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12th International Conference on Informatics in Schools (ISSEP 2019): Second Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

*** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS *** 12th International Conference on Informatics in Schools (ISSEP 2019) Lordos Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus, November 18-20, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Submission Deadline: May 3rd, 2019 *** The International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives (ISSEP) is a forum for researchers and practitioners in the area of Informatics education, in both primary and secondary schools. The conference provides an opportunity for educators and researchers to reflect upon the goals and objectives of this subject matter, its curricula, various teaching and learning paradigms and topics, as well as the connections to everyday life -- including the various ways of developing Informatics Education in schools. The conference focuses on educational goals and objectives of Informatics or Computer Science as a subject matter in primary, secondary and vocational education and their different realisation in compulsory and voluntary courses. Scope The main topics of the conference are: · Sustainable education in Informatics for pupils of all ages · Connecting Informatics lessons to the students' everyday lives · Teacher education in Informatics · Research on Informatics in schools (empirical / qualitative / quantitative / theory building / research methods / comparative studies / transferability of methods and results from other disciplines) · Computer tools in teaching and studying Informatics In particular, contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: · Accessibility · Assessment · Application of intelligent technologies to personalise learning · Application of Learning Analytics to analyse learners behaviour · Classroom management · Communication skills · Contests and Competitions in Informatics · Computers and society · Courseware · Curriculum issues · Diagnostic teaching · Empirical methods · Ethical/societal issues · Gender and diversity issues · High school/college transition issues · Information systems · Interdisciplinary courses and projects · Laboratory/active learning · Learner profiles · Learning personalisation · Misconceptions · Multimedia · Pedagogy · Programming contests · Students cognitive traits · Students learning styles · Student retention and persistence · Research in Informatics education · Role of programming and algorithmics · Teacher education · Using emerging instructional technologies · Web-based techniques Work submitted to ISSEP should be novel and material that has been previously published should not be republished unless the work has been significantly revised. Note however, that while novel work is highly valued, constructive replication of previous studies can also be a significant contribution, and a new interpretation or evaluation of previously-published work can make a good contribution. The submission site for ISSEP 2019 will be available soon on the conference web site. Call for Manuscripts Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the conference. All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to the authors. There are three different submission categories: · Research and theory papers · Best practice papers / country reports · Work in progress / discussion papers Submissions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style guidelines using LaTeX. The maximum length of the paper (including references, but excluding the optional appendix) is 12 pages. For online Latex editors, see e.g. Overleaf and ShareLatex. Abstract length -- 200-300 words. Submissions are reviewed using a double-blind process. Authors should leave their names and affiliations blank in the articles submitted for review, and take care to avoid details in the article that could be used to identify the authors. These include institution information, specific funding information and clear self-citations. When using the LNCS style, do not change the margin size or the font, do not make a separate title page, etc.: use the LNCS style file as given. However, please do add page numbers, which can be done, for example, by adding \pagestyle{plain} just before \begin{document}. Accepted papers will be included in the ISSEP 2019 local proceedings. Selected top quality papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Authors will also have the possibility to extend their work and publish it in the journal "Computer Tools in Education Journal". Important Dates · Abstract submission: May 3rd, 2019 · Paper submission: May 31st, 2019 · Notification of acceptance: August 30th, 2019 · Camera-ready submission: September 13th, 2019 · Author registration: September 13th, 2019 · Early (non-author) registration: October 18th, 2019 Committees General and Organising Chair George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Steering Committee Andreas Bollin, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Valentina Dagiere, Vilnius University, Lithuania Yasemin Gulbahar, Ankara University, Turkey Juraj Hromkovi?, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Ivan Kalas, Comenius University, Slovakia George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Sergei Pozdniakov, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia Program Committee Chair Sergei Pozdniakov, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia Program Committee Erik Barendsen, Radboud University Nijmegen and Open Universiteit, Netherlands Andrej Brodnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Christian Datzko, SVIA-SSIE-SSII, Basel, Switzerland Ira Diethelm, Oldenburg University, Germany Michalis Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Bruria Haberman, Holon Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv, Israel Peter Hubwieser , Technical University Munich, Germany Petri Ihantola, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Dennis Komm, Pedagogical University Chur, Switzerland Mark Laanpere, Tallinn University, Estonia Peter Micheuz, University Klagenfurt and Gymnasium Völkermarkt, Austria Mattia Monga, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Ralf Romeike, University Erlangen (FAU), Germany Giovanni Serafini, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Maciej M. Syslo, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

