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Re: [Air-L] Deepwater Horizon oil spill tweets?
by Sugar, Benjamin N 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

Not the day of, but Kate Starbird et al. has Tweets from 5/9/1- 8/4/10. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10807039.2014.947866?needAccess… My approach would be to look for papers such as this one to see who might have them. The Internet Archive has lots of “major media events” and I think they’re on Harvard’s Dataverse now (?). I’m not sure how far back it goes though, and the files are in these ridiculously nested folders. As an aside: The Twitter TOS states that Twitter data cannot be shared in it’s entirety. If the person who has the data is concerned about that, they can use Twarc to extract the Tweet ID’s: https://github.com/DocNow/twarc Then your student can use the same program to “hydrate” the id’s by getting the tweet from Twitter, or this program with a GUI. https://github.com/DocNow/hydrator On October 31, 2018 at 4:36:44 PM, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org (air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org>) wrote: Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Open Access Repositories (Sugar, Benjamin N) 2. Deepwater Horizon oil spill tweets? (Peter Gloviczki) 3. Call for papers: "The posthuman is now: posthumanism, action and meaning-making " (Marcelo E. K. Buzato) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:36:48 +0000 From: "Sugar, Benjamin N" <bsugar(a)gatech.edu> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Open Access Repositories Message-ID: <etPan.5bd9e831.262a781e.5f37(a)gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Assuming you meant open access data: First, is my favorite because it covers data all the way from very "serious and useful? to ?What? That?s a dataset?!?? You can also sign up for the newsletter: Data is Plural<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4juclhjFgqIY8fQFMemw…> A lot of the data that is spread about (for example, in the Internet Archive) is now on Harvard?s Dataverse Project<https://dataverse.harvard.edu/> I could go on and on, so maybe if students aren?t finding what they?d like, they can email the list or me and I?ll be happy to point them in the right direction. <https://dataverse.harvard.edu/> In case the embedded links don?t work: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4juclhjFgqIY8fQFMemw… https://dataverse.harvard.edu/ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:06:41 -0400 From: Peter Gloviczki <pgloviczki(a)coker.edu> To: List Aoir <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Deepwater Horizon oil spill tweets? Message-ID: <CAKU-jUL-9hL1u=4cx0MReJNx5Fvv_8iRTQnuVR4VF=nFCOy+mg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Friends, I'm seeking the BP tweets on the day of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, for a student of mine. Does anyone happen to have them? Thanks in advance, Peter -- *Peter Joseph Gloviczki, Ph.D.* *Assistant Professor of Communication, Coker College* *p* 843-383-8379 | *e* pgloviczki(a)coker.edu 300 E. College Ave. | Hartsville, SC coker.edu | cokercobras.com ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:33:10 -0300 From: "Marcelo E. K. Buzato" <marcelo.buzato(a)gmail.com> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Call for papers: "The posthuman is now: posthumanism, action and meaning-making " Message-ID: <CAD8=x44DBDoqgi0mfOW6oggiYbeW=amsMheO2szquQHs3stWJw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Trabalhos em Lingu?stica Aplicada (TLA <http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0103-1813&lng=en&nrm=…>), a peer-reviewed SciELO Brazil Collection journal sponsored by The University of Campinas, Brazil, invites authors from any field of knowledge, whose research has