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Call for Proposals: Special Issue of "Convergence": Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies
by Leif Kramp 08 Jul '18

08 Jul '18

Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies Special Issue of "Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies" Guest-editors: Christian Pentzold (University of Bremen, Germany), Anne Kaun (Södertörn University, Sweden), and Christine Lohmeier (University of Bremen, Germany) Digital media, networked services, and aggregate data are beacons of the future. These incessantly emerging tools and infrastructures project new ways of communication, bring unknown kinds of information, and open up untrodden paths of interaction. Yet digital technologies do not only forecast uncharted times or predict what comes next. They are, it seems, both prognostic and progressive media: they don’t await the times to come but realize the utopian as well as dystopian visions which they have always already foreseen. At the same time, all calculation of anticipations has to rely on past data that profoundly shape our ability to manage expectations and minimize uncertainties. In these fast forward dynamics, the special issue of Convergence examines the futuremaking capacity of networked services and aggregate data. We ask contributions to consider: What role do digital technologies and data play in the construction and circulation of future knowledge, e.g., through forecasting, modelling, prediction, or prognosis? What expectations and anticipatory visions such as promise or warning do accompany the creation and diffusion of new media? Over the course of history, which imaginaries of social and technological futures have been propelled by the media innovations at that time? How do new media technologies and discourses contribute to the production and reproduction of social time that is future oriented? How do they impact on the ability to exert control over the future? Papers in this special issue will explore the future making dimension of new media and may include the following topics: • Role of media in reconfiguring the relations and distances among present, past, and future times • Communicative construction of differently vast and (un)certain horizons of expectation • Data-based modes of anticipation (e.g., prognosis, prediction, prevention, precaution, pre-emption); calculative practices and other kinds of speculative accounts of possible events • Historical succession of past future visions around media innovations and mediated social life • Imaginaries of futures related to digital media • Interventions into the plans, efforts, and processes of constructing futures • Backwards-orientation of forecasting and conservative aspects of future scenarios • New media in the production of simultaneity, coincidence, or (non)contemporaneity Submissions: Proposals should include the author's name and affiliation, title, an abstract of 500 words, and 3 to 5 keywords, and should be sent to the e-mail address no later than 1 December 2018: mediatizedtime(a)uni-bremen.de <mailto:mediatizedtime@uni-bremen.de> Invited paper submissions will be due 1 June 2019 and will undergo peer review following the usual procedures of the journal. The invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee acceptance into the special issue. The special issue will be published in 2020. All inquiries should be sent to: christian.pentzold(a)uni-bremen.de <mailto:christian.pentzold@uni-bremen.de>. Download the Call for Proposals here <http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/redak_zemki/dateien/Dateien-News/C…>.

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1 year Teaching fellow at UCD School of Info and Comm Studies
by Amber Cushing 07 Jul '18

07 Jul '18

Please follow this link for more info: https://medium.com/ucd-ischool/vacancy-teaching-fellow-1-year-school-of-inf… The position is ideal for a newly graduated PhD or anyone looking to gain more teaching experience. Closes soon-23 July Dr. Amber L. Cushing Lecturer/Assistant Professor Director, Msc & Graduate Certificate in Digital Information Management (formerly Digital Curation) Director, ICS PhD Programme School of Information and Communication Studies University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4 Ireland +353 01 716 8441 www.amberlcushing.info Office: C117 Neman

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ACM Intelligent User Interfaces - IUI 2019: Call for Papers
by Axel Soto 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

