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CfP: DATA, SECURITY, VALUES: VOCATIONS AND VISIONS OF DATA ANALYSIS
by Mareile Kaufmann 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

** Call for Papers - Please circulate widely** DATA, SECURITY, VALUES: VOCATIONS AND VISIONS OF DATA ANALYSIS 10.-11. December 2018 Peace Research Institute Oslo Data analysis is normative. Coding, programming and algorithmically interpreting data is always informed by the concepts, ideas, values and affordances of the technologies and people that engage with data. Even if the word data means "given", information becomes socially and politically imbued as soon as it is selected and categorized to make it available for analysis. Such insights are no longer only subject of academic critique, but the normativity of data analysis has by now become integrated into public discourses. In fact, the value of data has created a new market for moral entrepreneurs, who re-frame data analysis as a tool for moral engineering and security politics. At this conference we explore how values, ideas and concepts are not only necessarily embedded in data analysis, but also in what way they are productive and co-create society. Please join our discussion on the many vocations and visions of data analysis in the security domain: These can include overt media manipulation and disinformation, the active sensoring or removal of online contents, the workings of editing algorithms or retweet-robots, the promotion of state-sponsored narratives online, but also the normativity of approaches that seek to "uncover fake news", "fight attacks on the freedom of speech online" or "make the world a more secure place with online data". Together, we discuss the relationship between data analysis, ideas and values by looking at the workings of digital security technologies, data security policies or the security politics of data. The three confirmed keynote speakers are: Miguel Sicart, Associate Professor at the Center for Computer Game Research at IT University Copenhagen, "Playing Data: Understanding the Ludic in the Information Age" Katja de Vries, postdoctoral researcher in Law Science Technology & Society at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, "The coexistence of humans and algorithmic profiling machines" Susanne Krasmann, Professor at the Faculty of Economy and Social Sciences, (Criminology) Hamburg University, "The desire for truth - and the secret of algorithms" The conference will further include a roundtable discussion with representatives from the Norwegian Ministries on "Data & the everyday of security authorities" Please send your papers until the 21st of September to Mareile Kaufmann: markau(a)prio.no

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New Social Media and Democracy Research Facebook Group - AOIR
by Steven Clift 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

In recent weeks, you've probably heard <http://po.st/chronphilsocmedia> about Facebook's connection <http://po.st/zucksocmediademo> to an independent foundation funded <http://po.st/socdemknight> (multiple foundations <http://po.st/socdemhewlett>) effort to research the impact <http://po.st/socdemssrc> of social media on elections and democracy. That's great. There is even a related conference this week <http://po.st/socdemconference> with an amazing list of academic speakers. I am interested opening up digital channels of communication to help researchers hear from practitioners to help generate more actionable research related to social media and democracy. Whether you are a democracy/civic engagement practitioner, a political campaign operative, or an activist seeking to influence people or your government, what is happening *now* with social media and democracy that needs solid research? If you care about useful research, this group is for you. Perhaps you are within government having used social media to help win an election or you are in media looking for trends or digital options to boost journalism's role in the future of democracy, then this *off the record* group on social media and democracy research is for you too. (If you know practitioners active in the digital democracy/politics/media space who also care about the big picture as well as "winning" with the latest tactic or tool, please pass this invite along.) Researchers invited! This is about creating an effective digital feedback loop. I am interested in how researchers can more effectively engage and access digital practitioners across all the major sectors of democracy - government, media, campaigns and elections, advocacy and legislative bodies, and more. Since Facebook is the main target of a wave of research funding, let's build a digital bridge between research and practice that people actually use on that platform. So, if you do research in this space, please apply to join us. Once we reach 100 charter members, then we will switch to a member referral required to join process (which will be crucial to ensure participation versus free riding.) So, if you are interested in joining, you *must* answer the join request survey questions before your application will be approved: http://facebook.com/groups/socialmediademocracy Thanks, Steven Clift P.S. If you just prefer light reading and not participating actively, everyone is welcome to join my 7500+ member Civic Technology and Open Government Facebook Group. It is a very active group with daily posts: http://facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup Steven Clift - Executive Director, E-Democracy.org clift(a)e-democracy.org - +1 612 234 7072 http://twitter.com/democracy Join in: http://facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup Digital engagement for your org via E-Democracy: http://po.st/engageclift

