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The ethics of artificial intelligence
by Jill Walker Rettberg 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

I have been asked to contribute to my university’s response to a call from the Norwegian research ethics committee for the natural sciences and technology (NENT) – they are working on ethical guidelines for research on artificial intelligence and machine learning. I think a lot of the discussions we've had about algorithmic cultures and bias at AoIR are very relevant to this, but that this is also perhaps a more fundamental question: what sort of AI research is ethical? What should be banned? What kinds of ethical considerations should be made? I am familiar with the debates about algorithmic culture and bias and the many excellent recent books discussing the impact of AI/algorithms/machine learning on society, including Taina Bucher’s If-Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics, Tarleton Gillespie’s Custodians of the Internet, Safiya Noble's Algorithms of Oppression, Virginia Eubanks' Automating Inequality, etc. I also know about FAT* (Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, e.g. https://fatconference.org) and These are fabulous and clearly relevant to the question, but I am wondering if there is something even more specific to the actual tech development and research out there - or perhaps there are already lots of examples of ethical guidelines for AI research?. There is clearly a need for it - just today I heard a computer science professor saying that they do research on the methods that underlie the systems and so ethics isn't relevant. I have also seen that the EU is planning to develop a strategy for AI in 2019, and that they are positioning ethical considerations as central in that, at the same time as it's ultimately about being competitive globally of course. (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/artificial-intelligence#usefu…) If you're in Norway and interested in the topic, see https://www.etikkom.no/Aktuelt/Nyheter/2018/ber-om-innspill-om-kunstig-inte… - they are asking for feedback and comments from everyone until 10 September. I assume other European countries have parallel processes that will feed into the EU strategy in 2019. Perhaps the US, China and other countries already have strategies? Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture University of Bergen http://jilltxt.net

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RACI Reminder: Apply by End of This Week
by Gergana Petrova 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Dear all, The RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI) is accepting applications from students, academics and researchers until end of this week. https://www.ripe.net/raci Successful applicants receive complimentary tickets, travel and accommodation to our upcoming meetings and the opportunity to present their research. You can apply by submitting an abstract and draft slides by 12 August for the following two meetings: - RIPE NCC Regional Meeting Almaty, 25 September - RIPE 77, Amsterdam, 15-19 October Examples of relevant research topics: - Network measurements and analyses - IPv6 deployment - BGP routing - Network security - Internet governance - Peering and interconnectivity - Internet of Things RACI mailing list: https://www.ripe.net/raci/mailing-list Twitter: https://twitter.com/raci_ripe RACI LinkedIn Group: http://www.ripe.net/raci/linkedin Please help me spread the word to your academic networks. For any questions about the initiative or about applying, please contact me at gpetrova(a)ripe.net. Best regards, Gergana Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the NGN list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=NGN&A=1

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2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018): Last Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce Announcements 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

*** LAST CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS *** 2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018) Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus, 12-14 November, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Submission Deadline: 10th August 2018 *** Ambient intelligence refers to normal working and living environments being surrounded by embedded devices that can merge unobtrusively and in natural ways using information and intelligence hidden in the network connecting these devices (e.g. The Internet of Things). Such devices, each specialised in one or more capabilities, are intended to work together based on an infrastructure of intelligent systems, to provide a variety of services improving safety, security and the quality of life in ordinary living, travelling and working environments. Accompanying the main conference, the following two workshops will be organized: WS-AFFIN 2nd Workshop On Affective Interaction With Avatars and Robots http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… BRAINS Behavioral Change and Ambient Intelligence for Sustainability http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS Both workshops invite full-papers, work-in progress and position papers that address one or more of the topics of interest. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three Program Committee members from the corresponding workshop. All accepted full papers and posters will appear in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier under the ENTCS Journal series. Papers must be submitted in PDF format adhering to the ELSEVIER Journal format and should follow the publication policies of ENTCS. The macros can be obtained on the ENTCS Macro Web Site http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… along with detailed instructions about preparing the papers for the series. IMPORTANT DATES · Paper Submissions Due: 10 August, 2018 · Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 10 September, 2018 · Camera Ready Versions Due: 25 September, 2018 · Author (of workshop papers) Registration: 25 September, 2018 JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE A few papers from each workshop will be selected by the workshop chairs and invited for submission to a special issue of MDPI Applied Sciences (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/intelligent_environments ). The final paper should have at least 30% extra material and will be reviewed as any MDPI submission. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair · George Roussos, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Program Chairs · Achilleas D. Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece · Kostas Stathis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Workshops Chairs · Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, University of Rome, Italy · Fariba Sadri, Imperial College, UK Local Organization Chair · George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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WhatsApp methodologies and platform frameworks
by Padmini Ray Murray 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Hi everyone, I have two queries: a. Has anyone had success with studying WhatsApp -- especially what motivates users to share and forward content? If so, what sort of methodologies worked? b. I am working on a research project looking at ethics frameworks for digital platforms - if you have any suggestions for examples of existing platforms and open source communities, consultancies (business and developmental), research institutes or social enterprises that have demonstrated best practice in governance models and foundational principles, I'd love to know. Thanks so much, All best, Padmini. --- Padmini Ray Murray, PhD Digital Humanities, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore.