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Vacancy: 3-year PhD position at ZeMKI, University of Bremen (Computational Communication and Democracy Lab)
by Leif Kramp 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

The Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen is offering a 3-year PhD position at the newly established Computational Communication and Democracy (CCD) Lab. The PhD student will work with the lab director, Prof. Yannis Theocharis on the thematic area Digital Media and Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities Description of the position Duration: 3 years Starting date: 01 April 2019 or soon as possible thereafter Remuneration is based on grade E13 TV-L (50% of a full-time position) of the German federal employee scale (an increase to 100% is possible depending on application for external project funding) General description of the position: The PhD student will be embedded in the newly established CCD Lab, a research-oriented environment within the interdisciplinary ZeMKI of the University of Bremen. The research area Digital Media and Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities focuses on explaining how digital media are transforming the quality of democracy, concentrating on issues such as uncivil behaviour, the activities of countercultures, new forms of political participation and representation, misinformation and exposure to news or social media content in general. The PhD student will be actively involved in the research activities of the CCD Lab and assist in the evolution of its research agenda and research output. It is expected that the PhD student will be an active contributor to the interdisciplinary intellectual environment of the ZeMKI. For more information about the Lab and ZeMKI please see below. Description of research duties. The PhD student will support the Lab director in the development of the research area. This involves providing assistance with data collection and analysis, coordination of existing, and development of new projects for the acquisition of third-party funding, carrying out administrative tasks related to the Lab’s operation (e.g. coordination of student research assistants) and involvement in the Lab’s publication output. The PhD student is expected to develop and carry out her/his own PhD project related to the broader research area. Description of teaching duties: The position involves 2 hours of teaching per week. Essential qualifications Master’s in Media and Communication, Political Science, Computer Science, Sociology, or related disciplines Skills in quantitative methods Skills in computational methods (a focus on text-as-data methods – especially automated text analysis and machine-learning – is a plus) Familiarity with, or willingness to build methodological expertise on, network analysis Experience with social media data analysis is desirable Interest in political communication Command of R (experience with Python is a plus) Strong command of English The University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of women in science and therefore urges women to apply. Handicapped applicants with the same professional and personal suitability are given priority. Applications from people with a migration background are encouraged. Candidates who already hold a PhD degree will not be considered. For any questions please contact Prof. Dr. Yannis Theocharis at: yannis.theocharis(a)uni-bremen.de <mailto:yannis.theocharis@uni-bremen.de> Application The application should include the following documents: A letter of motivation (no longer than 2 pages) that outlines your substantive research and methodological interests. Please describe why you believe your profile fits with the main objectives and mission of the CCD Lab. CV. A copy of your academic certificates. A writing sample (research paper, publication, or Master’s thesis). Names of two referees. Please send your application including the reference number A4/19 until 01/03/2019 to: Universität Bremen Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung (ZeMKI) z.H. Frau Denise Tansel Postfach 33 04 40 28334 Bremen Germany or as PDF via Email (single file) at: dtansel(a)uni-bremen.de <mailto:dtansel@uni-bremen.de> The employment is fixed-term and serves the scientific qualification, governed by the Act of Academic Fixed-Term Contract, §2 (1) (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz). Therefore, candidates may only be considered for appointment if they still have the respective qualification periods available in accordance with § 2 (1) WissZeitVG. About the Computational Communication and Democracy Lab The Lab’s substantive research agenda is driven by the idea that the proliferation of digital media opens up new avenues for social and political interaction that have radical effects on democratic processes: participation, organisation, representation. As such, digital communication offers opportunities, but also poses enormous challenges that fundamentally affect the quality of our democracies. Relying on developments in the field of computational social science as a point of departure, the Lab’s is also interested in methods through which new types of digital information can be processed and repurposed for studying a variety of social and political phenomena enabled by digital technologies. The lab has two main goals. First, to lead research on different but interdependent substantive topics for understanding, the social and political impact of digital communication and address methodological and epistemological issues related to conceptualisation, operationalisation, measurement and inference. Second, to offer BA, Masters, and PhD students a path for specialisation in computational and data science methods, with applications to communication and media research. About the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) As an inter-faculty research institute, the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) bundles research activities at the University of Bremen in the area of media and communicative change regarding a broad range of cultural, social, organisational and technological context fields. The research institute is committed to interdisciplinary cooperation, integrating researchers from the areas of media and communication studies, cultural studies, information management and media pedagogics. In addition to their research activities, ZeMKI members are active in the various media related study programmes at the University of Bremen. The ZeMKI oversees the profile-building research group "Communicative figurations of mediatized worlds" of the University of Bremen. The research group has been supported as a "Creative Unit" by the institutional strategy "Ambitious and Agile" of the University of Bremen funded within the frame of the Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State Governments.