*** ACM IUI 2019: Call for Papers *** Los Angeles, CA, USA March 17-20, 2019 http://iui.acm.org/2019/ ACM IUI 2019 is the 24rd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas: academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations. Along with 25 other topics in AI & HCI, this year we especially encourage submissions on explainable intelligent user interfaces for IUI 2019. ** Why you should submit to ACM IUI ** At ACM IUI, we focus on the interaction between machine intelligence and human intelligence. While other conferences focus on one side or the other, we address the complex interaction between the two. We welcome research that explores how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter, which may leverage solutions from data mining, knowledge representation, novel interaction paradigms, and emerging technologies. We strongly encourage submissions that simultaneously discuss research from both HCI and AI. We also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other. The conference brings together people from academia, industry, government and non-profit organizations and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. It is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and doctoral consortium for graduate students. IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Affective and aesthetic interfaces - Big data and analytics - Collaborative interfaces - Education and learning-related technologies - Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces - Explainable intelligent user interfaces - Explainable artificial intelligence - Interactive visual analytics and interpretation for deep learning - Health and intelligent health technologies - Information retrieval and search - Intelligent assistants for complex tasks - Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces - Intelligent ubiquitous user interfaces - Intelligent visualization tools - Interactive machine learning - Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation - Modeling and prediction of user behavior - Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) - Natural language and speech processing - Persuasive and assistive technologies in IUI - Planning and plan recognition for IUI - Proactive and agent-based user interaction - Recommender systems - Smart environments and tangible computing - Social media analysis - User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces - User-Adaptive interaction and personalization ** Dates ** Oct 1, 2018: Abstract deadline (compulsory) Oct 8, 2018: Papers deadline Dec 7, 2018: Notification Dec 21, 2018: Camera ready due Mar 17, 2019: Conference starts ** Submission - Full and Short Papers ** We invite original paper submissions that describe novel user interfaces, applications, interactive and intelligent technologies, empirical studies, or design techniques. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contributions. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2019". ** Submission Guidelines ** - Full paper (anonymized 10 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) should make substantial, novel, and relevant contribution to the field. - Short paper (anonymized 4 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) is a much more focused and succinct contribution to the field. Short papers are not expected to include a discussion of related work that is as broad and complete as that of Full papers. - Anonymization: ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines: -- Author's names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper. -- Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process. -- Self-citations should be included where necessary, but must use the third person. For example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ... " is not allowed, whereas "... as shown in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be perceived as self-citation). - Failure to follow these guidelines may result in submissions being rejected without review. - Authors should also be aware of the SIGCHI Policy for Submission and Review at SIGCHI Conferences, see: https://sigchi.org/about/sigchi-policies/conference-policies/submission-and… - Submissions should follow the standard SigCHI format. Use either the Microsoft Word template (https://github.com/sigchi/Document-Formats/blob/master/Word/SIGCHIProceedin…) or the LaTeX template ( https://github.com/sigchi/Document-Formats/tree/master/LaTeX) Accepted full papers will be invited for oral presentation. Accepted short papers will be invited either as oral or poster presentation. ** AUTHORS TAKE NOTE ** The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) ** Chairs - program-iui2019(a)acm.org ** Oliver Brdiczka, Adobe, USA Gaëlle Calvary, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Polo Chau, Georgia Tech, USA -- Dr. Axel J. Soto Researcher National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) Instituto de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación (ICIC-UNS) http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Axel.Soto/index.html ---- Oficina A8 San Andrés 800 - Campus Altos del Palihue Departamento de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación (DCIC-UNS) (8000) - Bahía Blanca Argentina

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Call for Papers 'Sites Queer: Technologies, Spaces and Otherness'
by Regner Ramos Ramirez 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Dear Colleagues, I hope this email finds you well. My name is Dr Regner Ramos, and I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture. My current research project explores how mobile technologies are changing and informing queer spatial practices in San Juan, Puerto Rico (there's more info here <http://elsite.xyz/about>). I want to invite the members of the AOIR to a conference we're organizing here at the University of Puerto Rico next February 2019. called 'Sites Queer: Technologies, Spaces and Otherness'. We've got an open Call for Papers at the moment, and I'd like to encourage members working on topics that touch on any of these aspects to submit. If there are any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch. *CFP - **Sites Queer: Technologies, Spaces and Otherness* *University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture, Río Piedras Campus* *Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 August 2018* *Conference Dates: February 7-9, 2019* Much of queer theory, history, art and performance have been discussed from Anglo American and European perspectives. *Sites Queer* is an interdisciplinary three-day conference exploring the multiple ways in which LGBTQ+ spaces and identities get reconfigured, performed and contested through the technologies and spatial politics of diverse ethnic cultures. We welcome submissions from all cultural backgrounds, and are particularly interested in inviting research projects rooted in Latin American, Asian, Aboriginal and African cultures. >From within the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, *Sites Queer* will be a space to discuss, foreground and analyze divergent queer histories, narratives and spatial practices. Subsequently, playing off the word 'site' as a physical locale as well a digital space, the conference will problematize the ways the Internet, digital technologies, mobile apps and social networks are informing, changing, shaping or contesting queerness for ethnic minorities at urban and rural levels. The outcome of the conference will be to create a book proposal acting as a critical, cultural memory; a written and visual record; and a speculative, spatial cartography of queer spaces, drawing them out from their Otherness and situating them within contemporary sociopolitical debates. Potential themes and sub-themes of the conference include but are not limited to: *-Autoethnography, Autobiography and Performance* *-Non-normative Relationship Structures* *-Intimacy and Romance* *-Chem-sex* *-Digital Economies and Transactions* *-Distance and Proximity* *-Postcodes and Addresses* *-Urban Infrastructures* *-Ephemerality, Transcience and Permanence* *-Nighttime Culture and Economies* *-Migration* *-Bias and Marginalization* *-Looking for Others and Being Found* *-Politics of Space* *-Citizenship and Otherness* *-Tourism and Mobility* *-Activism and Resistance* *Sites Queer* is funded by Dr. Regner Ramos’s FIPI research grant at the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture. We are inviting research papers, performances, workshop sessions, roundtable sessions and pre-constituted panels to participate. Please send 250-word abstracts and a 150-word biography to regner.ramos(a)upr.edu . In the case of group submissions, please provide biographies for each individual. We accept submissions in Spanish and English. *Submission Deadline: 31 August 2018* For more details: http://elsite.xyz/calendar/sites-queer We are delighted to have Dr. Sharif Mowlabocus as *Sites Queer's* keynote speaker. Dr Mowlabocus is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Digital Media, based within the School of Media, Film and Music at University of Sussex. His research focuses on gay and queer sexualities in media culture, and has authored a variety of articles and books on the subject. Best wishes, Regner Ramos, PhD

