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Tuesday Free Webinar: Digital Democracy and Participatory Budgeting Tools - Feb 13
by Steven Clift 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

If you can't make tomorrow's webinar, you can always request more information here from the Citizens Foundation: http://po.st/CFrequestinfo Just as I introduced Robert's crew to NCDD and Open Twin Cities for virtual presentations, I'd be glad to do the same for you. - Steven Clift *Tech Tuesday Free Webinar: Digital Democracy and Participatory Budgeting Tools - Feb 13* NCDD, one of the world's leading civic practitioners networks*, invites you to their next Tech Tuesday webinar on February 13. This is must attend for those interested in positive examples of tech in democracy, community, and government. The webinar will include open source tools for idea generation, participatory budgeting, and more. *Who:* Robert Bjarnason, Co-Founder Citizens Foundation, Iceland *What:* Digital Tools for Upgrading Democracy in Iceland and Beyond *When:* Tue Feb 13 2 pm Eastern 10 am Pacific 7 pm UK 8 pm CET 8 am NZ (Feb 14) 6 am Sydney, AU (Feb 14) *Where:* Webinar Details - http://po.st/digitaldemwebinar *RSVP Required:* http://po.st/registerdigitaldem *Cost:* Free Live, On-Demand Access for NCDD* Members-Only *Request the Bonus Case Study in Advance: *http://po.st/CFrequestinfo ** You should join the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation - NCDD:* Join their email newsletter with over 30,000 subscribers: http://po.st/ ncddupdates The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) is a network of innovators who bring people together across divides to discuss, decide, and take action together effectively on today’s toughest issues. NCDD serves as a gathering place, a resource center, a news source, and a facilitative leader for this vital community of practice. The NCDD website is a clearinghouse for literally thousands of resources and best practices, and our highly participatory national and regional conferences have brought together more nearly 3,000 practitioners, community leaders, public administrators, researchers, activists, teachers and students since 2002. For more information, please visit http://www.ncdd.org

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CfP EASST 2018 After Data Activism
by Katja Mayer 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Dear all, please consider submitting a paper to our session E07 until midnight CET on February 14th, 2018. https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6257 Happy holidays! Katja, Guillén, Stefania After Data Activism: reactions to civil society's engagement with data Convenors * Guillén Torres (University of Amsterdam) * Katja Mayer (Technical University Munich) * Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam) Short abstract This panel focuses on data practices that hinder rather than foster civil society's political engagement. We invite you to discuss how data governance, data science and social technologies are co-producing asymmetries of power. Long abstract By foregrounding the constitutive power of information to shape social reality (Braman, 2006), recent approaches to datafication have highlighted data's active role in configuring new ways of engaging politically with -while dissolving the barriers between- public policy, economy, science, nature and culture (Milan & van der Velden, 2016). Thus, the term data activism has been used to study practices in which data plays a crucial role in shaping civil society's agenda, in particular when taking action against governmental or corporate practices of injustice or misinformation. Today, various actors embrace the "data as new oil" metaphor and we even witness multiple forms of "open-washing" of politics and economies (e.g. transparency). Other actors however, have lately shown reluctance to support civic engagement with data, implementing strategies of information control at different scales: from the enactment of government-wide policies that make difficult access to data, to recurrent denials of information requests, passing by the wilful production of the opaqueness of Automated Decision Making or scoring systems. This panel focuses on how certain actors are taking advantage of information's capacity to shape social reality, with a special focus on data practices that resist rather than foster citizens' political engagement. We invite you to discuss how mechanisms of information control produce and sustain asymmetries of power, often in complicity with data science and social technologies. We further welcome contributions focused on experiences with data activism through the mobilisation of open data and public sector information, or dealing with the political aftermath of data-driven projects.

