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CFP EASST18 - Open design & manufacturing in the platform economy -
by Raúl Tabarés 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

Dear all, Please consider to submit paper proposals to our panel "Open design & manufacturing in the platform economy" at next EASST18 conference that will be held in Lancaster. The event will be held from 25-28 of July and will bring together a lot of STS and SSH scholars. The call will be open till the 14th of February of 2018. A description of the panel is included below. Feel free to contact us in case of any doubt. Papers can be submitted here->https://nomadit.co.uk/ easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6189 - Open design & manufacturing in the platform economy - Short abstract Open design and manufacturing paradigms have been recently embraced for promoting technological appropriation as well as enablers for transforming traditional fabrication. In this panel we explore the role that these concepts can have in a post-industrial society. Long abstract With the popularization of the Web 2.0 paradigm, digital platforms have become cultural intermediaries in a growing technology mediation environment that has been framed by various scholars as "platform economy". This recent phenomenon has favored the establishment of different "black box" systems that impede us from discovering the inner workings of these new socio-technological brokers. Different self-organized communities and grassroots initiatives have simultaneously appeared thanks to the Internet and the emergence of new makerspaces that have a subset of digital fabrication tools. These groups promote citizen empowerment through technological appropriation and rely on digital commons such as open designs, software and knowledge. In this sense, especially relevant has been the emergence of new discourses aligned with these non-proprietary technologies like open design and manufacturing, which are conceived to promote a radical change in the fabrication towards a more sustainable relationship between production processes and goods. How can digital platforms be designed in order to facilitate encounters between people, things and environments within open design & manufacturing? How can we understand the impact of such digital platforms on society? In this panel we would like to invite authors to analyze the emergence of these phenomena and critically examine the opportunities, contradictions, challenges and tensions that this combination of new tools and mindsets bring for technological appropriation in a post-industrial society. We welcome submissions that can explore alternative paths for R&D systems and innovation policies but also for reconfiguring design and production processes. -- ------------------------------ All the best, Raúl @faraondemetal http://es.linkedin.com/in/rtabares <http://blogs.tecnalia.com/inspiring-blog/author/raultabares/>

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CFP EASST18 - Open design & manufacturing in the platform economy -
by Raúl Tabarés 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

Dear all, -Just a friendly reminder few days before the deadline- Please consider to submit paper proposals to our panel "Open design & manufacturing in the platform economy" at next EASST18 conference that will be held in Lancaster. The event will be held from 25-28 of July and will bring together a lot of STS and SSH scholars. The call will be open till the 14th of February of 2018. A description of the panel is included below. Feel free to contact us in case of any doubt. Papers can be submitted here->https://nomadit.co.uk/ easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6189 - Open design & manufacturing in the platform economy - Short abstract Open design and manufacturing paradigms have been recently embraced for promoting technological appropriation as well as enablers for transforming traditional fabrication. In this panel we explore the role that these concepts can have in a post-industrial society. Long abstract With the popularization of the Web 2.0 paradigm, digital platforms have become cultural intermediaries in a growing technology mediation environment that has been framed by various scholars as "platform economy". This recent phenomenon has favored the establishment of different "black box" systems that impede us from discovering the inner workings of these new socio-technological brokers. Different self-organized communities and grassroots initiatives have simultaneously appeared thanks to the Internet and the emergence of new makerspaces that have a subset of digital fabrication tools. These groups promote citizen empowerment through technological appropriation and rely on digital commons such as open designs, software and knowledge. In this sense, especially relevant has been the emergence of new discourses aligned with these non-proprietary technologies like open design and manufacturing, which are conceived to promote a radical change in the fabrication towards a more sustainable relationship between production processes and goods. How can digital platforms be designed in order to facilitate encounters between people, things and environments within open design & manufacturing? How can we understand the impact of such digital platforms on society? In this panel we would like to invite authors to analyze the emergence of these phenomena and critically examine the opportunities, contradictions, challenges and tensions that this combination of new tools and mindsets bring for technological appropriation in a post-industrial society. We welcome submissions that can explore alternative paths for R&D systems and innovation policies but also for reconfiguring design and production processes. -- ------------------------------ All the best, Raúl @faraondemetal http://es.linkedin.com/in/rtabares <http://blogs.tecnalia.com/inspiring-blog/author/raultabares/>