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Data & Society seeks Postdoc for Media Manipulation
by Joan Donovan 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Please forward this widely: Data & Society Research Institute is seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar, with a background in social science, media studies, journalism studies, or technology studies, to conduct a one-year ethnographic study of media manipulation and/or platform news. We are most interested in candidates who would pursue a project that illustrates how disinformation impacts communities and how responses are shaped by access to technology and power. More here: https://datasociety.net/blog/2018/06/13/now-hiring-researcher/ Contact jobs(a)datasociety.net with any questions about the position. All my best, Joan Donovan

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PostDoc position in Social Computing at UIUC
by Diesner, Jana 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi, The School of Information Sciences/ the iSchool at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for the position of a Post-Doctoral Scholar in Dr. Jana Diesner’s research group. The person will leverage and improve methods from Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) to advance theory and applications in the areas of emergency management, IoT, and responsible computing. This will be interdisciplinary research at the nexus of computing and social science conducted in collaboration with Dr. Jana Diesner and her lab. The person will be involved with at least one of the following three projects: (1) Emergency management: Explore the application of NLP and ML techniques to large-scale, multi-mode data in order to advance the measurement of the success of emergency response efforts. This project spans all stages (preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation) of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. A specific sub-goal for this position will be the assessment of situational awareness of emergencies and responses depending on data types and characteristics of sources. This project is funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and CIRI (Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute, at UIUC), and is conducted in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard. (2) IoT: Collaborate on user studies and computational data analysis to develop novel theories and scientific insights that lead to the scalable composition and management of heterogeneous IoTs that enable secure information sharing. We will focus on investigating the relationship between the accuracy and modality of information, cultural contexts, and bias in perception. We will characterize information behavior related to basic human principles of expression and decision making, such as people’s morality and the impact of multi-modality on people’s perception of information. A sub-goal for this position is the characterization of the interplay of social agents and information in networks where links are formed through communication, collaboration and shared mental models. This project is funded by the Army Research Lab. (3) Responsible Computing: Practical Ethics: Study data regulations with a focus on normative expectations in different communities and data governance in different jurisdictions. Help to develop practical solutions for compliance with data regulations. Transparency and accountability: Study the impact of data provenance and data curation on research outcomes, with a focus on the impact of data and algorithms on predictive modeling. This work is funded by the Office of the CIO/TechnologyServices at UIUC. Statement of duties: Conduct high quality research in the general area of social computing Collaborate with graduate students Supervise small, interdisciplinary teams that involve graduate and undergraduate students Prepare and publish research findings in journals and at national, state and regional conferences Work with Dr. Diesner’s group to translate research outcomes into training and education Qualifications: Candidates should have a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline (e.g., computer science, information science, or computational social science) as well as evidence of conducting research aligned with the projects’ interests. Applicants should have a track record of publishing in the areas of computational social science, network science, or NLP. Applications should have strong research experience with machine learning, handling large datasets, and data provenance/ curation. A background in one of the mentioned application domains is highly desirable. Appointment status: The position is a full-time appointment (100%) for an initial period of 12 months. Start date will be ideally in August of 2018. Salary statement: Salary will be commensurate with experience. Application process: To apply for this position, please send your cover letter, CV, up to three related publications, and the name and contact information for three references to Jana Diesner (jdiesner(a)illinois.edu) Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Close date for applications: July 13th, 2018 (11.55 pm AoE) Unit contact information: For more information, contact Jana Diesner at jdiesner(a)illinois.edu. For a full description of the position please see http://jdiesnerlab.ischool.illinois.edu/postdoc_june2018.html Kind regards, Jana Jana Diesner, PhD Assistant Professor PhD Program Director School of Information Sciences/ The iSchool at Illinois University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 E. Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820 Web: http://jdiesnerlab.ischool.illinois.edu

