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Seen by Machine: Machine learning in the BBC Archive, Thu 6th Dec, 6-8pm
by Gray, Jonathan 04 Dec '18

04 Dec '18

For those of you in/around London, we will be hosting a talk with Daniel Chavez at KCL on Thursday evening on a recent experiment to curate clips from BBC archives using machine learning algorithms. The seminar series is public so, as always, please do feel free to forward to colleagues, students, friends and anyone else who might be interested! ** ## Seen by Machine: Machine learning in the BBC Archive ## Register: http://seen-by-machine.eventbrite.co.uk ## When? Thu 6 December 2018, 18:00 – 20:00 GMT ## Where? King's College London, Bush House Lecture Theatre 2 BH(S)4.04, Level 4, South, King's College London, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG Can we programme machines to find value in moving imagery? Discussing an experiment with the BBC's archive, Daniel Chávez Heras (King’s College London) will show and introduce elements from the video project Made by Machine: When AI met the Archive. Together with a team of researchers at BBC R&D, they created a television programme from archive footage using different machine learning techniques. Daniel will show a selection of clips from the programme and will critically examine the methods used to produce them. Through these examples, he will introduce the idea of computational spectatorship as a way to understand how our visual regimes are increasingly mediated by machine-seers. Can audiovisual archives be considered “cultural big data” and are moving images like any other type of data? ** Bio: Daniel has been working with pictures and computers, in various capacities, for over ten years. He trained as a designer, back in his native Mexico, and has worked professionally in print media, television, and digital. In 2010 he was awarded a Jumex fellowship for the study of contemporary art, and he holds an MA in Film Studies from King’s College London, where he is now trying to train computers to watch films for his PhD at the department of digital humanities. Daniel’s research is funded by Mexico’s Ministry of Education through its Science and Technology Research Council (CONACYT). ** This event is part of a public seminar series on *critical inquiry with and about the digital*, organised by the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. You can sign up to receive announcements about future events here: https://mailman.kcl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/kingsdh-events Website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx Twitter: https://twitter.com/kingsdh -- Jonathan Gray | jonathangray.org<http://jonathangray.org/> | @jwyg<http://twitter.com/jwyg> Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London Recent publications and projects: * Gray, J., Gerlitz, C., & Bounegru, L. (2018) Data Infrastructure Literacy. Big Data & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951718786316 * Gray, J. (2018). Three Aspects of Data Worlds. Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy. http://krisis.eu/three-aspects-of-data-worlds/ * Bounegru, L., Gray, J., Venturini, T., & Mauri, M. (2018). A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders. Amsterdam: Public Data Lab. http://fakenews.publicdatalab.org/ * Venturini, T., Bounegru, L., Gray, J., & Rogers, R. (2018). A reality check(list) for digital methods. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818769236 * More available at: http://jonathangray.org/publications/

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resources for researches from underdeveloped countries
by Hamlet López 04 Dec '18

04 Dec '18

Dear all, I would like to compile and share with my colleagues and students a list of resources for social researchers from underdeveloped countries focused in internet research. That would be mainly for Latinoamericans and Caribbeans, but also can be of interest for academicians from Asia or Africa. Examples of resources: international research networks, international research projects, funding opportunities for research and academic travels... Any suggestions? Suggestions to widely publish such list will be welcome as well! Thanks in advance. Hamlet -- Hamlet López García Dr. en Ciencias de la Comunicación Social Investigador Auxiliar Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural "Juan Marinello" La Habana, Cuba

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Help with Literature on Facebook and Twitter use among college students
by Eric Kwame ADAE 04 Dec '18

04 Dec '18

Hello, I am working on a comparative study of Facebook and Twitter use among college students in the USA. I need some good literature / articles that focus on patterns of Facebook and Twitter usage among young people in general, but specifically college students in America. Thank you in advance. Warmest regards, Eric Kwame ADAE | Graduate Teaching Fellow, Doctoral Student 1275 University of Oregon | Eugene, OR 97401 Email: eadae(a)uoregon.edu Tel: 541-606-8762

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Call for Contributions open for iPRES2019
by Natalie Harrower 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

