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End of an Era
by Shulman, Stu 22 Sep '18

22 Sep '18

Suppose you had access to every undeleted Tweet in history, but it was about to end, and you could pick any 3 days, and any set of hashtags, or other keywords, to create a dataset with educational and collaborative research value for years to come, a dataset that will be nearly impossible to create (for free) after October 1. 1. What three days? 2. What valid premium Twitter rule (up to 2048 characters)? Send your ideas (soon) to info(a)texifter.com and we may just be able to get that data, store it for posterity, and sponsor your research group with free software for a year. We are more than a bit sad to report the likely imminent end of an era serving largely academic researchers with historical Twitter data: https://mailchi.mp/b038af1b77f1/major-changes-to-sifter-september-29-2018-u… In the meantime, there are some ad hoc international groups forming right now to study three datasets we have already created: a. #metoo (October 15-17, 2017) 234,993 Tweets b. #cuéntalo (April 27-28, 2018) 521,748 Tweets c. #balancetonporc (October 15-17, 2017) 239,715 Tweets If you, your class, or your college want to join the international group of multilingual scholars working collaboratively on these datasets, please send an email to info(a)texifter.com. We are sponsoring any student or class that is working to advance our understanding of the global #metoo movement. ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter

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WEBCAST TODAY: The Future of Employment in the Digital Economy #digitizedlabor
by Joly MacFie 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

