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Call for book reviewers for Mobile Media & Communication (SAGE journal)
by Becky Pham 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Dear all, Want to ease your academic guilt and enjoy a good book at the same time? Join our journal Mobile Media & Communication <http://journals.sagepub.com/home/mmc>’s pool of book reviewers! Many exciting titles relating to mobile media have been published in the last couple of years, waiting to be critically examined by scholars such as yourselves. So, send us an email with your brief 50-word biography and areas of expertise and interest to mobilemcreviews(a)gmail.com. We particularly welcome PhD candidates. We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you. Regards, Becky PHAM Thi Ngoc Bich Editorial Assistant, Book Reviews - Mobile Media & Communication Master of Arts, National University of Singapore https://beckypham.com/

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CPDP2019 Call for Papers - Deadline 1 October
by Camille Van Puymbroeck 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Dear all, The usual apology for cross-posting but this may be of interest to some on the list. Call for Papers CPDP2019 – Data Protection and Democracy CPDP is an annual three-day conference devoted to privacy and data protection. The 12th edition of CPDP will be held on 30th January to 1st February 2019 in Brussels. Whilst a number of speakers are specifically invited by the conference, several slots remain open to application through an annual call for papers. The CPDP2019 Call for Papers is addressed to all researchers who wish to present their papers at the next Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference. The call is split into two different tracks. The first is dedicated to experienced researchers (i.e. from postdoctoral researchers on), while the second welcomes PhD students and other junior researchers. Contributions are welcome from all disciplines with perspectives on the themes of the conference. The dual-track structure of the CPDP2019 Call for Papers aims to meet the increasing interest of researchers – from all levels and from multiple disciplines – in CPDP and their expectations in terms of academic feedback and exchange. Please submit your contribution through the EasyChair conference system through https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=77866042.wQZqp2m5CMpczXz9 <https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=77866042.wQZqp2m5CMpczXz9> The overarching theme of the 2019 edition is “Data Protection and Democracy”. The entwinement between data analytics and democratic processes has been on the spotlight for the better part of the past two years. From political microtargeting through advertising platforms to voting systems’ security, from external influence over elections to ‘fake news’ and populism, both privacy and data protection have been shown to be fundamental for a healthy democracy. The GDPR has applied since May 25 and is expected to change how companies and governments handle personal information. Will the GDPR serve as a model for a new standard of data privacy around the world? Will the new data protection and privacy frameworks in Europe and elsewhere make a difference? Could they be effectively enforced? What is data protection beyond legislation? CPDP2019 will highlight data protection as a core element of a democratic society. We welcome cutting edge papers in all areas related to technology, privacy, and data protection, but particularly invite submissions that fit the general conference theme. The CPDP Scientific Committee invites papers in the fields of law, social sciences, philosophy and computer sciences (as well as other relevant fields). Multidisciplinary papers are particularly welcome. In particular, this call aims to reach researchers whose works relate to new technologies, privacy and data protection. Selected researchers will have the valuable opportunity to present their papers in the conference academic sessions. The main theme highlighted this year is “Data Protection and Democracy”, but we welcome any original topics related to the general themes of the conference and especially encourage interdisciplinary submissions. Have a look at our submission instructions on our website: https://www.cpdpconferences.org/call-for-papers <https://www.cpdpconferences.org/call-for-papers> In case of doubt regarding the suitability of a contribution for the conference, please contact Lorenzo Dalla Corte. (lorenzo.dallacorte(a)cpdpconferences.org <mailto:lorenzo.dallacorte@cpdpconferences.org>). ‍ CPDP2019 Key Dates Deadline for submissions: Sunday 1 October 2018 (23:59 CET). Notification to authors: Monday 3 December 2018. Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will go through a second round of reviews for inclusion in the conference book. Best wishes, Camille on behalf of the CPDP2019 Programme Committee Camille Van Puymbroeck Communication and Community Manager Privacy Salon and CPDP +32 485 99 05 51 camille.vanpuymbroeck(a)hotmail.com camille(a)privacysalon.org