explicit or explicable interfaces with the problem of meaning-making, to submit articles to compose a dossier entitled "The posthuman is now: posthumanism, action and meaning-making ", to be published in September 2019. Submissions will be accepted in Portuguese, English or Spanish. The purpose of the dossier is to present TLA Journal's readership with different possibilities of outlining the posthuman condition as a research object, and with opportunities for dialogic contact with posthumanist discourses (scientific or not), as philosophical or methodological foundations for their (new) research. We are at a turning point in the human sciences and humanities in which not only the belief in the exceptionalism of the human species, but also the conceptual edifice of liberal humanism, show signs of exhaustion, even though, as in the case of the other "post- "(modern, social, colonial, etc.) perspectives, we do not know what is supposed to replace it, exactly. On the one hand, the Anthropocene, the new faces of high-tech biopolitics, the rise of "intelligent" machines and the role of informational patterns as powerful ontological and epistemological demarcators convene the human and social sciences to reinvent themselves in their methods and scope; on the other hand, currents traditionally critical of Enlightenment-rooted humanism such as feminist studies, postcolonial studies, studies of human ecology, and social studies of science and technology, strengthen posthumanism as an interdisciplinary endeavor. In this enterprise, mutually supportive and critical versions of the posthuman are put forth by steams of thought not necessarily compatible with each other such as science fiction, futurology, transhumanism, cyborgism, feminist posthumanism, commercial/corporate posthumanism, critical posthumanism, among others. The engagement of applied language studies with posthumanism is relatively recent, and contemplation of such diversity of discourses, practices, and positions are just beginning. However, it is already clear that historical commitments to humanism and to the conceptions of language, agency, learning, subjectivity and interaction therefrom should be in question. In addition, the posthumanistic perspective reinforces the inter and transdisciplinary identity claimed by the field. Hence the relevance of a dossier that gathers interdisciplinary perspectives of the posthumanist issue, having meaning making as a point of convergence, or of interface, the meaning. Submissions are particularly welcome on the following themes: ? posthumanism and language/meaning-making ? posthumanism and democracy/citizenship ? posthumanism and identity/subjectivity ? posthumanism and learning/education ? posthumanism and ethics/responsibility ? posthumanism and affectivity/sentience ? posthumanism, aesthetics and art ? posthumanism and interdisciplinarity/transdisciplinary ? other The deadline for submissions is May 20, 2019. Guidelines for authors are available at *http://www.scielo.br/revistas/tla/iinstruc.htm <http://www.scielo.br/revistas/tla/iinstruc.htm>*. Manuscripts must be submitted at *http://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/tla/about/submissions <http://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/tla/about/submissions>*. Marcelo El Khouri Buzato University of Campinas <https://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/english> Department of Applied Linguistics Rua S?rgio Buarque de Holanda, 571 Cep 13083-859 Campinas - SP Brasil +55 19 3521 1558 unicamp.academia.edu/MarceloBuzato www.iel.unicamp.br/node/192/299 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcelo_Buzato ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ ------------------------------ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 171, Issue 30 **************************************

