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2018 ICA Communication & Technology Division Awards Nominations (Deadline March 1, 2018)
by Yao, Mike 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

2018 Call for CAT Award Nominations The ICA Communication and Technology Division is seeking nominations for the Frederick Williams Prize for Contribution to the Study of Communication and Technology and the Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award. Please submit the nominations and address any questions to Mike Yao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Chair of the ICA CAT Awards Committee, at mzyao(a)illinois.edu. You can read the entire award calls here: https://www.icahdq.org/members/group_content_view.asp?group=186088&id=631396 Mike Yao, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Digital Media, Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising Institute of Communications Research Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology The Cline Center for Advanced Social Research University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign mzyao(a)illinois.edu

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AMCIS 2018 CFP Minitrack: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR ’18)
by Fichman, Pnina 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

Call for Papers: AMCIS 2018 Minitrack: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR ’18) Track: Social Inclusion (SIGSI) 24th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Aug. 16-18, 2018 New Orleans, LA, USA This minitrack solicits papers using social theory to critically examine ICTs and their roles in enabling and constraining social inclusion. What can be done to improve access to computing for underrepresented groups? In what ways do new technologies impact digital divides? What are the social, cultural, political, and economic implications of the Internet of things? These are examples of the kinds of questions we are interested in exploring in this minitrack. We are particularly interested in completed or emerging research using social theory to address the conference theme, Digital Disruption, critically examining the ways in which emerging technologies are changing the sociotechnical landscape in ways that narrow or widen the digital divide. This will be the 18th consecutive year for STIR, and we hope to continue a tradition of high quality papers, and thought-provoking and lively discussion for IS researchers using social theory in their work. In addition to research aligned with the conference theme we are also interested in high quality empirical and conceptual work that uses social theory to investigate issues such as (but not limited to): • Improving access to computing for underrepresented minorities • Reengineering the pipeline in STEM education for greater inclusiveness and diversity • Critically assessing the ways in which ICTs and information systems can be used to privilege some and exclude others • Understanding the impacts of the Internet of Things on the digital divide • Assessing the unintended consequences of technology implementation and use in organizations and in social life • Reflection on the ways in which ICT assemblages support and challenge political, cultural, and economic hegemonies. Mini-Track chairs Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University hrosenba(a)indiana.edu<mailto:hrosenba@indiana.edu> Pnia Fichman, Indiana University fichman(a)indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu> Submission Instructions: https://amcis2018.aisnet.org/submissions/call-for-papers/ Important Dates: January 15, 2018: Manuscript submissions open February 28, 2018: Deadline for paper submissions April 18, 2018: Authors will be notified of decisions April 25, 2018: Camera-ready submissions due ------------------------ Pnina Fichman, Professor Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/

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Reminder: CfP "The Tracked Society. Interdisciplinary Approaches on Online Tracking" (workshop in Amsterdam + related special issue)
by René König 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

Dear colleagues, The deadline for our call "The Tracked Society. Interdisciplinary Approaches on Online Tracking" is approaching (March 5th). Please consider submitting your abstract for the workshop in Amsterdam and the related special issue. Funding is available! Find all details here: http://www.abida.de/sites/default/files/CfP%20-%20The%20Tracked%20Society.pd f Best, René --- Rene Koenig, Sociologist Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ( <http://www.kit.edu/english/> KIT) Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis ( <https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/> ITAS) P.O. Box 3640 76021 Karlsruhe Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 721 / 608-22209 Web/Skype: <http://renekoenig.eu/> renekoenig.eu Twitter: <https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/> r_koenig Current project: Assessing Big Data ( <http://www.abida.de/> ABIDA)

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CFP: Human Technology's themed issue on Aging and Technology
by Taipale, Sakari 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