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Tenure track professorship (W1) in Digital Transformation (Media and Communication Research), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
by Hagenhoff, Svenja 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Dear all, we are currently advertising a tenure track professorship (W1) in Media and Communication Research within an interdisciplinary cluster on digital transformation (see official website of the university: https://www.fau.eu/university/careers-at-fau/professorships/#collapse_1; closing date: 22nd of October!). The Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is one of the leading research universities in Germany and the second largest full-university in Bavaria with an extraordinary broad range of disciplines (see: https://www.fau.eu/) Digital Transformation has been defined as one of the "key research areas" of the FAU bringing together researchers from the social sciences, law, economy, ethics, computer sciences, digital humanities, engineering etc. Our location in Erlangen is an attractive, quite international, lively and bike-oriented southern German university town with a little more than 100,000 inhabitants and roughly 30.000 students. A short 20-min rail- or bus-trip away, Nürnberg (or "Nuremberg") with more than half a million inhabitants is the centre of one of the largest metropolitan areas in southern Germany and offers diverse cultural activities. At Erlangen's and Nürnberg's doorsteps, the Franconian Switzerland as well as the Franconian lakes provide for many leisure opportunities of mid-range mountains (climbing, walking, biking/mountain biking, canoeing, cross country skiing etc.). Erlangen and Nürnberg are very well connected with Intercity Express trains to Munich (approx. 1,5 h to the south) and Berlin (approx. 3h to the north). Nürnberg has an international airport with connections to many major European cities. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. Also, please feel encouraged to distribute widely! Best wishes, Svenja --------- Prof. Dr. Svenja Hagenhoff Institute for the Study of the Book Katholischer Kirchenplatz 9 91054 Erlangen Germany 0049 9131 85 24700 or -24754 www.buchwiss.uni-erlangen.de svenja.hagenhoff(a)fau.de ORCID: 0000-0003-0373-378X

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Authoritarian Practices in the Digital Age - IJoC Special Section
by Michaelsen, Marcus 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Dear all, I am happy to share with you this announcement of a Special Section on 'Authoritarian Practices in the Digital Age', just published in the International Journal of Communication: There is increasing concern about how digital technologies contribute to a decline of democracy and the rise of authoritarian tendencies. The Special Section breaks new ground by systematically examining how digital authoritarian practices are diffused between states, co-produced by states and corporate actors, legitimized in multilateral settings, and experienced by citizens. Digital authoritarian practices describe threats to the democratic process, sabotaging accountability by disrupting access to information or disabling communication. Edited by Marlies Glasius and Marcus Michaelsen, University of Amsterdam, the Special Section brings together nine papers that extend our understanding of the relationship between contemporary forms of authoritarianism and digital communication technologies. The contributions investigate Internet control and censorship, surveillance, and disinformation, presenting insights from China, Russia and Central Asia, Iran, Pakistan, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Western Europe. To access the papers, please go to http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc. We look forward to your feedback! This publication is a result of the 5-year research project 'Authoritarianism in a Global Age' at the University of Amsterdam. Our project has also just released an animation to share some of our messages with a broader audience: https://youtu.be/n1tXjJobjfs. _____________________________________________________________ Authoritarian Practices in the Digital Age — Introduction Marcus Michaelsen, Marlies Glasius Illiberal and Authoritarian Practices in the Digital Sphere — Prologue Marlies Glasius, Marcus Michaelsen Information, Security, and Authoritarian Stability: Internet Policy Diffusion and Coordination in the Former Soviet Region Jaclyn A. Kerr The Contestation and Shaping of Cyber Norms through China's Internet Sovereignty Agenda Sarah McKune, Shazeda Ahmed Transforming Threats to Power: The International Politics of Authoritarian Internet Control in Iran Marcus Michaelsen Asymmetrical Power Between Internet Giants and Users in China Aofei Lv, Ting Luo Blocking the Bottleneck: Internet Shutdowns and Ownership at Election Times in Sub-Saharan Africa Tina Freyburg, Lisa Garbe Understanding Internet Shutdowns: A Case Study from Pakistan Ben Wagner Through a Glass, Darkly: Everyday Acts of Authoritarianism in the Liberal West Stefania Milan, Arne Hintz Best wishes, Marcus Michaelsen Dr. Marcus Michaelsen Postdoctoral Researcher │Department of Political Sciences University of Amsterdam PO.Box 15578, 1001 NB Amsterdam – The Netherlands UvA-Profile<http://www.uva.nl/en/contact/staff/item/m.michaelsen.html?f=michaelsen> http://www.authoritarianism-global.uva.nl/

