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Reminder: Edited Collection CfP on The Crisis in Digital Democracy
by Michael 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

> Hi everyone, > > A reminder that John Jones of Ohio State and I have a call out for our > edited collection on The Crisis in Digital Democracy. We're accepting > 500-word proposals through January, 25th that explore: > > *The effect of online content laws in hindering or promoting > online accountability or abuse > *The spread/growth of clickbait, memes, and “fake news” and the > impact of bots and sock-puppet accounts on distributing such content > *Targeted social media campaigns and advertising > *The role of Internet-era actors like Wikileaks in influencing > public opinion and policy > *The history of media disruptions in elections and how this > history can inform current issues > *The design of networked platforms and software as well as their > role in privileging particular online interactions > *The evolution of social media tastemakers, including activists, > pundits, and entertainers > *The role of anonymity and platform liability restrictions on > civic discourse > *Expressions of government accountability (or lack thereof) in > digital spaces > > We're are particularly interested in papers that frame global events > around 2016 as we move forward and learn from those events. > Feel free to email me with any questions > at mtrice(a)mit.edu > > The full CfP is at: > http://johnmjones.org/2017/11/cfp-after-2016-the-crisis-in-digital-democrac… > > Thank you for your time. > > Best, > > Michael > > -- > Lecturer II in Writing and Communication at MIT > Doctoral Candidate at Texas Tech University > Phone: 806.392.7016 > Twitter: mikertrice > Skype: mrtrice1

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Art and (H)aktivism Project London
by Tim Jordan 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

Hopefully of interest to folk. Ugly Duck is an arts company that identifies unused space in London and sets up projects in them. They've just issued a call I've quoted below for projects on Art and (H)Aktivism. Full disclosure: I'm on the curating panel. Tim Jordan http://bit.ly/UDHaktivism The theme for this next season is Art & (H)aktivism. All systems can be hacked. How can we use art and creativity to advocate for social change? How to dismantle invisible walls, symbolic of existing power structures? Creativity can change the way we see the world, culture and ourselves. Art can highlight inequality, fight oppression, and bring people together. Hacking brings about change, teaching us how to sabotage the systems that control us. We are looking for projects that subvert, improve and criticise systems in place. Offering alternatives and putting them into practice. > Any forms and any type of project will be considered < Professor Tim Jordan Head of School of Media, Film and Music University of Sussex 313 Silverstone Building Arts Road Falmer East Sussex BN1 9RG Email: t.r.jordan(a)sussex.ac.uk

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WEBCAST FRIDAY: IEEE Summit on Communications Futures
by Joly MacFie 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

H/T to Dr. Ashutosh Dutta for forwarding this info. Great line up of sessions, and a blessed relief to have an event that one doesn't have to get up for at the crack of dawn, or earlier! [image: IEEEE Comsoc Summit]On *Friday January 19 2018* the *IEEE Communications Society <http://www.comsoc.org/>* (ComSoc) hosts the* IEEE Summit on Communications Futures <http://www.ieee-comfutures.org/>*in Honolulu, HI. A group of distinguished professionals will delve deeply into current and forecasted trends and examine the intersection of optical communications, the Internet of Things (IoT), fog computing and networking, cybersecurity, and 5G and beyond. The event will be *webcast live (registration required <https://register.comsoc.org/content/ieee-summit-communications-futures-live…>)*. Honolulu is UTC-10, so 5 hours ahead of NYC. *What: IEEE Summit on Communications Futures 2018 <http://www.ieee-comfutures.org/>Where: Honolulu, HawaiiWhen: Friday January 19 2018 08:45-17:45 HST | 1:45pm-10:45pm ESTProgram: http://www.ieee-comfutures.org/program/ <http://www.ieee-comfutures.org/program/>Webcast: https://register.comsoc.org/content/ieee-summit-communications-futures-live… <https://register.comsoc.org/content/ieee-summit-communications-futures-live…>Twitter: @comsoc http://bit.ly/comsoctweets <http://bit.ly/comsoctweets>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9826#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9826#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9826 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Call For Participation: CHI 2018 Workshop "Sensemaking in a Senseless World"
by Elizabeth Anne Watkins 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