I actually forgot a vital bit of kit so the stream limped on the day of this, but I have now edited my recording, and dropped in slides etc, for the full HD experience. This is an excellent topic, thoroughly explored by top experts, briefly at the event and in detail in the accompanying book, which can be previewed here <https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319770468> . [image: digitized labor] <https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319770468>On *September 21 2018* at *13:00 EDT/17:00 UTC* the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/employment/>* will restream *The Future of Employment in the Digital Economy <https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/2226176/flyerforseptember7v5.jpg>* – a conference that took place at Columbia University on Sep 7 2018. A critical issue facing the US economy is the transformative effect of the internet on the nature of work and employment. There is growth, innovation, productivity rise, and price reductions. But there is also offshoring, disruption, automation, squeeze of retailing, and others. These shifts have been exacerbated by new technologies and have affected the 2016 US Presidential campaign. This conference – a joint event of the Columbia Business School and Columbia School of International Public Affairs – began with the unveiling of a new book, *Digitized Labor: The Impact of the Internet on Employment <https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319770468>* which addresses these topics, e.g. *Is the Internet a net creator of jobs? What are the impacts on income distribution? How are job profiles changed by the digital economy? What models can facilitate adjustment without slowing innovation?*Speakers, who included several of the book’s contributors, were *Linda Bell*, Provost, Barnard College; *Robert Cohen*, Fellow, Economic Strategy Institute; *Haig Nalbantian*, Senior Partner, Mercer Workforce Sciences Institute; *Eli Noam*, Professor of Economics, Columbia Business School; *Lorenzo Pupillo*, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels; *Raffaella Rumiati*, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the School of Advanced Studies of Trieste, Italy; *Vincenzo Spiezia*, Head of the Information and Communication Technologies Unit of the DSTI at the OECD; *David Viviano*, Chief Economist, SAG-AFTRA (Labor Union); *Leonard Waverman*, Dean, DeGroote School of Business, Canada; and *Robert Atkinson*, President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. *View on Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/employment <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/employment>Twitter: #digitizedlabor https://bit.ly/digitizedlabor <https://bit.ly/digitizedlabor>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10526/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Special Issue on Monetization, Gambling Mechanics and Loot Boxes in Video Games
by Mark R Johnson 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Journal of Consumer Culture **Digital Transformations in Gaming and Gambling Consumption** Guest Editors: Dr Tom Brock, Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University Dr Mark R Johnson, Political Science, University of Alberta SCOPE Consumption patterns of video games and gambling are undergoing a number of profound shifts, with new phenomena emerging almost every year to complicate and confuse the once-clear boundaries between these two forms of play. Perhaps the most visible element of this trend is the rise of “loot boxes”, virtual containers that contain an unknown selection of items either cosmetic or gameplay-changing in nature. These are part of a broader trend of “microtransactions” in digital games, small purchases that are designed to enhance or progress a player’s experience; loot boxes in particular are the most “gamblified” of all of these. Similar trends are occurring elsewhere. Within Esports, a growing number of betting sites are now accepting wagers on professional gaming competitions, and the market for Esports wagering is estimated to be seven times the size of the market for Esports itself (Smith, 2018). Within Esports games themselves, skin betting entails the wagering of digital cosmetic items, “skins”, against and with other players, sometimes in traditional gambling games and sometimes in custom competitions designed uniquely for that purpose (Perez, 2018). On live streaming websites, broadcasters have developed a wide range of systems that resemble competitions, raffles or even lotteries monetise their content (Johnson & Woodcock, Forthcoming) and encourage viewers to remain loyal. Social casino games reproduce many forms of play from traditional brick-and-mortar casinos on mobile phones, with easy user interfaces and “juicy” game elements designed to maximise appeal and user retention (Cassidy, 2013; Gainsbury et al, 2016). Online poker is also gradually experiencing a resurgence since the legal controversies of 2011, and some of the largest sites have themselves begun using a loot box system to reward long-term players for their loyalty (Derbyshire, 2018). Finally, the recent classification of “gaming addiction” by the World Health Organisation uses understandings of pathological gambling to define a threat of pathological gaming (Judge, 2018). This brings medicalized understandings of gaming and gambling closer together than ever before. In particular, we note the controversies around many of these phenomena have brought forth a series of debates about the integration of gambling mechanics into video games and vice versa. For example, there is extensive disagreement about whether or not ‘loot boxes’ are a form of gambling, and major games developers, such as Electronic Arts, are now sharply at odds with regulatory bodies in North America, Europe and Asia. Equally, the concept of ‘paying-to-win’ is changing established cultural and discursive concepts around ‘gaming meritocracy’, whilst many policymakers have expressed fears that, through microtransactions, those under legal age limits are experiencing gambling mechanics in an environment that is difficult to control or regulate. All of these combined disputes and issues set a timely context for studying such new forms of digital gambling and gaming, and the distinctive online cultures that have arisen around them. Whatever the moral or ethical responses to these trends, this blurring is now an increasingly central element of all kinds of play, and is deeply reshaping consumption patterns across both existing and new demographic lines. TOPICS This special issue is therefore concerned with unpacking how the rise of gaming systems in gambling, the rise of gambling systems in gaming, and how the implementation of new forms of monetary gameplay cutting across these boundaries are reshaping our production, consumption and prosumption (Ritzer and Jurgenson, 2010; Beer and Burrows, 2010) of digital play. In particular, we invite papers on the following topics, although this is not an exhaustive list: - The consumption of loot boxes, microtransactions, and other "pay-to-win" mechanics. - New gambling technologies and platforms (e.g. "skill-based" video gambling machines). - Live-streaming and Twitch.tv gambling integration, e.g. viewer competitions. - Skin betting and other traded or wagered virtual currencies. - Cultural changes surrounding play and money, leisure and work. - Economic challenges and new business models of the games industry. - New ways that game consumption and gambling consumption are being stigmatised. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW Proposals should include an abstract of 500-750 words, and bios for all authors of no more than 100 words. The deadline for proposals is December 31st 2018, with invitations to submit a full paper going out on January 31st 2019. The guest editors welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions. Invited paper submissions will be due 1st June 2019 and should be submitted to both Guest Editors by email. Once submitted they will undergo peer review under the normal procedures of Journal of Consumer Culture; therefore, invitation to submit does not guarantee acceptance to the special issue. The special issue is scheduled for online publication in 2020. If you have any questions, please feel free to discuss your ideas with the authors at T.Brock(a)mmu.ac.uk and markrjohnsongames(a)gmail.com. REFERENCES Beer, D. and Burrows, R. Consumption, Production and Participatory Web Cultures, Journal of Consumer Culture, 10(1), p3-12. Cassidy, R. (2013). Partial convergence: social gaming and real-money gambling. In Qualitative research in gambling (pp. 86-103). Routledge. Derbyshire, M. (2018). PokerStars NJ Ditching Old VIP Club In Favor Of Stars Rewards This Year. US Poker, available at https://www.uspoker.com/blog/pokerstars-vip-club-stars-rewards/24289/ Gainsbury, S. M., Russell, A. M., King, D. L., Delfabbro, P., & Hing, N. (2016). Migration from social casino games to gambling: Motivations and characteristics of gamers who gamble. Computers in Human Behavior, 63, 59-67. Johnson, M. R. & Woodcock, J. (Forthcoming). “And today’s top donator is”: How Live Streamers on Twitch.tv Monetise and Gamify their Broadcasts. Social Media + Society. Judge, A. (2018). Video games and mental health: 'Nobody's properly talking'. BBC News, available at https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-44662669 . Perez, M. (2018). From Unikrn To Skin Betting: How The Supreme Court's Sports Gambling Ruling Impacts Esports. Forbes, available at https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2018/05/15/from-unikrn-to-skin-betti… Ritzer, R. Jurgenson, N. 2010. Production, Consumption, Prosumption. The Nature of Capitalism on the Age of the Digital Prosumer, Journal of Consumer Culture, 10(1), p.13-36. Smith, N. (2018). Esports bookmaking? Globally, it’s already a billion-dollar gambling industry. Washington Post, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/esports-bookmaking-globally-its-alrea…