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CFP 4S New Orleans: Who knows? Smart cities as epistemology
by Ryan Burns 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

Who Knows? Smart cities as epistemology Organizers: Morgan Mouton, Ryan Burns (University of Calgary) Deadline: February 1, 2019 This session interrogates the knowledge politics and discursive practices around ‘smart cities’. It begins from the assumption that the emergence of smart cities necessitated a reframing of how we are to know the city. This reframing hinged on growing public faith in Big Data collection and analytics, “data-driven decision making”, and the ability of digital technologies to solve persistent socio-political problems. While scholars and practitioners alike have contended with the smart city as planning regime, ideology, political economy, and governance strategy, considerably less attention has been directed toward the smart city as a discursive mechanism shaping claims about what the urban is and how it operates. That is, smart cities consist of policies, imaginaries, and discourses that delimit the constitution of “legitimate” knowledge claims, usually toward empiricist and quantitative metrics that translate phenomena into and across data models, analytics platforms, political-economic imperatives, and social norms and values. For instance, Söderström et al. (2014) traced and analyzed the emergence of a form of “corporate storytelling”, a describing of urban systems in ways that buttress multi-national corporations’ centrality to managing them. Similarly, Vanolo (2014) reflected, in Foucauldian terms, on how smart city policies subtly draw in citizens under new urban evaluative terms and standards. White (2016) argues that smart cities invigorate anxieties about purportedly impending crisis inherent to urban systems, which subtend the transformation of “good” urban planning. These advances provoke us to ask about the kinds of epistemologies the smart city enables and suppresses. While we now understand that the smart city comprises a knowledge politics, how are we to make sense of those politics and their implications? What forms of knowing are obfuscated in smart cities discourses and planning regimes? How are new mechanisms of legitimacy secured? In this panel, we expand on existing scholarship to posit that epistemological claims regarding the urban are shifting within the milieu of “smartness”, and to provide specificity, nuance, and characterization to this shift. In other words, smart city discourses are establishing new frames of reference for the definition and the interpretation of the urban. From here, several questions arise: * How can we characterize smart city epistemologies? Is there a singular, or are there multiple epistemologies? More specifically, what do smart city visions promote — and even more importantly, what do they obscure? * What is the performativity of the ’smart city’ discourse? In other words, what can emerging ’smart city’ initiatives tell us about the translation from discourse to practice, and back again? * What are the possibilities for intervention / re-orientation of these new visions of urbanism? * How do actants and assemblages secure legitimacy for their knowledge claims within this smart milieu? What struggles emerge when social and political relations, interpersonal knowledges and experiences, and values and norms come to be encoded in, and as, data? * What are the linkages between smart epistemologies and the (re)production of urban, national, and mesoscale territories? In what ways do governments leverage emergent digital technologies like data science and visualization software, along with their attendant epistemological claims, in their efforts to govern populations? * What are the new politics of visibility within smart cities? How do individuals, organizations, or social groups struggle for or against recognition, legibility, and being seen? * How are we to contend with the material and discursive manifestation of epistemologies in and through the bodies and subjectivities that circulate in the smart city? Please send an abstract of up to 250 words to Ryan Burns (ryan.burns1(a)ucalgary.ca<mailto:ryan.burns1@ucalgary.ca>) and Morgan Mouton (morgan.mouton(a)ucalgary.ca<mailto:morgan.mouton@ucalgary.ca>) by February 1. -- Ryan Burns, PhD Department of Geography Engaging Open Data Research O'Brien Institute for Public Health University of Calgary http://burnsr77.github.io<http://burnsr77.github.io/>

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CfP 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2019) at University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
by Diliara Valeeva 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

