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Last Call for Workshop Proposals @ ACM RecSys'2018 (Due March 5th)
by Yong Zheng 27 Feb '18

27 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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Call for Applications: 2nd Summer School on Methods for Computational Social Science
by Schulze, Heidi 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Dear all, We would like to announce the second Summer School on Methods for Computational Social Science. The application is now open until March 20, 2018. Please feel free to share the information. ________________________ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS ________________________ 2nd Summer School on Methods for Computational Social Science Methods for Analyzing and Modeling Textual Data July 30-August 4, 2018 Los Angeles, USA http://summerschool.computationalsocialscience.eu/2018/ css.summerschool(a)gmail.com<mailto:css.summerschool@gmail.com> Twitter: @cs2_school<https://twitter.com/cs2_school>, #cs2_school<https://twitter.com/hashtag/cs2_school?src=hash> SPEAKERS Chris Bail, Duke University Munmun De Choudhury, Georgia Tech Laura Dietz, University of New Hampshire James Evans, University of Chicago David Garcia, Complexity Science Hub Vienna & Medical University of Vienna Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California Bruno Gonçalve, New York University Arthur Spirling, New York University Damian Trilling, University of Amsterdam ORGANIZERS Claudia Wagner, GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences & University of Koblenz-Landau Emilio Ferrara, University of Southern California Nicola Perra, Greenwich University Michael Macy, Cornell University IMPORTANT DATES Application deadline: March 20, 2018 Notifications: April 5, 2018 Summer School: July 30-August 4, 2018 ABOUT The second summer school of this series focuses on methods for analyzing und modeling textual data (e.g. sentiment analysis, latent semantic models, causal inference methods for text data). We have invited outstanding speakers from different disciplines that will teach different methods and show how textual data can be used to answer interesting research questions that are relevant for the social sciences and gain insights into social phenomena like conflicts, radicalization, polarization and bias. Students will conduct small projects in which they will apply the newly learned methods and will be supervised by the invited speakers. We will offer full financial support for up to 10 students (or early career researchers). Students have to apply for the travel grants and a committee of experts will select scholars based on academic excellence, financial needs and diversity (e.g. gender, ethnic and disciplinary diversity). HOW TO APPLY Please submit your motivation letter (one page max), CV and publication list via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csssummer18 The school is open to anyone interested in learning about Computational Social Science. The aim is to bring together an heterogeneous international group of people. However, we have a limited number of places for participants. That means everyone needs to apply (also if you have your own funding). COSTS Registration fee for the summer school is 100 USD. Lunch, coffee breaks and a social event are included. FINANCIAL SUPPORT Please indicate in your motivation letter if you would like to apply for a travel grant which will cover your registration fee, accommodation for the whole week and basic travel costs. Please note that travel grants are intended for students. Please also indicate if you will only participate if you receive the travel grant or if we should also consider your application for normal positions if no travel grants are left. Students with travel grant will have to share rooms. Best regards, Miu Ting Ho