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Cfp: Media, Polis, Agora: Journalism & Communication in the Digital Era, Thessaloniki, Greece September 27-29, 2018
by Nikos 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Dear coleagues, please find attached a call for papers for the conference "Media, Polis, Agora: Journalism & Communication in the Digital Era" that will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece on September 27-29, 2018. We call for potential speakers to submit a 500-word abstract in English, by April 10th 2018. Submissions shall be uploaded at the Easy Chair Platform For more information please contact us by email to info(a)advancedmediainstitute.com The conference's website is at http://amiretreat2018.advancedmediainstitute.com/ Best regards Nikos Smyrnaios University of Toulouse

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IFIP-ICEC || Computers in Entertainment || 18-20th Sept 2018 || DL: 14/3-Workshops 7/5-Papers || Poznan, Poland
by Artur Lugmayr 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

============================================================================================================================== ============================================================================================================================== ============================================================================================================================== 17th IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING (ICEC'18), co-located with IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC'18) " explore . create . reflect . develop " Bridging the gap between technology, HCI, business, design, and art in entertainment Date: 18-20 September, 2018 Venue: Poznan, Poland http://www.ifip-icec.org HIGHLIGHTS: - breaking NEW ACTIVITIES@ICEC: art exhibition, ICEC award, new conference areas - NEW AREAS@ICEC media studies, human-computer-interaction, business & information systems - first DEADLINES approaching: 14th March 2018 - Workshops, 7th May 2018 - Papers - IFIP ICEC Entertainment Award STAY IN TOUCH - Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/EntertainmentComputing/ - Subscribe to our Mailinglist on www.ifip-icec.org - Twitter: @IFIP_ICEC ============================================================================================================================== ============================================================================================================================== ============================================================================================================================== The IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computation is the longest lasting and prime scientific conference series in the area of Entertainment Computing. It brings together practitioners, researchers, artists, designers, and industry on the design, creation, development, use, application and evaluation of digital entertainment content and experience systems. The conference series is cross-disciplinary, and stretches over the domains of computer science, human-computer-interaction, content production, digital games, multimedia, media studies, art, and design. The conference series aims at presenting high quality scientific results spanning from theory to application, use-cases, experience, and demonstrations. We solicit papers, posters, and demonstrations, as well as we are looking for tutorial and workshop proposal. The conference theme for 2018 is "Explore . Create . Reflect . Develop". All papers are published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Best full papers are recommended to publish in a special issue of the Elsevier Entertainment Computing Journal. IMPORTANT DATES: * March 14, 2018: Workshops (notification March 30, 2018) * May 7, 2018: Long and Short Papers (notification June, 5 2018) * May 20, 2018: Posters, Demos, Tutorials, Interactive Sessions (notification June 5, 2018) * June 19, 2018: Camera Ready Papers Due (all tracks) * July 1, 2018: Suggested Deadline for Workshop Papers * July 1, 2018: Art Exhibitions Entries * August 1, 2018: Doctoral Consortium Application SUBMISSION CATEGORIES - Short (6pp) and long papers (12pp) - Posters (4pp + the actual poster in A0 as pdf) - Art, Demonstrations and Interactive Exhibits (4pp including description of the experience) - Industry track (1pp + modality /demonstration, justification of modality: demo/presentation) - Workshops and tutorials (4pp) - Doctoral consortium (4pp) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND CONTACT INFORMATION All submission guidelines can be found on the conference website on http://www.ifip-icec.org. If you have any questions concerning the conference, please contact us under contact(a)ifip-icecc.org. CONFERENCE ORGANISERS The conference is organized by the IFIP-TC14 - Artur Lugmayr, Curtin Univ., AUSTRALIA - General Chair - Kathrin Gerling, KU Leuven, BELGIUM - General Chair - Esteban Clua, Fluminese Federal Univ., BRAZIL - Program Chair - Licinio Roque, from Universidade de Coimbra, PORTUGAL - Program Chair - Rainer Malaka, Univ. of Bremen, GERMANY - IFIP TC 14 Chair TOPICS We invite the submission of papers, posters, demos, tutorials and workshop proposals on the design, development, and study of broad forms of digital entertainment. Topics include but are not limited to: Emerging Topics in Entertainment Computing - Ubiquitous Computing and Interfaces in Entertainment - Immersive and Virtual Multimedia Experiences - Quality of Services (QoS), and Quality of Experience (QoE) - AI, Big Data, and Deep Learning in Entertainment - Content Production and Production Systems Digital Games and Interactive Entertainment - Game Design and Development - Interactive Narratives & Digital Storytelling - Entertainment Robots, Toys & Smart Gadgets Design, Human-Computer Interaction, and Analysis of Entertainment Systems - Experience Design & Analysis - Telemetry & Semi-Automated Analysis - Methodologies, Tools & Techniques for Entertainment - Human Factors & Performance of Entertainment Applications & Technology Interactive Art, Performance and Cultural Computing - Digital Art & Installations - Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality & Entertainment - Ubiquitous/Pervasive Entertainment - Sound, Music & Performance - TransMedia and Entertainment - Social Computing Entertainment Devices, Platforms & Systems - Digital Entertainment Hardware & Devices - Ambient Entertainment - Digital Broadcasting and Digital Cinema - Interactive Television and Broadcasting Theoretical Foundations and Ethical Issues - Emotions and Affective Interaction - Social / Cultural Impacts of Digital Entertainment - Issues of Public Relations & Advertising Through Entertainment Entertainment for Purpose & Persuasion - Serious & Learning Games - Games for Health & Well-Being - Games For Change & Social Impact Games - Exergaming - Advergames and Digital Marketing Computational Methodologies for Entertainment - Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for Entertainment - Procedural Content Generation - Computer Graphics & Visual Effects - Big Data in Entertainment - Security & Privacy in Entertainment[K1] Media Studies, Communication, Business, and Information Systems - Information Technology in Media Industry - IT and the Economics of Media Business - Audience Measurement and Participation - Interplay between technology, content, and consumer choice - Adoption and diffusion of technology driven media products - New communication models through emerging new technologies

