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CFP: Beyond Fake News: The Politics of Disinformation (special issue)
by Deen Freelon 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

Hi all, Chris Wells (UW-Madison) and I are coediting a special issue of the journal /Political Communication /focusing on disinformation. The deadline is Oct 1, 2018. The link is http://tiny.cc/polcom-disinfo and the full call is below. Thought there'd be some interest from some of you who I know are working on these issues. Best, /DEEN ************** *Beyond fake news: The politics of disinformation* Special Issue of /Political Communication/ Editors: Deen Freelon & Chris Wells Discussions of “fake news” rose to prominence quickly in academic and journalistic circles following the 2016 US presidential election. Scholars were quick to note the analytical deficiencies of this term, which encompasses a wide range of low-quality and potentially harmful news-like content (Wardle, 2017). The special issue we propose will focus on one such subtype, /disinformation/, whose political implications have become particularly pressing after the election. Although much disinformation is false, this is not its defining characteristic: rather, disinformation intentionally seeks to bring about a desired result using whatever messages are most effective, which can include truth, falsehoods, distortions, and inflammatory opinions. It is a type of propaganda in which the true source is usually kept hidden and the goal is often “to engender public cynicism, uncertainty, apathy, distrust, and paranoia” (Jackson, 2017, n.p.). It should not be confused with /mis/information, wherein sources believe the content to be true. While disinformation has been a standard military tactic for millennia (Weedon, Nuland, & Stamos, 2017), it has become especially relevant in global politics for several reasons. First, the decades-long, worldwide decline in news trust and democratic institutions in general has made publics more open to messages from disingenuous yet ideologically-friendly sources. Second, the maturation of social media as political media has given such sources a highly effective platform to spread their messages cheaply and quickly. President Donald Trump’s embrace of disinformation outlets on Twitter (not to mention his frequent use of the term “fake news”) demonstrates that elites are as susceptible as ordinary citizens. Third, until very recently, social media companies did not take disinformation seriously, which allowed it to thrive with impunity. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg initially discounted the importance of “fake news” before later affirming it, and the company stated that it failed to identify political ads surreptitiously purchased by the Russian government and targeted at US citizens (Leonnig, Hamburger, & Helderman, 2017). For its part, Twitter for years allowed accounts operated by Kremlin-funded disinformation agents to impersonate legitimate American political actors (O’Brien, 2017). While communication researchers have developed a focus on misinformation in recent years (see e.g. Bode & Vraga, 2015; Nyhan, 2010; Weeks, 2015), the study of disinformation within our field is in its infancy (for a pioneering study, see Marwick & Lewis, 2017). But the developments outlined above suggest the topic deserves much more scholarly attention in contexts around the globe, especially from the field of communication. The circulation of claims intended to sow discord and subvert democratic participation is alarming to the extent that their purveyors may succeed. What is more, the potential effects of disinformation may radiate far beyond those directly exposed to it. The possibility that any unknown participant in a media environment may be a disinformation agent may itself be weaponized: for example, both the left and right have alleged that the other side has used “paid protesters” or “crisis actors” in various contexts, such as the recent high school shooting in Florida. Ultimately, we should study disinformation because it undermines the fundamental assumptions of authentic identity and motivation that make productive political communication possible. And it is likely that disinformation will remain a core component of our political communication system for the foreseeable future. Thus, political communication researchers are especially well-positioned to analyze and explain the political dimensions of disinformation, as researchers in other fields often neglect to address these matters. We seek papers that explore disinformation as a political phenomenon in accordance with the preceding, whether digital or not. Quantitative, qualitative, conceptual, and methodological submissions are all welcome, but all should make a substantial contribution to theory. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): * Disinformation and information automation (e.g., disinformation-spreading bots) * Disinformation in comparative perspective * Disinformation in the hybrid media system and attention economy * Effects and consequences of disinformation * Historical perspectives on disinformation * Individual differences in susceptibility to disinformation * Theorizing disinformation * Typologizing disinformation: Understanding differences between state-sponsored, corporate, domestic, and transnational disinformation All submissions should run between 6000 and 8000 words and follow /Political Communication/’s style guidelines. We will review and publish on the following schedule: * March 2018: Call opens * *October 1, 2018*: Initial submission deadline * November 2018: Reviews returned * 2019: Revision deadline, final decision notifications, and publication References Bode, L., & Vraga, E. K. (2015). In Related News, That Was Wrong: The Correction of Misinformation Through Related Stories Functionality in Social Media. /Journal of Communication/, /65/(4), 619–638. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12166 Jackson, D. (2017, October 17). Issue Brief: Distinguishing Disinformation from Propaganda, Misinformation, and “Fake News” – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY. Retrieved January 20, 2018, from https://www.ned.org/issue-brief-distinguishing-disinformation-from-propagan… Leonnig, C. D., Hamburger, T., & Helderman, R. S. (2017, September 6). Russian firm tied to pro-Kremlin propaganda advertised on Facebook during election. /Washington Post/. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/facebook-says-it-sold-political-ads… Marwick, A., & Lewis, R. (2017). /Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online/ (pp. 1–104). Data and Society Research Institute. Retrieved from https://datasociety.net/output/media-manipulation-and-disinfo-online/ Nyhan, B. (2010). Why the “Death Panel” Myth Wouldn’t Die: Misinformation in the Health Care Reform Debate. /The Forum/, /8/(1). https://doi.org/10.2202/1540-8884.1354 O’Brien, L. (2017, November 1). Twitter Ignored This Russia-Controlled Account During The Election. Team Trump Did Not. /Huffington Post/. Retrieved from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/twitter-ignored-this-russia-controlled… Wardle, C. (2017, February 16). Fake news. It’s complicated. Retrieved March 15, 2018, from https://medium.com/1st-draft/fake-news-its-complicated-d0f773766c79 Weedon, J., Nuland, W., & Stamos, A. (2017). /Information Operations and Facebook/ (pp. 1–13). Facebook. Retrieved from https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/facebook-and-information-o… Weeks, B. E. (2015). Emotions, Partisanship, and Misperceptions: How Anger and Anxiety Moderate the Effect of Partisan Bias on Susceptibility to Political Misinformation. /Journal of Communication/, /65/(4), 699–719. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12164 -- Deen Freelon, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of Media and Journalism, UNC-Chapel Hill http://dfreelon.org | @dfreelon <https://twitter.com/dfreelon> | https://github.com/dfreelon

