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CfP: The Cultural Life of Machine Learning: An Incursion into Critical AI Studies
by Roberge Jonathan 06 Jun '18

06 Jun '18

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** The Cultural Life of Machine Learning: An Incursion into Critical AI Studies Preconference Workshop, #AoIR2018 Montréal, Canada Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre, INRS (Institut national de la recherche scientifique) Wednesday October 10th 2018 Machine learning (ML), deep neural networks, differentiable programming and related contemporary novelties in artificial intelligence (AI) are all leading to the development of an ambiguous yet efficient narrative promoting the dominance of a scientific field—as well as a ubiquitous business model. Indeed, AI is very much in full hype mode. For its advocates, it represents a ‘tsunami’ (Manning, 2015) or ‘revolution’ (Sejnowski, 2018)—terms indicative of a very performative and promotional, if not self-fulfilling, discourse. The question, then, is: how are the social sciences and humanities to dissect such a discourse and make sense of all its practical implications? So far, the literature on algorithms and algorithmic cultures has been keen to explore both their broad socio-economic, political and cultural repercussions, and the ways they relate to different disciplines, from sociology to communication and Internet studies. The crucial task ahead is understanding the specific ways by which the new challenges raised by ML and AI technologies affect this wider framework. This would imply not only closer collaboration among disciplines—including those of STS for instance—but also the development of new critical insights and perspectives. Thus a helpful and precise pre-conference workshop question could be: what is the best way to develop a fine-grained yet encompassing field under the name of Critical AI Studies? We propose to explore three regimes in which ML and 21st-century AI crystallize and come to justify their existence: (1) epistemology, (2) agency, and (3) governmentality—each of which generates new challenges as well as new directions for inquiries. In terms of epistemology, it is important to recognize that ML and AI are situated forms of knowledge production, and thus worthy of empirical examination (Pinch and Bijker, 1987). At present, we only have internal accounts of the historical development of the machine learning field, which increasingly reproduce a teleological story of its rise (Rosenblatt, 1958) and fall (Minsky and Papert 1968; Vapnik 1998) and rise (Hinton 2006), concluding with the diverse if as-yet unproven applications of deep learning. Especially problematic in this regard is our understanding of how these techniques are increasingly hybridized with large-scale training datasets, specialized graphics-processing hardware, and algorithmic calculus. The rationale behind contemporary ML finds its expression in a very specific laboratory culture (Forsythe 1993), with a specific ethos or model of “open science”. Models trained on the largest datasets of private corporations are thus made freely available, and subsequently détourned for the new AI’s semiotic environs of image, speech, and text—promising to make the epistemically recalcitrant landscapes of unruly and ‘unstructured’ data newly “manageable”. As the knowledge-production techniques of ML and AI move further into the fabric of everyday life, it creates a particularly new form of agency. Unlike the static, rule-based systems critiqued in a previous generation by Dreyfus (1972), modern AI models pragmatically unfold as a temporal flow of decontextualized classifications. What then does agency mean for machine learners (Mackenzie, 2017)? Performance in this particular case relates to the power of inferring and predicting outcomes (Burell, 2016); new kinds of algorithmic control thus emerge at the junction of meaning-making and decision-making. The implications of this question are tangible, particularly as ML becomes more unsupervised and begins to impact on numerous aspects of daily life. Social media, for instance, are undergoing radical change, as insightful new actants come to populate the world: Echo translates your desires into Amazon purchases, and Facebook is now able to detect suicidal behaviours. In the general domain of work, too, these actants leave permanent traces—not only on repetitive tasks, but on the broader intellectual responsibility. Last but not least, the final regime to explore in this preconference workshop is governmentality. The politics of ML and AI are still largely to be outlined, and the question of power for these techniques remains largely unexplored. Governmentality refers specifically to how a field is organised—by whom, for what purposes, and through which means and discourses (Foucault, 1991). As stated above, ML and AI are based on a model of open science and innovation, in which public actors—such as governments and universities—are deeply implicated (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff, 2000). One problem, however, is that while the algorithms themselves may be openly available, the datasets on which they rely for implementation are not—hence the massive advantages for private actors such as Google or Facebook who control the data, as well as the economic resources to attract the brightest students in the field. But there is more: this same open innovation model makes possible the manufacture of military AI with little regulatory oversight, as is the case for China, whose government is currently helping to fuel an AI arms race (Simonite 2017). What alternatives or counter-powers could be imagined in these circumstances? Could ethical considerations stand alone without a proper and fully developed critical approach to ML and AI? This workshop will try to address these pressing and interconnected issues. We welcome all submissions which might profitably connect with one or more of these three categories of epistemology, agency, and governmentality; but we welcome other theoretically and/or empirically rich contributions. Interested scholars should submit proposal abstracts, of approximately 250 words, by 11:59pm EDT on June 30th, 2018 to CriticalAI2018 [at] gmail [dot] com. Proposals may represent works in progress, short position papers, or more developed research. The format of the workshop will focus on paper presentations and keynotes, with additional opportunities for group discussion and reflection. This preconference workshop will be held at the Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre of INRS (Institut national de la recherche scientifique). The Centre is located at 385 Sherbrooke St E, Montreal, QC, and is about a 20-minute train ride from the Centre Sheraton on the STM Orange Line (enter at the Bonaventure stop, exit at Sherbrooke), or about a 30-minute walk along Rue Sherbrooke. For information on the AoIR (Association of Internet Researchers) conference, see https://aoir.org/aoir2018/ ; for other preconference workshops at AoIR 2018, see https://aoir.org/aoir2018/preconfwrkshop/. Organizers: Jonathan Roberge (INRS), Michael Castelle (University of Warwick), and Thomas Crosbie (Royal Danish Defence College). ************** Jonathan Roberge Professeur-chercheur agrégé Titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les Nouveaux Environnements Numériques et l'Intermédiation Culturelle (NENIC Lab) Institut national de la recherche scientifique Centre Urbanisation Culture Société 490, rue de la Couronne, Québec, Qc., Canada, G1K 9A9 Tél. 418-687-6401, fax. 418 687-6425

