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ALW2: 2nd Workshop on Abusive Language Online
by Sarah Florini 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

Hi, all. Jacque Wernimont ask I forward this to the list. Best, Sarah ----- Friends and colleagues - I am a member of the organizing committee for this workshop and I am particularly keen to have humanists, social scientists, and artists engaged too. If you have questions about format or any thing else related to the CfP, please feel free to contact me directly. I hope to see some of you in Brussels for this timely (feels sadly evergreen) event! ALW2: 2nd Workshop on Abusive Language Online EMNLP 2018 (Brussels, Belgium), October 31st or November 1st, 2018 Submission deadline: July 20th, 2018 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/alw2018 <https://sites.google.com/view/alw2018> Submission link: https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2018/ALW2/ <https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2018/ALW2/> Overview Interaction amongst users on social networking platforms can enable constructive and insightful conversations and civic participation; however, on many sites that encourage user interaction, verbal abuse has become commonplace, leading to negative outcomes such as cyberbullying, hate speech, and scapegoating. In online contexts, aggressive behavior may be more frequent than in face-to-face interaction, which can poison the social climates within online communities. The last few years have seen a surge in such abusive online behavior, leaving governments, social media platforms, and individuals struggling to deal with the consequences. For instance, in 2015, Twitter’s CEO publicly admitted that online abuse on their platform was resulting in users leaving the platform, and in some cases even having to leave their homes. More recently, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft pledged to remove hate speech from their platforms within 24 hours in accordance with the EU commission code of conduct and face fines of up to €50M in Germany if they systematically fail to remove abusive content within 24 hours. While governance demands the ability to respond quickly and at scale, we do not yet have effective human or technical processes that can address this need. Abusive language can often be extremely subtle and highly context dependent. Thus we are challenged to develop scalable computational methods that can reliably and efficiently detect and mitigate the use of abusive language online within variable and evolving contexts. As a field that works directly with computational analysis of language, NLP (Natural Language Processing) is in a unique position to address this problem. Recently there have been a greater number of papers dealing with abusive language in the computational linguistics community. Abusive language is not a stable or simple target: misclassification of regular conversation as abusive can severely impact users’ freedom of expression and reputation, while misclassification of abusive conversations as unproblematic on the other hand maintains the status quo of online communities as unsafe environments. Clearly, there is still a great deal of work to be done in this area. More practically, as research into detecting abusive language is still in its infancy, the research community has yet to agree upon a suitable typology of abusive content as well as upon standards and metrics for proper evaluation, where research in media studies, rhetorical analysis, and cultural analysis can offer many insights. In this second edition of this workshop, we continue to emphasize the computational detection of abusive language as informed by interdisciplinary scholarship and community experience. We invite paper submissions describing unpublished work from relevant fields including, but not limited to: natural language processing, law, psychology, network analysis, gender and women’s studies, and critical race theory. Paper Topics We invite long and short papers on any of the following general topics: related to developing computational models and systems: NLP models and methods for detecting abusive language online, including, but not limited to hate speech, cyberbullying etc. Application of NLP tools to analyze social media content and other large data sets NLP models for cross-lingual abusive language detection Computational models for multi-modal abuse detection Development of corpora and annotation guidelines Critical algorithm studies with a focus on abusive language moderation technology Human-Computer Interaction for abusive language detection systems Best practices for using NLP techniques in watchdog settings or related to legal, social, and policy considerations of abusive language online: The social and personal consequences of being the target of abusive language and targeting others with abusive language Assessment of current non-NLP methods of addressing abusive language Legal ramifications of measures taken against abusive language use Social implications of monitoring and moderating unacceptable content Considerations of implemented and proposed policies for dealing with abusive language online and the technological means of dealing with it. In addition, in this one-day workshop, we will have a multidisciplinary panel discussion and a forum for plenary discussion on the issues that researchers and practitioners face in efforts to work with abusive language detection. We are also looking into the possibility of publishing a special issue journal to this iteration of the workshop. We seek to have a greater focus on policy aspects of online abuse through invited speakers and panels. Submission Information We will be using the EMNLP 2018 Submission Guidelines. Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages of content with up to 2 additional pages for references. We also invite short papers of up to 4 pages of content, including 2 additional pages for references. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. We also invite papers which describe systems. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting the paper, please make sure to select either "full paper + demo" or "short paper + demo" under "Submission Category" in the START submission page. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of this paper or discussed it with you. We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions. Important Dates Submission due: July 20, 2018 Author Notification: August 18, 2018 Camera Ready: August 31, 2018 Workshop Date: Oct 31st or Nov 1st, 2018 Submission link: https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2018/ALW2/ <https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2018/ALW2/> Unshared task In order to encourage focused contributions, we encourage researchers to consider using one or more of the following datasets in their experiments: StackOverflow Offensive Comments [To be released] Yahoo News Dataset of User Comments [Nobata et al., WWW 2016] Twitter Data Set [Waseem and Hovy, NAACL 2016] German Twitter Data Set [Ross et al. NLP4CMC 2016] Greek News Data Set [Pavlopoulos et al., EMNLP 2017] Wikimedia Toxicity Data Set [Wulczyn et al., WWW 2017] SFU Opinion and Comment Corpus [Kolhatkar et al., In Review] Organizing Committee Darja Fišer, University of Ljubljana & the Jožef Stefan Institute Ruihong Huang, Texas A&M University Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Stanford University Rob Voigt, Stanford University Zeerak Waseem, University of Sheffield Jacqueline Wernimont, Arizona State University Program Committee/Reviewers The following researchers have agreed to serve on the program committee as reviewers. Mark Alfano, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Natalie Alkiaviadou, UCLAN, Cyprus, Cyprus Ion Androutsopoulos, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Veronika Bajt, Peace Institute, Slovenia Alistar Baron, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Susan Benesch, Berkman Klein Center, United States of America Darina Benikova, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Joachim Bingel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Pete Burnap, Cardiff University, United Kingdom Guillermo Carbonell, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany Wendy Chun, Brown University, United States of America Isobelle Clarke, Birmingham University, United Kingdom Kelly Dennis, University of Connecticut, United States of America Guy De Pauw, Textgain, Belgium Mona Diab, George Washington University, United States of America Lucas Dixon, Jigsaw (Google), United States of America Nemanja Djuric, Uber, United States of America Marisa Duarte, Arizona State University, United States of America Hugo Jair Escalante, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Mexico Björn Gambäck, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Tassie Gnady, University of Illinois, United States of America Jen Golbeck, University of Maryland, United States of America Vojko Gorjanc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Erica Greene, Jigsaw, United States of America Joris Van Hoboken, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Veronique Hoste, University of Ghent, Belgium Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University, Italy Dan Jurafsky, Stanford, United States of America George Kennedy, Intel, United States of America Neža Kogovšek Šalomon, Peace Institute, Slovenia Varada Kolhatkar, University of Toronto, Canada Els Lefever, University of Ghent, Belgium Chuan-Jie Lin, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Elizabeth Losh, William and Mary, United States of America Prodromos Malakasiotis, StrainTek, Greece Shervin Malmasi, Harvard University, United States of America Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Kathleen McKoewn, Columbia University, United States of America Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, United States of America Mainack Mondal, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany Hamdy Mubarak, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Smruthi Mukund, A9.com Inc, United States of America Kevin Munger, New York University, United States of America Andreas Musolff, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Anne Brigitta Nilsen, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway Chikashi Nobata, Apple, United States of America John Pavlopoulos, StrainTek, Greece Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro, Bloomberg, United States of America Michal Ptaszynski, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Srividya Ramasubramanian, Texas A&M University, United States of America Georg Rehm, Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany Björn Ross, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Masoud Rouhizadeh, Stony Brook University & University of Pennsylvania, United States of America Niloofar Safi Samghabadi, University of Houston, United States of America Christina Sauper, Facebook, United States of America Xanda Schofield, Cornell, United States of America Caroline Sinders, Wikimedia Foundation, United States of America Dimitris Spathis, StrainTek, Greece Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Maite Taboada, Simon Fraser University, Canada Dennis Yi Tenen, Columbia University, United States of America Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Amanda Williams, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Michael Wojatzki, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Lilja Øvrelid, University of Oslo, Norway Related Events Workshop: The turn to artificial intelligence in governing communication online First Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying The 1st Workshop on Abusive Language Online: the first edition of the workshop. CHI Workshop on Online Harassment: a workshop focused on developing datasets for researching online harassment Text Analytics for Cyber Security and Online Safety, LREC 2016 Discourses of Aggression and Violence in Greek Digital Communication, ICGL13 Conceptualizing, Creating, & Controlling Constructive and Controversial Comments: A CSCW Research-athon Jacqueline Wernimont, Ph.D. Director, Nexus: A Digital Research Co-Op Co-Director HASTAC <https://www.hastac.org/> Co-Director, Human Security Collaboratory <http://hscollab.org/> Assistant Professor, Department of English Affiliate Faculty: School for Social Transformation School for Film, Theater, and Dance School for Future of Innovation in Society https://jwernimont.com/ <https://jwernimont.com/> | @profwernimont