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CALL FOR PAPERS: The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence. Net Politics in the Era of Learning Algorithms
by andreas.sudmann＠rub.de 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

Dear members of this list, please check the following CfP - we are looking forward to your submissions! CALL FOR PAPERS International Book Publication on the Politics of AI Our Internet-based digital culture is increasingly being determined by diverse forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Above all, the machine learning methods (ML) of so-called Deep Learning (DL) are significantly involved in the current transformation of information technologies. The latest successful implementations of DL have lead to noteworthy advances in AI, but DL itself is not new at all. It has been known for decades under the connectionist paradigm of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). While for decades ANN were considered a dead end in AI research, recent advances in computational capacities coupled with new implementations have consistently led to breakthroughs in a number of applications. For example, in 2012 Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Hinton were able to use ANN/DL methods to reliable train computers to semi-autonomously recognize and classify large numbers of images. This breakthrough serves as the bedrock for much work on machine vision and only became possible with cheap, fast, and powerful GPUs. These new applications of ANN/DL methods have vast technical, ethical, economic, social, and political implications that are increasingly being negotiated in public discourse. They are now deployed for identifying potential terrorists through vast surveillance networks, for producing sentencing guidelines and recidivism risk profiles in criminal justice systems, for demographic and psychographic targeting of bodies for advertising, propaganda, or other forms of state intervention, and more generally for automating the processing of natural language, written and spoken, photographs and images, and motion pictures. All of these applications have been debated in public discourse, most notably in the recent Congressional hearings in the United States with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. As the latter example clearly shows, AI technologies are also crucial to understanding the medial and political developments and transformations of the Internet. Conversely, technologies with regard, for instance, to the access to large (correctly) labeled data sets are heavily dependent on Internet platforms, applications, and technologies (e.g. program libraries such as TensorFlow or crowd-sourcing platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk). The aim of the book is to discuss the diverse political dimensions of Internet and AI technologies. Two perspectives, which are closely related to each other, are at the center: On the one hand, there is the question of how AI approaches, not least with regard to their connections to the Internet, can be characterized as black box technologies. Here we are interested in the entanglement of ANN/DL algorithms with the source of their datasets, most often large international digital platforms like Facebook, Google, Alibaba, Amazon, Weibo, etc. These data sets are often comprised through illicit or invisible opt-in user agreements that gather vast amounts of our personal data to feed proprietary ANN/DL algorithms. Here the collection, transmission, storage, and processing of data – including ANN/DL algorithms – are obscured from users both de facto by their complexity and de jure by corporate secrecy practices. On the other hand, there is the question of whether potential open-source, government-sponsored, non-profit and/or industrial-scientific collaborative research projects – an important example being OpenAI – can achieve their common missions like democratizing AI. The project therefore not only wants to critically examine the claims of such companies and projects with regard to their concrete manifestations. Rather, it is about illuminating the media configurations and constellations of the production of these technologies in an interdisciplinary manner as well as placing them in a theoretically and historically appropriate way, especially with regard to their political implications, functions, and effects. Among others, the following questions can be addressed: · What does it mean to critically investigate efforts of net politics in the age of learning algorithms? · How is it even possible to explore the political aspects of modern machine learning approaches if many experts in the field of Computer Science consider ANN/DL technologies as a black box, fundamentally opaque to human understanding? In what way does such an assumed opacity of ANN/DL approaches affect questions of accountability and political agency? · Are technological strategies of an Open or Explainable AI already able to reduce the opacity of AI methods? What political and/or critical concepts guide the technological process of making modern AI technology more accessible? · And how can we think about suitable ways of democratizing AI beyond abstract aspects of transparency or accountability? · Beyond these rather specific questions, however, contributions can also be submitted that deal in general with problems concerning the political dimension of artificial intelligence. The book is a follow-up to the conference of the same name, which took place in Bochum from September 6-7, 2018. For more information on the scope of this conference, follow this link: https://www.cais.nrw/veranstaltungen/demokratie Important note: This call is primarily addressed to non-German authors. The majority of the conference participants were speakers from Germany and German-speaking countries, most of whom will also participate in the book project. For this reason, we are primarily interested in including some more contributions by "international authors". The book project is interdisciplinary. Scientific contributions from such diverse disciplines as computer science, philosophy, social sciences, physics, biology, medicine, science and technology studies, literature and media studies are therefore very welcome. Deadlines/ Time line: Submission deadline for abstracts and short bio: October 25, 2018 Decision of acceptance for abstracts: November 10, 2018 Deadline for first draft submissions: March 1, 2019 Preliminary acceptance of full-text submissions: March 15, 2019 Time slot for revisions: March 16 – March 30, 2019 Deadline for final full-text submissions: March 31, 2019 Acceptance of final full-text submissions: April 15, 2019 The book will be published by the German publishing house transcript in 2019. transcript is one of Europe’s leading independent academic publishers. They focus on publishing in cultural studies and the social sciences, in history, philosophy, and in cultural management. They offer more than 100 series and release about 400 new German- and English-language titles every year. Their backlist catalogue includes more than 3,500 titles in print and digital formats. For more information: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/en/become-a-transcript-author Please submit texts in English only. Abstracts should be between 250 to 500 words, the short bio about 150 words. Please include a title with your abstract. The text length of final essays should not exceed 5,000 words, including sources and footnotes. For inquiries and submissions, please contact/ send your documents to: PD Dr. Andreas Sudmann, Institute for Media Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, email: andreas.sudmann(a)rub.de. Best, Andreas PD Dr. Andreas Sudmann Ruhr-Universität Bochum Institut für Medienwissenschaft Universitätsstr. 150 44780 Bochum @ andreas.sudmann(a)rub.de T +49 (0) 151 - 23 011 799