*CHI 2018 Workshop: "Sensemaking in a Senseless World" **- Call For Participation * We are seeking workshop papers on topics in the area of sensemaking for a workshop to be held at CHI 2018 in Montreal, Canada. Making sense of information is central to HCI as people look to understand complex systems, domains and problems. Broadly, we take the topic of sensemaking to mean understanding of how people collect and organize information for analysis and synthesis, and the tools and processes they follow when doing this. Sensemaking, per se, is everywhere in the systems we build and in the domains we study. Whenever people need to function well with data, making sense of the information is often a central task. We are interested in both individual and group sensemaking practices—from how one person figures out a complex data set, up to large, collaborative group sensemaking where teams of people assemble and interpret large, complex, interlocking sets of data. Representative tasks include: the practices of people who deal with sensemaking hand-offs (e.g., in a medical setting) or in analytical areas (e.g., making sense of financial data for forensic purposes); data set interpretation; understanding large collections of documents; etc. In particular, what are the tools, techniques and best practices of people who need to make sense of a large amount of complex information? What issues of scale, complexity and coordination arise that are particular to making sense of a complex world? *Workshop date: *Saturday, April 21, 2018 (Montreal, Canada) at the CHI conference (https://chi2018.acm.org/) *Workshop Goals* The workshop will include research in areas such as: - how do people make sense of complex sets of information? (behavior studies and tool use) • issues of representation creation, evolution and use over time - implicit and explicit aspects of sensemaking - group sensemaking: including different levels of social aggregation, from individual, to group, to large social contexts - both static and evolving problem environments - how sensemaking fits into other knowledge work (information gathering, decision making) - what is sensemaking today? (In particular, what other sensemaking schools of thought are there, and how can we mutually inform each others work?) >From this meeting of the minds, the Sensemaking workshop has several desired outcomes: - First, we will create working relationships between researchers whose work focuses on aspects of sensemaking. While we certainly hope to bring together those working within the HCI community, we would like to try to bring in some researchers from other disciplines as well, including Library & Information Science (LIS) and Organizational Theory and Psychology (e.g., cognitive/problem solving research). - Our second outcome is to enrich our understanding of sensemaking activities. This includes striving for a shared understanding of the different notions of sensemaking, laying out and structuring the space of varieties of sensemaking (e.g., different levels of social aggregation, static vs. dynamic contexts), articulating their commonalities and differences. - Our third goal is to draw from this is a greater understanding of design implications for improved sensemaking tools, systems and designs. There is a clearly emerging demand for tools for verifiability and trustability of facts shared on public media channels. For example, a new generation of tools is emerging to allow journalists to spot inaccurate or fake news by leveraging ML algorithms and visualizations. Can we take advantage of these tools in our everyday sensemaking tasks as well? *Organizers* - Daniel Russell has been working in the area of sensemaking since the early 1990s. His publication of The cost structure of sensemaking in 1993 led to a stream of research in this area. Now a Senior Research Scientist at Google, he primarily studies how people formulate information needs and satisfy them with online research tools and databases. He has run three earlier CHI workshops on sensemaking, one of which led to a special edition publication of the journal Computer-Human Interaction. - Gregorio Covertino is a Sr. UX Manager and UX Researcher at Cloudera. He has been working on collaborative visualizations for sensemaking since 2003 with his PhD work on multi-role emergency management teams. In addition, he has worked on bias and visualizations for intelligence analysis teams at Xerox PARC. At Informatica and Cloudera, his most recent research work has focused on self-service analytics tools for business users, big data tools for data scientists, and log analytics tools. - Niki Kittur is an Associate Professor and Cooper-Siegel Chair in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research explores a future that scales sensemaking beyond the limits of a single individual’s mind by: 1) distributing sensemaking among many people and machines; 2) enabling people to build on the sensemaking that others have already done; and 3) seamlessly integrating human and machine cognition to make sense of large information spaces. He is also a co-founder of DataSquid, a startup that supports sensemaking by bringing the power of intuitive touch and physics to data visualization. - Peter Pirolli has been a long-time contributor to the sensemaking literature, establishing his contributions to this area with the seminal book Information Foraging Theory (2007). His research involves a mix of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction, with applications in digital health, sensemaking, and information foraging. - Elizabeth Anne Watkins primarily studies news-producing organizations. News organizations combine the technical and complexity issues typical of bureaucratic systems with the creative, autonomous decision-making of journalists. As more industries face changing labor models, shifting to remote workers and building more of their computing needs on third-party platforms, journalists can serve as a critical early-warning population, a canary- in-the-coal-mine look at the management of cybersecurity in the future of work. For us, sensemaking provides a framework to study how journalists who work in these organizations “make sense” of cybersecurity. *To submit a workshop paper: * If you are interested in submitting or attending the workshop, you can find more details on the workshop website: https://sensemakingworkshop2018.com <https://sensemakingchi2018.com/> For inquiries, please email: dmrussell+sensemaking2081(a)gmail.com *Deadlines: * The deadline for submitted workshop papers is March 2, 2018. Notification of acceptance will be March 30, 2018.

