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CFP: CHANTS 2019 – 14th Workshop on Challenged Networks – co-located with ACM Mobicom 2019 - submission deadline June 14, 2019 - Los Cabos, Mexico
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 31 May '19

31 May '19

CALL FOR PAPERS The 14th Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2019) http://conferences.ece.unm.edu/chants2019/ colocated with ACM Mobicom 2019, the 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking Oct 21-25, Los Cabos, Mexico Scope and Overview Challenged networks comprise those situations where communication is desired, but traditional Internet architectures fail to provide it effectively. Such networks may be characterized by intermittent connectivity, a heterogeneous mix of nodes, frequent nodal churn, and widely varying network conditions. The applications of challenged networks range from time-critical communications such as for disaster relief to delay-tolerant transmission in poorly connected regions or where censorship should be counteracted. However, challenged networking has also found many applications in everyday settings, for which they were not initially conceived, such as opportunistic networking supporting data-centric communications, traffic offloading from cellular networks, mobile cloud/edge computing, opportunistic and participatory sensing as well as challenged IoT. CHANTS builds on the success of the thirteen previous CHANTS workshops and WDTN 2005, and aims to stimulate research on the most novel topics of challenged networking research. This year’s edition encourages submission of theoretical and experimental work (including studies of real deployment), with a primary interest in new directions of challenged networking in concrete application scenarios and demonstrators in areas such as autonomous driving, underwater robots, emergency response operations, underground mining, interplanetary missions, polar research and unmanned aerial vehicles. The workshop seeks original work presented in the form of research papers describing new research approaches and results, as well as demo and poster submissions. Highly disruptive work-in-progress and position papers are also welcome, provided they focus on particularly innovative solutions or applications for challenged networks. All papers shall be forward-looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and shall argue their impact and implications for ongoing or future research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ● Delay/disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs), opportunistic communication and computing ● Modeling and analysis of challenged networks and protocols for challenged networks ● Communication systems and networks for underground mining ● Underwater communication systems and networks ● Security/trust/privacy concerns and solutions in challenged networks ● Networking in polar regions ● Millimeter Wave Networking ● Challenged networking techniques for mobile cloud computing and mobile data offloading ● Challenged networking techniques for participatory and opportunistic sensing ● Challenged networking in the Internet of Things and in Cyber-Physical Systems ● Energy-efficient communication in challenged networks ● User behavior modeling and Quality of Service provisioning in challenged networks ● Space-terrestrial networks, lunar networks as well as interplanetary networks ● Information-centric and content-centric networking in challenged networks ● Real-world mobility trace collection, analysis, and modeling for challenged environments ● Network coding in challenged networks ● Real deployment and case studies in various stages of use ● Configuration, management, and monitoring of challenged networks ● Disrupted scenarios for challenged networks (e.g., disaster relief and emergency management) ● User Interfaces and interactive applications optimized for Challenged Networks ● Test and simulation tools for evaluating challenged network systems Program Committee Chairs Suzan Bayhan (TU Berlin, Germany) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA) Workshop Web Chair Estefanía Coronado (FBK CREATE-NET, Italy) Publicity Chair Gürkan Gür (ZHAW, Switzerland) Jim Plusquellic (University of New Mexico, USA) Steering Board Kevin Almeroth (UC Santa Barbara, USA) Kevin Fall (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Jörg Ott (TU München, Germany) Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy) Important Dates Abstract Registration: June 14th, 2019 Submission Deadline: June 21th, 2019 Acceptance Notification: July 31st, 2019 Camera-ready: August 12th, 2019 Workshop: October 25th, 2019 Paper Format and Submission Instructions General Paper Format Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages, and should adhere to the standard ACM conference proceedings format. All submissions must be written in English. Authors must register the abstract 1 week prior to the full paper submission. Demo/Poster Format Demo and poster proposals (to be published as part of the proceedings) must not be longer than 2 pages, for demos plus 1 page description of the precise setup and requirements (the 1-page setup description will not be published in the proceedings). Submission Reviews will be single-blinded. Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Editorial Follow-Ups Extended versions of the selected workshop papers will be considered for possible fast track publication in well-known journals, e.g., Computer Communications (Elsevier) or the ACM GetMobile. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 235D Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab’s News: @PROTON_Lab<https://twitter.com/PROTON_Lab> ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the TAOS list, click the following link: https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TAOS&A=1

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CfP Datafication and the Welfare State
by Lina Dencik 31 May '19

