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HICSS CfP: Game Scholars and Hawaii in January!
by Nathaniel Poor 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Games & Gaming (Social and Digital Media) 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) January 8-11, 2019, at the Grand Wailea, Maui The Games & Gaming minitrack focuses on digital gaming and its many social aspects. We are looking for work related to digital games and sociality: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods papers are welcome, ranging from interviews to big data analyses, or more broadly theoretical papers looking at digital gaming practices in general. Types of games studied may include mobile, social, free to play, AAA, MMOs, PC, console, multiplayer, and indie games. As part of the Digital and Social Media track, papers must contain a social dimension, examining, for example, sociability, social practices, communities (in-game, out-game, across multiple spaces or time), use of social affordances, or some other social dimension. DATES April 15: Submission site opens June 15: Submission deadline August 17: Decision notification September 22: Camera ready version due October 1: Registration deadline January 8-11: Conference! TOPICS Social affordances of games Network analysis of groups and communities in games Social practice (in-game, out-game, both) Player communities Fans and fan communities Community management Toxicity online Multiplayer games Cooperative and competitive play eSports Fantasy sports leagues Multigenerational play Intercultural play Streaming gameplay (e.g., Twitch) Game curation via sites like Steam URLS HICSS: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Author Instructions: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/ Digital and Social Media: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-52/digital-and-social-media/ CHAIRS Nathaniel Poor (Primary Contact Co-Chair) Underwood Institute natpoor(a)gmail.com Mia Consalvo Concordia University mia.consalvo(a)concordia.ca Kelly Bergstrom University of Hawai’i at Mānoa kelly.bergstrom(a)hawaii.edu ------------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. http://github.com/natpoor http://natpoor.blogspot.com/ http://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/ http://www.underwood-institute.org/

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#USSstrike: UK colleagues, please read before you vote
by dan mcquillan 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

**for the attention of UK colleagues on this list** [1] an appeal to UK colleagues to read one or more of these briefings before casting your vote in the UCU ballot: - The USS dispute and the dynamics of industrial action https://medium.com/ussbriefs/the-uss-dispute-and-the-dynamics-of-industrial… - UCU’s Rush to E-Ballot Reflects the Weakness of Union Democracy https://medium.com/@drleejones/ucus-rush-to-e-ballot-reflects-the-weakness-… for your information, i voted 'No!' thank you dan mcquillan [1] - pragmatic reason for sending this: UK colleagues are on holiday, many are not contactable via work or union email lists but still follow thier research topics (naturally) - other rationale: the current industrial action in UK higher education is also a dynamic example of the interplay of the internet and social forces, of potential interest to many here: see #USSstrike, #NoCapitulation, #NoDetriment for more

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CFP ASA 2018 (Oxford): Playful Bodies, Bodies at Play
by John McManus 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

* Apologies for cross-posting * Dear all, We are pleased to invite paper submissions to the panel 'Playful Bodies, Bodies at Play' at the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA) Conference (18-21 Sept 2018, Oxford) https://nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6858 Convenors: John McManus (British Institute at Ankara), Shireen Walton (University College London) Discussant: Allen Abramson (University College London) Short abstract This panel attempts a rethink of the theoretical and methodological potential of bodies by considering their role in the realm of leisure. Topics up for consideration include (but are not limited to): rest, play, gaming, relaxation, wellness, inequality, the environment and the (im)materialities of leisure. Long abstract Anthropology likes bodies. In recent years, concepts such as Flexible Bodies (Martin), the Body Multiple (Mol) and the Posthuman Body (Cerqui) have come to the fore, challenging divisions of the social, material, biological and digital. But attention has been disproportionately congregated at the 'serious' end of the spectrum. What about the playful body? The body at rest? The lazy body? Without pursuing these questions, scholarship on the provocations of the 'embodiment turn' risks being limited to issues such as health or ageing. This panel attempts a rethink by exploring bodies in the realm of leisure. Where does 'work' end and 'play' begin? Can more be made of the tension between leisure as rest and leisure as physical exertion? We welcome any engagement with the ideas of bodies in relation to leisure, play or relaxation. This could include rethinking bodies in relation to extant anthropological debates - on games as 'serious' (Ortner), play as 'deep' (Geertz) - but could also involve pursuing the topic into fresher fields, such as questions of inequality, the environment and other (im)materialities of leisure. How might bodies also take centre stage in ethnographic enquiry? What methodological opportunities are afforded by learning to think with bodies, not just as a site but as a method of research? There is an untapped theoretical and methodological power in questions of playful dispositions, moments, and movements. An exploration of bodily leisure offers the chance to renew and recreate anthropological thought and practice more broadly. **CFP closes 20 April, 23.59 GMT** Submissions should be made through the ASA/NomadIT system via the panel link above. Further conference information and submission requirements are available at https://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa18/index.shtml If you have any questions you may contact the convenors via the panel page, or email jmcmanus(a)biaatr.org John McManus & Shireen Walton