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CFP 'Rethinking Affordance' – special issue of Media Theory and symposium (expr. of interest due Jan 29)
by Martin Zeilinger 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

— with apologies for cross-posting — Call for Papers: Rethinking Affordance Special Issue (Media Theory) & Symposium (Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, June 8 - 9 2018) Co-editors and co-organisers: Ashley Scarlett and Martin Zeilinger Abstracts and expressions of interest due by: January 29th, 2018 Responding to the continued and accelerating rise of algorithmic culture, this journal special issue and corresponding symposium will explore critical intersections between creative practice and recent efforts to re-imagine the concept of ‘affordance’ for the digital. Theoretical considerations of ‘affordance’ originate at the intersection of perceptual and cognitive psychology, specifically within the context of J.J. Gibson’s work from the mid-60s onwards. According to Gibson, ‘affordance’ sought to account for the actionable properties of a physical object or environment. An object’s affordances, in other words, describe its phenomenological qualities, projecting potential uses, delimiting possible actions, and signaling perceived functions. While discontinuities between established discourses on ‘affordance’ and its contemporary deployment have been widely identified and problematized (e.g., Evans et. al. 2017; Davis & Chouinard 2017; Samson & Soon 2015; Nagy & Neff 2015), the theoretical parameters of specifically digital affordances remain under-examined. As a result, despite its frequent application within the domains of, for example, HCI, media studies and contemporary design, ‘affordance’ continues to operate within a conceptual framework that largely ignores the specific grounds of contemporary computation, resting instead on the physicality, phenomenological accessibility, and perceived liveliness of objects (e.g., Wells 2002; Morineau et. al. 2009). Importantly, each of these defining characteristics are fundamentally incompatible with what are increasingly referred to as the processual, ‘deep,’ and unperceivable realities of algorithmic systems (Lovink 2014; Parisi 2013; Zielinski 2009). Deploying the concept of affordance without a reexamination of its digital specificity (for example when it comes to interaction design, user experience design, or software development) ultimately means to foreclose opportunities for generative critique, limiting the potential for creative, alternative, subversive, and radically different uses of digital artefacts and processes. In an effort to delineate and address gaps in contemporary criticism, our aim is to re-examine and correspondingly re-theorize the concept of ‘affordance.’ Because ‘affordance’ is often positioned at intersections of design and implementation, we are particularly interested in approaches that bridge or combine theoretical and practice-based concerns. As the history of art reveals, artists’ and designers’ access to emerging digital technologies has always informed their scientific, industrial, commercial and rhetorical development (Patterson 2015; Kane 2014). We therefore invite both media theorists and media practitioners (artists, designers, curators, etc.) to join us in exploring the critical historical and contemporary valences of ‘affordance,’ by proposing and submitting essays, artist position statements, and symposium presentations that engage with the following intersecting areas of inquiry: - Explorations of the historical and contemporary roles artists have played in shaping and delimiting the affordances of emerging digital technologies; - Theorization of the contemporary realization of 'affordance' across and within digital and algorithmic contexts; and - Analyses of how creative practice can inform a critical rethinking of existing philosophies of affordance. Interested parties are encouraged to send a 300-word abstract to rethinking.affordance(a)gmail.com <mailto:rethinking.affordance@gmail.com> by January 29th, 2018. Authors will be notified of acceptance in early February. The Rethinking Affordance symposium is scheduled to take place at Akademie Schloss Solitude from June 8th – 9th (http://www.akademie-solitude.de <http://www.akademie-solitude.de/>). The symposium will serve both as a presentation and workshopping platform. It is scheduled to take place in conjunction with a thematically aligned exhibition and web-residency. Participants will be provided with accommodations for the duration of the symposium. Small travel bursaries intended to partially subsidize participation may also be available. Symposium presenters will be invited to submit their longer research essays (6,000-8,000 words inclusive of notes and references) and/or shorter critical position statements for peer-reviewed inclusion in a corresponding special issue of the journal Media Theory (http://mediatheoryjournal.org/ <http://mediatheoryjournal.org/>). Full papers for peer-review will be due July 15, 2018 with a projected publication date of early 2019. The submission guidelines can be found here: http://mediatheoryjournal.org/editorial-policies/journal-submission-guideli… <http://mediatheoryjournal.org/editorial-policies/journal-submission-guideli…>