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ATI Challenge ($2000 honorarium for qualitative scholars)
by Nicholas Weber 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

Please see invitation for participating below: The Qualitative Data Repository (QDR, www.qdr.org) invites faculty and advanced graduate students in social science and other disciplines that employ qualitative data and methods to submit proposals to participate in the Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) Challenge (https://qdr.syr. edu/ati/ati-challenge). ATI (https://qdr.syr.edu/ati) is a new approach to transparency in qualitative and multi-method research developed by QDR and the open-source software company Hypothesis (https://hypothes.is/) ATI enriches articles by linking "analytic notes" discussing data generation and analysis, excerpts from underlying data sources, and even the data sources themselves, directly to digital manuscripts. Participants in the ATI Challenge will use annotation technology to enhance manuscripts that they plan to submit to a leading journal in their discipline. They will play a key role in demonstrating how qualitative and multi-method researchers can join and benefit from academia’s ongoing transparency revolution. Participants will also receive an award of $2,000, as either an honorarium or research support. In addition, they will attend a workshop in New York City in November 2018 at which they will meet and network with other scholars who share a commitment to making their research accessible and evaluable. All travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by QDR. The proposal deadline is *May 11, 2018.* Additional information can be found on the "ATI Challenge" page on the QDR web site ( https://qdr.syr.edu/ati/ati-challenge) Interested scholars can contact QDR (qdr(a)syr.edu) with questions. The ATI Challenge is supported by generous funding support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Science Foundation. -- Nic Weber Assistant Professor - University of Washington Information School

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Invitation to attend: 2018 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) - Copenhagen, July 18-20, 2018
by agruzd＠gmail.com 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