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Country specific social media data
by Gohar F. Khan 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Dear list members, I am looking for a comprehensive social media analytics tool which can help us understand where particular keywords are mentioned and what people are saying about it (i.e., topic and sentiment analysis). The issue is that we want to focus only social media users (Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn) in New Zealand. I am aware that using IBM Watson analytics can get such data (to some extent) but it can't restrict the analysis to a specific location. We want to get as much publically accessible data (comments, reviews, posts, etc) as possible. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Khan -- *Khan, Gohar PhD **/ **Senior Lecturer Digital Business /* *Undergraduate and Graduate Convenor for Digital Business* *Waikato Management School **/** University of Waikato* *Private Bag 3105* */* *Hamilton 3240* *Ph: + 64 7 838 4233 **/* *gohar.khan(a)waikato.ac.nz <gohar.khan(a)waikato.ac.nz> **/ *Office: MSB.2.32D */* Web: gfkhan.wordpress.com Check out my book on social media analytics <http://7layersanalytics.com/> and digital marketing analytics <https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Analytics-for-Marketing/Sponder-Khan/p/bo…> ----------- Social Identities: || Blog <http://gfkhan.wordpress.com/> || Twitter <https://twitter.com/gfkhan> || LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gohar-feroz-khan/7/62b/42> || Research Centre <http://centreforsocialtech.com/>||

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Re: [Air-L] Tweet Secondary Media Uptake
by Astvansh, Vivek 05 Aug '18

05 Aug '18

1. I GUESS you can search for the tweet URL if you have a news media article in a markup language (XML, HTML, etc.) format. However, if you use Factiva or LexisNexis Academic, you will download text (TXT, DOCX, PDF) and not markup language format files. 2. Although they differ in MINOR ways, I GUESS Factiva and LexisNexis Academic are substitutes. Also, they are far more (than web search) acceptable sources of media data. 3. I like your use of the label "secondary media." You seem to consider tweets by users as primary media and the appearance of those tweets in other nedua (as evidence for a narrative) as secondary media. I hope others respond so that we go beyond my GUESSES. ________________________________ From: LIAM MONNINGER <lmonninger(a)ucla.edu> Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2018 10:56 AM To: Astvansh, Vivek Subject: Re: [Air-L] Tweet Secondary Media Uptake Thanks for the quick response Vivek! Yeah, that's essentially what I'd like to do. I was thinking there might be way to trace where a tweet is embedded via its URL. But, your method should certainly work for what I'm trying to accomplish! A couple of questions... 1) In your experience, is there a major difference between the results returned by Factiva vs. those returned by LexisNexis? 2) Methodologically, can I rely on the number of search results as figure for my secondary media audience? I.e., are the local search engines viable for this kind of research? Thanks, Liam Monninger On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 7:28 AM, Astvansh, Vivek <astvansh(a)iu.edu<mailto:astvansh@iu.edu>> wrote: Thank you for asking, Liam. Let me paraphrase my understanding of what you want. Given a topic (hashtag, or just a word or phrase), you'd first collect all the tweets on that topic in a given date range. For each of the tweet in your sample, you next want to obtain data on news media articles that refer to the focal tweet. Did I understand you correctly AND completely? If no, please help. If yes: you can obtain Twitter data from vendors such as Crimson Hexagon or GNIP. Next, you can write a program that searches Factiva or LexisNexis Academic for each tweet by text, username, etc. ________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>> on behalf of LIAM MONNINGER <lmonninger(a)ucla.edu<mailto:lmonninger@ucla.edu>> Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2018 10:24 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Tweet Secondary Media Uptake Hi everyone, My name is Liam Monninger. I'm an undergraduate researcher at UCLA, working on a project that seeks to understand tweets as commitment devices in international politics. To better understand the audience of a given tweet, I would like to be able to see and tabulate the secondary media where said tweet is embedded. I was thinking, in the very least, I could just make a list of major publications worldwide and manually check articles to see if a certain tweet is embedded. But, it would be nice to have a more sophisticated method. Any ideas? Is there perhaps a useful API? Thanks, Liam Monninger _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@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/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@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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Tweet Secondary Media Uptake
by LIAM MONNINGER 05 Aug '18

