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Deadline approaching August 1st: “Discrimination and Bias” – European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science #eurocss
by Weller, Katrin 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

2nd European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science: BIAS AND DISCRIMINATION Euro CSS Symposium (#eurocss) December 5-7, 2018 Cologne, Germany Website: http://symposium.computationalsocialscience.eu Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csssymposium18 For inquiries: css.eurosymposium(a)gmail.com<mailto:css.eurosymposium@gmail.com> --------------------------- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ----------------------------- For the 2nd European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science we are calling for different types of submissions: - extended abstract of research to be presented as short TALKS OR POSTERS (deadline August 1) - proposals for WORKSHOPS OR TUTORIALS to be held on the pre-symposium day (deadline August 1) - creative ideas to work with the datasets in our DATASET CHALLENGE (deadline September 1) - applications to participate in our DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM (deadline September 1) - Authors of accepted submissions of all types also qualify for applications for TRAVEL GRANTS (deadline September 1) Below you will find information on how to apply for the different formats. ------------------------------------- CONFERENCE SCOPE ------------------------------------- The Symposium is an interdisciplinary venue that brings together researchers from a diverse range of disciplines to contribute to the definition and exploration of the societal challenges in Computational Social Science, especially around the topics of inequality and imbalance. We welcome submissions in the intersection of the social sciences and the computer sciences, including (a) new approaches for understanding social phenomena and addressing societal challenges, (b) improving methods for computational social science, (c) and understanding the influence of the Web and digital technologies on society. -------------------------------- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (TALKS OR POSTERS) -------------------------------- Submission deadline: August 1, 2018 Submit via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csssymposium18 Submissions should be abstracts of approx. 2-3 pages (up to 1000 words plus references and figures) summarizing the work to be presented. We encourage researchers to also submit abstracts of work that has already been published and/or submit work in progress. Please give a sufficiently detailed description of your work and your methods so we can adequately assess its relevance. Please consider that reviewers will be from an interdisciplinary community. Submissions may be accepted as talks or posters. The full call can be found here: http://symposium.computationalsocialscience.eu/2018/#workshops -------------------------------- WORKSHOP + TUTORIALS -------------------------------- Submission deadline: August 1, 2018 Submit via email: css.eurosymposium(a)gmail.com<mailto:css.eurosymposium@gmail.com> Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be no more than three pages in length, written in English, and should contain the following: - A concise title - The names, affiliations, and contact information of the organizers - Planned duration of the event (half-day or full-day meeting) - A short abstract describing the scope and main objective of the event - A description of the proposed event format and a detailed list of proposed activities The full call can be found here: http://symposium.computationalsocialscience.eu/2018/#call -------------------------------- DATASET CHALLENGE -------------------------------- Submission deadline: September 1, 2018 Submit via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csssymposium18 We provide links to three suggested datasets on the topic of political communication and ask participants to creatively and innovatively engage with these datasets. A jury will select the best presentation (including any created resources, such as secondary datasets or analysis code) to be awarded the very first Euro CSS Dataset Challenge Award. The work presented at the symposium can be early stage, but should be methodically sound and provide either preliminary insights into an interesting research question or first inductively-reached conclusions of systematic patterns of bias in the dataset. These can also be on a meta-level or may be designated to positioning the work in broader theoretical contexts, e.g., about biases in the data collection. Submissions should be abstracts of approx. 2-3 pages (maximum up to 1000 words plus references and figures). The full call can be found here: http://symposium.computationalsocialscience.eu/2018/#data -------------------------------- DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM -------------------------------- Submission deadline: September 1, 2018 Submit via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csssymposium18 Please submit a PDF file of up to approx. 1000 words with the following information: – an abstract of the PhD thesis topic including information about the research question, applied methods and the current state of progress – a short paragraph about the applicant’s biography – a paragraph on open questions that the applicant would want to discuss with experts in the field The full call can be found here: http://symposium.computationalsocialscience.eu/2018/#consortium -------------------------------- TRAVEL GRANTS -------------------------------- Submission deadline: September 1, 2018 Submit via email: css.eurosymposium(a)gmail.com<mailto:css.eurosymposium@gmail.com> Due to the generous funding by Volkswagen Foundation we are able to offer a limited number of travel grants to researchers whose submissions are accepted for the symposium (presenters of talks or posters at the main symposium, workshop or tutorial organizers, participants of doctoral consortium and dataset challenge). To apply for a travel grant please send an email with the subject “Travel Grant” to css.eurosymposium(a)gmail.com<mailto:css.eurosymposium@gmail.com> including the following information: a) your submission number in EasyChair or the title of your submitted workshop/tutorial, b) your contact details, c) your motivation for the grant application and d) whether you will still attend the symposium without a travel grant. More information can be found here: http://symposium.computationalsocialscience.eu/2018/#grants ------------------------------- ORGANISERS ------------------------------- SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Katrin Weller Markus Strohmaier MENTORS FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM Sandra González-Bailón Jürgen Pfeffer DATASET CHALLENGE CHAIRS Fabian Flöck Juhi Kulshrestha ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Katrin Weller Markus Strohmaier Luca Maria Aiello David Garcia Frank Schweitzer