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CFP: FOCI/USENIX 2018
by jon penney 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

Dear colleagues, As a Steering Committee member, I'm very pleased to share this Call for Papers for the 8th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI ’18), which will take place this summer in Baltimore, MD on August 14th. The deadline is *Thursday, **May 24, 2018,* For more details, the CFP is here: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/foci18_cfp_020718_rev.pdf FOCI is an interdisciplinary workshop co-located with the USENIX Security Symposium that seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from a variety of fields focused on censorship, surveillance, and other practices that inhibit free and open communications on the internet. FOCI includes a "two track" submissions stream, one for traditional technical papers and another for "law and social science" papers drawing on law, policy, or social science, with more flexible formatting and page limits. Please see the CfP for more details. Best, Jon -- Jonathon W. Penney | jon(a)dal.ca | @jon_penney <https://twitter.com/jon_penney> | +902-494-4231 Assistant Professor, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University Research Fellow, Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto Research Affiliate, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University Web/SSRN: https://blogs.harvard.edu/jonathon/ PGP Key: 84CA 37F8 74B9 8FFB E008 1A57 DE82 754E 8E26 BC0F

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CFP Place + Research - 10 days left
by Jaime García Iglesias 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

Apologies for crossposting. Only 10 more days to go to submit to our Place I Call Research: Localising Sociological Inquiry Conference in June 15, 2018, at the University of Manchester. We welcome submissions for 15 minute papers from doctoral and masters’ students and early-career researchers across multiple disciplines, especially sociology, anthropology, economics, politics, geography, public health, and cultural studies. Some of the conference’s key themes are: - new and old spaces: queer, postcolonial and online contexts - addressing changing political and social contexts in our research - urban/rural dichotomies - place ownership, no-place, and homelessness - how social, cultural, and community challenges affect fieldwork - developing community-specific methodologies and research questions - how theories and knowledges are context-specific, as well as the potential for trans-contextual research Abstract submissions should be between 150 and 300 words and include five keywords. Creative research methodologies are welcomed. Scholars are encouraged to reflect on local engagement in their papers. Please submit using our website placemcr2018.wordpress.com and follow us on twitter @placemcr2018 Email queries at placemcr2018(a)gmail.com

