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The 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019): First Call for Demos and Late Breaking Results
by Announce Announcements 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

*** FIRST CALL FOR DEMOS AND LATE BREAKING RESULTS *** 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Submissions due: March 16, 2019 ACM UMAP - User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP 2019 invites Demonstrations and Late-Breaking Results (LBR) papers of innovative UMAP-based systems (including research prototypes). You are encouraged to submit your Demo or LBR by March 16th 2019. DEMONSTRATIONS Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and to get valuable feedback from the community. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how. To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or to any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub). Descriptions of demonstrations should have a length of max. 2 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings template. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2019. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS Late-Breaking Results (LBR) are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit a late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Late-Breaking Results papers have a length of 4 to 6 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings template and will be presented to the conference as posters. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Submissions (demos and late-breaking results) must adhere to the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template. A template can be found at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2019 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . The review process will be single blinded, i.e. authors' names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits (2 pages for demos and 6 pages for LBR) or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission of demos and LBR papers: March 16th, 2019 · Notification of acceptance: April 5th, 2019 · Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: April 15th, 2019 The submissions times are 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION Accepted Demo and Late Breaking Results papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2019 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS AND DEMO CHAIRS · Styliani Kleanthous, University of Cyprus, Cyprus & RISE LIMITED, Cyprus (Contact: stellak(a)ucy.ac.cy) · Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, Slovakia · Ben Steichen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA

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Last CFP: ACM IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA)
by Axel Soto 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) Los Angeles, USA, March 20, 2019 Hosted by ACM IUI 2019, March 17-20, 201 https://sites.google.com/view/esida2019 Important dates Submission deadline: December 17, 2018 (midnight Hawaii time) Acceptance notification: January 23, 2019 Final manuscript due: February 6, 2019 Workshop Topic and Description In recent years, retrieval techniques operating on text or semantic annotations, have become the industry standard for retrieval from large data collections, such as documents, images, videos, music, medical data. This approach works well with sufficient high-quality meta-data or tagging. However, with the explosive growth of big data collections, it has become apparent that tagging new data quickly and efficiently is not always possible. Secondly, even if instantaneous high-quality data tagging were possible, there would still be many instances, where search by keyword query is problematic. For example, in the case of image retrieval it might be easier for a user to define their query if they are looking for an image of a cat, but how would they specify that the cat should be of a particular shade of ginger with sad looking eyes? A solution to these problems is active engagement of the user in the information retrieval loop, thus enabling the user to not only explore a given dataset more easily but also gradually direct their search to a more specific area of the search space. The aim of this workshop is to explore new methods and interface/system design for interactive data analytics and management in various domains, including specialised text collections (e.g. legal, medical, scientific), multimedia, and bioinformatics, as well as for various tasks, such as semantic information retrieval, conceptual organization and clustering of data collections for sense-making, semantic expert profiling, and document/multimedia recommender systems. The primary audience of the workshop is researchers and practitioners in the area of interactive and personalized system design as well as interactive machine learning both from academia and industry. IUI, with its focus on the intersection of HCI and AI, is a perfect venue where researchers from system/interface design community and the machine learning community can meet. Workshop Target Areas The workshop aims to solicit submissions in all areas of interactive data analytics and exploratory search including: - design, testing and assessment of interactive systems for data analytics - interactive data visualization for exploratory and investigative analysis - interactive classification and clustering of data - user-assisted curation and validation of the analysis process, and generation of data visualizations - user engagement in the semantic analysis process via suitable annotation and correction tools - study of the trade-off between accuracy of the results and user effort - personalization and user modeling related to interactive system design Submissions aimed at solving practical problems in specific application domains are especially welcome, including: - digital libraries - legal document management - personalized online learning systems - news media - biomedical data - multimedia collections - specialized image and video collections, e.g. medical images. We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case studies, and generally material that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors, encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on promising research directions, in one of the following formats: - full papers (up to 8 pages in the ACM SIGCHI format), which will be presented either as contributed talks or posters - extended abstracts (up to 4 pages in the ACM SIGCHI format), which will be presented as posters with a possibility to be accompanied by a demo. Submission information Submissions to the workshop will be through EasyChair, <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida2019> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida19 Workshop date March 20, 2019 Workshop location Marriott Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles, CA, USA - https://iui.acm.org/2019/venue_transportation.html Keynote Speaker John O'Donovan: University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Organizers Dorota Glowacka, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, dorota.glowacka at ed.ac.uk Evangelos Milios, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, eem at cs.dal.ca Axel J. Soto, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, axel.soto at manchester.ac.uk Fernando V. Paulovich, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, paulovich at dal.ca Denis Parra, Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, dparra at ing.puc.cl Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, Department of Information and Knowledge Management, University of Haifa (Israel), omokryn at univ.haifa.ac.il Program Committee (to be updated/confirmed): Jaegul Choo — Korea University, South Korea Casey Dugan — IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA Mennatallah El-Assady — University of Konstanz, Germany Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira — University of São Paulo, Brazil Patrik Floreen — University of Helsinki, Finland María Luján Ganuza — Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Andreas Kerren — Linnaeus University, Sweden Koji Koyamada — Kyoto University, Japan Joel Lanir — University of Haifa, Israel Alan Medlar — University of Helsinki, Finland Martijn Millecamp — Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Rosane Minghim — University of São Paulo, Brazil Ilaria Torre — University of Genoa, Italy Chun-Hua Tsai — University of Pittsburg, USA Eduardo Veas — Graz University of Technology, Austria Chaoli Wang — University of Notre Dame, USA