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Revised CFP: Death Online Research Symposium
by Stine Gotved 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Confirmed keynotes and extended deadline for abstracts: please consider joining the Death Online Research Network and the fourth symposium: Death Online Research Symposium (DORS4): The University of Hull, UK, August 15 – 17 2018. The 4th Symposium of the International Death Online Research Network will take place at The University of Hull, UK, August 15 – 17, 2018. It will consolidate links between existing and new network members and provide opportunities for the discussion of ongoing and new orientations in the interdisciplinary field of death online. The meeting will explore the ways in which online connectivity is changing how, when and where we engage with death and dying and how we invest death-related practices with meaning in the online environment. We warmly welcome new members to the network as well as old friends. Confirmed Keynote Addresses: Professor Charles Ess, University of Oslo, Norway Dr Elaine Kasket, psychologist and author of forthcoming book: All the Ghosts in the Machine Themes and perspectives of the symposium: For this 4th Death Online Research Symposium we invite abstracts for oral presentations of new, recently completed, or ongoing research or ideas for future academic research on all kinds of death related online practices. We welcome qualitative and quantitative work which expands our understanding of the current and future trends in death online research from a variety of disciplines, addressing any of the following themes: Digitally mediated dying and narrative Digitally mediated grieving and memorialising Death online and embodied experience Digital afterlife, post-mortem identity and digital legacy Technological developments in the death care industry Digital immortality Online vs offline experiences Theorising online life and death Ethical challenges for studying death online. The conference will host a special workshop for participating Post Graduate students and early career researchers. We particularly welcome submissions from these groups. All submissions will be peer-reviewed, and we envisage publication of selected full papers in a special issue of an academic journal in the field as well as a collection of writing from the symposium in an open-access online platform. Important information Submission format: 300 word abstract Submission deadline: March 15th, 2018 Submission feedback: April 15th, 2018 Registration open: May 1st, 2018 Registration fee: £125 (£75 students). This will cover morning and afternoon refreshments and lunch for the 3 days and conference dinner on day 2. All submissions and enquiries should be submitted to Dr Jo Bell: j.bell (at) hull.ac.uk marked “Death Online Research Symposium Submission” in the subject field. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words. Please include full contact info (name/s, institutional / organisational affiliation and email address) in the submission. Submissions will be anonymised before review. The online registration and payment site will be open from 1st May 2018. There will also be information available here for booking options for accommodation. You can stay on The University of Hull campus at The Courtyard for £50 per night (including breakfast) or £45 per night (excluding breakfast). We will make cheaper options such as ‘air b & b’ available where possible. If you are interested in joining the Death Online Research Network, please contact Dr Stine Gotved: gotved (at) itu.dk

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 163, Issue 11
by Julian Hopkins 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