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ICA Preconference: Crowdsourcing as a Content Analysis Tool
by Lei Guo 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

ICA Preconference: Crowdsourcing as a Content Analysis Tool May 24, 13:00 - 17:00 Hilton Prague Crowdsourcing is a popular method in computer science for categorizing and classifying text and objects. This preconference introduces crowdsourcing for communication researchers as an emerging content analysis method. Rather than rely on a few human coders to carry out a content analysis, the crowdsourcing approach outsources coding tasks to numerous people online (e.g., multiple people code the same item), and applies an aggregation policy to make a decision on a given item. Through a hands-on workshop and research presentations, this preconference explores: 1) Different crowdsourcing platforms to carry out a project. A demonstration will be given to show how to use two different crowdsourcing platforms: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a well-established service, and Crowdflower, an emerging service. In the hands-on workshop, attendees will set up their own project on one of the platforms, and be guided in the steps, from set-up to extracting and analyzing the crowdworkers’ results. 2) Crowdsourcing as a method that is both cheaper and more efficient than manual content analysis. Can it also be as valid and reliable? Research presentations on both “crowdcoding” and traditional manual coding will be given, as well as a discussion about cost structure and features to ensure quality results. The Speakers/Panelists include: Hajo Boomgaarden, Professor of empirical social science method, University of Vienna Brendan Watson, Assistant professor of journalism, Michigan State University Lei Guo, Assistant professor of emerging media studies, Boston University Margrit Betke, Professor of computer science, Boston University Kate Mays, Ph.D. student in emerging media studies, Boston University This is a half-day preconference. For questions, contact Dr. Lei Guo ( guolei(a)bu.edu) To register, follow this link <http://www.icahdq.org/event/PC24_Crowdsourcing>.

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Call for Abstracts -- Special Issue on Apps and Infrastructures
by Fernando van der Vlist 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

