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Literature Review - App Store Mining
by Myles, David 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

Hi everyone! I’m currently conducting a literature review on app store mining. I was wondering if any of you could recommend papers that use app store data (app product info and metadata, users’ reviews and ratings, app rankings). So far, I’ve identified quite a few papers from computer science that develop extracting tools and perform sentiment analysis (among others). I’m now searching for papers that look at this data from a social, communicational, or STS perspective (for example: what can users’ app reviews tell us about social norms of use?). Thanks for your help, David PhD Candidate, Université de Montréal Postdoctoral fellow, Digital Media Research Centre (QUT)

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Professional Communication
by Jean Burgess 26 Apr '18

26 Apr '18

Dear AoIR colleagues The School of Communication at Queensland University of Technology is advertising for an ongoing (tenured) Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant or Associate Professor) in Professional Communication. The person would also have an affiliation to the QUT Digital Media Research Centre. We'd love to see applications from members of the AoIR community! For a full position description and HR info go to: https://tinyurl.com/y9euds8t Jean

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Reminder: CFP Mediating Change Conference deadline May 25
by Jacqueline Vickery 26 Apr '18

26 Apr '18

MEDIATING CHANGE CONFERENCE Date: November 1 & 2, 2018 Where: University of North Texas https://www.mediatingchangeconference.com/ Reminder: deadline to submit is May 25. Goal This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the roles of media in creating a more equitable, inclusive, sustainable, and just society. The goal is to bring scholars, media practitioners, educators, and/or activists together in one space so that we can all learn from and about each other’s research, creative projects, tools, and strategies. Submissions We are seeking submissions in 3 categories: paper presentations/pre-constituted panels, workshops, and creative exhibitions. See website for submission details. Scope Anyone whose work focuses on the intersections of media and justice is invited to apply; we are particularly interested in research, creative projects, pedagogy, and activism with a specific local or regional focus. We are also interested in collaborative and community-based research or creative projects; we encourage workshops and panels that include diverse populations including students, youth, and community leaders. We are conceptualizing both media and justice in the broadest senses of the words. We are open to media forms and practices that include, but are not limited to: - film, TV, podcasts or radio programs, digital and social media, webisodes, advertising and PR campaigns, mediated performances, augmented reality, video games, photography, zines, etc. Because we are interested in changes on multiple levels and in various sectors, we are conceptualizing justice to include issues such as but not limited to: - intersectional social justice (e.g. gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, ability), environmental justice, youth justice, criminal justice, immigration justice, media industry practices, representational inclusivity and equity, etc. Please circulate widely and don't hesitate to reach out if you have questions: MediatingChangeConference(a)gmail.com Thanks, Dr. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery Assistant Professor Department of Media Arts University of North Texas jacqueline.vickery(a)unt.edu

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SocInfo'18 Last Call
by Olessia Koltsova 26 Apr '18

26 Apr '18

> > Dear all, > > > > This is the last call for the 10th Social Informatics conference. This > year it will be held at Higher School of Economics, St.Petersburg, on > September 25-28, 2018, and will be organized by the Laboratory for Internet > Studies. We invite social and computer scientists to present original > research work on studying the interplay between socially-centric platforms > and social phenomena. > > > > As usual, conference proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes for > Computer Science Springer series. What is *NEW* is that up to ten best > papers will be published in the Journal of Web Science, either in addition > to proceedings or instead of them. We are also featuring two great > workshops on multiplex social networks and on practical topic modeling. > > > > Don’t miss the deadline: May 9, 23:59:59 (Hawaii Time) > > > > CONTACT > > > > socinfo2018(a)gmail.com <mailto: socinfo2018(a)gmail.com> > > > > Full details at https://socinfo2018.hse.ru > > > Olessia Koltsova > Director, Laboratory for Internet Studies > National Research University Higher School of Economics > room 216, 55/2 Sedova St., > 190008, St.Petersburg, Russia > Phone: +7 (812) 560-00-55 > www.linis.hse.ru > E-mail: ekoltsova(a)hse.ru > http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747 > > > >