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Narratives of HIV event Manchester November
by Jaime García Iglesias 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

You are kindly invited to the LHIVES: Narratives of HIV event to be held in Manchester on November 9, 2018, 4-7pm. This will discuss the role of stigma and diversity in people's experiences of HIV through a multidisciplinary approach combining media studies, psychology, philosophy, sociology and nursing. The event will launch with a workshop run by the George House Trust, where an expert in HIV and a person living with HIV will talk about their experiences and answer questions from the public. Then, we will have a roundtable with the following speakers: - Rusi Jaspal (Professor of Psychology and Sexual Health, De Montfort University), - Brian Heaphy (Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester), - Jamie Hakim (Lecturer in Media Studies, East Anglia University), - Phil Hutchinson (Lecturer in Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University) and - Michelle Croston (Nursing, Manchester Metropolitan University). After the roundtable, there will be an exhibition of photographs taken as part of Angelia Cabeza's research for there PhD at the University of Manchester. Free refreshments and cakes will be available. Where? Friends' Meeting House (6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS) When? Friday November 9, 2018, 4-7pm. (Event funded by the ESRC and Department of Sociology at The University of Manchester). For any questions, email jaime.garciaiglesias(a)manchester.ac.uk -- *Jaime Garcia-Iglesias* The University of Manchester Twitter <https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=A_gZOKKCeUAotWHc_1i3ExusP…> ¦ Academia <https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=Rgjwhvh-Nj7EqjH53AkxYFG26…> ¦ UoM <https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=KcbFOtK5fr0gpIFVMAiLCtgC_…>

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ACM Intelligent User Interfaces - IUI 2019: Call for Papers (Oct 1st, Abstract due)
by Axel Soto 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '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. ** 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 ** 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 ** 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

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The 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019): First Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

*** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *** 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Abstracts due: January 25, 2019 (mandatory) Papers due: February 1, 2019 BACKGROUND AND SCOPE ACM UMAP, "User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization", is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. The proceedings are published by ACM and will be part of the ACM Digital Library. ACM UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization and adaptation may be applied. This include (but is in no way limited to) a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in user modeling and adaptation, recommender systems, adaptive educational systems, intelligent user interfaces, e-commerce, advertising, digital humanities, social networks, personalized health, entertainment, and many more. This year the conference hosts three new tracks, one on privacy and fairness, one on personalized music access, and one on personalized health. CONFERENCE TRACKS For details, see the conference website ( http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… ). · Track 1 - Personalized Recommender Systems · Track 2 - Adaptive Hypermedia and the Semantic Web · Track 3 - Intelligent User Interfaces · Track 4 - Personalized Social Web · Track 5 - Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning · Track 6 - Privacy and Fairness · Track 7 - Personalized Music Access · Track 8 - Personalized Health SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Papers have to be submitted through EasyChair: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Long (8 pages + references) and Short (4 pages + references) papers in ACM style, peer reviewed, original, and principled research papers addressing both the theory and practice of UMAP and papers showcasing innovative use of UMAP and exploring the benefits and challenges of applying UMAP technology in real-life applications and contexts are welcome. Long papers should present original reports of substantive new research techniques, findings, and applications of UMAP. They should place the work within the field and clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results should be clearly communicated and implications of the contributions/findings for UMAP and beyond should be explicitly discussed. Short papers should present original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, and user studies. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . All accepted papers will be published by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. IMPORTANT DATES · Abstracts: January 25, 2019 (mandatory) · Full paper: February 1, 2019 · Notification: March 11, 2019 · Camera-ready: April 3, 2019 Note: The submission time is 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth). GENERAL CHAIRS · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Stephan Weibelzahl, PFH Private University of Applied Sciences, Göttingen, Germany RELATED EVENTS Separate calls will be later sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters, Late Breaking Results and Theory, Opinion and Reflection works, as they have different deadlines and submission requirements.