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Ethical practices in scraping data from gay dating apps
by Lik Sam Chan 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

Hi all, I am designing a study to explore racism in a gay dating app (Jack'd). I plan to collect self-reported data of the user (freely available to anyone using the app) and types of people the particular user is interested in (available to premium users). I am planning to write a python script to collect samples from several major cities in the world -- therefore, I believe using automated data scraping technique will be more efficient than manually taking screen-shot of the users' profiles. I am aware of the recent controversy about scraping users' profile from Tinder ( https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/28/someone-scraped-40000-tinder-selfies-to-m…) I am also aware that some researchers have used automated scraping techniques in studying Grindr ( https://www.jedbrubaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/Fitzpatrick-Disclosu…) I am aware that the app prohibits data scraping so I plan to officially contact them for their permission. I am interested in ways in which, after getting permission from the company, I can collect data in an ethical way, including how to protect the privacy of the users. Regards, Sam - - - - - - Lik Sam CHAN, Ph.D. Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, USC liksamchan.com | @liksamchan

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CFP: ICWSM 2018 Social Media Research Ethics Workshop
by Casey Lynn Fiesler 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Hello all! As the next in a series of sociotechnical research ethics workshops I've helped organize over a number of years, there is a half-day workshop taking place at ICWSM (the international conference on web and social media) at Stanford in June. We are particularly interested in diverse perspectives, and examining the trade-offs of ethical decision-making. We invite even lightweight statements of interest as proposals - we would just love as many voices in the room as possible! Exploring Ethical Trade-offs in Social Media Research Organizers: Casey Fiesler, Stevie Chancellor, Katie Shilton, Jessica Vitak, Michael Zimmer Submissions Deadline: April 5 Notifications By: April 19 Workshop: June 25 in Stanford, CA More information: https://sociotechethics.wordpress.com/icwsm-2018/ Feel free to ping me with any questions! --- Casey Fiesler Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science University of Colorado Boulder www.caseyfiesler.com<http://www.caseyfiesler.com> @cfiesler<http://www.twitter.com/cfiesler>

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Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart System and Emerging Technologies (RISE): Research Vacancies
by Announce Announcements 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart System and Emerging Technologies (RISE): Research Vacancies (H2020 TEAMING Project) http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Research Positions: Research Associates No. of Positions: Twenty (20) Positions Category: Employment contract Location: RISE, Nicosia, Cyprus The Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart System and Emerging Technologies (RISE), announces twenty (20) positions for junior researchers under various Multidisciplinary Research Groups. RISE is a newly founded research centre in Cyprus aiming to become a centre of excellence empowering knowledge and technology transfer in the region. It is a joint venture between the Municipality of Nicosia, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Germany), the University College London (UK) and the three public universities of Cyprus - University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Technology, and Open University of Cyprus. The centre has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017 (Teaming Phase 2) under grant agreement No. 739578, as well as from the Cypriot Government, local and international partners and other sponsors. The research focus of RISE is on interactive media and it integrates the Visual Sciences, Human Factors & Design, and Communications & Artificial Intelligence, in a tight synergy that provides a unique interdisciplinary research perspective that emphasizes an "Inspired by Humans, Designed for Humans" philosophy. RISE is designed to act as an integrator of academic research and industrial innovation, towards the sustainable fuelling of the scientific, technological, and economic growth of Cyprus and Europe. For more details please visit: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…