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Upcoming public talks in London: data journalism (20 Apr); selfies (23 Apr); feminist AI (26 Apr); family as machine (2 May); data feminism (24 May); smartphone users in global south (30 May); Gephi field notes (19 June)
by Gray, Jonathan 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

For those of you in London, you might be interested in some of our upcoming events at King’s College London. A full and current list can be found here: http://kingsdh.eventbrite.com/<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkingsdh.e…> * “Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt” (Chris Anderson, University of Leeds), Fri 20th April, 4pm: https://apostles-of-certainty.eventbrite.co.uk<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapostles…> * “‘It’s not you, it’s me’: moral discourses and affective power of selfies” (Kat Tiidenberg, Tallinn University), Mon 23rd April, 5pm: https://selfies-book.eventbrite.co.uk<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fselfies-…> * “Can a Data Set be Art? Creating Critical Design, new Data, and Feminist AI” (Caroline Sinders, Artist), Thu 26th April, 4pm: https://feminist-ai.eventbrite.co.uk<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffeminist…> * “The Family as Machine: Cybernetic Kinship in Postwar America” (Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, King's College London), Wed 2nd May, 4pm: http://family-as-machine.eventbrite.com/<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffamily-as…> * “Data Feminism” (Lauren Klein, Georgia Tech), Thu 24 May, 4pm: https://data-feminism.eventbrite.co.uk<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata-fem…> * “The World (Wide Web) through an App: The Challenges of Smartphone Users in the Global South” (Elisa Oreglia ), Wed 30th May, 4.30pm: https://smartphone-global-south.eventbrite.co.uk<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsmartpho…> * “The Field Notes Plugin: Making Network Visualization in Gephi Accountable” (Karin van Es, Daniela van Geenen and Maranke Wieringa (Utrecht Data School, Utrecht University), Tue 19th June, 4pm: https://gephi-field-notes.eventbrite.co.uk<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgephi-fi…> Abstracts copied below in chronological order. Please feel free to invite friends, colleagues and others. All events are public. ☺ All the best, Jonathan -- Jonathan Gray | jonathangray.org<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjonathang…> | @jwyg<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…> Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London ## Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt ## C.W. Anderson (University of Leeds) ## Fri 20 April 2018, 16:00 – 18:00 ## Register: https://apostles-of-certainty.eventbrite.co.uk<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapostles…> This talk will trace the long history of quantified journalism in the United States, beginning in the early 20th century and taking us up to the present day. From this history, an argument is made that the general trend in journalism has been the increased comfort in asserting professional certainty when reporting the news. These trends are especially pronounced in today’s data-driven, digital media environment. The talk argues that journalism has learned the wrong lessons from science and that it needs, in an era of hyper-partisanship, to embrace a provisional uncertainty as both a normative and political strategy. C.W. Anderson is a Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, and the author or co-editor of four books: “Rebuilding the News” (Temple), “Remaking the News” (MIT), “The Sage Handbook of Digital Journalism” (Sage) and “Journalism: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford). “Apostles of Certainty: Data Joutnalism and the Politics of Doubt” is forthcoming in 2018 from Oxford University Press. ** ## "It’s not you, it’s me": moral discourses and affective power of selfies ## Kat Tiidenberg (Tallinn University) ## Mon 23 April 2018, 17:00 – 19:00 ## Register: https://selfies-book.eventbrite.co.uk<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fselfies-…> Every day we share hundreds of millions of photos on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Many of these are selfies. Selfies are continually talked about, yet persistently attacked as unworthy of all of this attention. They generate far more engagement than most other social media content, but are claimed to lack artistic merit; indicate narcissism;  and lead to dangerously stupid behavior. This talk focuses on how selfies make us feel, and why they have the power to make us feel anything. It answers the question of “why selfies matter?” by unpacking the different cultural stories and social norms attached to selfies. It dismantles the exaggerated claims that all selfies are narcissistic, inauthentic, or low quality photography, or on the flipside, that all selfies are empowering. By analyzing how, why and when selfies make us feel “good” or “bad” a story of judgment and control emerges. Kat Tiidenberg, PhD is an Associate Professor of Social Media and Visual Culture at the Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School of Tallinn University, Estonia and a post-doctoral researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is the author of the forthcoming "Selfies, why we love (and hate) them", as well as "Body and Soul on the Internet - making sense of social media" (in Estonian) published in 2017. Tiidenberg is a a long time member of the Association of Internet Researcher's Ethics Committee, a founding member of the Estonian Young Academy of Sciences, second time board member of the Estonian Sociology Association. She is currently writing and publishing on selfie culture, digital research ethics and visual research methods. Her research interests include visual self-presentation, sexuality, and normative ideologies as mediated through social media practices. More info at: kkatot.tumblr.com. ** ## Can a Data Set be Art? Creating Critical Design, new Data, and Feminist AI ## Caroline Sinders ## Thu 26 April 2018, 16:00-18:00 ## Register: https://feminist-ai.eventbrite.co.uk<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffeminist…> Caroline Sinders is an artist and researcher exploring how new kinds of data sets, be it emotional data, traumatic data, or political data can then affect algorithms. How can these outputs be actualized as an art piece? Can the creation of a data set help create equity in digital spaces? Her work explores the intersections of critical design, data, and AI as art. Bio: Caroline Sinders (@carolinesinders) is a machine learning design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been focusing on the intersections of natural language processing, artificial intelligence, abuse, online harassment and politics in digital, conversational spaces.Caroline is a designer and researcher at the Wikimedia Foundation for the Anti-Harassment Tools Team, and a Creative Dissent fellow with YBCA. She has held fellowships with Eyebeam, the Studio for Creative Inquiry and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been featured at MoMA PS1, the Houston Center for Contemporary Art, Slate, Quartz, the Channels Biennale, as well as others. Caroline holds a masters from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. ** ## The Family as Machine: Cybernetic Kinship in Postwar America ## Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan (King's College London) ## Wed 2 May, 1600-1800 ## Register: http://family-as-machine.eventbrite.com/<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffamily-as…> How did the American family become a machine? Starting in the 1950s a community of progressive mental health therapists, ethnographers, and artists around the Bay Area put forth visions of the modern American family as a cybernetic machine. Researchers including anthropologist Gregory Bateson, filmmaker Weldon Kees, and psychiatrist Don Jackson proposed that family members encode and decode informational streams in feedback loops that promote the stability (or “homeostasis”) of the individual as well as the group. Mental illness, in this account, sprang from atypical coding patterns. This talk examines how technical affordances of mid-twentieth century “new media” such as experimental film and information theory facilitated this production of cybernetic families. It retraces the changing fortunes of the cybernetic family as an inspiration for leftwing antipsychiatric reform (e.g. Félix Guattari) as well as neoliberal mental health policies implemented in the Reagan era. These changes fit within a longer history of “media aesthetics” as a tool for managing aberrant selves from hysterics of the nineteenth-century to the quantified self of today. Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan is a media theorist and historian of technology. He holds an appointment as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of King’s College London and as a co-curator for the Technosphere Project at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin). His essays appear in journals including Critical Inquiry, Grey Room, and Theory, Culture & Society. He be found online at www.bernardg.com and on Twitter at @bernardionysius. ** ## Data Feminism ## Lauren Klein (Georgia Tech) ## Thu 24 May 2018, 16:00 – 18:00 ## URL: https://data-feminism.eventbrite.co.uk<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata-fem…> With their ability to depict hundreds, thousands, and sometimes even millions of relationships at a single glance, visualizations of data can dazzle, inform, and persuade. It is precisely this power that makes it worth asking: "Visualization by whom? For whom? In whose interest? Informed by whose values?" These are some of the questions that emerge from what we call data feminism, a way of thinking about data and its visualization that is informed by the past several decades of feminist critical thought. Data feminism prompts questions about how, for instance, challenges to the male/female binary can also help challenge other binary and hierarchical classification systems. It encourages us to ask how the concept of invisible labor can help to expose the invisible forms of labor associated with data work. And it points to how an understanding of affective and embodied knowledge can help to expand the notion of what constitutes data and what does not. Using visualization as a starting point, this talk works backwards through the data-processing pipeline in order to show how a feminist approach to thinking about data not only exposes how power and privilege presently operate in visualization work, but also suggests how different design principles can help to mitigate inequality and work towards justice. Lauren Klein is an assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, where she also directs the Digital Humanities Lab. With Matthew Gold, she edits Debates in the Digital Humanities (University of Minnesota Press), a hybrid print/digital publication stream that explores debates in the field as they emerge. Her literary monograph, Matters of Taste: Eating, Aesthetics, and the Early American Archive, is forthcoming from Minnesota in Spring 2019. She is also at work on two new projects: Data Feminism, co-authored with Catherine D’Ignazio, and under contract with MIT Press, which distills key lessons from feminist theory into a set of principles for the design and interpretation of data visualizations, and Data by Design, which provides an interactive history of data visualization from the eighteenth century to the present. ** ## The World (Wide Web) through an App: The Challenges of Smartphone Users in the Global South ## Elisa Oreglia ) ## Wed 30th May, 1630-1800 ## Register: https://smartphone-global-south.eventbrite.co.uk<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsmartpho…> In recent years, small networks of traders have started to bring cheap, China-made smartphones to low- and middle-income consumers in the Global South. While this has made smartphones accessible to a population that would not be able to afford them otherwise, it has also brought a series of challenges due to the quality and features of the handsets, their language support, etc. Drawing from ethnographic research carried out in Myanmar since 2014, this talk will focus on the experiences of first-time Internet users in semi-urban and rural areas in Myanmar, and their challenges in accessing an internet that can look very different from the one we take for granted. I will discuss what it means to experience the Internet through apps, rather than through a browser; to use a mobile phone while constantly facing obstacles related to infrastructure, cost, connectivity, etc; and reflect on what lessons can be drawn for human-computer interaction and interface design for marginal populations. Elisa Oreglia is a lecturer in Global Digital Cultures in the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. Her research is about the diffusion, appropriation, and use of digital technologies among marginal communities in East and Southeast Asia. ** ## The Field Notes Plugin: Making Network Visualization in Gephi Accountable ## Karin van Es, Daniela van Geenen and Maranke Wieringa (Utrecht Data School, Utrecht University) ## Tue 19th June, 1600-1800 ## Register: https://gephi-field-notes.eventbrite.co.uk<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgephi-fi…> The network visualizations humanities scholars and social scientists employ to communicate research findings are often imbrued with a sense of objectivity. The impression is that these visualizations show facts about, rather than interpretations of, data. Gephi is a popular network visualization package, and used widely within scholarly research. Problematically, it saves only the spatialized network graph, whilst the steps taken and parameters of the algorithms used to get to make the visualization go undocumented. To garner legitimacy for scholarship, it is important that the interpretative decisions involved in the construction of the visualization are documented and opened up for scrutiny. Presently, academic publications in the field of media studies offer limited transparency on the matter. In this talk we explore Gephi’s “epistemological affordances” and elaborate on how the interpretative acts of practitioners, knowingly and unknowingly, privilege certain viewpoints and perpetuate particular power relations. We subsequently present the 'field notes' plugin for Gephi developed in collaboration with the Digital Humanities Lab. It enables account-ability through the systematic documentation of the visualization and analysis process. Karin van Es is Assistant Professor of Television and Digital Culture at Utrecht University (NL) and coordinator of the Datafied Society research platform. Recent publications include the edited volume The Datafied Society: Studying Culture through Data (Amsterdam University Press, 2017) with Mirko Tobias Schäfer and articles for various journals and essay collections. Karin’s current work focuses on how datafication enfolds within public service broadcasting. Daniela van Geenen is a lecturer in data journalistic research and data visualization at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and a researcher at Utrecht Data School. Her work tackles the question of the scholarly conduct that the work with digital methods demands, challenged by the need to design accountable software tools. Daniela published on the role of social and technical actors on social media platforms, and their meaning for social and political practices such as public debate and cultural consumption. Maranke Wieringa is a lecturer at Utrecht University and a researcher at Utrecht Data School. She has a background in Cultural Studies and Media Studies, and specialized in software and data analysis. Notable research to which she contributed focused on how politicians, and actors operating at the fringes of the public sphere frame, and use, news (media). Maranke’s current academic work focuses on (scholarly and municipal) accountability in data projects.