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Interdiscursive Readings in Cultural Consumer Research
by george rossolatos 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Announcing the newly released monograph 'Interdiscursive Readings in Cultural Consumer Research', of direct relevance to new media researchers. *Title: *Interdiscursive Readings in Cultural Consumer Research *Publishing house: *Cambridge Scholars Publishing *ISBN (print): *978-1-5275-1372-3 *Author: *George Rossolatos *Release date: *August 2018 *Pages: *350 The cultural consumption research landscape of the 21st century is marked by an increasing cross-disciplinary fermentation. At the same time, cultural theory and analysis have been marked by successive ‘inter-’ turns, most notably with regard to the Big Four: multimodality (or intermodality), interdiscursivity, transmediality (or intermediality), and intertextuality. This book offers an outline of interdiscursivity as an integrative platform for accommodating these notions. To this end, a call for a return to Foucault is issued via a critical engagement with the so-called practice-turn. This re-turn does not seek to reconstitute venerably Foucauldianism, but to theorize ‘inters-’ as vanishing points that challenge the integrity of discrete cultural orders in non-convergent manners. The propounded interdiscursivity approach is offered as a reading strategy that permeates the contemporary cultural consumption phenomena that are scrutinized in this book, against a pan-consumptivist framework. By drawing on qualitative and mixed methods research designs, facilitated by CAQDAS software, the empirical studies that are hosted here span a vivid array of topics that are directly relevant to both traditional and new media researchers, such as the consumption of ideologies in Web 2.0 social movements, the ability of micro-celebrities to act as cultural game-changers, the post-loyalty abjective consumption ethos. The theoretically novel approaches on offer are coupled with methodological innovations in areas such as user-generated content, artists’ branding, and experiential consumption. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/64776 http://www.cambridgescholars.com/interdiscursive-readings-in-cultural-consu… <http://www.cambridgescholars.com/interdiscursive-readings-in-cultural-consu…> https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3163301 *Table of contents* *Chapter* *page* 1. Inter-everything: resuming the discursive turn in cultural consumer research *2* *Consuming experiences, practices and spectacles* 2. Taking the ‘multimodal turn’ in interpreting consumption experiences *48* 3. Mapping cultural consumer engagement in user-generated advertising *70* 4. Consuming thanghood: dancing to brand image with Miley Cyrus *111* *Consuming oneself and others* 5. Consuming the limit: Furious Pete and the re-evaluation of all values *159* 6. Consuming antinatalism in social media *179* *Consuming the Impossible* 7. Consuming the Beauty Ideal: a critical argumentation approach to skin-care advertising *213* 8. Consumed by the Real: on abjective consumption and its freaky vicissitudes *248* *Chapter 1* *Inter-everything: resuming the discursive turn in cultural consumer research* *Abstract * This chapter sets the introductory stage for the entire book by putting forward an integrative approach to interdiscursivity whereby the successive ‘inter’ turns are viewed as modes-of-interdiscursivity. To this end, a call for a return to Foucault is issued, not in order to venerably reconstitute archeological epistemology in a dogmatic fashion, but with a view to eschewing the dogmatizing effect of the naively realist assumptions that buttress the so-called ‘practice-turn’. As extensively argued, this turn had already been taken by Foucault. The evoked re-turn is historically situated in a terrain where praxiologists are increasingly challenging Foucault’s discursivity in favor of a paradigmatic shift that views the sociocultural domain as a nexus of self-subsistent social practices where meaning has been reduced to a fuzzy ‘element’ of practices. However, approaching cultural consumer phenomena, analyzing, interpreting them, but also, on the reverse, facilitating culturally informed marketing planning entails effectively dimensionalizing the cultural context that shelters consumption practices. In a sense, this perspectival take on interdiscursivity resembles the deconstructionist program of philosophizing at the limits of a tradition as repetition of master-signifiers and master-signifieds by pointing to the fissures in an arhi-text that threaten it with irreparable dissemination (aporias, tropes, contrived oppositions and exemplarities, axiomatic sublimations). However, this approach