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Call for papers: "The posthuman is now: posthumanism, action and meaning-making "
by Marcelo E. K. Buzato 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada (TLA <http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0103-1813&lng=en&nrm=…>), a peer-reviewed SciELO Brazil Collection journal sponsored by The University of Campinas, Brazil, invites authors from any field of knowledge, whose research has explicit or explicable interfaces with the problem of meaning-making, to submit articles to compose a dossier entitled "The posthuman is now: posthumanism, action and meaning-making ", to be published in September 2019. Submissions will be accepted in Portuguese, English or Spanish. The purpose of the dossier is to present TLA Journal's readership with different possibilities of outlining the posthuman condition as a research object, and with opportunities for dialogic contact with posthumanist discourses (scientific or not), as philosophical or methodological foundations for their (new) research. We are at a turning point in the human sciences and humanities in which not only the belief in the exceptionalism of the human species, but also the conceptual edifice of liberal humanism, show signs of exhaustion, even though, as in the case of the other "post- "(modern, social, colonial, etc.) perspectives, we do not know what is supposed to replace it, exactly. On the one hand, the Anthropocene, the new faces of high-tech biopolitics, the rise of "intelligent" machines and the role of informational patterns as powerful ontological and epistemological demarcators convene the human and social sciences to reinvent themselves in their methods and scope; on the other hand, currents traditionally critical of Enlightenment-rooted humanism such as feminist studies, postcolonial studies, studies of human ecology, and social studies of science and technology, strengthen posthumanism as an interdisciplinary endeavor. In this enterprise, mutually supportive and critical versions of the posthuman are put forth by steams of thought not necessarily compatible with each other such as science fiction, futurology, transhumanism, cyborgism, feminist posthumanism, commercial/corporate posthumanism, critical posthumanism, among others. The engagement of applied language studies with posthumanism is relatively recent, and contemplation of such diversity of discourses, practices, and positions are just beginning. However, it is already clear that historical commitments to humanism and to the conceptions of language, agency, learning, subjectivity and interaction therefrom should be in question. In addition, the posthumanistic perspective reinforces the inter and transdisciplinary identity claimed by the field. Hence the relevance of a dossier that gathers interdisciplinary perspectives of the posthumanist issue, having meaning making as a point of convergence, or of interface, the meaning. Submissions are particularly welcome on the following themes: • posthumanism and language/meaning-making • posthumanism and democracy/citizenship • posthumanism and identity/subjectivity • posthumanism and learning/education • posthumanism and ethics/responsibility • posthumanism and affectivity/sentience • posthumanism, aesthetics and art • posthumanism and interdisciplinarity/transdisciplinary • other The deadline for submissions is May 20, 2019. Guidelines for authors are available at *http://www.scielo.br/revistas/tla/iinstruc.htm <http://www.scielo.br/revistas/tla/iinstruc.htm>*. Manuscripts must be submitted at *http://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/tla/about/submissions <http://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/tla/about/submissions>*. Marcelo El Khouri Buzato University of Campinas <https://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/english> Department of Applied Linguistics Rua Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, 571 Cep 13083-859 Campinas - SP Brasil +55 19 3521 1558 unicamp.academia.edu/MarceloBuzato www.iel.unicamp.br/node/192/299 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcelo_Buzato

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Re: [Air-L] Open Access Repositories
by Sugar, Benjamin N 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

Assuming you meant open access data: First, is my favorite because it covers data all the way from very "serious and useful” to “What? That’s a dataset?!?” You can also sign up for the newsletter: Data is Plural<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4juclhjFgqIY8fQFMemw…> A lot of the data that is spread about (for example, in the Internet Archive) is now on Harvard’s Dataverse Project<https://dataverse.harvard.edu/> I could go on and on, so maybe if students aren’t finding what they’d like, they can email the list or me and I’ll be happy to point them in the right direction. <https://dataverse.harvard.edu/> In case the embedded links don’t work: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZhPLMCHKJvwOkP4juclhjFgqIY8fQFMemw… https://dataverse.harvard.edu/

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Open Access Repositories
by Sarah Ketchley 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

Dear all, I’m compiling a list of open access repositories for a class I will be teaching next quarter. I’d be grateful for any leads or recommendations, Thank you! Sarah Ketchley Dr. Sarah Ketchley / Egyptology | Digital Humanities ketchley(a)uw.edu University of Washington Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization M220D Denny Hall www.emmabandrews.org www.sarahketchley.com www.newbookdigitaltexts.org

