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ICA preconf CfP: Media, Gender and Sexuality in Europe
by Szulc Lukasz 09 Jan '18

09 Jan '18

Preconference Call for Papers International Communication Association Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Interest Group 24 May 2018, Prague, Czech Republic MEDIA, GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN EUROPE Media are gendered and sexualized while gender and sexuality are heavily mediated. Gender and sexuality figure prominently in many aspects of media production, representation, consumption and use. At this preconference, we will build on a vast body of research in this area to examine the intersections between media, gender and sexuality as well as age, ability, class, religion, race, ethnicity and nationality. Inspired by the fact that the International Communication Association will for the first time in history hold its annual conference in Central Europe, we would like to think about those intersections from a European perspective, particularly from the perspective of underrepresented contexts such as Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. How do European contexts matter for the intersections of media, gender and sexuality? How are those intersections manifested in Europe at different historical moments and at different geographical scales (such as cities, countries and regions)? What can we learn about those intersections thinking through Europe-specific issues such as larger geopolitical challenges (e.g. Brexit, austerity measures, 'refugee crisis', postcommunist transitions and the rise of the far right) as well as challenges specifically related to gender and sexuality (e.g. homonationalism in Western Europe, 'gay propaganda' laws in Russia and Lithuania, and anti-gender campaigns across the continent)? Also, more theoretically, what can such Europe-specific research contribute to mainstream, largely Anglo-American, studies of media, gender and sexuality? What are the legacies and the futures of European gender, feminist, sexuality and LGBTQ media studies? SUBMISSION PROCESS We invite scholars at all stages of their careers, across multiple disciplines as well as employing diverse methods and theories to submit abstracts of 300 to 500 words along with their short bio notes to Lukasz Szulc (L.Szulc(a)lse.ac.uk<mailto:L.Szulc@lse.ac.uk>) by 1 February 2018. We are open to works addressing a wide spectrum of mainstream and alternative media (including but not limited to press, radio, television, cinema, digital and mobile media) and a diversity of genres and platforms (such as journalism, advertising, TV drama, porn, films, games, social media and dating sites). However, we ask that all submissions reflect on the importance of the European context. The preconference will consist of short individual presentations, allowing participants to have in-depth discussions and produce broader insights. Authors will be informed of their acceptance or rejection by 1 March 2018. We will consider to publish selected contributions in a special issue in a peer-reviewed journal. Authors of the accepted abstracts will need to register through the ICA website (www.icahdq.org<http://www.icahdq.org>). Cost for participation is 25USD for early registration (by 30 April 2018) and 35USD for late registration (by 4 May 2018). ORGANIZERS AND SPONSORS Lukasz Szulc (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) Alexander Dhoest (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Lynn Comella (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, US) Sponsor: Department of Communication Studies, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Lukasz Szulc, PhD Marie Curie Research Fellow Department of Media & Communications London School of Economics and Political Science TW2.7.01M Houghton Street London UNITED KINGDOM http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/research-staff/lukasz-… @LukaszSzulc<https://twitter.com/LukaszSzulc> NEW PUBLICATIONS Szulc, L. (2017) Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland: Cross-Border Flows in Gay and Lesbian Magazines. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Available at: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319589008 Szulc, L. (2017) Banal Nationalism in the Internet Age: Rethinking the Relationship between Nations, Nationalisms and the Media. In M. Skey & M. Antonsich (eds.) Everyday Nationhood: Theorising Culture, Identity and Belonging after Banal Nationalism. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 53-74. Available at: https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137570970

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Important Dates Update for ACM UMAP 2018
by guogb＠swc.neu.edu.cn 09 Jan '18