31 May '19

Members of this list might be interested in the below call for papers on Datafication and the Welfare State in the new journal Global Perspectives (https://gp.ucpress.edu/) Best, Lina and Anne Call for papers Special Collection for the Communication and Media Section of Global Perspectives Estimated Timeline 1st July 2019 - 500-word abstracts * Please submit abstracts to Lina Dencik (DencikL(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk>) and Anne Kaun (anne.kaun(a)sh.se<mailto:anne.kaun@sh.se>) 20th of July 2019 - notification of invitation to submit full papers (6000-8000 words) 1st of November 2019 - submission of full papers 1st of April 2020 - review process complete 1st of June 2020 - publication of articles Datafication and the Welfare State The impact of globalization on the welfare state has been a prominent long-standing issue in both scholarly and policy debate. Whilst the advent of digital technologies has been central to this debate, the more recent onus on data and data-driven technologies across business, government and civil society brings with it a particular set of concerns. Data and algorithmic processes are increasingly an integral part of governing populations and used to categorize, profile and score individuals, households and communities, with a view to allocate services, target and identify people, and make decisions about them. In this sense, datafication is part of (re)shaping state-citizen relations, the nature of statecraft and (re)defining state models, particularly in relation to public services and welfare provision. Advancing unevenly and in diverse contexts, this trend is often underpinned by a rationale centred on efficiency, resource-saving and more ‘objective’ decision-making. Yet critical scholarship on datafication has pointed to the ways in which this ‘new public analytics’ paradigm (Yeung 2018) is embedded in a particular set of values, and advances certain epistemological and ontological assumptions that carry substantial social and political significance (e.g. boyd and Crawford 2012, Van Dijck 2014). Moreover, both assumptions and responses to such assumptions have tended to rely on universalist understandings of developments and rights, bypassing nuanced and contextual engagement with the way data systems are developed, implemented and understood across the globe (Arora 2019; Milan & Treré 2019). For this special collection, we therefore invite submissions that engage with the notion of the welfare state from global perspectives, with a particular focus on datafication. We seek contributions that examine the kinds of practices, values and logics that underpin the advancement of datafication and consider how these relate to the practices, values and logics that form the basis of public services and social welfare in the context of globalisation. For example, research has suggested that data analytics advances a society organized around risk management, in which it is assumed that it is possible to predict individual behaviour from the aggregation of data points pertaining to group traits, with the aim to both pre-empt and personalize risk (Amoore 2013, Van Dijck 2014, Andrejevic 2017). In addition, many of the tools being deployed originate in a commercial sphere, perpetuating the presence of multi-national companies in the public sector, often favouring economic values rather than social, relational and personal values (Baym 2013, Redden 2015). These logics can be seen as the continued dismantling of the welfare state, understood in terms of a commitment to universal access, decommodification, and social solidarity. Moreover, the prevalence of data science as developed and practiced by a few dominant global players raise questions about the standardization of governance and statecraft. By fleshing out these issues, the special collection invites contributions that reflect on transformations brought about by data processes in the public sector and across social life, and contextualise these in terms of different value-systems and visions for how society should be organised. References: Andrejevic, M. (2017). To pre-empt a thief. International Journal of Communication, 11(2017), pp. 879-896. Amoore, L. (2013). The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Arora, P. (2019). Decolonizing Privacy Studies. Television & New Media, 20(4): 366-378. Baym, N. K. (2013). Data Not Seen: The Uses and Shortcomings of Social Media Metrics. First Monday, 18(10). boyd, d. and Crawford, K. (2012). Critical Questions for Big Data. Information, Communication & Society, 15(5), pp. 662-679. Milan, S. and Treré, E. (2019) Big Data from the South(s): Beyond Data Universalism. Television & New Media, 20(4): 319-335. Redden, J. (2015). Big data as system of knowledge: investigating Canadian governance. In: G. Elmer, G. Langlois and J. Redden, J., eds., Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data, London: Bloomsbury. Van Dijck, J. (2014). Datafication, Dataism and Dataveillance: Big Data Between Scientific Paradigm and Ideology.Surveillance & Society, 12(2), pp. 197-208. Yeung, K. (2018) Algorithmic government: Towards a New Public Analytics? Paper presented at ThinkBig, Windsor, 25 June. Practicalities Please submit a 500-word abstract to Lina Dencik (DencikL(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk>) and Anne Kaun (anne.kaun(a)sh.se<mailto:anne.kaun@sh.se>) before 1 July 2019. The special collection will be published as part of the Communication and Media Section of the Global Perspectives journal. Full papers – 6000-8000 words in length – are required by 1 November 2019. About the journal Global Perspectives (GP) is an online-only, peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary journal seeking to advance social science research and debates in a globalizing world, specifically in terms of concepts, theories, methodologies, and evidence bases. Work published in the journal is enriched by invited perspectives, through scholarly annotations, that enhance its global and interdisciplinary implications. GP is devoted to the study of global patterns and developments across a wide range of topics and fields, among them trade and markets, security and sustainability, communication and media, justice and law, governance and regulation, culture and value systems, identities, environmental interfaces, technology-society interfaces, shifting geographies and migration. GP sets out to help overcome national and disciplinary fragmentation and isolation. GP starts from the premise that the world that gave rise to the social sciences in their present form is no more. The national and disciplinary approaches that developed over the last century are increasingly insufficient to capture the complexities of the global realities of a world that has changed significantly in a relatively short period of time. New concepts, approaches and forms of academic discourse may be called for. About the Communication and Media Section of Global Perspectives Section Editor: Payal Arora, Erasmus University Rotterdam The ‘global turn’ in communications, advances in mobile technologies and the rise of digital social networks are changing the world´s media landscapes, creating complex disjunctures between economy, culture, and society at local, national, and transnational levels. The role of traditional mass media - print, radio and television - is changing as well. In many cases, traditional journalism is declining, while that of user-generated content by bloggers, podcasters, and digital activists is gaining currency worldwide, as is the impact of robotics and artificial intelligence on communication systems. Today, researchers find themselves at important junctures in their inquiries that require innovations in concepts, frameworks, methodologies and empirics. Global Perspectives aims to be a forum for scholars from across multiple disciplines and fields, and the Communication and Media Section invites submissions on cutting-edge research on changing media and communication systems globally. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T1kLi9u3QJC4aYWhjQU0amVDXoXGlC4m9yY7pO1…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.goog…> -- Dr Lina Dencik Reader / Co-Director Data Justice Lab PI Data Justice: Understanding datafication in relation to social justice (DATAJUSTICE) ERC Starting Grant 2018-2023 School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff CF10 1FS Email: DencikL(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk>, Tel: +44 (0)29 208 75461 Twitter: @LinaDencik Fellow, Center for Media, Data and Society, Central European University