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Job: "Internet and Emerging Technologies Researcher" at Nesta (deadline 24/4!)
by Katja Bego 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Hello all, I'm very excited to announce that Nesta (London) is hiring a researcher to come join us to work on the EU Engineroom project. This is a really exciting role for an early career researcher to become involved in shaping the European Commission's Next Generation Internet initiative, which seeks to build a more democratic, resilient and inclusive internet by 2025. You'd be helping out with setting the research agenda of the programme, with a particular focus on imaging different possible futures for the internet. You'd be working in a dynamic team working on a whole range of projects on topics like digital social innovation, AI regulation, decentralised data governance and data commons, fake news, digital democracy and technology foresight. A lot more detail about the role and application process here: https://www.nesta.org.uk/jobs/researcher-internet-and-emerging-technologies… Quick details: ** Deadline: **Tuesday, April 24 !!!* ** Job title: *Internet and Emerging Technologies Researcher ** Contract type: *1-year, but with possible extension. ** Location: *London, UK ** Hours: *Full-time (though can be discussed) ** Salary: *£28-34K ** Start date:* ASAP, but can be discussed. *The candidate:* You will have a relevant postgraduate degree in fields like STS and internet studies, economics, political science, law, computer science or data science. This role is quite dynamic, and can be adapted to the profile of the candidate (both quantitative and qualitative research backgrounds considered). Of course *feel free to share this opportunity with your students/recent graduates* as well if you think this opportunity might be of interest. Do get in touch if you have any questions! Katja *About Nesta: Nesta is a global innovation foundation. We back new ideas to tackle the big challenges of our time. Our mission is to spark and shape new ideas that improve how the world works for everyone. We use our knowledge, networks, funding and skills - working in partnership with others, including governments, businesses and charities. We are a UK charity but work all over the world, supported by a financial endowment. * -- Katja Bego | Data Science Researcher, Explorations team, Coordinator EU Engineroom -- 58 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0DS www.nesta.org.uk <http://www.nesta.org.uk/> | Newsletter <http://www.nesta.org.uk/newsletter_signup> | Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/nesta_uk> | LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1868227&goback=%2Egdr_1274367066783_1> | Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/NESTA/116788428355432?v=wall&ref=sgm> This email and any attachments are confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. Any use, copying or disclosure other than by the intended recipient is unauthorised. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately via +44 (0)20 7438 2500 or by email to information(a)nesta.org.uk <mailto:information@nesta.org.uk> and delete this message and any copies from your computer and network. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Nesta. Nesta is a company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales with company number 7706036 and charity number 1144091. Registered as a charity in Scotland number SC042833. Registered office: 58 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DS.