to interdiscursivity does not assume as its main field of application seminal texts in a philosophical tradition that have inseminated a plethora of texts, cultural practices and genres. Its orientation is not arhi-textual, but ultra-mundane, whence stems the need for engaging critically with the praxiological turn. Second, its focus does not revolve around the discernment of regularities that may account en masse for social order, as assumed by praxiologists, but around vanishing points as random guerilla-like rhizomatic intrusions, both commonalities and discrepancies in the seemingly neatly woven edifice of social practices. It is by dint of such random intrusions that the cultural, only thinly conceived as system and far from being organized as an arborescent structure, continues to operate as the force that animates repetitive, mechanistic patterns as encountered in monolithic, automated social practices, as well as why a turn away from the cultural is untenable. *Consuming experiences, practices and spectacles* *Chapter 2* *Taking the ‘multimodal turn’ in interpreting consumption experiences* *Abstract * This chapter addresses the potential contributions of sociosemiotically informed multimodal analysis to framing and systematically interpreting experiential consumption phenomena. By dint of tried and tested sociosemiotic methods, cultural consumer researchers may benefit considerably from the modal segmentation of cultural practices, with a view to yielding stratified accounts of experiences in terms of discursive configurations comprising metafunctions, modes and semiotic resources. The adoption of a multimodal approach in cultural consumer research allows for comparisons across studies, of seamlessness and of maximal integration along different analytical/interpretive levels, thus constituting a potentially indispensable device for modeling consumption experiences. *Chapter 3* *Mapping cultural consumer engagement in user-generated advertising* *Abstract* User-generated advertising (UGA) has been blossoming over the past few years as marketers are actively seeking to tighten bonds with consumers through engagement methods. Despite the rampant availability of listening technologies and the ever more nuanced mining of social media through Big Data applications, our understanding of the implications and the potential of UGA from a digital humanities point of view remains limited. This study ventures into mapping the interdiscursive cultural terrain of UGA with a view to furnishing a systematic account of how it affords to flesh out co-creatively a brand vision. To this end, a sociosemiotic approach is adopted that dimensionalizes the cultural resources employed in UGA as a nested structure that combines macrocultural aspects of cultural order/type with microcultural ones, such as genre and concrete cultural representations. The conceptual model is exemplified by recourse to a UGA corpus from the 10th and final wave of Doritos’ Crash the Super Bowl promotion, undergirded by a mixed methods research design that features a grounded theoretical procedure, facilitated by quantitative analyses. *Chapter 4* *Consuming thanghood: dancing to brand image with Miley Cyrus* *Abstract* This chapter scrutinizes how Miley Cyrus’s brand values are projected through the multimodal semiotic structure of the live performance of the song “Do my thang” (from the *Bangerz* album [2013]). It is shown how a brand image is enscripted in Cyrus’s spectacle as ‘script within script’ in various modes (other than the verbal and sonic ones that are defining of the recorded song), as well as in the interaction among modes, with an emphasis on the dance mode (as composite mode made up of the kinesic and haptic ones). A sociosemiotic conceptual framework is adopted in conjunction with an interpretive videographic method of analysis, facilitated by the multimodal qualitative discourse analytic software atlas.ti. Attending to structural couplings between signs and modes in the context of bespoke artists’ brand languages constitutes a priority for managing an artist as brand, and, concomitantly, for safeguarding relevance for a fandom. A multimodal reading grid is offered to this end. Furthermore, it is shown how Cyrus construes an imaginary, neo-burlesque brand space of hyperdifferentiation, narcissistic play and polymorphous sexuality that she and her dancing crew project onto an evoked audience. This is the first study that theorizes the live show spectacle as the manifest discourse whereupon brand image and brand values are edified, with an emphasis on the dance mode, over and above the verbal/ visual modes that prevail in the advertising/branding literatures. *Consuming oneself and others* *Chapter 5* *Consuming the limit: Furious Pete