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Sonic Publics special section is OUT on IJoC!
by Elinor Carmi 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

Hi everyone, I'm thrilled to share Aram Sinnriech and my special section on the International Journal of Communication - Sonic Publics. I met Aram on Twitter (very appropriate for AoIR!) a couple of years ago and coming from the music industry we decided to do this panel around sound and its relation to internet studies at the AoIR 2017 conference at Tartu, Estonia. As sound studies scholars and music practitioners at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) annual conference, we experienced a degree of distortion. We tried to tune in to the field’s soundtrack, but there was silence. Although sound technologies, musical cultures, and the practices and subjectivities entangled with them are central to network technologies, internet research has been largely mute on the subject. This special section aims to reverberate through the field by exploring different channels of sound-related inquiry. We hope the resonance of our work will help to expand the ways in which researchers engage with networked communication, and amplify new paradigms for thinking and researching about media old and new. Sonic Publics - IJoC<https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/issue/view/15> - All articles are open access Introduction and Audio Transcript<https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8618/2536> <https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8618/2536>(https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8618/2536) Aram Sinnreich, Elinor Carmi Booming at the Margins: Ethnic Radio, Intimacy, and Nonlinear Innovation in Media<https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8591/2537> (https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8591/2537) Larisa Kingston Mann Convening Technologies: Blockchain and the Music Industry<https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8590/2538> <https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8590/2538>(https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8590/2538) Nancy Baym, Lana Swartz, Andrea Alarcon Music, Copyright, and Technology: A Dialectic in Five Moments<https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8587/2539> <https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8587/2539>(https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8587/2539) Aram Sinnreich The Hidden Listeners: Regulating the Line from Telephone Operators to Content Moderators<https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8588/2540> <https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8588/2540>(https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8588/2540) Elinor Carmi We had a lot of fun doing this special section and we want to thank our wonderful writers, the peer-reviewers and the amazing Arlene Luck from IJoC for making this possible. We hope you enjoy listening and tuning into our special section, All the best, Elinor and Aram. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Elinor Carmi, Postdoc Research Associate - Digital Media & Society, Department of Communication and Media, Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, School of the Arts, Liverpool University, UK. https://elinorcarmi.com<https://elinorcarmi.com/> Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi

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ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellowship 2019 (paid)
by Leif Kramp 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellowship 2019 (paid) Position: ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow Media, Communication and Information Institution: ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen Duration: 1 month (either between April and June 2019 or between October and December 2019) Salary: 3,000 euro + 1,500 euro budget for direct costs Contract: Fee contract Application deadline: February 17, 2019 (23:59 CET) The ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, offers a thriving interdisciplinary research environment in the areas of media, communication and information. Involved disciplines include communication and media studies, computer science, cultural studies, educational science, studies in religion, and history. The ZeMKI invites applications from excellent researchers in the field of media, communication, and information. As a ZeMKI Visiting Research Fellow, the selected candidate will delve into the versatile research activities at the interdisciplinary centre with over 60 members. Applicants should demonstrate experiences and a strong interest in collaborative research which is embraced at the ZeMKI in various ways and contexts. The selected candidate is expected to contribute to these research activities in the area of media change and transforming communications in the form of a research paper submitted to the peer-reviewed “Communicative Figurations” working paper series and a lecture in the ZeMKI Research Seminar. Applicants must have a PhD or other doctoral degree in a relevant discipline by the application date. We offer a lump sum allowance of 3,000 Euros plus up to 1,500 Euros for research related expenses. To apply for this post, please send your application documents via e-mail to andreas.hepp(a)uni-bremen.de. The closing date for receipt of applications is February 17, 2019 (23:59 CET). We are unfortunately unable to accept any late applications. Website: http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/research/zemki-visiting-research-fellowsh…

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Fwd: [CfP Deadline: 28th January] Data for Policy 2019 - Digital Trust and Personal Data, 11-12 June, London
by Zeynep Engin 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