Call for Contributions open for iPRES2019 *apologies for cross-posting Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the Call for Contributions for iPRES2019 is now open. iPRES is the premier international conference on the preservation and long term management of digital materials. The 16th International Conference on Digital Preservation will be held on September 16-20, 2019 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We invite original contributions that describe practice- and theory-informed approaches to scientific models, daily practice, collaborative efforts, creative solutions, and the progress your organization has made in digital preservation. Call for Contributions We welcome full papers and short papers as well as proposals for workshops, tutorials, posters, panel discussions and for a hackathon. Submissions should relate to the overall conference theme, Eye on the Horizon, describing the cutting edge of our domain and crossing into other domains. We encourage submissions which describe collaborations across and beyond cultural heritage domains, and we welcome proposals that describe research and practice in agencies of all sizes and in all sectors. You can find details about the submission process and the topics of interest now online at www.ipres2019.org/call-for-contributions<http://www.ipres2019.org/call-for-contributions> Please remember this Call will close on 18 March, 2019. Don’t want to miss out on any information? All information regarding the conference is on our website: www.ipres2019.org<http://www.ipres2019.org>. Please pre-register for the iPRES Newsletter via communications(a)ipres2019.org<mailto:communications@ipres2019.org> and get updates on all the important dates. You can also follow us via @iPRES2019 on both Twitter<https://twitter.com/iPRES2019> and Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/ipres2019/>. If you have any questions, please contact us at info(a)ipres2019.org<mailto:info@ipres2019.org> or contact one of the Programme Committee Chairs directly. We look forward to hosting you in The Netherlands, with an inspirational tailor made iPRES2019 programme and historical Amsterdam on the horizon. Marcel Ras, General Chair of iPRES2019, and the Programme Committee Chairs: Andrea Goethals, Annet Dekker, Natalie Harrower, William Kilbride, Jessica Meyerson, Angela Puggioni, Klaus Rechert, Barbara Sierman, Barbara Signori, Katherine Thornton, Pamela Vízner, Jesse de Vos, Tim Walsh and Zhenxin Wu _______________ Dr. Natalie Harrower Director, Digital Repository of Ireland Royal Irish Academy n.harrower(a)ria.ie<mailto:n.harrower@ria.ie> | @natalieharrower www.dri.ie<http://www.dri.ie> | @dri_ireland The Academy is subject to the FOI Act 2014, the Data Protection Acts 1988-2003 and 2018, GDPR (EU 2016/679) and S.I. No. 336/2011, EC Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulations. For further information see our website www.ria.ie/privacy-and-data-protection

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Call for proposals for 2019 Connected Learning Summit
by Jamieson Pond 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

Call for Proposals for the 2019 Connected Learning Summit Online submissions open: January 11, 2019 Deadline for submissions: March 8, 2019 Notifications of Acceptance: June 2019 Call for proposals page: http://clsummit.news/CLScfpAIR Connected Learning Summit 2019 October 2-5, 2019 | University of California, Irvine We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the second annual Connected Learning Summit. With a unique focus on cross-sector connections and progressive and catalytic innovation, the Connected Learning Summit 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 works in progress, and research panels. 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. Abstracts from all session types will be included in the Connected Learning Summit Conference Proceedings. Research papers will be published in full, and subject to blind peer review. All other session formats will be subject to committee review. We will be accepting proposals for: - Research papers - Workshops - Showcases - Symposia - Well Played sessions - Hall of Failure - Posters - Tech demos - Ignite talks About the Connected Learning Summit The mission of the Connected Learning Summit is to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. The Connected Learning Summit 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. The 2019 Connected Learning Summit will be held at the University of California, Irvine campus October 2-5, 2019. Respectfully, Jamieson Pond, Communications Manager Connected Learning Lab University of California, Irvine *Connected Learning Summit 2019* University of California, Irvine October 2-5, 2019 2019.connectedlearningsummit.org/ @TheCLSummit | #CLS2019

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CFP – "Digital Economy" – a new Network at SASE conference, June 2019, NY
by kevin.mellet＠orange.com 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