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ICADIWT 2018
by ijwa＠dline.info 26 Apr '18

26 Apr '18

CALL FOR PAPERS The Ninth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2018) September 05-06, 2018 Porto, Portugal http://socio.org.uk/icadiwt-thai/ The Ninth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2018) is a forum for researchers to present the intensive and innovative research, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Computer Communications, Communication networks, Communication Software Communication Technologies and Applications, and other related themes. This conference (ICADIWT Edition IX) will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. Digital Technologies is embeded in the research activites of a large number of people and it ensures the Ubiquitous reaching of more number of people in the recent years. Research in digital technologies has been carried out in many directions using various resources and tools and on the other side, the application issues are addressed by more volume of researchers not necessarily limited to information and computing technology. Thus the proposed conference series realize its value and potential and manifest the requirements in the form of the international conference. This edition will address the following outlined themes (but not limited to) Internet Communication Internet Technologies Web Applications Internet Software Data Access and Transmission Digital Communication Software Digital Networks Web Communication Interfaces Adaptive Systems Internet of Things Internet of breath Augmented Reality Databases and applications Web Systems Engineering Design Intelligent Agent systems/ Semantic Web Studies Adaptive Web applications and personalization Actuators and sensors Robotics and Machine Vision Smart cities and structures Control Automation Human-machine interfaces Real-time simulation Digital Technologies for Mechanical and other designs Publication and Indexing The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and submitted for inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be submitted for indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be indexed in many databases as given at http://www.frontiersinai.com/?q=indexing The ICADIWT previous volumes are indexed in Web Of Science. The accepted papers will be published as a post-conference publication. During the conference, the pre-conference volume will be distributed. Important Dates Submission of papers- July 01, 2018 Notification- July 20, 2018 Camera ready-August 20, 2018 Registration-August 20, 2018 Conference Dates-September 05-06, 2018 In addition, selected papers after complete modification and revision will be published in the following special issues of journals Journal of Digital Information Management Technologies Computers PROGRAM COMMITTEES Honorary Chair Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, (Opole University, Poland) General Chairs Hathairat Ketmaneechairat, King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thailand Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Program Chairs Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, (Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico) Submissions at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/ Contact diwt(a)dirf.org or icadiwt(a)socio.org.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------

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24th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2018): Fourth Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 26 Apr '18