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Mozilla award competition for advocacy exploring AI on the internet
by Ansgar Koene 06 Jun '18

06 Jun '18

Hi all, just spotted this award competition that has been launched by Mozilla. Could be of interest to us, our students or associates. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/06/04/mozilla-announces-225000-for-art-a… [https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DSC05778-1400x770.jpg]<https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/06/04/mozilla-announces-225000-for-art-a…> Mozilla Announces $225,000 for Art and Advocacy Exploring Artificial Intelligence – The Mozilla Blog<https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/06/04/mozilla-announces-225000-for-art-a…> blog.mozilla.org Mozilla’s latest awards will support people and projects that examine the effects of AI on society At Mozilla, one way we support a healthy internet is by fueling the ... Cheers, Ansgar Dr. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: UnBias, CaSMa & Horizon Policy Impact Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham Working group chair for IEEE Standard on Algorithm Bias Considerations http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ https://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/7003.html https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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CFP_Elsevier SPF2C 2018
by Yassine MALEH 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

*The International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Cloud Computing (**SPFC2'18)* *In conjunction with* *The 9th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN-2018)* December 5-8, 2018, *Leuven, Belgium* Workshop website: *https://sites.google.com/view/spfc2/ <https://sites.google.com/view/spfc2/>* Conference website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18/workshops.html ===================== Important Dates===================== Paper submission deadline: July 02th, 2018 Acceptance Notification: August 08th, 2018 Registration (Authors): July 31th, 2018 Final Manuscript: September 8, 2018 EUSPN Conference: December 5-8, 2018 ===================== *SPFC2 2018*=========================== In cloud and fog computing field, security and privacy threats have been extensively studied and received considerable attention in recent few years, as witnessed by the number of related publications. In the context of these trends, the forthcoming workshop on recent advances on Security and Privacy in Fog and Cloud Computing will address significant issues in the field. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches and novel techniques to increase the security posture of Cloud/fog computing. Therefore, the suggested topics of interest for International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Cloud Computing (SPFC2-2018) include, but are not limited to: · Authentication in cloud/fog computing · Information management in cloud/fog computing · Auditing and accountability in cloud/fog computing · Access control mechanisms in cloud/fog computing · Security models and frameworks for cloud/fog applications · Key management in cloud/fog computing · Privacy preserving in cloud/fog computing · Privacy enhanced technologies for cloud/fog applications · Data confidentiality in cloud/fog devices · Security and privacy in SDN/NFV Networks · Intrusion Detection & Prevention in cloud/fog computing · Security and privacy in Internet of Things (IoT) · Cyber physical security of cloud/fog devices ===================== Publication ============================= Papers delivered at *SPFC2* 2018 will be published by Procedia Computer Science hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com <http://www.elsevier.com/> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-i ndex/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645) ===================== Submission Guidelines ===================== Authors are invited to submit their papers by July 02, 2018. Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers, 6 pages for short papers and 4 pages for work in progress, including all figures, tables and reference. All submissions must be done via Easychair conference management system using this https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spfc2 Best Regards, *SPFC2'18* Organizing Committee.

