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ACM RecSys'18: Call for papers
by Yong Zheng 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

*** Please forward to anyone who might be interested *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: ACM RecSys 2018 to be held in Vancouver, Canada, 2nd-7th October 2018 https://recsys.acm.org/recsys18/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Twelfth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018), the premier venue for research and applications of recommendation technologies. The upcoming RecSys conference will be held in Vancouver, Canada on October 3rd 2018. The conference will continue RecSys’ practice of connecting the research and practitioner communities to exchange ideas, frame problems, and share solutions. All accepted papers will be published by ACM. We construe recommender systems broadly, including applications ranging from e-commerce to social networking, and a wide variety of technologies ranging from collaborative filtering to knowledge-based reasoning or deep learning. We welcome new research on recommendation technologies coming from very diverse communities ranging from psychology to mathematics. In particular, we care as much about the underlying algorithms and systems as we care about the human and economic impact of these systems. Topics of interest for RecSys 2018 include (but are not limited to): - Conversational recommender systems - Novel machine learning approaches to recommendation algorithms - Evaluation metrics and studies - Explanations and evidence - Algorithm scalability, performance, and implementations - Innovative/New applications - Voice, VR, and other novel interaction paradigms - Case studies of real-world implementations - Preference elicitation - Privacy and Security - Economic models and consequences of recommender systems - Personalisation - Social recommenders - User modelling Authors will be asked to assign a selection of predefined custom tags to describe their paper in the submission system. Tags can be assigned to indicate algorithms, interfaces, automated or user-centric evaluations, for example. Reviewers will also report their expertise over these tags, and the information will be used in review assignments. PAPER SUBMISSION CATEGORIES LONG PAPERS should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. The maximum length is 8 pages (plus up to 1 page references). Each accepted long paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented in a plenary session as part of the main conference program. Each accepted long paper will also be allocated a presentation slot in a poster session to encourage discussion and follow up between authors and attendees. We expect the review process to be highly selective: the acceptance rates for full papers in the past three years was slightly over 20%. SHORT PAPERS typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. In particular, novel but significant proposals will be considered for acceptance to this category despite not having gone through sufficient experimental validation or lacking strong theoretical foundation. Applications of recommender systems to novel areas are especially welcome. The maximum length is 4 pages (plus up to 1 page references). Each accepted short paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented in a poster session. The poster presentation may include a system demonstration. Selected short papers will be invited as oral presentations. Note that rejected long paper submissions will not be considered as short papers. SIGCHI SUBMITTER AGREEMENT RecSys 2018 is a SIGCHI conference and making a submission to a SIGCHI conference is a serious matter. Submissions require time and effort by SIGCHI volunteers to organise and manage the reviewing process, and, if the submission is accepted, the publication and presentation process. Thus, anyone who submits to RecSys 2018 implicitly confirms the following statements: 1. I confirm that this submission is the work of myself and my co-authors. 2. I confirm that I or my co-authors hold copyright to the content, and have obtained appropriate permissions for any portions of the content that are copyrighted by others. 3. I confirm that any research reported in this submission involving human subjects has gone through the appropriate approval process at my institution. 4. I confirm that if this paper is accepted, I or one of my co-authors will attend the conference. Papers that are not presented at the conference by an author may be removed from the proceedings at the discretion of the program chairs. PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically. RecSys 2018 submissions should be prepared according to the standard double-column ACM SIG proceedings format. Additional information about formatting and style files is available online <http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html>. Papers must be submitted to PCS2 by 23:59, AoE (Anywhere on Earth) on May 7th, 2018. There will be no extensions to the submission deadline. The peer review process is double-blind (i.e. anonymised). This means that all submissions must not include information identifying the authors or their organisation. Specifically, do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, anonymise citations to your previous work and avoid providing any other information that would allow to identify the authors, such as acknowledgments and funding. Please take note that 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 the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submission deadline: April 30th, 2018 - Paper submission deadline: May 7th, 2018 - Author notification: July 9th, 2018 - Camera-ready version deadline: August 6th, 2018 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. PROGRAM CHAIRS - Xavier Amatriain, Curai, USA - John O’Donovan, UCSB, USA

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ACM RecSys' 18: Call for Workshop Proposals
by Yong Zheng 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