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IIPC WEB ARCHIVING CONFERENCE 2018: Call for Papers --- DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 12 MARCH ---
by Alex Thurman 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Greetings AOIR list members. On behalf of the IIPC Web Archiving Conference program committee, I'd like to encourage you to submit paper proposals! Note the new deadline of 12 March 2018. --------- *The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 12 March 2018.* ** *IIPC WEB ARCHIVING CONFERENCE 2018: Call for Papers* *WEB ARCHIVING HISTORIES AND FUTURES* *National Library of New Zealand* *Wellington 13–15 November 2018* Web archiving is now into its third decade of practice and there is much experience to reflect upon and many achievements to acknowledge. It is also a critical time to look to the future and to the technical, legal, ethical and organisational challenges that saving the web for citizens and for researchers continue to present. As established web archives mature and new initiatives emerge, web archive artefacts and data become more valuable for our understanding of societies, politics, cultures and economies in a world of increasingly contested narratives. In 2018 theInternational Internet Preservation Consortium <http://netpreserve.org>(IIPC) will celebrate 15 years as the premier international body fostering the development of web archiving tools, standards, practice and research. For the first time in a decade, the IIPC’s annual web archiving conference will come to Australasia, providing a rare opportunity for web curators, librarians, archivists, historians, humanists, researchers, developers, computer scientists and others interested in the preservation of world’s web heritage to come together at this international forum in the southern hemisphere. Proposals on all aspects of web archiving practice as well as researching and using web archives are invited. Particularly welcome are proposals related to the Australasian, Asia Pacific and southern hemisphere regions; proposals from the perspective of new users and researchers; and proposals addressing the major conference themes of histories and futures. Potential topics include: *Building web archives* * Harvesting approaches, tools and challenges * Collection development and curation * Legal and ethical issues in collecting content *Maintaining web archive content and operations* * Preservation and sustainability issues and strategies * Institutional and organizational structures and approaches * Collection assessment and metrics * Collection management tools * Description and access *Using and researching web archives* * User experience and discovery * Legal, ethical or social aspects in accessing content * Tools, APIs and indexing for researching web archives * Research opportunities and challenges presented by web archives *Web archive histories and futures* * Initiatives and collaborations * Web archive stories and histories * National web domains * Web archives as repositories of ‘truth’ The programme committee invite proposals for: * 30 minute presentations (i.e., 20 minutes for presentation plus 10 minutes for questions) * 60 minute panel discussions or multi-presentations * Conference themed workshops (proposed length to be agreed with organisers) * Tutorials focusing on particular tools (proposed length to be agreed with organisers) * Posters with accompanying 5 minute lightning talks Proposals for presentations and panels must be submitted as an abstract of between 300 and 500 words. Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be 800 to 1,000 words and include information about coordinators, format, target participant numbers and technical requirements. Proposals should demonstrate how the presentation, panel or workshop contributes to understanding web archiving histories or futures and the general themes relating to building, maintaining and researching web archives. Proposal should be accompanied by 3 to 5 keywords. Based on the abstracts, the programme committee may invite the submission of full papers for future publication. Please submit your proposals using EasyChair*http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iipc2018* For questions, please e-mail *iipc2018(a)iipc.simplelists.com* <mailto:iipc2018@iipc.simplelists.com> The deadline for submissions is *12 March 2018*. All submissions will be reviewed by the WAC18 Programme Committee and submitters will be notified by *16 April 2018*. 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The 6th International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES 2018): Second Call for Papers and Special Sessions
by Announce Announcements 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

*** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS *** The 6th International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES 2018) St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, 1-2 October, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… WELCOME Welcome to the 6th International Conference on Enterprise Systems. Enterprise Systems (ES), also referred to as Enterprise Information Systems, has become increasingly popular over the last 20 years because it integrates and extends business processes across the boundaries of business functions and corporate walls, as well as country border lines. The International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES) has been held every year since 2013. The sixth in the series will be held at St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, 8-9 October, 2018. The conference is hosted by the Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus. This conference series is focusing on both the technical and application aspects of enterprise systems, the complex and cross-disciplinary problems of enterprise integration, and the new technological frontiers such as Industrial Integration, Industrial Information Integration, and Industry 4.0. The objectives of the conference are to provide high quality research and professional interactions for the advancement of science and technology. The main features of the conference include Keynote Speeches, Regular and Special Sessions. It has been highlighted by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . SCOPE We welcome original and survey articles about the latest advances of technology. The final results can be state-of-the-art, requirements, fundamental theories, models, frameworks, algorithms, methodologies, platforms, protocols, prototypes, testbeds, field trials, case studies/stories, field experiences, standardization efforts, regulatory activities, education and training innovations, etc. The application areas include aeronautics and astronautics, agriculture, automotive, building, construction, energy, finance, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, process industry, power, transportation, etc. TOPICS The topics of interest include but are not limited to: · Enterprise Systems for Industry 4.0 · Cyber Physical Systems for Industry 4.0 · Internet of Things for Industry 4.0 · Big Data for Industry 4.0 · Security and Privacy Protection for Industry 4.0 · System Engineering and Human Factors for Industry 4.0 · IoT-enabled Smart Manufacturing A full list of subtopics for each one of the above topics can be found on the conference web site. SPECIAL SESSIONS The goal of Special Sessions is to provide a focused discussion of new or innovative topics. Special Session organizers consist of at least 5 papers. Please download the template of Special Sessions and submit it to the Special Session Chair (relevant information is available on conference web site). All Special Session papers will be reviewed with the same criteria as Regular Session papers. PAPER SUBMISSION The submitted paper should adhere to the double-blind review policy. All papers will be double-blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers that do not comply with the Submission Guidelines will be rejected without review. Paper types: · Full papers present final result. They must not exceed 8 pages. · Short papers can contain preliminary results. They must not exceed 6 pages. · Work-in-progress papers to present valuable and latest progresses of ongoing projects: 4 pages. Note, all manuscripts shall be written in English, using the IEEE conference template (double column, size 10). Templates can be found at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Please use the following submission link for Easy Chair: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . PUBLICATION AND SPECIAL ISSUES Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into the IEEE Xplore Database which is indexed by EI. Furthermore, selected papers will be invited for a special issue by the Journal of Industrial Integration and Management, World Scientific, with theme "Next-Generation Enterprise Systems in the Industrial Integration Era". More information is available on the conference web site. IMPORTANT DATES · Special Sessions Proposals due: 2nd April 2018 · Regular Paper Submissions (al types) due: 14th May 2018 · Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 23rd July 2018 · Camera-Ready Versions of Accepted Papers: 13th August 2018 · Author Registration: 13th August 2018 · Early Non-Author Registration: 10th September 2018 · Late Non-Author Registration: after 10th September 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Honorary General Chairs · Aurona Gerber, South Africa, IEEE SMC EAE TC Chair · Alta Van der Merwe, South Africa, IEEE SMC EAE TC Chair · Li Da Xu, USA, IEEE SMC EIS TC Co-Chair Program Chair · George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Co-Chairs · Ling Xia Li, Old Dominion University, USA · Wattana Golf Viriyasitavat, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand · Yale Yu, Infosys Australia & New Zealand · Chris Zhang, University of Saskatchewan, Canada · Zhuo Zou, Fudan University, China Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…

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panel on post-global internet concepts & histories
by Polina Kolozaridi 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Dear all, I'd like to submit a panel proposal about how we can study local internet in terms of history of its development in different countries and cities. I suppose that it would be great to discuss it in comparative prospective and figure out what concepts can we use for it and how do we conduct this kind of studies. Would anyone be interesting in submitting something on this? If so, please e-mail me poli.kolozaridi(a)gmail.com best, Polina

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Possible AoiR roundtable? digital materialities and their environmental damage
by Adi Kuntsman 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Dear AoiRs Its a last moment ... and a long shot. However, I will ask anyway: is there anyone interested in joining a roundtable on digital materialities and their environmental damages? The main aim of the roundtable is to bring together critical environmental studies and digital media studies, and to look into why on one hand, resaerch into digital cultures so rarely considers the environmental footprints of the technollgies we use; and why on the other hand, research into environmental sustainablity is adopting digital tools so uncritically There is a way ore articular sourntable abstract currently in the making :) Happy to provide more info. Please drop me a line by end of tomorrow (28th of Feb) if interested Adi Dr AdiKuntsman | SeniorLecturer | Department of Languages, Information and Communications |Manchester Metropolitan University | Room 437 Geoffrey Manton Building| OxfordRoad | Manchester | M15 6LL | Tel: +44 (0)161 247 6165 |Web: https://sites.google.com/site/adikuntsman/ Currentresearch https://sites.google.com/view/digitaldisengagementproject

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CFPs EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2018 conference - digital collaboration and social media track
by Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

