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Announcing the Nancy Baym Book Award Winner!
by Nancy Baym 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

It's a great honor to announce that AoIR's book award committee has unanimously decided that Lynn Scofield Clark and Regina Marchi’s book Young People and the Future of News is this year’s winner! Here is the book description: Young People and the Future of News traces the practices that are evolving as young people come to see news increasingly as something shared via social networks and social media rather than produced and circulated solely by professional news organizations. The book introduces the concept of connective journalism, clarifying the role of creating and sharing stories online as a key precursor to collective and connective political action. At the center of the story are high school students from low-income minority and immigrant communities who often feel underserved or misrepresented by mainstream media but express a strong interest in politics and their communities. Drawing on in-depth field work in three major urban areas over the course of ten years, Young People and the Future of News sheds light on how young people share news that they think others should know about, express solidarity, and bring into being new publics and counter-publics. You can learn more about it here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/young-people-and-the-future-of-news/E7… The committee found it an important book that is substantive and deeply researched, with strong empirical foundations and insightful theoretical grounding and contributions. We believe it helps us understand both today’s news environment and the directions society is likely to go in the future. What’s more, it is a pleasure to read. We had an outstanding field of nominations this year. It is thrilling to see so much great work coming from our community. I want to thank Jeff Hemsley, Nicholas John, and Helen Kennedy for their work reviewing the nominations with me. Nancy

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Re: [Air-L] Online transcription services
by Jonathan Sterne, Dr. 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

For those of us who have to file with research ethics boards and the like, do these online services have any data privacy provisions? What rights do they have to the material they transcribe? Jonathan

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Podcast on Digital Cultures: The Digital Age and Instagram My Life: Online Gods Podcast #9
by sahana udupa 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

*You can now listen to episode #9 of Online Gods – A Podcast about Digital Cultures <http://www.fordigitaldignity.com/the-digital-age-and-instagram-my-life/> * http://www.fordigitaldignity.com/the-digital-age-and-instagram-my-life/ <http://www.fordigitaldignity.com/the-public-sphere-and-digital-privacy/> *This month we speak to Faye Ginsburg about the digital age and Waseem Shan about his Instagram account Mangalore My Life.* *How are digital interactions remoulding the public sphere in India and elsewhere? What do online cultures and debates do to questions of faith, the nation and belonging? How can we examine the digital by inhabiting the digital? * *Online Gods is a monthly podcast on digital cultures and their political ramifications, featuring lively conversations with scholars and activists.* *Subscribe:* *RSS <http://onlinegods.libsyn.com/rss> // iTunes <https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/online-gods/id1268707636?mt=2> // Stitcher <https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/online-gods?refid=stpr> // Spotify <https://open.spotify.com/show/6eg5Ibjq4DD8gCtH9Lz1UV>* Presented by anthropologist Ian M. Cook <https://cmds.ceu.edu/ian-m-cook>, “ Online Gods” is a key initiative of the ERC funded project ONLINERPOL www.fordigitaldignity.com led by media anthropologist Sahana Udupa <http://www.en.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/staff/professors/udupa/index.html> at LMU Munich. It is co-hosted by the HAU Network for Ethnographic Theory <https://www.haujournal.org/haunet/onlinegods.php>. OnlineGods represents our collective commitment to multimedia diffusion of research in accessible and engaging formats. *Follow:* twitter <https://twitter.com/4digitaldignity>// facebook <https://www.facebook.com/4digitaldignity/>

