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DEADLINE EXTENDED...CFP: Learning for All!
by Akesha 17 Feb '18

17 Feb '18

The 2018 CALL FOR PROPOSALS from the Association of Educational Communications and Technology is NOW OPEN! *Location: *Kansas City, MO, *Dates: *October 23-27, 2018 *Deadline:* Monday, February 19, 2018 (11:59 pm est) You are cordially invited to submit a conference proposal to the Culture Learning and Technology (CLT) Division. *ABOUT CLT --* The Culture, Learning, and Technology division is composed of AECT members who are concerned with issues relevant to the intersection of culture, learning, and technology. In addition, CLT provides its members with a professional community, opportunities to share professional experiences, and learn from experts in the field. For more information about CLT, please see http://bit.ly/2FLTxCb <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2FLTxCb&h=ATMyUPWzH55g…> *PROPOSAL CRITERIA -- *We seek proposals that explore relationships between culture, learning, and technology in education, politics, economics, science, the arts, business, and all other segments of society. Our only requirement is that all proposals explicitly address culture, learning and technology. Proposals will be reviewed using the proposal criteria noted in the call ( http://members.aect.org/events/call/ <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmembers.aect.org%2Fevents%2Fcal…>). See also the AECT Proposal Submission Guide for more guidance ( https://members.aect.org/events/call/Proposalguide.asp?) CLT President Elect, Akesha Horton welcomes your inquiries about any aspect of proposal preparation. Email me at akesha(a)gmail.com *TYPES OF SESSIONS --* From 20-, 30-, or 60-minute Concurrent Sessions and Panels to Roundtables and Posters, we have a format to fit your message! The call for proposals closes on *Monday, February 19, 2018 (11:59 PM, EST). See http://members.aect.org/events/call/ <http://members.aect.org/events/call/>* Kindest Regards, Akesha Horton , PhD

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CFP Global Media and China_Special Issue: Citizen Journalism in Asian Countries
by Xiao Han 17 Feb '18