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YECREA pre-conference
by Inês Amaral 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

[Apologies for cross-posting] The YECREA pre-conference workshops on /31 October 2018/ at ECC 2018 in Lugano are now*FREE* of charge for all early career scholars thanks to funding from ECREA. Please circulate! The deadline for the three connected workshops is */15 June 2018/*. The Young Scholars Network of ECREA (YECREA) is happy to invite students and early-career scholars to a full day of workshops in connection to the 7th European Communication Conference (ECC) in Lugano, Switzerland. 1) Workshop on Methodological Challenges: Opportunities and Challenges of Action Research 31 October 2018, 9.30 – 11.30 Senior facilitators: Jule Uldam (Roskilde University) and Tina Askanius (Malmö University) 2) Workshop on Academic Writing: Writing Academic Publications Based on Your Research 31 October 2018, 12.30 – 14.30 Senior facilitators: Prof Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt (Malmö University) and Alessandro Nanì (Tallinn University). 3) Workshop on Digital Methods: Researching Digital Media Environments 31 October 2018, 15.00 – 17.00 Senior facilitators: Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI, University of Bremen) and Cornelius Puschmann (Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research and Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society) More information on the following link: http://yecrea.eu/ecc-lugano/ecc-yecrea-pre-conference/ YECREA Pre-conference – ECREA 2018 < http://yecrea.eu/ecc-lugano/ecc-yecrea-pre-conference/> Three Young Scholar Workshops: Methods, Writing and Activism. The Young Scholars Network of ECREA (YECREA) are happy to invite students and early-career scholars to a full day of workshops in connection to the 7th European Communication Conference (ECC) in Lugano, Switzerland. Abstract submissions should be sent to yecreapreconf(a)gmail.com <mailto: yecreapreconf(a)gmail.com> Furthermore, the workshops also include coffee (in Workshops 1 and 3), and lunch (Workshop 2).** So do not hesitate and miss a great opportunity to attend this unique event! We are looking forward to seeing you! The Organisers: Johan Farkas (Malmö University) - Workshop 1 Anna Zsubori (University of Leicester) - Workshop 2 Inês Amaral (University of Minho) - Workshop 3

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CFP CHI PLAY 2018 (Spotlight Papers, Doctoral Consortium, Student Game Competition, Interactivity and Works in Progress) - 28 - 31 Oct - Melbourne
by Nicole Crenshaw 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

