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Call for Grant Proposals: Twitter Conversational Health Metrics
by Proferes, Nicholas 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Hi all, This just came across my radar and may be of interest to folks here: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/twitter-health-… Twitter has put out a call for proposals on measuring the health of conversation on the platform. Cut and paste from the site below: *** We're committing to helping increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation around the world, and to hold ourselves publicly accountable toward progress. By measuring our contribution to the overall health of the public conversation, we believe we can more holistically approach and measure our impact on the world for years to come. Twitter's health will be built and measured by how we help encourage more healthy debate, conversations, and critical thinking; conversely, abuse, spam and manipulation will detract from it. We are looking to partner with outside experts to help us identify how we measure the health of Twitter, keep us accountable to share our progress with the world and establish a way forward for the long-term. This approach is inspired by work from others in the industry. Cortico, a non-profit research organization, has spent time to more deeply understand the concept of measuring conversational health and developed four indicators to measure it: shared attention, shared reality, variety of opinion, and receptivity. We believe that we can identify indicators of conversational health that are even more specific to Twitter and its impact. We don't have all of the answers and cannot do this alone, but know that the outcome will be stronger when we look to experts around the world for counsel and support. If you're interested in helping us define what health means for Twitter and how we should approach measuring it, please submit your proposal through the form below by Friday, April 13. To Apply Applicants should submit a proposal through the online form available below by Friday, April 13, that includes: Contact information (name, email, organizational details) Your proposed health metrics, and methods for capturing, measuring, evaluating and reporting on such metrics Anticipated resource requirements and methodology Proposed output from your proposal and estimated time needed to capture, measure and evaluate health metrics Relevant, peer-reviewed, publications and papers Please make clear in your proposal if this is a joint application with another institution. Award Successful applicants will collaborate directly with Twitter's team, receive public data access and meaningful funding for their research. Funding will be provided as an unrestricted gift to the proposer's organization(s), to be provided in full at the start of the project. Our expectation is that successful projects will produce peer-reviewed, publicly available, open-access research articles and open source software whenever possible. Timeline Submissions are due Friday, April 13, and selected applicants will be invited to share further details on their proposals during May and June. We expect to announce the first selected projects in July. Terms of Agreement This proposal request in no way constitutes an agreement between Twitter and any applicant. The issuance of this proposal request does not imply that Twitter is making an offer to do business. Twitter reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel this solicitation and proposal request at any time during the process. This proposal request is not and shall not be considered an "agreement to negotiate." Twitter reserves the right to make any award, group of awards, or no award as it determines in its sole discretion. Twitter may, in its discretion, amend, supplement, terminate, modify, negotiate or otherwise change any provision or part of this proposal request, including but not limited to the evaluation criteria, the process used for evaluation, and/or the expected timeline, at any time prior. Any award of this contract will be made to applicant(s) at the sole discretion of Twitter after consideration of the factors stated above. Twitter shall provide only public Twitter data (which shall be used solely for the purposes stated above) and such use shall be subject to additional terms and conditions (including, but not limited to, terms similar to Twitter's Developer Terms). Further terms may be included in a contract with successful applications. Submit your proposal here: https://goo.gl/forms/R8SPHRMNIio49yCF2 *** --- Nicholas Proferes Assistant Professor School of Information Science College of Communication & Information University of Kentucky

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Two lecturer posts in Digital Media and Society (1 fixed-term) @ University of Sheffield
by Helen Kennedy 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

The Department of Sociological Studies at The University of Sheffield wishes to recruit a permanent Lecturer in Digital Media and Society and a fixed-term Lecturer in Digital Media and Society for 24 months, both posts starting on 1 September 2018. Successful candidates will play a key role in contributing to the Department’s portfolio, maintaining its high standards of teaching through delivering modules in Digital Media and Society on BA and MA programmes in this area. You will have an interest in how the digital relates to core social issues, for example, identity, inequality, everyday life, work, the life course. You will teach or run modules in some (but not all) of the following areas at BA or MA level: - Researching Digital Society - Digital Methods - Visual Methods - Digital Identity - Social Media and Society - Media Studies - Digital Media and Society Work Placement You will be expected to make a contribution to undergraduate and MA dissertation supervision as appropriate. You will have a PhD in relevant discipline. Expertise in Digital Media and Society and experience of teaching in the subject area, ideally at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, is essential. You will have a growing record of quality research publications and will develop your research profile in line with the Departmental Research Strategy, through personal research, applying for research funding, and supervising research students. You will also take on a Departmental administrative role. *Job Reference Number:* UOS018602 *Contract Type:* 2 posts, 1 fixed-term from 1 September for 24 months *Department:* Department of Sociological Studies *Salary:* Grade 8 £39,992 to £47,722 per annum, with potential to progress to £53,691 through sustained exceptional contribution (open ended position) *Closing Date:* 29th March 2018 *Details:* *https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs <https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs>* > current vacancies > search ‘digital’ (please don’t email asking for a specific URL, it doesn’t work to copy and paste this). *Please specify in your job application whether you wish to be considered for the permanent and/or the fixed term position.* -- Professor Helen Kennedy, Chair in Digital Society University of Sheffield T: 0114 2226488 E: h.kennedy(a)sheffield.ac.uk FORTHCOMING ARTICLE: 'Living with data: aligning data studies and data activism through a focus on everyday experiences of datafication', *Krisis*, 2018.

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CfP for papers on mobiles and news
by Rich Ling 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Dear all, If you have a great article on the consumption of news via mobile devices, here is a call for papers for the Journal Digital Journalism. My colleague Andrew Duffy is leading it along with Nuri Kim. Oscar Oscar T. Westlund is the general editor. The CfP is at: http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ah/rdij-si-mobile-1q2018?utm_source=CPB&… -- Rich L.

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