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Call for papers: IDIA2020
by nana s 31 May '19

31 May '19

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 11th International Development Informatics Association (IDIA2020) conference which will take place on 25 - 27 March 2020 in Macau SAR. IDIA provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to connect and exchange knowledge on issues of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) in, for, or by the Global South, where the definition of ‘Global South’ extends beyond “developing countries” to encompass the socio-political transnational collective of the marginalized around the world. The theme of IDIA2020 is “The more things change …” and it invites a critical exploration of the impacts of both old and new frontier technologies on the global landscape of poverty and sustainable development, and encourages reflection on the changes within ICT4D in response to the many socio-technical developments and challenges. Further details about the conference are available on the conference website at https://www.idia2020.com. We invite researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and stakeholders from around the world interested in issues of technology and sustainable development, to participate in IDIA2020 and to make full paper or workshop submissions by 16th August 2019. Full papers will undergo double blind review by at least three reviewers with the possibility that accepted papers will be published in a Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) volume. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit 2-page policy briefs based on their paper. These will be reviewed for possible inclusion in a United Nations University published policy brief volume. Workshop submissions will also undergo a peer-review process. The key dates for the conference are as follows: • Paper submission: 16 August 2019 • Workshop submission: 16 August 2019 • Notification of acceptance:1 November 2019 • Camera-ready accepted papers submission: 13 December 2019 Conference Chairs: Hannah Thinyane (UNU-CS, Macau), Mamello Thinyane (UNU-CS, Macau) Program Chairs: Araba Sey (UNU-CS, Macau), Caroline Khene (RU, South Africa) Please circulate this IDIA2020 call for papers and share it widely within your networks. Kind Regards, araba

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Fwd: LIVE STREAM this Saturday: "Algorithms, Scale, Speed, and the Labor of Logistics" (feat. Alessandro Delfanti, Victoria Hattam, Margaret Jack, Noopur Raval, Silvia Lindtner and Christian Sandvig) 11:15am EDT 6/1
by Christian Sandvig 30 May '19

30 May '19

Here's the second one (out of two). I felt it deserved its own thread as the topic is different. Hope to "see" you there, Christian -- TITLE Algorithms, Scale, Speed, and the Labor of Logistics (a discussion panel) PRESENTERS Alessandro Delfanti (http://delfanti.org/) Victoria Hattam (http://www.gidest.org/victoria-hattam) Margaret Jack (https://www.maggiejack.info/) Noopur Raval (https://noopur.xyz/) DISCUSSANTS Silvia Lindtner (http://www.silvialindtner.com/) Christian Sandvig (http://umich.edu/~csandvig) DATE AND TIME Saturday, June 1, 2019; 11:15am to 12:45pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC/GMT-4) REMOTE PARTICIPANTS During the day and time of the event, live streaming will be available here: https://player.cloud.wowza.com/hosted/hk5cjpf7/player.html LOCATION Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad, 105 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 Directions to this room: http://bit.ly/Ehrlicher (follow path #2) Free and open to the public, no RSVP is required. PANEL DESCRIPTION Digital labor regimes have infiltrated various processes from global logistics and supply chains to mass production and mechanic work. Scale, speed, and acceleration are key to these processes of increasing algorithmic control (simultaneously critiqued and celebrated). What are the cracks, frictions, and gaps in this seemingly all-subsuming finance capitalism? How might we have to re-articulate what counts as solidarity and collective organizing to counter distributed, isolating, and large-scale structures of control? How can we intervene in the persistent techno-optimism that live on in contemporary engineering and design? This live stream is part of the "soft opening" of ESC: The Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing at the University of Michigan. http://esc.umich.edu/ This event is part of the workshop "Making 'The Future of Work' Work," organized by Silvia Lindtner, Cindy Lin, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, and Paul Dourish. http://techculturematters.com/events/nsf-workshop-making-the-future-of-work… See the event announcement on the Web: http://esc.umich.edu/event/making-the-future-of-work-work-labor-in-the-glob… These events are generously supported by the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC), the National Science Foundation HTF "Future of Work at the Human Technology Frontier" (Award #1744359), and the School of Information at the University of Michigan.

