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14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020): Second Joint Call for Tutorials, DC, Posters and Demos
by Announce Announcements 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

*** Second Joint Call for Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters and Demos *** 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020) Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus May 20-22, 2020, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Submission deadline: February 14, 2020 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer) RCIS has become a recognized conference on research challenges in Information Science. Organized for the 14th time in a row, RCIS 2020 will be held from May 20-22, 2020, in Limassol, Cyprus. The topics of interest are organized into some major categories (more details in the call for papers http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… ): · Information Systems and their Engineering · User-Oriented Approaches · Data and Information Management · Business Process Management · Domain-specific IS Engineering · Data Science · Information Infrastructures · Reflective Research and Practice IMPORTANT DATES FOR ALL SATELLITE EVENTS · Submission deadline for all paper types: February 14, 2020 (AoE) · Notification to authors and registration opening: March 15, 2020 · Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 · Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 · Conference: May 20-22, 2020 TUTORIALS Tutorials are intended to provide independent instruction (know-how) on a topic of relevance, no commercial or sales-oriented. Potential presenters should keep in mind that there might be a varied audience, including novice graduate students, seasoned practitioners, and specialized researchers. Tutorial speakers should be prepared to cope with this diversity. The conference has specific slots for tutorials. They will be organized in sessions of 90 minutes with a free format. Tutorials run in parallel with other conference tracks, and participation is included in the attendees' conference fee. We invite proposals for tutorials that may address one or more of the listed topics below, although authors should not feel limited by them. Tutorial proposals are limited to 5 pages in Springer LNCS/LNBIP format (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… ). Proposals must be submitted using the conference submission site (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… ), where you choose "RCIS2020 Tutorials". Instructions on the structure of a tutorial proposal can be found online: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Tutorial Chairs · Estefania Serral Asensio, KU Leuven, Belgium · Ignacio Panach, University of Valencia, Spain DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The RCIS 2020 Doctoral Consortium is an opportunity for doctoral students to present, discuss and develop their research project in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of senior researchers. The Doctoral Consortium offers nice opportunities for PhD students. Firstly, the feedback received during the Doctoral Consortium will really benefit students who have defined their topic, research plan and have obtained early results, but who still have room for improving their longer-term plan. Secondly, students at all stages of their doctoral project can meet the welcoming RCIS community and widen their network of contacts. The Doctoral Consortium has the following objectives: · Provide a platform for students to present their work and to meet other peers and be familiar with different research topics and methods. · Provide feedback on students' current research and guidance on future research directions. · Promote the development of a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research and networking. · Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers. Interested PhD students are invited to submit papers, in agreement with their supervisors, addressing the instructions that are provided on the online call: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word): http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Submissions must be written in English, and must be authored by the student only. The maximum length of the paper should be eight (8) pages, including references, appendices, etc. The submission site address is http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… where you can choose "RCIS2020 Doctoral Consortium". Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Raian Ali, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom · Sergio España, Utrecht University, Netherlands POSTERS AND DEMOS The posters & demos track will showcase prototypes and new research ideas in Information Science. This track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their work, interact with conference participants, and obtain feedback on on-going research. We invite two types of submissions: · Posters are intended to convey a research result and are not advertisements for commercial software packages. While posters need not describe completed work, they should report on research for which at least some preliminary results are available. · Demonstrations should directly and actively involve the exhibition and display of tools/prototypes and associated materials that illustrate research work in progress and serve as ground for discussion of research ideas. Posters and demonstrations proposals must be submitted as a single PDF file with no more than 6 pages in Springer LNCS/LNBIP format (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… ) including references and appendices. Proposals that exceed the limit of 6 pages will be rejected without review. Proposals that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2020. The submission site address is http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… where you can choose "RCIS2020 Posters & Demos". More details on the submission and presentation format is online: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Posters & Demos Chairs · Elena Kornyshova, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France · Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland CONFERENCE COMMITTEES General Chairs · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pericles Loucopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece Organising Chair · Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs · Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden · Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands

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WEBCAST: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Digital Trade, but Didn’t Get a Chance to Ask
by Joly MacFie 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