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Seeking Scholarly Books about new media and interpersonal relationships
by Sa, Erting 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations of the textbooks or good scholarly books for teaching an undergraduate course which mainly focuses on new media/social media and interpersonal relationships? Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you in advance! Best Regards, Erting Sa Ph.D. Candidate and Instructor Department of Communication University at Albany, SUNY Email: esa(a)albany.edu<mailto:yzhao4@albany.edu>

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New edition of Internet Law: Cases and Problems
by James Grimmelmann 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

Dear Colleagues, Just a quick note to let you know that the 8th edition of my Internet law casebook is now available. The 8th edition has new coverage of blockchains, the GDPR, and the sharing economy, and significantly reworked coverage of jurisdiction and harmful speech. Although it is written in the form of a law-school casebook, I have done my best to make it accessible to students in other programs, including undergraduates. I have kept the legal apparatus to a minimum, and the book provides capsule summaries of relevant legal principles wherever necessary. It is meant to be modular, so that it can be used to bring in a legal perspective on whichever issues you want to cover. As always, it's available as a DRM-free PDF download from Semaphore Press on a pay-what-you-want basis with a suggested price of $30. (You should feel free to "freeride" to download an evaluation copy.) There's a perfect-bound paperback version available through Amazon for $65.25. There's also an updated teachers' manual, which I am happy to provide to anyone who is adopting the casebook or considering it. Book homepage: http://internetcasebook.com Download page: https://www.semaphorepress.com/Pay2.php Physical version: https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Law-Problems-James-Grimmelmann/dp/1943689067 Full table of contents: https://www.semaphorepress.com/downloads/Internet/Grimmelmann_Internet_v8p0… best wishes, James

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Digital Management: Lecturers wanted
by Prof. Dr. Stephan G. Humer 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

Dear all, we are looking for Guest Lecturers for our Fresenius University Masters Programme "Digital Management" (M.A.) this fall in Berlin. Currently we can offer these seminars, to be held in English: - International Management (4 seminar hours per week) - Leadership & Strategy (4) - Behavioral Decision Making (4) - Business Ethics (4) We pay above the Berlin Guest Lecturer average, both for predoc and postdoc Lecturers, and offer an exclusive teaching place directly located in the heart of Berlin at Gendarmenmarkt. If you need more information, please let me know! Best regards Stephan -- Prof. Dr. Stephan G. Humer Internet Sociologist Director, Internet Sociology Department, Hochschule Fresenius Berlin Researcher, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, FU Berlin Senior Fellow, Digital Class, Berlin University of the Arts Tel. (DE/EU): +49 (0)157/58064165 Phone (US): (213) 267-0214 Website: www.socialitybydesign.org Twitter: @netsociology

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AOIR 2018 Montreal: ONE WEEK REMAINING FOR EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION!!!
by Andrew Herman 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