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Book announcement: The Re-Emergence of Virtual Reality
by Evans L. 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting. Members might find this new book release interesting: Best, Leighton ____________ The Re-Emergence of Virtual Reality Routledge | 124 pages | October, 2018 | ISBN-10: 1138542253 | ISBN-13: 978-1138542259 In this short book, Evans interrogates the implications of VR's re-emergence into the media mainstream, critiquing the notion of a VR revolution by analysing the development and ownership of VR companies while also exploring the possibilities of immersion in VR and the importance of immersion in the interest and ownership of VR enterprises. He assesses how the ideologies and desires of both computer programmers and major Silicon Valley industries may influence how VR worlds are conceived and experienced by users while also exploring the mechanisms that create the immersive experience underpinning interest in the medium. Praise for The Re-Emergence of Virtual Reality In this field-defining, lucidly written book, Leighton Evans draws an authentic, cutting-edge picture of VR experientiality in contrast with other immersive media and opens our eyes to the changes in immersive opportunities afforded by contemporary consumer VR. He presents us with a thoroughly researched genealogy of VR, identifying the specific media-historical moment that has brought about its re-emergence and blending scholarly rigor with refreshing episodes of personal storytelling. The book compellingly embeds its subject matter in the history of digital media more generally, viewed through a sharp, critical lens that reminds us about the commercial dictates under which our hypermediated selves and our technological extensions operate. - Astrid Ensslin, University of Alberta, Canada About the Author: Leighton Evans is Senior Lecturer in Media Theory at Swansea University, UK. He is the author of Locative Social Media: Place in the Digital Age (2015) and co- author of Location-Based Social Media: Space, Time and Identity (2017). For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: https://www.routledge.com/The-Re-Emergence-of-Virtual-Reality/Evans/p/book/…

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CFP Nordic Data Journalism Conference 2019
by Cristina Marco 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

Date: 29th January 2019 Location: Trondheim, Norway Contact person: Cristina Marco cristina.marco(a)ntnu.no<mailto:cristina.marco@ntnu.no> Website: https://noda.media/noda-academic/ Abstract deadline: 19th November 2018 Call for papers: The NODA 2019 academic pre-conference workshop, which will take place in Trondheim, Norway on 29th January 2019, invites the submission of extended abstracts outlining substantial, original, and unpublished research focusing on Data Journalism. In the Big Data Era the use of information found on the Web is becoming increasingly essential to journalism. Nevertheless, the question remains as to how this information can be used by journalists. Even though more large datasets are being released, such as WikiLeaks and the Afghan war logs, and the use of such data is already beyond elite organizations (NODA 2018), data journalism remains only a small subset of journalism, existing only in precarious forms in newspapers and news organizations (Coddington, 2018). On the other hand, the abundance of fake news, scams and misinformation, has initiated research and actions to improve opinion polls and monitor and trace the use and origins of junk news and misinformation in political elections. Besides, new research on emotions and information about users available through several devices provide also new opportunities for news personalized systems, which can now be enriched and offer readers more diversified and targeted media content. NODA19 invites papers that address a range of theoretical or methodological issues, including but not limited to: • Artificial intelligence and automation, both in content production and distribution; • New approaches to investigative journalism; • Personalised or recommended news; • Extended context: adding psychological constructs such as personality and emotions to personalization; • Challenges in content echo chambers; • Data analysis; • Visualisation of news; • Storytelling in the big data era; • User experience design and news gamification • Data literacy; • Fake news: fact checking and verification practices in data journalism, bots, scams and misinformation; • Potentials and risks of social media profiling; • The sustainability of data journalism beyond legacy organizations, such as hyperlocal data journalism; • Open data, freedom of information, legislation and data journalism; • Audience engagement, interaction and consumption of data journalism content; • Data as a value generator; Cross-disciplinary studies are encouraged to be presented, where journalism intersects other research fields such as media, data science, artificial intelligence, interaction design, gaming, business and administration or political science. Extended abstracts for papers (500 -750 words, in a Scandinavian language or English) can be submitted until November 19th, 2018. The abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Acceptance notifications will be sent out mid-December 2018. Abstracts to be mailed to: cristina.marco(a)ntnu.no<mailto:cristina.marco@ntnu.no> Review Committee: Ana Laws, Volda University College Arjen van Dalen, Syddansk Universitet, Denmark Ester Appelgren, Södertörn University, Sweden Carl Gustav Lindén, University of Helsinki, Finland Roy Krøvel, OsloMet, Norway Cristina Marco, NTNU, Norway Key-note speakers at the NODA Academic Track: Oscar Westlund, Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University and Editor-in-Chief at Digital Journalism Christopher Anderson, Professor of Media and Communication at University of Leeds Bente Kalsnes, Assistant Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University