Dear all, We invite your submissions to the new “Digital Economy” Network at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) conference which is to take place at the New School (New York, USA), 27-29 June 2019 (https://sase.org/event/2019-new-york-city/) After several years in the form of mini-conferences, the constitution of this network (Network J) marks the institutionalization of the digital economy as a field of research within the SASE community. We hope to make this network an open, lively and welcoming place for all researchers interested in the socio-economic facets of the digital economy. It is possible to submit in two different categories: Individual Papers and Sessions. Abstracts for submissions to regular networks should be no longer than 500 words. To submit a session, you must include both an overall abstract for the session and abstracts for each of the 3-5 papers composing the session. Important dates: - The deadline for submitting proposals is 14 January 2019. - Acceptance notifications will be sent by mid-February 2019. - Full papers are expected by 6 May 2019 Best wishes, SASE “Digital Economy” Network organizers ---------------------------------------- J: Digital Economy Digital technologies are contributing to radical, growing and unpredictable transformations of economic life, raising a broad range of new issues for scholars of the economy. This research network is dedicated to the study of these issues. We are particularly interested in the impact of these developments on market processes and actors, on goods themselves, on non-market forms of economy, and on wider social outcomes. In the area of market processes we encourage discussion, for example, of intermediaries and business models such as the platform economy, coordination instruments such as participatory evaluation systems, digital reputations, the massive collection of consumer data, virtual and alternative currencies, bots, algorithms, new kinds of digital objects and forms of qualification and calculation. Digital technology can also provide a platform for non-market forms of economy, and we welcome contributions on digital forms of gift and participative economy as well as the use of digital platforms for governmental initiatives and services. Ultimately we are interested in the impact of such developments on wider social outcomes, including inequality, inclusion and exclusion on the basis of gender, class, race, ethnicity and geopolitical region, governance capacities, systemic risk, environmental change, and political engagement with economic issues. Network organizers: - Thomas Beauvisage - Jean-Samuel Beuscart - Dave Elder-Vass - Timur Elgen - Anne Jourdain - Kevin Mellet - Sidonie Naulin - Elke Schüßler Conference website and general call: https://sase.org/event/2019-new-york-city/ SASE Networks: https://sase.org/about/networks/ Submission link: https://sase.org/events/conference-submission-and-award-guidelines/ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ce message et ses pieces jointes peuvent contenir des informations confidentielles ou privilegiees et ne doivent donc pas etre diffuses, exploites ou copies sans autorisation. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, veuillez le signaler a l'expediteur et le detruire ainsi que les pieces jointes. Les messages electroniques etant susceptibles d'alteration, Orange decline toute responsabilite si ce message a ete altere, deforme ou falsifie. Merci. This message and its attachments may contain confidential or privileged information that may be protected by law; they should not be distributed, used or copied without authorisation. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this message and its attachments. As emails may be altered, Orange is not liable for messages that have been modified, changed or falsified. Thank you.

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Job Opening - University of Illinois at Chicago, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communication
by Jones, Steve 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

The Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago invites applications for a Clinical Assistant Professor, non-tenure track position. The successful candidate will be expected to complement the department's expertise in communication, culture, and technology research. Clinical faculty also have familiarity in measurements and data analytic procedures in the scientific study of the process of communication. Candidates should hold a doctorate in Communication and show evidence of high-quality teaching in a variety of courses at the undergraduate level, including small and large size courses, with a diverse student body. Previous undergraduate supervision and the ability to be conversant with graduate level students a plus. Clinical faculty in COMM teach five courses over the academic year with the opportunity to engage in departmental service. For fullest consideration, please apply by December 7, 2018. UIC is a Carnegie Research Extensive University (Research I), is the largest institution of higher education in the Chicago area, is in the top 50 U.S. universities in federal research funding, and is among the top 200 universities in the world. Recently ranked in the top 50 worldwide, the Department of Communication at UIC focuses on New Media, and offers a BA, MA and PhD with emphasis in: social media + social networks mass media + journalism studies gaming + game studies mobile media policy + platform politics human augmentics political communication cultural studies intercultural communication health communication science + technology studies social computational sciences Located in the heart of Chicago, we collaborate with the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory, the pre-eminent virtual reality and high-speed networking research site in the world. The Department is the birthplace and current home of New Media and Society, the leading journal in the field, and the only department to host three leading journals: Mobile Media and Communication and the open access and free journal,Social Media & Society . The desired appointment date for the position is January 1, 2019, subject to budgetary approval. Electronic applications accepted only – Interested parties should complete the on-line application and submit a letter of interest, a full curriculum vitae, samples of relevant scholarly publications, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and names of and contact information for three references athttps://jobs.uic.edu. Click on the Job Board, then our position. The University of Illinois at Chicago is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability. The University of Illinois may conduct background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer. Background checks will be performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Human Technology Special issue More Years, More Technology: Aging in the Digital Era,
by Taipale, Sakari 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