2018 Montreal Participants Greetings from your conference organizing team! We wanted to take a moment away from our unceasing labours to make AOIR 2018 Montreal one of the best conferences EVER in order to remind all of you that we are merely a week away from the Early Bird Registration deadline of August 1st. If you are going to present in a paper panel, experimental session, fishbowl, or roundtable you MUST register by the August 1st deadline. Why should you do this? Well, there is a financial incentive: early bird registration will give you a significant discount of up to $100. Why must you do this? You won't be able to present your work in the proceedings. Period. This policy is not about being punitive; it is about being able to proceed with conference planning. Specifically, we need to know exactly who is committed to attending so that we can put together the conference program, especially in terms of creating intellectually coherent sessions out of individual paper submissions. What happens if you register by the August 1st deadline but fate and fortune cruelly turn against you and prevent you from attending, in spite of your best intentions and heartfelt desire? We will be happy to honour cancellation and refund requests received on or before September 1, 2018 (less a 20% administrative processing fee, of course). Alas, any cancellations after September 1, 2018 will not be refunded :( . The link for conference registration is https://members.aoir.org/event-2906396. Oh yes. Don't forget that paid-up members of AoIR receive much more attractive registration rates, so please consider joining You can take care of this business here: https://members.aoir.org/ Finally, we also want to take this opportunity to encourage you to make your reservations at the conference hotel, Le Centre Sheraton Montréal Hotel. To be perfectly honest, we are aware that there are probably cheaper accommodation options available in a city such as Montreal, but we are contractually committed to occupying a certain number of rooms at the Sheraton and will be financially penalized if we don't (we need to pay for all of those presentation rooms!). Thus, if you have the budgetary wherewithal to do so, please follow the better angels of AoIR and reserve your room at the Sheraton as soon as you can make your travel plans. The link to the hotel reservations for the conference is https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/events/start.action?id=1711287757&key=DDDEA… Remember that the discounted rate for the hotel will be available only until September 7. ? If you have any questions about conference and hotel registration, contact our awesome Association Coordinator Michelle Gardner at ac(a)aoir.org<mailto:ac@aoir.org>. For the AoIR 2018 Montreal Organizing Committee Andrew Herman Conference and Program Chair

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Registration still open for the Museum of Random Memory preconference in Montreal
by Annette Markham 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

Friends and Colleagues, Early Registration deadline for the Montreal AoIR conference is upon us. And I invite you to participate in our pre conference. Sign up soon!! We’re doing the Museum of Random Memory (MoRM) as an arts-based installation / intervention this year at AoIR in Montreal. The main MoRM event will be on Friday, but we’re also doing a preconference workshop. I know there are other amazing pre conferences to sign up for—even I want to double book and I’m running the pre conference! The MoRM workshop focuses on two things: 1) concerns about what's being preserved or discarded in the datafied age, and how this impacts future histories and memories; and 2) What is involved/required to build public-facing data (media, digital) literacy initiatives around automated archiving and curating practices and personal memory making. We’ll be talking about critical pedagogy frameworks, discussing the conceptual underpinnings of MoRM, and showcasing previous versions of MoRM. In the afternoon, we’ll head over to the MoRM venue as a group to work more concretely and creatively on the performative elements of doing public engagement, as we prepare for Friday's exhibition/intervention. Obviously, we’ll be doing some pre Montreal planning for the exhibition, and we invite participants to join our team of ‘Uncurators' in making MoRM specifically for the AoIR community. This is not required for you to participate in the pre-conference. If you’re curious, you can ask me about it, or follow up here: To sign up: https://goo.gl/forms/2LYtjCeso0414DpE3 To learn more about MoRM: https://futuremaking.space/morm/ <https://futuremaking.space/morm/> To read about the pre conference on the AoIR website and to register for the conference: https://aoir.org/aoir2018/preconfwrkshop/#MRM <https://aoir.org/aoir2018/preconfwrkshop/#MRM> Best, Annette ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Professor MSO, School of Communication & Culture, Aarhus University Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham(a)cc.au.dk http://markham.internetinquiry.org Project pages: http://futuremaking.space Twitter: annettemarkham

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Real-Time Intelligent Systems 2018
by ijwa＠dline.info 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