*** Please forward to anyone who might be interested *** -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL for WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018) to be held in Vancouver, Canada, 2nd-7th October, 2018 https://recsys.acm.org/recsys18/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- RecSys 2018 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide additional venues for discussing novel ideas as well as recent results of research in progress. In 2018 our goal is to have a balanced workshop program which comprises workshop formats of different types and a combination of newly emerging, currently evolving, and historically understudied topics. Different full-day and half-day workshop formats are possible, forexample: ● Workshops with novel interactive workshop formats and a relatively small number of participants. Such workshop formats might for example target at the exploration of a certain topic during the workshop through a moderated discussion or breakout sessions, resulting in a draft paper or report to be completed and published after the workshop. Particular priority will be given to these formats which require the active involvement of the participants. ● Workshops with the traditional workshop format on specialized topics; such workshops typically have their own paper submission and review processes. Proposals for continuations of existing workshop series are welcome, however, please include a brief statement on the necessity for the new edition, including a description of the outcomes of previous years and the expected novelty of this edition. In both cases, a subset of workshop papers selected by workshop chairs will also be allocated a presentation slot in a poster session to encourage discussion and follow up between authors and attendees. We encourage you to contact us by email to workshops2018(a)recsys.acm.org in advance with workshop ideas; we will work with prospective workshop organizers to help them design successful proposals. In particular for workshop proposals with novel interactive formats we are happy to assist you in further developing and implementing your ideas. Please contact us at least three weeks before the deadline. We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit proposals. PROPOSAL FORMAT AND SUBMISSION The workshop proposal should be a PDF document no more than 4 pages long, submitted by e-mail to workshops2018(a)recsys.acm.org and organized as follows: ● Workshop title ● A short description of the workshop including the rationale for the workshop and how and why it fits the audience of RecSys. This description should include also the topic, format, and details about what type of submission is requested from prospective attendees. Please also add an explanation on how the workshop complements, rather than duplicates, the topics of the main conference. ● Name, email address, and affiliation for workshop organizer(s) and a brief description of their experience in organizing such events. ● Requested duration (half day or full day), and expected number of participants. ● Description of workshop activities. Outline how the workshop will be organized and how the time will be spent. In particular, please sketch how you will engage participants to foster more interactivity and engagement during the workshop. For more interactive workshop formats, also outline the process of selecting or inviting the participants. ● Description of plans for promoting the workshop and disseminating the results. ● History of prior workshops on this topic (e.g., including the number of submissions and attendees), if any. EVALUATION CRITERIA ● Ability of the topic to contribute to the continued development of the field of recommender systems. ● Level of complementarity of the topic to the main conference. ● Clear plan for attracting submissions, making the workshop itself productive, and disseminating results. ● Evidence that this plan will be successful. ● Experience of the organizers. IMPORTANT DATES ● Workshop proposal submission deadline: March 5th, 2018 ● Workshop proposal notification: March 26th, 2018 ● Workshop summary camera-ready deadline: August 6th, 2018 ● Workshop dates: October 6th and 7th, 2018 Example deadlines (workshop organizers are free to apply their own deadlines, although we encourage the organizers to follow the suggested deadlines): ● Call for Papers publication: April 9th, 2018 ● Paper submission deadline: July 16th, 2018 ● Reviewer deadline: August 3rd, 2018 ● Author notification: August 13th, 2018 ● Camera-ready version deadline: August 27th, 2018 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. WORKSHOP CHAIRS ● Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain ● Martha Larson, Radboud University, The Netherlands

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Reminder: Emerald Studies in Media and Communications 2018 Call for THREE Volumes: Deadline February 12, 2018
by Emerald Editorial 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