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CfP: 10th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Mining, Modeling and Learning from Social Media (MSM'2019)
by Christoph Trattner 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 10th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM'2019) Mining, Modeling and Learning from Social Media to be held on May 14-17, 2019, San Francisco, USA co-located with TheWebConf 2019 https://msmworkshop.github.io/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** Submission Deadline: Jan 10, 2019 ** Notification of Acceptance: Feb 14, 2019 ** Camera-Ready Versions Due: Mar 3, 2019 ** Workshop date: May 13-14, 2019 Workshop Organizers: ==================== Martin Atzmueller, Tilburg University, Netherlands; m.atzmueller(a)uvt.nl Alvin Chin, BMW Technology Corporation, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Christoph Trattner, University of Bergen, Norway; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com We aim to attract researchers from all over the world working on data mining, modeling and using machine learning and AI for social media, big and small data, sensor data and the web. Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have paved the way for generating huge amount of diverse, streaming bit data in a short period of time. Such social media data require the application of big data analytics to produce meaningful information to both information consumers and data generators. Machine learning and AI techniques are particularly effective in situations where deep and predictive insights need to be uncovered from such social media data sets that are large, diverse and fast changing. Following the discussion at our workshop at TheWebConf 2018, we aim to focus on how to apply data mining, recommendation, machine learning and AI models, algorithms and systems for analytic and predictive modeling on social media, big data, small data, web and sensor data. Contrary to last year’s workshop, we would like to particularly invite researchers that are interested in going beyond standard analytics approaches and try to discover the intelligent information hidden in the large and fast-changing social media data. Overall, we are interested in receiving papers related to the following topics which include but are not limited to: * predictive analytics methods or frameworks for social media, big data, small data, sensor data and the web * AI, machine learning, deep learning and NLP models, algorithms and systems for social media, big data, small data, sensor data and the web * deep learning approaches and models for social media, big data, small data, sensor data and data from/on the web * data mining techniques and algorithms for social media, big data, small data, sensor data and data from/on the web * methods for learning social activities and behavioral analytic metrics * evaluation of machine learning and AI frameworks and metrics * explainability and transparency of the machine learning/deep learning/AI methods * applications of machine learning, deep learning and AI * applications of any of the above methods and technologies The goal of this workshop is to use data mining, machine learning and AI approaches and algorithms on social media, big data, small data, sensor data and data from/on the web. Submissions: We solicit full research papers (4-8 pages), and short papers (1-4 pages) both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair tohttps://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=msm2019 Proceedings: ============ Contributions will be included in the Companion volume of TheWebConf 2019 conference, which will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. However, to make that happen at least one author of the accepted paper has to register. At the time of submission of the final camera-ready copy, authors will have to indicate the already registered person for that publication. Any paper published by the ACM, IEEE, etc. which can be properly cited constitutes research which must be considered in judging the novelty of a TheWebConf submission, whether the published paper was in a conference, journal, or workshop. Therefore, any paper previously published as part of a WWW or TheWebConf workshop must be referenced and suitably extended with new content to qualify as a new submission to the Research Track at TheWebConf conference. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must * be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; * occupy no more than six pages, including the abstract, references, and appendices. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the above guidelines may be rejected without review. All submissions must be entered into the reviewing system:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msm2019 Contact: ======== Martin Atzmueller, Tilburg University, Netherlands; m.atzmueller(a)uvt.nl Alvin Chin, BMW Technology Corporation, USA; alvin.chin(a)bmwna.com Christoph Trattner, University of Bergen, Norway; trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com Follow us on: ============= Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/527164050627185/ Twitter https://twitter.com/msm_workshop -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Associate Professor University of Bergen Department of Information Science and Media Studies Fosswinckelsgt. 6, 5007 Bergen, Norway E-mail: christoph.trattner(a)uib.no Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info -------------------------------------------------------