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ICTD 2019 Call for Participation (Papers/Posters due July 22, 2018)
by Naveena Karusala 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Dear friends, Sending out the CFP for the 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2019), taking place January 4-7 in Ahmedabad, India! Full papers, full papers without publication, posters, and open sessions are welcome! Important dates: Jul 22, 2018: Deadline for Full Papers and Posters Sep 7, 2018: Notifications sent Oct 15, 2018: Camera-readies due All submissions are due at 11:59 pm Indian Standard Time. Full CFP below: ICTD 2019 ***Call for Participation*** Deadline for Papers and Posters: July 22, 2018 Conference: Jan 4-7, 2019, Ahmedabad, India The 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2019), being hosted at the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad, India) January 4-7, 2019, invites you to submit your work. To be held in cooperation with ACM SIGCAS, ICTD 2019 will provide an international forum for scholarly researchers to explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of social, political, and economic development. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become more pervasive in the lives of people around the world. They are being used in various facets of daily life ranging from markets to health care, education to governance, family life to artistic expression. Diverse groups across the world interact with, are impacted by, and can shape the design of these technologies. The ICTD conference provides a forum for analyzing, critiquing, refining, and inventing new ways in which individuals, communities, and societies interact with and make use of these tools and platforms. There are multidisciplinary challenges associated with the engineering, application, and adoption of ICTs in “developing” regions and/or for development, with implications for design, policy, and practice. For the purposes of this conference, the term “ICT” comprises electronic technologies for information processing and communication, as well as systems, use of big data, interventions, and platforms that are built on such technologies. “Development” includes, but is not restricted to, poverty alleviation, education, agriculture, healthcare, general communication, gender equality, governance, infrastructure, environment, and sustainable livelihoods. The conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD research and publishing traditions, with anticipated contributions from fields including (but not limited to) anthropology, computer science, communication, data science, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, human-computer interaction, information studies, information systems, political science, public health, and sociology. To stay up to date, please follow us on Facebook (http://facebook.com/ictdx) and Twitter (@ictdx). You can find more information on our website ( http://ictdx.org) Categories FULL PAPERS An ICTD Full Paper, 7-10 pages in the ACM two-column format (excluding references, but including figures and tables), must make a new and complete research contribution, articulate how it is advancing the field of ICTD, and provide complete and substantial support for its results and conclusions. Papers will be evaluated via double-blind peer review by a multidisciplinary panel of at least three reviewers, one of whom will come from outside the paper’s disciplinary domain in order to ensure broad readability. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to give an oral presentation at the conference. Papers are archived by default in the ACM Digital Library (unless otherwise requested by authors). A subset of these papers will be selected for publication in the Information Technology and International Development (ITID) journal as well. The submission link will be posted on the website at https://www.ictdx.org/participate/. FULL PAPERS WITHOUT PUBLICATION New this year! We recognize that, in some disciplines, papers in conference proceedings have less publication value. Handing over the copyright to ACM may also be undesirable. To allow scholars in these fields to present their research at ICTD, we welcome an additional kind of submission under Papers--papers accepted for publication in the preceding year and a half (from Jan. 1, 2017 through July 22, 2018). Inclusion of these papers into the conference program will depend on relevance to the conference program and availability of slots. Accepted papers will be invited for an oral presentation. Authors are requested to submit their paper as an email attachment with information about the (1) authors, (2) publication venue, (3) publication status, and (4) (expected) date of publication to submissions(a)ictdx.org by Sep 1, 2018. POSTERS An ICTD Poster, up to 4 pages in the ACM two-column format (excluding references, but including figures and tables), can report on practitioner projects, research work in progress, dissertation progress, and other content that would enrich the conference. A complete research contribution is not mandatory. Posters will be reviewed in the same timeline as (but differently than) Papers. Accepted Posters will be presented as posters at the conference and will be archived in the ACM Digital Library (unless otherwise requested by authors). The submission link will be posted on the website at https://www.ictdx.org/participate/. OPEN SESSIONS Open Sessions will welcome a variety of submissions and formats. These will be submitted in the form of extended abstracts and will include proposals for panels, workshops, doctoral colloquium submissions, and more. While some open sessions have been pre-decided (doctoral colloquium, young researchers, etc.), others are up to the authors to define. They can choose to submit to the sessions that have been determined in advance, or propose one of their own. A Google form for participation will be posted on the website at https://www.ictdx.org/participate/. Dates & Deadlines Jul. 22, 2018: Deadline for Papers and Posters Sep. 1, 2018: Notifications sent Oct. 15, 2018: Camera-readies due Jan. 4-7, 2019: Presentations at ICTD 2019 in Ahmedabad All submissions are due at 11:59pm Indian Standard Time. Organizers GENERAL Rajesh Chandwani (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad India) Pushpendra Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi India) PRACTICE Neil Patel (Awaaz.De, Ahmedabad India) PROGRAM Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA) Rajesh Veeraraghavan (Georgetown University, Washington DC USA) POSTERS David Nemer (University of Kentucky, Lexington USA) Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (University of Toronto, Toronto Canada) OPEN SESSIONS Aditya Vashistha (University of Washington, Seattle USA) Michaelanne Dye (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA) DEMOS Kurtis Heimerl (University of Washington, Seattle USA) DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM Nimmi Rangaswamy (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad) Vigneswara Ilavarasan (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) TRAVEL Shriram Venkatraman (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi) Anupriya Tuli (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi) Deepika Yadav (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi) WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA Naveena Karusala (University of Washington, Seattle USA) Esther Jang (University of Washington, Seattle USA) DESIGN Shruti Dalvi (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA) ACCESSIBILITY Vaishnav Kameswaran (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA)