09 Jan '18

Hi all, Due to the confict with Chinese New Year of the orginal dates, ACM UMAP 2018 has updated the important dates as follows: Abstract: February 25, 2018 Full paper: March 4, 2018 Notification: April 8, 2018 Camera-ready: May 6, 2018 Guibing Guo, PhD, Assoc. Prof. Northeastern University, China http://www.luckymoon.me/ 发件人： guogb(a)swc.neu.edu.cn 发送时间： 2017-09-28 14:28 收件人： socnet; SIGWEB-MEMBERS; cscw-all; um; Air-L; sigir; announce; CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS; SIGIR; IR; sdm.publicity 主题： ACM UMAP 2018 Call for Papers Call for Papers: 2018 26th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP’18) ********************** SUBMISSIONS Papers should be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2018) The User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) 2018 Conference will include high quality peer-reviewed papers related to the above key areas. Maintaining the high quality and impact of the UMAP series, each paper will have three reviews by program committee members and a meta-review presenting the reviewers’ consensual view; the review process will be coordinated by the program chairs in collaboration with the corresponding area chairs. Long (8 pages + references) and Short (4 pages + references) papers in ACM style Peer reviewed, original, and principled research papers addressing both the theory and practice of UMAP and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome. Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed. Short papers should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but only within each category. Papers that receive high scores and are considered promising by reviewers, but didn’t make the acceptance cut, will be directed to the poster session of the conference and will be invited to be resubmitted as posters. ********************** TRACKS - Personalized Recommender Systems Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund, Germany Markus Zanker, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy Personalized, computer-generated recommendations have become a pervasive feature of today’s online world. The underlying recommender systems are designed to help users and providers in a number of ways. From a user’s viewpoint, for example, these systems assist consumers in finding relevant things within large item collections. On the other hand, from a provider’s perspective, recommenders have also shown to be valuable tools to steer consumer behavior. From a technical perspective, the design of such systems requires the careful consideration of various aspects, including the choice of the user modeling approach, the underlying recommendation algorithm, and the user interface. This track aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss open challenges, latest solutions and novel research approaches in the field of recommender systems. Besides the above-mentioned technical aspects, works are also particularly welcome that address questions related to the user perception and the business value of recommender systems. Topics include (but are not limited to): Recommendation algorithms and their evaluation User modeling and preference elicitation Users’ perception of recommender systems Business value of recommendation systems and multi-stakeholder environments Explanations and trust Context-aware recommendation algorithms Recommending to groups of users Case studies of real-world implementations - Adaptive Hypermedia and the Semantic Web Peter Brusilovsky, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, The Netherlands Adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web explore alternatives to the traditional “one-size-fits-all” approach in the development of web and hypermedia systems. Adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web systems build a model of the interests, preferences and knowledge of each individual user, and use this model in order to adapt the behavior of hypermedia and web systems to the needs of that user. Semantic web frequently serves as an infrastructure to enable adaptive and personalized Web systems. Semantic web technology targets the use of explicit semantics and metadata to help web systems perform the desired functionality: this implies the use of linked data from the web, the use of ontologies in models, or the use of metadata in user interfaces. This track aims to provide a forum to researchers to discuss open research problems, solid solutions, latest challenges, novel applications and innovative research approaches in adaptive hypermedia and semantic web. Topics include (but are not limited to): Web user profiles Adaptive navigation support Personalized search Web content adaptation Analytics of web user data Adaptive Web sites and portals Adaptive books and textbooks Social navigation and social search Navigation support in continuous media and virtual environments Usability engineering for adaptive hypermedia and Web systems Novel methodologies for evaluating adaptive hypermedia and Web systems Semantic Web technologies for Web personalization Ontology-based data access and integration/exchange on the adaptive web Ontology engineering and ontology patterns for the adaoptive web Semantic social network mining, analysis, representation, and management Crowdsourcing semantics; methods, dynamics, and challenges Semantic Web and Linked Data for adaptation - Intelligent User Interfaces Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia Markus Schedl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Intelligent User Interfaces aim to improve the interaction between computer systems and human users by means of Artificial Intelligence. The systems support and complement different types of abilities that are normally unavailable in the context of human-only cognition. Previous work has found that humans do not always make the best possible decisions when working together with computer systems. By designing and deploying improved forms of support for interactive collaboration between human decision makers and systems, we can enable decision making processes that better leverage the strengths of both collaborators. More generally this research track can be characterised by exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, which may leverage solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualisation, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Topics include (but are not limited to): Adaptive personal virtual assistants (e.g., Siri, Cortana, Alexa) Adapting natural interaction (e.g., natural language, speech, gesture) Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological info, etc.) Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces Smart environments and tangible computing Transparency and control of decision support systems (e.g., semi-autonomous systems) Explainable intelligent user interfaces Affective and aesthetic interfaces Tailored persuasion and argumentation interfaces Tailored decision support (e.g., over- and under-reliance in uncertain domains) Adaptive information visualization Scalability of intelligent user interfaces to access huge datasets Novel methodologies and real-world implementations of IUI User-centric studies of interactions with intelligent user interfaces Novel datasets and use cases for intelligent user interfaces - Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning Olga Santos, UNED, Spain Carla Limongelli, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy Learning is a very complex human process that involves cognitive, affective and psychomotor aspects. Smart technological solutions are expected to identify and model the learning needs in these three aspects and provide personalized adapted support that can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of learning experiences. Technological innovations bring new opportunities to recognize learner’s needs and how to orchestrate suitable learning solutions, with and without the involvement of the teacher. This covers not only formal educational settings, but also lifelong learning requirements (including workplace training) as well as the acquisition of skills (e.g., in daily activities, serious games, etc.). To address the wide spectrum of modeling issues and challenges that can be raised, contributions from various research areas are necessary. Therefore, this track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to present their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experience, and discuss the main modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. Topics include (but are not limited to): Domain, learner, teacher and context modeling Modeling cognitive, affective and psychomotor aspects of learning Adaptive and personalized support for learning, diagnosis and feedback Agent-based learning environments and virtual pedagogical agents Open corpus personalized learning Collaborative and group learning UMAP aspects in specific learning solutions: educational recommender systems, intelligent tutoring systems, serious games, personal learning environments, MOOCs,... Wearable technologies and augmented reality in adaptive personalized learning Processing collected data for UMAP: educational data mining, learning analytics, big data, deep learning… Semantic web and ontologies for e-learning Interoperability, portability, and scalability issues Case studies in real-world educational settings - Personalized Social Web Cecile Paris, CSIRO, Australia Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada The massive uptake of numerous social media platforms on the web gave rise the Social Web, where people can obtain, disseminate and share information, interact, collaborate and form communities (social networks), through a variety of means. A number of research questions arise, for example how to model the flow of information through the social web, understand people’s experiences and the effectiveness of online social networks, identify users or communities with behaviour potentially harmful to themselves or others, gain insights into society, or design, develop and evaluate automated personalization tools to improve the individual user experience. We invite original submission addressing all aspects of personalization and personal experience in online social systems. Topics include (but are not limited to): Personalization of the web experience in social systems Social and crowd-generated data for personalization Wisdom of the crowd, human computation and collective intelligence for personalization Incentives for participation and persuasion in online communities Use of online social data for personalized offline experiences Behavior modeling of individuals, groups, and communities Dynamics of social collaborative systems Analysis of information flows in social networks Opinion mining and social media analytics Biases and individual/local perception in social systems Adaptations based on personality, society, and culture Privacy, perceived security, and trust in social systems Ethical issues involved in studying the social web Personalization algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies Machine learning for personalization Evaluation methodologies for the social web ********************** IMPORTANT DATES Submission due Abstract: February 18, 2018 Full paper: February 25, 2018 Notification: Apri 1, 2018 Camera-ready: May 6, 2018 Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm Hawaii time. ********************** FORMAT DETAILS AND PUBLICATION Page limits: Long papers - 8 pages + references; Short pages: 4 pages + references. Note that the references do not count towards page limits. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Please note that ACM changed its templates at the start of 2017, so please ensure that you use the new template and do not reuse an old template. All accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)