CFP: Human Technology's themed issue on Aging and Technology A facet of all societies is that members are continually aging; moreover, that segment of society typically needs different approaches to living well than do younger members. In the past, special technologies have been devised to support these individuals. In contemporary society, however, many of the growing aging population are already technology users in daily life. As a result, new practical and social needs for technology use are emerging. Additionally, continual evolution and innovation in research and design approaches to technology utilization need to recognize and address the simultaneous decline in motivation and cognitive and motoric abilities brought on by aging bodies and minds. Human Technology, an interdisciplinary, open access scholarly journal, is preparing a themed issue to publish research that strengthens the knowledge base of aging and technology. The scope of the themed issue, in the spirit of Human Technology's goal of shedding an interdisciplinary light on important human-centered aspects of technology, would encompass multiple approaches toward and methods of investigating the human aspect of technology use (and nonuse) in later life. Such research can involve technologies ranging from ordinary ICTs and social media to assistive technology and robotic solutions. The emphasis, however, is explicitly on the human implications and outcomes of these technologies. This themed issue is being organized in conjunction with ongoing research through the University of Jyväskylä's Center of Excellence on Aging and Care (2018-2025) and will be published in November 2018. Interested authors should submit an abstract indicating the focus of the proposed submission to Human Technology no later than 1 March 2018. Full papers are to be submitted by the corresponding author via Human Technology's journal management system by 31 May 2018. The full schedule of dates and appropriate links are provided below. All submitted papers (minimum of 7,500 words) will be evaluated for originality of texts, suitability within the scope of the thematic issue, and readiness for peer review. Papers meeting the above criteria will be subjected to double-blind review by at least two experts in the topic area of the manuscript. Papers accepted for publication in Human Technology must follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Authors should consult information on submission provided at http://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi/submit/ Important Dates 1 March 2018: Abstract for proposed submission emailed to humantechnology-eic(a)jyu.fi<mailto:humantechnology-eic@jyu.fi> 31 May 2018: Full manuscript submitted to humantechnologypublishing.jyu.fi June-July 2018: Review process August - September 2018: Author revisions 1 October 2018: Acceptance of paper by HT's editor in chief October-November 2018: Copy editing, layout, and final approvals 30 November 2018: Publication of the themed issue on Aging and Technology This themed issue will edited within the oversight of Human Technology's Associate Editor, Dr. Sakari Taipale, Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä's Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy and adjunct professor at the University of Eastern Finland.

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secure team collaboration software?
by Charles M. Ess 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

(At the risk of taxing the patience of the list ...) Dear AoIRists, While I've sent an inquiry along these lines to a few colleagues with superb expertise in these matters, I thought it might not hurt to also interrogate the wisdom and experience of this particular crowd. One of our thoughts / hopes for the ethics working group is to make use of something like a secure wiki or hypertext / collaborative environment. The idea is to have one or two introductory / summary / overview documents that can then link to modules - overview articles on more specific topics, resource lists, case studies, etc. In the first stage, this needs to be (relatively) secure ("secure" being relative these days) - i.e., with access for the Working Group members who are working on various components. At a second stage, however, the thought is to make it available to the AoIR research community for further refinement, contribution, etc. Ideally, finally, a relatively polished version would then be made available to more or less anyone "out there" looking for resources in internet research ethics. A first thought, of course, is a wiki or wikipedia-like service. But some of you may recall that a very nice wiki established by the earlier ethics working group was hacked and much good work was lost, most unfortunately. So we're looking for a working space at least comparatively less liable to such attacks. Many of us have tinkered with collaboration via Google docs, Slack, and others. But I also know of more than one university, at least in this part of the world, that is insisting on such collaborations taking place within university-based installations of Microsoft Teams, for example. More secure, yes - but not as hyper-texty as we would like, so far as I can tell - and not sure how it would work to invite others outside the university? I could easily be missing something, and if so, please don't hesitate to let me know. And/or: any further suggestions for a really secure collaborative environment, with rich hypermedia functionalities, and the flexibility to move through at least the first two stages of collaboration, i.e., within the Ethics Working Group and then the AoIR community at large? A thousand thanks in advance, - charles ess -- Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no

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software for recording search results?
by Charles M. Ess 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

Dear AoIR-ists, A Master's student is comparing search results on ca. 120 key search terms in two different national locations. The student is building on a considerable body of often quite sophisticated analyses along these lines - but by people with access to programmers and/or who can build the code they want / need themselves. What the student wants to do is simply record the first, e.g., 10 or 20 hits in response to a given key search term. Beyond taking screen shots and pushing the results into a spreadsheet for (relatively simple) analysis - does anyone have recommendations for available software that might be more directly helpful with this sort of data collection and recording? Will look forward to any advice and suggestions you can offer - many thanks in advance, - charles -- Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no

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CfP - Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Post-Capitalism? Conference, London, 11 May 2018
by Gerbaudo, Paolo 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