IC2S2 2019 – 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE July 17-20, 2019 University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Web:https://2019.ic2s2.org/ Twitter:@IC2S2 <https://twitter.com/IC2S2>/ #IC2S2 Deadline for abstracts: 5 February 2019 This summer the fifth edition of IC2S2 is hosted by the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. IC2S2 brings together researchers in computational science, complexity, and social science, and provides a platform for new work in the field of computational social science. Following a day of tutorials on July 17, contributed abstracts are presented orally in parallel thematic sessions or as posters at the three day conference, which takes place at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands from July 18 to 20. ================================================ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ================================================ Kenneth Benoit (London School of Economics and Political Science) Jana Diesner (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) Deen Freelon (University of North Carolina) Mirta Galesic (Santa Fe Institute) Cesar Hidalgo (MIT Media Lab) Devra Moehler (Facebook Research) Scott Page (University of Michigan) Leto Peel (Université Catholique de Louvain) Emma Spiro (University of Washington) Lukas Vermeer (Booking.com) Claudia Wagner (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) ================================================ SPECIAL SESSION “5 YEARS OF IC2S2" ================================================ After an opening talk by Duncan Watts (Microsoft Research), several renowned computational social scientists from the field will engage in a panel discussion on the future of the field of computational social science. Among confirmed panelists are: Ulrik Brandes (ETH Zürich) Sandra González-Bailón (University of Pennsylvania) Helen Margetts (University of Oxford, The Alan Turing Institute)Markus Strohmaier (RWTH Aachen University) Duncan Watts (Microsoft Research) =================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS (ABSTRACTS) =================================================== IC2S2 solicits abstracts from researchers in the social sciences with a clear component of computation, simulation or data analysis or data science. This includes for example sociology, psychology, communication science, anthropology, media studies, political science, public health, and economics. In addition, contributions from computer science, data science, and computational science with real-world applications in the social sciences or related fields, are welcome. We emphatically welcome abstracts that try to integrate both components. This is not limited to empirical studies; more general theoretical contributions are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Network analysis of social systems * Large-scale social experiments * Agent-based or other simulations of social phenomena * Text analysis and natural language processing (NLP) of social phenomena * Cultural patterns and dynamics * Computational science studies (sociology of science) * Social news curation and collaborative filtering * Social media studies * Theoretical discussions in computational social science * Causal inference and computational methods for social science * Ethics in computational social sciences * Reproducibility in computational social science * Large scale infrastructure in computational social science * Novel digital data sources * Computational analyses for addressing societal challenges * Methods and analyses of observational social data * Computational social science research in industry Contributions to the conference should be submitted via EasyChair at:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2s2-2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2s2-2019> Please follow the extended abstract template guidelines for Word (ic2s2-word-template.docx <https://2019.ic2s2.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ic2s2-word-template.docx>) and LaTeX (ic2s2-latex-template.zip <https://2019.ic2s2.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ic2s2-latex-template.zip>) for formatting instructions. Note that abstracts should be submitted as a PDFfile no larger than 20MB. Submissions that exceed the 2-page limit (including figures and references) will be automatically rejected. The extended abstract should include a title and a list of 5 keywords, but no authors’ names or affiliations. The abstract should outline the main contribution, data and methods used, results, and the impact of the work. Authors are encouraged to include one figure in their submission (the figure counts towards the page limit). Please do not include authors’ names and affiliations in the submitted document, as peer review will be double blind. Each extended abstract will be reviewed by multiple members of the Program Committee, composed of experts in computational social science. When submitting on EasyChair you will be asked to provide information about the authors and their affiliations and to include a one-sentence summaryof the extended abstract (20-50 words). The summary will be used for assigning reviewers. You can indicate a preference for an oral presentation or a poster presentation, but your preference may not be honored in the final decision. Submissions will be non-archival, and the presented work can be already published, in preparation for publication elsewhere, or ongoing research. Submission implies willingness to present a talk or poster at the conference. The deadline for abstract submission is February 5, 2019. ==================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ==================================================== * February 5, 2019 – Regular abstract submission deadline * March 6, 2019 – Acceptance notification * April 30, 2019 – Early bird registration deadline * June 30, 2019 – Registration deadline * July 17-20, 2019 – Conference ===================================================== SPONSORSHIP ===================================================== Do you want to affiliate your organisation to IC2S2? Bespoke sponsorship packages are available on request. Contact the local chairs Eelke Heemskerk and Frank Takes at ic2s2(a)uva.nl IC2S2 2019 is hosted byCORPNET <https://corpnet.uva.nl/>, University of Amsterdam and so far it is sponsored by Microsoft Research, Statistics Netherlands, ODISSEI, University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, Municipality of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies and SAGE Publishing. Please watch the video “IC2S2 comes to Amsterdam <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUWvAysyqPk&t=2s>”. Web:https://2019.ic2s2.org/ Twitter:@IC2S2 <https://twitter.com/IC2S2>/ #IC2S2