17 Feb '18

Dear Everyone, Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Global Media and China (A Sage journal) Theme: “Citizen Journalism in Asian Countries” Guest Editors: Xin Zeng, Stuart Allan, Savyasaachi Jain and An Nguyen Target issue: Winter 2018 (December) Deadlines: Submission of Extended Abstracts: March 30, 2018 (500 words) Notification of Abstracts Acceptance: April 15, 2018 Submission of Full Papers: July 15, 2018 OVERVIEW In the aftermath of the South Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, the term ‘citizen journalism’ quickly gained currency with news organisations finding themselves in the difficult position of being largely dependent on ‘amateur content’ to tell the story of what was transpiring on the ground in the most severely affected areas. Despite its ambiguities, the term was widely perceived to capture the countervailing ethos of the ordinary person’s capacity to contribute to professional news coverage, thereby providing commentators with a useful label to characterise an ostensibly new genre of reportage. Over the years since, it has become increasingly apparent that for varied reasons, priorities and motivations, so- called ‘accidental journalists’ – be they survivors, bystanders, first-responders, law enforcement, combatants, activists or the like – feel compelled to bear witness, often at considerable personal risk. The implications for news organisations have been profound. This special issue focuses on citizen journalism in Asian countries in order to identify and explore a range of important questions regarding its significance for the changing nature of journalism and society. Possible topics to be examined may include:  the perceived impact of citizen journalism on established Asian news organisations  how Asian journalists re-evaluate their professional identities, duties and ethics in response to citizen journalism  the role of citizen journalism in crisis situations  Asian values serving as facilitators or barriers (or both) to the emergence and development of citizen journalism  “fake news” masquerading as citizen journalism spreading through social media  Asian citizen journalists’ use of global online social networks – such as Facebook, Twitter or Snapchat – and the creation of sustainable alternatives (such as Weibo and WeChat in China)  citizen journalism as a form of empowerment, such as in the advancement of human rights  viewers, listeners or readers perceptions of citizen journalism in Asian countries  innovation and experimentation in citizen journalism Other topics are welcome, of course; the above list is suggestive of possibilities. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND REVIEW PROCESS: The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 30, 2018. Abstracts should be 500 words in length, detailing the purpose, methods, and main points of research. The abstracts should be submitted to Dr Xin Zeng by email at zxbarbara36(a)hotmail.com. Following peer-review, a selection of authors will be invited to submit a full paper in accordance with the journal’s ‘Instructions for authors.’ Please note acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee publication, given that all papers will be put through the journal’s peer review process. Please refer to the full submission guidelines available at: https://uk.sagepub.com/en- gb/asi/global-media-and-china/journal202494#submission-guidelines GUEST EDITORS Stuart Allan is Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) at Cardiff University, UK. Stuart’s publications include the authored book Citizen Witnessing: Revisioning Journalism in Times of Crisis (2013), as well as the edited collections Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives (co-edited with Einar Thorsen, Vol. 1, 2009; Vol. 2, 2014) and Photojournalism and Citizen Journalism: Co-operation, Collaboration and Connectivity (2017). Much of his current research focuses on the evolving ecology of citizen media in a digital age, particularly in war, conflict and crisis situations. Xin Zeng is an assistant professor in the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Science. She holds a PhD from Bournemouth University, UK, and was a visiting scholar in National Chengchi University, Taiwan in 2017. Her research interests include citizen journalism, media literacy, youth culture in the cyberspace, young people and their political engagement on multimedia platforms. Her publications include: Young people’s consumption of news on social media and demands on news literacy education in the digital age; Young people’s online culture and the Internet literacy education in the digital age. Savyasaachi Jain is Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) in Cardiff University, UK. He specialises in journalism and documentary, drawing upon more than two decades as a print and television journalist and documentary filmmaker. He also has extensive experience of initiating and leading media development projects on behalf of international organisations, supervising documentary co-productions and conducting workshops for journalists and programme makers. His research interests encompass journalism, its practices and standards, and international media systems. An Nguyen is Associate Professor of Journalism at Bournemouth University, UK. A former Vietnamese science journalist and an Australian-educated journalism scholar, he has published three books and about 40 papers in the areas of online journalism, digital news consumption, citizen journalism, science journalism, data and statistics in the news, and global media coverage of development issues. His most recent work, News, Numbers and Public Opinion in a Data-Driven World (Bloomsbury, 2018), is an edited volume on how data and statistics are used by journalists and received by news audiences. ABOUT THE JOURNAL Global Media and China is a peer reviewed, open access, scholarly journal that provides a dedicated, interdisciplinary forum for international research on communication and media with a focus on China. It covers both Chinese communication and media from a global perspective, and global communication and media from a Chinese perspective. The journal actively encourages both quantitative and qualitative approaches to media, communications and social studies while seeking to advance the field by publishing innovative and thought-provoking papers, reviews and discussions that open up new directions or shed new light on significant issues. Dr HAN Xiao Research Assistant, Social Media Centre, Communication University of China (CUC) Commissioning Editor, Global Media and China http://journals.sagepub.com/home/gch <http://gch.sagepub.com/>

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Announcing the #AoIR 2018 Montreal Keynote Speaker!
by Andrew Herman 17 Feb '18