Dear All, Below is the *final CfP reminder* for the upcoming Data for Policy 2019 conference in London. We will appreciate if you could help us circulate this as widely as possible in relevant networks. *CfP Deadline: Jan 28th.* Best wishes, Zeynep ---------- Forwarded message --------- We invite contributions for the Data for Policy 2019 conference - Deadline: 28th January Call for Papers, Presentations, Sessions and Demos *Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: January, 28th* 4th International Conference *Data for Policy 2019:* Digital Trust and Personal Data 11-12 June 2019, London dataforpolicy.org <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> | @dataforpolicy <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> Data science technologies, pioneered in the private sector, are now ripe for transforming the public sector. However, both government policy and technology providers need to address two pressing public concerns: DIGITAL TRUST (privacy and security) and PERSONAL DATA (ownership and beneficial exploitation). The impact from ‘smartification*’ *of public infrastructure and services will be far more significant in comparison to any other sector given the government’s function and importance to every individual and institution. Potential applications range from public engagement through natural text and speech Chatbots, to providing decision support for civil servants via AI-based Robo-advisors, to real-time management of the public infrastructure through the Internet of Things and blockchain, to securing public records using distributed ledgers, and, encoding and codifying laws using smart contracts. However, in many cases current uses of automated decision-making systems have been shown to cause adverse impacts on important life events of individuals – examples range from bias in recruitment of job-applicants, to credit scoring in loans and insurance, and to sentencing of criminals. Also, state surveillance and manipulation of voter behaviour have become the early examples of how such developments may amplify the asymmetry of power (between citizen and those utilising such technologies) causing severe damage to the democratic processes. The Bitcoin ‘hype’, with its correlating energy usage, has also shown the environmental cost of the highly complex computations, as well as indicating other potential unpredicted and unintended consequences. On the other hand, the cost of not using – or the slow uptake of – data science technologies in the public sector is also potentially huge, given that all other aspects of our lives are changing fast under the ongoing digital revolution. It then follows that the stakes could be much higher in both the use and the avoidance of these technologies for public decision making and service delivery. This will require a careful cost/benefit analysis before implementation at scale. The fourth conference in the *Data for Policy *series therefore highlights *‘Digital Trust and Personal Data’ *as its main theme. The conference will also welcome contributions in the broader data science for government and policy discussions. In particular, submissions around the value and harm of using data in the public sector, deployment experience in government, ‘digital ethics’ and ‘ethics engineering’ concepts, personal data sharing frameworks and technologies, transparency in machine learning processes, analytics at source, and secure data transaction methodologies are encouraged. *Topics invited include but are not limited to the following:* - *Data, Government and Policy: *Digital era governance and democracy, data and politics, asymmetry of power, data- and evidence-driven public service delivery, algorithmic government and regulation, open-source and open-data movements, multinational companies and privatization of public services, sharing economy and peer-to-peer services, online communities, crowdsourcing, citizen science, public opinion, data literacy, policy laboratories, case studies and best practices. - *Technologies: *Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, blockchain distributed ledger and smart contract technologies, behavioural and predictive analytics, the Internet of Things, platforms, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), biometric identifiers, augmented and virtual reality, robotics, and other relevant technologies. - *Systems & Infrastructure: *Data collection, capture, storage, processing and visualisation technologies; platforms and web services, mobile applications, meta-data, standards and interoperability, databases and data warehousing, high performance computing, algorithms, programming, decision support systems, user-interaction technologies, and other relevant topics. - *Data Processing & Knowledge Generation:* Data representation and pre-processing, integration, real-time and historical data analysis, mathematical and statistical models, ‘data-driven’ analysis, human-in-the-loop (HITL); mixed methodologies, secondary data analysis, web mining; Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs), gaps in theory and practice, other relevant topics. - *Policy for Data & Management: *Data governance and regulatory frameworks; General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); data collection, storage, curation and access; data security, ownership, linkage; data provenance and expiration; private/public sector/non-profit collaboration and partnership; capacity-building and knowledge sharing within government; institutional forms and regulatory tools for data governance. - *Privacy, Security, Ethics & Law: *Ethical concerns around data, algorithms, and interactions (both human-machine and machine-machine interactions) and associated technology responses; legal status of digital systems; bias, transparency and accountability of digital systems; public rights, free speech, dialogue and trust. We also invite submissions for the following Special Tracks: - *Trading Data for Health: Balancing Ethics, Economics and Technology *- Track Chair: Anil *Bharath*, Imperial College London - *Data Practices, Lessons and Challenges: A Private-Sector (Business) Perspective* - Track Chair: Bilal *Gokpinar*, University College London - *Blockchain & Data Governance* - Track Chair: Catherine *Mulligan*, World Economic Forum, UN Digital Cooperation, Imperial, UCL - *Successful Uses of Data and AI for Public Good *– Track Chair: Tom *Smith*, Office for National Statistics, UK Contributions can be proposed in the following categories (please see the guidelines for more details). - *Individual Research/Policy/Practitioner Proposals (1000-word max.): *An extended abstract should be submitted, which includes a title, the research/policy question, the research methodology and data used, and key findings. - *Session Proposals (4500-word max.):* Session proposals are welcome. This combines 3-4 presentations from researchers and/or practitioners each providing a max. 1000-word abstract. A max. 500-word description of the panel should also be submitted. - *Demo Proposals:* The Demonstration Track is intended to provide an opportunity to showcase new tools, technological advances, and services offered in this emerging field. The contributions must demonstrate state-of-the-art technology and must be run live, preferably with some interactive parts. A max. 1000-word description of the session should be submitted, which includes the technology demonstrated, the elements of novelty, the live-action part, the interactive part, the equipment brought by the demonstrators, and the equipment required from the track organisers. - *Poster Submissions:* All individual submissions to the conference will first be considered for oral presentation and then for poster sessions at the conference. Those who wish to make submission for the poster sessions only should make a standard submission indicating at the top that they are only interested in presenting a poster. *Official conference website - dataforpolicy.org* <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> *Make a submission here* <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> Please note that this is a fee-paying event and all conference participants, including presenters, will be responsible for arranging their own travel and accommodation. We have limited funding to support student participation: those who wish to be considered for these grants should send a CV and cover letter explaining their case to team(a)dataforpolicy.org. This should be done *after completion of abstract submission*. All general enquiries about the conference should be sent to team(a)dataforpolicy.org *Important Dates: * Submission Deadline for Extended Abstracts 28 January 2019 Notification of Acceptance 4 March 2019 Registration Deadline for Presenters 8 April 2019 Deadline for Discussion Paper submissions 13 May 2019 Deadline for Public Registration 31 May 2019 (may close earlier if all places are taken) Conference in London 11-12 June 2019 *Conference Partnership & Sponsorship:* Data for Policy conference series is an independent non-for-profit initiative and fully funded by the income raised through conference registrations and partner/sponsor contributions. Organisations interested in our flexible partnership/sponsorship packages should get in touch with our team via email (team(a)dataforpolicy.org) *Call for Bids to Host Future Data for Policy Conferences: * We welcome bids from academic, government and private sector stakeholders to host future Data for Policy conferences. Consortium bids bringing together a host country’s academic and government stakeholders are encouraged and demonstration of further industry support would also be an advantage. Interested organisations should send a brief Statement of Interest to team(a)dataforpolicy.org, outlining the partnership model proposed and the commitments offered. Bids will be considered on a rolling basis. *Supporting Institutions: * *Copyright © 2019 Data for Policy, All rights reserved.*