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FINAL CFP Reminder: Special Issue of Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) journal on Mental Health Rhetoric Research
by Drew Holladay 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

[Apologies for cross-posting] Hello all, Just a final reminder on the Call for Papers for the next special issue of the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine journal, which will be on “Interrogating the Past and Shaping the Future of Mental Health Rhetoric Research." See details in the attached CFP. Note that submissions should be sent to: rhm.journal.editors(a)gmail.com. Please email 500-1000 word proposals (excluding citations) by December 10, 2018. Best, Drew Holladay *Drew Holladay* Assistant Professor of English University of Maryland, Baltimore County Email: holladay(a)umbc.edu Website: drewholladay.wordpress.com Twitter: @drewholladay <http://twitter.com/drewholladay>

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The 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019): Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce Announcements 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

*** LAST CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS *** 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Proposals due: December 14, 2018 ACM UMAP 2019, the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modelling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program comprising different workshop formats and combining emerging and established research topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop schemas are possible, such as: · Working group meetings around a specific problem or topic; participants may be asked to submit a white paper or position statement. · Mini-conferences on specialized topics, having their own paper submission and review processes. · Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual or team participation. · Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP general research topics. PROPOSAL FORMAT Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF format to both workshop chairs, not exceeding 5 pages and organized as follows: · Workshop title and acronym. · Workshop chair(s), including affiliation, email address, homepage, and experiences in organizing such events. · Abstract (up to 300 words) and topics of interest. · Motivation on why the workshop is of particular interest at this time. · Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussions. · Intended audience and expected number of participants. · List of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be confirmed at the time of the proposal). · Requested duration (half day or full day). · When available, past editions of the workshop, including URLs, a brief statement on the development of the workshop series, e.g., in terms of topics, number of paper submissions and participants, post-workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics. INSTRUCTIONS We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a workshop proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas. We strongly suggest to have organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that may attract various types of contributions and may ensure rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops will prepare a workshop web site containing the call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organization and timeline. They will be responsible for their own publicity and reviewing processes. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Hence, the workshop organizers will need to adhere to the adjunct proceedings publication timeline. IMPORTANT DATES · Proposal submission: December 14, 2018 · Notification of proposal acceptance: January 9, 2019 · Send the workshop description & website URL : January 23, 2019 · (Suggested) 1st call for papers: January 28, 2019 · (Suggested) 2nd call for papers: February 20, 2019 · (Suggested) paper submission: March 13, 2019 · (Suggested) notification to authors: March 26, 2019 · Workshop summary camera-ready: April 3, 2019 · Workshop papers camera-ready: April 3, 2019 · Adjunct proceedings camera ready: April 15, 2019 WORKSHOP CHAIRS · Milos Kravcík, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany (milos.kravcik AT dfki.de) · Iván Cantador, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain (ivan.cantador AT uam.es)

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Call for Chapters with Extended Deadline of Jan. 31, 2019: Handbook of Research on Political Campaigning in the Computer Age
by Ashu M. G. Solo 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