*** IFIP 8.5 Information Systems in Public Administration – EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2018 conference*** 3 -6 September 2018, Danube University Krems, Austria, http://depts.washington.edu/egcdep18/ Call For Papers: Digital Collaboration and Social Media Track Digital networking and information sharing applications have become an important interface between governments and their respective publics. Such applications have also reshaped the nature of digital collaborations within public organizations and across governance networks. We invite relevant studies that draw on conceptual, case study, survey, mixed or other suitable methods. Areas of focus and interest include but are not limited to the following topics: * New theoretical perspectives and critical analyses of digital interactions in the public sector; * Strategies and policies for the planning and implementation of social media in the public sector; * Use and significance of social analytics in public organizations; * New methods, challenges and opportunities of social media data; * Stakeholders and digital publics of government engagement on social media; * Social media in crisis and emergency management; * Mobilisation, social movements and other forms of digital engagement enabled by social media; * Enterprise/organizational networking and knowledge sharing applications in the public sector; * Internal and informal digital networks in public administration; * Crowdsourcing, citizen-sourcing, co-creation and other crowd-based models (e.g. in regulation, bottom-up initiatives, open source movements); * Design, user experience, media co-creation and demand-driven perspectives in digital collaboration; * Ethical, privacy, regulatory and policy issues related to social media in the public sector; Submission types (see conference website for details): full research papers, ongoing Research, projects, reflections & viewpoints, workshops, panel proposals, posters, PhD colloquium papers Proceedings All accepted completed research papers will be published by Springer Verlag (LNCS). Accepted submissions in all other categories will be published by Edition Donau-Universität Krems, available Open Access. Important Dates 17 March 2018: Submission of papers, workshop, panel, poster and PhD colloquium contributions 30 April 2018: Notification of decisions 1 June 2018: Camera-ready papers of all accepted contributions Track Chairs Mauri Kaipainen, Södertörn University, Sweden Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

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Digital Psychology and Emotional Design Training Weeks 2018
by AlterSpark ＠ Gmail 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

Hi. If you're a researcher with an applied focus, you may be interested in my upcoming courses, on using psychology and neuroscience, for technology and digital campaigns. The details are below. Best, Brian ----------------------------- Digital Psychology and Emotional Design Training Weeks 2018 Over 5-days we're running 3-workshops that cover the key skills in applying behavior science to websites, apps, and digital strategy. Each workshop covers different topics, that will take you from the beginner to advanced level, over the course of one intense week. Here's a description of each workshop: Psychology for Digital Behavior Change [DBC1] (2-Day) Learn how to recognize and apply over 40 principles of digital psychology. Develop new skills in auditing the psychology behind various technologies and learn new approaches to building human-centered technology. Upcoming DBC1 workshops: - Toronto: 23-24 Apr 2018 - Chicago: 7-8 May 2018 - Ottawa: 14-15 May 2018 - New York: 21-22 May 2018 LEARN ABOUT DBC1: https://www.alterspark.com/dbc1 Psychological Architectures of Digital Behavior Change [DBC2] (1-Day) Discover how to build psychological architectures—the larger design patterns that underpin landing pages, habit loops, gamification, and more. Plus, develop new skills in building persuasive user journeys, along with 10 new principles of interactive feedback psychology. Upcoming DBC2 workshops: - Toronto: 25 Apr 2018 - Chicago: 9 May 2018 - Ottawa: 16 May 2018 - New York: 23 May 2018 LEARN ABOUT DBC2: https://www.alterspark.com/dbc2 Emotional Design Psychology [ED] (2-Day) Discover how to build emotionally intelligent websites, apps, and campaigns by learning the psychology and neuroscience of user emotion, motivation, cognition, and behavior. Learn how to produce emotion-driven wireframes, empathetic content, emotional design audits, engaging visuals, and more. Upcoming ED workshops: - Toronto: 26-27 Apr 2018 - Chicago: 10-11 May 2018 - Ottawa: 17-18 May 2018 - New York: 24-25 May 2018 LEARN ABOUT ED: https://www.alterspark.com/ed ================== Brian Cugelman, PhD AlterSpark https://www.alterspark.com p: +1 (888) 977-2055 c: +1 (416) 858-2055 brian(a)alterspark.com http://linkedin.com/in/cugelman http://twitter.com/cugelman -------------------------------- Workshops on Digital Psychology & Emotional Design https://www.alterspark.com/training Personality platform and AI https://www.SPEARpersonality.com https://www.emotionalintelligence.ai