Dear all, We invite submissions for a special issue of Computational Culture on "Apps and Infrastructures", edited by Carolin Gerlitz, Anne Helmond, David Nieborg, and Fernando van der Vlist. Please find the call for abstracts below. 750 word abstracts are due by April 1, 2018. More information is available at http://computationalculture.net/cfps-events/. Queries to the editors can be addressed at apps.infrastructures(a)gmail.com. Best regards, Carolin Gerlitz (University of Siegen) Anne Helmond (University of Amsterdam) David Nieborg (University of Toronto) Fernando van der Vlist (University of Siegen and University of Amsterdam) -- # CALL FOR ABSTRACTS # APPS AND INFRASTRUCTURES # A special issue of Computational Culture, a Journal of Software Studies # Edited by Carolin Gerlitz, Anne Helmond, David Nieborg, Fernando van der Vlist ## OUTLINE Apps have become an important new cultural, technical, and economic software form. Most of today’s apps are designed to run on smartphones and other mobile devices and provide functions previously possible with other software forms (Morris and Elkins, 2015). However, they represent new ways in which software artefacts are developed, tested, packaged, promoted, distributed, monitored, monetised, downloaded, integrated, updated, stored, accessed, archived, interpreted, and used. To foreground the relational and material dimensions of apps, research should not only account for them as discrete media objects, but needs to approach apps as part of their multiple infrastructures and environments including app stores, development platforms, advertising technologies, analytics tools, and cloud services, among others. App stores set the conditions for users and developers to distribute, browse, promote, monetise, rate, and download apps developed for Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, or other mobile operating systems. Developers draw on a variety of both official and third-party developer tools, including developer pages and reference documentation, application programming interfaces (APIs), software development kits (SDKs), integrated development environments (IDEs), and dedicated programming languages. Such resources are commonly employed in order to build, test, and monitor apps whilst appropriating the features and constraints of particular platforms and devices, thereby participating in the re-interpretation and re-evaluation of platform features and data. Furthermore, apps may also utilise a device’s built-in sensors for continuous data collection of movements, practices, and environments whilst being wirelessly connected to the cloud or other infrastructures, without the user necessarily knowing exactly when, how, or where (Mackenzie, 2010). Approaching apps from an infrastructural perspective allows attending to the various socio-technical actors, layers, and inscriptions that inform app development, distribution, and usage in situated, distributed, and often dissimilar ways. Within such stacked intermediary infrastructures, platform logics of negotiation among heterogeneous stakeholders are multiplied and nested. This raises questions about the material and technological boundaries of apps and the subsequent need for methodologies to study apps’ socio-technical assemblages on multiple scales, attending to inbound and outbound data flows, governance and power, valuation, their political economy, and material semiotics. Previous research on apps -- initially emerging at the intersection of mobile studies and media studies -- considered mobile apps as a form of mobile or location-based media transforming and generating new forms of communication and sociality, places, and publics through the affordances and practices associated with mobile artefacts (Goggin and Hjorth, 2014). While these studies raised general questions about the boundaries of apps, attention was primarily directed to apps as compartmentalised software applications and their relations with affect, bodies, and locales (Farman 2012; Matviyenko et al., 2015; Morris and Elkins, 2015). A second strand of app research has moved beyond such a single app focus and directed primary attention to the materialities and infrastructures of apps by engaging with their data cultures, material connections, political economic underpinnings, and ecologies (Albury et al., 2017; Farman, 2015; Goldsmith in Goggin and Hjorth, 2014; Horst, 2013; Nieborg, 2017; Wilken, 2015). This special issue of Computational Culture welcomes proposals and projects from scholars and practitioners from across different disciplines interested in the advancement of app studies at the intersection of apps and infrastructures. Studies of mobile apps, platform native apps, and web browser apps or extensions are particularly encouraged. We specifically seek articles that bring together conceptual work with a technically and empirically grounded perspective, addressing the methodological challenges associated with the critical study of apps and their intricate relations to other software, platforms, and infrastructures. Contributors are encouraged to move beyond studies of single apps and their users in favor of approaches that explore apps as material artefacts alongside the infrastructures, political economy, and environments in which they are embedded and situationally enacted. We thus encourage interdisciplinary contributions that traverse boundaries between the fields of software studies, platform studies, cultural and media studies, science and technology studies, as well as political economy and data critique. ## TOPICS AND PROJECTS MIGHT INCLUDE * The relations between apps and their wider material and infrastructural environments, including app stores, development platforms and toolkits, analytics tools, advertising technologies, and cloud services. * The methodological and empirical challenges associated with the critical study of apps, including concerns about accessibility to mobile app backends and the limits of data retrieval through APIs or scraping methods as used in web research. * Studies of apps as articulations of technicity (e.g., how they are designed, built, maintained, and updated) and the data cultures they produce (e.g., what data do they collect or require). * Detailed empirical and critical studies exploring apps’ data cultures, usage tracking, technical dependencies and app permissions, sensor technologies, and wireless access points. * Inventive methods to conceptualise how apps are located or situated, given they are utilising a mobile device’s built-in sensors as well as accessing other resources from remote cloud infrastructures. * Studies of the political economy of apps (e.g., how apps are valued and monetized), the role of industry partnerships and third parties (e.g., how apps are re-interpreted or extended), and the politics of operability (e.g., how apps negotiate among stakeholders or interests). * Explorations of the techno-economic relations between the web and app ecosystems, including the dependencies of apps on web platforms and cloud services, as well as the regulations and limits of app development by device manufacturers and mobile operating systems like Android and iOS. * Explorations of the ways and mechanisms through which multiple apps are interconnected, forming collections, ecologies, and chains of apps in specific practices (e.g., task and content automation). * Media archaeologies exploring historical constellations of apps and their wider material and infrastructural environments and other historical approaches to app research. * Explorations of app stores as the primary environment or infrastructure for mobile apps, including contributions focusing on non-Western apps and app stores, apps’ update cultures, and their development cycles. * The ways in which different material and infrastructural environments, such as app stores, cater to distinct mobile operating systems, devices, and geographic regions. * Critical artistic interventions and research software tools that repurpose the affordances of apps, app stores and other native environments, and explore their data cultures. ## SCHEDULE 750 word abstracts should be emailed to apps.infrastructures(a)gmail.com by April 1, 2018. Any queries can be addressed to the editors at apps.infrastructures(a)gmail.com. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Computational Culture Editorial Board and the special issue editors. Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by May 1, 2018 and invited to submit full manuscripts by September 15, 2018. These manuscripts are subject to full blind peer review according to Computational Culture’s policies. The issue will be published in March 2019. Computational Culture is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of interdisciplinary enquiry into the nature of cultural computational objects, practices, processes and structures. -- http://computationalculture.net/cfps-events/