It would be appreciated if you could forward this call for chapters to anyone who might be interested. Call for Chapters: Handbook of Research on Political Campaigning in the Computer Age Purpose Technology and particularly the Internet have brought about many changes in the realm of politics. Politicians and candidates use their own websites and social network profiles to get their message out. Politicians use political engineering and computational politics including data analytics to increase the effectiveness of their campaign. Aspects of engineering, computer science, mathematics, or natural science can be applied to political campaigning. Potential Topics Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Political Campaigns in the Computer Age • online campaigning • online campaigning using websites and webpages • online campaigning using social networking • online campaigning using multimedia tools • online campaigning using blogs • online campaigning using vlogs • political debates on the Internet • virtual town hall • virtual war room • online fake news and cyberlibel against politicians • case studies • future research directions Engineering, Math, and Science in Political Campaigning • political engineering (application of engineering, computer science, mathematics, or natural science to politics) • computational politics (application of computer science or mathematics to politics) Note: These new interdisciplinary fields were first defined in this research paper: Ashu M. G. Solo. (2011). The New Fields of Public Policy Engineering, Political Engineering, Computational Public Policy, and Computational Politics. In Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'11) (pp. 431-434). URL: <http://worldcomp-proceedings.com/proc/p2011/EEE5211.pdf> http://worldcomp-proceedings.com/proc/p2011/EEE5211.pdf • applications of engineering in political campaigning • applications of computer science in political campaigning • applications of mathematics in political campaigning • applications of natural science in political campaigning • applications of operations research in political campaigning • applications of optimization methods in political campaigning • uncertainty management in political campaigning • applications of computational intelligence methods to political campaigning • applications of fuzzy logic to political campaigning • applications of neural computing to political campaigning • applications of neural networks to political campaigning • applications of evolutionary computation to political campaigning • applications of genetic algorithms to political campaigning • applications of knowledge-based systems to political campaigning • applications of machine learning methods to political campaigning • applications of pattern recognition to political campaigning • applications of data mining to political campaigning • applications of analytics to political campaigning • applications of data integration to political campaigning • applications of data analysis to political campaigning • applications of data modeling to political campaigning • applications of exploratory data analysis to political campaigning • applications of confirmatory data analysis to political campaigning • applications of predictive analytics to political campaigning • applications of text analytics to political campaigning • applications of statistics to political campaigning • applications of data visualization to political campaigning • applications of data dissemination to political campaigning • data-driven decision making in political campaigning • applications of data fusion to political campaigning • applications of multidimensional matrix mathematics to political campaigning • applications of decision theory to political campaigning • applications of game theory to political campaigning • applications of graph theory to political campaigning • forecasting in political campaigning • modeling in political campaigning • simulation in political campaigning • visualization in political campaigning • software tools in political campaigning • case studies • future research directions Publisher: IGI Global Publisher website: https://www.igi-global.com/ Please submit your chapter in Microsoft Word format through the eEditorial Discovery® system by January 31, 2019. Please use the following link when submitting your chapter: https://www.igi-global.com/submission/submit-chapter/?projectid=b3f266fe-43… If you aren’t sure if your chapter fits within the scope of the book, you can send a one paragraph abstract to the editor. The editor will get back to you within two days about whether your chapter fits within the scope of the book. The full chapter will still be reviewed. One or more of the author(s) of each submitted chapter will be expected to review two other submitted chapters. Every person who reviews a chapter will be listed in the editorial advisory board, which will be published in the book. Important Dates Chapter submission deadline: January 31, 2019 Chapter review results: March 31, 2019 Chapter revisions submission deadline: April 30, 2019 Final acceptance results: May 21, 2019 Final chapter and forms submission deadline: June 5, 2019 Editor Ashu M. G. Solo Originator of public policy engineering, computational public policy, political engineering, and computational politics Author, editor, or associate editor of over 825 reviewed publications (research publications and political commentaries) Interdisciplinary researcher, engineering and math developer, electrical engineer, computer engineer, intelligent systems engineer, political and public policy engineer, mathematician, public policy analyst, political writer, former political operative, entrepreneur, civil rights activist, environmental protection technology developer, and former infantry officer CEO/interdisciplinary R&D engineer and mathematician at Maverick Trailblazers Inc.™ and principal at Solo’s Solutions™ Former platoon commander understudy (regiment appointment) in Cdn. Army Reserve Infantry Former CEO or acting CEO for 4 geographical associations of federal and provincial political parties and former city committee representative Email address for inquiries: amgsolo(a)mavericktrailblazers.com <mailto:amgsolo@mavericktrailblazers.com>