Lähettäjä: ht-subscribers-bounces(a)lists.jyu.fi <ht-subscribers-bounces(a)lists.jyu.fi> Puolesta Human Technology Lähetetty: maanantai 3. joulukuuta 2018 16:26 Vastaanottaja: ht-subscribers(a)lists.jyu.fi Aihe: Newest issue of Human Technology now available online Dear subscriber of the Human Technology e-notification service, A new thematic issue of Human Technology has been published. The focus of the issue is on aging and technology, under the title of More Years, More Technology: Aging in the Digital Era. The issue has been edited by Sakari Taipale and Riitta Hänninen, both members of the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. The issue comprises six papers drawn from researchers in Europe and Canada. Readers can access the issue at http://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi/current/ [http://humantechnology.jyu.fi/@@site-logo/htlogo_tp_mt.png]<http://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi/current/> Volume 14, Issue 3 - Human Technology<http://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi/current/> www.humantechnology.jyu.fi<http://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi> Special issue on More Years, More Technology: Aging in the Digital Era, November 2018, pp. 258-403 Contents of Volume 14, Issue 3: Guest Editors' Introduction More Years, More Technologies: Aging in the Digital Era Sakari Taipale and Riitta Hänninen Original Papers Barriers and Facilitators of Older People's mHealth Usage: A Qualitative Review of Older People's Views Alice Spann & Ellen Stewart A Scoping Review Exploration of the Intended and Unintended Consequences of eHealth on Older People: A Health Equity Impact Assessment Mei Lan Fang, Ellie Siden, Anastasia Korol, Marie-Anne Demestihas, Judith Sixsmith & Adrew Sixsmith Warm Experts for Elderly Users: Who are They and What Do They Do? Tobias Olsson & Dino Viscovi "I Use It Correctly!": The Use of ICTSs Among Italian Grandmothers in a Generational Perspective Fausto Colombo, Piermarco Aroldi, & Simone Carlo The Organizational Use of Online Stock Photos: The Impact of Representing Senior Citizens as Eternally Youthful Eugène Loos Professional Stakeholders' Views on the Use of Digital Technologies in Spanish Long-term Care Blanca Deusdad & Isabella Riccò As always, we ask that you please forward information on our journal to your all of your colleagues who might be interested in the topics within this issue or available in our archives (humantechnology.jyu.fi/browse). And Human Technology continually encourages submissions on a diversity of topics under our open call for papers. And you can Like and follow Human Technology on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/humantechnologyjournal/) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/HTjournal) Cordially, Barbara Ms. Barbara Crawford Managing Editor Human Technology www.humantechnology.jyu.fi<http://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi> humantechnology(a)jyu.fi<mailto:humantechnology@jyu.fi>