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CFP Deadline Extended - Global Media and China - Special Issue: Citizen Journalism in Asian Countries
by Xiao Han 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Dear All, We pronounce that the abstract submission deadline has been extended to April 15 2018! 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: April 15, 2018 (500 words) EXTENDED! 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 <mailto:zxbarbara36@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- <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 gch.sagepub.com <http://gch.sagepub.com/>

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London based EVENT INVITATION: Multi-Sided Trust for Multi-Sided Platforms - on Thursday 12 April 2018
by Ansgar Koene 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

Dear all, the following may be of interest to those of you who are based within easy distance to London. Best wishes, Ansgar Next week we have an excellent event taking place in London, entitled "Multi-Sided Trust for Multi-Sided Platforms". This is a particularly hot topic at present. In recent weeks, we have seen data analytics and mining being denounced - with the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica now being touted by the Press as "the data scandal". Some are now calling for stronger regulation of what data mining a company can or cannot do. Prior to these latest news, DotEveryone published this report<http://attitudes.doteveryone.org.uk/> last month which called for the UK Government to establish an independent regulator that understands how the underlying systems behind technology work. The intent is for a body which can scrutinise business models, metrics and algorithms in real time, and which is independent from government (so that health, immigration and taxation data can be subjected to the same level of scrutiny). The UK Chapter of the Internet Society and the Horizon Digital Economy Research Program at Nottingham University have teamed up to organise an exclusive free event at the British Computer Society in London, that will bring panellists and participants to discuss the issue, starting with Catherine Miller - Director of Policy at DotEveryone, the organisation that has published the report. Other expert panellists are listed below and this exciting discussion will be moderated by Professor Ansgar Koene, Senior Research Fellow at Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham. The discussion, likely to last approximately 90 minutes, will be followed by refreshments. Thursday 12 April 2018. Doors will open at 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start. Reserve your place now, as this event is likely to prove very popular! Multi-Sided Trust for Multi-Sided Platforms <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/multi-sided-trust-for-multi-sided-platforms-ti…> [divider] [https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F42885067%2F120…] <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/multi-sided-trust-for-multi-sided-platforms-ti…> Event to be held at the following time, date, and location: Thursday, April 12, 2018 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (BST) British Computer Society BCS 5 Southampton Street WC2E 7HA London United Kingdom View Map<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=5+Southampton+Street,+London,+England+WC2E+7H…> Attend Event <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/multi-sided-trust-for-multi-sided-platforms-ti…> Share this event: [Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2F4…> [Twitter] <http://twitter.com/home?status=I%27m+attending+Multi-Sided+Trust...+--+http…> [LinkedIn] [divider] Panel Focus: This discussion brings together representatives from different sectors to discuss the topic of trust on the Internet. This particular panel will focus on consumer to business trust; how users trust online services that are offered to them. Such services include, but are not limited to, online shopping, social media, online banking and search engines. Chair: Ansgar Koene - Senior Research Fellow at Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham, researching algorithm bias Panelists: * Catherine Miller - Director of Policy at Doteveryone, who have recently published a 'Digital Attitudes Report' http://attitudes.doteveryone.org.uk/ * Geoff Revill - Founder & Managing Director of Krowdthink Ltd, an SME/platform provider * Kate Green - ISOC 25 Under 25 Awardee doing research on user experience and trust in online health communities * Robin Wilton – Technical Outreach for Identity and Privacy at the Internet Society * Public sector representative TBC * Commercial Platform provider TBC More information on the ISOC UK England Web Site<http://isoc-e.org/multi-sided_trust/>.Share this event on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https%3A//www.eventbrite.com/e/multi-si…> and Twitter<http://twitter.com/home?status=https%3A//www.eventbrite.com/e/multi-sided-t…>. We hope you can make it! Cheers,Internet Society UK England and Horizon Digital Economy Research Program at Nottingham University. Internet Society UK England Chapter http://www.isoc-e.org/ contact(a)isoc-e.org<mailto:contact@isoc-e.org> This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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Future Big Data
by ijwa＠dline.info 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