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AoIR Flashpoint Symposium and Urbino
by Fabio Giglietto 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

Dear All, as you probably know by now, the inaugural AoIR Flashpoint Symposium will take place in Urbino, Italy. The event is conveniently located on monday to let you enjoy Urbino and its neighborhood during the weekend (you may want to have a look to this recent article https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/le-marche-italy-secret-region-guide-f5lk… ). What you may not know, is that the fun for Internet Researchers is not going to over on Monday. Take a look to the entire week lineup, read the calls, note the deadlines, submit your work, spread the world and come visit us in "Le Marche, Italy’s secret region"! ☑️ 24th June 2019 | Association of Internet Researchers (#AoIR) Symposium - Below the Radar: Private Groups, Locked Platforms and Ephemeral Content ( https://aoir.org/aoir2019symposia/) ☑️ 25-29 June 2019 | 15th Conference of Sociocybernetics - “Dark Ages 2.0”: Social Media And Their Impact (https://easychair.org/cfp/ICSC2019) Looking forward to see you all there. Best regards, Fabio Giglietto --- Fabio Giglietto Associate Professor at University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" Twitter: @fabiogiglietto <https://twitter.com/fabiogiglietto> Google Scholar profile <http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=FmenbcUAAAAJ&hl=en>

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2019 CFP Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies (Intellect Books) and CMCS Keynotes - Deadline: March 18
by Dr Samita Nandy 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