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Open-Rank Tenure Track Position in Race, Equity and Inclusion at Northeastern University, Department of Communication Studies
by Alper, Meryl 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Hi all, Please excuse the cross posting, but I'm happy to share that the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University in Boston is hiring this year at the open-rank (Assistant/Associate/Full) level for a position in Race, Equity and Inclusion. https://neu.peopleadmin.com/postings/57077 Please share the posting far and wide! Best, Meryl *** Job Description Race, Equity and Inclusion Assistant / Associate / Full Professor The Communication Studies Department at Northeastern University seeks an established scholar whose research and teaching focus on cultures, discourses, and practices of communication with an emphasis on race, equity, and inclusion. We encourage applicants whose work complements and extends the interests of our department, which include argumentation and rhetoric; digital communication; health, interpersonal, and organizational communication; political communication and public advocacy; language & social interaction; and media production and entertainment. We invite applicants who contribute to the excellence and diversity mission of the department, college, and university in research, teaching, and/or outreach. We welcome all applications, especially from candidates at the level of associate or full professor. The position includes responsibilities for teaching and supervision at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The ability to collaborate on and eventually lead interdisciplinary, grant-funded projects is desirable. Qualifications: Successful candidates must have a Ph.D. in communication or a closely affiliated discipline by the appointment start date and a nationally distinguished record of research, college-level teaching, and service, appropriate for appointment at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. The anticipated start date is the 2019-2020 academic year. Context The Department of Communication Studies is distinctive on three counts. First, our faculty conducts research and teaches courses across a broad range of specializations. Second, we are located within a major private global research university and a leader in worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement and interdisciplinary research. The department is housed in Northeastern’s College of Arts, Media & Design, an innovative unit that includes a unique combination of disciplines, including Architecture, Art + Design, Game Design, Communication Studies, Journalism, Media and Screen Studies, Music, and Theatre. Finally, we are in Boston, a thriving urban center of culture and innovation with extensive global connections. To learn more about our college, go to www.northeastern.edu/camd<http://www.northeastern.edu/camd> How to Apply To apply, visit Northeastern’s Human Resources website: https://neu.peopleadmin.com/postings/57077. Applicants should submit a letter of application describing teaching, research, along with a CV, two representative publications, and evidence of excellence in teaching. Applicants should also identify three or more references that can be contacted to provide letters of recommendation. Applications received on or before November 1, 2018 will be guaranteed full review and consideration. Inquires may be directed to Dr. Dale Herbeck, Chair of the Communication Studies Department, at d.herbeck(a)northeastern.edu<mailto:d.herbeck@northeastern.edu>. Northeastern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Educational Institution and Employer, Title IX University. Qualified candidates must have experience in, or a demonstrated commitment to, working with diverse student populations and/or in a culturally diverse work and educational environment. Minorities, women, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Northeastern University offers benefits coverage to the domestic partners of benefits-eligible faculty and staff. -- Meryl Alper Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies Northeastern University Holmes 217 m.alper(a)northeastern.edu<mailto:m.alper@northeastern.edu> merylalper.com<http://merylalper.com> BOOK: Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality (MIT Press<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/giving-voice>, 2017) *2018 Association of American Publishers, PROSE Award Honorable Mention* *2018 American Sociological Association, Outstanding Publication in the Sociology of Disability Award*

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Earn a Social Network Analysis Certificate from the Social Media Research Foundation w/ Gratis Access to DiscoverText, NodeXL, Cronycle and more
by Jacob Groshek 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Dear Colleagues, Dr. Marc Smith and I are pleased to announce that we will be offering a social media workshop next month in an incredible new location in Boston. A summary of details follow, but please visit our website to learn more and to register. Use the promo code SOCIAL to get 20% before September 30 :) https://www.sodanalytics.com/workshop.html The Social Media Methods Workshop: New Tools for New Media is a two day event that provides participants the ability to collect social media data at scale and learn to perform social network analysis using a series of leading software platforms and computational tools, such as DiscoverText <https://discovertext.com/>, NodeXL <https://www.nodexlgraphgallery.org/Pages/Default.aspx>, Gephi, <https://gephi.org/> Cronycle <https://cronycle.com/>, and Canvs <https://www.canvs.ai/>, among others. The skills acquired in this workshop will train you to *identify influential users* in social media as well as indicators of *content and sentiment* around specific topics. By the conclusion of this deep dive into social media data, you will have practical, real-world training for these in-demand abilities: - Collect social media data into large datasets for analysis; - Code, validate, and adjudicate human decisions about social media content; - Use human coding to train machine learning to code content at scale; - Graph networks of users to visualize human network structures; - Model networks of concepts to visual semantic network structures; - Measure sentiment in big data with humans and/or machines; - Develop appropriate analytic techniques to mine data for significant patterns; - Leverage algorithmic filtering to better inform both academic research and business decisions; - Carry out original analyses that present visual data with efficiency, informativeness, and novelty. Just as importantly, prior to attending, participants do not need any proficiency in programming, coding, statistics, or quantitative / computational research methods. We teach you *what you need to know* and *provide free access* to leading software platforms in order to make sense of the complex social media environment. When you complete your training with our experts in historic Boston, Massachusetts from October 19-20, 2018 you will leave with a Certificate in Social Network Analysis from the Social Media Research Foundation. <https://www.smrfoundation.org/> Just as importantly, you will have the knowledge and capacity to explore millions of units of social media users and posts. This includes, but is not limited to, selecting the best algorithms to apply to model influence and create informative models that address specific research and business questions. Though space is limited, we do offer competitive tiered pricing at the following levels: - Commercial - $999 - Academic - $649 - Student - $399 - Group rates - contact us <https://www.sodanalytics.com/contact.html> Please feel free to message me directly with any questions - we hope to see you there :) Thanks, Jacob -- Dr. Jacob Groshek Associate Professor of Emerging Media Studies Senior Fellow, Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy <http://www.bu.edu/ihsip/> Associate Director of the Center for Mobile Communication Studies <http://sites.bu.edu/cmcs/> Communication Research Center <http://sites.bu.edu/crc/about-crc/> Fellow Hariri Institute <http://www.bu.edu/hic/> Faculty Fellow Boston University jgroshek.org <http://www.jgroshek.org/> Founding Editor, *Journal of Communication and Technology <http://www.joctec.org/>* Founding Member, Boston Civic Media Consortium <http://bostoncivic.media/> Previously: Research Fellow, Erasmus Uni <http://www.eshcc.eur.nl/english/research/research_centres/erasmus_research_…> | Full Member, NeSCoR <http://nescor.socsci.uva.nl/>| Visiting Scholar, IAST <http://www.iast.fr/> @jgroshek <https://twitter.com/jgroshek> | google scholar <https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=G1XXhccAAAAJ&hl=en> 857-615-4709