Call for Papers Fourth International Workshop on 'Future Big Data' (FBD 2018) In Conjunction with the Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2018) http://www.icdim.org/workshop.php Berlin, Germany September 24-26, 2018 Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Technology Management Council Accepted workshop papers will be published in the proceedings indexed by IEEE Xplore. About the Workshop Big Data concern large-volume, complex, growing data sets with multiple, autonomous sources. The developments in the Big Data research lead to almost the birth of a new domain. With the fast development of networking, data storage, and the data collection capacity, Big Data are now rapidly expanding in all science and engineering domains, including physical, biological and biomedical sciences. This workshop will address the features of the Big Data revolution, Big Data processing model, data driven models, big data standards, and so on. Topics to be addressed in the workshop, but not limited to: - Big Data models and architectures - Big data architecture and design - Security, privacy, and trust - Data protection and integrity - Big Data mining, analytics and metrics - Data representation and structures - Data capturing and acquisition - Tools and technologies - QoS of big data - Social networks analysis - Big Data searching and mining - Visualisation of data - Personal data logging and quantified-self - Context-aware data - Big Data Visualization - Personalisation of data - Data contextualisation - Data Querying - Applications of open and linked data - Data-intensive computing, - Methodologies and cases studies - Data Usability issues - Storages and network requirements - Bigdata Network models and protocols - Big data in cloud and IoT - Big data processing large-scale datasets on clusters - Smart and connected communities - Big Data and Urban Data Analytics - Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities - Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management - Big data for Internet of Things Submissions Submissions should provide original and unpublished research results or ongoing research with simulations. The papers should be between 6 to 8 pages total in length in the IEEE format. * All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icdim/index.html) * Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed and indexed journals. (Indexed in Scopus, Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports, dblp, Engineering Index and many other databases) Important Dates Full Paper Submission: July 08, 2018 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 08, 2018 Registration Due: September 10, 2018 Camera Ready Due:September 10, 2018 Workshop: September 25, 2018 Main conference: September 24-26, 2018 Organizers Rita Yi Man Li, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong Submissions at http://www.icdim.org/submission.html For additional inquiries, please contact - conference at icdim.org

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New Posts: Professors, Readers, Senior Lecturers and Lecturers in Internet Studies, University of Huddersfield
by Cornel Sandvoss 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to share the below vacancies at the University of Huddersfield with you. We are advertising a number of new posts in Media and Communication with a focus on internet studies at the levels of Professor, Reader, Senior Lecturer and Lecturer. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to shape our new degree programmes in participatory and social media, and join our recently established research Centre for Participatory Culture. We welcome applications from internet researchers at all career stages. Please find further details for the following posts under the attached links: R3408, Professor/Reader in Media and Communication (up to 3 posts) https://goo.gl/z5WDc5 R3409, L/SL in Media and Communication (up to 4 posts) https://goo.gl/JbC1nf If you have any questions or comments, or are interested in an informal discussion of these posts, please do get in touch. Please share widely! Best wishes, Cornel P.S. In case this needs saying in the age of Brexit: we very much seek and welcome international applications. Cornel Sandvoss Professor of Media and Communication Head of Department of Media, Journalism and Film Email: c.sandvoss(a)hud.ac.uk<mailto:c.sandvoss@hud.ac.uk> Tel.: +44/1484/471411 University of Huddersfield inspiring tomorrow's professionals. [http://marketing.hud.ac.uk/_HOSTED/EmailSig2014/EmailSigFooter.jpg] This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability.