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Advanced Data Analytics
by ijwa＠dline.info 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Call for Workshop Papers Seventh Workshop on “Advanced Techniques on Data Analytics and Data Visualization" In Conjunction with the Eleventh International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2018) http://icdim.org/workshops.html Berlin, Germany September 24-26, 2018 Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society Accepted workshop papers will be published in the proceedings indexed by IEEE Xplore. About the Workshop Data are growing at an exponential rate nowadays. In order to take advantage of them, it is important for businesses and organizations to be able to make sense out of them by determining the trends, patterns and underlying insights of the gathered data. Hence problems can be detected early before they result in actual damage. Some examples of data analytics cover tasks of finding suspicious records in accounts payable, evaluating activities of business processes, modeling customers’ behavioral patterns and deriving the best strategies in business decision etc. Such complex tasks go beyond simple statistics. Advanced tools such as data mining, data modeling, data visualization, and information analysis etc. have been extensively researched recently. The objective of this workshop is to provide an interactive platform for academic researchers and industrial practitioners to exchange ideas, disseminate the latest development in data analytics and data visualization. Conceptual models, tools, and current issues are encouraged to be discussed. The workshop welcomes paper submission includes but not limited to the following areas: Data retrieval and management Innovative methods for understanding and interacting with data Innovative methods for data analysis, presentation and visualization Innovative methods for solving current data problems New statistics techniques for improving current solutions Advanced software system and algorithms for data visualization Domain specific data analytics and data visualization Social network analytics and visualization Forensic analytics and visualization Business process analytics and visualization Industry solutions and/or experiences Case studies Submissions Submissions should provide original and unpublished research results or ongoing research with simulations. The papers should be between 6 to 8 pages total in length in the IEEE format. * All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icdim/index.html) * Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed and indexed journals. 1. Journal on Data Semantics 2. Technologies 3. Data Technologies and Applications 4. Webology 5. Journal of Digital Information Management 6. International Journal of Computational Linguistics (Indexed in Scopus, Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports, dblp, Engineering Index and many other databases) Important Dates Full Paper Submission July 07, 2018 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection August -08, 2018 Registration Due September -10, 2018 Camera Ready Due September -10, 2018 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos September 09, 2018 Main conference September 24-26, 2018 Organizers Simon Fong, Robert P. Biuk-Aghai, SI Yain Whar, Lawrence, University of Macau For additional inquiries, please contact the organizers - ccfong at umac.mo Submissions at http://icdim.org/submission.html