*Emerald Studies in Media and Communications* is delighted to update our 2018 call with a special volume commemorating the 30th anniversary of the CITAMS section. The deadline for all three volumes is February 12, 2018. *CITAMS@30* This special anniversary volume commemorates the 30th anniversary of the CITAMS section. Submissions are welcome that explore any topic relevant to the thirty-year section history or the future of the section in years to come. Topics include but are not limited to communication, information technologies, and media sociology. Guest editors are Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman. *Call for Theorizing the Digital: Social Theory and Digital Culture* We welcome submissions using a wide variety of data and analytic techniques, assuming they are rigorously employed. We also welcome theoretical submissions, assuming they focus squarely on the topic of the volume. Methodological papers will be considered as long as they are grounded in theoretical concerns. The scope of the volume is wide and includes application of classical and contemporary theorists in media contexts. Any topic that engages the volume’s theme is welcome. Potential topics could include: ethics, practices, and politics of “big data”; self, identity, and community; privacy, publicity and surveillance; personal and algorithmic patterns of curation; social network formation, maintenance, and change; news and (dis)information; visual representations; memes and virality; politics; mediated embodiment, etc. Lead editor is Jeremy Schulz with guest editors Gabe Ignatow and Jenny Davis. *Call for Power, Media, and Everyday Life: Expanding the Intersectional* We welcome submissions using a wide variety of data and analytic techniques, assuming they are rigorously employed, and theoretical or methodological submissions, assuming they focus squarely on the topic of the volume. The scope of this volume is wide, as it aims to contribute phenomenological and epistemic knowledge to the growing field of intersectionality. Submissions are welcome on any topics that speak to intersectionality as it relates to media including gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, and ability. In addition, we are also especially interested in papers that expand and broaden the discourse of intersectionality vis-à-vis media to include: Parenthood, Community, Religion, Nationality, Immigration, Language, Political Association, Aging, etc. Lead editor is Apryl Williams with guest editor Ruth Tsuria. *Submission Guidelines: Deadline February 12, 2018 by email to editorial(a)emeraldmediastudies.com <editorial(a)emeraldmediastudies.com>.* Submissions should be approximately 7,000-10,000 in length inclusive of abstract, references, and notes. American or British spelling may be used. While no special formatting is requested at the outset, upon acceptance authors must gain all permissions and format their manuscripts in accordance with the series' guidelines. Submissions may be considered for either volume. All submissions must include 1) title of manuscript, 2) abstract up to 250 words, 3) up to 6 keywords, 4) main text with headings, 5) references, 6) as appropriate to the submission appendices, images, figures, and tables. *For initial submissions, please follow these four steps or the submission may not be considered:* 1) Create two copies of your submission: one in PDF for anonymous review and one in Word with all author information. 2) Use the title of your submission when naming your copies of your submissions in both Word and PDF. 3) Put the title of your submission and the name of the volume you prefer in the subject line of your email. 4) Email both copies of your submission in a single email to editorial@ emeraldmediastudies.com by the deadline. *Anonymized Review Copy in PDF* Title of your submission + Anonymized (example: "Submission Title Anonymized") Remove any author information and affiliations and save doc as PDF *Editorial Copy in Word* Title of your submission + Editorial (example: "Submission Title Editorial") In a Word document, include all elements above, as well as a title page with all author names, emails, and bios of up to 250 words. For more information, see emeraldmediastudies.com. Please address any questions to: editorial(a)emeraldmediastudies.com Best wishes, Emerald Studies in Media and Communication emeraldmediastudies.com editorial(a)emeraldmediastudies.com

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Academic Category Nominations at the Global mobileGov Awards 2018
by Ibrahim Kushchu 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Dear Colleagues I am writing to you regarding Global mobileGov Awards 2018 - this year we have an academic contributions category for reputed researchers whose contribution to any areas of eGovernment and mGovernment has been significant. Could you please nominate anyone you deem appropriate or self-nominate by writing to me directly or to the conf(a)m4life.org? Please see and feel free to forward the Summit info below. Looking forward to your responses, thank you in advance. Best wishes Kushchu ====== Ibrahim KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Founding Director, mobileGov UK http://mgovernment.net/ <http://www.mgovernment.org/> ik(a)mgovernment.net +44 7740143135 - Visit mLife Conferences http://www.m4life.org *mobileGov World Summit and Global mobileGov Awards 2018* This year’s main theme of mobileGovWS2018 is mindfulGovernments: how public sector IT and service delivery to citizens are influenced by the mobile and artificial Intelligence technologies. As is the tradition, we do not just ‘organise’ a conference but we establish connections among like-minded professionals and organisations to create ‘value’ in making technology to best serve the nations and the needs of the citizens. *The Agenda* - Mindful Governments : The main theme of this year’s mGovWS - How artificial intelligence and machine learning may help to create mindful service delivery to citizens? Find out more and learn about new approaches to intelligence in the public sector domain. - mGov Summit aims to be the largest gathering of the mGovernment professionals in The World so far. - Mobile Industry, Public Sector, NGOs, and Researchers to discuss and share achievements and challenges of the - High level public sector delegations from best performing countries to share their experiences and lessons learned in implementing mobile government. - Exhibitions and showcases of mobile government services, mobile apps, devices, content, and other solutions by public and private sector organizations, NGOs and academia. - 2nd Global mGov Awards will be presented to best public sector implementation, industry solution, mobile app or mobile service as academic researchers. *Global mGov Awards* Global Mobile Government Awards is a worldwide contest aiming to promote advances in the field, and share knowledge on recent developments. Innovative best practices and research in the field of Mobile Government are invited. *Exhibitions* - An opportunity to set your presence at a leading and one of the most respected conference on mobile technologies as used by the public sector. - You will interact with professionals from public and private sectors, mobile industry value chain and researchers. - This is a prime event to promote your organization to a focused audience and demonstrate your solutions and applications in the field of mobileGovernment. *Who attends?* This summit is a unique meeting hub for renown experts and organisations of the mGovernment practice, delegates, around 250, are: - Public sector -high-level decision makers, policy makers and other professionals such as developers or implementers of mobile technologies. - Private Sector Industry members from, for example, mobile telco`s, infrastructure, hardware, content, applications and service providers to the public sector. - NPOs: Civil Society Organization and Innovative Researchers *Previous events, sponsors and supporters: * - 2005 Euro mGOV 2005 – European Conference Mobile Government, Brighton UK - 2006 Euro mGOV 2006 – Barcelona, Spain - 2008 – 2013 mLIfe Conferences– Euro mGOV, mDevelopment and mSociety Conferences, Brighton UK - 2017 mobileGov World Summit & Global mobileGov Awards, Brighton, UK The organisation is seeking highly qualified speakers and experts to give talks and tutorials and propose panels or special sessions to be part of the next mobileGovWS2018 as well nominations for the Global mobileGov Awards.