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Fwd: [Fembot] Ada Issue 14 Launch--Visualizing Protest: Transnational Approaches to the Aesthetics of Dissent
by Radhika G 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Carol Stabile <carol.stabile(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 9:27 AM Subject: [Fembot] Ada Issue 14 Launch--Visualizing Protest: Transnational Approaches to the Aesthetics of Dissent To: Fembot List <fembot(a)lists.uoregon.edu> Dear Collective Members, We are pleased to announce the launch of Issue 14 <http://adanewmedia.org/issues/issue-archives/issue14/> of *Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology*. This special issue, titled “Visualizing Protest: Transnational Approaches to the Aesthetics of Dissent” was co-edited by Ela Przybylo, Veronika Novoselova and Sara Rodrigues. Working with Ela Przbylo, Veronika Novoselova and Sara Rodrigues has been an incredible privilege and we are grateful to them and their contributors for this powerful and moving issue. Thanks to all who participated in the open peer review for this issue. Thank you as well to *Ada *co-editor, Radhika Gajjala (Bowling Green State University); Fembot community engagement and content coordinator, Sarah Hamid, Shehram Mokhtar (University of Oregon), Eva Peskin (University of Maryland); and Fembot graduate assistant and copyeditor Riddhima Sharma (Bowling Green State University). Fembot works because of their work. *Ada, Issue 14: Table of Contents* 1. Introduction: Visualizing Protest: Transnational Approaches to the Aesthetics of Dissent By Ela Przybylo, Veronika Novoselova and Sara Rodrigues https://adanewmedia.org/2018/10/issue14-przybylo-novoselova-rodrigues/ 2. “América Latina Vai Ser Toda Feminista”: Visualizing & Realizing Transnational Feminisms in the Women’s Worlds March for Rights By Cara Snyder, Dr. Ana Maria Veiga & Dr. Cristina Schiebe Wolff https://adanewmedia.org/2018/10/issue14-snyderveigawolff/ 3. Awkwardness and Assemblage: Digital Schemes for Feminist World-Making By Carrie Smith and Maria Stehle https://adanewmedia.org/2018/10/issue14-smithstehle/ 4. Between A Rock And A Hard Place: Performative Politics And Queer Migrant Activisms By Krista Lynes https://adanewmedia.org/2018/10/issue14-lynes/ 5. Drawing the Revolution: The Practice and Politics of Collaboration in the Graphic Novel *Lissa* By Coleman Nye and Sherine Hamdy https://adanewmedia.org/2018/10/issue14-hamdynye/ 6. Platform Feminism: Protest and the Politics of Spatial Organization By Rianka Singh https://adanewmedia.org/2018/10/issue14-singh/ 7. Protesting in the Streets of Instagram By Ali Rachel Pearl https://adanewmedia.org/2018/10/issue14-pearl/ 8. Race and Resistance Amid Feminism, Priming, and Capitalism: The (surprisingly-globalized) Visual of an Asian American Woman Activist By Jenny Korn https://adanewmedia.org/2018/10/issue14-korn/ Best, Carol A. Stabile Author: *The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist* <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/broadcast-41> Email: carol.stabile(a)gmail.com <carol.stabile(a)gmail.com> Twitter: @castabile she/her/hers _______________________________________________ Fembot mailing list Fembot(a)lists.uoregon.edu https://lists.uoregon.edu/mailman/listinfo/fembot -- ___ Radhika Gajjala Co-editor of Ada: Journal of Gender and New Media (adanewmedia.org) Professor, School of Media and Communication and American Culture Studies Program Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green Ohio http://www.radhikagajjala.org

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10-11th of December in Oslo- Conference "DATA, SECURITY, VALUES"
by Mareile Kaufmann 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

Dear all, please be invited to the conference "DATA, SECURITY, VALUES: Vocations and Visions of Data Analysis" 10 - 11 December 2018, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Hausmanns gate 3 https://www.prio.org/Events/Event/?x=8674 Data analysis can have many vocations and visions. Coding, programming and algorithmically interpreting data is informed by the concepts, ideas, values and affordances of the technologies and people that engage with data. Even if the word data means "given", information becomes socially and politically imbued as soon as it is selected and categorized to make it available for analysis. Such insights are no longer only subject of academic critique, but the normativity of data analysis has by now become integrated into public discourses. In fact, the value of data has created a new market for moral entrepreneurs, who re-frame data analysis as a tool for moral engineering and security politics. At this conference we explore how values, ideas and concepts are not only necessarily embedded in data analysis, but also in what way they are productive and co-create society. We discuss the relationship between data analysis, ideas and values by looking at the workings of digital security techno logies, data security policies or the security politics of data. Roundtable Discussion: Dilemma Dialogue on the Everyday Use of Data in Security Authorities with representatives from The Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB), Ministry of Justice, The Norwegian National Security Authority (NSM) and the Police Security Services (PST) Key Notes Miguel Sicart, Associate Professor, IT University Copenhagen Playing Data: Understanding the Ludic in the Information Age Katja de Vries, Postdoctoral Researcher, IT University Copenhagen The Coexistence of Humans and Algorithmic Machines Susanne Krasmann, Professor, Hamburg University The Secret of Algorithms: On Transparency, Truth and the Political Breakfast and Lunch will be served. Please register your attendance at: https://www.prio.org/Events/Event/?x=8674

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