There is this also: Kozma, A. 2017. Shame, Class, and Embodiment in the Catfish Universe. *Television & New Media* (available on-line: *http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476417722845 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476417722845>*, accessed 7 August 2017). I find that it is a common matter of interest for students when they are considering research projects, but in practice getting data is difficult given that the people who catfish are by definition hidden and not likely to reveal themselves. Regards, Julian --- *DR JULIAN HOPKINS* Lecturer in Communication Undergraduate Coordinator School of Arts & Social Sciences Building 2, Level 6, Room 16 (2-6-16) Monash University Malaysia Jalan Lagoon Selatan 47500 Bandar Sunway Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia T: +60 3 5514 4920 E: julian.hopkins(a)monash.edu W: sass.monash.edu.my <http://www.sass.monash.edu.my/> *Your reaction is more important than who is right.* On 9 February 2018 at 19:23, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > > 8. Catfishing (Rich Ling) > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 19:14:51 +0800 > From: Rich Ling <riseling(a)gmail.com> > To: AoIR mailing list <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Catfishing > Message-ID: > <CAO5RENAi_p7vqvr8SyoYWt3SfzvQza4WFkT8mEw > q78AwATX_Qg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Dear all, > > My daughter is studying law, and is working on "catfishing," that is, the > predatory fabrication of online identities to trick others into > relationships. > > It was a new term for me. Is there any research out there about this? > > -- > Rich L. > > > >

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ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellowships 2018 (Deadline: Today, 23:59 CET)
by Dr. Leif Kramp 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

VACANCY: ZeMKI VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (PAID) Position: ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow Media, Communication and Information Institution: ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen Duration: 1 month (either between April and June 2018 or between September and December 2018) Salary: 3,000 euro + 1,500 euro budget for direct costs Contract: Fee contract Application deadline: February 12, 2018 (23:59 CET) The ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, offers a thriving interdisciplinary research environment in the areas of media, communication and information. Involved disciplines include communication and media studies, computer science, cultural studies, educational science, studies in religion, and history. The ZeMKI invites applications from excellent researchers in the field of media, communication, and information. As a ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow, the selected candidate will delve into the versatile research activities at the interdisciplinary centre with over 60 members. Applicants should demonstrate experiences and a strong interest in collaborative research which is embraced at the ZeMKI in various ways and contexts. The selected candidate is expected to contribute to these research activities in the area of media change and transforming communications in the form of a research paper submitted to the peer-reviewed “Communicative Figurations” working paper series and a lecture in the ZeMKI Research Seminar. Applicants must have a PhD or other doctoral degree in a relevant discipline by the application date. We offer a lump sum allowance of 3,000 Euros plus up to 1,500 Euros for research related expenses. To apply for this post, please send your application documents via e-mail to andreas.hepp(a)uni-bremen.de. The closing date for receipt of applications is February 12, 2018 (23:59 CET). We are unfortunately unable to accept any late applications. Website: http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/research/zemki-visiting-research-fellowsh… Call for Applications: http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/redak_zemki/dateien/Forschung/fell…

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Video research into classroom use of collaborative VR/virtual worlds - Coding procedure and employing a research assistant
by Lee, Mark 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

Dear all, My colleagues and I are looking to employ a research assistant to conduct some analysis of video that has been gathered as part of classroom trials of a collaborative VR educational game. In particular, we have several hours’ worth of footage of the physical classroom during the course of the activity, as well as of the virtual environment from the teacher’s point of view. We would like to analyze that data and also correlate it with log-file (and possibly also additional video recordings) of student actions/interactions that took place in-world, with a view to better understanding the collaborative processes and outcomes arising from the activity across both within and across the physical and virtual modalities. In terms of the level of coding detail, in addition to spoken dialogue (in the classroom—there was no in-world voice), I would also like to capture simple body language: namely gestures, body positioning/orientation, and gaze. There are no facial expressions involved as the participants were all wearing head-mounted VR devices that obscured their faces; however, the game was responsive to where their head was facing, and they had motion controllers that allowed their hand gestures (e.g., pointing, waving at other avatars) to be represented in-world. If you have experience with this type of research, I would greatly appreciate your insight into the following: 1. How do you typically go about coding the video data? Do you transcribe the data into textual form for coding, or do you use a software package allowing you to directly mark up/annotate the video timeline? I have seen both approaches used, but would like to get a sense of which is more common/preferred. 2. Given the desired level of coding detail as described above, what would be your estimation in terms of the number of hours it would take a graduate student or other research assistant to code each hour of video footage (counting the contemporaneous classroom and in-world footage separately)? 3. Do you know of a graduate student or other similarly qualified individual who has experience with this type of task, and who might be interested in this as a (paid) opportunity? Many thanks in advance! Kind regards, Mark Mark J. W. Lee Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Charles Sturt University, Australia Visiting Faculty, Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Email: malee[at]csu[dot]edu[dot]au