26 Apr '18

*** FOURTH CALL FOR PAPERS *** 24th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2018) St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, 29-31 October, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… WELCOME ISMIS is an established and prestigious conference for exchanging the latest research results in building intelligent systems. Held twice every three years, the conference provides a medium for exchanging scientific research and technological achievements accomplished by the international community. SCOPE The scope of ISMIS is intended to represent a wide range of topics on applying Artificial Intelligence techniques to areas as diverse as decision support, automated deduction, reasoning, knowledge based systems, machine learning, computer vision, robotics, planning, databases, information retrieval, etc. The focus is on research in intelligent systems. The conference addresses issues involving solutions to problems that are complex to be solved through conventional approaches and that require the simulation of intelligent thought processes, heuristics and applications of knowledge. The integration of these multiple approaches in solving complex problems is of particular importance. ISMIS provides a forum and a means for exchanging information for those interested purely in theory, those interested primarily in implementation, and those interested in specific research and industrial applications. TOPICS ISMIS 2018 is intended to attract individuals who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of intelligent systems. The goal is to provide a platform for a useful exchange between theoreticians and practitioners, and to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas in the following areas: · Active Media Human-Computer Interaction · Autonomic and Evolutionary Computation · Digital Libraries · Health Informatics · Intelligent Agent Technology · Intelligent Data Processing and Analytics · Intelligent Information Retrieval · Intelligent Information Systems · Intelligent Language Processing · Knowledge Integration and Aggregation · Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining · Knowledge Visualization · Logic for Artificial Intelligence · Multimedia Information Retrieval · Soft Computing · Text Mining · Web Intelligence · Web Mining In addition, we solicit papers dealing with Applications of Intelligent Systems in complex/novel domains, e.g. art, human genome, global change, manufacturing, social good, etc. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in LNCS/LNAI style (maximum 10 pages). All paper submissions will be handled electronically. All submissions will be subject to review by the ISMIS 2018 Program Committee. Papers should be prepared using the Springer LNCS/LNAI style (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…) maximum 10 pages. Papers should be submitted in PDF form via ISMIS 2018 Online Submission System: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . PUBLICATION AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES The ISMIS 2018 proceedings will be published by Springer in LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) and will be available at the conference. Authors of best papers will be invited to submit their extended versions to the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS) (http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrie…) published by Springer. Fast Track Processing will be used to have them reviewed and published. IMPORTANT DATES · Paper Submissions due: 10th May 2018 · Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 10th July 2018 · Camera-Ready Versions of Accepted Papers: 31st July 2018 · Author Registration: 31st Juy 2018 · Early Non-Author Registration: 10th September 2018 · Late Non-Author Registration: after 10th September 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Steering Committee Chair · Zbigniew Ras (UNC-Charlotte, USA & Polish-Japanese Academy of IT, Poland) Symposium Chair · George Angelos Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Program Committee Co-Chairs · Michelangelo Ceci (Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy) · Nathalie Japkowicz (American University, USA) · Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong) Special Sessions Chair · Stefano Ferilli (University of Bari, Italy) Program Committee http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…

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New Book: Creating Value with Social Media Analytics
by Gohar F. Khan 26 Apr '18

26 Apr '18