17 Feb '18

Hello Everyone, It's my pleasure to announce #AoIR2018 Montreal's Keynote Speaker! Jason Edward Lewis is a digital media poet, artist, and software designer. He is presently the Concordia University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary as well as Professor of Computation Arts<http://computationarts.concordia.ca/> at Concordia University, Montreal. He founded Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media<http://www.obxlabs.net/>, where he directs research/creation projects devising new means of creating and reading digital texts, developing systems for creative use of mobile technology and using virtual environments to assist Aboriginal communities in preserving, interpreting and communicating cultural histories. Along with the artist Skawennati<http://www.skawennati.com/>, he co-directs Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace<http://www.abtec.org/>, Skins Workshops on Aboriginal Stortyelling and Video Game Design<http://vimeo.com/channels/skins> and the Initiative for Indigenous Futures<http://www.abtec.org/iif>. His other interests include computation as a creative material, emergent media theory and history, and methodologies for conducting art-led technology research. Lewis' creative work has been featured at Ars Electronica, Mobilefest, Elektra, Urban Screens, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, and FILE, among other venues, and has been recognized with the inaugural Robert Coover Award for Best Work of Electronic Literature, a Prix Ars Electronica Honorable Mention, several imagineNATIVE Best New Media awards and five solo exhibitions. He's the author or co-author of chapters in collected editions covering mobile media, video game design, machinima and experimental pedagogy with Indigenous communities, as well as numerous journal articles and conference papers. Lewis is a Trudeau Fellow, and a former Carnegie Fellow. He received a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and B.A. in German Studies (Philosophy) from Stanford University, and an M.Phil. in Design from the Royal College of Art. Born and raised in northern California, Lewis is Cherokee, Hawaiian and Samoan. I would like to thank Jason for agreeing to be our keynote and my fellow members of the conference organizing committee (Jeremy Hunsinger, Mary Elizabeth Luka, Melanie Millette and Cindy Tekkobe) for brainstorming such a terrific choice. May the conference gods continue to smile upon us as we sail the good ship #AoIR 2018 Montreal towards its terminus on October 10-13, 2018 Andrew Herman AoIR2018 Conference Chair, on behalf of the program committee Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Important Dates!: 1 March 2018 Submissions due for PAPERS, PANELS, ROUNDTABLES and FISHBOWLS, EXPERIMENTAL SESSIONS, and PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS 15 April 2018 Nominations for Nancy Baym Book Award<https://aoir.org/awards/nancy-baym-annual-book-award/> and Best Dissertation Award<https://aoir.org/awards/dissertation-award/> due 5 May 2018 Notification of acceptances for presenters 20 May 2018 Applications due for conference travel SCHOLARSHIPS and for DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM 1 August 2018 Early Bird Registration Deadline for all presenters 15 August 2018 The full #AoIR2018 Conference Program goes live. 15 August 2018 Deadline for Visa Letter requests (for presenters only - Visa Letters not provided for attendees) 30 September 2018 Deadline for uploading accepted, non-blind, final version of paper and panel submissions 10 October 2018 Pre-conference Workshops 11-13 October 2018 Main Conference Links: [1] https://aoir.org/aoir2018/ [2] https://aoir.org/aoir2018/aoir2018cfp/ [3] https://aoir.org/aoir2018/2018subinfo/ [4] https://www.conftool.com/aoir2018/ ?

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14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2018): First Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals
by Announce Announcements 17 Feb '18

17 Feb '18

*** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS *** 14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2018) St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, 15-17 October, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… (*** Sponsorship Requested to IEEE Communication Society ***) WiMob is an international forum for the exchange of knowledge and experience among researchers, developers and practitioners of wireless and mobile technology. For fourteen years, the International WiMob conference has provided unique opportunities for researchers and developers to interact, share new results, show live demonstrations, and discuss emerging directions in a number of contemporary topics in wireless and mobile computing. WiMob 2018 is soliciting high quality technical papers addressing research challenges in the areas of wireless communications, wireless networking, mobility, nomadicity, ubiquitous computing, services and applications. Papers should present original work validated via analysis, simulation or experimentation. Practical experiences and Testbed trials also are welcome. TOPICS WiMob 2018 will host 5 parallel symposia on: · Wireless Communications · Wireless Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity · Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications · Green and Sustainable Communications and Network Computing · Security on Wireless and Mobile Networks A full list of topics for each symposium can be found on the conference web site. CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS As part of the program of WiMob 2018, a limited number of workshops are planned to be held in conjunction with the main conference. The main aim will be to provide an international forum for researchers to present their early research results and share experiences focused on specific research areas. Workshop proposals are solicited in all areas and topics related to wireless networking, mobile computing, mobile and wireless communications, pervasive computing and networking, and services and applications. All papers accepted by the workshops will be published in the WiMob 2018 proceedings. All workshops will be held on October 15, 2018. Workshop Proposal Form A proposal to organize a workshop can be submitted in PDF or plain text and should contain the following information: · A draft of the CFP of the workshop (includes title, description, topics and dates) · Why is the topic area important? · Likely contributors and target audience · Organizing committee (chairs, list of potential TPC members) · Plan for workshop advertising and publicity (including workshop URL) · Biography of the main organizer(s) (100-200 words) Workshop proposals must be sent by e-mail to the three Workshop co-chairs: - Anna Maria Vegni, annamaria.vegni[at]uniroma3.it - Hossam Hassanein, hossam[at]cs.queensu.ca - Nirwan Ansari, nirwan.ansari[at]njit.edu PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are required to submit fully formatted, original papers (PDF), with graphs, images, and other special areas arranged as intended for the final publication. Papers should be written in English conforming to the IEEE standard conference format (8.5" x 11" - US letter, Two-Column). The initial submission for review will be limited to 8 pages. The final manuscript for publication will be limited to 8 IEEE pages included in the registration. However, additional charges may apply for additional pages. The conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore (after approval) as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the co-authors or a third party, otherwise it will not be indexed and archived through IEEE Xplore. Only timely submissions through EDAS at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… will be accepted. For more details, please visit the Facebook page for WiMob 2018: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… as well as the conference web site. IMPORTANT DATES · Paper submission: May 15, 2018 · Notification: July 15, 2018 · Final manuscript: September 1, 2018 · Workshop proposal submission: April 20, 2018 · Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals: April 25, 2018 · Preliminary CFP to be published for workshops: April 30, 2018 · Paper submission deadline for the workshops: June 30, 2018 · Workshop paper acceptance: July 31, 2018 ORGANISATION Honorific Chair · Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK General Chair · Abderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France Steering Committee · Abderrahim Benslimane - University of Avignon, France · Hsiao-Hwa Chen - National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan · Khaled Ben Letaief - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK · Victor C. M. Leung - University of British Columbia, Canada · Samuel Pierre - Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada · Dovan Thanh - Telenor & Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology, Norway Executive Co-Chairs · Wessam Ajib, Universite du Quebec - Montreal, Canada · George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshop Co-Chairs · Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA · Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada · Anna Maria Vegni - Roma Tre University, Italy TPC Co-Chairs · Abbas Bradai, XLIM Institute, University of Poitiers, France · Brigitte Jaumard, Concordia University, Canada · Ming Li, University of Arizona, USA · Qi Liao, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany Publication Co-Chairs · Abderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France · Corinna Schmitt, University of Zurich, Switzerland Publicity Co-Chairs · Abdellatif Ezzouhairi, ENSA Fez, Morocco · Chunxiao Jiang, Tsinghua University, China · Neeraj Kumar, Thapar University, India · Cristina López-Bravo, Universidade de Vigo, Spain · Roca Vincent, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France