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ENTER 2019 eTourism Conference: Third Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

ENTER 2019: The 26th Annual eTourism Conference "eTourism: Towards a Sustainable Digital Society" Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 30 January - 1 February, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Third Call for Research Papers *** (Proceedings published by Springer - Journal special issue in JITT, Springer) Every year, hundreds of tourism academics, industry representatives, government officials, students and entrepreneurs come together to share, discuss and challenge latest developments in information technology in the fields of travel, tourism and hospitality. With the theme "eTourism: Towards a Sustainable Digital Society" the ENTER 2019 conference will focus on exploring the ways in which technology and tourism together can make our society more sustainable. We call for latest research and case studies on emergent and cutting-edge information and communication technology concepts, applications, and business models to be shared in the conference. Organized by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel & Tourism (IFITT), the ENTER 2019 conference provides a unique venue for various tourism stakeholders to understand the application of information and communication technologies to travel and tourism, with a special focus on how eTourism can contribute to the sustainability of the society. The ENTER 2019 research track is divided into three major topics that all contribute to our capabilities in building a sustainable digital society: Tourism Business and Technology, Governance, Sustainability and Education, and Computer Science and Information Systems. Issues to be covered at the conference include, but are not limited, to the following areas in the travel, tourism and hospitality context: Tourism Business and Technology · ICT and Tourism Experience · Augmented and Virtual Reality · Platform Economy · Website Design and Evaluation · Digital Marketing and Social Media Strategies · Digital Distribution and Social Selling · Social Networking, Social Media and Social Inspiration · Gaming and Gamification · ICT Adoption and Value Creation · E-strategy and eBusiness Models · ICT for Innovation and Service Design · Digital Nomads · Consumer Behaviour in Digital Space · Robotics and Automation in Travel and Hospitality Governance, Sustainability and Education · ICT for Regional Development and Sustainability · Advanced Distribution Systems and Strategies, Dynamic Packaging · ICT-enabled Partnership and Collaboration · E-Learning, Life-long Learning and MOOCs · E-Government and Public Policy in Tourism · Digital Divide and Socio-economic Development · Privacy and Internet Security · Legal, Ethical and Social Aspects of ICT Computer Science and Information Systems · Big Data and Large-scale Systems · Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning · Data Mining, Analytics and Measurement · Text and Concept Mining, Sentiment Analysis · Recommender Systems and Personalization · User Modeling and Decision Making · Human-Computer Interaction · Emotions and Personality-based Systems · Social Network Analysis · Location-based Services and Context-Aware Systems · Mobile Services and Wearable Technologies · Semantic Web, Tourism Ontologies and Linked Open Data · Data Standards and Data Integration · Travel Information Search and Retrieval · Internet-of-Things · Smart Destinations · Travel Chatbots · Blockchain and Other Emerging Technologies Welcoming Academics and the Industry The conference brings together the research community and industry, and it is organized in three streams, namely industry track, destinations track, and research track. If you are representing tourism industry or destinations, please see suitable calls for presentations at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . The conference also features six to eight world-class keynote speakers discussing the most pressing topics within eTourism. Location The 26th edition of ENTER will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus. Nicosia is the capital of Cyprus; a status it has enjoyed for 1000 years since the 10th century, though its beginnings date back 5000 years to the Bronze Age. Nicosia is a sophisticated and cosmopolitan city, rich in history and culture that combines its historic past with the amenities of a modern city. Cyprus is an island drenched in sun and mythology, at the crossroads of ancient civilizations. 