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Call for Papers - The Business of eSports: Deciphering the World of Competitive Gaming
by Scholz, Tobias, Dr. 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

Dear Colleagues, apologies for cross-posting. We want to draw your attention to a call for paper for a special issue on the business of eSports. Please consider a submission and share it with colleagues that may be interested in submitting. Thank you! Tobias Scholz Call for Papers - The Business of eSports: Deciphering the World of Competitive Gaming Submission Deadline: 15 June 2019 The competitive gaming scene surged in the recent years with tournaments filling the bird's nest in Beijing in 2017, and the League of Legends finals in 2018 peaked at 200 million viewers. In 2017 this market had a value of nearly 500 million U.S. dollar, and some analyst proposed that it will go up towards 1,7 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. Companies like Adidas, Mercedes-Benz, Gilette and Old Spice joined the eSports scene rivaling the commitment by Red Bull, Coca-Cola, and Intel. There are now over 150 sports teams involved in eSports, e.g., Philadelphia 76ers, Golden State Warriors, FC Schalke 04, Kraft group (owners of New England Patriots) and many more are investing in eSports heavily. The key goal for them is to attract the young generation. We observe a massive surge in interest in 2016 and 2017. It may even seem like that we are in a buying frenzy capped by Amazon’s acquisition of Twitch for 970 million dollars. In some games, teams have to pay a franchise fee for roughly 60 million U.S. dollar to create the next NFL or NBA. At the same time, eSports in its today form is over 20 years old; the competitive gaming aspect started even with the first game. Even the first video game was designed to be watchable by other people. The eSports sphere grew in those 20 years out of its infancy without being influenced heavily by the outside companies. Companies and brands evolved and created their way of managing. This lead to novel approaches, that are not always typical “start-up” or traditional. For example, the concept of virtual teams is a natural thing for eSports. Hence, they understand the need for global virtual teams. However, contrary to modern “beliefs” to have a high potential team, people need to work in the same place. This is a counter-argument towards the ideas of “new work.” Although traditional companies and sports teams nowadays invade eSports, they are capable of surviving, e.g., Razer an eSports company bought THX sound systems. This makes it unique for research. The “novel” ideas from eSports have to fight against traditional ideas and concepts. This happens in all areas of management studies. The question about strategy, innovation (or defending innovation) will make this topic relevant to strategic management. How is it possible to achieve ambidexterity in this volatile environment? There is an evolution in the sphere, that is quite striking from a management perspective. The organization is not institutionalized, and there is ongoing coordination to create evolving governance. There are shifting rules, and there is a power game of the “insider” and the outsiders. The industry is rooted in business, media, and sports research as well. Making it interesting for any management field. The world of eSports is massively growing, however, neglected by research. This is quite striking as eSports is born digital, born global, and born agile, subsequently making an exciting research target for management scholars. The eSports industry showed much resilience, and many of the actors in the eSports industry do understand that they have to be sustainable. The topic will stay relevant, and there is much to research in this context. Potential Research Questions • What are effective “digital” strategies in eSports? • How do eSports companies achieve flexibility and sustainability? • What are the ways of approaching ambidexterity (exploration and exploitation)? • How do eSports companies deal with the volatility of the eSports ecosystem? • In this volatile environment, what are ways to minimize the risks and position themselves in the market? • How can eSports companies create competitive strategies in this volatile market? • What are the work conditions in the eSports ecosystem and how do they affect the strategic management? • What are potential aspects media companies could learn from eSports companies in terms of digitization? • How do eSports companies create their business model in terms of off-line and on-line customers? • What are strategies to identify the competitive advantage and what are ways to position the brand in the market? Diversify or not. Submission and Review Process To submit a manuscript, the journal receives all manuscript submissions electronically via its ScholarOne Manuscripts<http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hijm?utm_source=CPB&utm_medium=cms&utm_camp…> site. For more details on the submissions process, please visit the journal’s Instructions for Authors<http://tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=hijm20&page=inst…> page for more details. The submission deadline is the 15th June 2019. If you have any questions, please contact tobias.scholz(a)uni-siegen.de<mailto:tobias.scholz@uni-siegen.de>. We envisage publishing the Special Issue in 2020. We look forward to receiving your manuscript! Editors: • Bozena Mierzejewska, Fordham University (bmierzejewska(a)fordham.edu<mailto:bmierzejewska@fordham.edu>) • Tobias M. Scholz, University of Siegen (tobias.scholz(a)uni-siegen.de<mailto:tobias.scholz@uni-siegen.de>) _________________________________ Dr. Tobias M. Scholz University of Siegen Chair for Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior www.pmg.uni-siegen.de<http://www.pmg.uni-siegen.de>

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CFP: 9th International Conference on C&T - Transforming Communities
by Maurizio 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

apologies for cross-posting m. -- CFP: 9th International Conference on C&T - Transforming Communities 3 - 7 June 2019, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria The biennial Communities and Technologies (C&T) conference is the premier international forum for stimulating scholarly debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – in their multiple forms – and information and communication technologies. C&T 2019 welcomes participation from researchers, designers, educators, industry, and students from the many disciplines and perspectives bearing on the interaction between communities and technologies, including architecture, arts, business, design, economics, education, engineering, ergonomics, informatics, information technology, geography, health, humanities, law, media and communication studies, and social sciences. C&T's 2019 theme, "Transforming Communities", embraces a dynamic view of communities. We recognize how communities are rooted in the construction of solidarities and mutual recognition at the same time there is tension and desire for change. We welcome scholarly contributions that pay particular attention to the roles of technology, and technology design, in the making, un-making, and re-making of communities. Please consider submitting a paper (details below). Lisa Nathan & Maurizio Teli (Paper Chairs) Hilda Tellioğlu (Conference Chair) Important Dates February 15, 2019 (23:59 CET) Papers (full and short) due April 5, 2019 Notification of acceptance for papers (full and short) April 26, 2019 Camera-ready for papers (full and short) Submission Details Online Submission: via EasyChair Submission Template: ACM SigConf proceedings template (part of the ACM Master Template) Submission Format: max. 10 pages for long papers and max. 4 pages for short papers (excluding references and appendices), as PDF For more information please visit https://2019.comtech.community/papers.html

