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CfA: Digital Stuff 2018 – Digital Chaos: digital technologies and social disruption - Cardiff University
by Chiara Poletti 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

Dear all, find below the new Call for Abstract for the 2nd PG conference organised by the PG interdisciplinary group Digital Stuff<https://digitalstuffcardiff.wordpress.com> at Cardiff University. Please forward it to anyone who might be interested. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Digital Stuff 2018 – Digital Chaos: digital technologies and social disruption 2nd Interdisciplinary PG conference Cardiff, 14 June 2018 Over the past few years there has been a dramatic and intensifying shift in discourse around digital technologies. Public, politicians, journalists and commentators have increasingly emphasised the potential for the digital to disrupt, damage and undermine the foundational aspects of society, democracy and the political status quo. In the political sphere Facebook and Twitter are widely accused of undermining the democratic processes through the dissemination of propaganda via networks of bots. Two of the most profound democratic upsets in the recent history of the Anglosphere, Trump and Brexit, are increasingly attributed to the manipulation of voters through algorithms powered by illicitly collected data. Journalists and academics struggle to explain the rise of “fake news”, and what this concept means for the status of knowledge in online discourse. Progressive political activists are intensifying their use of social media to challenge the status quo, with notable examples such as #metoo<https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/metoo?source=feed_text> directly challenging patriarchal power across many sectors and institutions. Meanwhile, reactionary movements are using social media more than ever to spread hate speech and organise on public platforms that seem reluctant to shut down their activity. Outside of and inside social movements, new technologies may present fundamental challenges to monetary sectors and governments: the phenomenal growth of cryptocurrencies may offer new and disruptive technologies for banking and finance, while increasingly sophisticated encryption poses challenges to governments and judiciaries to regulate and intercept communications. In the midst of all this, many countries are stepping up efforts to control their citizens’ activity online, from an increasingly authoritarian Turkey attempting to force platforms to regulate content, to China’s ongoing program of fencing off their citizens’ experience of the internet. This interdisciplinary event funded by Cardiff University Doctoral Academy will bring together postgraduate and early career researchers from a variety of disciplines, to address and discuss the above issues in an intellectually diverse conference. Our conference will take place on June 14th 2018 in Cardiff and cover the above topics and other areas of disruption in contemporary digital studies. Digital Stuff is an interdisciplinary research group, and we encourage submissions from a wide variety of backgrounds: from STEM and computer science, to social science, humanities, journalism, politics, arts and literature. We welcome a wide variety of submissions, including presentations focusing on ongoing or completed research projects, methodological issues, case studies of events, ethical challenges, manifestos, and areas of personal academic interest or expertise. Applicants who are approved for presentation will take part in one of three thematic panels in a single stream conference, with opportunities for detailed discussion and networking alongside attendees, and an academic keynote speaker. Below is a summary of suggested topics, but we enthusiastically welcome and encourage submissions on other related topics: * AI, bots, and fake news * Cyberhate, racism and far-right movements * Online movements and campaigns (i.e. #metoo) * Cryptocurrencies and encryption * Government regulation and civil liberties/human rights abuse * User data, data rights and social media (i.e. Cambridge Analytica) Please use the link below to submit your abstract for ‘Digital Stuff 2018 – Digital Chaos: digital technologies and social disruption’ conference. We use EasyChair for the submissions of abstracts and papers so you will be required to create an account with EasyChair in order to submit to this conference. Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ds2018 Abstracts should be 300 words, indicating name, institutional affiliation and title of presentation. Presentations will be 15-20 minutes, with Q&A sessions at the end of each block. Deadline for submissions 30/04/2018. For more info: https://digitalstuffcardiff.wordpress.com [https://digitalstuffcardiff.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/dslogo2.png?w=200]<https://digitalstuffcardiff.wordpress.com/> Digital Stuff Cardiff – Research Group at Cardiff University<https://digitalstuffcardiff.wordpress.com/> digitalstuffcardiff.wordpress.com Digital Stuff 2018 - Digital Chaos: digital technologies and social disruption Interdisciplinary PG conference funded by Doctoral Academy Cardiff CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Over the past few years there has been a dramatic and intensifying shift in discourse around digital technologies. Chiara Poletti PhD researcher Cardiff University Phone: 0044-7477450608 Twitter:@ccpollon Skype:chiara.poletti15