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Call for Chapters with Extended Deadline of Jan. 31, 2019: Handbook of Research on Political Revolution and Activism in the Computer Age
by Ashu M. G. Solo 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

It would be appreciated if you could forward this call for chapters to anyone who might be interested. Call for Chapters: Handbook of Research on Political Revolution and Activism in the Computer Age Purpose Technology and particularly the Internet have brought about many changes in the realm of politics. Revolutions in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa have started in large part due to social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter. Social networking has also played a role in protests and riots in numerous countries. The whistleblower website Wikileaks has had a tremendous impact in exposing government corruption. The mainstream media no longer has a monopoly on political commentary as anybody can set up a blog or post a video online. Political activists can network together online. Aspects of engineering, computer science, mathematics, or natural science can be applied to political activism. Potential Topics Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Political Revolutions, Political Protests, and Other Citizen Activism in the Computer Age • role of social networking in political revolutions • role of social networking in political revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa • role of social networking in political protests • online petitions • electronic civil disobedience • online vigilantism • hacktivism • role of social networking in political riots • case studies • future research directions Online Political Expression in the Computer Age • political blogs • online political videos • political vlogs • parliamentary informatics • cyberbullying and cyberlibel against activists • case studies • future research directions Whistleblowing in the Computer Age • Wikileaks • whistleblower websites and webpages • transparency • advantages and disadvantages of transparency • whistleblowing • whistleblower protection • whistleblower prosecution • whistleblower persecution • lawsuits against whistleblowers • case studies • future research directions Engineering, Math, and Science in Political Activism • political engineering (application of engineering, computer science, mathematics, or natural science to politics) • computational politics (application of computer science or mathematics to politics) Note: These new interdisciplinary fields were first defined in this research paper: Ashu M. G. Solo. (2011). The New Fields of Public Policy Engineering, Political Engineering, Computational Public Policy, and Computational Politics. In Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'11) (pp. 431-434). URL: <http://worldcomp-proceedings.com/proc/p2011/EEE5211.pdf> http://worldcomp-proceedings.com/proc/p2011/EEE5211.pdf • applications of engineering in political activism • applications of computer science in political activism • applications of mathematics in political activism • applications of natural science in political activism • applications of operations research in political activism • applications of optimization methods in political activism • uncertainty management in political activism • applications of computational intelligence methods to political activism • applications of fuzzy logic to political activism • applications of neural computing to political activism • applications of neural networks to political activism • applications of evolutionary computation to political activism • applications of genetic algorithms to political activism • applications of knowledge-based systems to political activism • applications of machine learning methods to political activism • applications of pattern recognition to political activism • applications of data mining to political activism • applications of analytics to political activism • applications of data integration to political activism • applications of data analysis to political activism • applications of data modeling to political activism • applications of exploratory data analysis to political activism • applications of confirmatory data analysis to political activism • applications of predictive analytics to political activism • applications of text analytics to political activism • applications of statistics to political activism • applications of data visualization to political activism • applications of data dissemination to political activism • data-driven decision making in political activism • applications of data fusion to political activism • applications of multidimensional matrix mathematics to political activism • applications of decision theory to political activism • applications of game theory to political activism • applications of graph theory to political activism • forecasting in political activism • modeling in political activism • simulation in political activism • visualization in political activism • software tools in political activism • case studies • future research directions Publisher: IGI Global Publisher website: https://www.igi-global.com/ Submit your chapter in Microsoft Word format through the eEditorial Discovery® system by January 31, 2019. Please use the following link when submitting your chapter: https://www.igi-global.com/submission/submit-chapter/?projectid=1641853c-6b… If you aren’t sure if your chapter fits within the scope of the book, you can send a one paragraph abstract to the editor. The editor will get back to you within two days about whether your chapter fits within the scope of the book. The full chapter will still be reviewed. One or more of the author(s) of each submitted chapter will be expected to review two other submitted chapters. Every person who reviews a chapter will be listed in the editorial advisory board, which will be published in the book. Important Dates Chapter submission deadline: January 31, 2019 Chapter review results: March 31, 2019 Chapter revisions submission deadline: April 30, 2019 Final acceptance results: May 21, 2019 Final chapter and forms submission deadline: June 5, 2019 Editor Ashu M. G. Solo Originator of public policy engineering, computational public policy, political engineering, and computational politics Author, editor, or associate editor of over 825 reviewed publications (research publications and political commentaries) Interdisciplinary researcher, engineering and math developer, electrical engineer, computer engineer, intelligent systems engineer, political and public policy engineer, mathematician, public policy analyst, political writer, former political operative, entrepreneur, civil rights activist, environmental protection technology developer, and former infantry officer CEO/interdisciplinary R&D engineer and mathematician at Maverick Trailblazers Inc.™ and principal at Solo’s Solutions™ Former platoon commander understudy (regiment appointment) in Cdn. Army Reserve Infantry Former CEO or acting CEO for 4 geographical associations of federal and provincial political parties and former city committee representative Email address for inquiries: amgsolo(a)mavericktrailblazers.com <mailto:amgsolo@mavericktrailblazers.com>