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some tidbits ofr Aoir history
by Barry Wellman 16 Feb '18

16 Feb '18

1. I was the first keynoter at the first AoIR conference in 2000 in Lawrence Kansas. It was an amazing event, filled with positive energy and smarts and a sense of mission. Nancy Baum, altho weighed down by an imminent birth of a child, did a wonderful job running the conference. 2. Besides the elected presidents of Aoir, Jeremy Hunsinger was the glue that kept Aoir going -- establishing and running the DB, listserv, and providing a unique combo of wry humor, common-sense, and incredibly hard work. 3. I also got elected to the first board of Aoir, when it formalized. A key debate then is what I characterized as Quality vs Quantity. In short, do we refer papers strictly for the annual conference or do we allow in as many as possible. In my biased opinion, the latter won. 4. One unmentioned crisis is that the key organizer in the Toronto annual meeting was not doing the job, and several weeks before, a bunch of other Torontonians had to leap in and pull it together (successfully, I may add.) I recall Catherine Middleton as one of the key pullers-together, but there were others who can contribute their own age. (The ousted organizer is now deceased, RIP). YMMV Barry Wellman A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head Step by step, link by link, putting it together Streisand/Sondheim The earth to be spannd, connected by network -- Walt Whitman It's Always Something -- Roseanne Roseannadanna _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Network FRSC INSNA Founder Distinguished Visiting Scholar Social Media Lab Ryerson University Distinguished Senior Advisor University Learning Academy NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman http://amzn.to/zXZg39 _______________________________________________________________________

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NCA 2018 CFP: Playing with Perception, Toying with Intelligence:
by hyperborean7 16 Feb '18

