies of Lovelace are being published in different languages. Despite some renewed interest, we still know far too little about women’s work in computing, internet activism, and technology industries in general. *Studies in Russian, Eurasian, and Central-European New Media *( www.digitalicons.org) invites submissions that address women, feminism, and the internet in post-socialist contexts to be published in a special issue ‘Women and Tech in the post-Soviet Context: Intelligence, Creativity, Transgression’. The issue aims to consider what is it like to be a female programmer, online activist, or digital artist in the era of global connectedness through the internet. According to a study conducted by HackerRank (blog.hackerrank.com) of the ten nations with the best women coders three are Eastern European/post-socialist countries, which prompts the question whether female programmers are better off in post-socialist countries than they are in Silicon Valley? Against this background, the issue also seeks to examine feminist activism and women’s creative work online. Did Pussy Riot pave the way for transnational feminism to grow through online communications? What is the role of internet-based ‘cyber feminism’ (feminist theorizing, critiquing and exploiting the internet and new media technologies) ) for the grass-roots work of women’s groups across the post-socialist space and beyond? How do women artists, writers, and poets advance their careers through online networks and computer programming? The proposed articles can include (but are not limited to) themes such as: - Female coders - Women in software developer communities - Gender representation of hacktivism - Women and artificial intelligence - Feminist groups online - Feminist internet sites - Female gamers/women in the gaming industry - Women’s online poetry and literature - Women in digital art - Female idols on Runet - Female pioneers of Runet - Women in the history of computing and internet in the post-Soviet context Please send an abstract of 350 words and a short cv to the issue’s editors Saara Ratilainen (saara.ratilainen(a)helsinki.fi) Mariëlle Wijermars ( marielle.wijermars(a)helsinki.fi) and Justin Wilmes (wilmesj15(a)ecu.edu) by *15 October 2017*. * Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2017 Notification of acceptance: 20 November 2017 Deadline for full articles: 31 January 2018

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