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Fwd: LIVE STREAM this Saturday: "Labor in the Global Platform Economy" (feat. Nathan Ensmenger, Mary Gray, Lilly Irani, Cara Wallis, Sarah Murray, Lisa Nakamura) 9:30am EDT 6/1
by Christian Sandvig 30 May '19

30 May '19

Dearest AoIR colleagues: Here's an amazing lineup that includes some names you might now. They'll be live streaming this Saturday morning (ET). Where else would you rather be than on this stream? Feel free to forward as appropriate, Christian -- TITLE Labor in the Global Platform Economy (a discussion panel) PRESENTERS Nathan Ensmenger (http://homes.sice.indiana.edu/nensmeng/) Mary Gray (http://www.ghostwork.info/) Lilly Irani (https://quote.ucsd.edu/lirani/) Cara Wallis (https://comm.tamu.edu/cara-wallis/) DISCUSSANTS Sarah Murray (https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/sarah-murray.html) Lisa Nakamura (https://lisanakamura.net/) DATE AND TIME Saturday, June 1, 2019; 9:30am to 11:00am Eastern Daylight Time (UTC/GMT-4) REMOTE PARTICIPANTS During the day and time of the event, live streaming will be available here: https://player.cloud.wowza.com/hosted/hk5cjpf7/player.html LOCATION Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad, 105 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 Directions to this room: http://bit.ly/Ehrlicher (follow path #2) Free and open to the public, no RSVP is required. PANEL DESCRIPTION >From voice assistance that replicates how care and service professions manage their own emotions to surveillance technologies powered by outsourced, contracted coding work, emotional, gendered, and racialized labor are the sources of “smart” technologies writ large. How does the promise of a better, hopeful “future of work” reproduce or contest exploitative regimes of labor? How does the promise of living the “good life,” of becoming the “smart” self, and individual empowerment prohibit other forms of solidarity? This live stream is part of the "soft opening" of ESC: The Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing at the University of Michigan. http://esc.umich.edu/ This event is part of the workshop "Making 'The Future of Work' Work," organized by Silvia Lindtner, Cindy Lin, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, and Paul Dourish. http://techculturematters.com/events/nsf-workshop-making-the-future-of-work… See the event announcement on the Web: http://esc.umich.edu/event/making-the-future-of-work-work-labor-in-the-glob… These events are generously supported by the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC), the National Science Foundation HTF "Future of Work at the Human Technology Frontier" (Award #1744359), and the School of Information at the University of Michigan.

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Register by June 3: Industry & Academia Privacy Symposium June 10 at Bentley University
by Page, Xinru 30 May '19

30 May '19

We're pleased to announce the Industry & Academia Privacy Symposium on Monday, June 10th at Bentley University (greater Boston area) that will feature presentations and panels by leading privacy scholars, as well as practitioner perspectives on key online privacy challenges. The presenters are authors from a book to be released by Springer next year, "Modern Perspectives on Privacy". The event is open to the public and part of a larger joint effort to translate between academic research and practice in industry, and to make digital privacy research accessible. Thanks to sponsorship by BostonCHI<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bosto…>, Bentley's Data Innovation Network<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bentl…>, Advanced Distributed Learning<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fadlnet.go…>, registration costs are subsidized (students, non-profits, and those with financial limitations are encouraged to contact us at socialmediacenter(a)bentley.edu<mailto:socialmediacenter@bentley.edu> for a complimentary registration). We also want to acknowledge our partnerships with Future of Privacy Forum<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffpf.org%2…> and UXPA<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuxpa.org%…> for their role in supporting the event. Topics will include Privacy in Healthcare IT, Internet of Things, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, Personalization, Cross-Cultural perspective, Vulnerable Populations, Ethics and Policy, and more. See our website for full details and list of authors. Register by June 3: http://www.modern-privacy.org/<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.modern…> About some of our sponsors and partners: BostonCHI has been supporting Boston's HCI and UX community for over 35 years with our monthly speaker series. Topics range from responsive design, designing apps for healthcare in the developing world, and privacy in the world of IoT, from speakers such as Jared Spool, Steve Krug, and Ethan Marcotte. Learn more and join us at BostonCHI.org. Bentley Data Innovation Network brings together scholars from Bentley University and our partner organizations to create insights on data-driven innovation. We strive to understand better the ways in which intelligent use of data transforms human activity and the impacts of these changes. Connect with us at www.bentley.edu/networks/data<http://www.bentley.edu/networks/data> The annual User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) International Conference, in its 28th year, is the premier conference for UX professionals. The unique 3-day experience consists of 64 presentations and 15 courses with renowned speakers. The conference will bring designers, researchers and academics from all over the world together in Scottsdale, AZ. Sessions include UX tools and techniques, emerging innovations, developing your career and everything in-between for all levels of UX professionals. www.uxpa2019.org<http://www.uxpa2019.org> Future of Privacy Forum is a nonprofit organization that serves as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging technologies. FPF brings together industry, academics, consumer advocates, and other thought leaders to explore the challenges posed by technological innovation and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, and workable business practices. FPF helps fill the void in the "space not occupied by law" which exists due to the speed of technology development. https://fpf.org/

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2nd CFP: SPeL 2019 (12th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities)
by Elvira Popescu 30 May '19