Apologies for cross-posting! ***************************************************************************** * CHI PLAY 2018 | 1st CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * 5th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play * * Submission deadlines * July 13, 2018: Spotlight Papers, Doctoral Consortium, Student Game Competition, * Interactivity and Works-in-Progress * * Melbourne, Australia * October 28?31, 2018 * https://chiplay.acm.org/2018/ | #chiplay18 * ****************************************************************************** CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference, sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games, and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area ?player-computer interaction?. The goal of the CHI PLAY conference is to highlight and foster discussion on high-quality (full paper acceptance rate has been consistently <30%) research in games and HCI, as a foundation for the future of digital play. To this end, the conference blends academic research papers, interactive play demos, and industry insights. CHI PLAY 2018 is being held as part of Melbourne International Games Week with games events throughout the city, including PAX Australia (the only Penny Arcade Expo outside the USA) a gaming culture festival drawing tens of thousands of gamers to Melbourne each year. *** SUBMISSIONS *** As a SIGCHI-sponsored conference, CHI PLAY welcomes contributions that further an understanding of the player experience, as well as contributions on novel designs or implementations of player-computer interactions, including, but not limited to, the following: + Playful interactions and new game mechanics + Innovative implementation techniques that affect player experiences + Studies of applied games and player experiences (e.g., games and play for health, wellbeing, and learning) + Accessible and inclusive design and play experience + Advances in game user research and game evaluation methods + Psychology of players and typologies of games and players + Gamification, persuasive games, and motivational game design + Virtual and augmented reality in games and play + Novel controls or display technologies for games and play + Tools for game creation + Innovations to advance the work of game designers and developers + Game analytics and novel visualizations of player experiences + Developer experiences and studies of developers + Industry case studies Although CHI PLAY welcomes contributions on the effects of various technologies, software, or algorithms on player experience, technical contributions without clear indications of the impact on players or developers are not within the scope of CHI PLAY. The conference invites submissions including interactive demos, work-in-progress papers and spotlight papers. Additionally, students are invited to submit to the student game competition and the doctoral consortium. * Submission deadlines * July 13, 2018: Spotlight Papers, Doctoral Consortium, Student Game Competition, * Interactivity and Works-in-Progress For further details please see the website: https://chiplay.acm.org/2018/ ***************************************************************************** * CHI PLAY 2018 * 5th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play * https://chiplay.acm.org/2018/ * Twitter: #chiplay18 * ***************************************************************************** -- Dr. Nicole Crenshaw Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine http://sites.uci.edu/nicolecrenshaw/

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Public Seminar: ‘Jobs in the Data Industrial Complex: Four Stories from the Field’
by Scott Rodgers 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

Jobs in the Data Industrial Complex: Four Stories from the Field Professor Vicki Mayer, Tulane University Friday 8 June 2018, from 6pm School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London 43 Gordon Square Room B04 London WC1H 0PD Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jobs-in-the-data-industrial-complex-four-sto… Abstract What Would Google Do? This is the question that government managers, educational administrators, and business leaders have pondered for nearly twenty years of data center development and innovation marketing in Groningen, the Netherlands. In 2014, this question became public when Google formally announced it would expand there by building its largest data center in Western Europe. Since then, I have been following the stories of Google’s coming. In this talk, I offer the infrastructural prehistory of these cloud dreams, followed by three perspectives on what Google does. This event is part of Data Materiality<http://www.publiclysited.com/data-materiality-collaborative-birmacvasari-pr…>, a three-year collaborative project co-sponsored by the Birkbeck Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/birmac/>, and the Vasari Centre for Art and Technology<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/vasari/>.

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GDPR and social media research
by Lorna Richardson 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

Dear all, I am looking for information on how GDPR may impact/have impacted social media research - any links or advice gratefully received! Best wishes Lorna -- Dr Lorna-Jane Richardson FSA AHRC Creative Economies Engagement Fellow Digital Creativity Lab University of York Email: lorna.richardson(a)york.ac.uk University of York *| *Ron Cooke Hub *| *York *|* YO10 5GE

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Crowdsourcing advice
by Madolyn Smith 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

Hi listers, The European Journalism Centre is crowdsourcing advice on crowdsourcing. If you've worked on a crowdsourcing project, be it for research, journalism, or something else, we would love to hear about your experience. We're particularly interested in the answers to the following questions: - how did your approach towards crowdsourcing contribute to the project's success? - If you could go back in time and do something differently, what would it be? - if you faced any challenges, specifically in relation to crowdsourcing, what were these and how did you overcome them? Thanks! Madolyn === Madolyn Smith | Editor | European Journalism Centre Oranjeplein 106, 6224 KV, Maastricht, The Netherlands Email : smith(a)ejc.net Visit: ejc.net | datadrivenjournalism.net Join: ejc.net/facebook | @ejcnet <http://ejc.net/twitter> | @ddjournalism <https://twitter.com/ddjournalism> CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorised disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email from your system.