(Apologies for cross-posting) The organizing committee of the 9th Annual International Conference on Social Media and Society (#SMSociety) invites you to visit wonderful Copenhagen on July 18-20, 2018 to experience scholarly inspiration and Nordic design excellence, architecture brilliance, gastronomic creativity, and social inclusiveness. The 2018 conference will be held at the Copenhagen Business School and hosted by the Centre for Business Data Analytics. This year's theme is on "Networked Influence and Virality - REVISITED". * Please register by May 1, 2018 to lock in the early-bird rate: <http://socialmediaandsociety.org/registration/> http://socialmediaandsociety.org/registration/ The Conference offers an intensive 3-day program including hands-on workshops, full & work-in-progress papers, panels, and posters featuring the latest in social media research. Our interdisciplinary community brings researchers from a wide variety of disciplines including Communication, Information Science, Education, Journalism, Management, Computer Science, Political Science, Sociology, Health, and other fields. This year, we are honoured to have a highly distinguished scholar and leader as our keynote speaker: * Prof. Karine Nahon - the elected president of the Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL), an Associate Professor of Information Science in the Lauder School of Government and Ofer School of Communications at the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzliya (IDC), Israel, and an Affiliated Associate Professor in the Information School at University of Washington (UW). We hope you can join us for this exciting event and contribute to this emerging research area! If you have any questions about the conference, please email us at: <mailto:ask@socialmediaandsociety.org> ask(a)socialmediaandsociety.org or visit our website at http://socialmediaandsociety.org/ -- 2018 #SMSociety Organizing Committee: . Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University - Conference Chair . Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School - Local Conference Chair . Jenna Jacobson, Ryerson University - Conference Chair . Philip Mai, Ryerson University - Conference Chair . Anabel Quan-Haase, Western University - Panel Chair . Luke Sloan, Cardiff University - Panel Chair . K. Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University -WIP Papers Chair . Jeff Hemsley, Syracuse University - WIP Papers Chair . Jaigris Hodson, Royal Roads University - Poster Chair

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Second CFP E-Vote-Id 2018
by Peter ROENNE 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

[Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS E-Vote-ID 2018 Third International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting Bregenz, Austria, 2-5 October 2018 www.e-vote-id.org (Paper Submission Date: 15 May 2018) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/ Twitter: @evotingcc Hashtag: #EVoteID2018 This conference is one of the leading international events for e-voting experts from all over the world. In 2016 the two previously bi-annually held conferences, EVOTE and VoteID, were merged into the annual E-VOTE-ID conference. The third joint conference will take place in October 2018. One of its major objectives is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary and open discussion of all issues relating to electronic voting. Cumulatively, since 2004 some 1,000 experts from all over the world have attended this conference to discuss electronic voting and related topics. The aim of the conference is to bring together e-voting specialists working in academia, politics, government and industry in order to discuss various aspects of all forms of electronic voting (including, but not limited to, polling stations, kiosks, ballot scanners and remote voting by electronic means) in the three following tracks below and a PhD colloquium: Track on Security, Usability, and Technical Issues Design, analysis, formal modeling or research implementation of: - Electronic voting protocols and systems; - Voter identification and authentication; - Ballot secrecy, receipt-freeness and coercion resistance; - Election verification including end-to-end verifiability and risk limiting audits; - Requirements; - Evaluation and certification, including international security standards, e.g. Common Criteria or ITSEC; - Human aspects of security mechanisms in electronic voting and in particular of verifiability mechanisms; - Or any other security and HCI issues relevant to electronic voting. Track on Administrative, Legal, Political, and Social Issues - Discuss legal, political and social issues of electronic voting implementations, ideally employing case study methodology; - Analyze the interrelationship with, and the effects of electronic voting on democratic institutions and processes; - Assess the cultural impact of electronic voting on institutions, behaviours and attitudes of the Digital Era; - Discuss the administrative, legal, political and social risks of electronic voting; - Address issues of e-voting policy development and legislative processes; - Explore aspects of public administration in the implementation of electronic voting; - Examine understandability, transparency, and trust issues in electronic voting; - Address issues related to data protection; - Explore issues of public interest vs PPP (public-private partnerships). Track on Election and Practical Experiences - Review developments in the area of applied electronic voting; - Report on experiences with electronic voting or the preparation thereof (including repots on development and implementation, case law, court decisions, legislative steps, public and political debates, election outcomes, etc.); Contributions in this track will be published in TUT press proceedings only. These experience and practical reports need not contain original research, but must be an accurate, complete and, where applicable, evidence-based account of the technology or system used. Submissions will be judged on quality of review and level of analysis, and the applicability of the results to other democracies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PhD Colloquium The colloquium continues the tradition of PhD workshops on e-voting. Since 2006 the PhD seminars have focused on various aspects of e-voting including technical aspects, legal challenges, identity management, verifiability of the vote, etc. The workshops took place in various locations in Austria, Catalonia, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. The goal of the colloquium is to foster understanding and collaboration between PhD students from various disciplines working on e-voting. To this end, the program allows plenty of space for discussion and initiating collaboration based on presentations by attendees. What makes this colloquium special is that it is truly interdisciplinary, where PhD students from legal backgrounds are joined by PhD students with computer science and cryptography backgrounds and by social scientists. Master students in e-voting and related areas are also welcome to participate. Each interested participant should submit his/her research proposal (or alternatively ideas for papers, open problems, or other issues where feedback from colleagues would be helpful etc.) of some two pages length using the conference platform. In addition to this proposal, participants are asked to fill out a questionnaire about their PhD project. This questionnaire will be send by email to participants who have submitted their proposal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Voting System Demonstration Session We also invite demonstrations of electronic voting systems, to be presented in an open session on Tuesday 2 October during the welcome reception. Participation is open to all conference participants, but we request a one-page summary by 30 September to office(a)e-vote-id.org describing the system's requirements and properties, such as: - whether the system is intended for use in controlled (i.e. in polling stations) or uncontrolled environments (i.e. remotely via the Internet or in kiosks); - which types of elections it accommodates; - whether it addresses the needs of voters with disabilities; - what sort of verifiability it provides; - the extent to which it guarantees vote privacy; - whether it has been deployed in a real election; - where to go for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Format of the Conference The format of the conference is a three-day meeting beginning on Wednesday. On Tuesday, one day before the formal conference, we will hold the PhD colloquium and a demo session for e-voting system demonstrations. No parallel sessions will be held, and sufficient space will be given for informal communication. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Paper submissions can be in two formats-either as a full paper or a short paper. - Full paper submissions (max 16 pages in LNCS format all-in); - Short paper submissions (max 2 pages in LNCS format all-in). All submissions will be subject to double-blind reviews. Submissions must be anonymous (with no reference to the authors). Submissions are to be made using the EasyChair conference system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2018, which serves as the online system for the review process. During submission, please select the appropriate track or the PhD colloquium. The track chairs reserve the right to re-assign papers to other tracks in case of better fit based on reviewer feedback and in coordination with other track chairs. LNCS style has to be used (see the Springer guidelines at http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…, including templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word). If you think that one or more of the programme committee members could have a conflict of interest with your submission, please let the general chairs know at conference-chairs(a)e-vote-id.org. In turn, according settings in the EasyChair system will be set, so that the respective member/s is/are not involved in the review process. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Dates for Submissions Deadline for submission of papers: (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension) 15 May 2018 23:59 Paper Bidding Deadline: 20 May 2018 Review Deadline: 15 June 2018 Programme Committee Discussion: 22 June 2018 Notification of Acceptance: 25 June 2018 Deadline for PhD Colloquium submissions: 29 June 2018 Deadline for Resubmission of Conditionally Accepted Papers (shepherding): 13 July 2018 Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions: 27 July 2018 Deadline for One-page Summary for E-Voting System Demonstration Session: 15 September 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Publication The conference proceedings will be available at the time of the conference. Full papers accepted for the tracks on security, usability, and technical issues, respective administrative, legal, political, and social issues will be published in Springer LNCS. All other accepted publications, including full papers in the election experience track, accepted short papers in any of the tracks, and from the submissions in the PhD colloquium will be published in proceedings with TUT press. In case your academic host institution requires you to publish your research as open-access only, please contact the conference chairs for further information in which way it is intended to make accepted publications accessible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venue The conference will be held in the beautiful Renaissance castle of Hofen at Lochau/Bregenz on the shores of Lake Constance in Austria. On the evening of 2 October a welcome reception for all conference participants will be organized in castle Hofen, where also the conference dinner on 4 October will take place and feature the traditional "cheese road". ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee General Chairs Krimmer, Robert (Tallinn University of Technology, Ragnar Nurkse Department, Estonia) Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany) Track Chairs Track on Security, Usability, and Technical Issues Cortier, Véronique (CNRS, France) Goré, Rajeev (Australian National University, Australia) Track on Administrative, Legal, Political, and Social Issues Serdült, Uwe (University of Zurich, Switzerland, and Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Hapsara, Manik (University of New South Wales, Australia) Track on Election and Practical Experiences Martin, Steven (OSCE/ODIHR, Poland) McDermott, Ronan (Independent Election Expert, Switzerland) PhD Colloquium Truderung, Tomasz (Polyas, Germany) Koenig, Reto (University of Applied Sciences Berne, Switzerland) Outreach Chairs Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Dueñas-Cid, David (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Track on Security, Usability, and Technical Issues Programme Committee Arapinis, Myrto (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Araújo, Roberto (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil) Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft Research, USA) Delaune, Stéphanie (CNRS - Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires, France) Essex, Aleksander (Western University, Canada) Galindo, David (University of Birmingham, UK) Gibson, Paul (Telecom SudParis, France) Gjøsteen, Kristian (NTNU Trondheim, Norway) Grimm, Rüdiger (University of Koblenz, Germany) Haenni, Rolf (Bern University of Applied Science, Switzerland) Haines, Thomas (Polyas, Denmark) Kiayias, Aggelos (University of Athens, Greece) Küsters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Kulyk, Oksana (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Pereira, Olivier (UC Louvain, Belgium) Prandini, Marco (DISI, Universitá di Bologna, Italy) Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg) Ryan, Mark (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) Ryan, Peter Y A (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Schneider, Steve (University of Surrey, UK) Schoenmakers, Berry (University Amsterdam, Netherlands) Schürmann, Carsten (IT University Copenhagen, Denmark) Teague, Vanessa (University of Melbourne, Australia) Warinschi, Bogdan (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) Wen, Roland (UNSW Sydney, Australia) Zagorski, Filip (University of Wroclaw, Poland) Track on Administrative, Legal, Political and Social Science Programme Committee Barrat, Jordi (EVOL2 - eVoting Research Lab, Spain) Braun Binder, Nadja (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Dueñas-Cid, David (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Germann, Micha (KU Leuven, Belgium) Goodman, Nicole (University of Toronto, Canada) Hall, Thad (University of Utah, USA) James, Toby (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom) Kalvet, Tarmo (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Kersting, Norbert (University of Münster, Germany) Kim, Shin Dong (Hallym University, South Korea) Masso, Anu (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Mecinas, Juan Manuel (CIDE, Mexico) Nurmi, Hannu (University of Turku, Finland) Pammett, Jon (University of Carleton, Canada) Reniu, Josep Maria (University of Barcelona, Spain) Track on Election and Practical Experience Programme Committee Bismark, David (Votato, Sweden) Bull, Christian (Telenor, Norway) Caarls, Susanne (Independent Expert, Netherlands) Catozzi, Gianpiero (EC-UNDP, Belgium) Driza Maurer, Ardita (Independent Expert, Switzerland) Franklin, Joshua (NIST, USA) Malinovich, Dan (EC-UNDP, Belgium) Petrov, Goran (Independent Expert, Macedonia) Vinkel, Priit (National Election Commission, Estonia) Vollan, Kåre (Quality AS, Norway) Wolf, Peter (International IDEA, Stockholm) Wenda, Gregor (Federal Ministry of the Interior, Austria) Yard, Mike (IFES, Libya)