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Call for participation closing soon (Jan. 22) for 2018 Connected Learning Summit
by Jamieson Pond 08 Jan '18

08 Jan '18

Connected Learning Summit | August 1-3, 2018 | MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA *********************************************************** * Call for submissions closing soon for the 2018 Connected Learning Summit. * Application Deadline: January 22, 2018. * Learn More: http://clsummit.news/CLScfpAIR *********************************************************** We encourage the submission of academic papers and project presentations as well as more innovative session formats which focus on digital technologies for learning, educational and commercial games and other media, innovative tech-infused curricula, and theoretical and/or empirical exploration of digital media and technology for learning. Final paper and extended abstracts from all session types will be included in the Connected Learning Conference Proceedings. All proposals will be peer reviewed. Research papers only will be blind reviewed. Session Formats: • Research Papers (academic papers will be subject to blind peer review) • Spotlights • Workshops (60-minute session - make things, build things, test things—the sky’s the limit!) • Symposia (similar to presentation sessions but are crafted to tackle a specific theme or issue related to the conference and the field) • Well Played (the goal of these sessions is to help further develop and define a literacy of games and media as well as a sense of their value) • Hall of Failure (candid discussion of lessons learned in research and/or design projects) • Ignite Talk (highly engaging, firehose style, punchy 5-minute talks where slides ruthlessly auto-advance) • Working Paper • Tech Demo (we especially encourage the submission of early prototypes, wireframes, and first playables) About the Connected Learning Summit The mission of the CLS is to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing the power of emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. It represents a merger between three community events with this shared vision and values: the Digital Media and Learning Conference, the Games+Learning+Society Conference, and Sandbox Summit. With a unique focus on cross-sector connections and progressive and catalytic innovation, the event brings together leading researchers, educators and developers. The program includes a mix of engaging presentation and workshop formats ranging from speculative design, to game walkthroughs, sharing work in progress, and research panels. Respectfully, Jamieson Pond, Research Community Manager Digital Media & Learning Research Hub jpond(a)hri.uci.edu Connected Learning Summit 2018 Call for Proposals Now Open (deadline: January 22) August 1-3, 2018 | MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA http://connectedlearningsummit.org @TheCLSummit | #CLS2018

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2018 CALL FOR OPEN ACCESS BOOK PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES
by Christian Fuchs 08 Jan '18

08 Jan '18

**NEW 2018 CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES** Critical Digital and Social Media Studies is an established book series edited by Professor Christian Fuchs on behalf of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies and published by the University of Westminster Press (UWP). We invite submissions of book proposals that fall into the scope of the series. **Submission Deadline: Monday 12 February 2017 23:00 BST** by e-mail to Andrew Lockett (University of Westminster Press Manager) at A.Lockett(a)westminster.ac.uk For fullest series details and proposal guidelines see https://uwestminsterpress.blog/2018/01/08/call-for-book-proposal-submission… Books already published in the Series: https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/series/critical-digital-and-… University of Westminster Press Publishing Portfolio: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ubiquity-partner-network/uwp/UWP_Catalog… CALL DETAILS After the publication of five titles in the series we invite submission of book proposals (adhering to the guidelines set out below) as one document with one full chapter for books in the range of 35,000-80,000 words. The books in the series are published online in an open access format available online without payment using a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY-NC-ND) and simultaneously as affordable paperbacks. We are able to publish a number of books in the call without any book processing charges thanks to generous support by the University of Westminster that covers these fees. Potential authors are welcome to contact the series editor outside of the initial time frame of this call for book proposals but should note that priority for funding support for suitable projects will be given to those proposals meeting the deadline. There is a preference for the submission of proposals for books whose writing can be finished and that can be submitted to UWP within the next 6-15 months. In the event of a surplus of strong proposals preference will be given to single-authored book proposals over edited volumes. We welcome submissions of a book outline proposal with (exactly one) sample chapter submitted as one single Word or PDF document. We can only accept suggestions for books written in English. TOPICS Example topics that the book series is interested in include: the political economy of digital and social media; digital and informational capitalism; digital labour; ideology critique in the age of social media; new developments of critical theory in the age of digital and social media; critical studies of advertising and consumer culture online; critical social media research methods; critical digital and social media ethics; working class struggles in the age of social media; the relationship of class, gender and race in the context of digital and social media; the critical analysis of the implications of big data, cloud computing, digital positivism, the Internet of things, predictive online analytics, the sharing economy, location- based data and mobile media, etc.; the role of classical critical theories for studying digital and social media; alternative social media and Internet platforms; the public sphere in the age of digital media; the critical study of the Internet economy; critical perspectives on digital democracy; critical case studies of online prosumption; public service digital and social media; commons-based digital and social media; subjectivity, consciousness, affects, worldviews and moral values in the age of digital and social media; digital art and culture in the context of critical theory; environmental and ecological aspects of digital capitalism and digital consumer culture.