9,000 years of history gathered on one island. Cyprus packs a remarkable array of sights and attractions, museums and archaeological parks, throbbing beach resorts, pine covered mountains, medieval fortresses and ancient temples. Over the last few years, it has become one of the top touristic European destinations breaking in consecutive years the record of tourist arrivals. It is expected that in 2018, more than 3.6 million tourists will visit Cyprus and plans target a steady intake of 5 million tourists per year. More information about Nicosia and Cyprus as well as what the island and its capital offer can be found on the conference web site. Call for Research Papers We invite research papers across the widest spectrum of Information and Communication Technologies in Travel and Tourism to be presented at the ENTER 2019 conference. All submissions to the research track are rigorously evaluated for novelty, significance, and soundness. Papers should clearly state the background, introduction, purpose, theory, methodology, results, conclusions and managerial/industry/social implications of the study, and be fully referenced with appropriate citations. The authors of full papers and research notes will have the opportunity to present their research orally supported by PowerPoint slides. Full technical details will be provided with the acceptance of the paper. The proceedings of recently held ENTER conferences are listed by ISI's Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S). ENTER 2019 proceedings will follow a similar indexing process for ISI and other major indices. A) Full Papers Full papers should be innovative, so to advance the knowledge base of related fields. These papers present major contributions to the field and should be up to 12 pages in length. The conference proceedings http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… (to be published by Springer International Publishing) will include all accepted full papers. An award for the best full paper will be presented during the conference. B) Research Notes Research notes of up to 5 pages are invited. These papers represent new ideas not developed enough at the scale of a full paper, findings that restate known research, descriptions of prototypes, or research that is limited in scope. All research notes will be published by the e-Review of Tourism Research (eRTR) at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… (Editor of eRTR: Cody Morris Paris, Middlesex University Dubai, United Arab Emirates). C) Organized Sessions Proposals for organizing technical or other research-oriented sessions are invited. Proposals will include details of potential participants, topics, and presenters. Session Chairs are expected to attend ENTER 2019, set the order of presentations, and chair their session/s. Deadline for session chairs to submit their proposals to Research Track Chairs is September 3, 2018 (please submit proposal by e-mail to the research track chairs found at the end of the document). Submission Please refer to the "Author Advice" (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… ) document as a style guide for standards to follow in the preparation of manuscripts. Please also see Springer guidelines for conference proceedings: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… , especially for Latex submissions. Papers must be uploaded to the online reviewing platform: Easy Chair for ENTER2019 (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enter2019 ). All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed by experienced researchers who are members of the scientific review committee. Final acceptance will depend on whether the author(s) can adequately address review comments to the satisfaction of the reviewers. Authors must submit their revised manuscripts by the deadline (October 22, 2018) and must register for the conference by November 12, 2018 in order to have their papers included in the Conference Proceedings or eRTR. Time Schedule · Submission closes: September 3, 2018 · Notification of acceptance/rejection/revision: October 8, 2018 · Deadline to submit revised version: October 22, 2018 · Final acceptance: October 29, 2018 · End of Early Bird registration: November 2, 2018 · Registration deadline to be published later: November 12, 2018 · Conference: January 30 - February 1, 2018 Conference organizers reserve the right to modify the paper submission schedule. Submission Guideline and Presentation Template Please download the "Author Advice" document as a style guide for Word here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… and for Latex here: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . A presentation template for your presentation during ENTER2019 Conference will be sent to the authors after acceptance. Fast Track Journal of Information Technology and Tourism (JITT) Best papers' authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their article to Journal of Information Technology and Tourism (Springer). These articles will be reviewed under a special fast track in order to assure a timely publication. JITT website: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Research Track Chairs · Juho Pesonen, University of Eastern Finland (juho.pesonen[at]uef.fi) · Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, Austria (julia.neidhardt[at]ec.tuwien.ac.at)