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CFP: Media, Activism, and Technology global communication summit
by Harlow, Summer 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

There’s still time to send in your abstracts for the 2019 Global Communication Summit, Media for Social Justice: Journalism + Activism + Technology, to be held Feb. 22 at the Jack J. Valenti School of Communication at the University of Houston. The bilingual conference will bring together academics, journalists, and activists from throughout Latin America and the United States to discuss the media-social movement relationship. Details of the conference are available here in Spanish and in English: https://www.globalcommunicationsummit.org/ Abstracts can be submitted in English or Spanish, and are due Dec. 14 to Summer Harlow at sharlow(a)central.uh.edu<mailto:sharlow@central.uh.edu>. For details of the abstract call, see here in English: https://www.globalcommunicationsummit.org/call-for-papers/ La convocatoria también está disponible en español: https://www.globalcommunicationsummit.org/convocatoria/ The full call for abstracts is copied below: Call for Abstracts The University of Houston’s Valenti School of Communication is seeking abstracts for its second annual Global Communication Summit. The theme for the event, to be held Feb. 22, 2019, is Media for Social Justice: Journalism + Activism + Technology. The deadline for abstracts is Dec. 14, 2018. Research shows that mainstream news outlets have struggled to accurately and fairly portray protests: the media’s tendency toward negative protest coverage (known as the “protest paradigm”) demonizes protesters and delegitimizes their demands. How the media cover protests is fundamental to a protest’s viability, influencing the public’s acceptance or rejection of the cause. A recent rise in protests worldwide, coupled with an ever-evolving media ecology, demand a better understanding of the factors that influence protest coverage. In part the paradigmatic coverage of protests, and the resulting complex and tense media-activist relationship, rests with journalists and their identities, practices, and routines. Few journalists, though, are trained in how to cover social movements, thus potentially contributing to the maintenance of the paradigm. Further potentially exacerbating the problem is that activists are not necessarily trained communicators, and unaware of how best to reach out to journalists or attract positive media attention. A lack of trust and fear of misrepresentation also comes into play. Recent research has begun considering how journalists and activists can use social media to disrupt the paradigm, especially as digital technologies allow activists to take control of their own messages and bypass mainstream media through the creation of online alternative or activist media. Further, the insertion of social media users into the gatekeeping process has the potential to influence which protest narratives are most circulated online. In this digital era of increased protest activity—online and offline—, it’s important to consider how new technologies might be changing the way journalists and activists relate, while recognizing that analog tactics still have an important part to play, especially in non-Western and developing countries. With this in mind, we invite abstracts that broadly address the role of media in contributing to, or detracting from, social justice. Possible questions to explore include, but are not limited to: * What role do social media play in facilitating and mobilizing activism and community participation? * What are the benefits and/or potential pitfalls of hashtag activism? How do the digital and analog complement or compete with each other in the activist’s repertoire? * How have activists’ media practices changed in response to new technologies and political challenges? * How have journalists responded to the worldwide uptick in protests? How are journalists’ protest coverage and practices changing? * How are journalists responding to shifts in media power as more activists, citizens, and politicians use social media to communicate their messages? * Ethically speaking, what should the relationship between journalists and activists look like? * How do we define the demarcating line between journalists and activists, and is it even worth doing so? * What roles and responsibilities do journalists have in contributing to social justice? * What role can community, alternative, and activist media play in this age of “fake news”? We especially invite abstracts that take a de-Westernized approach and/or focus on cases outside the United States. Qualitative and quantitative work is welcome, as are methodological papers. Abstracts should include: 1. Paper title 2. Names, affiliations, and a brief bio of authors 3. 3-5 keywords 4. A 300-400 word abstract (excluding references) that includes a description of the research project and its significance, with specific research questions or hypotheses, methods, overview of findings (if available at the time of submission), and relevance to the conference theme. Submissions should be in English or Spanish. Timeline: 1. Abstracts are due Dec. 14 and should be submitted to Summer Harlow at sharlow(a)central.uh.edu<mailto:sharlow@central.uh.edu>. Be sure to include “Global Communication Summit” in the subject line. 2. Notifications of acceptances will be sent by late December/early January. The conference will begin at 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 22, with a plenary panel of journalists and activists from Latin America and the U.S. The afternoon will include a workshop for activists and journalists, and the evening will feature a documentary screening. There also will be a keynote speaker during lunch. Summer Harlow, Ph. D. Assistant professor Jack J. Valenti School of Communication University of Houston sharlow(a)central.uh.edu<mailto:sharlow@central.uh.edu> Follow me on Twitter: @SummerDHarlow Author of Liberation Technology in El Salvador: Re-appropriating Social Media among Alternative Media Projects<https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319480381>