Third International Conference on Real-Time Intelligence Systems (RTIS 2018) Taipei, Taiwan November 13-15, 2018 http://www.socio.org.uk/rtis Springer Series in Lecture Notes in Real-Time Intelligent Systems (http://www.springer.com/series/11156) Real-Time Computing covers a broad spectrum of the intensively developing area of low-latency priority-driven system responsiveness under certain time constrains to essential and decisive human-computer interactions with constantly incoming data stream. Research on real-time intelligent systems is of a multi-disciplinary nature, exploiting concepts from the areas as diverse as signal processing technologies, computational intelligence, location systems, data processing, digital document processing and embedded system design. To accomplish its real-time performance, systematic analysis is carried out when the systems are working. Therefore, over the last few years real-time intelligent computing has radically transformed human life style. In the today’s competitive and highly dynamic environment, analyzing data in real time is a must to understand in detail how the systems are processing the data and to reason the outputs and anticipate the trends in intelligent computing, has become critical. To leverage the full potential of the opportunity build complex real time systems, intense research is required and this conference will serve as one such platform to manifest the ongoing research in the real time intelligence system. The conference welcomes theoretically grounded, methodologically sound research papers from academia and industry that address variety of aspects and innovations related to real-time computing systems. The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to the following areas: Streaming data, streaming engines Big Data systems and applications for high-velocity data Analysis in advanced domains such as energy, sensors, etc Artificial Intelligence Broadband Intelligence Cloud Computing and Intelligence Collaborative Intelligence Crowdsourcing and crowd intelligence Data capture in real-time Intelligent Database Systems Data mining Intelligent Data Analysis OLAP for real-time decision support Data quality and cleansing Intelligent Fuzzy Systems Event-driven analytics Visualizing real-time data and information Intelligent Soft Computing Privacy and security in Intelligence Architectures for Intelligence Internet of Things Intelligent Robotic Systems Smart Services and Platforms Intelligent Transportation Systems Mobile Smart Systems Trace-based intelligent real-time services (eye-tracking, image tracking) Real-time intelligent alert systems Machine translation in real time Multilingual information access Multiagent Intelligent Systems Intelligent Information Systems Adaptive vision algorithms Real-time Intelligent Network solutions Real-time distributed coding Real-time modelling user’s information needs Real-time noise removal systems Real-time intelligent communication Real-time remote access systems Decision support systems in real time Real-time multiprocessor systems RTIS 2018 has workshops, tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Mentorship Programme and Proofread and Translation Program. Modified versions of the RTIS will appear in many indexed journals. 1. Future Internet 2. Journal of Medical Internet Research 3. Machine Learning 4. Virtual Reality 5. The Journal of Intelligent Systems BEST PAPER AWARD The best paper presented in the RTIS will be given a cash award of 500 Swiss Francs by the MDPI Publishers, Switzerland. Besides a gold certification will be given. RTIS 2018 has Doctoral Consortium, Mentorship Programme, Ph.D. Dissertation Competition and Proofread translation program Committee Honorary General Chair Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, Opole University, Poland General Chair Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Program Chairs Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Lab., India Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau The Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Real-Time Intelligent Systems, Volume 3 RTIS 2018. (http://www.springer.com/series/11156 ) For the series information please see- http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319607436 Important Dates Paper Submission: August 30, 2018 Paper Notification: September 20, 2018 Camera ready: October 10, 2018 Early registration: November 01, 2018 Full-rate registration: November 10, 2018 Conference Dates: November 13-15, 2018 Contact: rtis(a)socio.org.uk

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Re: [Air-L] Seeking resources on A.I. and machine learning
by Andrea Guzman 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