My new book may be of interest to some members (sorry for cross-postings). Kindle edition: https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Value-Social-Media-Analytics-ebook/ Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Value-Social-Media-Analytics/dp/1977543979 Companion site: https://analytics-book.com/ *Preface* Often termed as the ‘new gold,’ the vast amount of social media data can be employed to identify which customer behavior and actions create more value. Nevertheless, many brands find it extremely hard to define what the value of social media is and how to capture and create value with social media data. In Creating Value with Social Media Analytics, we draw on developments in social media analytics theories and tools to develop a comprehensive social media value creation framework that allows readers to define, align, capture, and sustain value through social media data. The book offers concepts, strategies, tools, tutorials, and case studies that brands need to align, extract, and analyze a variety of social media data, including text, actions, networks, multimedia, apps, hyperlinks, search engines, and location data. By the end of this book, the readers will have mastered the theories, concepts, strategies, techniques, and tools necessary to extract business value from big social media that help increase brand loyalty, generate leads, drive traffic, and ultimately make sound business decisions. Here is how the book is organized. Chapter 1: Creating Value with Social Media Analytics Chapter 2: Understanding Social Media Chapter 3: Understanding Social Media Analytics Chapter 4: Analytics-Business Alignment Chapter 5: Capturing Value with Network Analytics Chapter 6: Capturing Value with Text Analytics Chapter 7: Capturing Value with Actions Analytics Chapter 8: Capturing Value with Search Engine Analytics Chapter 9: Capturing Value with Location Analytics Chapter 10: Capturing Value with Hyperlinks Analytics Chapter 11: Capturing Value with Mobile Analytics Chapter 12: Capturing Value with Multimedia Analytics Chapter 13: Social Media Analytics Capabilities Chapter 14: Social Media Security, Privacy, & Ethics *Praises for the book* “Gohar F. Khan has a flair for simplifying the complexity of social media analytics. Creating Value with Social Media Analytics is a beautifully delineated roadmap to creating and capturing business value through social media. It provides the theories, tools, and creates a roadmap to leveraging social media data for business intelligence purposes. Real world analytics cases and tutorials combined with a comprehensive companion site make this an excellent textbook for both graduate and undergraduate students.” —Robin Saunders, Director of the Communications and Information Management Graduate Programs, Bay Path University. “Creating Value with Social Media Analytics offers a comprehensive framework to define, align, capture, and sustain business value through social media data. The book is theoretically grounded and practical, making it an excellent resource for social media analytics courses.” —Haya Ajjan, Director & Associate Professor, Elon Center for Organizational Analytics, Elon University. “Gohar Khan is a pioneer in the emerging domain of social media analytics. This latest text is a must-read for business leaders, managers, and academicians, as it provides a clear and concise understanding of business value creation through social media data from a social lens.” —Laeeq Khan, Director, Social Media Analytics Research Team, Ohio University. “Whether you are coming from a business, research, science or art background, Creating Value with Social Media Analytics is a brilliant induction resource for those entering the social media analytics industry. The insightful case studies and carefully crafted tutorials are the perfect supplements to help digest the key concepts introduced in each chapter.” —Jared Wong, Social Media Data Analyst, Digivizer “Creating Value with Social Media Analytics is one of the most comprehensive books on social media analytics that I have come across recently.” —Bobby Swar, Assistant Professor, Concordia University of Edmonton, Canada. Thank you, Khan -- *Khan, Gohar PhD **/ **Senior Lecturer Digital Business /* *Undergraduate and Graduate Convenor for Digital Business* *Waikato Management School **/** University of Waikato* *Private Bag 3105* */* *Hamilton 3240* *Ph: + 64 7 838 4233 **/* *gohar.khan(a)waikato.ac.nz <gohar.khan(a)waikato.ac.nz> **/ *Office: MSB.2.32D */* Web: gfkhan.wordpress.com heck out my book on social media analytics <http://7layersanalytics.com/> and digital marketing analytics <https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Analytics-for-Marketing/Sponder-Khan/p/bo…> ----------- Social Identities: || Blog <http://gfkhan.wordpress.com/> || Twitter <https://twitter.com/gfkhan> || LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gohar-feroz-khan/7/62b/42> || Research Centre <http://centreforsocialtech.com/>||