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CfP Workshop CityVis - Urban Visualization
by Nina Hälker 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Dear AoIRists (especially for those of you working in the field of urban visualization), we are happy to announce that our workshop proposal “CityVis”, an interactive workshop on urban data visualization, has been accepted for this year’s IEEE VIS conference in Berlin (21.-26.10.2018). The call focuses on the visualization of urban data, ranging from sensor networks to citizen science. We are particularly interested in exploring the “human-centric” perspective (i.e. decision support systems, co-creation and evaluation methods, etc.). We are looking for use cases that highlight current and future challenges, applications, contexts and technologies in the field. Please feel free to apply and to share the CfP with your friends and colleagues. The deadline for abstract submissions is June, 15. Important dates: 15.06. Deadline for structured abstracts 15.07. Notification of acceptance of abstracts 15.08. Deadline for camera-ready full paper 21.-26.10. IEEE VIS 2018 The full CfP and further information is available here: http://cityvis.io/workshop.html <http://cityvis.io/workshop.html> Looking forward to hearing from you. Warm regards, Sebastian Meier (Technologiestiftung Berlin) Nina Hälker (HafenCity University Hamburg) Sarah Goodwin (RMIT/Monash University Melbourne) –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Nina Hälker Research Assistant CityScienceLab HafenCity University Überseeallee 16, room E 007 D - 20457 Hamburg nina.haelker(a)hcu-hamburg.de phone: +49 (0)40 42827 4014 www.hcu-hamburg.de

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Call for Abstracts: Special Issue on “Making time in digital societies” in New Media & Society
by Leif Kramp 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Call for Abstracts Special Issue on “Making time in digital societies: Considering the interplay of media, data and temporalities” in New Media & Society Guest Editors: Christine Lohmeier (University of Bremen), Anne Kaun (Södertörn University), & Christian Pentzold (University of Bremen) Studying media and communication processes through the lens of time and temporality enjoys a long history. Waves of technological innovation such as mechanization and electrification have come with a profound reconfiguration of social time. This holds true for datafication too. Datafication – referring to processes of quantification and the transformation of evermore objects into data, as well as the automation of judgements, evaluations, and decision-making – requires us to rethink, once again, the relationship between media, data, and temporality. The special issue of New Media & Society will address the continuities and disruptions emerging in the nexus of time and media. It addresses the challenges of acting in the present, acceding to the future, and mobilizing the past in increasingly datafied societies. We assume that the changing mediations of time leave their mark on the ways we process and order the pace, sequence, and rhythms of intersecting lives. Contributions to this special issue will explore changes in the perception and conception of time that go hand in hand with technological change and provide a discussion on how to grasp these empirical variations theoretically. They are invited to scrutinize the frictions between a plurality of social temporalities and the tendencies to establish dominate modes of creating, keeping, and managing time. While the focus is on current developments, the issue also seeks to includecontributions that encompass a historically grounded and contextualizing discussion of the interplay between media, data, and temporality. Papers could address but are not limited to the following themes: • media use and the management of time • mediation and the communicative organization of time (e.g., through clocks, calendars, timetables) • digital media technologies in relation to acceleration, (de)synchronization, or deceleration • data-based modes of time making and time keeping • embodiment, affect, and temporality • media, time, and material objects • power struggles around mediated time and temporalities in movements of resistance or social change; temporal insurgency • cultural and social negotiations of media and time • temporal and technological arrangements between the past, present, and future • interrelations between time, media, and other activities Abstract submission: 1 May 2018 Notification of selected proposals: 1 June 2018 Full paper submission: 15 January 2019 Publication planned for 2020 Submissions: Submissions should include name and affiliation of the author(s), an abstract of 500 words, and 3 to 5 keywords. They should be sent to the e-mail address no later than 1 May 2018: mediatizedtime(a)uni-bremen.de Invited paper submission will be due 15 January 2019 and will be submitted directly to the submission site for New Media & Society: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nms where they will undergo peer review following the usual procedures of the journal. The invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee acceptance into the special issue. The special issue will be published in 2020. In case you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch: mediatizedtime(a)uni-bremen.de