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CfP HICSS-52 (2019) minitrack: Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Technologies
by Coursaris, Constantinos 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Apologies for cross-posting ****************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: 52nd HICSS 2019, Maui, Hawaii January 8-11, 2019 - Maui, Hawaii SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, COLLECTIVE ACTION AND SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES MINITRACK in the Digital and Social Media Track URL: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-52/digital-and-social-media/ Submission Deadline: June 15, 2018 | 11:59 pm HST Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 17, 2018 ****************************************************** CfP HICSS-52 (2019) minitrack: This minitrack focuses on three main themes: 1) theorizing about information systems through the study of collective action and social movement phenomena, 2) the application of collective action and social movement theory toward understanding technology phenomena, and 3) methodological advances that can help us better understand research topics at the intersection of social movements, collective action and social technologies. Our hope is to engage scholars and practitioners from diverse fields and generate cross-disciplinary dialogue. We welcome submissions from authors conducting empirical and conceptual research along with practitioner reports and case studies. Potential topics include: * The role of digitization in shaping the nature of organization and collaboration * Platform design implications for message / frame diffusion * Why and how collective action dilemmas arise or resolve * Innovation through collective action * Cross-level (e.g., individual to societal) impacts of social technologies * Brand hijacking movements targeting corporate competitors * Implications of cyberactivism and hacktivism * Fake news movements and propaganda diffusion * Effectiveness of hashtag activism or clicktivism * Corporate strategy / involvement in social movements to shape public policy * Botivists (web bots programmed for activism), online petitions, and other tools for digital protest * Viral marketing of ideas and social agendas * Social media capabilities and facilitation of echo chambers * Financing of social agendas through crowdfunding or bitcoin exchanges * Any application of social movement or collective action concepts (e.g., frames and tactics, organization, claim making, etc.) toward understanding of social technology phenomenon (e.g., crowdsourcing, large group collaboration, social media use, etc.) Minitrack Co-Chairs: Amber Young (Primary Contact) University of Massachusetts Amherst ayoung(a)isenberg.umass.edu<mailto:ayoung@isenberg.umass.edu> Jama Summers University of Tennessee, Knoxville jdsummers(a)utk.edu<mailto:jdsummers@utk.edu> Constantinos Coursaris Michigan State University coursari(a)msu.edu<mailto:coursari@msu.edu> My best, Constantinos Dr. Constantinos K. Coursaris Ph.D. Business Administration (Information Systems) M.B.A. e-Business, B. Eng. Aerospace Associate Chairperson, Director of Graduate Studies, and Associate Professor - Department of Media and Information Associate Professor -Department of Advertising and Public Relations Professor by Courtesy, Usability / Accessibility Research & Consulting - Outreach and Engagement 414 Communication Arts and Sciences 404 Wilson Road Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, USA, 48824 Tel. 517-353-3122 - Fax. 517-355-1292 http://www.Coursaris.com<http://www.coursaris.com> http://www.twitter.com/DrCoursaris http://www.linkedin.com/in/Coursaris http://mi.msu.edu http://usability.msu.edu Michigan State University Dubai Knowledge Village Block 2B, Suite G23, Dubai, UAE Mobile: 011-971-050-114-7532 http://dubai.msu.edu<http://dubai.msu.edu/> "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet" - Aristotle