30 May '19

================================================================== SPeL 2019 12th International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2019 In conjunction with SETE 2019 (4th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education) & ICWL 2019 (18th International Conference on Web-based Learning) http://icwl-sete.org/ 23-25 September 2019 Magdeburg, Germany * Paper submission deadline: June 21, 2019 (preceded by a mandatory abstract submission by June 14) * All accepted workshop papers will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. ================================================================== MOTIVATION =========== The workshop follows the previous SPeL 2008, SPeL 2009, SPeL 2010, SPeL 2011, DULP & SPeL 2012, SPeL 2013, SPeL 2014, SPeL 2015, SPeL 2016, SPeL 2017 and SPeL 2018 workshops, held in conjunction with the SAINT 2008 conference, WI/IAT 2009 conference, DEXA 2010 conference, ICWL 2011 conference, ICALT 2012 conference, ICSTCC 2013 conference, ICWL 2014 conference, ICSLE 2015 conference, ICWL & SETE 2016 conferences, ICWL & SETE 2017 conferences and MIS4TEL 2018 conference respectively. The general topic of the workshop is the social and personal computing for web-supported learning communities. Web-based learning is moving from centralized, institution-based systems to a decentralized and informal creation and sharing of knowledge. Social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking systems, media sharing services, social networks) is increasingly being used for e-learning purposes, helping to create novel learning experiences and knowledge. In the world of pervasive Internet, learners are also evolving: the so-called "digital natives" want to be in constant communication with their peers, they expect an individualized instruction and a personalized learning environment, which automatically adapt to their individual needs. The challenge in this context is to provide intelligent and adaptive support for collaborative learning, taking into consideration the individual differences between learners. This workshop deals with current research on the interplay between collaboration and personalization issues for supporting intelligent learning environments. Its aim is to provide a forum for discussing new trends and initiatives in this area, including research about the planning, development, application, and evaluation of intelligent learning environments, where people can learn together in a personalized way through social interaction with other learners. The workshop is targeted at academic researchers, developers, educationists and practitioners interested in innovative uses of social media and adaptation techniques for the advancement of intelligent learning environments. The proposed field is interdisciplinary and very dynamic, taking into account the recent advent of Web 2.0 and ubiquitous personalization, and it is hoped to attract a large audience. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== The workshop welcomes submissions covering aspects of collaboration, social interactions, adaptivity and personalization in technology enhanced learning, particularly related to issues about: * Social learning environments * Theory and modeling of social computing in education * Web 2.0 tools for collaborative learning * Personal learning environments * Lifelong learning networks * Virtual spaces for learning communities * Social networks analysis and mining * Computer-supported collaborative learning * Personalized and adaptive learning * Adaptation methods and techniques for groups of learners * Intelligent learner and group modeling * Collaborative filtering and recommendations for learners * Game-based social learning * Personalized mobile learning applications * Cloud-based social learning * Intelligent agent technology for social learning * Metadata, folksonomies and tagging * Semantic web and ontologies for personalized learning * Cognitive, motivational and affective aspects for personalization * Practice and experience sharing PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================== The workshop papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) The length of the manuscript should not exceed 6 pages for short papers and 10 pages for full papers. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, through the Easychair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spel2019. All accepted workshop papers will be included in SETE 2019 post-conference proceedings, published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Abstract submission: June 14, 2019 Full paper submission: June 21, 2019 Acceptance notification: July 15, 2019 Registration and camera-ready papers: August 5, 2019 Conference dates: September 23-25, 2019 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ================ Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova, Romania Sabine Graf - Athabasca University, Canada Please refer to the workshop website (http://software.ucv.ro/~epopescu/spel2019) for more information and contact us at: popescu_elvira(a)software.ucv.ro or sabineg(a)athabascau.ca for any inquiry.

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Call for papers: 10th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK20), March 23-27, 2020, Frankfurt, Germany.
by Vitomir Kovanovic 30 May '19