There is always truth in jest, as at the outset of this session when the question is asked who is the best authority in the Digital Trade arena, and host Susan Aaronson's immediate joke response is "Me!". She now heads the newly established Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub <https://datagovhub.org/> at GWU, and this is one of their first events. ISOC Live posted: "On October 31, 2019 the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University hosted "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Digital Trade, but Didn’t Get a Chance to Ask." Data has become the most traded good and/or service across bo" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/digitaltrade>On *October 31, 2019* the *Elliot School of International Affairs <https://elliott.gwu.edu>* at George Washington University hosted "*Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Digital Trade, but Didn’t Get a Chance to Ask. <https://priv.sh/9eSexyO>*" Data has become the most traded good and/or service across borders. The American economy is increasingly reliant on digital trade. But the US does not yet participate in any explicit binding digital trade agreements. Meanwhile, many countries have adopted policies that inhibit digital trade, including requirements that data be stored locally or restricting services provided by foreign firms. Such policies not only affect U.S. Internet and technology firms, but the users and small businesses that rely on an open digital environment. There have been lots of panels on digital trade, but this discussion provides an opportunity to better understand why data is governed in trade agreements, what are the barriers to digital trade, and how digital trade rules may affect important policy objectives such as internet openness, the gig economy, innovation, and national security. PANELISTS: *Matthew Reisman*, Microsoft; Meredith Broadbent, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); *Rachael Stelly*, Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA); *Burcu Kilic*, Public Citizen. MODERATOR: *Susan Aaronson*, Professor, GWU and Director, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub. This event is co-sponsored by the* Institute for International Economic Policy <https://iiep.gwu.edu/>* (IIEP at GWU), the *Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub <https://datagovhub.org/>*, and the *Internet Society DC <https://isoc-dc.org>* (ISOC-DC), in conjunction with the *Computer and Communications Industry Association <https://www.ccianet.org/>* (CCIA). It was webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety>* (AI captions). *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/digitaltrade <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/digitaltrade>* *TWITTER: @IIEPGW #digitaltrade https://priv.sh/XM0Aq6S <https://priv.sh/XM0Aq6S>* *Permalink*: https://isoc.live/11474/ -

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Continuing Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Queensland
by Nicholas Carah 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

Dear AoIR colleagues, The School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia is advertising a continuing Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Media. This is a continuing teaching and research academic appointment (equivalent to Assistant Professor/Associate Professor). See the full job ad here: http://search.jobs.uq.edu.au/caw/en/job/505312/lecturersenior-lecturer-in-d… We are also advertising a Lecturer in Digital Journalism: http://search.jobs.uq.edu.au/caw/en/job/508794/lecturer-in-digital-journali… Applications close on November 28. We'd be very keen to have members of the AoIR community apply and join the vibrant digital media, communication and cultural studies scene in Brisbane (and Australia too!). If you wanted to find out more about the School or position please get in touch. Best, Nic Nicholas Carah Deputy Head of School | School of Communication and Arts | The University of Queensland 07 3365 3145 | n.carah(a)uq.edu.au<mailto:n.carah@uq.edu.au> | UQ Researchers<https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1512> | research teaching writing<http://mediamachines.org/> | @nnniccc<https://twitter.com/nnniccc>

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Book Announcement: Digital Media Ecologies (Sy Taffel)
by Taffel, Sy 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