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Deadline Extension: CfP "Overcoming Inequalities in Internet Governance: framing digital policy capacity building strategies" GigArts2018 / CIGP 26-27 April 2018, Deadline Extended 15th January
by Andrea Calderaro 08 Jan '18

08 Jan '18

Dear all, Given the multiple requests received, we are happy to extend the deadline for submission of abstract proposals to the 15th January. Please find below detailed information about the conference. Interested authors are invited to submit their abstracts (no longer than 500 words) via Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2018 ---------------------------------- GIG-ARTS 2018 - The Second European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies 26-27 April 2018, Cardiff Overcoming Inequalities in Internet Governance: framing digital policy capacity building strategies Organised by: Centre for Internet and Global Politics / School of Law and Politics / Cardiff University In partnership with: DiploFoundation, The ECPR Standing Group on Internet and Politics, The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet), IAMCR Communication Policy and Technology Section, ICA Division Communication Law & Policy New Deadline 15.January.2018 Abstract After having explored “Global Internet Governance as a Diplomacy Issue” at its first edition held in Paris in 2007, the Second European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies (GIG-ARTS 2018) addresses power inequalities in internet governance, and digital policy capacity building strategies aiming at overcoming gaps in digital policy developments. Connectivity infrastructure is constantly expanding, while internet access is incessantly growing across countries, regions and socio-political contexts. In this context, new and crucial questions emerge from a governance and security perspective. As for the latter, new connectivity calls for cybersecurity capacity building strategies aiming at secure digital infrastructure. At the same time, from a governance perspective, traditional powers in the governance of the internet are increasingly challenged from newly connected actors who demand more influence in the transnational debate around digital policy development. As a result, despite claims for equal representations and diversity since the first World Summit on Information Society in 2003, the narrowing of the digital divide opens new and key questions: Whether and what inequalities exist in internet governance decision making? How is the rapidly changing internet geography and sociography reflected in the governance of the internet? Moreover, in order to increase awareness and enhance involvement of newly connected countries in national and transnational digital policy developments, what are the best internet governance capacity building strategies available? How do newly connected countries and actors build their digital policy capacity, and do they develop an active role in the transnational internet governance debate? Whether in newly or early connected countries, various kinds of divides persist across socio-cultural and political contexts, reflecting if not extending societal and socio-economic inequalities. Are such renewed forms of inequalities and discriminations adequately addressed in internet governance debates? What are the requirements for digital policies to actually empower people and uphold their individual and collective rights online? In order to answer these crucial and manifold questions, the conference will bring together an outstanding network of experts working on internet governance, digital inequalities, and cybersecurity capacity building. The conference welcomes theoretically relevant, empirically grounded research, and/or policy oriented contributions, addressing internet governance inequalities, digital policy making, and cybersecurity capacity building. In particular, submissions could address either of the following topics (list non exhaustive): * Inequalities in the governance of the internet * Governance strategies among new and emerging actors * Geopolitical coalitions among actors (e.g. BRICS) * Multistakeholder models and their efficacy * Cybersecurity capacity building * Digital divides * Telecom Reforms * Online discriminations * Violent content and harassment online * “Fake news” and other kinds of manipulations * Individual and collective empowerment * Human rights online * Digital Trade Program Chair Andrea Calderaro Centre for Internet and Global Politics, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom Program Committee William J. Drake, University of Zurich, Switzerland Marianne Franklin, Goldsmiths University Katharina Höne, DiploFoundation, Malta & Switzerland Nanette S. Levinson, American University Washington DC, USA Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom Meryem Marzouki, CNRS & Sorbonne Université, France Ben Wagner, UW Vienna, Austria Full Call for Paper Please find more information via the conference website: events.gig-arts.eu<http://events.gig-arts.eu/> Submission Information and Publication Opportunities Authors are invited to submit their abstracts (no longer than 500 words) via Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2018 Authors of selected submissions will have the opportunity to submit their full manuscript for publication as part of an edited volume. Venue The conference will be held in Wales's capital city, Cardiff, at the Centre for Internet and Global Politics, hosted at the Cardiff University's School of Law and Politics. Conference Registration and Fees Registration fees are 100€ for regular participants and 50€ for students showing proof of status. The conference fees include a participant kit with conference documents as well as coffee breaks and meals. GIG-ARTS 2018 Communication Details - Website: events.gig-arts.eu<http://events.gig-arts.eu/> | www.cigp.eu<http://www.cigp.eu/> - Email for information: events(a)gig-arts.eu<mailto:events@gig-arts.eu> | Andrea Calderaro (CalderaroA(a)Cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:CalderaroA@Cardiff.ac.uk>) - Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2018 - Twitter: @GigArtsEU - Mailing list for updates: http://tinyurl.com/yc7rvxm4 ----------------------------------------------- Andrea Calderaro, PhD Director Centre for Internet and Global Politics (CIGP) Director of PGR Politics & IR Lecturer in International Relations Department of Politics and International Relations | Cardiff University ----------------------------------------------- Personal page: www.andreacalderaro.net<http://www.andreacalderaro.net/> Twitter: @andreacalderaro