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JOB: Assistant Professor in Public Administration (Media) at CEU
by Cameran Ashraf 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

Dear list, The School of Public Policy at Central European University is seeking to fill the position of Assistant Professor in Public Administration. The newly appointed faculty member will help shape SPP’s research agenda, teaching programs and engagement with practice. Experience in research and teaching in the fields of Media and Communications, Security, and/or in the global South is an asset. More information here: https://hro.ceu.edu/vacancies/assistant-professor-in-public-administration Best, Cameran -- Cameran Ashraf, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Public Policy / Central European University Website: www.cashraf.com

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GIG-ARTS 2018 Program: Cardiff, 26/27 April - "Overcoming Inequalities in Internet Governance: framing digital policy capacity building strategies" Centre for Internet and Global Politics/Cardiff University
by Andrea Calderaro 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

GIG-ARTS 2018 - The Second European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies 26-27 April 2018, Cardiff Overcoming Inequalities in Internet Governance: framing digital policy capacity building strategies Organised by: Centre for Internet and Global Politics / School of Law and Politics / Cardiff University In partnership with: DiploFoundation, The ECPR Standing Group on Internet and Politics, The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet), IAMCR Communication Policy and Technology Section, ICA Division Communication Law & Policy Conference Description After having explored “Global Internet Governance as a Diplomacy Issue” at its first edition in Paris in 2007, the Second European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies (GIG-ARTS 2018) addresses power inequalities in internet governance, and digital policy capacity building strategies aiming at overcoming gaps in digital policy developments. Connectivity infrastructure is constantly expanding, while internet access is incessantly growing across countries, regions and socio-political contexts. In this context, new and crucial questions emerge from a governance and security perspective. As for the latter, new connectivity calls for cybersecurity capacity building strategies aiming at secure digital infrastructure. At the same time, from a governance perspective, traditional powers in the governance of the internet are increasingly challenged from newly connected actors who demand more influence in the transnational debate around digital policy development. As a result, despite claims for equal representations and diversity since the first World Summit on Information Society in 2003, the narrowing of the digital divide opens new and key questions: Whether and what inequalities exist in internet governance decision making? How is the rapidly changing internet geography and sociography reflected in the governance of the internet? Moreover, in order to increase awareness and enhance involvement of newly connected countries in national and transnational digital policy developments, what are the best internet governance capacity building strategies available? How do newly connected countries and actors build their digital policy capacity, and do they develop an active role in the transnational internet governance debate? Whether in newly or early connected countries, various kinds of divides persist across socio-cultural and political contexts, reflecting if not extending societal and socio-economic inequalities. Are such renewed forms of inequalities and discriminations adequately addressed in internet governance debates? What are the requirements for digital policies to actually empower people and uphold their individual and collective rights online? In order to answer these crucial and manifold questions, the conference program includes more than 20 scholarly presentations and contributions from policy makers from the European Commission, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Chatham House, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), ICANN, UNESCO, DiploFoundation and the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace. The conference will also benefit from the contribution of Professor JP Singh, Chair of Culture and Political Economy / Director of the Centre for Cultural Relations at the University of Edinburgh, and author of the forthcoming book Development 2.0: How Technologies Can Foster Inclusivity in the Developing World (Oxford University Press), who will deliver the keynote speech. Please find more information about the program below, or via the conference website: https://www-npa.lip6.fr/gig-arts/conference/ Program Chair Andrea Calderaro Centre for Internet and Global Politics, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom Program Committee William J. Drake, University of Zurich, Switzerland Marianne Franklin, Goldsmiths University Katharina Höne, DiploFoundation, Malta & Switzerland Nanette S. Levinson, American University Washington DC, USA Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom Meryem Marzouki, CNRS & Sorbonne Université, France Ben Wagner, UW Vienna, Austria GIG-ARTS 2018 Communication Details - Website: events.gig-arts.eu<http://events.gig-arts.eu/> | www.cigp.eu<http://www.cigp.eu/> Registration Limited number of seats are available, so please register by 20th April: https://www-npa.lip6.fr/gig-arts/conference/registration/ Or, contact: - Conference Format: events(a)gig-arts.eu<mailto:events@gig-arts.eu> | Andrea Calderaro (CalderaroA(a)Cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:CalderaroA@Cardiff.ac.uk>) - Logistics: Verity Marsterson (MarstersonVL(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:MarstersonVL@cardiff.ac.uk>) Venue The conference will be held in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, at the Centre for Internet and Global Politics, hosted at Cardiff University / School of Law and Politics. Address: Cardiff University - Main Building / Park Pl - CF10 3AT Conference program Day 1 – Thursday 26 April 2018 09:15-09:30 Welcome Session Andrea Calderaro (Cardiff University) 09:30-11:00 Session 