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[CfP] 50 years in Agenda Setting Research: Conference in July 2018 (U of Colorado Boulder)
by Lei Guo 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

50 Years in Agenda Setting Research: Past and Future Perspectives Conference University of Colorado Boulder July 18- 21, 2018 Deadline to submit abstracts: March 1, 2018 More information can be found at: http://www.cvent.com/events/50-years-in-agenda-setting-resea rch-past-and-future-perspectives-conference/event-summary-ad 9c9dbed5fd4abf8ae2bd3c11e15f37.aspx 2018 marks the 50-year anniversary of the hallmark 1968 Chapel Hill study where agenda-setting research as we know it was born. This initial study, a collaboration between Max McCombs and Donald Shaw, has given birth to thousands of subsequent inquiries spanning a wide array of academic disciplines and media contexts. To celebrate agenda setting’s important role in mass communication theory, the College of Media, Communication and Information <http://colorado.edu/cmci> at the University of Colorado Boulder <http://colorado.edu> invites junior and senior scholars alike to attend a three-day conference focused on past, present, and future applications of the theory. Join us as we celebrate the original theorists and trace the development of agenda setting. All scholars conducting contemporary research rooted in agenda setting are encouraged to attend. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: need for orientation, network agenda setting, agenda building and agendamelding. New media applications of agenda setting, such as studies of fake news and computational propaganda, are also encouraged. Honored guests include the seminal theorists: Dr. Maxwell McCombs, Dr. Donald Shaw and Dr. David Weaver. In addition, the conference will be chronicled by *The Agenda-Setting Journal*, with editor Dr. Salma Ghanem attending. All presenters will be encouraged to complete their work and submit it to a special issue of *The Agenda Setting Journal* dedicated to the conference. Top work from the conference will receive expedited consideration for publication in the journal. The conference will be highlighted by a plenary panel led by McCombs, Shaw, Weaver and Ghanem. The conference will include a refereed paper session. To be considered, authors should submit an extended abstract of no more than 750 words (not including references) detailing the proposed study. Works in progress will be considered, but preference will be given to abstracts with a clear path to completion (e.g., data, clear research questions, initial analyses). Abstracts should include background information on the author(s), including an abbreviated bio that describes research that relates to agenda setting. Please submit your proposal as a PDF to Christopher J. Vargo <christopher.vargo(a)colorado.edu> Christopher.Vargo(a)colorado.edu no later than Monday, March 1, 2018. Drs. McCombs, Shaw and Weaver will review the submitted abstracts. Notification of acceptance will come on March 15.