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Terms of Service not legally binding?
by Charles M. Ess 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Dear colleagues, With apologies for spamming the lists - on behalf of both a student project and our development of further refinements in internet research ethics I'd like to ask the following. I've heard somewhere recently that a U.S. court has ruled that Terms of Service are not necessarily legally binding. If anyone can forward more exact details of the ruling, I'd be very grateful indeed. Why? There is considerable discussion regarding the creation of fake profiles as part of research into social media, algorithms, etc. I have the impression that this has become common practice, and this ruling may give some direct and/or indirect support to arguments for such a practice. (With important caveats, generally a good thing in my view, FWIW.) At the same time, however, Norwegian law and thereby research ethics, as a start, tend to be considerably more strict than the U.S. (and even, in some instances, the E.U.). I would like to figure out the differences and resulting nuances in the implications for research ethics - both for the sake of the general example and for an MA student project that I have the pleasure of supervising. Many thanks in advance for any tips and suggestions. All best, - 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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[CFP][DM and ML papers are welcome]IEEE GLOBECOM call for papers: SAC on Social Networks
by Yang DN 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '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: - Applying social network analysis to network design and distributed computing - Graphical modeling and analysis of networked and computing systems - Social network analysis to facilitate cognition and intelligence in networking and computing - Leveraging social network analysis to big data analytics, machine learning, multi-agent systems and artificial intelligence - Data analytics related to network science - Artificial intelligence (machine learning) related to networks, communications, and multi-agent systems - Cognition and related computing in general networking domain - Discovery of communities in large-scale social networks - Analysis of dynamics and trends in the evolutions of social networks - Modeling of information propagation and loss in social networks - Influence optimization for viral marketing in social networks - Analysis and control of belief and rumor in social environments - Analysis of social media, trust, and reputation - Privacy, security, and anomaly detection in social network - Data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence in social contexts - Recommendations in commercial social systems - Social signal processing - Social-aware network solutions in communications systems - Cross-layer design for social networks and the underlying communications platforms - Optimization and protocol design for mobile social networks - Infrastructure, platform, protocol design, and optimization for mobile social clouds and social Internet-of-Things - Innovative applications in social networks and services for mobile Internet, multimedia networks, mobile e-commerce, and cyber-physical systems - New services for social network platforms - Visualization and layout of complex social networks and structures - Social network functionality for health care, journalism, politics, and other related fields - 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. Notable dates are as follows: · Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2018 · Acceptance Notification: 15 July 2018 · Camera-Ready: 15 August 2018 Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX formats are found here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html All abstracts/papers should be submitted to: https://edas.info/N24297

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PhD position in Information Society with focus on Digital Human Science and Design
by Charles M. Ess 07 Apr '18

07 Apr '18

Dear AoIRists, With the usual apologies for cross-posting: please pass along to potentially interested candidates this announcement of a PhD position at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, University of Stockholm: <https://www.su.se/english/about/working-at-su/phd?rmpage=job&rmjob=5020&rml…> As noted within the description, the PhD project should be grounded within a current research strand such as: • Critical Design – Design intended to provoke and challenge norms and attitudes. • Ancestral Design – Socially sustainable design for generations onward. • Semiotic Engineering – Critical analysis of meaning and interpretations of interactive systems. At the same time, projects involving existential, ethical, and virtue ethics' dimensions will be considered. Many 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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2 PhD bursaries, open area, School of Information and Communication Studies, University College Dublin
by Kalpana Shankar 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