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CfP: The Web that Was: Archives, Traces, Reflections (Amsterdam, June 2019)
by Michael Stevenson 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

The Web that Was: Archives, Traces, Reflections A three-day conference, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 19-21, 2019. The third biennial RESAW (Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials) conference. Organized by the University of Amsterdam. *** Keynote speakers *** Megan Ankerson, University of Michigan Florian Cramer, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences Olia Lialina, Merz Akademie Fred Turner, Stanford University *** Special event *** The conference will host a lecture-performance by Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool van Amsterdam) and guests on the history and preservation of Amsterdam’s early internet culture. *** Call for contributions *** As the first generation of web users goes grey, it's clear that the internet they remember is no longer around. The early web is now simply another object of nostalgia. Tech anniversaries are a dime a dozen, while once cool digital aesthetics have made several ironic comebacks. All of this reinforces a sense that we’ve left behind a digital history that was as clunky and slow as it was idealistic and naïve. How can we rethink this relationship to the web's past and the past web? This question is crucial today as the open web continues to lose ground to platforms and apps. How can this history be reconstructed and re-evaluated, and how are web archives and web histories impacted by technological change? What do traditional problems of preservation and historiography look like at scale? And what stories capture the diverse transformations and continuities that mark nearly 30 years of web history? There is of course no single web history, materially or conceptually speaking. There is instead a politics of archives, technologies and discourses that needs to be uncovered. How can we expand our view of web history beyond Silicon Valley and celebrated cases? And how can we reveal the technological, social and economic contexts that have shaped not just the present web, but how we access its past? What role do archives play in uncovering the histories of the web, platforms and apps, as well as their production and usage contexts? This conference aims to bring together scholars, archivists and artists interested in preserving, portraying and otherwise engaging with the web that was. In addition to paper submissions, we invite proposals for audiovisual installations, posters, software demos, or other media that connects to the conference themes. Submissions in the form of an abstract may relate to, but are not limited by, the following topics: * Web and internet histories * Historicizing the web and digital culture  * Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and critiquing periodizations  * Past futures and paths not taken * Platformization and the changing structure of the web * Social imaginaries of the early web * Archives and access * Research methods for studying the archived web * Methods for platform and app histories * Ethics of (studying) web archives * Technicity of web archives * Software histories * Archived audiences and histories of internet use * Identity, intersectionality and web history * Digital activism and web history * Histories of net criticism * Media industries and their online histories * Web histories elsewhere: forgotten and marginalized web cultures * Realtime, time travel and other web temporalities * Future histories and the archive of tomorrow  *** Submissions *** Submissions are welcomed from all fields and disciplines, and we would particularly encourage postgraduate students and early career researchers to participate. * Individual papers of 20 minutes length (750-word abstract and a short author bio of 100-150 words). * Panel sessions consisting of three individual papers, introduced by a chair (750-word abstract for each paper, a brief description of 300 words of the purpose of the panel, and a short author bio of 100-150 words for each speaker).  * Posters, demonstrations, and audio/video/interactive installations (short abstract of no more than 300 words, a list of A/V or other requirements, and a short author bio of 100-150 words) * Workshops (a 500-word rationale for the workshop, including discussion of why the topic lends itself to a workshop format, and a short author bio of 100-150 words for the workshop organiser(s)). Deadline for submission is 19 October 2018. Acceptance will be on the basis of double-blind peer review. *** Timetable *** May 2018 - dates out June 2018 - first call for papers July 2018 - second call for papers August 2018 - third call for papers September 2018 - final call for papers and submissions open 19 October 2018 - submission of abstracts December 2018 - notification of acceptance 19–21 June 2019 - conference *** Organizing Committee *** Anne Helmond, University of Amsterdam, NL Michael Stevenson, University of Amsterdam, NL In collaboration with the RESAW Conference Committee: Niels Brügger, Aarhus University, DK (organiser 2015) Jane Winters, University of London, UK (organiser 2017) Valérie Schafer, University of Luxembourg, LU (coming organiser 2021) *** Program Committee *** Susan Aasman, University of Groningen, NL Gerard Alberts, University of Amsterdam, NL Megan Ankerson, University of Michigan, USA Anat Ben-David, The Open University of Israel, IL Josephine Bosma, independent art critic and theorist, NL Sally Chambers, Ghent University, BE Frédéric Clavert, C2DH Luxembourg Annet Dekker, University of Amsterdam, NL Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, UK Sophie Gebeil, Aix-Marseille University, FR Robert W. Gehl, University of Utah, USA Daniel Gomes, arquivo.pt, PT Stefania Milan, University of Amsterdam, NL Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo, CA Francesca Musiani, CNRS, FR Claude Mussou, Ina, FR Janne Nielsen, Aarhus University, DK Camille Paloque-Berges, CNAM, FR Thomas Poell, University of Amsterdam, NL Bernhard Rieder, University of Amsterdam, NL Marta Severo, University of Paris Nanterre, FR Kees Teszelszky, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Royal Library, NL Fred Turner, Stanford University, USA Peter Webster, Webster Research & Consulting, UK Katrin Weller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, DE *** Sponsors *** The conference is financed in part by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as part of the research program Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni in connection with the projects “The Web that Was” (275-45-006) and “App ecosystems: A critical history of apps” (275-45-009). *** Contact *** http://thewebthatwas.net organizers(a)thewebthatwas.net