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Sasha Barab, Learning Scientist - ELDc19 Keynote Speaker
by AJ Kelton 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Emerging Learning Design is excited to announce that internationally recognized learning scientist Sasha Barab will be the Keynote Speaker for the 9th Annual Emerging Learning Design Conference, May 30th and 31st at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Dr. Barab will be giving a talk on "Cultivating Connected Growth and Life Change: From Immersive Worlds to Empowered Ecosystems." If you have not already submitted, Emerging Learning Design invites you to submit a proposal for ELDc19: Generation Emerging. http://bit.ly/2y6asNr The call for proposals closes 1/22. Registration will open in February so you will be able to secure your spot at the conference soon! Through Dr. Barab’s work, you’ll reconsider the role of digital games and innovation for helping people thrive in life. Join us as we discuss with Dr. Barab the design boundaries from the bits and bytes of the game world to complex real-world ecosystems with the goal of helping all learners thrive in a complex, rapidly changing, digitally connected world. The ELDc19 Program Committee seeks proposals for interactive presentations, workshops, and Sparks! sessions. Proposed sessions will be targeted to Designers, Educators, Researchers, and Technologists. ELDc19 seeks to grapple with the issues facing the emerging generation and their educational journey. With a society in flux, educating students for an unknown future presents exciting challenges. Self-driving cars, self-replicating AI, and transhumanism will all be common rather than merely on the pages of a science fiction novel in the not so distant future. This future will augment the potential for learner experience design. ELD invites you to engage with and reflect upon how we can best educate the generation emerging and leverage their forward thinking ideals to propel society forward. The submission deadline is January 22, 2018, at 11:59 pm ET. Learn more and submit your proposal today! http://bit.ly/2y6asNr The ELD Annual Conference is a space designed to showcase innovation as well as to engage in a vibrant and dynamic discourse. With passion for social responsibility, dedication to diversity, and ambition for engagement, this is a generation emerging. Veronica Armour, Conference Chair Jeff Bergin, Conference Chair Teresa Slobuski, Program Chair Bryan Alexander, Program Chair Sasha Barab has researched, designed, and published extensively on the challenges and opportunities of using innovation for impact, with a particular focus on the power of games. He is a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, where he also serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Games and Impact. His research has resulted in numerous grants, over 100 published manuscripts, and multiple game-based innovations that have been engaged by over 200,000 players to support learning and transformation. His current work extends the design boundaries from the bits and bytes of the game world to complex real-world ecosystems with the goal of helping all learners thrive in a complex, rapidly changing, digitally connected world. One recent project, My Lifelabs, is based on an invite, enable, and release learning methodology and focused on cultivating growth and impact journeys so that more people can realize their potential. Across all work is a sensitivity to factors such as ecosystem integration, stakeholder alignment, enacted agency, and achieving sustainable and scalable outcomes. -- ---------- *AJ Kelton, PhD* Director, Center for the Digital Humanities College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University Schmitt Hall 135 973.655.5507 keltona(a)mail.montclair.edu Need to meet with me? Book a time at https://keltona.youcanbook.me/ ---------- Emerging Learning Design http://eld.montclair.edu Join ELD <http://eld.montclair.edu/membership> (it's free!) Twitter: @ELDConf <http://twitter.com/ELDConf> ELD Question? LIVE CHAT <http://eld.montclair.edu/> (lower right hand corner) ---------- Journal of Emerging Learning Design Co-Editor-in-Chief http://eldj.montclair.edu ----------

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Call for proposals now open for Connected Learning Summit 2019
by Jamieson Pond 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Call for proposals now open for the 2019 Connected Learning Summit Call for proposals page: http://clsummit.news/CLScfpAIR  Online submissions open: January 11, 2019 Deadline for submissions: March 8, 2019 Notifications of Acceptance: June 2019 Connected Learning Summit 2019 October 2-5, 2019 | University of California, Irvine We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting proposals for the second annual Connected Learning Summit. With a unique focus on cross-sector connections and progressive and catalytic innovation, the Connected Learning Summit brings together leading researchers, educators, and developers. The program includes a mix of engaging presentation and workshop formats ranging from speculative design, to game walkthroughs, sharing works in progress, and research panels.  We encourage the submission of academic papers and project presentations as well as more innovative session formats which focus on digital technologies for learning, educational and commercial games and other media, innovative tech-infused curricula, and theoretical and/or empirical exploration of digital media and technology for learning. Abstracts from all session types will be included in the Connected Learning Summit Conference Proceedings. Research papers will be published in full, and subject to blind peer review. All other session formats will be subject to committee review. We will be accepting proposals for: - Research papers - Workshops - Showcases - Symposia - Well Played sessions - Hall of Failure - Posters - Tech demos - Ignite talks About the Connected Learning Summit The mission of the Connected Learning Summit is to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. The Connected Learning Summit represents a merger between three community events with this shared vision and values: the Digital Media and Learning Conference, the Games+Learning+Society Conference, and Sandbox Summit. The 2019 Connected Learning Summit will be held at the University of California, Irvine campus October 2-5, 2019. Respectfully, Jamieson Pond, Communications Manager Connected Learning Lab University of California, Irvine *Connected Learning Summit 2019* University of California, Irvine October 2-5, 2019 2019.connectedlearningsummit.org/ @TheCLSummit | #CLS2019