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Save the Date for OpenCon NYC 2018!
by Tatiana Bryant 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

*Save the Date for OpenCon NYC 2018!* Please save the dates for the OpenCon NYC 2018 satellite event on Thursday, October 25th and Friday, October 26th. Join us in Manhattan to learn more about open access, open education resources, and open data. If you’re interested in leading a session, giving a lighting talk, or presenting your work, please fill out this form <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_…> . More information -- along with an interest form -- can be found here <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.opencon2017.org_op…>. An official RSVP form will be announced this summer. Admission to this event is free. Event sponsors include the Siegel Family Foundation, Adelphi University, and Metropolitan New York Library Council. Follow the event on Twitter at #OpenConNYC18.

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Register Now for the DataONE Users Group Meeting
by Robert Sandusky 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

The DataONE Users Group meeting is just over a month away! Register today <https://www.dataone.org/dataone-users-group-meeting-registration-2018?utm_s…> ! Don't miss out on the opportunity to join us for the 2018 DataONE Users Group Meeting <http://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT05MTI5MTg3ODk0Njc2NzQzNzMmYz11MHUxJmU9MzI3…>. Co-located with the with the ESIP Summer Meeting, <http://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT05MTI5MTg3ODk0Njc2NzQzNzMmYz11MHUxJmU9MzI3…> we will have one full day of talks, break-out sessions, community presentations and an evening poster reception on Monday July 16th. This is a great opportunity to learn more about DataONE, to network with colleagues and to share your perspectives on the future of DataONE and the DUG. There is no cost to register and we are still accepting abstracts for talks and posters. On July Tuesday 17th you may also join us for two half-day workshops offered by DataONE as part of the ESIP agenda (separate registration required). Details below: - Interoperability within the DataONE federation <http://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT05MTI5MTg3ODk0Njc2NzQzNzMmYz11MHUxJmU9MzI3…> - Enabling transparency and reproducibility in science through practical provenance frameworks <http://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT05MTI5MTg3ODk0Njc2NzQzNzMmYz11MHUxJmU9MzI3…> For information on the DUG meeting please visit: http://bit.ly/DUG2018 <http://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT05MTI5MTg3ODk0Njc2NzQzNzMmYz11MHUxJmU9MzI3…> Please also consider forwarding the DUG meeting information with colleagues and networks that are interested in DataONE. *Building a Community of Scientific Data Repositories in an Open Science Landscape* *Monday July 16th 2018 Marriott University Park, Tucson AZ; co-located with the ESIP meeting* - Bringing together repository managers and users in support of open science - Community contributed talks and posters - DataONE updates and visioning - Topical breakout sessions and workshops There is* no registration fee* to attend and participate in the DUG meeting. Information, registration and group hotel rates can be found at: bit.ly/DUG2018 *Meeting Theme and Objectives* The 2018 meeting theme, “Building a Community of Scientific Data Repositories in an Open Science Landscape” will bring together repository managers, users and other stakeholders to explore achievements and future work in the open science landscape. Community talks and posters that explore broad topics of interoperability, preservation, data discovery, reproducible research and sustainability are invited. DataONE encourages DataONE Member Nodes, data scientists, researchers, scientists, students and others to submit abstracts for posters and talks. *Abstract Submission for Posters and Talks* Abstracts for talks and posters are solicited during the registration process. Talks will be approximately 10-20 minutes in duration, to be confirmed with development of the agenda. Submissions for talks will be accepted until June 10th, 2018. Oral presentations are not guaranteed. Those not accepted as oral presentations will be given the option to present a poster. Poster submissions will remain open until the close of registration. A shareable flyer <https://www.dataone.org/sites/default/files/dug2018_flyer_0.pdf> and postcard <https://www.dataone.org/sites/default/files/dug2018_postcard.pdf> are available online. We would be grateful if you could circulate widely in your networks. See you in July! Bob Sandusky UIC University Library