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2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018): Third Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

*** THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS *** 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… 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. ABOUT AMI 2018 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". We invite submissions of full and short papers as well as posters, presenting original research. AmI 2018 is an interdisciplinary venue for leading international researchers, designers, and practitioners that present and discuss new results in Ambient Intelligence. AmI builds on the success of thirteen predecessor conferences, which started in 2003 with the EUSAI-event in Veldhoven, The Netherlands. More information about the AmI series can be found here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . The Proceedings of AmI 2018 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Furthermore, Springer will sponsor the Best Paper Award with 1,000 EUR. TOPICS AmI 2018 will revolve around the focus topic "Towards a Smart and Human- Centred Internet of Things" that follows the vision of Calm Technology, where technology is useful but does not demand our full attention or interfere with our usual behavior and activities. Relevant research topics include, but are not limited to: · Sensors and Actuators Networks · Ambient Networking and Communication · Mobile, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing · Internet of Things and Interconnected devices · Internet of Humans and Human Sensors · Artificial Intelligence Models, Methods and Techniques · Machine Learning, Data mining and Big Data · Modelling Context Awareness and Location-based Services · Agent Technologies and Multi-agent Platforms · Cloud Computing for Intelligent Ambients · Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction · Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality · Symmetric Interaction in Real and Virtual worlds · Reliability, Assurance and Safety · Security, Privacy and Trust · Systems Architecture and Middleware · Software Development Methodologies and Tools · Robotic Companions · Industrial Internet and Industry 4.0 · Sustainability and Fair Trade · Smart Homes and Intelligent buildings · Energy Efficiency · Ambient Assisted Living · Healthcare and Well-being · Smart Cities · Connected Cars and Autonomous Driving · Pervasive Games in Hybrid Worlds · Ambient Intelligence Education · Evaluation methods and techniques for Trials · Citizen science, Living labs, Maker communities PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSION Papers must be anonymized to facilitate blind review. Authors are encouraged to minimize any references that may reveal the identity of the authors and their institutions. Relevant references to an author's previous research should not be suppressed but instead referenced in a neutral way. All papers will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members. The length of each paper including figures and references may not exceed 16 pages for regular papers and 6 pages for short papers. The posters session aims to collect papers showing work in progress and thus raise opportunities to present and discuss current work in an informal setting. These papers will be presented as posters in the conference. Poster contributions may not exceed 2 pages, including figures and references. For more information about what should be considered a regular, short or poster contribution, please refer to the conference web site. All paper and poster submissions must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Submission of a paper or poster should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper or poster be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the work. For preparation of papers and posters please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…) Authors of full and short papers as well as posters are welcome to submit using the conference review system: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . This year's best paper awards are graciously sponsored by Springer with 1,000 EUR. SPECIAL ISSUE The authors of the best papers to be accepted at AmI 2018 will be invited to submit substantially extended and revised versions of their papers with at least 70% new material to a special journal issue for AmI 2018 to be published in the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanised Computing, by Springer. IMPORTANT DATES · Paper and Poster Submissions due: 17th June 2018 · Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 22nd July 2018 · Camera-Ready Versions due: 29th July 2018 · Author Registration: 5th August 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair · George Roussos, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Program Chairs · Achilleas D. Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece · Kostas Stathis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Workshops Chairs · Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, University of Rome, Italy · Fariba Sadri, Imperial College, UK Local Organization Chair · George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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Laboratory Studies?
by Jenny Davis 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

Hi All- I have a PhD student in sociology doing laboratory experiments with a focus on the effects of social media on identity processes. She is currently designing her methodology and would like some literature help. Do people have suggestions of really well designed studies that examine social media in a laboratory setting? They do not have to address issues of identity. She is mostly interested in how they implemented laboratory methodologies. Thanks in advance! Jenny Jenny L. Davis Lecturer, School of Sociology The Australian National University Co-Editor: Cyborgology<https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/> <https://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis> Twitter: @Jenny_L_Davis<https://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis>

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Re: [Air-L] Memes Research
by Michelle Markey Butler 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