and the re-evaluation of all values* *Abstract* Micro-celebrities have been proliferating alongside the increasing importance of social media as avenues for self branding in a participatory cultural predicament. This chapter adopts a storytelling approach for canvassing how the brand identity of Furious Pete, a competitive speed-eating icon, is shaped coherently through the micro-narratives that populate his vlogs. By drawing on the social positioning perspective on storytelling that emphasizes how a persona, others and culture at large are discursively produced through situated positionings, enhanced by psychoanalytic insights (cf. De Fina, 2015, p.382), it is shown how this micro-celebrity may constitute a game-changer with regard to entrenched consumptive mores. This is achieved by adopting a narrative strategy of re-evaluation of all cultural values according to the ethos of speed-eating or, as tagged here, ‘limeating’ as ‘consuming (to) the limit’, and by delivering consumptive desire to an unbound orality whereby differentially valorized gastronomic offerings are annihilated in the face of cannibalistic drives. *Chapter 6* *Consuming antinatalism in social media* *Abstract* Antinatalism, a relatively recent moral philosophical perspective and ideology that avows ‘it is better not to have ever existed’, has spawned a new social movement with an active presence in social media. This study draws on the discourse historical approach (DHA) to critical discourse analysis for offering a firm understanding as to how the collective identity of the Facebook antinatalist NSM is formed. By focusing narrowly on how this ideology is consumed in the situated interaction among the NSM’s members it is shown that collective identity is a dynamic schema, rather than a uniform construct, enshrouding a plethora of micro-interactions. Individuals constantly negotiate its meaning in context, as they seek to streamline interdiscursively the antinatalist system of ideas with their lifeworld through a web of interlocking schemata, discursive and rhetorical strategies. Finally, antinatalism is identified as a peculiar case of post-modern metanarrative and conceptually elaborated as a new type of ‘metametanarrative’. *Consuming the Impossible* *Chapter 7* *Consuming the Beauty Ideal: * *A critical argumentation approach to skin-care advertising* *Abstract * This chapter introduces critical argumentation theory and analysis to cultural consumer research with a view to affording a cultural understanding of advertising discourse. Although rhetorical figures and rhetorical appeals have been amply scrutinized in the marketing discipline, argumentation schemes remain as yet untapped as regards their potential for offering nuanced insights about advertising claims by attending to the multiple layers of ad texts’ argumentative structuration. In order to illustrate the areas of contribution of critical argumentation, a corpus of print ads from the anti-ageing product category is drawn upon. The analysis unearths layers of argumentation by attending to latent statements, hidden premises and logical fallacies. The implications for critical marketing and for policy-making are highlighted amidst an external marketing environment where anti-ageing claims are attracting heavy criticism. *Chapter 8* *Consumed by the Real: * *on abjective consumption and its freaky vicissitudes* *Abstract * In this chapter the concept of abjection is extended to cultural consumer research by offering a conceptual framework of abjective consumption that rests on three pillars, namely irrationality, meaninglessness, dissolution of selfhood. By critically reflecting on Kristeva’s psychoanalytic insights, it is argued that abjective consumption constitutes more than a peculiar case of uncontrollable desire, far removed from an affirmative quest for (sub)alternative cultural identities. The existentially affirmative phenomenon of abjective consumption and its cultural ramifications are interpreted by pursuing a psychoanalytically informed discourse analytic route. Its modus operandi is illustrated by drawing on a corpus of 50 documentary episodes from the TV series “My Strange Addiction” and “Freaky Eaters.” The findings from this analysis point to different, simultaneously operative discursive complexes (e.g. moralizing, medical), none of which is commensurate to abjective consumption. George Rossolatos MSc, MBA, PhD http://uni-kassel.academia.edu/georgerossolatos www.ijmarketingsemiotics.com *https://www.researchgate.net/profile/George_Rossolatos/publications <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/George_Rossolatos/publications>* http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1784311 //disruptiVesemiOtics// <http://grossolatos.blogspot.com/>