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CfP: Academia and Wikipedia (Maynooth University, Ireland, June 18); deadline: February 28
by Brian McKenzie 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

Academia and Wikipedia: Critical Perspectives in Education and Research June 18, 2018, Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland Wikipedia offers sui generis opportunities for research and teaching. From datamining semantics to teaching students how to reference, to using Wikipedia as an example of the failure of the Enlightenment project, academics increasingly recognise the value of the data available through Wikipedia and the teaching opportunities it provides. Views of other academics range from indifference to disdain, potentially broadening the elitism-gap in knowledge production and consumption. "Academia and Wikipedia: Critical Perspectives in Education and Research" is a one-day conference that aims to investigate how researchers and educators use and interrogate Wikipedia. The conference is an opportunity to present research into and from Wikipedia; research about Wikipedia, or research that uses Wikipedia as a data object. We welcome proposals from scholars (advanced postgraduates, early career faculty, and senior faculty) in all fields who use Wikipedia in the classroom or tap it as a primary source. Possible themes for panels and papers include: * Using Wikipedia in the classroom: a means to an end? * Wikipedia as a data object * Student perceptions of Wikipedia; student use of Wikipedia * Faculty perceptions of Wikipedia * Research and Wikipedia: academic profit or contributing to its mission? * Wikipedia and epistemology * Ethnography of editors * Wikipedia and systemic bias Keynote speaker: Dr Bernie Hogan, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute Wikipedia in the classroom * Over 400 universities in the United States and Canada have used Wikipedia in the classroom. * Universities in 94 countries outside of North America have used Wikipedia in the classroom. * According to the Wikimedia Education Foundation, 94% of instructors reported that using Wikipedia was more effective than traditional assignments in teaching media/information literacy. * Over 6,000 students contributed to Wikipedia as part of the 2016 "Year in Science" program. * Research indicates that although student use of Wikipedia is endemic many faculty continue to follow an abstinence-based approach. Submission guidelines We welcome submissions of individual papers, panels, and round tables. Submissions using the guidelines below should be sent to wikiconference(a)mu.ie <mailto:wikiconference@mu.ie?subject=Academia%20and%20Wikipedia%20Conference> no later than February 28, 2018. Decisions on conference inclusion will be made by March 5. Individual papers Individual presentations should be twenty minutes long. Please email your paper title and a 150-word abstract to the contact address above. Panel presentations Panel proposals should consist of three papers. In addition to individual abstracts, please provide a panel title and a 150-word description of the panel's theme. Please provide a single email address for communication. Round tables To submit a round table proposal please email the names and institutional affiliation of participants, including the facilitator, and a 300-word description that includes: the topic and its significance; the potential of the topic to contribute to scholarly conversation and the goals of the discussion; data and evidence that will be used in the discussion. Please provide a single email address for communication. Programme Committee Chair, Dr Alison Hood, Dean of Teaching and Learning, Maynooth University Dr Denis Casey, Maynooth University Dr Sharon Flynn, National University of Ireland, Galway Dr Susan Giblin, Maynooth University Dr Brian McKenzie, Maynooth University Dr Maire Ni Mhordha, Maynooth University Dr Rebecca O'Neill, Wikimedia Community Ireland

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Call for Applications: Internet of Rights Fellowship 2018 (deadline for applications is Friday, February 23
by Becky Lentz 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

This may be of interest. Please find attached ARTICLE 19's call for applications to the Internet of Rights Fellowship for the 2018 cycle. The program includes three tracks on access, algorithmic decision-making, and the DNS; as such, fellows will have the opportunity to work with us in the ITU-D, the IEEE and the Partnership on AI, and ICANN. The deadline for applications is Friday, February 23. Any questions should be directed to fellowship(a)article19.org. Becky Lentz Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director for the Dept. of Art History & Communication Studies McGill University Faculty of Arts 853 Sherbrooke Street West 3rd floor Arts Building WEST-265 Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0G5 Phone 514.398.4995 | Fax 514.398.8557 Department website: http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs Regular email: becky.lentz(a)mcgill.ca Graduate program director contact: gpd-ahcs.arts(a)mcgill.ca