16 Feb '18

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy , an AT&T LTE smartphone NCA 2018 CFP: Playing with Perception, Toying with Intelligence: re-crafting human communication, cognition and consciousness. Call for Papers, Panelists, Participants: No longer restricted to specialized groups or applications, ‘high-tech’ is everywhere. For example, incorporating many of the components and capacities previously only built into special industrial equipment, law enforcement and military technology, many consumer-grade items, including home security systems, domestic appliances, even children’s toys, now come equipped with 4G connectivity, high resolution infrared/night vision, two-way communication, and audio-visual recording capability. Considering another set of examples, from those mundane ‘conversations’ with Google Now, Alexa, Cortina and Siri, to some of the most sophisticated and convincing interactions with digital constructs of various kinds, every day more people either choose to live with or find themselves by default living among ‘intelligent machines’ and/or artificial intelligences featuring the impressive satisficing abilities of heuristic algorithms. We are in the midst of a culture-wide Turing Test as these systems continue to push the envelope toward convincingly simulating the experience of talking and/or interacting with other humans. As the technological augmentation and digital bootstrapping of our species continues to unfold, what specific changes to the human sensorium are in the offing? How are vision, hearing, memory and other components of perception and cognition being altered along the way? What does the future hold for the kind of communication, being and seeing in the world afforded by these everyday artifacts? Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological approach and McLuhan's general ‘prosthesis thesis’ provide some of the theoretical underpinning for what promises to be a collection of intimate analyses of recent consumer-level developments incorporating systems built around (or, designed primarily to facilitate) artificial intelligence and machine learning. What’s becoming clear is that many of the attendant devices and systems play with perception and fiddle with the phenomenological aspects of human experience in unprecedented ways. Contributors to this panel should focus on the present moment and emerging future of automated systems, AI, machine learning, augmented sensory apparatuses, remote communication and control systems, and the like. For full consideration send papers, working drafts, outlines or abstracts no later than March 15th to robert_macdougall(a)curry.edu . Those interested in serving as moderator or respondent should send updated CV by same deadline.

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New Report on Civic Media Practice
by Eric Gordon 16 Feb '18

16 Feb '18

Dear Friends and Colleagues, I’m excited to share a new report published by the Engagement Lab called *Civic Media Practice: Identification and Evaluation of Media and Technology That Facilitates Democratic Process*. Funded by the MacArthur Foundation, our report is based on over 40 interviews with practitioners and focuses specifically on those using media tools to form relationships and build trust in their communities. The report presents a method of process, paying attention to four specific activities: - Network Building - Holding Space for Discussion - Distributing Ownership - Persistent Input We provide recommendations for practitioners and funders as they create and support civic media practice. The institution of civic media is nascent. This report is meant to solidify common principles and provide direction for those invested in transforming civic life through media practice. You can learn more about the project and download the full report here: https://elab.emerson.edu/projects/civic-media-practice. Thanks, Eric

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Information, Communication & Society, Volume 21, Issue 5, May 2018 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 16 Feb '18

16 Feb '18

Every year, CITAMS*--like AOIR--puts out a special issue based on papers from last conference.** Here's the just-out latest. Even if you're not a sociologist, you should find plenty of grist for your mental mill. And no computers were harmed in creating this issue! *CITAMS=Communication, Information, and Media sectoin of the American Sociological Association. **I am proud of my role in initiating both the CITAMS and AOIR special issues. Barry Wellman A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head Step by step, link by link, putting it together Streisand/Sondheim The earth to be spannd, connected by network -- Walt Whitman It's Always Something -- Roseanne Roseannadanna _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Network FRSC INSNA Founder Distinguished Visiting Scholar Social Media Lab Ryerson University Distinguished Senior Advisor University Learning Academy NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman http://amzn.to/zXZg39 _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 08:42:14 -0800 (PST) From: "alerts(a)tandfonline.com" <alerts(a)tandfonline.com> Reply-To: noreply(a)tandfonline.com To: wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Information, Communication & Society, Volume 21, Issue 5, May 2018 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online Taylor & Francis Online - The new journals and reference work platform for Taylor & Francis The online platform for Taylor & Francis Online content Information, Communication & Society, Volume 21, Issue 5, May 2018 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online. Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) Special Issue This new issue contains the following articles: [showCoverImage?journalCode=rics20] Introduction CITAMS as a transfield: introduction to the special issue Jenny L. Davis, Jason A. Smith & Barry Wellman Pages: 643-646 | DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1429359 Articles Abandoned not: media sociology as a networked transfield Wenhong Chen Pages: 647-660 | DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1428658 The identity curation game: digital inequality, identity work, and emotion management Laura Robinson Pages: 661-680 | DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2017.1411521 Are older adults networked individuals? Insights from East Yorkersÿÿ network structure, relational autonomy, and digital media use Hua Wang, Renwen Zhang & Barry Wellman Pages: 681-696 | DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1428659 Does compassion go viral? Social media, caring, and the Fort McMurray wildfire | Open Access Shelley Boulianne, Joanne Minaker & Timothy J. Haney Pages: 697-711 | DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1428651 Inequality in digital skills and the adoption of online safety behaviors Matias Dodel & Gustavo Mesch Pages: 712-728 | DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1428652 The echo chamber is overstated: the moderating effect of political interest and diverse media Elizabeth Dubois & Grant Blank Pages: 729-745 | DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1428656 Professionalization through attrition? An event history analysis of mortalities in citizen journalism Ryan P. Larson & Andrew M. Lindner Pages: 746-760 | DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1428655 Armchair detectives and the social construction of falsehoods: an actorÿÿnetwork approach Penn Pantumsinchai Pages: 761-778 | DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1428654 Commentry Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Navigating Creepy versus Cool in Wearable Biotech Elizabeth Wissinger Pages: 779-785 | DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1428657 Beyond privacy: bodily integrity as an alternative framework for understanding non-consensual pornography PJ Patella-Rey Pages: 786-791 | DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1428653 Browse this free access collection on: Communication, Media and Culture in Asia. Please do not reply to this email. To ensure that you receive your alerts and information from Taylor & Francis Online, please add "alerts(a)tandfonline.com" and "info(a)tandfonline.com" to your safe senders list. Taylor & Francis, an Informa business. Taylor & Francis is a trading name of Informa UK Limited, registered in England under no. 1072954. Registered office: 5 Howick Place, London, SW1P 1WG.