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The PlayStation Dreamworld
by Alfred BOWN (ENG) 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Hi all, Few months late on sharing, but my book *The Playstation Dreamworld* - a brief theoretical study of psychoanalysis and videogames - is out now here <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509518029>. This is what Slavoj Zizek said about it: “The universe of video games and the action they involve us in render perfectly the illusions and antagonisms of our ideological predicament - the popularity of post-apocalyptic games tells it all. But perhaps even more important is the type of subjectivity a gamer has to adopt when immersed into a game: a mixture of extreme engagement and loss of reality, a universe of immortality where actions are indefinitely repeatable. So it is not that we can understand the impact of these games only through the analysis of our social reality - it's also the other way round: to understand how our societies work you have to know video games And Alfie Bown does this at such a high level that he produces an instant classic, a book that everyone who seeks to find a way in our confused social life will have to read. The Playstation Dreamworld is unputdownable, once you start reading it you will get addicted to it... as in a good video game!” If anyone is interested to review it or teach it, send me your address and I will post you a review copy. Enjoying air-l as always. Alfie -- Alfie Bown Assistant Professor School of Humanities and Social Sciences HSMC Hong Kong Co-editor of *Hong Kong Review of Books <https://hkrbooks.com/>* Details of my new book *The Playstation Dreamworld *can be found here <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509518029&subject_id=3>. -- ********************************************************************************** *Hang Seng Management College is incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability by guarantee.* This e-mail may be confidential and legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you may not copy, forward, disclose or use any part of it. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender by return e-mail. Thank you! Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. **********************************************************************************

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RGS-IBG CfP: Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice
by Martin Dittus 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

This may be of interest if you're attending the annual gathering of the Royal Geographic Society (RGS-IBG) in the UK later this year! Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference <http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conf…>, Cardiff University, 28–31 August 2018 Session sponsor: the Digital Geographies Working Group (DGWG) Professor Mark Graham (University of Oxford) and Dr Martin Dittus (University of Oxford) http://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/2018/01/30/cfp-digital-representations-of-place-urb… <http://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/2018/01/30/cfp-digital-representations-of-place-urb…> Over the last few decades, our cities have become increasingly digital. Urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape our geographic interactions: impacting how we perceive, move through, and use space. Spatial justice is thus inextricably tied to data justice, and it has become imperative to ask questions about who owns, controls, shapes, and has access to those augmented and hybrid digital/physical layers of place. Now that over half of humanity is connected to the internet, do we see greater levels of representation of, and participation from, previously digitally disconnected populations? Or are our digitally dense environments continuing to amplify inequalities rather than alleviate them? A growing body of knowledge documents the societal impact such digital representations can have, for example when they favour the interests of one privileged group (such as tourists) at the expense of others. We seek to systematise this knowledge, and to provide guidance for practitioners, researchers, and policy-makers to address imbalances and inequalities in representation. Our workshop will follow a “split session” format. In the first slot, short talks by scholars outline exemplary scenarios, and describe the state of our current understanding. In the second slot, participants discuss some central themes in a World Café format (facilitated discussion groups), guided by short provocations. Their observations and recommendations will be shared with the wider community. We are looking for speakers on questions that include, but are not limited to: • What are undesirable aspects in digital representations of place? Can we identify specific forms of unequal representation? • How can we categorise them — by impact, by affected party, …? • How can we best monitor such inequalities? • What actions can geographers and the wider public take to address them? For example, can we provide cartographic guidance for better representation of specific groups? To submit a talk proposal, please send a title and abstract of no more than 250 words to Martin Dittus (martin.dittus(a)oii.ox.ac.uk <mailto:martin.dittus@oii.ox.ac.uk>) and Mark Graham (mark.graham(a)oii.ox.ac.uk <mailto:mark.graham@oii.ox.ac.uk>) by Monday, 12th February 2018. Also send us a message if you are interested in submitting a paper but would like to discuss your ideas first, or if there are any questions. Looking forward to hear from you, Martin Dittus, Oxford Internet Institute

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New Article: E-text
by Niels Ole Finnemann 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Just published: E-text. Oxford Research Encyclopedia Literature (Online-only). The article deals with the notion E-text traveling from alphabetic writing and print, starting with Roberto Busa, to the binary alphabet, the choice machine of Turing and finally entering the landscape of networked digital media of today. It is an attempt to build a bridge between digitized text and born digital and networked materials. Thus, the notion (and the article) passes through three different concepts of the computer and a great number of theories of text. The article can be accessed at (and a PDF can be downloaded from) http://literature.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001… or DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.272 Best Niels Ole Finnemann, Professor, Dr. Phil., Department of Information Studies University of Copenhagen South Campus, build. 4 - 2 - 26 Njalsgade 76 2300 Copenhagen S Denmark Phone: 0045 31234492 Www: http://informationstudies.ku.dk/employees/?pure=en/persons/107455 For Sale: Unique residence in Cori, close to Rome, Italy. https://www.facebook.com/husicori/

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