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Internet of Everything (IoE 2018)
by ijwa＠dline.info 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Call for Papers Fourth Workshop on 'Internet of Everything (IoE)' In Conjunction with the Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2018) http://www.icdim.org/workshop.php Berlin, Germany September 24-26, 2018 Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Technology Engineering Management Society Accepted workshop papers will be published in the proceedings indexed by IEEE Xplore. About the Workshop The Internet of Everything (IoE) is expected to also make impacts in government, education, finance and transportation. On the consumer side there are nearly endless combinations of applications. The Internet of Things will forever change our personal and professional lives. By 2020, there will be 50 billion connected devices communicating through the Internet. Devices can range from connected coffee makers, cars, or sensors on cattle to connected machines in a production plant. These devices provide data that offers new insights, and as they talk to each other, they develop their own intelligence and can advise customers about optimal ways to put them to use. This will revolutionize consumer habits and the way we do work and services. Realizing the potential of IoT the proposed workshop will address the new research and also visulaize the future IoT. The topics the workshop address includes but not limited to The Internet of Everything (IoE) and Industry 4.0 Smart Services Sensors Smart Grid Effects on Society Challenges and Opportunities for Society Business Perspective Digital Transformation and Business Smart Software for Smart Services Enabling Technologies Challenges and Opportunities for Business IoT for Supply Chain Management IoT in Healthcare Smartphone integration, automotive applications, vehicle connectivity Smart Factory Energy & Utility Management and other related topics 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. Journal of Digital Information Management 5. 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 15, 2018 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 08, 2018 Registration Due: September 10, 2018 Camera Ready Due: September 10, 2018 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos: September 13, 2018 Main conference: September 24-26, 2018 Organizers Dr. Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, Technological University of Ciudad Juarez Chihuahua, Mexico Submissions at http://www.icdim.org/submission.html For additional inquiries, please contact - conference at icdim.org

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Seeking digital humanities postdoc
by Bench, Harmony 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

Dear all, Kate Elswit (RCSSD) and I are seeking a Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work on Dunham’s Data, a 3-year AHRC-funded research project on performance and mobility with an emphasis on dance history. We are seeking an early career researcher from any arts or humanities field, whose research involves a significant digital component of data collection and analysis. The work can be carried out from London or remotely. For more information about the position: https://www.cssd.ac.uk/jobs-at-central/digital-humanities-postdoctoral-rese… <https://t.co/6hsPammoOR> For more information about the research project: http://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR012989%2F1<http://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH/R012989/1> Please share with interested parties. Please note that the application closes the morning of August 6th (9 AM in the UK). Thank you! Harmony Harmony Bench, PhD Associate Professor of Dance History and Theory Affiliated Faculty: Theatre, Folklore, Translational Data Analytics, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies The Ohio State University Department of Dance 305 Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43210 Co-Editor, International Journal of Screendance: http://screendancejournal.org Movement on the Move: http://movementonthemove.osu.edu/ bench.9(a)osu.edu<mailto:bench.9@osu.edu>

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Workshop: Environmental Impact of Data-Driven Technologies
by danah boyd 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