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Report of Games and Gaming Minitrack, HICSS 2018 & 2019 conferences
by Mia Consalvo 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

Hi all! We are happy to share a few things with the game studies community. *First*, the Proceedings are now available for the Games and Gaming Minitrack from the 2018 HICSS conference. Here's a list of the papers presented, and a link to the proceedings where you can find copies: Videogame Walkthroughs in Educational Settings: Challenges, Successes, and Suggestions for Future Use Kelly Bergstrom, Jennifer Jenson, Emily Flynn-Jones, Cristyne Hebert Finding Sociality In Single Player Games: A Case Study of Tandem play amongst Friends and Couples Mia Consalvo, Jason Begy, Pierson Browne, Sarah Ganzon, Rainforest Scully-Blaker, Rebecca Waldie The Relationship between Player's Gaming Orientation and Avatar's Capital: A Study in Final Fantasy XIV Henry Korkeila, Juho Hamari Impact of Playing Pokémon Go on Wellness Shahrokh Nikou, Julian Tarvoll, Anssi Öörni The Effects of Game Players' Social Intelligence on Social Support and Psychosocial Problem Factors in a 2-Wave Longitudinal Study Hye Rim Lee, Eui Jun Jeong, Sung Je Lee *Proceedings:* https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/52050 [Please also note there are several other game papers in the proceedings, under different tracks] *Second*, we will again be proposing the Games and Gaming Minitrack as part of the Digital and Social Media Track for HICSS 2019. That conference will take place January 8-11, 2019, in Grand Waileia, Maui. The link to the website for the conference is http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Papers will be due June 15, 2018, and notifications of decisions made by August 17. We will have three minitrack chairs this time around: Nat Poor ( natpoor(a)gmail.com) Mia Consalvo (mia.consalvo(a)concordia.ca) and Kelly Bergstrom (kelly.bergstrom(a)hawaii.edu) Please email any of us if you have questions about this year's proceedings or next year's conference! Mia, Nat & Kelly -- Mia Consalvo, Ph.D. Professor and Canada Research Chair in Game Studies & Design Author of Atari to Zelda: Japan's Videogames in Global Context, 2016, MIT Press Concordia University 7141 Sherbrooke Street West CJ Bldg, 4.407 Montreal, Quebec Canada 514.848.2424 .2574

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CFP: Understanding "Bad Actors" Online (CHI 2018 workshop)
by lindsay blackwell 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

Dear AoIRists, We invite academic researchers, industry practitioners, and social activists interested in online harassment, hate speech, and other forms of online misbehavior to a one-day workshop at CHI 2018: *Understanding "Bad Actors" OnlineSaturday, April 21 in Montr**é**al, Canada* *Apply by February 2: understandingbadactors.org <http://understandingbadactors.org/>* Social media platforms typically seek to diminish bad behavior by restricting perpetrators’ access, imposing strong penalties, or outright disabling accounts. But who are “bad actors?” Do they understand community standards, or even which policies their actions have violated? How do they participate in other social media sites and online communities? What values and experiences shape their interactions online? By listening to the experiences and needs of policy violators, we can 1) identify the roadblocks that prevent “bad actors” from complying with community standards; 2) help them discover more appropriate ways of connecting with others online; and 3) design more effective interventions to reduce the impact of these behaviors on other users. We are hosting a one-day workshop at CHI 2018 focused on understanding the experiences, perspectives, and motivations of people who engage in bad behavior online—including harassment, hate speech, and spam—to generate research and design strategies for prevention, punishment, and remediation. We invite submissions from academic researchers, industry practitioners, and social activists interested in any of the following themes: - Social behavior - Cross-cultural contexts - Policy and enforcement - Punishments and sanctions - Designing social media - Intersectional practice Cheers, Lindsay Blackwell, University of Michigan Mark Handel, Facebook Sarah T. Roberts, UCLA Amy Bruckman, Georgia Tech Lindsay Blackwell <http://www.lindsayblackwell.net> PhD Candidate, School of Information University of Michigan