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Fwd: 4 doctoral posts in cultural/social studies (media research)
by Ana Luísa Sertã 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: arantza begueria <arantzazu.begueria(a)gmail.com> Date: 2018-02-02 11:28 GMT+00:00 Subject: 4 doctoral posts in cultural/social studies (media research) To: ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS(a)jiscmail.ac.uk (apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, Starting *1 October 2018* *Four doctoral posts in cultural and social studies (media research) *(salary category TV-L 13, 65%) are available at the University of Siegen at the German Research Foundation (DFG) Graduate School, GRK 1769"Locating Media", for the fixed-term period of three years. The duration of the contract complies with the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz. Please see the attachments for further details. Application deadline: 15 April 2018. Best regards, arantza begueria

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Visit the SAGE Research Methods Virtual Open House!
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

Visit the SAGE Research Methods Virtual Open House! It runs through March 18. Open access to SAGE Publications ebooks, chapters, articles, case studies and videos! Log-in info and tips for navigating: https://www.methodspace.com/tag/open-house. If your library has SRM, learn how to use these resources for designing studies, teaching or supervising research, or disseminating the findings. If your library doesn't have this resource, or you are an alt-academic/pracademic without academic library access, use this opportunity to discover and download resources. See you online! Janet ** *Janet Salmons PhD* Free-Range Scholar @ Vision2Lead <http://www.vision2lead.com> Methods Guru, SAGE Methodspace <http://www.methodspace.com> Chair, Academy of Management Ethics Education Committee Follow Twitter @einterview jsalmons(a)vision2lead.com

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ACM UMAP 2018: Call for Papers (keynote speakers updated)
by guogb＠swc.neu.edu.cn 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