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Tenure track position; UMich Communication Studies
by Amanda Lotz 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

The Department of Communication Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor rank focusing on the social implications of digital media. Successful candidates will be appointed to the John Derby Evans Development Chair in Communication Studies. The Department of Communication Studies emphasizes the interdisciplinary study of mass media and digital media. We welcome applications from scholars in the social or behavioral sciences, computer science, or critical humanities traditions working on a range of topics and employing diverse methods. We are interested in qualified applicants whose research addresses important social problems, opportunities, and questions associated with digital media. Topical areas include computer-mediated communication, social media, mobile media, media industries, politics and public policy, socio-technical systems, distribution and access, and other important and innovative areas of research. We are particularly interested in scholars focused on (a) critical-cultural and/or political economy approaches to studying digital media technologies and industries, or (b) media effects approaches to studying new media technology. We are also highly interested in candidates whose research on digital media concerns race and ethnicity in varied social and cultural contexts. Job duties include research activity, teaching of graduate and undergraduate courses, and service to the department, school, university, and profession. The anticipated starting date for this university-year appointment is September 1, 2019. All applicants should send a cover letter, a vita, two representative publications, a statement of teaching philosophy and experience, evidence of teaching excellence, a statement of current and future research plans, and a statement of contributions to diversity. Candidates for this position will have at least three years’ experience at the tenure-track assistant professor rank or equivalent experience. All applicants should provide names of three references. Information on our research initiatives and scholarly interest of currently faculty can be found on the Department’s website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/comm. All applications must be submitted electronically to:https://webapps.lsa.umich.edu/Apply/1128 For full consideration, complete applications should be submitted by August 27, 2018. The University of Michigan conducts background checks on all job candidates and may use a third party administrator to conduct background checks. Background checks will be performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The University of Michigan is committed to fostering and maintaining a diverse work culture that respects the rights of each individual, without regard to race, color, national original, ancestry, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, gender expression, height, weight, marital status, disability, medical condition, age, or veteran status. The University of Michigan is supportive of the needs of dual career couples and is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. For questions about potential fit and your application please email: evans.professorship(a)umich.edu

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Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference, October 5-7, 2018, Lewisburg, PA
by Todd Suomela 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

*Bucknell University will host its fifth annual digital scholarship conference (#BUDSC18) from October 5th-7th. The theme of the conference is “Digital Scholarship: Expanding Access, Activism, and Advocacy.” #BUDSC18 will bring together a community of practitioners–faculty, researchers, librarians, artists, educational technologists, students, administrators, and others–committed to promoting access to and through digital scholarship. We consider “access” in the broadest possible terms: accessible formats and technologies, access through universal design for learning, access to a mode of expression, access to stories that might not otherwise be heard or that might be lost over time, access to understanding and knowledge once considered beyond reach.We encourage proposals that explore or critique digital scholarship as it relates to access, broadly conceived. Topics may include, but should not be limited to, the following: - Accessibility of digital platforms and technology- Access to resources to engage in or produce digital scholarship- Digital scholarship and social change- Sustainability and future access to digital scholarship- Digital scholarship and multimodal/interdisciplinary access- Access to digital scholarship beyond the academy- The public mission of digital scholarship- Creating opportunities for diverse voices and perspectives - Designing for access, activism, and advocacySubmissions may take the form of interactive presentations, project demos, electronic posters, panel discussions, work-in-progress sessions, workshops, lightning talks, or other creative formats.We look forward to building on the success of the last four years, in which we have come together to discuss challenges, share working models, reflect on projects, and inspire new avenues for actively including students in public scholarly pursuits. For more information, please view our highlights <http://budsc17.scholar.bucknell.edu/> from the 2017 meeting, the conference website <http://budsc18.scholar.bucknell.edu/> and this year's call <http://budsc18.scholar.bucknell.edu/call-for-proposals/>.Proposal Submission Form: https://goo.gl/forms/4nVllpVvaLEW9Jc02 <https://goo.gl/forms/4nVllpVvaLEW9Jc02> Proposals are due: June 30th, 8:00 PM, Eastern Time (US).Notifications will be sent by July 15th.If you have any questions please contact: budsc(a)bucknell.edu <budsc(a)bucknell.edu>*