Workshop: Environmental Impact of Data-Driven Technologies Call for Applications http://datasociety.net/EnvironmentTechWorkshop <https://datasociety.submittable.com/submit/b0b2085b-2f11-42dc-9241-23e1bfd2…> On November 2, 2018, Data & Society will host a workshop in NYC on the environmental impact of data-driven technologies. The purpose of the D&S Workshop series is to enable deep dives with a broad community of interdisciplinary researchers into topics at the core of Data & Society’s concerns. The structure of the D&S Workshop is designed to maximize scholarly thinking about the evolving and societally important issues surrounding data-driven technologies. Participants will be asked to read three full papers in advance of the event and prepare comments for intensive discussion. Some participants will be asked to be discussants of papers, where they will lead the conversation and engage the room. Authors will not present their work, but rather participate in critical discussion with the assembled group about the paper, with explicit intent of making the work stronger and more interdisciplinary. Participation in this event is limited. Those who are interested in participating should apply by AUGUST 16. Environmental Impact of Data-Driven Technologies By the end of 2018, Bitcoin will consume .05% of the world's energy per year. This is equivalent to the energy consumption of Denmark. Major tech companies are working hard to make cloud services more energy efficient, but server farms still require tremendous power and water to function. Additionally, other parts of the "stack" (e.g., software development, usage patterns) do not take environmental impact into consideration. Likewise, financiers obsessed with blockchain and 5G are often ignoring the environmental impact of the proliferation of these new technologies. While some IoT chipmakers are competing on energy efficiency, cheap production still dominates that conversation at a moment in which data-oriented tech is being introduced into everything. On the user end, people are streaming a billion hours of YouTube videos every day and loading countless hours of videos and images into online backup services where they are likely to be watched/viewed by humans only a handful of times. Gmail has normalized the idea that everyone should archive email in perpetuity, which means that Facebook notices indicating you have a new message that you received in 2007 are still using up energy. Apple has been called out for slowing down its operating system when battery life declines to make the user experience more seamless, which, in effect, encourages users to buy more equipment. Yet, the environmental cost of new hardware is piling up - quite literally. Users of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft's Azure are encouraged to spin up new machines when they are working with data; they experience no visceral understanding of the environmental impact of their decisions. Likewise, even though most older computer scientists obsessed over runtime efficiency of their algorithms, few who grab code from Github give much thought to the environmental cost of their inefficient code. Much work is still needed to understand the environmental cost of technology. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are examining these issues from different disciplinary and analytic perspectives. Relevant topics for this workshop might include: - What is the environmental cost of blockchain, 5G, AI, and other hyped technologies? - How do design concerns at different parts of the "stack" affect the environmental impact of whole systems? - What would an environmental audit of artificial intelligence look like? - How do/might software engineers or other practitioners integrate climate concerns into their practice? - What is the relationship between privacy and energy-sensitive code? - How do data centers affect water policies in different countries? - How can decentralized engineering practices be made more environmentally responsible? Participation requirements All participants are required to read three papers in advance of the event and come ready to offer constructively critical feedback. We want researchers from different intellectual traditions to spar with and challenge one another to strengthen ourselves across the board. This is not an event for passive attendance, but an opportunity to engage each other substantively and from cross-disciplinary perspectives. A subset of participants will workshop papers they have written. This is a fantastic venue for workshopping a paper. If you have an appropriate paper in-progress, you are strongly encouraged to submit it for consideration. Drafts of journal articles, conference papers, law review papers, and book chapters are all welcome. Papers are expected to be at draft stage with room for improvement; the goal of this event is not to present largely finished work but to truly workshop work-in-progress. For this event, we are looking to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines ranging from computer science to law, economics to history, and anthropology to media studies. As a result, attendees should expect to engage with scholars who are outside of their field. We ask that attendees think of the D&S Workshop series as an opportunity to engage across fields, and to strengthen both relationships and research through participation in the workshop. While we see this as valuable for individual authors, we also see this as a field-building exercise that we hope will be valuable for all involved. Format The day will be organized into three time slots, each 75 minutes long. One paper will be workshopped in each session. Multiple sessions will run in parallel so there will be a total of 9-12 papers, but each participant will only be responsible for 3. Within each group, a discussant will open with a critique of the paper before inviting participants to share their feedback. (If you participate in this event and are not an author, you may be asked to be a discussant.) All are expected to share feedback, with author response towards the end of the session. Logistics The event will take place at Data & Society in NYC on November 2, 2018 and will run from 8:45 to 6pm. Paper sessions will run until 4pm; afterwards, there will be a reception for all participants. There is limited travel support for our out-of-town guests. If you are in need of travel support, please let us know. We will not be able to accommodate all travel needs so if you have grants or other means of covering your participation, please use that so that we can prioritize funding for those who have none. Application to participate If you are interested in attending this Workshop, you may either 1) propose a paper to be workshopped; or 2) describe how your research makes you a relevant discussant/participant. Please note: All co-authors who are intending to attend must apply separately. They should submit the same paper abstract. If your paper is accepted, you will be allowed to send 2 authors. Additional authors will be considered as discussants/participants. By August 16, please submit the following information via this Submittable portal: 1. Name, email address, affiliation, title, discipline. 2. Bio and headshot (used for the program if accepted). 3. If applying as an author, a 1-page (max) abstract of a paper you'd like to workshop. 4. If applying as a participant/discussant, a 1-page (max) discussion of your interests as it relates to this topic. 5. Bibliographic citations / links to 3 papers (yours or others) that everyone interested in this domain should read. [Optional] 6. If travel support is necessary for your attendance, please indicate this in your application. Unfortunately, we will not be able to accommodate everyone's needs. Dates Application Deadline: August 16, 2018 Selection Decisions: August 25, 2018 Full Paper Deadline: October 12, 2018 Workshop: November 2, 2018 This call for workshop participants can also be found online at: https://datasociety.net/blog/2018/07/03/call-for-applications-environmental… <https://datasociety.net/blog/2018/07/03/call-for-applications-environmental…> ------ us people are just poems / we're 90% metaphor / with a leanness of meaning / approaching hyper-distillation - Ani Difranco, "Self Evident" <http://www.danah.org/Ani/SoMuchShouting/SelfEvident.html>

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