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Last CFP: ACM RecSys'18: ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2018
by Yong Zheng 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

*** Please forward to anyone who might be interested *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: ACM RecSys 2018 to be held in Vancouver, Canada, 2nd-7th October 2018 https://recsys.acm.org/recsys18/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Twelfth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018), the premier venue for research and applications of recommendation technologies. The upcoming RecSys conference will be held in Vancouver, Canada on October 3rd 2018. The conference will continue RecSys’ practice of connecting the research and practitioner communities to exchange ideas, frame problems, and share solutions. All accepted papers will be published by ACM. We construe recommender systems broadly, including applications ranging from e-commerce to social networking, and a wide variety of technologies ranging from collaborative filtering to knowledge-based reasoning or deep learning. We welcome new research on recommendation technologies coming from very diverse communities ranging from psychology to mathematics. In particular, we care as much about the underlying algorithms and systems as we care about the human and economic impact of these systems. Topics of interest for RecSys 2018 include (but are not limited to): - Conversational recommender systems - Novel machine learning approaches to recommendation algorithms - Evaluation metrics and studies - Explanations and evidence - Algorithm scalability, performance, and implementations - Innovative/New applications - Voice, VR, and other novel interaction paradigms - Case studies of real-world implementations - Preference elicitation - Privacy and Security - Economic models and consequences of recommender systems - Personalisation - Social recommenders - User modelling Authors will be asked to assign a selection of predefined custom tags to describe their paper in the submission system. Tags can be assigned to indicate algorithms, interfaces, automated or user-centric evaluations, for example. Reviewers will also report their expertise over these tags, and the information will be used in review assignments. PAPER SUBMISSION CATEGORIES LONG PAPERS should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. The maximum length is 8 pages (plus up to 1 page references). Each accepted long paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented in a plenary session as part of the main conference program. Each accepted long paper will also be allocated a presentation slot in a poster session to encourage discussion and follow up between authors and attendees. We expect the review process to be highly selective: the acceptance rates for full papers in the past three years was slightly over 20%. SHORT PAPERS typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. In particular, novel but significant proposals will be considered for acceptance to this category despite not having gone through sufficient experimental validation or lacking strong theoretical foundation. Applications of recommender systems to novel areas are especially welcome. The maximum length is 4 pages (plus up to 1 page references). Each accepted short paper will be included in the conference proceedings and presented in a poster session. The poster presentation may include a system demonstration. Selected short papers will be invited as oral presentations. Note that rejected long paper submissions will not be considered as short papers. SIGCHI SUBMITTER AGREEMENT RecSys 2018 is a SIGCHI conference and making a submission to a SIGCHI conference is a serious matter. Submissions require time and effort by SIGCHI volunteers to organise and manage the reviewing process, and, if the submission is accepted, the publication and presentation process. Thus, anyone who submits to RecSys 2018 implicitly confirms the following statements: 1. I confirm that this submission is the work of myself and my co-authors. 2. I confirm that I or my co-authors hold copyright to the content, and have obtained appropriate permissions for any portions of the content that are copyrighted by others. 3. I confirm that any research reported in this submission involving human subjects has gone through the appropriate approval process at my institution. 4. I confirm that if this paper is accepted, I or one of my co-authors will attend the conference. Papers that are not presented at the conference by an author may be removed from the proceedings at the discretion of the program chairs. PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically. RecSys 2018 submissions should be prepared according to the standard double-column ACM SIG proceedings format. Additional information about formatting and style files is available online <http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html>. Papers must be submitted to PCS2 by 23:59, AoE (Anywhere on Earth) on May 7th, 2018. There will be no extensions to the submission deadline. The peer review process is double-blind (i.e. anonymised). This means that all submissions must not include information identifying the authors or their organisation. Specifically, do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, anonymise citations to your previous work and avoid providing any other information that would allow to identify the authors, such as acknowledgments and funding. Please take note that the official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submission deadline: April 30th, 2018 - Paper submission deadline: May 7th, 2018 - Author notification: July 9th, 2018 - Camera-ready version deadline: August 6th, 2018 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. PROGRAM CHAIRS - Xavier Amatriain, Curai, USA - John O’Donovan, UCSB, USA