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Re: [Air-L] Learning more about social media analytics
by Justin Littman 08 Jan '18

08 Jan '18

f(b)arc is a command line tool and python library for collecting data from the Facebook Graph API: https://github.com/justinlittman/fbarc Best. --Justin Littman George Washington University Libraries ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Virginia Balfour <virginiabalfour(a)hotmail.com> To: "Andreas M. Panagopoulos" <ampanago(a)jour.auth.gr> Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Bcc: Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 03:08:43 +0000 Subject: Re: [Air-L] Learning more about social media analytics Me too! I'm doing qualitative research of an open Facebook page (for a movie) and would love to know of any scraping tools which will allow me to gather contents of posts and comments. Ginny QUT Brisbane Virginia Balfour

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New book> Social theory after the Internet
by Eric Meyer 08 Jan '18

08 Jan '18

Dear colleagues, If you are interested in social theory and the internet, my colleague (and erstwhile co-author) Ralph Schroeder has a new book http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/social-theory-after-the-internet And it's open access and so free to read! Best, Eric Prof Eric T Meyer, University of Oxford Professor of Social Informatics & Director of Graduate Studies, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute, London Email: eric.meyer(a)oii.ox.ac.uk<mailto:eric.meyer@oii.ox.ac.uk> | Web: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/eric-meyer/ | Twitter: @etmeyer

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INTECH 2018
by ijwa＠dline.info 08 Jan '18