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@IQ2US Live Debate tonight: “Preserve Net Neutrality: All Data Is Created Equal”
by Joly MacFie 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

Be sure to put in your initial vote before the event starts. It's the swing that counts. [image: livestream] <https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/preserve-net-neutrality-all-d…> Tonight, *Tuesday April 17 2018* at *7:30pm EDT* (23:30 UTC)* IntelligenceSquaredUS <https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/>* will host a debate *“Preserve Net Neutrality: All Data Is Created Equal” <https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/preserve-net-neutrality-all-d…>* in Chicago IL. Arguing for the motion will be *Mitchell Baker*, Chairwoman, Mozilla Foundation & Mozilla Corporation and *Tom Wheeler*, Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School and Former Chairman, FCC. Arguing against will be *Nick Gillespie*, Editor at Large, Reason and *Michael Katz*, Professor, Berkeley & Former Chief Economist, FCC. It will be *streamed online <https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/preserve-net-neutrality-all-d…>*. The result will be decided by a comparison of votes before and after the arguments. *Twitter: @IQ2US + #NetNeutrality <https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%40IQ2US%20%2B%20%23…>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10108#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10108#comments> *Permalink* *http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10108 <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10108>* -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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21st International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2018): First Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

*** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *** 21st International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2018) St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, 30-31 October, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… (*** In conjunction with ISMIS 2018 ***) WELCOME The 21st International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2018) provides an open forum for intensive discussions and exchange of new ideas among researchers working in the area of Discovery Science. The scope of the conference includes the development and analysis of methods for discovering scientific knowledge, coming from machine learning, data mining, intelligent data analysis, big data analysis as well as their application in various scientific domains. We welcome papers that focus on the analysis of different types of massive and complex data, including structured, spatio-temporal and network data. We particularly welcome papers addressing applications. Finally, we would like to encourage contributions from the areas of computational scientific discovery, mining scientific data, computational creativity and discovery informatics. DS 2018 will be co-located with ISMIS 2018, the 24th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems. The two conferences will be held in parallel, and will share their invited talks. TOPICS We invite submissions of research papers addressing all aspects of discovery science. We particularly welcome contributions that discuss the application of data analysis, data mining and other support techniques for scientific discovery including, but not limited to, biomedical, astronomical and other physics domains. Applications to massive, heterogeneous, continuous or imprecise data sets are of particular interests. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: · Knowledge discovery, machine learning and statistical methods · Ubiquitous knowledge discovery · Data streams, evolving data and models · Change detection and model maintenance · Active knowledge discovery · Learning from text and web mining · Information extraction from scientific literature · Knowledge discovery from heterogeneous, unstructured and multimedia data · Knowledge discovery in network and link data · Knowledge discovery in social networks · Data and knowledge visualization · Spatial/temporal Data · Mining graphs and structured data · Planning to learn · Knowledge transfer · Computational creativity · Human-machine interaction for knowledge discovery and management · Biomedical knowledge discovery and analysis · Machine learning for high-performance computing, grid and cloud computing · Applications of the above techniques to natural or social sciences PAPER SUBMISSION Papers may contain up to fifteen (15) pages and must be formatted according to the layout supplied by Springer-Verlag for the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the DS 2018 review process Authors can submit their papers electronically via our submission page through Easychair: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . PUBLICATION AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES The DS 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 Machine Learning journal (https://link.springer.com/journal/10994) published by Springer. Fast Track Processing will be used to have them reviewed and published. IMPORTANT DATES · Paper Submissions due: 28th June 2018 · Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 18th July 2018 · Camera-Ready Versions of Accepted Papers: 28th July 2018 · Author Registration: 31st Juy 2018 · Early Non-Author Registration: 10th September 2018 · Late Non-Author Registration: after 10th September 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair · George Angelos Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Program Committee Co-Chairs · Larisa Soldatova, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK · Joaquin Vanschoren, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