1:Inequalities in Internet Governance Chair: Meryem Marzouki (CNRS France) - Global Informal Governance, Non-State Actors, and Models of National Policy-Making: Explaining Standard Developing Organisation (SDO) Decisions Through Multiple Streams Alison Harcourt (Exeter University) - Lost in (IANA) Transition: Inequalities and Discursive Struggles Within The “Global Multistakeholder Community” Mauro Santaniello, Francesco Amoretti and Nicola Palladino (University of Salerno) - Participation Matters: Potential Effects of the IGF on Internet Governance Capacity Building Dmitry Epstein (University of Illinois) and Brandie Nonnecke (UC Berkeley) 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-13:00 Session 2 – Cyber Capacity Building: Security Chair: Robin Mansell (London School of Economics) - Cyber Security Capacity Building: Strengthening Policy Advice Madeline Carr and Alex Chung (University College London), Atif Hussain and Siraj Shaikh (Coventry University) - Cyber Security a Shared Responsibility? The Role and Likelihood of Public Private Partnerships in National Cyber-Security Strategies as a Capacity Building Tool of Power Politics Madeleine Myatt and Detlef Sack (University of Bielefeld) - Cyber Security Strategies: a Comparative Analysis Domenico Fracchiolla (LUISS University) and Mara Morini (University of Genova) - The Necessity and Pitfalls of Cybersecurity Capacity Building for Norm Development in Cyberspace Zine Homburger (Leiden University) 13:00-14:30 Lunch Break 14:30-15:30 Roundtable: Politics and Policy of Cyber Capacity Building Chair: Andrea Calderaro (Cardiff University) The cyber dimension is increasingly central in foreign policy, and discussions around how to develop a sustainable internet infrastructure have become key to regulatory strategies at the transnational and national level. New levels of connectivity are welcomed as opportunities, but also increase vulnerability from a security and human rights perspective. Therefore, there is a growing demand to securitize connectivity, which is at the center of urgent demands to develop cyber capacity across actors, newly connected countries and beyond. CCB Strategies will be discussed by: - Panagiota-Nayia Barmpaliou (European Commission, DG Int. Cooperation & Dev.) - Robert Collett (UK Cabinet, Foreign and Commonwealth Office) - Emily Taylor (Chatham House) 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:30 Session 3 – Cyber Capacity Building: Human Rights Chair: Ben Wagner (Vienna University of Economics and Business) - The Repressive Potentials of Social Media Regulation: a Warning From Turkey To the World Sefa Ozalp, Chiara Poletti and Daniel Gray (Cardiff University) - Content Control Contestations: Why Authoritarian States Challenge the Internet Freedom Norm Daniëlle Flonk (Hertie School of Governance) - Two Generations of Online Speech Controls in Russia: from Filtering and Blocking to Creating a Copy of the National Internet Infrastructure? Liudmila Sivetc (University of Turku) 18:00-18:30 Key Note Speech at the Wales National Museum Speaker: Professor JP Singh (University of Edinburg) 18:30-20:00 Conference Reception at the Wales National Museum Day 2 – Friday 27 April 2018 09:00-09:30 UNESCO’s “Internet Universality Indicators” Xianhong Hu (UNESCO) 09:30-11:00 Session 4 – Cyber Capacity Building: Economy and Trade Chair: William Drake (University of Zurich) - WTO Digital Trade Discussions: Identifying the Way Forward Marilia Maciel, Jovan Kurbalija and Roxana Radu (DiploFoundation) - Data Flows & National Security: a Conceptual Framework to Assess Restrictions on Data Flows Under GATS Security Exception Martina Francesca Ferracane (University of Hamburg) - The International Political Economy of Digital Catching-Up: New Trade Agreements and Digital Latecomers Shamel Azmeh (University of Bath), Christopher Foster and Jaime Echávarri Valdez (University of Sheffield) - Towards a New Tech Meritocracy? World Society, Technological Capacity and Participation in Global Internet Governance Thomas Winzen and David Weyrauch (Mannheim University) 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:30 Roundtable: Power Struggles in Internet Governance Chair: Andrea Calderaro (Cardiff University) Discussions on how to enhance inclusiveness in digital policies decision making processes has been at the centre of internet governance debate since its origins. Enhanced connectivity has however made it even more pressing that newly connected actors are represented in the debate. As a result, there is an increasing need to expose existing forms of inequalities and understand how they impact on agenda setting and decision making capacities. Discussions on internet governance inequalities and strategies to overcome this gap will benefit from the contribution from: - Marilia Maciel (DiploFoundation / Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace) - Andrea Beccalli (ICANN) - Mike Nxele (UN International Telecommunication Union - ITU) - Xianhong Hu (UNESCO) 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break 14:00-15:30 Session 5 – Identifying the gaps: Actors, Diplomacy, and Regulation Chair: Katharina Höne (DiploFoundation) - Big Data – Big Capacity Gaps? Towards Capacity Building for Big Data in Diplomacy and Development Cooperation in the Context of Small and Developing Countries Katharina Höne (DiploFoundation) - Who Owns the Internet, and Why Does it Matter? An Analysis of ISP Ownership in Africa Tina Freyburg, Lisa Garbe and Veronique Wavre (University of St. Gallen) - Artificial Limitations and Meaningful Access: How Artificial Limitations on the Internet Affect Digital Inequalities Massimo Ragnedda and Hanna Kreitem (Northumbria University) - Who direct Social Media governance? An empirical study of actors performing the controversy around Social Media and content regulation Chiara Poletti (Cardiff University) 15:30 Concluding Remarks ----------------------------------------------- Andrea Calderaro, PhD Director Centre for Internet and Global Politics (CIGP) Director of PGR Politics & IR Lecturer in International Relations Department of Politics and International Relations | Cardiff University ----------------------------------------------- Personal page: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/330531-calderaro-andrea Twitter: @andreacalderaro