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Job: Two positions - Assistant Professor in Communication, University of Canberra, Australia
by Sora Park 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

Dear Colleagues Please circulate to you networks: We are hiring two new Assistant Professors in Communication (Level B/C). Successful candidates will be eligible to work with us in the UC News and Media Research Centre For more information go to: http://uctalent.canberra.e du.au/cw/en/job/492423/assistant-professor-in-communication-x-2 For further information contact: Prof Sally Burford, Head of School, Arts and Communication sally.burford(a)canberra.edu.au Kind regards, Sora Dr. Sora Park Director News & Media Research Centre University of Canberra Bruce, ACT 2601 O +61-2-6201-5423 M +61-448-556-269 @sorapark www.canberra.edu.au/nmrc

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CfC Edited Volume: Sensing Security. Sensors and the Making of Transnational Security Infrastructures
by Nikolaus Pöchhacker 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

Dear colleagues, please find below our call for contributions to the edited volume "sensing security". The calls can also be found on-line here: https://digiones.org/2018/01/13/cfp-edited-volume-sensing-security/ We are looking forward to your abstracts! Best, Nina, Nikolaus, & Geoffrey Call for Contributions Sensing Security: Sensors and the Making of Transnational Security Infrastructures Editors: Nina Witjes, (MCTS, Technical University of Munich) Nikolaus Pöchhacker (MCTS,Technical University of Munich) Geoffrey C. Bowker (Evoke Lab, University of California, Irvine) In outer-space, underwater, in cities, our homes, or on our bodies - there is no shortage of settings that we now find equipped, imagined and measured with sensors. Anything and anyone can become a sensor, gathering and transmitting data about our world in which “there are now more automated sensors perceiving our environment and the elements that constitute it than there are living human beings” (Tironi, 2017, p. 2). Invested with ideals ranging from ‘invisible computing’, the ‘Internet of Things’, ‘global transparency’ or ‘algorithmic governance’, sensing technologies have been in particular foregrounded in contemporary academic and policy debates about the relations between data, security and politics. Approaching sensors as socio-technical devices (Amichelle et al., 2012) we invite work that explores how they move into and out of the security sector over time that even co-produce novel security regimes (Witjes & Olbrich, 2017; Salter, 2008). The increasingly globalized socio-technical infrastructures in the making are often understood as creating an environment where the abundance of available data collections increasingly leads to the formation of regimes of ‘dataveillance’ (Amoore & de Goede, 2005). So far, much work on the role of sensors as security devices has mainly attended to their materialities and governance in national settings, providing valuable insights how sensors are shaping knowledge, policies, power relations (Suchman, Follis, & Weber, 2017). Building on and inviting work from a variety of fields, in particular STS, security studies, critical data studies, sociology and anthropology, this edited volume seeks to understand the role of sensors in the making of transnational security infrastructures. We are in particular interested in accounts that contribute to understand how sensing devices - from satellites and drones to environmental sensor networks and digital sensing infrastructures – become invested with global and socio-political significance. We seek both large-scale empirical accounts of historical and contemporary cases across the globe, and welcome papers that critically investigate sensors and sensory networks as situated practices of constructing security, shaping and shaped by changing local and global socio-technical environments. More specifically, we ask how collective actors, such as states or international institutions, are not only informed by these sensors, but co-constituted in heterogeneous networks (Passoth & Rowland, 2015). Contributing to the emerging intersections between STS and security studies, this volume will attend to questions of macro level security politics and micro level sensing practices as being enabled and mediated through boundary infrastructures (Bowker & Star, 2000). Expanding on Jennifer Gabry´s (2016) work on distributed sensor technologies as shifting the relations, entities, occasions, and interpretive registers of sensing, we argue the interplay of sensing and (algorithmic) sense-making marks an highly important, yet underexplored momentum in the social construction of security in