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CfP:Spheres Journal for Digital Cultures on the Spectre of AI
by MG 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

Hello, On behalf of the editorial collective of Spheres, a peer reviewed, open access web journal from the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, I'm happy to share our Call for Papers for our Winter 2018 issue: The Spectre of Artificial Intelligence. We welcome formats beyond the standard academic ones! And are keen to publish work from a variety of places and perspectives. Deadline for 250 word abstracts: May 15th. First drafts due: August 31st Publication: Winter 2018/19 following peer review More details here: http://spheres-journal.org/call-for-papers-6-the-spectre-of-artificial-inte… Please do share this in your networks. Thank you! _Maya. -- Doctoral candidate, Leuphana University die Fakültat Wissenschaften/Centre for Digital Cultures/MECS T: @mayameme W: bodyofwork.in Fingerprint: D108 EA05 471F 709B E644 18E6 2A9F A109 16D7 EE98

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Computer Art Congress Call for papers
by Mariateresa Garrido Villareal 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

Dear colleagues, This year, October 10-12, the University of Guanajuato is proud to host the 6th edition of the Computer Art Congress, co-organized by the University of Paris 8, Laboratory of Digital Studies, and the University of Texas at Dallas, school of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication, and the UN mandated University for Peace. The theme of this congress is education to computer art. The congress will be bilingual, English and Spanish, with simultaneous translation, and contributions can be: artistic projects, description of educational experiments and experiences in the field of digital arts, proposals for the development of international exchange programs, new ways and methods of teaching computer and media art. You can get more info here http://europia.org/cac6/ The Congress will take place in the beautiful town of Guanajuato during the Festival Cerventino bringing to the city world-class shows, and exhibitions! https://festivalcervantino.gob.mx/ Hoping to welcome your contribution, and to see you here! Best! Dr. Mariateresa Garrido Instructor UN mandated University for Peace - Department of International Law www.upeace.org<http://www.upeace.org>

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WEBCAST TODAY: Force of Nature – Celebrating 20 Years of the Laws of Cyberspace
by Joly MacFie 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

The 1998 paper/speech <https://cyber.harvard.edu/works/lessig/laws_cyberspace.pdf> by Larry Lessig that this event celebrates was remarkably prescient. He foresaw many of the problems that are only just now becoming pain points, and speculated as to solutions. Here is its concluding paragraph: > *Cyberspace is regulated ¾ by laws, but not just by law. The code of > cyberspace is one of these laws. We must come to see how this code is an > emerging sovereign — omnipresent, omnipotent, gentle, efficient, growing — > and that we must develop against this sovereign the limits that we have > developed against real space sovereigns. Sovereigns will always say — real > space as well as cyberspace — that limits, and inefficiencies — bugs — are > not necessary. But things move too quickly for such confidence. My fear is > not just that against this sovereign, we have not yet developed a language > of liberty. Nor that we haven’t the time to develop such language. But my > fear is that we sustain the will — the will of free societies for the past > two centuries, to architect constitutions to protect freedom, efficiencies > notwithstanding.* This will be a very interesting session. 4pm NYC time. [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/lessig>Today *Monday April 16 2018* at *4pm* ET (20:200 UTC), the* Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society <https://cyber.harvard.edu/>*presents *Force of Nature – Celebrating 20 Years of the Laws of Cyberspace <https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018/04/Lessig>* at Harvard Law School. The event recognizes the 20th anniversary of the paper *The Laws of Cyberspace <https://cyber.harvard.edu/works/lessig/laws_cyberspace.pdf>* (Taipei March ’98) by *Professor Lawrence Lessig*. Speakers: Professor Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, along with *Professor Ruth L. Okediji*, the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center, and* Dr. Laura DeNardis*, Professor in the School of Communication at American University, with moderator, *Professor Jonathan Zittrain*, the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and Faculty Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The event will be *webcast live <https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018/04/Lessig>*, and simulcast on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/lessig/>*. (No captions). *View on Livestream: Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/lessig/>Twitter: @BKCHarvard <https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%40BKCHarvard&src=ty…>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10096#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10096#comments> *Permalink* *http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10094 <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10094>* -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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