I work on memes as literary criticism. I have a chapter on memes which evaluate the first Hobbit movie in _Hobbit and Tolkien's Mythology_ ( https://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-Tolkiens-Mythology-Revisions-Influences-ebook…) and another about Harry Potter memes ("Harry Potter and the Unexpected Venue of Literary Critique") in _Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedial Age_ ( https://www.amazon.com/Transforming-Harry-Adaptation-Transmedia-Contemporar… ). Cheers, Michelle Markey Butler University of Maryland ____________________________________ Michelle Markey Butler michellemarkeybutler.com facebook.com/michellemarkeybutler On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 4:27 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: research on memes (Viktor Chagas) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 15:20:50 -0300 > From: Viktor Chagas <viktor(a)midia.uff.br> > To: Leila Bighash <leilabighash(a)gmail.com> > Cc: anjaventer(a)gmail.com, "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" > <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] research on memes > Message-ID: > <CADkaS=Pm26gmPoR1dNqG-7ftMgSUfsycCpEj0+KyzwcL+mSpjg@ > mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Dearest All > > I and my research group have been working on internet memes since 2011 in > Brazil. My main concern is on political memes, strategical uses of internet > memes and grassroots actions. We've been mapping and collecting papers on > this subject since them and we have now a library of more than 900 works > (books, chapters, papers, thesis) from different countries and in different > languages. It is hosted in a project of our own called #MUSEUdeMEMES, or > #MEMEmuseum in a free translation. You can access the site here > (unfortunately only in Portuguese up to now): > http://www.museudememes.com.br > -- and the bibliographical database here: > http://www.museudememes.com.br/referencias -- please feel free to > circulate > it among other scholars. :) > > Also we are preparing a collection now and we would be happy to share with > all the interested ones our call for papers. Articles will be translated to > portuguese and we do plan a forthcoming english edition in the future. > Please keep in touch if you want to know more about either the website > project or the book. > > Cheers. > _ > > > CV Lattes <http://lattes.cnpq.br/5832049847796420> + coLAB Research Group > <http://www.colab.uff.br/> + #MUSEUdeMEMES > <http://museudememes.com.br/> + Compol?tica > Journal <http://compolitica.org/revista> > > 2018-04-21 13:10 GMT-03:00 Leila Bighash <leilabighash(a)gmail.com>: > > > Hi there, > > > > Here's an article by a research group I was in that discusses the use of > > memes and other media (comparing "viral" posts to one-off posts for > > individual expression) as it spread through Facebook during the 2012 > > elections. > > > > Edgerly, S., Thorson, K., Bighash, L., & Hannah, M. (2016). *Posting > about > > politics: Media as resources for political expression on Facebook*. > > *Journal > > of Information Technology & Politics*, 13(2), 108-125. > > https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19331681.2016.1160267 > > > > Hope it's useful! > > > > Leila > > > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 8:11 AM, Ioana Literat <il2311(a)tc.columbia.edu> > > wrote: > > > > > This recent article on meme criticism might be useful too, as it > adopts a > > > somewhat different lens, focusing on the discussion & dissemination of > > > memes, rather than their production: > > > https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1366540 < > > > https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1366540> > > > > > > Ioana > > > > > > -- > > > Ioana Literat, Ph.D. > > > Assistant Professor of Communication, Media and Learning Technologies > > > Design > > > Teachers College, Columbia University > > > literat(a)tc.columbia.edu <mailto:literat@tc.columbia.edu> > > > http://ioanaliterat.com <http://ioanaliterat.com/> > > > > > > > On Apr 21, 2018, at 10:58 AM, Gabriel Mugar <gmugar(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > Binders Full of Election Memes: Participatory Culture Invades the > 2012 > > > U.S. > > > > Election > > > > > > > > By Erhardt Graeff > > > > > > > > https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/binders-full-of- > > > election-memes-participatory-culture-invades-the-2012-u-s-election/ > > > > > > > > Also related: > > > > > > > > Spreadable Spectacle in Digital Culture: Civic Expression, Fake News, > > and > > > > the Role of Media Literacies in ?Post-Fact? Society > > > > > > > > By Paul Mihailidis and Samantha Viotty > > > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 1:53 PM Ferrier, Michelle <ferrierm(a)ohio.edu > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> Also, would like to share a theory of digitextuality that examines > > > >> fragmentation, juxtaposition and condensation as digital advocacy > > > >> tactics...memes being the expression of that remix culture: > > > >> http://hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz12/meta-mapping/2- > > > ferrier-signifying-quilt.html > > > >> > > > >> Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures | ISSN 1555-9351< > > > >> http://hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz12/meta-mapping/2- > > > ferrier-signifying-quilt.html > > > >>> > > > >> hyperrhiz.io > > > >> Abstract. Through quilt texts, women expanded their domestic > rhetoric > > > into > > > >> a public realm. The quilting tradition suggests a method for > creating > > a > > > >> collaborative and polyvocal technology. > > > >> > > > >> Michelle Ferrier > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> Dr. Michelle Ferrier > > > >> > > > >> * Associate Professor, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio > > > >> University > > > >> * Founder, TrollBusters: Online Pest Control for Women Writers > > > >> * Project Director, Media Seeds: SE Ohio, Journalism That Matters > > > >> * 2017 Online News Association Challenge Grant Winner > > > >> * 2017 Online News Association Award Winner, Electionland > > > >> * 2017 South by Southwest Community Service Award Winner > > > >> * 2017 Tow-Knight Disruptive Fellow, CUNY Graduate School > > > >> * 2016-2017 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow > > > >> * Principal Investigator, The Media Deserts Project > > > >> > > > >> T: 740-593-0899 > > > >> F: 740-593-0459 > > > >> ferrierm(a)ohio.edu > > > >> Twitter: @mediaghosts > > > >> Twitter: @yoursosteam (TrollBusters) > > > >> ________________________________ > > > >> From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Graham > > > Meikle < > > > >> G.Meikle(a)westminster.ac.uk> > > > >> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 12:39:28 PM > > > >> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > > >> Subject: Re: [Air-L] research on memes > > > >> > > > >> Hi everyone > > > >> > > > >> Victoria Esteves and I wrote a chapter together about memes for the > > > >> Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media in 2015. I?m > > > happy > > > >> to share a PDF with anyone who?s interested. > > > >> > > > >> Cheers, gm > > > >> > > > >> -------------------- > > > >> Professor Graham Meikle > > > >> Communication and Media Research Institute, > > > >> School of Media, Arts and Design, > > > >> University of Westminster, UK > > > >> > > > >> Latest books > > > >> The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism< > > > >> https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Media- > > > and-Activism/Meikle/p/book/9781138202030> > > > >> (2018) > > > >> The Internet of Things< > > > >> http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509517459> (2017) > > > >> Social Media< > > > >> https://www.routledge.com/Social-Media-Communication- > > > Sharing-and-Visibility/Meikle/p/book/9780415712248> > > > >> (2016) > > > >> > > > >> From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto: > > > >> air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org>> on behalf of Lisa Silvestri < > > > >> lisaesilvestri(a)gmail.com<mailto:lisaesilvestri@gmail.com>> > > > >> Date: Friday, 20 April 2018 at 15:52 > > > >> To: Crystal Abidin <crystalabidin(a)gmail.com<mailto: > > > crystalabidin(a)gmail.com > > > >>>> > > > >> Cc: List Aoir <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto: > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > >> > > > >> Subject: Re: [Air-L] research on memes > > > >> > > > >> Silvestri LE (2018) Memeingful Memories and the Art of Resistance, > > *New > > > >> Media & > > > >> Society: > > > >> http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/ > > > 1461444818766092?journalCode=nmsa > > > >> < > > > >> http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/ > > > 1461444818766092?journalCode=nmsa > > > >>> * > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 4:04 AM, Crystal Abidin < > > > crystalabidin(a)gmail.com > > > >> <mailto:crystalabidin@gmail.com>> > > > >> wrote: > > > >> > > > >> Hi Anja and Tunde, > > > >> > > > >> Kristine Ask and I recently published a paper on student problem > memes > > > in > > > >> relation to university life: > > > >> Ask, Kristine, and Crystal Abidin. 2018. ?My life is a mess: > > > >> Self-deprecating relatability and collective identities in the > > > memification > > > >> of student issues.? Information, Communication and Society 21(6): > > > 834-850. > > > >> DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1437204 > > > >> > > > >> Here is a list of multimedia/pop cultural resources I have > > (haphazardly) > > > >> curated on memes: > > > >> https://wishcrys.com/memes/ > > > >> > > > >> And here are some key texts on memes: > > > >> 1) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/memes-digital-culture > > > >> 2) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/why-we-cant-have-nice-things > > > >> 3) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/world-made-meme > > > >> 4) > > > >> https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Ambivalent+Internet%3A+ > > > >> Mischief%2C+Oddity%2C+and+Antagonism+Online-p-9781509501274 > > > >> 5) http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/from-memes-to- > movements/ > > > >> > > > >> Hope this is useful. > > > >> /C > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> On 20 April 2018 at 11:16, Tunde Opeibi <bopeibi(a)unilag.edu.ng > > <mailto: > > > >> bopeibi(a)unilag.edu.ng>> wrote: > > > >> > > > >>> Anja, > > > >>> seems you were reading my mind. I'm in a similar situation. We > would > > > be > > > >>> grateful for any useful suggestions from members on this platform. > > > >>> > > > >>> With best wishes from Lagos, Nigeria, > > > >>> > > > >>> Tunde > > > >>> > > > >>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Anja Venter <anjaventer(a)gmail.com > > > >> <mailto:anjaventer@gmail.com>> > > > >> wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>>> Hi people of AoIR, > > > >>>> > > > >>>> I am currently supervising a student who is looking at how > students > > > use > > > >>>> memes on Facebook to engage with campus culture/politics on > > particular > > > >>>> university sites. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> Can anyone point me to the most recent meme > > > >>>> literature/theories/studies/concepts? > > > >>>> > > > >>>> Your help is much appreciated! > > > >>>> Thanks, > > > >>>> Anja > > > >>>> > > > >>>> *illustration, design, research* > > > >>>> > > > >>>> *www.nannaventer.co.za <http://www.nannaventer.co.za> * > > > >>>> > > > >>>> *+27 84 929 4647 * > > > >>>> > > > >>>> *@nannaventer* > > > >>>> _______________________________________________ > > > >>>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> > mailing > > > >> list > > > >>>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers > > > http://aoir.org > > > >>>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > > http://listserv.aoir.org/ > > > >>>> listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > >>>> > > > >>>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > > >>>> http://www.aoir.org/ > > > >>>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> -- > > > >>> *Professor 'Tunde Opeibi, **PhD* > > > >>> * (Professor of Digital Cultures & **Discourse Studies, University > > of > > > >>> Lagos)* > > > >>> > > > >>> *Life Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany* > > > >>> *Member, * > > > >>> *Executive Board, Global Outlook for Digital Humanities (GO:: DH)* > > > >>> > > > >>> *Convener, Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities* > > > >>> > > > >>> *President, Digital Humanities Association of Nigeria(DHAN)* > > > >>> > > > >>> *www.unilag.edu.ng <http://www.unilag.edu.ng>; www.dhunilag.com< > > > >> http://www.dhunilag.com> > > > >>> <http://www.dhunilag.com> * > > > >>> > > > >>> *https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tunde_Opeibi/stats > > > >>> <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tunde_Opeibi/stats>* > > > >>> *Tel: +234 8033122200* > > > >>> _______________________________________________ > > > >>> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> > mailing > > > list > > > >>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers > > http://aoir.org > > > >>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/ > > > >>> listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > >>> > > > >>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > > >>> http://www.aoir.org/ > > > >>> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> -- > > > >> Dr Crystal Abidin, PhD > > > >> wishcrys.com > > > >> Postdoctoral Fellow, MMTC, J?nk?ping University > > > >> Adjunct Research Fellow, CCAT, Curtin University > > > >> Publications <https://wishcrys.com/academic-publications/> | > Teaching > > > >> <https://wishcrys.com/teaching/> | Press > > > >> <https://wishcrys.com/research/press/> | Multimedia > > > >> <https://wishcrys.com/multimedia/> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing > > > list > > > >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers > > http://aoir.org > > > >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/ > > > >> listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > >> > > > >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > > >> http://www.aoir.org/ > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> -- > > > >> The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing, because you think you > > can > > > >> only do a little. > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing > > > list > > > >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers > > http://aoir.org > > > >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > > >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > >> > > > >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > > >> http://www.aoir.org/ > > > >> > > > >> The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by > > > >> guarantee. 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Digital Repository of Ireland hiring a Project Manager for Research Data Alliance Europe project DEADLINE 27 April at noon
by Natalie Harrower 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