digital societies. Sensory devices are thus not only co-producing multiple ontologies of the world (Jasanoff, 2004) but also mediate “macro-level” entities through information infrastructures in the making and vice versa (Mukerji, 2011; Pelizza, 2016). Going beyond established boundaries in academic publishing and following the tradition of STS as an engaged program (Sismondo, 2008), we also aim to establish an opportunity to bring together people who work on common topics, but seldomly cross paths due to their differing approaches. Therefore we are keen to invite cooperative chapters from practitioners/activists and social scientists who creatively discuss their work and experiences concerning the various interplays between techno-societies and (in)securities. The following questions shall guide the contributors: * Which 'infrastructural inversions' (Bowker & Star, 2000) occur when sensors become objects of international political controversy? How do sensors as security devices move in and out security discourses? * How do sensors embedded in smart borders or body scanners contribute to determine mobilities by co-constructing identities as well as novel forms of (criminological) knowledge through predictive analytics? * How do sensing practices and data infrastructures play out in different parts of the world? What are the various ways in which our electronic devices - and their leftovers - are connected to human rights violations, conflict and exclusion and how could a responsible governance of sensors look like? * How do sensors shape, shift and constitute domains of national and international security and policy-making? What is the role of sensor infrastructures in the constitution and mediation between state and non-state actors? Deadline for abstracts (max. 250 words):1 March, 2018,notification of acceptance will be given by 15 March, 2018. We have an initial expression of interest from Mattering Press (https://www.matteringpress.org) for this edited volume and will circulate updates regarding the publishing process as soon as possible. If you are interested in submitting a chapter we suggest to also consider our related panel at the EASST conference 2018 which can be found here: https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6250 Contact: sensingsecurity(a)mcts.tum.de <mailto:sensingsecurity@mcts.tum.de> References Amicelle, A., Aradau, C., & Jeandesboz, J. (2015). Questioning security devices: Performativity, resistance, politics. Security Dialogue, 46(4), 293–306. Amoore, L., & Goede, M. D. (2005). Governance, risk and dataveillance in the war on terror. Crime, Law and Social Change, 43(2–3), 149–173. Bowker, G. C., & Star, S. L. (2000). Sorting things out: classification and its consequences. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Gabrys, J. (2016). Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Jasanoff, S. (Ed.). (2004). States of Knowledge: The co-production of science and social order. Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis. Mukerji, C. (2011). Jurisdiction, inscription, and state formation: administrative modernism and knowledge regimes. Theory and Society, 40(3), 223–245. Passoth, J.-H., & Rowland, N. (2015). Acting in International Relations? The State Hypothesis, ANT, and Agency. In D. Jacobi & A. Freyberg-Inan (Eds.), Human Nature, Agency and Beyond. Reflecting on the Human Element in World Politics (pp. 286–304). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press Pelizza, A. (2016). Developing the Vectorial Glance: Infrastructural Inversion for the New Agenda on Government Information Systems. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 41(2), 298–321. Salter, M. B. (Ed.). (2008).Politics at the Airport.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Sismondo, S. (2008). Science and technology studies and an engaged program. In E. Hackett, O. Amsterdamska, M. Lynch, & J. Wajcman (Eds.), The handbook of science and technology studies (pp. 13–30). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Suchman, L., Follis, K., & Weber, J. (2017). Tracking and Targeting: Sociotechnologies of (In)security. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 42(6), 983–1002. Tironi, M. (2017). Regimes of Perceptibility and Cosmopolitical Sensing: The Earth and the Ontological Politics of Sensor Technologies. Science as Culture, 1–7. Witjes, N., & Olbrich, P. (2017). A fragile transparency: satellite imagery analysis, non-state actors, and visual representations of security. Science and Public Policy, 44(4), 524–534. Zureik, E., & Hindle, K. (2004). Governance, Security and Technology: the Case of Biometrics. Studies in Political Economy, 73(1), 113–137.

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