08 Jan '18

CALL FOR PAPERS Eighth International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2018) London, UK August 15-17, 2018 www.dirf.org/intech Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE, UK & RI (IEEE Xplore Indexing) CALL FOR PAPERS The First International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2011) was held at Sao Carlos in Brazil followed by the Second International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2012) at Casablanca in Morocco. The INTECH 2013 and INTECH 2014 were organized at London and Luton, UK respectively. The INTECH 2015 was organized by the Atlantic Research Centre for Information and Communication Technologies of the University of Vigo, Spain. The INTECH 2016 was at Dublin, Ireland followed by the INTECH 2017 at Luton, UK. The INTECH 2018 will be held at London, and it offers the opportunity for institutes, research centers, engineers, scientists and industrial companies to share their latest investigations, researches, developments and ideas in area of Innovative Computing Technology, which covers huge topics. The INTECH intends to address various innovative computing techniques involving various applications. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of computing technologies, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. This conference (INTECH 2018) will include presentations of contributed papers by invited keynote speakers. Conference papers will include innovative computing paradigms in the following topics: Network and Information Security Innovative Computing Systems and Applications in S & T domains such as – Algorithms Applied Information Systems Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Broadcasting Technology Cloud Computing Computational Intelligence Data and Network mining Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks Database Systems Digital Image/Video Processing E-Learning, e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government Electronics Environmental modeling and precision agriculture Fault Classification and Pattern Recognition Green Computing Grid computing Human-Computer Interaction Intelligent Condition Monitoring Mobile network and systems Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Payment Systems Peer-to-peer social networks Precision Farming Web Farming Signal Processing Soft Computing: Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems, optimization algorithms Software Engineering Intelligent Farming: Web farming, Web irrigation Ubiquitous Computing User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling Virtual Reality Visualization Web services WWW Applications and Technologies XML and other Extensible Languages The INTECH proceedings will also be indexed by dblp. All the papers will be reviewed and the accepted papers in the conference will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for indexing and will be indexed in many global databases.In addition, all the accepted papers (for Journals) will be published in the special issues journals after substantial revision and modification. Program Committees General Chairs Ezendu Ariwa, University of Bedfordshire, UK Saju Mohanan, Oman College of Higher Technology, Oman Ramiro Sámano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Program Chairs Jack Fernando Bravo-Torres, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Ecuador Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy Anabela Mesquita, Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administraç?o do Porto, Portugal Submissions at- http://dirf.org/intech/paper-submission/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: June 01, 2018 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: July 01, 2018 Camera Ready: August 01, 2018 Registration: August 01, 2018 Conference: August 15-17, 2018 Contact: intech @ dirf.org OR intech @ socio.org.uk ------------------------------------

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CfP2: The politics of metadata in participatory approaches: Opportunities, practices, and conflicts (DHN 2018)
by Karin Hansson 08 Jan '18

08 Jan '18

Second call for proposals Workshop at the conference Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 7 March 2018 at the University of Helsinki This workshop seeks to expand critical perspectives on metadata in relation to public cultural heritage image collections online. In our image-saturated time, the definition of therticipatory online practices such as crowdsourcing enable cultural heritage institutions to accelerate the development of digi also be seen as platforms for audience engagement, creating a deep connection to cultural heritage through online collaboration. Furthermore, open data and enhanced standards enabling interoperability might support new forms of collaboration between institutions, researchers, and the general public. However, these participatory open science practices create new challenges due to the character of the networked publics involved and the established structures between and within institutions, but also new opportunities and practices when it comes to understanding and defining our shared images. Therefore, critical perspectives on metadata in relation to photographic collections online are vital. This calls for an interdisciplinary approach in the intersection between computer science, image studies, and cultural studies. For this workshop, therefore, we invite participants to look more closely at different types of participatory practices online in relation to the cultural heritage domain, and at different levels of interaction. Possible sites of analysis could be the interaction between participants, the participation in the work by different stakeholders, the potentially privileged levels of interaction with the metadata, or tensions in the agency of the participants in relation to the task. This half-day workshop explores the topics in mini presentations and brainstorming sessions, and will result in a research agenda for addressing these questions. The position-paper should be 2-4 pages and using the Springer LNCS templates. Send submissions and inquiries to the following email address: politics-of-metadata(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:politics-of-metadata@googlegroups.com> Deadline is Wednesday, January 31, 2018. For more information visit the website: http://politicsofmetadata.blogs.dsv.su.se/

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CFP EXTENDED: Journal of Peer Production
by Steve Collins 08 Jan '18