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International Mobile Innovation Screening
by Max Schleser 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

In its 8th edition MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network and Association, will present a public screening of smartphone, mobile and pocket films in Melbourne, Australia and at Ngā Tonga Sound and Vision (New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound) in Wellington, New Zealand. The International Mobile Innovation Screening will feature 5 categories: - an open call for mobile, smartphone and pocket films - New Voices : Next Gen smartphone filmmakers - a category for young and emerging filmmakers (including students) - Mobile Cinematic VR & 360° Video Production: The Future is Now - a category for Cinematic VR and 360° Video Production - MoJo YAJA (Young Art Journalism) award for Mobile Journalism - MoJo, Mobile Storytelling, Micro-movies & micro-formats - a category for live streaming, mobile social media apps, drones and other pocket cameras (such as GoPro) & mobile devices. All infos and submission details [1]https://filmfreeway.com/MINA MINA is one of the longest running film festival dedicated to celebrating mobile and smartphone filmmaking internationally. MINA creates connections between filmmakers, communities and the creative industries. MINA Screening Partners: Adobe, Beastgrip, Luma Touch, iPitch.TV, Blackwing and FiLMiC Pro. Supported by: Swinburne University of Technology (AUS) and ANP - Art News Portal (AUS) Contact: max(a)mina.pro |@MINAmobile | [2]www.mina.pro Call for submissions video: [3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cmXXPZ2OEs References 1. https://deref-gmx.net/mail/client/WLqeKGZivxg/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=https… 2. https://deref-gmx.net/mail/client/eSPikjMhs70/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=http:… 3. https://deref-gmx.net/mail/client/AFRayIKsgvI/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=https…

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Texifter News Digest
by Shulman, Stu 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

Bot Project Update In early January we advertised on the AoIR listserve for coders. More than 50 people applied (in just 90 minutes) and we offered work to ten. A small group of coders ultimately began exploring the bot problem in Twitter data. What resulted is a work in progress. It is intended to be a collaborative resource for anyone interested in the challenge that bots pose to academic research, democracy, civil society, data-driven journalism, and any other realm of life where bots are causing issues. We invite your comments about the project. http://bit.ly/2BNO67Z New Paper of Note Many DiscoverText studies feature Twitter data. It was nice to see an ambitious new coding project emerge using Reddit data. Please have a close look at the methods details here as they are illustrative of the collaborative challenges when labeling any text data. http://bit.ly/2H1FJoC CoderRank Conference Paper For the first time in several years, we have written our own conference paper about the core collaborative annotation methods that underly our approach to humans and machines learning together. You can read it here and we welcome comments. http://bit.ly/2EQNmNS Important New Paper on the Twitter APIs Rebekah Tromble and Daniela Stockmann have a superb new paper out shedding light into the dark corners of the Twitter Search and Streaming APIs. This is an absolute must read paper for anyone who uses Twitter data in academic research. They note: "List count, verified, hashtag count, and reply are statistically significant and positively correlated with the likelihood of Search API capture." http://bit.ly/2nVtXTS Gnip Twitter Metadata Dictionary We get this question in many forms: what do the labels in Gnip Twitter metadata mean? As one of the original group of Gnip Twitter data vendors, we have witnessed the amazing evolution of this data. Sometimes our DiscoverText users are looking to create a filtering “rule” to apply against the realtime Gnip PowerTrack. Other times, they have used Sifter to collect historical Twitter data and they are trying to interpret the metadata payload that includes field names like “twitter quoted status actor followers count.” http://bit.ly/2nTurKb Free Web Training Sessions If you would like to schedule a 30-minute DiscoverText web briefing, we have a number of openings over the remainder of February. Schedule a meeting here. https://calendly.com/discovertext/discovertext-web-briefing Campus Visits Like other small business owners with academic software solutions, I make regular visits to universities to offer free methods workshops. Attendees get a sponsored multi-user account for 6 months at no cost. The methods are solid, interdisciplinary innovations that will change the way you think about the role of human coders and machine-learning. Please send an email to info(a)texifter.com if your librarians at your university would like to host a cost-free event. If there is anything we can do to help with your text analytics needs, just let us know. There are a number of new features emerging in the software every month. Thanks, ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter

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