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Book Announcement: Surveillance Studies: A Reader
by Monahan, Torin 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

Surveillance Studies: A Reader Edited by Torin Monahan and David Murakami Wood (Oxford University Press, 2018) 456 Pages | 12 halftones | 7 x 10 inches | ISBN: 9780190297824 | $45.00 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/surveillance-studies-9780190297824?… Surveillance is everywhere: in workplaces monitoring the performance of employees, social media sites tracking clicks and uploads, financial institutions logging transactions, advertisers amassing fine-grained data on customers, and security agencies siphoning up everyone's telecommunications activities. Surveillance practices-although often hidden-have come to define the way modern institutions operate. Because of the growing awareness of the central role of surveillance in shaping power relations and knowledge across social and cultural contexts, scholars from many different academic disciplines have been drawn to "surveillance studies," which in recent years has solidified as a major field of study. Torin Monahan and David Murakami Wood's Surveillance Studies is a broad-ranging reader that provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamic field. In fifteen sections, the book features selections from key historical and theoretical texts, samples of the best empirical research done on surveillance, introductions to debates about privacy and power, and cutting-edge treatments of art, film, and literature. While the disciplinary perspectives and foci of scholars in surveillance studies may be diverse, there is coherence and agreement about core concepts, ideas, and texts. This reader outlines these core dimensions and highlights various differences and tensions. In addition to a thorough introduction that maps the development of the field, the volume offers helpful editorial remarks for each section and brief prologues that frame the included excerpts. Including 78 classic and contemporary texts, Surveillance Studies is the definitive introduction to this vibrant and growing field and an essential resource for scholars. Torin Monahan, Ph.D. Professor Director of Graduate Studies Department of Communication The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill www.torinmonahan.com<http://www.torinmonahan.com/> Co-Director, Surveillance Studies Network<http://www.surveillance-studies.net/> Editor-in-Chief, Surveillance & Society<http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/> Recent Publications: Monahan, T., & Murakami Wood, D. (eds.) 2018. Surveillance Studies: A Reader<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/surveillance-studies-9780190297824?…>. Monahan, T. 2018. The Image of the Smart City: Surveillance Protocols and Social Inequality<http://publicsurveillance.com/papers/smart_city1.pdf>. Monahan, T. 2018. Ways of Being Seen: Surveillance Art and the Interpellation of Viewing Subjects<http://publicsurveillance.com/papers/Monahan_Ways-of-being-seen.pdf>. Monahan, T. 2018. Algorithmic Fetishism<http://publicsurveillance.com/papers/Algorithmic_fetishism.pdf>.

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Book Announcement: Disconnect. Facebook's Affective Bonds (University of Minnesota Press 2018)
by Tero Karppi 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