We have 2 funded PhD positions (4 years, EU fees + bursary; students will be expected to support teaching or research management) in the School, areas open. Full information is available here: http://www.ucd.ie/ics/ study/phdresearchprogrammes/ I strongly suggest contacting academic staff in the School if interested to see if there's a fit as we will not be considering applicants for the bursary if they have not been in touch with School faculty to develop a project. Deadline: 1 May, 2018 for autumn date (we accept applications later but would not consider funding) -- Kalpana Shankar Professor of Information and Communication Studies Head of School 2015-2018 School of Information and Communication Studies University College Dublin Belfield 4 Dublin +353(1) 716-8359 kalpana.shankar(a)ucd.ie

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Public Record Under Threat: News and the Archive
by Sharon Ringel 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Dear all, Please join us for a conference on *Public Record Under Threat: News and the Archive in the Age of Digital Distribution <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-record-under-threat-news-and-the-archiv…>*, hosted by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism <https://towcenter.org/?mc_cid=4639db7077&mc_eid=%5bUNIQID%5d> and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation <https://brown.stanford.edu/?mc_cid=4639db7077&mc_eid=%5bUNIQID%5d> at Stanford University on April 13 (1-5pm) Panels will feature journalists, technologists, librarians, and engineers who will discuss how they are preserving the first draft of history in an era of newsroom cutbacks, ephemeral social media, and disappearing data. Learn how newsrooms are handling the digitization of print content and the preservation of digital-born news. Who makes the decisions? What are the biggest challenges and how are news organizations solving them? The conversation will also address the importance of the public record and how reporters are using and thinking about archives, as well as how their practices and policies will affect access to content in the future. Registration is free and can be completed here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-record-under-threat-news-and-the-archiv… Best, Sharon -- Sharon Ringel, Ph.D. Columbia Journalism School, Visiting Scholar Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Fellow

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WEBCAST TODAY: Symposium – Disrupting Distance Evolving Connections and Disconnects in the Digital Age @BardGradCenter
by Joly MacFie 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Just kicked off. Looks to be interesting. First event I've ever seen streamed on Vimeo, seems a little hit and miss, So the later YouTube option may be best! [image: BGC] <https://www.bgc.bard.edu/>Today *Friday April 6 2018* at 1pm EDT (17:00 UTC) the *Bard Graduate Center <https://www.bgc.bard.edu/>* presents a symposium *Disrupting Distance Evolving Connections and Disconnects in the Digital Age <https://www.bgc.bard.edu/events/790/06-apr-2018-symposium-disrupting>* in NYC. This symposium focuses on recent advances in mobile technologies and new media and the ways that they are complicating, expanding, and disrupting our understanding of temporal, physical, and social distance. Papers presented will explore this topic through a variety of technologies that will help illuminate the changes, challenges, opportunities, and disorientations we face and their implications for the future. Keynote speaker is Professor *Shannon Mattern* of the New School, author of *Code and Clay, Data and Dirt <https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/code-and-clay-data-and-dirt>*. The event will be webcast live on *Vimeo <https://vimeo.com/263513237>* (no captions), and archived on *YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/user/bardgradcenter>*. *Agenda: https://www.bgc.bard.edu/events/790/06-apr-2018-symposium-disrupting <https://www.bgc.bard.edu/events/790/06-apr-2018-symposium-disrupting>View on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/263513237 <https://vimeo.com/263513237>Twitter: BardGradCenter <https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=bardgradcenter&src=t…>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10041#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10041#comments> *Permalink* *http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10041 <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10041>* -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Gender and social media?
by Darcy Besch 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Dear all, I am looking for an overview of the relationship between gender and social media for a 200 level Women's Studies class. Does anyone have any resources they might share? Best, Darcy Besch -- Darcy Besch Iowa State University Sociology Department - M.S. Student

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