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Data Scores as Governance - New report by the Data Justice Lab
by Arne Hintz 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

Data Scores as Governance: Investigating Uses of Citizen Scoring Project Report Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University, UK The Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University has just released a new report on the uses of data analytics in public services in the UK. The report examines the emergence of scoring systems and other forms of data analytics that combine data from a variety of sources as a way to categorize citizens, allocate services, and predict behaviour. It provides the first comprehensive overview of key developments and outlines concrete examples of scoring systems across different local authorities and partner agencies, prominent uses of commercial services, and understandings and perspectives about these developments amongst stakeholders and civil society. Drawing on multiple methods, including Freedom of Information requests, interviews, and stakeholder workshops, the report summarizes the findings of one year of intense research. Download the report here: Data Scores as Governance – Project Report<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatajust…> / https://datajustice.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/data-scores-as-governance-p…<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatajust…> Find out more about the project: https://datajusticelab.org/data-scores-as-governance/<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatajust…> Information about the Data Justice Lab and our other activities: https://datajusticelab.org/ ---------------- Dr Arne Hintz Senior Lecturer Co-Director Data Justice Lab | Director MA Digital Media and Society School of Journalism, Media and Culture | Cardiff University Two Central Square | Cardiff CF10 1FS Email: HintzA(a)cardiff.ac.uk | Tel: +44 (0)29 208 76281 | Twitter: @arne_hz Fellow | Center for Media, Data and Society | Central European University

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Effective Scholarly Communication - suggestions welcomed
by Johnson, Gareth 06 Dec '18

06 Dec '18

Dear all, I've (somewhat foolishly) volunteered my services to deliver a session to our early career researchers network on effective scholarly communication (verbal, written etc) early next year. Does anyone else run anything like this, that they'd be willing to share any suggestions or approaches which have worked well in the past with similar audiences? I aim to share as much of the materials I use post-hoc for anyone that's interested. With thanks Gaz --- Dr Gareth (Gaz) J Johnson Managing Editor-in-Chief, Institute of Advanced Study, Millburn House, University of Warwick Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7HS, UK https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/ T: +44 (0)24 765 74423 (extn 74423) E: gareth.johnson(a)warwick.ac.uk<mailto:gareth.johnson@warwick.ac.uk> B: https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/exchangesias/ Tw: @ExchangesIAS<https://twitter.com/ExchangesIAS> --- Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/

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