08 Jan '18

PEER PRODUCTION: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE The Journal of Peer Production (JoPP) is a volunteer-run peer-reviewed journal which has since 2011 both researched and put into practice the principles of peer production, understood as a mode of commons-based and oriented production in which participation is voluntary and predicated on the self-selection of tasks. Notable examples are the collaborative development of Free Software projects and of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. JoPP is an open-access journal that allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute and link to the full texts of articles. Authors license works under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) and retain full copyright in their work. In terms of research, we have published ten landmark issues exploring the interconnection of peer production with activism, political economy, bio and hardware hacking, free software, value and currency, shared machine shops, the law, state policies, feminism and queer issues, alternative infrastructures, and waged labour. We will publish our eleventh issue on peer production and urbanism in January 2018 and our twelfth on the institutionalisation of shared machine shops in May 2018. In terms of practice, we have debated policy decisions on a public and archived mailing list. We have renovated the scientific peer review system by publishing not only reviews of papers, but also – in order to fully appreciate the impact of reviews – original submissions of articles. We have launched a “signalling” system so that imperfect articles can be published rapidly, whilst maintaining the standards and reputation of the journal. *Having defined the field of peer production studies and put into practice peer production principles, we now seek to foster new avenues and partnerships.* We are calling this new phase in the development of the Journal of Peer Production “OPEN”. At the root of “OPEN” is the fact that we now live in an era where exclusion and inequality are being justified by overtly racist, even fascist, ideas. It is therefore more important than ever for progressives to develop viable alternatives to plutocracy and environmental destruction which highlight peer values such as inclusion and openness. *There are two parts to JoPP “OPEN”: “OPEN” EOI and “OPEN” CFP.* JOPP: “OPEN” EOI *We are calling for “OPEN” editorial Expressions of Interest from people wanting to develop their own take on peer production.* This means we are offering our website and network of reviewers for the production and dissemination of activist or scientific interventions in the field of peer production. We are open to accounts of projects, to explorations of special interests, to analysis of the “infrastructures of the commons” (universal income systems, cooperatives and unions, free public services), etc. We are particularly interested in initiatives that would disseminate peer production knowledge and values to audiences beyond the academic and activist communities. Please write to the JoPP general public list <jopp-public AT lists.ourproject.org> with your ideas or if you prefer to discuss them in confidence please contact the private JoPP editorial team mailing list <jopp-editorial AT lists.ourproject.org>. We look forward to hearing from you! JOPP: “OPEN” CFP ISSUE #13 *We are also announcing a Call for Papers for issue #13 of the Journal of Peer Production on the theme of “OPEN”.* This means that contributions can explore any aspect of peer production. Please refer to past issues for examples and to our style guidelines <http://peerproduction.net/about/submissions/> for guidance on the type of contributions we accept. Important dates: 500-word abstracts 15th February 2018 Acceptance of papers 15th March 2018 Full papers due 30th June 2018 Reviews due and sent to authors 30th August 2018 Revised papers due 30th October 2018 Signals due 30th December 2018 Issue released 31st January 2019 Submission guidelines *Extended paper abstracts *of up to 500 words *are due 15 January, 2018. *Peer reviewed papers should be no more than 8,000 words. These should be sent directly to the editors. All peer reviewed papers will be reviewed according to Journal of Peer Production guidelines. See http://peerproduction.net/peer-review/process/ for details. *Full papers for peer review *will be due by *30th June, 2018.* Editors For more information and feedback on proposed contributions please contact the issue editors: Mathieu O’Neil | http://bit.ly/2A7JgAV | <mathieu.oneil AT canberra.edu.au> Steve Collins | http://bit.ly/2xNhOmV <http://bit.ly/2xNhOmV>| <stephen.collins AT mq.edu.au> -- *Dr Steve Collins* Senior Lecturer in Multimedia Department of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies Macquarie University P: (02) 9850 2165 W: http://bit.ly/122QivW L: Y3A 191D

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