Call for Papers: 2018 26th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP’18) ********************** SUBMISSIONS Papers should be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2018) Now is three weeks to the abstract submission. The User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) 2018 Conference will include high quality peer-reviewed papers related to the above key areas. Maintaining the high quality and impact of the UMAP series, each paper will have three reviews by program committee members and a meta-review presenting the reviewers’ consensual view; the review process will be coordinated by the program chairs in collaboration with the corresponding area chairs. Long (8 pages + references) and Short (4 pages + references) papers in ACM style Peer reviewed, original, and principled research papers addressing both the theory and practice of UMAP and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome. Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed. Short papers should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but only within each category. Papers that receive high scores and are considered promising by reviewers, but didn’t make the acceptance cut, will be directed to the poster session of the conference and will be invited to be resubmitted as posters. ********************** Keynote Speeches - Interpreting user input intention in natural human computer interaction, by Prof. Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China - Robots that listen to people's hearts: the role of emotions in the communication between humans and social robots, by Prof. Ana Paiva, University of Lisbon, Portugal ********************** TRACKS - Personalized Recommender Systems Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund, Germany Markus Zanker, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy Personalized, computer-generated recommendations have become a pervasive feature of today’s online world. The underlying recommender systems are designed to help users and providers in a number of ways. From a user’s viewpoint, for example, these systems assist consumers in finding relevant things within large item collections. On the other hand, from a provider’s perspective, recommenders have also shown to be valuable tools to steer consumer behavior. From a technical perspective, the design of such systems requires the careful consideration of various aspects, including the choice of the user modeling approach, the underlying recommendation algorithm, and the user interface. This track aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss open challenges, latest solutions and novel research approaches in the field of recommender systems. Besides the above-mentioned technical aspects, works are also particularly welcome that address questions related to the user perception and the business value of recommender systems. Topics include (but are not limited to): Recommendation algorithms and their evaluation User modeling and preference elicitation Users’ perception of recommender systems Business value of recommendation systems and multi-stakeholder environments Explanations and trust Context-aware recommendation algorithms Recommending to groups of users Case studies of real-world implementations - Adaptive Hypermedia and the Semantic Web Peter Brusilovsky, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, The Netherlands Adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web explore alternatives to the traditional “one-size-fits-all” approach in the development of web and hypermedia systems. Adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web systems build a model of the interests, preferences and knowledge of each individual user, and use this model in order to adapt the behavior of hypermedia and web systems to the needs of that user. Semantic web frequently serves as an infrastructure to enable adaptive and personalized Web systems. Semantic web technology targets the use of explicit semantics and metadata to help web systems perform the desired functionality: this implies the use of linked data from the web, the use of ontologies in models, or the use of metadata in user interfaces. This track aims to provide a forum to researchers to discuss open research problems, solid solutions, latest challenges, novel applications and innovative research approaches in adaptive hypermedia and semantic web. Topics include (but are not limited to): Web user profiles Adaptive navigation support Personalized search Web content adaptation Analytics of web user data Adaptive Web sites and portals Adaptive books and textbooks Social navigation and social search Navigation support in continuous media and virtual environments Usability engineering for adaptive hypermedia and Web systems Novel methodologies for evaluating adaptive hypermedia and Web systems Semantic Web technologies for Web personalization Ontology-based data access and integration/exchange on the adaptive web Ontology engineering and ontology patterns for the adaoptive web Semantic social network mining, analysis, representation, and management Crowdsourcing semantics; methods, dynamics, and challenges Semantic Web and Linked Data for adaptation - Intelligent User Interfaces Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia Markus Schedl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Intelligent User Interfaces aim to improve the interaction between computer systems and human users by means of Artificial Intelligence. The systems support and complement different types of abilities that are normally unavailable in the context of human-only cognition. Previous work has found that humans do not always make the best possible decisions when working together with computer systems. By designing and deploying improved forms of support for interactive collaboration between human decision makers and systems, we can enable decision making processes that better leverage the strengths of both collaborators. More generally this research track can be characterised by exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, which may leverage solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualisation, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Topics include (but are not limited to): Adaptive personal virtual assistants (e.g., Siri, Cortana, Alexa) Adapting natural interaction (e.g., natural language, speech, gesture) Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological info, etc.) Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces Smart environments and tangible computing Transparency and control of decision support systems (e.g., semi-autonomous systems) Explainable intelligent user interfaces Affective and aesthetic interfaces Tailored persuasion and argumentation interfaces Tailored decision support (e.g., over- and under-reliance in uncertain domains) Adaptive information visualization Scalability of intelligent user interfaces to access huge datasets Novel methodologies and real-world implementations of IUI User-centric studies of interactions with intelligent user interfaces Novel datasets and use cases for intelligent user interfaces - Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning Olga Santos, UNED, Spain Carla Limongelli, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy Learning is a very complex human process that involves cognitive, affective and psychomotor aspects. Smart technological solutions are expected to identify and model the learning needs in these three aspects and provide personalized adapted support that can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of learning experiences. Technological innovations bring new opportunities to recognize learner’s needs and