*The following Call for Papers might be of interest to Internet Studies scholars and students exploring online fame and fandom. Personal stories are welcome. **Please share widely.* We are pleased to announce professors Andrew Zolides, Basuli Deb, and Alex Symons as the keynote speakers for the 2019 Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) conference in New York City. Best-presented papers will be published in the *Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies <https://cmc-centre.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d968a451671b45aa780b5…> * *@*IntellectBooks <https://cmc-centre.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d968a451671b45aa780b5…>. Discounted subscription options are below. *Extended abstract deadline*: *March 18. 2019* *NYC 2019 CMCS 8th International Conference* *Bridging Gaps**: Re-Fashioning Stories for Celebrity Counterpublics* Terrace Club at Club Quarters New York City, USA Friday, August 30 – Sunday, September 1 *Keynote Speakers**:* *Dr Andrew Zolides* Communication and Media, Xavier University, USA *Dr Basuli Deb* English and Gender Studies, Rutgers University and CUNY, USA *Dr Alex Symons* Fashion Media, LIMS College, USA *Call for Papers: * In the recent past, there has been an increased interest in exploring intersections of life writing and studies of celebrity culture. Storytelling is central to effective branding in fame. Furthermore, the use of biographical elements has been recognized as a rhetorical device in writing op-eds, personal essays, and public speaking that often raise awareness on critical issues in popular media. Biography, as Lola Romanucci-Ross points out, is mainly a useful symbolic tool for reflecting, rotating and reversing real-life situations. Like biography, autobiography, memoirs, and testimonials play crucial roles in mapping social facts. The impacts of glamorous forms of storytelling in scandals, gossip, and rumor become so crucial that they are often studied as sociological data, regardless of whether they enable actual social change. For pop culture enthusiasts and social observers, celebrities may or may not be actual role models in telling meaningful stories and constructing subjectivity. Yet, fans and students often invest affective and intellectual labor when it comes to accepting, negotiating or contesting what appears to be significant in understandings of popular figures. Celebrity scholars are equally familiar with the complexities of engaging with and researching “glossy topics”. As Sean Redmond (2014) has shown, acknowledging one’s own celebrity attachments can produce innovative ways of (re)writing fame. Conversely, these first-person accounts may also contribute to the celebritisation of individual academics. What is the critical and pedagogical potential of personal takes on fame within the field of celebrity studies? Celebrity narratives are perceived to have real power whether or not celebrities are “important” people in the academic or moral sense. Drawing on current affairs, celebrity politicians have used personal claims and outrageous stories to push political agendas in divisive ways. Many other famous personas use extravagant fashion as expressions of their luxurious lives and build persona brands at the cost of ethics. For Elizabeth Wissinger, the “glamour labor” involved in self-fashioning, surveillance, and branding is often an inevitable and unfortunate outcome in the production of consumer values and desirable bodies in fashion industries. Public personas still self-fashion themselves and promote their brand by extending text(ures) of language that sells to consumer tastes. However, the challenge remains to sell the values of social justice. Can public intellectuals learn narrative strategies from celebrity storytelling and fill this gap What appears to be a shared reason behind the success of most popular narratives, verbal (including oral) and non-verbal, is a persuasive ‘strategy’ to effectively tell life stories. If studying celebrity biographies / autobiographies, best-selling memoirs, and other popular forms of life-writings and self-expressions carry cultural worth, then biographical elements of rising and celebrated public intellectuals, academics, critics, and activists are equally important to consider in disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices and understanding of fame. For instance, real-life first-hand accounts, such as testimonies and visual evidence, together with literary/artistic representations of gendered oppression provide meaning for progressive thinking and practice. Anecdotal accounts of famous sports personalities, actors, best-selling authors, and top models among other public figures are often useful rhetorical tools that help us to understand popular culture better. With this in mind, we need to extend popular storytelling beyond celebrity culture andpersona branding, and use it to empower social change in academia, politics, and other spheres. The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) *Bridging Gaps* conference series, with the support of Intellect Books, uses a reflective practice paradigm and asks an urgent question: Can we learn popular strategies and re-fashion celebrity stories into tools for public intellectualism and social transformation, in addition to studying them? What enables or disables the public to tell personal stories in studies and practices of celebrity culture? Can different forms of storytelling from the lives of rising and celebrated academics, public intellectuals, critics, and activists enable urgent social change? The conference problematizes what it means to be a popular “storyteller” and invites all academics, journalists, publicists, activists and models and guests to attend, collaborate and publish valuable and purposeful work around this key question and related topics in our conference. The format of the conference aims at being open and inclusive of interdisciplinary academic scholars and practitioners involved in all areas of celebrity culture, fandom, fashion, and journalism. The conference combines paper presentations, workshop panels, roundtables, slideshows, and interviews that aim to bridge gaps in celebrity activism, persona branding, and fashion education. Working papers, media productions, and personal stories will be considered for the conference. Extended versions of selected best papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies (Intellect Books) *Registration includes*: Your printed package for the complete conference, professional development workshop, access to reception, all-day coffee, complimentary evening drink, consideration for publication, and the CMCS $100 best paper and $100 best screen awards. *Abstract Submission Guidelines*: • 250-word abstract or workshop / roundtable / book talk proposal • Include a title, your name, e-mail address, and affiliation if applicable • Submit abstract at celebrity.mediastudies(a)gmail.com Extended deadline *March 18, 2019* • Notification of acceptance:* March 31, 2019* • Early bird deadline for hotel & conference registration:* April 30, 2019* • Conference reception & presentations: *Friday, August 30 – Sunday, September 1, 2019* *Celebrity Chat video Submissions Guidelines*: • Video length should be 10-20 minutes • Include a title, your name, e-mail address, and affiliation if applicable • Submit to Celebrity Chat producer Jackie Raphael at the email address: media.celebstudies(a)gmail.com • Conference reception and presentations: *August 30 –September 1, 2019* *Topics include but are not limited to:* · Celebrity · Fandom · Audience · Persona · Life Writings · Oral storytelling · Fiction · Fashion · Photography · Performance · Publicity · News · Interviews · Social Media · Film and video · Theory and Methods · Research Agenda · Business Models · Ethics and Morality · Human, Animal and Environmental Ethics · Media Literacy · Education and Advocacy · International Relations · Community Building and Partnerships *Conference Chair*: ...

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4S 2019 Open Panel: Emotional Labor and Care Work in Gig Economy Systems
by Nemer, David 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

Hello all! Austin Toombs (Purdue University) and I (David Nemer, University of Kentucky) are putting together an open panel on Emotional Labor and Care Work in Gig Economy System for the 4S 2019 conference in New Orleans. Description is below. We encourage you to apply and spread the word. Don't hesitate to reach out and ask questions! ( https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/4s19/) 185. Uncovering Emotional Labor and Care Work in Gig Economy Systems David Nemer, University of Kentucky Austin Tooms, Purdue University The gig-economy is typically understood to comprise two forms of work: crowdwork, e.g., Mechanical Turk and CrowdFlower, and work-on-demand via app, e.g. Airbnb and Uber. These platforms connect an indefinite number of organizations, individuals, clients, and workers both locally and globally. While workers are compensated for the services they provide, these platforms also profit from the immaterial labor that workers must engage in, uncompensated and often undefined, in order to provide their customers with a high standard of service and receive commensurate ratings. This “immaterial labor”—that is, all those aspects of labor relations that go beyond the material aspects of work and production—is obfuscated by the platforms and the sociotechnical systems in which those platforms are embedded. In this panel we focus on two feminist interpretations of immaterial labor that have attracted the interest of the STS community: Emotional Labor, which is the management of personal feeling that requires one to induce or suppress feeling in order to sustain the proper outward countenance for others’ sake; and Care Work, which in gig-economy settings can include the often-unrecognized work related to providing or facilitating others’ comfort, such as through offering amenities, recommendations, unique experiences, cleaning, and more. We invite papers that explore such approaches on gig-economy platforms and help us understand how emotional labor and care work are entangled with the successes of these platforms, while also necessarily downplayed or made hidden within the surrounding sociotechnical system. Thanks! -- *David Nemer, PhD* Assistant Professor School of Information Science University of Kentucky http://dnemer.com <http://www.dnemer.com/> Check out "Favela Digital: The other side of technology" - http://favela-digital.com