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NYT story on US connectedness using FB friend data
by Joly MacFie 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

ICYMI https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/19/upshot/facebook-county-frien… -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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tt job opening in information/data ethics at asst prof level
by Colin Koopman 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

The job opening below may be of interest to junior-level PhDs involved in the AoIR community. Note that PhDs from *any relevant discipline* are strongly encouraged to apply. We are looking for an interdisciplinary research who can develop (or is already involved in) collaborative engagements with data science researchers. For the purposes of this search, "ethics" is construed in a broad sense to be inclusive of social, cultural, and political inquiry. https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/11549 *** The University of Oregon’s Department of Philosophy and Presidential Initiative in Data Science invite applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level with a specialization in Data/Information Ethics, to begin in fall 2019. The Philosophy Department construes ethics in a broad sense as pertaining to a wide range of moral, social, and cultural issues arising in connection with burgeoning data technologies. Competitive applicants will be capable of outstanding research and teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The position will be located in the Philosophy Department ( philosophy.uoregon.edu) with potential affiliations with other campus units (and a possibility for a split appointment depending on the research trajectory of the successful candidate). The Philosophy Department is a diverse and growing unit with an expansive view of the discipline, a broad understanding of the multiple theoretical traditions that constitute philosophical work, an intellectual climate conducive to interdisciplinary work, a commitment to engaged scholarship, and a strong commitment to faculty and graduate student diversity. This search is one of nearly a dozen associated with the Presidential Initiative in Data Science (provost.uoregon.edu/data-science) This initiative is focused on the development of advanced computational and quantitative tools and training programs for gathering and analyzing large amounts of data and associated metadata, as well as interpreting and communicating the findings and social and ethical implications of data science research. It will spur intentional growth in research and education, using big data and cutting-edge analytics across the entire campus. We are building a cross-disciplinary data science program on a foundation of strong interdisciplinary research and innovative education at a liberal arts research university. We seek scholars prepared to contribute to the program’s growth through excellence in a specific academic focus, as well as through interdisciplinary collaborations across data science writ large. Data Science is supported by the university’s multi-million-dollar investment in the recently launched Talapas supercomputing cluster ( hpcf.uoregon.edu) The Data Science Initiative will also have synergies with the newly-launched Knight Campus for Accelerating Impact ( accelerate.uoregon.edu) Minimum Requirements: AOS in Data/Information Ethics; record of research excellence with evidence of publication trajectory in AOS; evidence of commitment to collaborative intellectual inquiry with data science researchers; Ph.D. by time of appointment required; Ph.D. in Philosophy preferred (but applicants with a strong philosophical background from any relevant discipline are encouraged to apply). Salary is competitive. Required Application Materials: letter of application, c.v., research statement, writing sample of up to 20 pages focused on the area of specialization, teaching statement, sample syllabi for up to three relevant courses, and three to five letters of reference. Applications accepted until October 21, 2018 6:00 p.m. PST. Expectations for interdisciplinary collaboration associated with this position are informed by a university goal of furthering ethical inquiry in research contexts developing next-generation data science techniques and methodologies. Competitive applicants will be both successful collaborators and interdisciplinary thinkers. Potential clusters of collaboration include but are not limited to the following areas of data science research: machine learning and artificial intelligence, data-driven analysis (and related “Big Data” and unstructured data research), predictive analytics, bioinformatics, measurement and psychometrics, assessment (in multiple disciplinary contexts), human-computer interaction, and dataveillance/privacy. Specific contexts for research and teaching collaboration in the data sciences include the UO Presidential Initiative in Data Science (provost.uoregon.edu/data-science) the UO Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact (around.uoregon.edu/accelerate) and numerous departments and centers across campus. Research expectations include publication, conference presentation, collaborative interdisciplinary inquiry with the goal of joint grant applications and co-authored publications, and other impactful research. Teaching expectations include graduate teaching (including data ethics curriculum geared to graduate students across a range of disciplines), undergraduate teaching from introductory to advanced levels (including standard philosophy courses and undergraduate-specific data ethics curriculum), and mentoring and thesis advisement at graduate and undergraduate levels. UO is on the academic quarter system and the standard teaching load in the Philosophy Department is five courses across three terms per year, with numerous opportunities for course-load reductions. The University of Oregon is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and strongly encourages applications from members of underrepresented groups. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter a statement about how they will further this goal. *** Applications and information at: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/11549. -- Colin Koopman Associate Professor, Philosophy Director, New Media & Culture University of Oregon Mail: 1295 U of O - 1431 Johnson Ln. (Susan Campbell Hall) - Eugene, OR 97403 Web: http://www.uoregon.edu/~koopman/

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Collecting data from Facebook account of deceased people
by Sergent, Julie 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

Hello, I am looking for literature pertaining to the ethics of research involving data from Facebook account of deceased people (data left by the deceased and on going data posted on their wall). Any information will be welcome. Thanks a lot, Julie Sergent Conseillère en éthique de la recherche pour les projets étudiants (CERPÉ) Faculté des sciences humaines Université du Québec à Montréal

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The 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2019): Combined Call for Papers - Last Mile
by Announce Announcements 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