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WG: Workshop Sisterhood on Twitter Feb 18, 2019, in Tübingen, Germany
by Schelenz, Laura 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Dear colleagues, to whom it may concern, Hereby I would like to draw your attention to our upcoming graduate workshop with the title “Sisterhood on Twitter? ICT-based Collective Action and Narratives of Solidarity and Justice” on February 18, 2019, at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Please save the date and share our call for abstracts (for 10-minute presentations) with interested colleagues or students of yours. The deadline for abstracts is January 20, 2019. More information can be found below and online at https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/103584?tx_news_pi1[news]=32008<https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/103584?tx_news_pi1%5bnews%5d=32008> Many thanks and kind regards, Laura Schelenz Call for Abstracts: Graduate Workshop “Sisterhood on Twitter”, February 18, 2019, at the University of Tübingen Today, it seems that a hashtag is the means of choice to show solidarity with women/LGBTI* or advocate for gender justice. Social media and in particular Twitter are used by government bodies, civil society, activists, but also companies to promote gender equality. Examples of collective action that focus on the advancement of women’s and gender issues include the incredibly popular #MeToo initiative against sexual harassment in the United States, the relatable #YoTeCreo campaign in Spain, but also the #CzarnyProtest mobilization to push back against a proposed ban on abortion in Poland. Examples of top-down initiatives in support of gender justice include the UN campaign for IDEVAW #OrangetheWorld and the European Commission’s initiative #SayNoStopVAW. All of the above cases represents instances in which people claimed visibility by aggregating their voices and speaking up on a given issue. While in some cases more than in others, the overall impression emerging from these initiatives is that of a powerful show of horizontal democracy. However, the picture is probably not as clear-cut as it might look at first sight. Deeply rooted mechanisms of exclusion de facto prevent a large portion of the public from participating in these forms of collective action. Similarly, inequalities in the distribution of social media visibility seriously question the widespread assumption that anyone’s voice can actually be heard, as long as they tweet loud enough. At the Centre for Ethics in Tübingen, we will discuss the following and related questions: What are mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in ICT-based collective actions? What is the actual visibility that these kind of actions can hope to achieve? Who are the most visible actors within their narrow context? What narratives do these actors voice? How do the actors’ narratives of solidarity and justice clash with feminist ideas about gender equality and justice? We encourage Master’s students and Ph.D. candidates to join our workshop. The goal of the workshop is to develop new thoughts about the topic at hand, gather inspiration for your own work, and connect with academics working on similar issues. If you would like to contribute a 10-minute presentation, please send your abstract of max. 500 words to the organizers of the workshop by January 20, 2019. If you would like to attend the workshop merely as a participant, please register with the organizers by February 10, 2019. Organization: Ms. Laura Schelenz, University of Tübingen, laura.schelenz(a)uni-tuebingen.de<mailto:laura.schelenz@uni-tuebingen.de> Mr. Tommaso Trillò, University of Lodz, tommaso.trillo(a)uni.lodz.pl<mailto:tommaso.trillo@uni.lodz.pl> Date and Place: February 18, 2019 Room 1.13 in Wilhelmstraße 19, 72074 Tübingen Preliminary Program: 10:00 Welcome and warm up 11:00 Lecture by Tommaso Trillò: “Can the Subaltern Tweet? Unfulfilled Promises of Participation and Strategies of Resistance” 12:00 Lunch break 13:00 Short presentations/working groups 15:00 Short break 15:30 Short presentations/working groups 17:00 Final discussion and wrap-up 18:00 Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. Tobias Matzner: “Algorithmic Subjectivities and Digital Publics” Laura Schelenz is a Research Associate in the project “Ethical Implications of ICT export to sub-Saharan Africa” at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen. She is exploring ethical concerns about digitalization processes in Africa and is particularly interested in understanding the gender digital divide and mechanisms of exclusion. Schelenz holds an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies from Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and a BA in American Studies from Heidelberg University. She has spent time abroad in the USA and Hungary, and has previously worked in conflict research and human rights advocacy. Tommaso Trillò is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Early Stage Researcher and PhD candidate at the University of Lodz, Poland, in the context of GRACE – Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe (MSCA grant agreement No 675378). His main research focus is on the production of cultures of gender equality on social media platforms. His doctoral research project aims at exploring how key institutions at the EU supranational level and at the Italian national level contribute to the construction of ‘gender equality’ as a core European value through a comparative analysis of the narratives they advance on Twitter. Trillò holds an MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in Political Sciences from John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. Laura Schelenz Research Associate International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities University of Tübingen, Germany Room 2.01, Wilhelmstraße 19, 72074 Tübingen Phone: +49 7071 29-77517

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The 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019): Last Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