Dear Colleagues, I am delighted to announce the CfP for the Digital Economy conference to be hosted by the Centre for Digital Culture in London on 11 May 2018. The purpose of the conference is to explore the consequences of digital technology for the economy and politics and whether we are heading towards an even more exploitative capitalism or towards a more just economic system. Abstract below Submit your abstract via Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digitalcapitalism201 Deadline: 7 March 2018 Hope to see many of you there! Best Regards, Paolo <https://easychair.org/cfp/topic.cgi?tid=677470;a=17555146> The Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Post-Capitalism? King's College London, 11 May 2018 This international conference aims at exploring the digital economy, understood as the new forms of production, work, consumption, distribution, and finance ushered in by the diffusion of digital technology. From the way we work, to the way we consume and pay for products and services, to the rise of new platforms for consumption and collaboration, the economic field is being revolutionised by digital media. Yet, the jury is still out on whether these changes point to an even more exploitative or rather towards an alternative and fairer economic model. The conference will explore these processes of transformation of the economy and their relationship with culture and society focusing on a number of specific phenomena that have been the object of intense debate in recent years and questioning the suitability of future trends and innovations: automation and its positive and negative repercussions on working conditions; crypto-currencies and whether they are freeing us from state control or reproducing neoliberal dynamics; universal basic income as a possible new form of welfare befitting the transformation of the economy in a digital era; the rise of digital giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon and the consequences of their oligopolistic position in the market; the new models of value formation connected to data mining and analytics; and many more. We invite participants from various disciplines and streams of research including media studies, sociology, economics, consumer research, management, information and computer science. Together, we will address a set of recurring questions. How, for example, is digital technology restructuring the economy? Are crypto-currencies really alternative to established financial regimes or are they rather at the very forefront of new forms of financial speculation? How do managerial practices evolve with the aid of digital resources? How do transformations in the mobile environment correlate to changes in the field of logistics? What are the features of the new forms of precarisation/casualisation of work that are described as “gig economy”? How does digital technology serve to enforce new forms of surveillance and measurement in the workplace? Can technological advancement promote alternative economic models as implied by references to terms such as “big data socialism” or “luxury communism”? Can digital media serve the construction of new forms of workers’ representation and trade-unionism? The conference will comprise two plenary sessions and 4 breakout panels, and will host internationally acclaimed scholars as keynote speakers. The conference will take place on Friday, 11 May 2018. Abstract of 250 words are due by 7 March 2018. Submission lin: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digitalcapitalism201 Abstracts should be 250 words maximum, and include the author(s) name and position, and a short title. Acceptance notices will be given on 20 March 2018 Dr Paolo Gerbaudo, Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, Department of Digital Humanities Director of the Centre for Digital Culture King's College London, Room S3.10, Strand Building, 3rd Floor, Strand London WC2, England Phone: +44 (0)20 78481576

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2nd CfP: CHIIR 2018 Workshop on Barriers to Interactive IR Resources Re-use
by Toine Bogers 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

Second Call for Participation: BIIRRR 2018 ************************************************************************* CHIIR 2018 Workshop on Barriers to Interactive IR Resources Re-use Thursday, March 15 2018, 9:00-17:00 http://biirrr2018.aau.dk ************************************************************************* The goal of the BIIRRR 2018 workshop is to serve as a starting point for a community-driven effort to design and implement a platform for the collection, organization, maintenance, and sharing of resources for interactive information retrieval (IIR) experimentation. Examples include search tasks, experimental protocols, questionnaire designs, reporting standards, evaluation procedures, data collections, and the search interaction data produced in such experiments. While the idea of collecting such resources in a central location is perhaps not a new one, the effort required in designing, implementing, and maintaining such a platform can only be borne by the community as a collective effort. Please join us in a full-day workshop to brainstorm about the shape this iRepository should take. If you yourself have conducted interactive IR experiments, we would love to hear about your experiences too! Please fill out our survey at http://bit.ly/BIIRRR-survey, it shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes of your time! The result of the survey will help us prepare the workshop and get an overview of the current state of re-use of IIR resources. One of the goals of the workshop is to produce a set of requirements and activities in order to develop an iRepository, which the organizers commit to publishing as a short report right after the workshop. After this immediate follow-up, we then plan further documented dissemination of the workshop outcomes but also envisage a more extensive activity, such as a Dagstuhl-style seminar, which will provide the time to discuss the requirements and solutions in more detail. ************************************************************************* Tentative program: -Introduction of workshop purpose, goals and planned activities -2 keynotes: ---Nils Pharo, Oslo Metropolitan University: The importance and challenges for standardization in IIR Evaluation - Basis for an iRepository ---Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia: Previous experiences at IIR evaluation campaigns: INEX, TREC, CLEF, RepAST -2 break-out sessions: ---Viewpoints on standardization: which components of IIR experiments could be re-used? ---Requirements for IIR reuse: how can documentation and archiving be standardized? ************************************************************************* BIIRRR 2018 Workshop homepage: http://toinebogers.com/biirrr2018 Registration for BIIRR 2018 Workshop: http://sigir.org/chiir2018 Contact the organizers: biirrr(a)googlegroups.com