30 May '19

Apologies for cross-posting Call for papers: The 10th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK20) Celebrating 10 years of LAK: Shaping the future of the field 23-27 March 2020, Frankfurt, Germany https://lak20.solaresearch.org The 2020 edition of The International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK20) will take place in Frankfurt, Germany. LAK20 is organised by the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) and hosted by Frankfurt Goethe-University in Germany with support from many European partners. LAK20 is a collaborative effort by learning analytics researchers and practitioners to celebrate and promote the achievements of the learning analytics community over the past ten years and to look forward to what lies ahead. The tenth anniversary of the LAK conference celebrates the past successes of the learning analytics community and poses new questions and challenges for the field. The theme for this year is "Shaping the future of the field" and focuses on thinking how we can advance learning analytics and drive its development over the next ten years and beyond. LAK conference is intended for both researchers and practitioners. We invite both researchers and practitioners of learning analytics to come and join a proactive dialogue around the future of learning analytics and its practical adoption. We further extend our invite to educators, leaders, administrators, government and industry professionals interested in the field of learning analytics and related disciplines. Conference theme and topics We welcome submissions from both research and practice, covering different theoretical, methodological, empirical and technical contributions to learning analytics field. Specifically, this year, we invite contributors to think about the implications and potential impact of the presented work for the next 10 years. In their contributions, we encourage authors to address some of the following questions: 1. What are the practical and scholarly implications of the presented work for the next ten years? 2. What are the challenges of the presented work we need to address to improve its impact in the next ten years? 3. How can the presented work be practically implemented and adopted? We also explicitly encourage research that validates, replicates and examines the generalisability of previously published findings, as well as the aspects of practical adoption of the existing learning analytics methods and approaches. Finally, we also invite authors to submit dedicated short research paper submissions (see below for details) that explicitly address the theme of this year's conference. Some of the topics of interest include, (but are not limited) are: Capturing Learning & Teaching: * Finding evidence of learning: Studies that identify and explain useful data for analysing, understanding and optimising learning and teaching. * Assessing student learning: Studies that assess learning progress through the computational analysis of learner actions or artefacts. * Analytical and methodological approaches: Studies that introduce analytical techniques, methods, and tools for capturing and modelling student learning. * Technological infrastructures for data storage and sharing: Proposals of technical and methodological procedures to store, share and preserve learning and teaching traces. Understanding Learning & Teaching: * Data-informed learning theories: Proposals of new learning/teaching theories or revisions/reinterpretations of existing theories based on large-scale data analysis. * Insights into specific learning processes: Studies to understand particular aspects of a learning/teaching process through the use of data science techniques. * Learning and teaching modelling: Creating mathematical, statistical or computational models of a learning/teaching process, including its actors and context. * Systematic reviews: Studies that provide a systematic and methodological synthesis of the available evidence in an area of learning analytics. Impacting Learning & Teaching: * Providing decision support and feedback: Studies that evaluate the impact of feedback or decision-support systems based on learning analytics (e.g., dashboards, early-alert systems, automated messages). * Practical evaluations of learning analytics efforts: Empirical evidence about the effectiveness of learning analytics implementations or educational initiatives guided by learning analytics. * Personalised and adaptive learning: Studies that evaluate the effectiveness and impact of adaptive technologies based on learning analytics. Implementing change in Learning & Teaching: * Ethical issues around learning analytics: Analysis of issues and approaches to the lawful and ethical capture and use of educational data traces; tackling unintended bias and value judgements in the selection of data and algorithms; perspectives and methods for value-sensitive, participatory design that empowers stakeholders. * Learning analytics adoption: Discussions and evaluations of strategies to promote and embed learning analytics initiatives in educational institutions and learning organisations. * Learning analytics strategies for scalability: Discussions and evaluations of strategies to scale the capture and analysis of information at the program, institution or national level; critical reflections on organisational structures that promote analytics innovation and impact in an institution. Conference tracks The conference has three different tracks with different types of submissions. For more information about each track, see the submission guidelines page. 1. Research track The focus of the research track is on advancing scholarly knowledge in the field of learning analytics through rigorous reports of learning analytics research studies. The primary audience includes academics, doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and other types of educational research staff working in different capacities on learning analytics research projects. Submission types for the research track are: * Full research papers (10 pages, ACM proceedings template) include a clearly explained substantial conceptual, technical or empirical contribution. The scope of the paper must be placed appropriately with respect to the current state of the field, and the contribution should be clearly described. This includes the conceptual or theoretical aspects at the foundation of the contribution, an explanation of the technical setting (tools used, how are they integrated into the contribution), analysis, and results. * Short research papers (6 pages, ACM proceedings template) can address on-going work, which may include a briefly described theoretical underpinning, an initial proposal or rationale for a technical solution, and preliminary results, with consideration of stakeholder engagement issues. We also invite short papers that explicitly address the theme of this year's conference by reflecting on past, present, and future research foci in the field of learning analytics, along with reflections on the role which LAK has played in shaping our research agendas. * Research posters (3 pages, SoLAR companion proceedings template) represent a concise report of recent findings or other types of innovative work not ready to be submitted as a full or short research paper. Poster presentations are part of the LAK Poster & Demo session, and authors are given a physical board to present and discuss their projects with delegates. Alternatively, a poster submission may be work that you prefer to present interactively. 