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CFP: The 3rd IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress - Athens, Greece, 12-15 Aug. 2018
by Kevin Wang 02 Apr '18

02 Apr '18

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 3rd IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2018) http://cyber-science.org/2018/ Athens, Greece, 12-15 August 2018 Cyber Science for Cyber-enabled New Worlds INTRODUCTION --------------------- The modern digitized world has led to the emergence of a new paradigm on global information networks and infrastructures known as Cyberspace, which bring seamless integration of physical, social and mental spaces. Cyberspace is becoming an integral part of our daily life from learning and entertainment to business and cultural activities. To address these emerging challenges, there is a need to establish new science and research portfolios that incorporate cyber-physical, cyber-social and cyber-mental technologies together in a coherent manner to deliver the vision of Cyberspace. This is the aim of the IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech), which was successfully held first in Auckland (New Zealand) in 2016 and then in Orlando (USA) in 2017. IEEE CyberSciTech 2018 is to continually offer a common platform for scientists, researchers and engineers to share their latest ideas and to exchange the latest developments and outcomes in their research and technologies, with a broad scope of cyber-related science, technology and application topics to understand and shape cyber-enabled new worlds. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------- Workshop Proposal Due: Feb. 10, 2018 Regular Paper Submission Due: Apr. 30, 2018 (Extended) Wksp/SS/Poster Paper Due: Apr. 30, 2018 Authors Notification: May 30, 2018 Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2018 SCOPE AND TRACKS -------------------------- Regular Tracks Track 1: Cyberspace & Cyber Security Track 2: Cyber Physical Computing & Systems Track 3: Cyber Social Computing & Networks Track 4: Cyber Intelligence, Life & Mind Work-in-Progress Track Report on early or ongoing research activities within the scope of CyberSciTech Poster/Demo Track Describe a vision, technique or working system within the scope of CyberSciTech Special Issues World Wide Web Journal, Topic: "Smart Computing and Cyber Technology for Cyberization" Information Systems Frontiers, Topic: "Mitigating Cyber Threats and Defense in Data Intensive Smart Cities" Information Fusion, Topic: "Data Fusion in Heterogeneous Networks" IEEE Access, Topic: "Towards Service-Centric Internet of Things (IoT): >From Modeling to Practice" Computers & Electrical Engineering, Topic: "Advanced Techniques and Emerging Trends in Cyber-Social Computing" Workshop and Special Sessions http://cyber-science.org/2018/workshops-special-sessions.html The 3rd International Workshop on Emerging Dependable Computing System Technologies and Applications The 1st International Workshop on Healthcare with Intelligent Sensing, System, and Data Special Session on Cyber Social Computing and Cyber-Enabled Applications Special Session on Computing and Applications for Cyber Internet of Things Special Session on CyBerSciTech Smart and Sustainable IT Tutorial http://cyber-science.org/2018/tutorial.html SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit their original work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Regular, work-in-progress (WiP), workshop/special session, poster papers all need to be in IEEE CS format and via EDAS https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24490. A regular paper is between 6-8 pages. A WiP, workshop, or special session paper should be between 4-6 pages and a poster paper should be between 2-4 pages.

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Distraction and its Discontents--Essay by Geert Lovink
by Geert Lovink 02 Apr '18

02 Apr '18

---Distraction and its Discontents--- Ebbs and flows in social media sensibility By Geert Lovink http://networkcultures.org/geert/2018/03/27/distraction/ <http://networkcultures.org/geert/2018/03/27/distraction/> (full version) https://www.eurozine.com/distraction-and-its-discontents/ <https://www.eurozine.com/distraction-and-its-discontents/> (short version) German translation of the full version in the new edition of Lettre International Spanish translation here: https://andoenpando.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/https-andoenpando-wordpress-co… <https://andoenpando.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/https-andoenpando-wordpress-co…> Disillusion with social media only stimulates the search for ever more refined techniques of manipulation. Detoxing won’t help: it is collective action, not will power, that can free us from the permanent state of distraction. More later on the strategies of #deletefacebook. Geert

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