how to orchestrate suitable learning solutions, with and without the involvement of the teacher. This covers not only formal educational settings, but also lifelong learning requirements (including workplace training) as well as the acquisition of skills (e.g., in daily activities, serious games, etc.). To address the wide spectrum of modeling issues and challenges that can be raised, contributions from various research areas are necessary. Therefore, this track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to present their innovative learning solutions, share acquired experience, and discuss the main modeling challenges for personalized adaptive learning. Topics include (but are not limited to): Domain, learner, teacher and context modeling Modeling cognitive, affective and psychomotor aspects of learning Adaptive and personalized support for learning, diagnosis and feedback Agent-based learning environments and virtual pedagogical agents Open corpus personalized learning Collaborative and group learning UMAP aspects in specific learning solutions: educational recommender systems, intelligent tutoring systems, serious games, personal learning environments, MOOCs,... Wearable technologies and augmented reality in adaptive personalized learning Processing collected data for UMAP: educational data mining, learning analytics, big data, deep learning… Semantic web and ontologies for e-learning Interoperability, portability, and scalability issues Case studies in real-world educational settings - Personalized Social Web Cecile Paris, CSIRO, Australia Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada The massive uptake of numerous social media platforms on the web gave rise the Social Web, where people can obtain, disseminate and share information, interact, collaborate and form communities (social networks), through a variety of means. A number of research questions arise, for example how to model the flow of information through the social web, understand people’s experiences and the effectiveness of online social networks, identify users or communities with behaviour potentially harmful to themselves or others, gain insights into society, or design, develop and evaluate automated personalization tools to improve the individual user experience. We invite original submission addressing all aspects of personalization and personal experience in online social systems. Topics include (but are not limited to): Personalization of the web experience in social systems Social and crowd-generated data for personalization Wisdom of the crowd, human computation and collective intelligence for personalization Incentives for participation and persuasion in online communities Use of online social data for personalized offline experiences Behavior modeling of individuals, groups, and communities Dynamics of social collaborative systems Analysis of information flows in social networks Opinion mining and social media analytics Biases and individual/local perception in social systems Adaptations based on personality, society, and culture Privacy, perceived security, and trust in social systems Ethical issues involved in studying the social web Personalization algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies Machine learning for personalization Evaluation methodologies for the social web ********************** IMPORTANT DATES Submission due Abstract: February 25, 2018 Full paper: March 4, 2018 Notification: Apri 8, 2018 Camera-ready: May 6, 2018 Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm Hawaii time. ********************** FORMAT DETAILS AND PUBLICATION Page limits: Long papers - 8 pages + references; Short pages: 4 pages + references. Note that the references do not count towards page limits. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Please note that ACM changed its templates at the start of 2017, so please ensure that you use the new template and do not reuse an old template. All accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Special Issue on “Making time in digital societies: Considering the interplay of media, data and temporalities” in New Media & Society
by Dr. Leif Kramp 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Special Issue on “Making time in digital societies: Considering the interplay of media, data and temporalities” in New Media & Society Guest Editors: Christine Lohmeier (University of Bremen), Anne Kaun (Södertörn University), & Christian Pentzold(University of Bremen) Studying media and communication processes through the lens of time and temporality enjoys a long history. Waves of technological innovation such as mechanization and electrification have come with a profound reconfiguration of social time. This holds true for datafication too. Datafication – referring to processes of quantification and the transformation of evermore objects into data, as well as the automation of judgements, evaluations, and decision-making – requires us to rethink, once again, the relationship between media, data, and temporality. The special issue of New Media & Society will address the continuities and disruptions emerging in the nexus of time and media. It addresses the challenges of acting in the present, acceding to the future, and mobilizing the past in increasingly datafied societies. We assume that the changing mediations of time leave their mark on the ways we process and order the pace, sequence, and rhythms of intersecting lives. Contributions to this special issue will explore changes in the perception and conception of time that go hand in hand with technological change and provide a discussion on how to grasp these empirical variations theoretically. They are invited to scrutinize the frictions between a plurality of social temporalities and the tendencies to establish dominate modes of creating, keeping, and managing time. While the focus is on current developments, the issue also seeks to includecontributions that encompass a historically grounded and contextualizing discussion of the interplay between media, data, and temporality. Papers could address but are not limited to the following themes: • media use and the management of time • mediation and the communicative organization of time (e.g., through clocks, calendars, timetables) • digital media technologies in relation to acceleration, (de)synchronization, or deceleration • data-based modes of time making and time keeping • embodiment, affect, and temporality • media, time, and material objects • power struggles around mediated time and temporalities in movements of resistance or social change; temporal insurgency • cultural and social negotiations of media and time • temporal and technological arrangements between the past, present, and future • interrelations between time, media, and other activities Abstract submission: 1 May 2018 Notification of selected proposals: 1 June 2018 Full paper submission: 15 January 2019 Publication planned for 2020 Submissions: Submissions should include name and affiliation of the author(s), an abstract of 500 words, and 3 to 5 keywords. They should be sent to the e-mail address no later than 1 May 2018: mediatizedtime(a)uni-bremen.de Invited paper submission will be due 15 January 2019 and will be submitted directly to the submission site for New Media & Society: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nms where they will undergo peer review following the usual procedures of the journal. The invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee acceptance into the special issue. The special issue will be published in 2020. In case you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch: mediatizedtime(a)uni-bremen.de

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