2. Practitioner track The practitioner track is complementary to the research track and brings real-world experiences of adoption of learning analytics systems in education. Learning analytics practitioners include 1) policymakers, project managers, instructional technologists, analysts, learning designers and other non-research staff, 2) developers, designers, analysts, and other representatives from commercial and industrial entities, non-profit organisations, and government bodies. Submissions for the practitioner track have a unique format which emphasises practical aspects of project implementations. More details around submission formats and preparing your practitioner submission will be available on LAK20 website. All accepted submissions to the practitioner track will be published in the LAK20 Companion Proceedings and archived on the SoLAR website. Submission types for practitioner track: * Practitioner reports (4 pages, SoLAR companion proceedings template) include accounts and findings that stem from practical experience in implementing learning analytics projects. Practitioner reports are presented alongside research track submissions as part of the main conference. Some of the goals of practitioner presentations are to 1) contribute to the conversation between researchers and practitioners around adoption and implementation of learning analytics, 2) provide insights from practice around factors affording or constraining learning analytics adoption and implementation, and 3) present effective learning analytics adoption strategies and approaches. * Practitioner posters (2 pages, SoLAR companion proceedings template) represent a concise description of a practical learning analytics project implementation which may not be ready to be presented as a practitioner report. Posters are presented during the LAK Poster & Demo session, and authors are given a physical board to present posters and discuss their projects with delegates. This type of submission is also prefered in cases where interactive presentation is more suitable for the particular project. * Practitioner interactive demos (200 words abstract in SoLAR companion proceedings template + 5 min video) provide opportunities to communicate interactive learning analytics tools. Interactive demonstrations are part of the LAK Poster & Demo session, and presenters are given table space and demonstrate their latest learning analytics projects, tools, and systems. Use demos to communicate innovative user interface designs, visualisations, or other novel functionality that tackles a real user problem. Tools may be at an early concept demonstrator stage or relatively mature, all the way through to products. While LAK encourages participation from commercial analytics partners, interactive demos should be built around actual field experience, results, and feedback. Submissions for conceptual products or for products that have not been used by instructors and/or students are unlikely to be accepted. 3. Pre-conference event track The focus of pre-conference events is on providing space for new and emerging ideas in learning analytics and their development. Events can have either research or practical focus and can be structured in the way which best serves their particular purpose. The types of submissions for the pre-conference event track are: * Workshops (4 pages, SoLAR companion proceedings template) provide an efficient forum for community building, sharing of perspectives, and idea generation for specific and emerging research topics or viewpoints. Proposals should be explicit regarding the kind of activity participants should expect, for example, from interactive/generative participatory sessions to mini-conference or symposium sessions. * Tutorials (4 pages, SoLAR companion proceedings template) aim to educate stakeholders on a specific learning analytics topic or stakeholder perspective. Proposals should be clear what the need is for particular knowledge, target audience and their prior knowledge, and the intended learning outcomes. Doctoral consortium The doctoral consortium is a day-long workshop designed to support emerging scholars in learning analytics by helping them develop productive approaches to studying the intersection of theory, data, and practice. Doctoral Consortium participants will be given the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in an interdisciplinary and supportive atmosphere, as well as build their professional network with leading researchers. More details will be available on LAK20 website around submission lengths and formats of the different types of submissions. Review process LAK20 will use a double-blind peer review process for all submissions except doctoral consortium (as they include a letter of reference from the principal supervisor) and demos. An important aspect of this year's review process is that LAK20 will have a rebuttal phase for full and short research papers in which authors will be given five days to respond to remarks and comments raised by reviewers in a maximum of 500 words. Rebuttals are optional, and there is no requirement to respond. Authors should keep in mind that papers are being evaluated as submitted and thus, responses should not propose new results or restructuring of the presentation. Thus, rebuttals should focus on answering specific questions raised by reviewers (if any) and providing clarifications and justifications to reviewers. Finally, the conference timeline allows for rejected submissions to be re-submitted in revised form as workshop papers. Proceedings publication Accepted full and short research papers will be included in the LAK20 conference proceedings published and archived by ACM. Other types of submissions (research posters, workshops, tutorials, and practitioner track submissions) will be included in the open access LAK companion proceedings, archived on SoLAR's website. Please note at least one of the authors must register for the conference by the Early bird deadline before the paper can be included in the ACM Proceedings or LAK Companion Proceedings. Important dates Note: all dates are 23:59 GMT-12 (AOE Timezone<https://www.worldtimeserver.com/time-zones/aoe/>) Submission deadlines: * 1 Oct 2019: Deadline for full and short research papers, practitioner reports, and workshop/tutorial proposal submissions * 14 Oct 2019: Deadline for doctoral consortium submissions * 1 Nov 2019: Deadline for research and practitioner posters and interactive demo submissions * 15 Nov 2019: Deadline for full and short research paper rebuttal (submissions open 8 Nov 2019) submissions * 15 Dec 2019: Deadline for workshop paper submissions (submissions open 1 Nov 2019) * 20 Dec 2019: Deadline for camera-ready versions of all accepted submissions Acceptance notifications: * 21 Oct 2019: Notification of acceptance for workshops and tutorials * 15 Nov 2019: Notification of acceptance for doctoral consortium * 1 Dec 2019: Notification of acceptance for full and short research papers, practitioner reports, posters/demos * 5 Jan 2019: Notification of acceptance for workshop papers (papers submitted to accepted workshops) Conference and registration dates: * 20 Jan 2020: Early-bird registration closes * 23-27 Mar 2019: LAK20 conference, Frankfurt, Germany Further information Visit http://lak20.solaresearch.org for further details about the conference venue, organisers, keynotes, topics, submission guidelines and review process. Kind regards, Vitomir Kovanovic, Maren Scheffel, Niels Pinkwart, and Katrien Verbert LAK20 Program Chairs