I'm delighted to be able to announce that I've just had a book published by Bloomsbury. Digital Media Ecologies: Entanglements of Content, Code and Hardware<https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/digital-media-ecologies-9781501349249/>. Please consider ordering a copy for your library! You can use the code GLR MP9 for a 35% discount on the list price. "Digital media, you say? Taffel's fantastic book responds: you probably meant this multi-scalar entangled reality of energy and matter, software and hardware, humans and technology, all in complex feedback loops that we need to map and unravel if we want to dig ourselves out of this planetary scale mediated mess we got ourselves - and our companion species - in!" - Jussi Parikka, professor of Technological Culture & Aesthetics, University of Southampton, UK "Ecology is not just a metaphor in Sy Taffel's powerfully optimistic take on media ecology. Media are ecological, looting resources, dumping waste, and at the same time connecting us to our world. Taffel proposes that we stand at a decisive moment between the triumph of network capital and new ways of moving from consumerism to commonwealth. In a powerful series of case studies, Taffel shows how human mediation can stop being the problem and become the solution." - Sean Cubitt, Professor of Film and Television, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK "Traversing complex scales of entanglement, Sy Taffel's rich account of media ecologies provides a much needed update on the materiality of media networks. Registering astutely the crises of our times, Taffel asks how we might reorient our imaginaries, practices and economies in ways that don't submit to the dystopian horrors of the Anthropocene. Theoretically sophisticated and succinctly written, Digital Media Ecologies is a most welcome addition to the nascent field of research on environmental media and new materialism." - Ned Rossiter, Professor of Communication, Western Sydney University, Australia Our digital world is often described using terms such as immateriality and virtuality. The discourse of cloud computing is the latest in a long line of nebulous, dematerialising tropes which have come to dominate how we think about information and communication technologies. Digital Media Ecologies argues that such rhetoric is highly misleading, and that engaging with the key cultural, agential, ethical and political impacts of contemporary media requires that we do not just engage with the surface level of content encountered by the end users of digital media, but that we must additionally consider the affordances of software and hardware. Whilst numerous existing approaches explore content, software and hardware individually, Digital Media Ecologies provides a critical intervention by insisting that addressing contemporary technoculture requires a synthetic approach that traverses these three registers. Digital Media Ecologies re-envisions the methodological approach of media ecology to go beyond the metaphor of a symbolic information environment that exists alongside a material world of tantalum, turtles and tornados. It illustrates the social, cultural, political and environmental impacts of contemporary media assemblages through examples that include mining conflict-sustaining minerals, climate change blogging, iOS jailbreaking, and the ecological footprint of contemporary computing infrastructures. Alongside foregrounding the deleterious social and environmental impacts of digital technologies, the book considers numerous ways that these issues are being tackled by a heterogeneous array of activists, academics, hackers, scientists and citizens using the same technological assemblages that ostensibly cause these problems. Sy Taffel, PhD Programme Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Media Studies |Co-Director, Political Ecology Research Centre<http://perc.ac.nz/> College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Massey University Email: s.a.taffel(a)massey.ac.nz<mailto:s.a.taffel@massey.ac.nz> | Telephone: +64 (06 ) 356 9099 ext. 84527 Recently Published: Taffel. S (2019) Digital Media Ecologies: Entanglements of Content, Code and Hardware<https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-media-ecologies-9781501349263/>, New York and London: Bloomsbury Taffel. S (2019) Automating Creativity<http://screenworks.org.uk/archive/volume-10-1/automating-creativity> Screenworks 10.1

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LSE Digital Ethnography Collective Nvivo Workshop Livestream
by Glatt,ZA (pgr) 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

Hi AoIRists! Yesterday I ran a workshop for the LSE Digital Ethnography Collective on using Nvivo for digital ethnographic data analysis. As usual, we livestreamed the event on my YouTube channel and invited virtual participants to have a conversation simultaneously via the chat function. As I know there are so many digital ethnographers on this mailing list, I thought some of you might find it useful. You can also the how the chat unfolded, which is fun. Here’s the video: https://youtu.be/ECwEj8tf-EI For those of you who are interested in digital ethnography but missed our original email, our Twitter is @DigEthnogLSE and this is the link to join our mailing list: https://t.co/sY9loab54f?amp=1 Enjoy! All the best, Zoe ________________________ Zoë Glatt www.zoeglatt.com<http://www.zoeglatt.com/> ESRC PhD Researcher in Media & Communications London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Managing Editor: Communication, Culture & Critique Co-Founder: LSE Digital Ethnography Collective @DigEthnogLSE<https://twitter.com/DigEthnogLSE> Graduate Student Rep: Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Associate Lecturer in Media & Communications (2019/20): Goldsmiths University & London College of Communications YouTube channel<https://www.youtube.com/user/Zedstergal> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/ZoeGlatt> | LSE bio<http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/phd-researchers/zoe-gl…>

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