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ACM RecSys'18: Call for TDemos
by Yong Zheng 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

*** Please forward to anyone who might be interested *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: ACM RecSys 2018 to be held in Vancouver, Canada, 2nd-7th October 2018 https://recsys.acm.org/recsys18/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for Demos* Allowing the user to see and use a demo of a research project makes them excited about it – it makes the work real and tangible. Demos are one of the most effective ways to show other people why the ideas matter. Beyond just advertising and exposure, demos make other people inspired by the work. We invite demonstrations of developments in all aspects of recommender systems, for example: · Interaction techniques (preference elicitation interfaces, recommendation presentation, explanations, and more) · Tools for development and analysis of recommender systems (design tools, evaluation systems, analytics tools) · Innovative applications of recommender systems · Recommender user experiments Demos should be described in PDF format, in English, formatted according to the ACM Proceedings template ( http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) for US Letter size, viewable on any platform and should be no longer than 2 pages including references. Submit the description to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recsys2018demos. The description of the demo must include the following: 1. A link to a narrated screen capture of your system in action (ideally a video). 2. An overview of the algorithm or system that is the core of the demo, including citations to any publications that support the work. 3. A discussion of the purpose and the novelty of the demo 4. A description of the required setup. If the system will feature an installable component (e.g., mobile app) or website for users to use throughout or after the conference, please mention this. Demos must not be under review in any other conference at the time of submission and must contain novel contributions. All submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed. This means that submissions must not include information identifying the authors or their organization. Specifically, do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, and anonymize self-citations, acknowledgments, and funding sources. At least one of the authors of each accepted demo is required to attend the conference. Together with the Posters, we will ask authors of accepted papers to upload their papers on arxiv.org (chairs can provide arxiv endorsement for accepted papers if needed). The links to these papers will be used to compile an online proceeding published (together with the Posters) on the ACM RecSys’18 website. *Important Dates* [image: *] Demo submission deadline: July 2, 2018 [image: *] Demo notification: July 16, 2018 [image: *] Camera-ready demo summary deadline: August 8, 2018 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the *AoE (Anywhere on Earth)* time zone. *SUBMIT DEMO PROPOSALS TO: * https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recsys2018demos *Poster and Demo Chairs* Shuo (Steven) Chang, Quora Vanessa Murdock, Amazon Research Christoph Trattner, University of Bergen

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ACM RecSys'18: Call for Late-Breaking Results
by Yong Zheng 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

*** Please forward to anyone who might be interested *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: ACM RecSys 2018 to be held in Vancouver, Canada, 2nd-7th October 2018 https://recsys.acm.org/recsys18/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for Late-Breaking Results* The Late-Breaking Results track of RecSys offers an opportunity for presenting new, preliminary results and speculative or innovative work in progress. This work will be presented in the poster session, where the informal setting encourages presenters and participants to engage in lively discussions about the presented work. All submissions should convey a scientific result or work in progress that is not yet ready to be published as a full-length research paper at a refereed conference, but the preliminary results are already interesting. *SUBMISSIONS* All submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed. Late-breaking results must not be under review in any other conference at the time of submission and must contain novel contributions. This means that submissions must not include information identifying the authors or their organization. Specifically, do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, and anonymize self-citations, acknowledgments, and funding sources. Results should be described in PDF format, in English, formatted according to the ACM Proceedings template ( http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) for US Letter size, viewable on any platform and should be no longer than 2 pages including references. Submit the description to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recsys2018posters. In addition to the two-page submission, accepted authors will be asked to create a poster to be displayed at the conference in a dedicated poster area, and present their work during the poster session. At least one of the authors of each accepted work is required to attend the conference. Together with the Demos, we will ask authors of accepted papers to upload their papers on arxiv.org (chairs can provide arxiv endorsement for accepted papers if needed). The links to these papers will be used to compile an online proceeding published (together with the Demos) on the ACM RecSys’18 website. *IMPORTANT DATES* o Submission deadline: July 17th, 2018 o Notification: August 6th, 2018 o Camera-ready summary deadline: August 20th, 2018 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the *AoE (Anywhere on Earth)* time zone. *POSTER AND DEMO CHAIRS* · Shuo (Steven) Chang, Quora · Vanessa Murdock, Amazon Research · Christoph Trattner, University of Bergen

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