*** LAST CALL FOR PAPERS *** 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) "Making Personalization Transparent: Giving control back to the User" 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. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS · Marios Avraamides, University of Cyprus · Judith Masthoff, Utrecht University · Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke, Spotify London CONFERENCE TRACKS Track 1 - Personalized Recommender Systems Chairs: Marko Tkalcic, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, marko.tkalcic(a)unibz.it Alan Said, University of Skövde, alansaid(a)acm.org Personalized, computer-generated recommendations have become a pervasive feature of today's online world. The underlying recommender systems are designed to help users and providers in a number of ways. >From a user's viewpoint, for example, these systems assist consumers in finding relevant things within large item collections. On the other hand, from a provider's perspective, recommenders have also shown to be valuable tools to steer consumer behavior. From a technical perspective, the design of such systems requires the careful consideration of various aspects, including the choice of the user modeling approach, the underlying recommendation algorithm, and the user interface. This track aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss open challenges, latest solutions and novel research approaches in the field of recommender systems. Besides the above-mentioned technical aspects, works are also particularly welcome that address questions related to the user perception and the business value of recommender systems. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Recommendation algorithms · Recommender and personalization system evaluation · User modeling and preference elicitation · Users' perception of recommender systems · Business value of recommendation systems and multi-stakeholder environments · Explanations and trust · Context-aware recommendation algorithms · Recommending to groups of users · Case studies of real-world implementations · Novel, Psychology-informed User- and Item-modeling Track 2 - Adaptive Hypermedia And The Semantic Web Chairs: Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, liliana.ardissono(a)unito.it Katrien Verbert, KU Leuven, katrien.verbert(a)cs.kuleuven.be Adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web explore alternatives to the traditional "one-size-fits-all" approach in the development of web and hypermedia systems. Adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web systems build a model of the interests, preferences and knowledge of each individual user, and use this model in order to adapt the behavior of hypermedia and web systems to the needs of that user. Semantic web frequently serves as an infrastructure to enable adaptive and personalized Web systems. Semantic web technology targets the use of explicit semantics and metadata to help web systems perform the desired functionality: this implies the use of linked data from the web, the use of ontologies in models, or the use of metadata in user interfaces, as well as the use of ontologies for information integration. This track aims to provide a forum to researchers to discuss open research problems, solid solutions, latest challenges, novel applications and innovative research approaches in adaptive hypermedia and semantic web. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Web user profiles · Adaptive navigation support · Personalized search · Web content adaptation · Analytics of web user data · Adaptive web sites and portals · Adaptive books and textbooks · Social navigation and social search · Navigation support in continuous media and virtual environments · Usability engineering for adaptive hypermedia and web systems · Novel methodologies for evaluating adaptive hypermedia and web systems · Semantic Web technologies for web personalization · Ontology-based data access and integration/exchange on the adaptive web · Ontology engineering and ontology patterns for the adaptive web · Ontology-based user models · Semantic social network mining, analysis, representation, and management · Crowdsourcing semantics; methods, dynamics, and challenges · Semantic Web and Linked Data for adaptation Track 3 - Intelligent User Interfaces Chairs: Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, lichen(a)comp.hkbu.edu.hk Jingtao Wang, Google, jingtaow(a)acm.org Intelligent User Interfaces aim to improve the interaction between computer systems and human users by means of Artificial Intelligence. The systems support and complement different types of abilities that are normally unavailable in the context of human-only cognition. Previous work has found that humans do not always make the best possible decisions when working together with computer systems. By designing and deploying improved forms of support for interactive collaboration between human decision makers and systems, we can enable decision making processes that better leverage the strengths of both collaborators. More generally this research track can be characterized by exploring how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter and more productive, which may leverage solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Adaptive personal virtual assistants (e.g., interaction with robots) · Adapting natural interaction (e.g., natural language, speech, gesture) · Intelligent user interfaces based on sensor data (UIs for cars, fridges, etc.) · Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological info, etc.) · Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces · Smart environments and tangible computing · Transparency and control of decision support systems (e.g., semi-autonomous systems) · Explainable intelligent user interfaces · Affective and aesthetic interfaces · Tailored persuasion and argumentation interfaces · Tailored decision support (e.g., over- and under-reliance in uncertain domains) · Adaptive information visualization · Scalability of intelligent user interfaces to access huge datasets · User-centric studies of interactions with intelligent user interfaces · Novel datasets and use cases for intelligent user interfaces · Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces Track 4 - Personalized Social Web Chairs: Ilaria Torre, University of Genova, ilaria.torre(a)unige.it Osnat Mokryn, omokryn(a)univ.haifa.ac.il The social web is continuously growing and social platforms are a fundamental part of our life. Mediated communication is becoming the primary form of communication for young people, and adults follow in increasing numbers. Online communication is increasingly enriched by the use of memes, pictures, audio and video, though language (textual and oral) remains a fundamental tool with which people interact, convey their opinions, construct and determine their social identity. Lifelogging data (e.g., health, fitness, food) is growing as well on the social web. This type of personal information source, gathered for private use through personal devices, is now often shared in online communities. These trends open new challenges for research: how to harness the power of collective intelligence and quantified self data in online social platforms to identify social identities, how to exploit continuous feedback threads, and how to improve the individual user experience on the social web. We invite original submissions addressing all aspects of personalization, user models building and personal experience in online social systems. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Personalization of the web experience in social systems · Adaptations based on personality, society, and culture · Personalization algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies · Social recommendation · Identifying social identities in social media · Social and crowd-generated data for adaptation · Personalized information retrieval · Exploiting quantified self data on the social web of things · Data-driven approaches for personalization · Modeling individuals, groups, and communities · Collective intelligence and experience mining · Pattern and behaviour discovery in social network analysis · Opinion mining for user modeling · Sentiment analysis · Topic modeling for online conversations and short texts · Privacy, perceived security, and trust in social systems · Ethical issues involved in studying the social web · User awareness and control · Evaluation methodologies for the social web Track 5 - Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning Chairs: Jesús G. Boticario, UNED, jgb(a)dia.uned.es Inge Molenaar, Radboud University, i.molenaar(a)pwo.ru.nl At large there is an on-going "fusion" between humans and technological systems. The ongoing integration of devices into our daily lives furthers the integration of technology in human learning. With technology increasingly gaining more data and intelligence, a new era of technology-enhanced adaptive learning is emerging. Consequently, the interactions between learners, teachers and technology are becoming increasingly complex. Learning is a positioned as a complex human process that involves cognitive, metacognitive, motivational, affective and psychomotor aspects which interact with the learning context. Smart technological solutions are increasingly able to identify and model the learner needs on these five aspects and accordingly provide personalized support that can improve the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction of learning experiences. Current research in artificial intelligence combined with data science and learning analytics bring new opportunities to recognize, and effectively support individual learners' needs and orchestrate collaborate and classroom learning with intelligent learning solutions, and augment teachers in blended learning situations. The aim of this track is to foreground the systematic complexity of human learning and use systematic analytic approaches to measure, diagnose and support human learning with technologies. This covers not only formal educational settings, but also lifelong learning requirements (including workplace training) as well as the acquisition of skills informal learning settings (e.g., in daily activities, serious games, sports, healthcare, wellbeing, etc.). To address the wide spectrum of modeling issues and challenges that can be raised, contributions from various research areas are welcome. Therefore, this track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various disciplines to present their innovative adaptive learning solutions, share acquired experience, and discuss the main modeling challenges for technology enhanced adaptive learning. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Domain, learner, teacher and context modeling · Modeling cognitive, metacognitive, motivational, affective and psychomotor aspects of learning · Diagnosis of learner needs and calibration of support and feedback Adaptive and personalized support for learning · Dealing with ethical issues involved in detecting and modeling a wider range of information sources (e.g., information from novel sensing devices, ambient intelligent features) that may affect learning · Management of large, open, and public datasets for educational data mining · Agent-based learning environments and virtual pedagogical agents · Open corpus personalized learning · Collaborative and group learning · Adaptive technologies to orchestrated classroom Learning · Personalized teachers awareness and support tools · Multimodal learning analytics to personalize learning · UMAP aspects in specific learning solutions: educational recommender systems, intelligent tutoring systems, serious games, personal learning environments, MOOCs · Wearable technologies and augmented reality in adaptive personalized learning · Processing collected data for UMAP: educational data mining, learning analytics, big data, deep learning. · Semantic web and ontologies for e-learning · Interoperability, portability, and scalability issues · Case studies in real-world educational settings · New methodologies to develop user-centered highly personalized learning solutions Track 6 - Privacy And Fairness Chairs: Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, bartk(a)clemson.edu Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, aimeur(a)iro.umontreal.ca Adaptive systems researchers and developers have a social responsibility to care about their users. This involves building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, and protect users' privacy. We invite papers that study, in the context of UMAP, the topics of privacy (as well as innovative means to resolve privacy problems through algorithms, interfaces, or other technical or non-technical means), fairness (covering the spectrum from algorithmic fairness to social implications of adaptive systems), and transparency (as a concept of system usability as well as a means to resolve problems with privacy and fairness). Beyond this we encourage authors to submit to this track any work that ascribes to or advances the general idea of "adaptive systems that care". Privacy topics: · Analysis of privacy implications of user modeling · Privacy compliance · Algorithmic solutions to privacy · Architectural solutions to privacy · Interactive solutions to privacy · Usable privacy for adaptive systems · User perceptions of privacy in UMAP applications · Studies of users' privacy-related behaviors in UMAP applications · Descriptions or evaluations of privacy-settings user interfaces · Privacy prediction / personalization · User-tailored approaches to privacy · Privacy education for user modeling · Modeling of data protection and privacy requirements · Economics of privacy and personal data · Measuring privacy Fairness topics: · Ethical considerations for user modeling · UMAP applications for underrepresented groups · Cultural differences (e.g. culture-aware user modeling) · Bias and discrimination in user modeling · Imbalance in meeting the needs of different groups of users · Balancing needs of users versus system owners · Ethics of explore/exploit strategies or A/B testing · 'Filter bubble' or 'balkanization' effects · Enhancing/embracing diversity in user modeling · Algorithmic methods for increasing fairness · User perceptions of fairness · Measuring fairness Transparency topics: · User perceptions of transparency · Transparent algorithms · Interface innovations that increase transparency · Explanations for transparency · Visualizations for transparency · Adaptive systems for self-actualization · (User-centric) evaluations of methods that increase transparency · Measuring transparency Track 7 - Personalized Music Access Chairs: Markus Schedl, University of Linz, markus.schedl(a)jku.at Nava Tintarev, TU Delft, n.tintarev(a)tudelft.nl Music access systems (e.g., search, retrieval, and recommendation systems) have experienced a boom during the past decade due to the availability of huge music catalogs to users, anywhere and anytime. These systems record information on user behavior in terms of actions on music items, such as play, skip, or playlist creation and modification. As a result, an abundance of user and usage data has been collected and is available to companies and academics, allowing for user profiling and to create and improve personalized music access. This track addresses unsolved challenges in this area relating to user understanding and modeling, personalization in recommendation and retrieval systems, modeling usage context, and adapting interactive intelligent music interfaces. This track aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners for the latest research on? user modeling and personalization for finding, making, and interacting with music. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Personalized music preference elicitation and preference learning · Psychological modeling of music listeners (e.g., personality, emotion, etc.) · Subjective perceptions of music (e.g., similarity, mood, tempo) social and cultural aspects of listening behavior (e.g., for group recommenders) · Applications for personalized music consumption and creation · Personalized playlist generation and continuation (e.g., sequences and transitions) · Personalized music interaction and interface paradigms (e.g., visualization, VR) · Explainability, transparency, and fairness in personalized music · Systems user-centric performance measures (e.g., diversity, novelty, serendipity, etc.) · Datasets (including benchmarks) for personalizing music retrieval and recommendation Track 8 - Personalized Health Chairs: Christoph Trattner, University of Bergen, trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com David Elsweiler, University of Regensburg, david(a)elsweiler.co.uk Growing health issues and rising treatment costs mean that technological systems are increasingly important for global health. Personalised systems, tailored to the needs and behaviours of individual patients, are one of the promising approaches to health promotion by encouraging lifestyle change, managing treatment programmes and providing doctors and other healthcare providers with detailed individualized feedback. The challenges to developing such systems, which model user needs and preferences, as well as appropriate medical knowledge to provide assistance and recommendations are plentiful. The diverse technologies which could potentially feature in solutions are equally vast, ranging from AI systems to sensors, from mobile computing, augmented reality and visualization, to mining the web or other data streams to learn about health issues and user behaviour. In this track we invite scholars working in these or related areas to contribute to the discourse on how technology can promote health. This track aims to provide a forum to researchers to discuss open research problems, solid solutions, latest challenges, novel applications and innovative research approaches and in doing so to strengthen the community of researchers working on Personalized Health and attract representatives from from diverse scholarly backgrounds ranging from computer and information science to public health, epidemiology, psychology, medicine, nutrition and fitness. Topics include (but are not limited to): · Algorithms and Recommendation Strategies to increase health · Mobile health · Quantified self · Applied data analytics and modeling for health · Health risk modeling and forecasting · Systems for Preventative Measures · Medical Evaluation Techniques · Domain Knowledge Representation · Behavioral Interventions: Persuasion/Nudging/Behavioral Change · HCI, Interfaces and Visualisations for health · Regulations and Standards · Human/ Expert-in-the-Loop · Gamification and Serious Games · Privacy, Trust, Ethics · Datasets SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Papers should be submitted through EasyChair: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… The ACM User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (ACM UMAP) 2019 Conference will include high quality peer-reviewed papers related to the above key areas. Maintaining the high quality and impact of the ACM UMAP series, each paper will have three reviews by program committee members and a meta-review presenting the reviewers' consensual view; the review process will be coordinated by the program chairs in collaboration with the corresponding area chairs. 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. For both long papers and short paper submissions, it is not required to anonymize the manuscripts, i.e., ACM UMAP will apply a single-blind reviewing process. Separation of long and short papers will be strictly enforced so papers will not compete across categories, but only within each category. Papers that receive high scores and are considered promising by reviewers, but didn't make the acceptance cut, will be directed to the poster session of the conference and will be invited to be resubmitted as posters. Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF) proceedings template: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Please note that ACM changed its templates at the start of 2017, so please ensure that you use the new template and do not reuse an old template. 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. 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.) IMPORTANT DATES · Abstract: January 25, 2019 (mandatory) · Full paper: February 1, 2019 · Notification: March 11, 2019 · Camera-ready: April 3, 2019 · Adjunct proceedings, camera ready: April 15, 2018 Note: The submissions times are 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, Demos, Late Breaking Results and Theory, Opinion and Reflection works, as they have different deadlines and submission requirements.