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CFP HICSS-52> Collective Intelligence and Crowds
by Fichman, Pnina 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Minitrack: Collective Intelligence and Crowds HICSS 52 http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Track: Digital and Social Media January 8-11, 2019, Maui, Hawaii, USA This minitrack is open to analysis of collective intelligence, knowledge creation, and crowdsourcing. We think that assemblages of people and machines are making new forms of organization possible, and we are interested in research that explores these new forms of organization. The minitrack invites papers that look at crowd sourcing, at idea generation, at remixing communities, and hybrid organizations in which learning machines plays a strong role. We live surrounded by socially constructed identities – organizations, nations, websites – all of which are constituted through a complex interplay of interactions, a kind of distributed cognition. These Internet platforms allow people to aggregate knowledge from socially distant areas. They also allow diverse groups of people – and maybe autonomous learning machines – to negotiate identities. With these socio-technical configurations we can build collective intelligences that themselves will steer the quest for knowledge. These collectives can be self-catalyzing, deciding individually or collaboratively what to do next, out of which novel and practical ideas emerge. While these open design collectives rely on organic growth and slow embedding of members in the network, alternative structures based on crowds can be assembled more rapidly. Between the two extremes are a host of different organizational and social structures, in which committed members of a community create, improve, and share ideas. The output of these socio-technical systems often takes the form of digital media, and their traces are varied, ranging from ephemeral short messages to curated collaborative knowledge repositories. We are interested in 1) papers that observe, analyze, or visualize these socio-technical structures and their outputs: for example, analyses of open design and open source collectives 2) papers that analyze the phenomena of crowdsourcing, collective intelligence and collaborative mass knowledge production; 3) design research that creates and evaluates new tools and processes for crowds and communities; and 4) papers that simulate the production processes and outcomes through software. We are open to papers that explore unusual ways of modeling emergent organizations: models that demonstrate or reflect the influence of social systems on user behaviors, models that consider the multiple connections between people, technology, and institutions, models of technological and social affordances, models that break personal identity into sub-relations, models that examine the emergence of roles, identity, and institutions, as well as socio-technical models of deviance and disruption. We are particularly interested in papers that apply the foundational ideas of James Coleman, James March, Herb Simon, Mark Granovetter, Harrison White, Charles Tilly and related scholars to modern information systems. We are open to papers concerned with how to visualize large scale social phenomena. And papers that analyze the role machine algorithms and human processes play in our politics and our personal interactions. In sum, the content of the minitrack is open to analysis of collective intelligence, new sociotechnical configuration of knowledge creation, and crowdsourcing. Included also is the analysis of social interaction as a way of describing underlying social structure. Thus, the track is open to a wide range of content areas that lend themselves to the analysis of relations between people, collectives, and machines, as well as the products produced as a result of these relations. IMPORTANT DATES - April 15: Paper submission begins - June 15: Paper submissions deadline - August 17: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection - September 22: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication - October 1: Deadline for at least one author to register for HICSS-52 Conference Website: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Author Guidelines: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/ Minitrack organizers Pnina Fichman fichman(a)indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu> Donald Steiny steiny(a)steiny.com<mailto:steiny@steiny.com> Jeffrey Nickerson jnickerson(a)stevens.edu<mailto:jnickerson@stevens.edu> ------------------------ 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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Call for Papers: Hate speech as political communication; global uses and abuses (edited version)
by Matti Pohjonen 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Please find the edited version of the call for proposal -- there were a few mistakes/attributions that needed to be changed. Apologies for the inconvenience. ** International workshop/conference Title: Hate speech as political communication; global uses and abuses* Convenors: Dina Matar, Centre for Global Media and Communication & Matti Pohjonen, researcher/research associate CGMC* Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS* Date: 31 May 2018* Time 10:00 to 17:00* Call for papers: The public, and intellectual, mood about new media's promise to bring about positive change globally, has recently turned eerily grim: the wisdom of crowds has been replaced by disinformation and fake news; grassroots activism by populism identified by its use of racist, xenophobic and misogynist hate speech and images in public and media spaces. Indeed, it seems that one of the most urgent debates in our contemporary social and political lives has become the way communication is failing us. As key events around the emergence of the Islamic State/Daesh, the Trump presidency and the resurgence of extreme far-right movements in Europe and the US attest, a new lexicon of online political tactics has emerged researchers are struggling to come with a vocabulary to describe: terrorist recruitment campaigns on social media; coordinated troll attacks aimed at silencing critical voices; Twitter bots manipulating social media popularity rankings; and online ecosystems of fake news influencing elections and eroding the foundations of democracy itself. Yet despite these visible public controversies, there is still little scholarly agreement on how to understand the ill-effects of’ internet’ freedoms and relate them to the much-contested concept of freedom of speech. Much of the academic writing on hate speech remains concerned with cause-and-effect, and, in particular, to tracking how or whether such negative online speech can lead to violence offline. The expanding literature suggests that such online activity can indeed contribute to violence offline, but it remains theoretically unspecified what the differentiated role of “online” activity is, and how this causal or quasi-causal relationship can be determined in the first place. Furthermore, there is little or no attention to different, and perhaps contextual, understandings of the “right to communicate”, often referred to as the blanket term ‘freedom of speech’, nor to what specific media regulations there are in diverse political/cultural contexts. Finally, while much scholarly attention has been accorded to the rise of online hate speech in the Western world particularly in the context of migration and Islamophobia, little attention has been paid to similar phenomena in Asia, Africa and the Middle East where different socio-historical contexts and histories of media practices need to be acknowledged. This workshop seeks to move beyond the relatively safe purview of Western liberal democracies and address how global hate speech debates have also been widely used as a proxy for all other kinds of other purposes by different actors. Indeed, as Gagliardone at al (2015) write "accusations of fomenting hate speech may be traded among political opponents or used by those in power to curb dissent and criticism (2015: 10)." The freedom of speech organisation, Article 19 (2015: 16), similarly cautions against "too readily identifying expressions as "hate speech" ... as its use can also have negative consequences ... and can be abused to justify inappropriate restrictions on the right to freedom of expression, in particular in cases of marginalised or vulnerable communities." These concerns become more urgent to address in Asia, Africa and the Middle East and Africa where real contexts of protracted conflict and displacement, control measures by political elites and would-be political actors, as well as the absence of a consensual approach to understanding what ‘the right to communicate’ means complicate a causal analysis. Given these difficulties in understanding the widespread rise in the hate speech phenomena worldwide, this one-day workshop approaches these important debates about hate speech through a comparative perspective. Drawing on the concept of “extreme speech” (Pohjonen and Udupa 2017) – developed to foreground such culturally-situated contexts behind online hate speech in different parts of the world – the workshop thus focuses on how the discourse of hate speech itself has been used and abused as a distinct form of political communication by different state and non-state actors globally. Foregrounding cultures of communication in the analysis, allows us to focus on the symbiotic relationship between language, culture and politics as well as on diverse practices and particular histories of speech cultures. By using comparative approaches that address when and what form does hate speech take, we hope to complicate the discourse of Internet “risk” increasingly invoked to legitimate online speech restrictions and ask questions about how and under what circumstances do different online actors engage in hate speech, and with what implications, thus widening the focus beyond the West to the rapidly expanding online worlds of the Global South. We are interested in arguments/articles around mediated hate speech in non-Western contexts, including countries in Asia, Africa, Middle East, South America and their diasporas. Topics include but are not limited to: - Hate speech in the context of social, political and ethnic conflict - Hate speech and freedom of expression - Media regulation, law and hate speech - Gendering hate speech - Hate speech as a form of media practice - Vernacular language and hate speech - Hate speech as a form of political violence and/or resistance - The uses and abuses of hate speech as instruments of power and control - Genealogies of online hate cultures - Hate speech and theories of political communication Please send your abstracts (300 words) to Dina Matar at dm27(a)soas.ac.uk by 31st of March, 2018. Notifications about acceptance will be sent by 14th of April. Abstracts should contain an outline of the argument and how it fits the theme of the workshop. Please include a brief biography and affiliation together with the abstracts. ** Dr. Matti Pohjonen Researcher | Occasional Artist | Weary-eyed futurist matti-pohjonen.com | Twitter <https://twitter.com/objetpetitm> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/mattipohjonen> | Linked-in <https://www.linkedin.com/in/matti-pohjonen-3a087553/>