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INTECH 2018
by ijwa＠dline.info 16 Feb '18

16 Feb '18

CALL FOR PAPERS Eighth International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2018) Luton, UK August 15-17, 2018 www.dirf.org/intech Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE, UK & RI (IEEE Xplore Indexing) CALL FOR PAPERS The First International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2011) was held at Sao Carlos in Brazil followed by the Second International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2012) at Casablanca in Morocco. The INTECH 2013 and INTECH 2014 were organized at London and Luton, UK respectively. The INTECH 2015 was organized by the Atlantic Research Centre for Information and Communication Technologies of the University of Vigo, Spain. The INTECH 2016 was at Dublin, Ireland followed by the INTECH 2017 at Luton, UK. The INTECH 2018 will be held at London, and it offers the opportunity for institutes, research centers, engineers, scientists and industrial companies to share their latest investigations, researches, developments and ideas in area of Innovative Computing Technology, which covers huge topics. The INTECH intends to address various innovative computing techniques involving various applications. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of computing technologies, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. This conference (INTECH 2018) will include presentations of contributed papers by invited keynote speakers. Conference papers will include innovative computing paradigms in the following topics: Network and Information Security Innovative Computing Systems and Applications in S & T domains such as – Algorithms Applied Information Systems Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Broadcasting Technology Cloud Computing Computational Intelligence Data and Network mining Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks Database Systems Digital Image/Video Processing E-Learning, e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government Electronics Environmental modeling and precision agriculture Fault Classification and Pattern Recognition Green Computing Grid computing Human-Computer Interaction Intelligent Condition Monitoring Mobile network and systems Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Payment Systems Peer-to-peer social networks Precision Farming Web Farming Signal Processing Soft Computing: Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems, optimization algorithms Software Engineering Intelligent Farming: Web farming, Web irrigation Ubiquitous Computing User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling Virtual Reality Visualization Web services WWW Applications and Technologies XML and other Extensible Languages The INTECH proceedings will also be indexed by dblp. All the papers will be reviewed and the accepted papers in the conference will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for indexing and will be indexed in many global databases.In addition, all the accepted papers (for Journals) will be published in the special issues journals after substantial revision and modification. Program Committees General Chairs Ezendu Ariwa, University of Bedfordshire, UK Saju Mohanan, Oman College of Higher Technology, Oman Ramiro Sámano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Program Chairs Jack Fernando Bravo-Torres, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Ecuador Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy Anabela Mesquita, Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administraç?o do Porto, Portugal Submissions at- http://dirf.org/intech/paper-submission/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: June 01, 2018 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: July 01, 2018 Camera Ready: August 01, 2018 Registration: August 01, 2018 Conference: August 15-17, 2018 Contact: intech @ dirf.org OR intech @ socio.org.uk ------------------------------------

