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CFP: Diabetes on Display
by Heather Walker 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

*Please pardon cross-posting* Dear colleagues, This email is coming to you from Heather Walker, Ph.D. and Bianca Frazer, Ph.D. and we are writing to invite you to submit a chapter proposal for a new volume we are co-editing on diabetes. We are disability studies scholars with emphasis in diabetes. Combined, we have training in both the humanities and social sciences. The edited volume we are putting together is called: *Diabetes on Display: Complicating Social, Political, and Cultural Representations of Diabetes*. Below is a copy of the call for proposals (CFP). If you have any questions, you can reach out to us at bianca.frazer(a)colorado.edu and heather.walker(a)hsc.utah.edu. Please feel free to circulate this CFP to fellow scholars and advocates. It is an open call. With gratitude, Heather Walker, Ph.D. & Bianca Frazer, Ph.D. *CFP: Diabetes on Display: Complicating Social, Political, and Cultural Representations of Diabetes* Call for Chapter Proposals Edited by Bianca C. Frazer and Heather R. Walker We seek essays 3000-6000 words in length for inclusion in a book to be submitted to The University of Michigan Press series titled Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. The series editor has expressed interest in the project which will focus on social, political, and cultural representations of diabetes. We invite works that are theoretical, analytical, and/or empirical. In the U.S., diabetes has many social and cultural representations -from a joke alluding to someone with a “poor lifestyle” to an “epidemic” that needs to be resolved. The great majority of popularized portrayals are stigmatizing to populations with diabetes - some more than others. Stigma occurs in a social context where a person is understood by others to have “undesired differentness”’ (Goffman, 1963, p. 5). That *undesired differentness* can be internalized or contested by those ascribed it as an identifier. We approach discourses of diabetes representation through the lens of the abject, because “people’s knowledge about diabetes is filtered through different modes of experience- individual, familial, community, cultural” (Bock, 2015, p. 135). This collection seeks to answer three central questions: What are the social, political, and cultural representations of diabetes? How do these portrayals interact with the broader social environment? How do diverse groups of people touched by diabetes respond to various representations? This volume provides a robust analysis of representations of diabetes with the intent to deconstruct both mundane and insidious messages about it in cultural, political, and social spaces. The purpose of this book is two-fold: 1) to serve as an intervention in the humanities and social sciences by offering a critical perspective on social, cultural, and political representations of diabetes; and 2) to establish diabetes as a site of inquiry in the field of critical disability studies where it has been largely overlooked. Critical disability studies has yet to consider representations of diabetes, while health-related fields typically view intervention on diabetes at the individual management and prevention level. The editors of this collection are guided by Tobin Siebers’ (2017) theory of complex embodiment as a starting point to engage the social and cultural dynamics of diabetes in U.S. culture. Complex embodiment views “the economy between social representations and the body not as unidirectional as in the social model, or nonexistent as in the medical model, but as reciprocal” (p. 284). Through this book project we seek to examine such spaces of reciprocity in the midst of contemporary issues like the insulin crisis to analyze the complexities of self-care, embodied willpower, and stories that permeate media about diabetes. Jeffrey A. Bennett’s (2019) account of diabetes in the public imagination furthered this conversation while the escalation of the insulin crisis has generated self-representation and social activism by people with diabetes. In this shifting landscape of activism diabetes is being politicized - meaning representations of diabetes need to be changed. A wider population of people with diabetes are coming into empowered consciousness and engaging in beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors described by Disability Studies scholar Alison Kafer’s political-relational model of disability (Kafer, 2013). Monographs such as *Making the Mexican Diabetic* (2011), *Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India* (2018), and *Traveling with Sugar* (2019) analyze diabetes in specific contexts. To further this burgeoning research, this collection brings together scholars from disparate fields to establish how diabetes is conceptualized in the face of ableism, racism, neoliberalism, and health care inequity. While medical anthropology is doing some of this research, critical disability studies offers unique tools to unpack the historical and contemporary cultural narratives around diabetes. The book will be organized into a three-part intervention. We invite chapters that intervene at the cultural, political, and social levels. Though not constrained to this list, we invite chapter proposals that explore or respond to topics like the following: · Representations of diabetes in theater and performance · Representations of in television and film · Representations of complications and diabetes · Representations of diabetes in the visual arts · Representations of diabetes in memoir, poetry and creative writing · Representations of diabetes in social media · Representation of diabetes technology or through technology · Historical perspectives of diabetes · Contemporary perspectives of diabetes (e.g. the insulin crisis) · Fictions, stories, and memoirs of diabetes · U.S. perspectives on cultures of diabetes · Intersections of race, class, disability, gender and diabetes · Cyborg experiences and diabetes · Diabetes and celebrity · Diabetes justice · Diabetes activism and advocacy · Diabetes Social Movements · Morality and diabetes · Diabetes and sickness · Non-Linear/Crip time and diabetes · Cripping diabetes · Queering diabetes · Sexuality and diabetes · Music and diabetes The selected chapters will be between 3,000-6,000 words. Initial chapter proposals should be no more than 250 words and use APA format. Proposals and a short author bio should be submitted via this google form: https://forms.gle/9z8fLwD5nMrmXwbP7 by March 1st at 12pm CT-USA. The full book proposal will be submitted in April 2020 to University of Michigan Corporealities, who has already expressed an interest in relation to the Discourses of Disability series. *Timeline:* CFP: Early January Proposal submission Due: February 15th Notification of selected chapters: March 15th Book proposal submitted: April 15th Full chapters Due: September 15th Peer Reviews Due: November 15th Final chapters Due: January 15th Manuscript to Publisher: February 15th *References*: Bennett, J.A. (2019). *Managing Diabetes: The Cultural Politics of Disease. *New York, NY: NYU Press. Bock, S. (2015). “Grappling to Think Clearly”: Vernacular Theorizing in Robbie McCauley’s *Sugar*. *Journal of Medical Humanities, 36*(2), 127-139. Goffman, E. (1963). *Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity*. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, Inc. Kafer, A. (2013). *Feminist, Queer, Crip*. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Montoya, M. (2011). *Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of inequality*. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Moran-Thomas, Amy. (2019). *Traveling with Sugar.* Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Siebers, T. (2017). Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment: For Identity Politics in a New Register. In L.J. Davis (Ed.), *The Disability Studies Reader* (313-331). New York, NY: Routledge. Weaver, L.J. (2018). Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Siebers, T. (2017). Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment: For Identity Politics in a New Register. In L.J. Davis (Ed.), *The Disability Studies Reader* (313-331). New York, NY: Routledge. Weaver, L.J. (2018). Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. -- *Heather Walker (Gabel), Ph.D.* Disability Studies College of Applied Health Sciences University of Illinois, Chicago heather.walker(a)hsc.utah.edu : 530.755.7673 127 S. 500 E, Suite 620N Salt Lake City UT 84102