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2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018): Last Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce Announcements 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

*** LAST CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS *** 2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018) Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus, 12-14 November, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Deadline for proposals: 1 May 2018 *** Ambient intelligence refers to normal working and living environments being surrounded by embedded devices that can merge unobtrusively and in natural ways using information and intelligence hidden in the network connecting these devices (e.g. The Internet of Things). Such devices, each specialised in one or more capabilities, are intended to work together based on an infrastructure of intelligent systems, to provide a variety of services improving safety, security and the quality of life in ordinary living, travelling and working environments. The 2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018) has a focus on the role of Ambient Intelligence "Towards a Smart and Human Centered Internet of Things". The workshops at AmI2018 will enhance and complement the conference program by providing an opportunity to present new or emerging and cutting-edge topics of particular interest in the field and related areas. We invite workshop proposals in any topic(s) of interest to Ambient Intelligence and related to the conference. Each workshop proposal should be emailed to the two workshop chairs, and should contain the following information: · workshop title, · duration (half day or full day), · a description of the specific scientific/technical scope of the workshop, · a list of topics of interest, · the reasons why the workshop should be held within AmI2018, · details of all the members of the Organizing Committee (OC), · relevant experience of the organizers, · identification of the member of the OC who is the contact person, · the list of members of Workshop Program Committee, · a preliminary version of the Call for Papers, · the proposed structure of the workshop, · planned forms of publicity and publication plans (if any, or if they want to publish in the collective volume, see below). Workshop Acceptance Rules The decision on which proposed workshops get accepted will be carried-out through a two-stage process. Initially some of the workshops proposed will be short-listed, based on the quality of the proposal and the relevance of the topics covered. These workshops will later be confirmed at the Final Selection Stage if they have successfully attracted a sufficient number of reasonable quality submissions and the corresponding number of registrations for these submissions. Indicative numbers: half-day workshops should have at least 5 registrations and full day workshops should have at least 10. If necessary, workshops will be merged to provide a viable programme. Financial Support Some degree of financial support may be given to the workshop organizers, dependent on the success of the workshop. Important Dates · Receipt of workshop proposals: 1 May 2018 · Shortlist of stage 1 accepted workshops: 20 May 2018 · Workshop CfPs and Websites: 31 May 2018 · Workshop Chairs to receive papers from authors: 1 September 2018 · Workshop author registration 30 September 2018 · Accepted workshops stage 2: 15 October 2018 · Workshop day: 12 November 2018 Proceedings Accepted workshops can follow their own publication path, provided that they acknowledge AmI2018 in the publication and inform the workshop and conference organizers. For workshops that are interested, collective proceedings can be published in CEUR. Workshops Chairs Ioannis Chatzigiannakis (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) ichatz(a)diag.uniroma1.it Fariba Sadri (Imperial College London, UK) f.sadri(a)imperial.ac.uk

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