Hi all, I wanted to announce the publication of my book Disconnect. I have developed parts of this book at different AoIR conferences. Thanks for connecting and I hope you enjoy reading it. Best, Tero --- An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it DISCONNECT: Facebook's Affective Bonds By Tero Karppi University of Minnesota Press | 192 pages | October 2018 ISBN 978-1-5179-0307-7 | paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0306-0 | cloth Pointing out that platforms like Facebook see disconnection as an existential threat—and have undertaken wide-ranging efforts to eliminate it—Tero Karppi argues that users’ ability to control their digital lives is gradually dissipating. Karppi’s focus on the difficulty of disconnection, rather than the ease of connection, reveals how social media has come to dominate human relations. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tero Karppi is assistant professor at the University of Toronto. He teaches in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology and in the Faculty of Information. PRAISE FOR DISCONNECT: "Through its clever structure, Disconnect affectively lures the reader as Tero Karppi tells a convincing story of how social media sets the tone, mood, and modality of our everyday existence. Compellingly written, this is a must-read modern tale of engagement and disconnection." —Zizi Papacharissi, author of Affective Publics: Sentiment, Technology, and Politics "Disconnect is a timely, theoretically rich assessment of Facebook as platform and assemblage. Rhetorics of connectivity dominate Silicon Valley, and Tero Karppi helps illuminate and describe the complex, flickering patterns of connection and disconnection that envelop the networked users of such platforms. This is a valuable, accessible guide to the politics and poetics of Facebook." —Amit Ray, Rochester Institute of Technology "Disconnect could not have come at a more important time. Tero Karppi’s nuanced writing brings out the rich complexities of social media life and disconnection. This must-read book shows that walking away may not remove Facebook’s presence in our lives, but it reveals the limits of social media in our world and the business models that are built to keep us connected." —Jason Farman, author of Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/disconnect

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Call for Posters and Demos: ACM IUI 2019
by Axel Soto 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

*** Please forward to anyone who might be interested *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Posters and Demos: ACM IUI 2019 to be held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, March 17-20, 2019 http://iui.acm.org/2019/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM IUI 2019 is the 24th annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. In 2019, IUI will be held in the Marriott Marina Del Rey in Los Angeles, CA from March 17th - 20th. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, also accepting contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. This year we especially encourage submissions on explainable intelligent user interfaces for IUI 2019. ** Why you should submit to ACM IUI ** At ACM IUI, we focus on the interaction between machine intelligence and human intelligence. While other conferences focus on one side or the other, we address the complex interaction between the two. We welcome research that explores how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter, which may leverage solutions from data mining, knowledge representation, novel interaction paradigms, and emerging technologies. We strongly encourage submissions that discuss research from both HCI and AI simultaneously, but also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other. The conference brings together people from academia, industry and non-profit organizations and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. It is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and doctoral consortium for graduate students. IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Affective and aesthetic interfaces - Big Data and analytics - Collaborative interfaces - Education and learning-related technologies - Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces - Explainable intelligent user interfaces. - Health and intelligent health technologies - Information retrieval and search - Intelligent assistants for complex tasks - Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces - Intelligent ubiquitous user interfaces - Intelligent visualization tools - Interactive machine learning - Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation - Modeling and prediction of user behavior - Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) - Natural language and speech processing - Persuasive and assistive technologies in IUI - Planning and plan recognition for IUI - Proactive and agent-based user interaction - Recommender systems - Smart environments and tangible computing - Social media analysis - User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces - User-Adaptive interaction and personalization ** Dates ** Submission Due: Dec 21st, 2018 Notification to Authors: Jan 14th, 2019 Camera Ready Due: Jan 21st, 2019 ** Submission - Poster and Demo ** Demos The demonstrations track complements the overall program of the conference. Demonstrations show implementations of novel, interesting, and important intelligent user interface concepts or systems. We invite submissions relevant to intelligent user interfaces and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. All submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages. The page limit for demo papers is 2 pages (including references). Accepted demo papers will be presented as interactive demonstrations at IUI and published in the companion proceedings of the conference. Posters Posters provide an opportunity for sharing valuable last-minute ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. We invite submissions on all topics of the conference. All submissions should convey a scientific result or work in progress that is not yet ready to be published as a full length research paper at a refereed conference. Submitting a draft poster along with your submission is not required but recommended. The page limit for poster papers is 2 pages (including references). Accepted poster papers will appear in the companion proceedings of the conference. Submission Instructions Demo and poster submissions do not need to be anonymized. The page limit is 2 pages (including references) in 2-column portrait ACM SIGCHI template (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) Submitting a draft poster along with your poster submission is not required but recommended. Submit your demos and posters at PCS 2.0: https://new.precisionconference.com. Chairs - poster-iui2019(a)acm.org Leo Liu, Adobe, USA Yukiko Nakano, Seikei University, Japan

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