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Opportunity: Digital Humanities Research Institute (deadline Feb 26)
by Kalle Westerling 16 Feb '18

16 Feb '18

Hello everyone, I’m the new coordinator for the Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI), which will take place this summer. I thought that our call for participation would be interesting to some members of this network. I wanted to forward this to all of you since the deadline is coming up soon – February 26 is around the corner. See the call below for more information. All best, Kalle -- The Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI) is a ten-day residential workshop to be held from June 11–20, 2018 at The Graduate Center, CUNY. During the DHRI, which is supported by an National Endowment for the Humanities Institutes in Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant, participants will explore interdisciplinary, digital humanities research and teaching with leading DH scholars, develop core computational research skills through hands-on workshops, and begin developing versions of the DHRI for their own communities. When participants return to New York in June 2019 to report on their experiences, they will become the core members of a growing network of distributed digital humanities research institutes, and their reflections will inform the publication of a guide to leading digital humanities skill workshops in a variety of institutional contexts. Short courses—or “bootcamps”—that last anywhere from one day to two months are an increasingly popular way to offer intensive training in digital tools and skills over a short period of time; however, these courses are resource-intensive to run, reach a limited audience, and rarely offer ongoing support. As part of a commitment to building a vibrant community of scholars who make critical use of technology in their teaching and research, the CUNY Graduate Center ran three week-long institutes between 2016 and 2017, which offered a combined 100 hours of instruction on digital research methods to more than 100 students, faculty, staff, and librarians across the CUNY system. Demand for foundational digital research skills remains high, as we have had to turn away as many participants for each institute as we are able to accept. We believe that all participants are experts in something, but none are experts in all areas. By fostering a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment where humanities research questions, methods, and values are most significant, we work to build a cooperative learning experience. Building on three years of leading successful interdisciplinary Digital Research Institutes at the highly diverse City University of New York, we have established an approach that leverages participant’s strengths, disciplinary interests, and research interests. Students work at round tables to encourage social interaction, conversation, and collaboration, and significant time is spent addressing questions about the appropriateness and consequences of digital methods, ethical concerns, project proposal development, and presentation of digital scholarship to multiple audiences. DHRI emphasizes foundational skills because we believe that it is the most effective path toward enabling digital humanities researchers to become self-teachers and mentors in their own right. Many bootcamp-style intensives prioritize instrumental outcomes, such as whether students can “write a for loop” or create a website. While these results are desirable, we find that students who know how to use the command line, read technical documentation, and reason about systems are more self-sufficient and better prepared to approach technology (and technical rhetoric) with a critical eye. This leads to second-and third-order effects as students teach themselves and teach others, and also provides a common conceptual vocabulary and skill set that serves as a basis for forming strong collaborations in the future. Applications will be evaluated according to the following criteria: * Commitment to attending all 10 days of the June 2018 and 2 days of the June 2019 institutes; * Demonstrated interest in and responsibility for “digital humanities community building” (This can be through a regional digital humanities group as a volunteer, as a post-doc in a university library, a visiting scholar at a liberal arts college, a faculty member creating a DH reading group, a curator or archivist at a historical society, library, or other humanities-oriented organization. Position title is not important. What is important is your ability to explain your responsibility or interest in building communities of DH practice.); * A letter of support from a group, organization, or institution stating they will support your efforts to run a Digital Humanities Research Institute (Support does not have to be financial. It should simply recognize that your activities are recognized and welcomed by the organization.); * Interest in helping to build a network of institute leaders through sharing of curricular materials and engaging in online community-support; * An articulation of a DH project idea that you find interesting and would like to pursue or have already begun; * An explanation of how you confront and overcome technical difficulties you have experienced in the past. We are looking for participants who represent diverse DH areas of interest (disciplines, methods, project-types), who work at a wide range of institutional types (universities, community colleges, libraries, archives, museums, historical associations), and who reflect an array of professional roles from graduate students to experienced faculty to librarians, administrators, museum curators, archivists and more. Ideal participants will be able to demonstrate strong communication and collaboration skills and a willingness to confront and overcome frustration. No previous technical experience is required. Applications will not be evaluated based on familiarity with existing technologies, though we are happy to hear about your aspirations and the skills you would like to develop for future work. Applications must be received by February 26, 2018. More information and application materials can be found on the website: http://dhinstitutes.org<http://dhinstitutes.org/>.

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