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Call for Participation: Archives Unleashed Datathon, Vancouver, 1-2 November 2018
by Ian Milligan 04 Jun '18

04 Jun '18

Apologies for cross-posts - and please forward to any interested parties! Archives Unleashed: Call for Participation Web Data at Scale with the Archives Unleashed Toolkit: Web Archive Datathon Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University Vancouver Campus 1-2 November 2018 http://archivesunleashed.org/vancouver/ The World Wide Web has had a profound impact on how we research and understand the past. The sheer amount of cultural information that is generated and, crucially, preserved every day in electronic form, presents exciting new opportunities for researchers. Much of this information is captured within web archives. Web archives often contain hundreds of billions of web pages, ranging from individual homepages and social media posts, to institutional websites. These archives offer tremendous potential for social scientists and humanists, and the questions research may pose stretch across a multitude of fields. In short, web archives offer the ability to reconstruct large-scale traces of the relatively recent past. *Archives Unleashed Toolkit* The Archives Unleashed Team has partnered with SFU Library and KEY (SFU’s Big Data initiative) to host the next Archives Unleashed datathon. This event is tailored towards web archives practitioners and researchers. The Archives Unleashed datathon presents an opportunity for librarians, archivists, researchers, computer scientists, and others to collaboratively work with web collections and explore cutting-edge research tools through hands on experience. This event will bring together a small group of approximately 15-20 participants to experiment with the newest release of AUT (Archives Unleashed Toolkit) and the Archives Unleashed Cloud, and to kick-off collaboratively inspired research projects. Participants will have access to analytics software and specialists, and will be exposed to the process of working with web archive files at scale. For more information on AUT and the Cloud, please visit http://archivesunleashed.org/. This will be our second Canadian event, with two additional datathons happening in eastern and western area of the United States. Accordingly, the Vancouver datathon will prioritize regional applicants from western and central Canada and the northwestern United States. *Sponsors + Travel Grants* This event is possible thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Simon Fraser University Library, SFU Key, University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Arts, York University Libraries, Compute Canada, and Start Smart Labs. The Archives Unleashed team is pleased to offer modest travel grants to help attendees participate in this event. These grants can cover up to $1,000 CAD in travel expenses. If you require financial assistance to attend the event, please indicate in your statement of interest that you would like to be considered for the travel grant. *Submission Guidelines* Those interested in participating should send a 250-word expression of interest and a short one-page CV to the Archives Unleashed Team (archivesunleashed(a)gmail.com <mailto:archivesunleashed@gmail.com>) by midnight (EST) on 16 July 2018. This expression of interest should address your background and interests in web archiving, and what you would hope to get out of working with tools and web archive data at scale. Applicants will be notified by 27 July 2018. On behalf of the organizers, Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo), Rebecca Dowson (Simon Fraser University), Nick Ruest (York University), Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo), and Samantha Fritz (University of Waterloo) -- Ian Milligan | Associate Professor | Department of History University of Waterloo | 200 University Ave W Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 +1 (519) 888-4567 x32775 | http://ianmilligan.ca <http://ianmilligan.ca/> | @ianmilligan1 <https://twitter.com/ianmilligan1>

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