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Re: [Air-L] Any research on "following" on platforms?
by Ricky Crano 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

This is something I began to get into in my recent article "The real terror of Instagram." http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1354856517750364 I only just scratch the surface, though, here. It's something I'm interested in pursuing much further, particularly through Derrida's late work on animals and following/tracking/tracing. Until then, eager to see what other suggestions folks have. Ricky _____________________________________ Ricky D. Crano, Ph.D. Lecturer | Department of English & Science, Technology, and Society Program Tufts University Office: 102 East Hall ricky.crano(a)tufts.edu

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call for papers and special sessions at 8th international conference on localization and GNSS
by Simona Lohan 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

Dear all The 8th edition of the International Conference on localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS) is to take place in Guimaraes, Portugal (26-28 June 2018). The deadline to submit special sessions proposal is on 17th of Feb 2018. The deadline for prospective authors to submit their work is on 24th of Mach 2018. Papers should be submitted as pdf files prepared according to IEEE two-column A4 format guidelines. For more information, please see the conference web site: http://www.icl-gnss.org/2018/index.html Best regards Simona Lohan, ICL-GNSS steering committee member -- Associate Professor (tenure track), Dr. Tech. Laboratory of Electronics and Comm. Engineering Tampere University of Technology http://www.cs.tut.fi/tlt/pos P.O. Box 553, FIN-33101 Tampere

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ICA Feminist Scholarship Division 2018 Pre-Conference Promises and Perils of Feminist Theory
by K Eckert 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

ICA Feminist Scholarship Division 2018 Pre-Conference Promises and Perils of Feminist Theory: Common and Uncommon Ground *Anyone is welcome and encouraged to register - only participation in the second break out sessions is based on a Call for Papers. See details below. Time, Location, Fee Thursday, May 24, 2018 13:00-17:00 Local Time (with 11:30-13:00 offsite lunch, volunteer-basis, location TBD) In one of the two Conference Hotels (details to come) Participant registration fee: $25 Organizers Diana Nastasia, Southern Illinois, Edwardsville Lana Rakow, University of North Dakota Stine Eckert, Wayne State University Description The pre-conference will be a half-day session for Thursday afternoon, May 24, 2018, 13:00-17:00 local time in one of the two conference hotels in Prague. The session will address the issue of feminist communication theory under the title “Promise and Perils of Feminist Theory: Common and Uncommon Ground.” The topic is timely. After discussions about feminist theory in communication that peaked over a decade ago, the subject has not received sustained current attention, despite significant work and critiques by transnational feminists. While important feminist work still is being conducted across speech, rhetoric, journalism, mass communication, and digital technologies, it is time to take stock. What has happened to feminist communication theory? What theories have or have not proven to be useful or heuristic for feminist work in communication? What theories, if any, do we or could we share across our epistemological and ideological differences? Have some theories failed us, or has theory itself failed us? Does or can theory better inform our praxis? Should we pursue the identification of theories – naming names – as a short hand for what we think we know, a foundation for building deeper understanding and potential for change? Or do we need to abandon such efforts because of the peril of essentializing and universalizing? One breakout session focuses on “Recurring Problematics in Doing Feminist Scholarship,” featuring feminist scholars discussing the role of feminist publications, interventions in ways of doing scholarship, barriers to recognition and support for feminist research, linking media pedagogy with practice and theory, and the role of scholarly organizations in validating feminist media research. The second breakout session, “Generating Feminist Communication Theory,” will highlight how feminist communication theories can be developed and advanced. Participants are being sought for this session to present brief positions on a theory they are working on or with. Submissions should be only one to two pages, single spaced, with the theory name and your name and affiliation at the top. The paper should: 1. Describe or summarize the theory; 2. Show any links to other feminist and/or non-feminist theoretical positions and how the theory complements, corrects, or extends other positions; and 3. Describe how the theory has been or could be used to investigate relevant feminist concerns in communication. Submit your position paper via email by January 31, 2018 to Stine Eckert stine.eckert(a)wayne.edu<mailto:stine.eckert@wayne.edu> Stine Eckert, Ph.D. Chair Feminist Scholarship Division, International Communication Association (ICA) Assistant Professor Department of Communication 571 Manoogian Hall Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48201 @stineeckert http://stineeckert.com/

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