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CFP: Fifth International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'19)
by Gaurav Misra 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

********Submission Deadline Approaching********** *Call for Papers: Fifth International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'19) * https://iwpe.info/ co-located with the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy May 23, 2019 - Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, CA ************************************************************ *IMPORTANT DATES* *Deadline of abstract submission: January 30, 2019* *Deadline of paper submission: February 3, 2019* *Notification of acceptance: February 23, 2019 * ************************************************************ We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 5th International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'19). Ongoing news reports regarding global surveillance programs, massive personal data breaches in corporate databases, and notorious examples of personal tragedies due to privacy violations have intensified societal demands for privacy-friendly systems. In response, current legislative and standardization processes worldwide aim to strengthen individual’s privacy by introducing legal, organizational and technical frameworks that personal data collectors and processors must follow. However, in practice, these initiatives alone are not enough to guarantee that organizations and software developers will be able to identify and adopt appropriate privacy engineering techniques in their daily practices. It is also difficult to systematically evaluate whether the systems developed comply with legal frameworks, provide necessary technical assurances, and fulfill users’ privacy requirements. It is evident that research is needed in developing techniques and tools that can aid the translation of legal and normative concepts, as well as user expectations into systems requirements. Furthermore, methods that can support organizations and engineers in developing systems that address these requirements are of increasing value. In this context, privacy engineering research is emerging as an important topic. Engineers are increasingly expected to build and maintain privacy-preserving and data-protection compliant systems in domains such as health, energy, transportation, social computing, law enforcement, public services; based on different infrastructures such as cloud, grid, or mobile. While there is a consensus on the benefits of an engineering approach to privacy, concrete proposals for models, methods, techniques and tools that support engineers and organizations in this endeavor are few and in need of immediate attention. To cover this gap, the topics of the International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'19) focus on all the aspects of privacy engineering, ranging from its theoretical foundations, engineering approaches, and support infrastructures, to its practical application in projects of different scale. Specifically, we are seeking the following kinds of papers: (1) technical papers that illustrate the engineering or application of a novel formalism, method or other research finding (e.g., a privacy enhancing protocol) with preliminary evaluation; (2) experience and practice papers that describe a case study, challenge or lessons learned from in a specific domain; (3) early evaluations of tools and other infrastructure that support privacy-related tasks; (4) interdisciplinary studies or critical reviews of existing privacy engineering concepts, methods, tools and frameworks; (5) vision papers that take a clear position informed by evidence based on a thorough literature review. ************************************************************ PAPER FORMAT & SUBMISSION IWPE 2019 offers the choice of archival and non-archival paper submissions. The **non-archival* *option is offered to avoid precluding future submissions to area-specific venues. Accepted archival submissions will be published in IEEE eXplore, which is indexed by EI Engineering Index, ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI-S), Scopus, etc. We solicit short papers (up to 4 pages) and long papers (up to 8 pages) reporting technical, research or industry experience on all dimensions of privacy engineering. Each paper, written in English, must follow the IEEE conference proceedings format. At least one of the authors of the accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop to present the paper. All papers must be submitted via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwpe19 ************************************************************ If you have any questions regarding IWPE'19, please contact iwpe19(a)easychair.org IWPE’19 Organizing Committee Jose M. del Alamo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Aleksandra Korolova (University of Southern California) Jose M. Such (King’s College London) Borja Balle (Amazon Research) Gaurav Misra (Carnegie Mellon University) -- *Gaurav Misra* Postdoctoral Associate Institute for Software Research School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Wean Hall 4111 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Nancy Baym talk at Goldsmiths, University of London // 30 January, 5pm
by Mirca Madianou 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