Hi Emma, Could you be more specific as to why you are seeking these materials? (i.e. to understand AI generally, to teach AI to an undergrad class in X). The AI literature is huge, and having a little more info would be helpful. Also, although AI and ML tend to be used interchangeably, they are considered by many to be different. And Jenny, what a great resource. Thank you for sharing. ______ Andrea L. Guzman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Northern Illinois University alguzman(a)niu.edu Read an advance copy of "What is Human-Machine Communication, Anyway?" https://bit.ly/2LKcpVf, the introduction to Human-Machine Communication: Rethinking Communication, Technology, & Ourselves forthcoming from Peter Lang. Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 03:12:11 +0000 From: Jenny Davis <jennifer.davis(a)anu.edu.au> To: Emma Stamm <stamm(a)vt.edu>, aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Seeking resources on A.I. and machine learning Message-ID: <SY3PR01MB0971391EC2B6C2530FB25740B0540(a)SY3PR01MB0971.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Hi Emma and All, I've been compiling an "AI for social scientists" list as a Google Doc. Editing is set to public so feel free to add! It's currently organized reverse chronologically and has lots of room to grow. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xAQlNqpoK8TUoB21i4XVze1zxkvgcKe06evTfdq… [https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ctAthH-HY-83A1XyPMxgu5yYr8_ahLAHoC1ksfl2f…]<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xAQlNqpoK8TUoB21i4XVze1zxkvgcKe06evTfdq…> AI Reading List<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xAQlNqpoK8TUoB21i4XVze1zxkvgcKe06evTfdq…> docs.google.com AI Readings for Social Scientists Dillon Reisman, Jason Schultz, Kate Crawford, Meredith Whittaker. 2018 ?AI Now Algorithmic Impact Assessments? https://ainowinstitute.org/aiareport2018.pdf Eubanks, Virginia. 2018. ?Automating Inequality? https://us.macmillan.com/automatinginequality/virginiaeu... Best, Jenny Jenny L. Davis Lecturer, School of Sociology The Australian National University Co-Editor: Cyborgology<https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/> <https://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis> Twitter: @Jenny_L_Davis<https://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Emma Stamm <stamm(a)vt.edu> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 7:17:46 AM To: aoir list Subject: [Air-L] Seeking resources on A.I. and machine learning Dear AoIRists, I am researching artificial intelligence and machine learning within the framework of digital culture studies and philosophy of technoscience. Right now, I am looking for articles that reflect current developments in AI & ML programming that are suitable for non-STEM experts. Specifically, I am interested in pieces that illuminate the ways in which generalization and inductive/abductive reasoning are essential to algorithms that effectively ?predict? the future. However, more wide-ranging, introductory pieces would also be helpful for me. I am familiar with the work of Pedro Domingos, but do not know of many other sources that suit my needs. Any recommendations would be very welcome. Thank you in advance! Best, Emma -- *Emma Stamm* *PhD Student, ASPECT Virginia Tech <https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/alliance-for-social-poli…>* *o-culus.com <http://o-culus.com> | @turing_tests* _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Media and Communication: Special Open-Access Issue, "Video Games as Demanding Technologies"
by Nicholas Bowman 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

Colleagues, I'm pleased to announce that, in partnership with Cogitatio Press, we are now accepting abstracts for theoretical and empirical manuscripts (including pre-registered reports) for a special issue of Media and Communication entitled "Video Games as Demanding Technologies." The issue seeks out research into the cognitive, emotional, physical, and socially demanding elements of video games and related research into digital works and other interactive technologies (such as virtual and augmented reality). Abstract submissions are due no later than 28 February 2019, with a publication data expected at the end of 2019. Complete details, including Cogitatio's open-access fee schedule, can be found online: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/nextissues#… Sincerely, ~nick / Nicholas David Bowman, PhD Associate Professor of Communication Studies Research Associate, Interaction Lab (#ixlab) Faculty Senator, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences West Virginia University 210L Armstrong Hall Morgantown, WV 26506 Nicholas.Bowman(a)mail.wvu.edu<mailto:Nicholas.Bowman@mail.wvu.edu> _____________________ Twitter @bowmanspartan Skype ID: nicholasdbowman Editor, Communication Research Reports (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcrr20) Associate Editor, Journal of Media Psychology (https://us.hogrefe.com/products/journals/journal-of-media-psychology)

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Submitting R/Python scraper to Facebook App Review
by Justin Ho 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

Hi everyone, I am a PhD student and I have to collect Facebook data from time to time for my PhD project, I have been using R and it worked just fine. However, after the recent changes in Facebook policy, personal accounts can no longer generate short-lived token, to obtain an access token, we must first create an App, and to enable the App to scrape Facebook data, we must submit an App Review for "Page Public Content Access". I tried submitting my R codes and a screencast of me using the codes, but it was rejected on the basis that: Your screencast doesn't show how the use of this permission directly > improves the user experience in your app. Unfortunately, we also weren't > able to determine this from testing your app manually. All permissions data must be visibly used within your app. We do not accept > permission requests for data that you may decide to use later. >From above feedback, it seems the page public content access is only available for built-in Facebook App (like NetVizz), instead of standalone R/Python programs. I am wondering if anyone has successfully passed the review? Could you share your experience of how to do it? Thanks a lot! Best regards, Justin The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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