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Job posting: PhD student in media communication / linguistics at Ghent University (Belgium): a Brexit-related project
by cbouko 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

The Research Centre for Multilingual Practices and Language Learning in Society (MULTIPLES) at Ghent University, invites applications for a full-time position as doctoral researcher. The PhD student will be working on the project “ Representations of intra-EU mobility and extra-EU migration in new media and in their readers' comments, in the context of Brexit”. *Project description* The research is situated in the domain of media communication, discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. The media are considered partly to blame for the Brexit vote, not least because of their biased coverage of migration during the campaign. The project addresses this issue from two angles. Firstly, while most analyses of media coverage still focus on broadsheets vs. tabloids, increasingly popular Internet-only media fall within any of these two categories and remain particularly understudied. Therefore, the project seeks to identify digital-only practices in news-making, particularly regarding mobility in the Brexit context. Secondly, the ‘refugee crisis’ has resulted in fears of the extra-European ‘other’ but intra-European mobility is also instilling fears that undermine one of the very pillars of the EU, namely freedom of movement. Contrary to research to date which focuses on extra-EU migration, this project will analyze the media discourses regarding intra- and extra-EU mobilities, as well as the reactions these discourses trigger in readers’ comments. The news articles published by Buzzfeed UK, The Huffington Post UK and The Guardian are the subjects of the study, together with the comments posted by their readers. By combining the two angles, the project will have scientific impact both regarding new media and migration discourses. *Your profile* - master’s degree in linguistics, communication, or a related discipline, obtained with excellent grades before the start of the project - C2 or native-speaker level in English. The applicants’ skills in English will be tested; applicants below level C2 will not be considered for this research. - excellent academic skills in English - good social and communicative skills - capacity for autonomous research *Your tasks* - analyzing news articles and comments through quantitative and qualitative methods (the data is already collected). - preparing a PhD on the basis of the project - preparing individual and joint publications for national and international scientific journals - presenting research at national and international conferences *We offer* We offer a 48-month PhD position at Ghent University (Research Centre MULTIPLES & Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication). The position is available from 1 May 2019, but the starting date is negotiable up to 1 October 2019. *How to apply?* Candidates are invited to apply by submitting two types of documents by e-mail to Prof. Catherine Bouko (catherine.bouko(a)ugent.be) by 15 March 2019, 23:59 (CET): 1) A single pdf-document with : - a letter of application - a CV (including an overview of the applicant’s study results and the contact details of one person we may contact for a reference) - a copy of the required Master’s degree 2) a personal piece of (scientific) writing in the form of a student paper or publication (e.g. Master thesis or article) in English, demonstrating your academic skills. On the basis of these documents, candidates will be selected for an interview (if necessary, interviews can be held via Skype if the applicants live abroad). *More information* For more information, please contact Catherine Bouko: catherine.bouko(a)ugent.be https://www.ugent.be/en/work/vacancies/scientific/phd-student-in-media-comm… -- Catherine Bouko Ghent University Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Groot-Brittanniëlaan 45 9000 Gent Belgium Bureau: B2.06 http://research.flw.ugent.be/en/catherine.bouko

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