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New Book Announcement: Politics for the Love of Fandom: Fan-Based Citizenship in a Digital World
by Hinck, Ashley 29 May '19

29 May '19

Ashley Hinck, hincka(a)xavier.edu New Book Announcement: Politics for the Love of Fandom: Fan-Based Citizenship in a Digital World Politics for the Love of Fandom examines what Hinck calls “fan-based citizenship”: civic action that is blended with and arises from participation in fandom. Examining cases like Harry Potter fans fighting for fair trade, YouTube fans donating money to charity, and football fans volunteering to mentor local youth, Hinck argues that fan-based citizenship functions by inviting citizens to act out of a commitment to a fan-object, rather than via traditional political institutions such as the Democratic Party or the Catholic Church. Within the context of an increasing digital and networked world, individuals can easily move among many institutions and groups. They thus have more choices than ever for institutions and groups that guide their civic actions—even non-civic groups like the Harry Potter fandom can become the foundations for civic action. This significant shift opens up opportunities for public engagement that occurs outside of political parties, organizations for social activism, and religious houses of worship. Hinck examines the communication at the center of these civic actions, exploring how fans, nonprofits, and media companies manage to connect fandom with public issues. Available at: https://lsupress.org/books/detail/politics-for-the-love-of-fandom/

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CFP: Media Studies - Generations, Digital Uses and Competences
by Inês Amaral 29 May '19

29 May '19

*CALL FOR PAPERS - Generations, Digital Uses and CompetencesA special issue of Medijske studije / Media Studies Journal to be published in January 2020, MS Vol. 10 (2019) 20* Edited by Maria José Brites (Lusófona University of Porto), Inês Amaral (University of Coimbra), Antonija Čuvalo (University of Zagreb) Media generational identities are culturally, socially, economically and historically shaped. A single vision of generational identity is impossible. This special issue welcomes different approaches to intergenerational and generational perspectives from various geographical landscapes. Moreover, it aims to discuss digital uses and digital competences within intergenerational and generational perspectives. The proposal is to assume as context the current digital media environment, which has shaped media history over the past decades. Non-Western voices covering generations, digital uses and competences are particularly welcome. Historically, media were mostly considered as reinforcements of the generational gap, mostly in the family context. Though research by Livingstone and Haddon (2009) found that the intergenerational gap is diminishing in time, according to Bolin & Skogerbø (2013), the digital era is contributing to straight the generations. Čuvalo (2017) discerns shared media repertoires among the youngest, so-called digital generation or digital natives and the older generation of digital immigrants (Thomas, 2011). In this sense, there is the need to work closely on life course perspectives as a possible explanation of the diminishing or perpetuating of the generational gap (Amaral & Daniel, 2018). The context of digital literacy reinforced activities by civil society and schools and can bring some light to the discussion of this need (Brites, 2017). Furthermore, a generational perspective in scholar and familiar environments can empower the discussion. There is a story to tell and gains to conquer from the historical reflection, although the real interconnection between the digital devices and the audiences is a recent issue. Research can benefit from a systematization from the past to the future and also in the current present. *Descriptors:* A historical and cross-national perspective on generations and the digital environment Non-media centric approach to media generations Generations and the context of the digital environment Generations and digital competences Generations and intergenerational approaches Digital literacy and generations Digital literacy and intergenerational dimensions Theoretical discussions on generations, digital uses and competencies To define and explore methodologies critically to better understand the audience of digital generations, namely alternative methodologies. To consider ethical discussions in researching generations and also intergenerational dynamics. *Questions:* What can we learn with a historical perspective of generations and the digital, especially in the context of transitional and non-Western societies? How does the digital environment may contribute to convergence on generations? Still, what are the differences in using the digital across generations? What are the current and future trends that research results are giving to the field? Is there a shift in the approach of different generations and the media? What is the relevance of life course in the digital uses and competences? How to portray the digital evolution uses across generations, considering that the generational context is not a static dimension? What are the most appropriate theoretical approaches? Is research giving insights about new methodological approaches? What are the methodological challenges? What are the most challenging and needed ethical questions of this research field? Is there still a generation gap in terms of digital uses and competences? What social and cultural issues define generational contexts and condition intergenerationality far beyond competencies or uses? How to equate intergenerationality and digital uses in different geographic contexts? *References* Amaral, I., & Daniel, F. (2018). The use of social media among senior citizens in Portugal: active ageing through an intergenerational approach. In International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Lecture Notes in Computer Science v. 10926 (pp. 422-434). Springer, Cham. Print ISSN: 0302-9743, Online ISSN: 1611-3349, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92034-4_32 Bolin, G., & Skogerbø, E. (2013). Age, generation and the media. Northern Lights, 11, 3-14. doi:10.1386/nl.11.3_2 Brites, M.J. (Coord.) (2017). Digital Literacy and Education (2014-July 2016), national reports (Portugal, UK, Ireland, Spain, Serbia and Italy), ELN - European Literacy Network, Digital Literacy Team (WG2) https://www.is1401eln.eu/en/gca/index.php?id=149. Čuvalo, A. (2017). Ritmovi medijskih generacija u Hrvatskoj: istraživanje repertoara medijskih generacija iz sociološke perspektive. Reviza za sociologiju, 47(3): 271-302. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5613/rzs.47.3.2. Livingstone, Sonia & Haddon, Leslie (2009). EU Kids Online: Final Report. London: London School of Economics and Political Science. Thomas, M. (2001)(ed.). Deconstructing Digital Natives. Young People, Technology and the New Literacies. New York & London: Routledge. *All manuscripts should be submitted through the Open Journal System <https://hrcak.srce.hr/ojs/index.php/medijske-studije/index>.* *Submission guidelines can be found here <https://hrcak.srce.hr/ojs/index.php/medijske-studije/about/submissions>.* *The deadline for full articles is 7 October 2019.*

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