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Call for Abstracts, Panels, Special Sessions, Tutorials: mobileGovWS 2018
by Ibrahim Kushchu 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

mobileGov World Summit and Global mobileGov Awards 2018 Brighton UK during 14-15 June 2018, @Hilton Metropole. www.m4life.org 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 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. Ways to participate mobileGov World Summit and Global mobileGov Awards 2018: - Exhibit and make a demo of your solutions: The summit is very much practice oriented and is soliciting demos and exhibitions. - Become a speaker: send us max 2 pages of abstract of your prosed talk (abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings) - Propose panels, special sessions or tutorials. Global mobileGov Awards 2018.: - industry, NPO or Government, you are requested to nominate yourself, your company or organisations. - "Academic Category" for outstanding academic contributions and research is also open. Please visit http://www.m4life.org/Summit/contact/ and show interest. General topics include, but not limited to - mobileGovernment, mobileDevelopment, mobileSociety, - IOT and Artificial Intelligence as well as - good old fashioned eGovernment, smart cities and smart government - big data, open government, - mobileApps, service and Content delivery - mobileID, participation, privacy and security Publication: All abstracts / talk summaries and accepted award descriptions will be published by mLife Publications. For other specific topics and coverage please review the draft program at the conference site and please share conference flyer and videos among your colleagues at http://www.m4life.org/Summit/videos/ Looking forward to meeting you at the next mobileGovWS in beautiful Brighton, UK ====== Ibrahim KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Founding Director, mobileGov UK http://mgovernment.net/ <http://www.mgovernment.org/> ik(a)mgovernment.net +44 7740143135 <07740%20143135> - 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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WEBCAST TODAY: EURALO GDPR Webinar
by Joly MacFie 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

This webinar is underway, and it is recommended that you join the Adobe Connect to participate,ask questions, chat etc, but the webcasts will be there as a record for those that need to catch up. It might be exaggerating to say the approaching GDPR deadline has ICANN (amongst others) in turmoil, but a lot of people who maintain databases, which obviously includes WHOIS operators, are going to have to rethink their methods. <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/netneutrality18/edit> [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/euralogdpr>Today *Monday February 19 2018* at *2pm ET* (19:00 UTC) the *European At-Large Regional Organization <https://atlarge.icann.org/ralos/euralo>*(EURALO) of ICANN will present a *Webinar <https://community.icann.org/x/nhS8B>* on the *General Data Protection Regulation <https://www.eugdpr.org/>* (GDPR), due to come in force on 25 May 2018. This webinar will offer the opportunity to increase the understanding of practical *implementation* of GDPR from a Registrar, a Registry and a Registrant perspective. Speakers: *Pierre Bonis* – AFNIC: *Athina Fragkouli* – RIPE: *Michele Neylon* – Blacknight Solutions; *Thomas Rickert* – Rickert.net. Moderator: *Olivier Crépin-Leblond* (ISOC England). Remote participation is available via *Adobe Connect <https://participate.icann.org/euralo/>*. *Real Time Text <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=ICANN>* is available. The event will be simulcast on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel* <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/euralogdpr/s>. (with open captions) *View on Livestream*: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/euralogdpr *View on Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/isocny/videos/10156884256603538/ *View on Twitter*: https://twitter.com/isocny/status/965662357992095745 *Twitter*: #euralo + #gdpr http://bit.ly/euralogdpr Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9918#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9918#comments> *Permalink* *http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9918 <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9918>* -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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