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Call for minitrack proposal - AMCIS 2019 - Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS (SIGCCRIS)
by Fichman, Pnina 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Call For Minitrack Proposals AMCIS 2019 AMCIS 2019, the 25th Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 15 – 17, 2019, Cancun, Mexico Digital Bridging: The Americas’ New Frontier, https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/ Track: Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS (SIGCCRIS) https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle… Globalization has historically been tied to technological innovation, and the present era of a networked information society is no different. Information systems (IS) have provided the infrastructure for multinational businesses, created new cultural connections irrespective of geographic boundaries and distances, and allowed an increasingly mobile global population to be connected to their friends, families, and cultures no matter where they are. The track welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural context. The track is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Research that considers the impacts of cultural values on information systems use, adoption or development * Research on global IT sourcing strategies * Cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons of IS adoption, use and development * Effects of global social computing on organizational work organization and practices * Issues relating to globally distributed teams * Issues relating to IT adoption at the national level * Issues relating to global knowledge management * Issues relating to cross-national legislation and regulation * Issues relating to global information governance * Use and impacts of IT in the context of multinational organizations * Issues relating to security in information systems that span multiple countries * Single country studies showing implications for other locations or results different from other contexts * Multi-country studies of IS adoption, use, and development Minitrack chairs will be responsible for: * promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2019; * soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the minitrack; and * making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the minitrack. To submit a minitrack proposal, you must submit: * Minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation); * Minitrack title; * Short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2019 website (up to 150 words); * Call for papers for your minitrack. To submit a minitrack proposal, visit: (https://new.precisionconference.com/ais) Important Dates: * September 20, 2018 : PCS opens for Minitrack submissions * October 19, 2018 : Minitrack submissions are due * October 30, 2018 : Minitrack decisions are complete * November 5, 2018 : Minitrack revisions are due * January 7, 2019 : Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2019 begin * March 1, 2019: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors at 10:00am PST * March 7, 2019: All papers have assigned reviewers * April 15, 2019: Track Chairs recommendations are due * April 24, 2019: Camera-ready papers are due * May 1, 2019: Track session plans are due ------------------------ Pnina Fichman, Professor Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~fichman/

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Job: CCPR, the University of Glasgow, is seeking to recruit a Professor / Reader/ Senior Lecturer in International Media Policy
by Inge Sorensen 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

With apologies for cross-posting, the Centre for Cultural Policy Research (CCPR) at the University of Glasgow is seeking to recruit a Professor / Reader/ Senior Lecturer in International Media Policy in order to strengthen the Centre's research on media and communications policy in an international context and to support our PG teaching. Further details of this post, for which the closing date is Monday 22 October 2018, can be found (Ref: 021817) at: https://www.gla.ac.uk/it/iframe/jobs/ Thanks very much for sharing and forwarding to any potentially interested candidates. [University of Glasgow: The Times Scottish University of the Year 2018]

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