05 Aug '18

Hi everyone, My name is Liam Monninger. I'm an undergraduate researcher at UCLA, working on a project that seeks to understand tweets as commitment devices in international politics. To better understand the audience of a given tweet, I would like to be able to see and tabulate the secondary media where said tweet is embedded. I was thinking, in the very least, I could just make a list of major publications worldwide and manually check articles to see if a certain tweet is embedded. But, it would be nice to have a more sophisticated method. Any ideas? Is there perhaps a useful API? Thanks, Liam Monninger

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Re: [Air-L] Q re a survey on reddit (Jeremy Foote)
by Sarah Gilbert 05 Aug '18

05 Aug '18

Hi Noriko, As far as I know r/SampleSize (https://www.reddit.com/r/SampleSize/ <https://www.reddit.com/r/SampleSize/>) is the only subreddit where you can post links to surveys without getting permission from individual subreddit moderators first. If you post in other subs without getting permission from the mods it will likely be deleted. Best, Sarah Sarah Gilbert PhD Candidate iSchool (Library, Archival and Information Studies) The University of British Columbia | Vancouver | Musqueam Traditional Territory s.gilbert(a)ubc.ca > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 23:14:15 -0500 > From: Jeremy Foote <jdfoote1(a)gmail.com> > To: Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt(a)gmail.com> > Cc: nhara(a)indiana.edu, air-l <Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Q re a survey on reddit > Message-ID: > <CAPuBPLyX+U6Vy-5UVL=Zf4WTA8nEPrQhgG+0jgofSFxOQPUx_g(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Part of this depends on how the request is distributed. When I tried to use > the API to distribute surveys via PM, I was told by the reddit admins that > it would get my user banned. > > Best, > Jeremy > > On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 9:12 PM Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Mostly just the communities themselves. I highly recommend asking the >> moderators of the subreddits you post in. >> >> --- >> >> Sent from phone. >> Alex Leavitt >> Facebook Research >> >> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 6:18 PM Hara, Noriko <nhara(a)indiana.edu> wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I plan to distribute a survey among reddit users using their API. >>> Does anyone know if there is any policy regarding conducting research on >>> reddit, especially about distributing a survey among users? >>> IRB approved the survey. >>> >>> Any advice would be appreciated, >>> >>> Noriko >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> Noriko Hara, Ph.D. >>> Professor & & Director of MIS (Master of Information Science) >>> Department of Information & Library Science >>> School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering | Indiana University >>> http://norikohara.org<http://norikohara.org/> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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/ >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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Special issue CfP: XR (VR, AR, MR) & Immersive Learning Environments
by Lee, Mark 04 Aug '18

04 Aug '18

Special Issue Call for Papers XR (VR, AR, MR) and Immersive Learning Environments https://u5015812.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=uJo7XLGQMaPF62V-2Fhig-2FC8oyc… <https://u5015812.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=uJo7XLGQMaPF62V-2Fhig-2FC8oyc…> Manuscript submissions are being solicited for a special issue of the Springer journal Virtual Reality (Impact Factor: 1.375) on XR (VR, AR, MR) and Immersive Learning Environments, to be published in late 2019. This special issue is being created in conjunction with a special track of the same name at the IEEE TALE 2018 Conference, which will be held in Wollongong, Australia from 4 to 7 December 2018. The Call for Papers for the special issue is available at https://u5015812.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=uJo7XLGQMaPF62V-2Fhig-2FC8oyc… . The deadline for the submission of full manuscripts is 14 December 2018. Though not mandatory, prospective authors for the special issue may wish to submit shorter, preliminary versions of their papers for presentation at TALE 2018, with a view to further developing and expanding those papers for consideration for the special issue. For those interested in this option, the Call for Papers for the TALE 2018 special track, including applicable guidelines and dates, can be found at https://u5015812.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=uJo7XLGQMaPF62V-2Fhig-2FC-2BN… . Inquiries about the special issue should be directed to the lead guest editor, Dr. Dennis Beck, at debeck(a)uark.edu , while inquiries for the TALE 2018 Special Track may be sent to xr(a)tale2018.org . In both cases, please note that manuscripts cannot be accepted via email. (See the respective Calls for Papers for submission instructions.)

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Q re a survey on reddit
by Hara, Noriko 04 Aug '18

04 Aug '18

Dear all, I plan to distribute a survey among reddit users using their API. Does anyone know if there is any policy regarding conducting research on reddit, especially about distributing a survey among users? IRB approved the survey. Any advice would be appreciated, Noriko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Noriko Hara, Ph.D. Professor & & Director of MIS (Master of Information Science) Department of Information & Library Science School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering | Indiana University http://norikohara.org<http://norikohara.org/>

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