*** COMBINED CALL FOR PAPERS - LAST MILE *** The 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2019) St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, April 8-12, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Submission Deadline: September 24, 2018 *** For the past thirty-three years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary and international forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is the sole sponsor of SAC. The conference proceedings are published by ACM and are also available online through ACM's Digital Library. The 34th Annual SAC meeting will be held in April 2019 in Limassol, Cyprus, and is hosted by the University of Cyprus. The conference features the following tracks: · Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems (IRMAS) · Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) · Information Access and Retrieval (IAR) · Software Verification and Testing (SVT) · Computational Intelligence and Video & Image Analysis (CIVIA) · Social Network and Media Analysis (SONAMA) · Selected Areas of Wireless Communications and Networking (WCN) · Recommender Systems: Theory and Applications (RS) · Computer Security (SEC) · Web-based Technologies for Interactive Computing Education (WICE) · Data Mining (DM) · Usability Engineering (UE) · Cloud Computing (CC) · Privacy by Design in Practice (PDP) · Advances in COMputational Biomedical Imaging (COMBI) · Operating Systems (OS) · Software Platforms (SP) · Decentralized Applications (DAPP) with Blockchain, DLT and Crypto-Currencies (DAPP) · Databases and Big Data Management (DBDM) · Requirements Engineering (RE) · Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) · Software Architecture: Theory, Technology, and Applications (SA-TTA) · Internet of Things (IoT) · Sustainability of Fog/Edge Computing Systems (SFECS) · Software-intensive Systems-of-Systems (SiSoS) · Data Streams (DS) · Programming Languages (PL) · Business Process Management & Enterprise Architecture (BPMEA) · Microservices, DevOps, and Service-Oriented Architecture (MiDOS) · Health Informatics (HI) · Dependable, Adaptive, and Secure Distributed Systems (DADS) · GeoInformation Analytics (GIA) · Knowledge and Language Processing (KLP) · KomIS: Knowledge Discovery meets Information Systems (KomIS) · Next Generation Programming Paradigms and Systems (NGPS) · Communication, Computing and Networking in Internet of Vehicles (CCNIV) · Bioinformatics (BIO) · Embedded Systems (EMBS) · Digital Life for Human Well-being (DLHWB) · Networking (NET) · Semantic Web and Applications (SWA) · Mobile Computing and Applications (MCA) · Software Engineering (SE) · Variability and Software Product Line Engineering (VSPLE) · Smart Human Computer Interaction (HCI) · Web Technologies (WT) · Machine Learning and its Applications (MLA) More information about the topics covered by each track and submission instructions are available on the conference web site and the web sites of the tracks themselves (accessible from the conference web site). Important Dates · Sept 24, 2018: Submission of papers · Nov 10, 2018: Author notification · Nov 25, 2018: Camera-ready copies · Dec 10, 2018: Author registration Committees http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…

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The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Call for Submissions: Nov. 15, 2018
by Communication ＠JITP 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

*The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy* *General Issue* *Issue Editors:* * Luke Waltzer, The Graduate Center, CUNY* * Lisa Brundage, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY* *Editorial Associate:* * Teresa Ober, The Graduate Center, CUNY* The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work that explores the intersection of technology with teaching, learning, and research. We are interested in contributions that take advantage of the affordances of digital platforms in creative ways. We invite both textual and multimedia submissions employing interdisciplinary and creative approaches in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Besides scholarly papers, the submissions can consist of audio or visual presentations and interviews, dialogues, or conversations; creative/artistic works; manifestos; or other scholarly materials, including work that addresses the labor and care considerations of academic technology projects. All work appearing in the Issues section of JITP is reviewed by the issue editors and independently by two scholars in the field, who provide formative feedback to the author(s) during the review process. We practice signed, as opposed to blind, peer review. We intend that the journal itself—both in our process and in our digital product—serve as an opportunity to reveal, reflect on, and revise academic publication and classroom practices. Additionally, all submissions will be considered for our “Behind the Seams” feature, in which we publish dynamic representations of the revision and editorial processes, including reflections from the authorial and editorial participants. Research-based submissions should include discussions of approach, method, and analysis. When possible, research data should be made publicly available and accessible via the Web and/or other digital mechanisms, a process that JITP can and will support as necessary. Successes and interesting failures are equally welcome. Submissions that focus on pedagogy should balance theoretical frameworks with practical considerations of how new technologies play out in both formal and informal educational settings. Discipline-specific submissions should be written for non-specialists. As a courtesy to our reviewers, we will not consider simultaneous submissions, but we will do our best to reply to you within three months of the submission deadline. The expected length for finished manuscripts is under 5,000 words. All work should be original and previously unpublished. Essays or presentations posted on a personal blog may be accepted, provided they are substantially revised; please contact us with any questions at editors(a)jitpedagogy.org. For further information on style and formatting, accessibility requirements, and multimedia submissions, consult JITP’s accessibility guidelines <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit/#accessibility>, style guide <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit/#style-guide> and multimedia submission guidelines <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/multimedia-submission-guidelines-and-best-…> . *Important Dates* Submission deadline for full manuscripts is November 15, 2018. Please view our submission guidelines <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit/> for information about submitting to the Journal. Source: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-submissions/

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