Those of you in London may be interested in this talk by Nancy Baym at Goldsmiths. All welcome! Nancy Baym (Microsoft Research) New Media, New Work, and the New Call to Intimacy: The Case of Musicians Wednesday January 30th, 5pm Professor Stuart Hall Building (PSH) 326 Goldsmiths, University of London https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=12163 Organised by the Digital Worldmaking<https://sites.gold.ac.uk/technologies-worlds-politics/welcome-to-the-techno…> Research Stream Abstract: The architectures and norms of new media push people toward sharing everyday intimacies they might historically have kept to close friends and family. As more people are pushed toward gig work, the original gig workers - musicians - provide an exemplary lens for exploring the implications of this widespread blurring of interpersonal communication into everyday practices of professional viability. This talk draws on her book "Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection", plus nearly a decade of work on the tensions that musicians - and many others - must manage as social media platforms become integral to professional life. Bio: Nancy Baym is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft in New England and Research Affiliate in Comparative Media Studies and Writing at MIT. She began researching online fan community at the start of the 1990s, when she often had to explain the concept that networked computers were used to communicate. She’s written on how people make sense of new communication technologies and weave them into their everyday lives in her books Personal Connections in the Digital Age (Polity), now in its second edition, Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community (Sage), and, Internet Inquiry: Conversations about Method (co-edited with Annette Markham, Sage). She’s appeared in the New York Times, the BBC, NPR, WIRED, Mother Jones, and other news outlets. A lifelong music fan and former independent-record store employee, her new book Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection (NYU) draws on years of ethnographic participation and interviews with dozens of artists to show how social media have – and have not – changed the relationships between musicians and audiences and what that portends for workers in other fields. Dr. Mirca Madianou Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6NW UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7919 7244<tel:%2B44%20%280%2920%207919%207244> email: m.madianou(a)gold.ac.uk<mailto:m.madianou@gold.ac.uk> Twitter: @madianou http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/madianou/

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ICADIWT 2019
by ijwa＠dline.info 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

The Tenth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2019) May 20-22, 2019, Casablanca, Morocco July 07-09, 2019 Luton, UK (www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt) The Tenth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2019) is a forum for researchers to present the intensive and innovative research, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Computer Communications, Communication networks, Communication Software Communication Technologies and Applications, and other related themes. This conference (ICADIWT Edition IX) will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. Digital Technologies is embeeded in the research activiites of large number of people and it ensures the Ubiquitous reaching of more number of people in the recent years. Research in digital technologies has been carried out in many directions using various resources and tools and on the other side, the application issues are addressed by more volume of researchers not necessarily limited to information and computing technology. Thus the proposed conference series realize its value and potential and manifest the requirements in the form of the international conference. This edition will address the following outlined themes (but not limited to) Internet Communication Internet Technologies Web Applications Internet Software Data Access and Transmission Digital Communication Software Digital Networks Web Communication Interfaces Adaptive Systems Internet of Things Internet of breath Augmented Reality Databases and applications Web Systems Engineering Design Intelligent Agent systems Semantic Web Studies Adaptive Web applications and personalization Actuators and sensors Robotics and Machine Vision Vibration and noise control Smart cities and structures Control Automation Human-machine interfaces Real-time simulation Digital Technologies for Mechanical and other designs Publication and Indexing The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and submitted for inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be submitted for indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be indexed in many databases as given at http://www.frontiersinai.com/?q=indexing The accepted papers will be published as a post-conference publication. During the conference, the pre-conference volume will be distributed. The previous ICADIWT proceedings ars indexed in Web of Science Honorary Chairs Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, (Opole University, Poland) Co-Chair Chafik Okar, ENSA, Hassan 1st University, Berrechid, Morocco. General Chairs Abdelali El Bouchti, Institute for Forecasting and Futuristics (I2F), FS, Hassan 2nd University, Casablanca, Morocco Program Chairs Yao-Liang Chung, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, (Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico) Important Dates Submission of papers (Morocco/UK) March 01, 2019/April 01, 2019 Notification (Morocco/UK) April 01, 2019/May 01, 2019 Camera ready (Morocco/UK) May 01, 2019/June 01, 2019 Registration(Morocco/UK) May 01, 2019/June 01, 2019 Conference Dates (Morocco/UK) May 20-22, 2019/July 07-09, 2019 Paper Submission at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/ Contact: icadiwt(a)socio.org.uk or diwt(a)dirf.org ----------------------

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