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[IEEE GLOBECOM] Call for papers: SAC on Social Networks
by Eugene 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Call for Papers IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) SAC on Social Networks (December 9 to 13, 2018 in Abu Dhabi) Scope and Motivation: Recently, social network research has advanced rapidly with the prevalence of the online social applications and mobile social communications systems. Online social networks have generated a significant share of the Internet traffic and become a dominant form of social interactions on the Internet. In addition to utilizing a desktop computer to write blogs, upload photos and chat with friends, an explosively increasing number of people are now used to share personal contents to friends on the fly with mobile devices, thanks to the development of broadband wireless networks and location sensing technologies. Facing this trend, researchers are increasingly interested in addressing a wide spectrum of challenges in social networks, such as developing social-aware algorithms for communications systems, identifying the static topological common structures and information/influence flows, analyzing the dynamic social media and evolutions of social graphs, and exploiting location-based and contextual information embedded in mobile social networks to create innovative applications. In light of the above crucial needs, Selected Areas in Communication Symposium in Social Networks will serve as a forum for researchers and technologists to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their contributions, and set future directions in social networks. Main Topics of Interest: In light of this trend, Selected Areas on Communication Symposium in Social Networks solicits original research papers on topics including, but not limited to: !P Social-aware network solutions in communications systems !P Cross-layer design for social networks and the underlying communications platforms !P Optimization and protocol design for mobile social networks !P Network graph modeling, measurements, simulations, and experiments !P Analysis of dynamics and trends in the evolutions of social networks !P Analysis and control of belief, influence, and rumor propagations in social environments !P Analysis of social media, trust, and reputation !P Privacy and security in social network !P Social signal processing !P Data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence in social contexts !P Infrastructure, platform, protocol design, and optimization for mobile social clouds and social Internet-of-Things !P Innovative applications in social networks and services for mobile Internet, multimedia networks, mobile e-commerce, and cyber-physical systems !P Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on social networks All final submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures without incurring additional page charges. Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted at EDAS. Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX formats are found here: <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htm l> http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html All abstracts/papers should be submitted to: <https://edas.info/N24297> https://edas.info/N24297

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