— With the usual apologies for cross-posting — The Digital Repository of Ireland is seeking a Project Manager to contribute to the Research Data Alliance Europe H2020-supported project. The post will be based at the DRI offices at the Royal Irish Academy, in the centre of vibrant Dublin, Ireland. Applications close at NOON this Friday, 27th April. Interviews expected to take place on 10th May 2017. Job Title: Project Manager Purpose of Role: The role is to manage DRI’s contributions to the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Europe 4.0 Horizon 2020 project, to align DRI’s practices with the RDA, and to assist in developing national and European capacity in research data sharing and re-use across research domains and sectors. The post will involve a certain amount of travel both within Europe and internationally. This is a fixed term contract for 2.5 years. Applicants must have existing permission to work in Ireland /EU. The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is the national trusted digital repository for Ireland's social and cultural data, and has been certified by the Core Trust Seal (2018). The repository links together and preserves both historical and contemporary data held by Irish institutions, providing a central internet access point and interactive multimedia tools. As a national e-infrastructure for the future of education and research in the humanities and social sciences, DRI is available for use by the public, students and scholars. Originally awarded €5.2M from the Higher Education Authority PRTLI Cycle 5 to build the repository and research centre, DRI is funded from 2017 by the Department of Education and Skills via the Higher Education Authority and the Irish Research Council. DRI has also received awards from Enterprise Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland, the Irish Research Council, The European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), Horizon 2020, and Atlantic Philanthropies. DRI is supported by a network of academic, cultural, social, and industry partners, including the National Library of Ireland (NLI), the National Archives of Ireland (NAI) and RTÉ. For more information see www.dri.ie<http://www.dri.ie>. Key Duties • Manage a project to deliver DRI’s support activities for the Research Data Alliance Europe • Develop and implement partnerships and activities to support early career researchers, technical experts and domain ambassadors (e.g. training, events, creation of resource materials, webinars and website development) • Aligning DRI’s support for research data management with RDA, national approaches in Ireland, Europe and internationally • Disseminating best practices in research data sharing and RDA outputs via Irish and European channels • Contributing more broadly to the ongoing development of the Digital Repository of Ireland’s capacity in research data management via involvement in relevant taskforces and working groups • Actively contributing to grant and funding proposals • Any other duties as assigned within the scope of the role Full job specification and details for applicants at: https://www.ria.ie/news/vacancies/vacancy-project-manager-dri ______________ Dr. Natalie Harrower Director, Digital Repository of Ireland Royal Irish Academy n.harrower(a)ria.ie<mailto:n.harrower@ria.ie> | @natalieharrower www.dri.ie<http://www.dri.ie> | @dri_ireland The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 2014 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1988 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie

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Visiting Academic Position -- Department of Computer Science -- University of Cyprus
by Announce Announcements 23 Apr '18

23 Apr '18

*** VISITING ACADEMIC POSITION *** The Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus has one (1) vacancy for Visiting Academic at the rank of Lecturer or Assistant Professor. Presently, the Department is seeking applications for the Fall Semester 2018-2019 (1/9/2018-31/12/2018). Applications are being accepted in all areas, but we are particularly interested in: * Algorithms and Complexity * Computer Graphics * Distributed Systems * Parallel Computing * Visual Computing Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in a relevant subject and BE FLUENT IN GREEK (both these requirements are mandatory). Citizenship of the Republic of Cyprus is not a requirement. TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Before submitting an application, applicants should ensure, that in case they are selected they will be residing in Cyprus on a full-time basis during the employment period; submission of application implies acceptance of this condition. Furthermore, acceptance of this term must also be explicitly stated in the letter of application. Monthly gross salaries according to the current legislation governing these positions are approximately as follows: * Visiting Academic (Assistant Professor) 3.091,35 EUR * Visiting Academic (Lecturer) 2.696,35 EUR Gross pay may vary based on fluctuations imposed by State regulations. A bonus equivalent to a percentage of the 13th monthly salary will also be awarded based on the percentage time of the year during which the candidate is employed. The successful candidate will be required to teach a total of nine (9) hours per week. The successful candidate selected for the position must have obtained a leave of absence (or a sabbatical) from their current University. Anyone wishing to apply should send a full CV to the following email (the deadline for receiving applications is the 27th April 2018): E-mail: chair(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy For more details and other information, interested individuals may contact the Chairperson of the Department of Computer Science: Professor Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou Tel: +357-22-892669 Fax: +357-22-892701 P.O. Box 20537, CY-1678 Nicosia, Cyprus, Tel. +357 22892700, Fax +357 22892701 Email: cs(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy, Web: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…

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CyberSciTech 2018 CFP, Athens 12-15 Aug. 2018
by Kevin Wang 23 Apr '18

23 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 Paper Due: Apr. 30, 2018 WiP/Poster Paper Due: May 15, 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 http://cyber-science.org/2018/si.html 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" Information Sciences, "Safety and Security for Ubiquitous Computing and Communications" 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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