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applying large-scale NLP linguistic analysis to web archives: 101 billion word nlp dataset
by kalev leetaru 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

For those interested in the kinds of at-scale research questions large web archives make possible and/or those interested in web-scale linguistic analysis and entity understanding, we've just released an open machine-annotated part of speech dataset from running 101 billion words of worldwide online news from 100 million English articles 2016-present through Google's NLP API cataloging machine-assigned part of speech information (tag, aspect, case, form, gender, mood, number, person, proper, reciprocity, tense and voice) and dependency label, along with snippets of each usage, which builds upon a parallel dataset that includes the more than 11 billion entities found within those articles. Both datasets are available as open datasets, along with a third dataset that applies the same entity extraction to a decade of television news on BBC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX and ABC, CBS and NBC evening news to allow online-television topical comparisons. PART OF SPEECH + DEPENDENCY LABELS https://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-the-web-partofspeech-dataset-101-b… ENTITIES https://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-the-global-entity-graph-geg-and-a-… TV ENTITIES https://blog.gdeltproject.org/a-deep-learning-powered-entity-graph-over-tel… Kalev

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Job Announcement - Research Analyst (A4AI/Web Foundation)
by Dhanaraj Thakur 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Apologies for cross-posting. We have an exciting new job opening for a Research Analyst at the Alliance for Affordable Internet/Web Foundation. We are looking for someone with great statistical and data visualization skills. You can find the job description and details for applying here:https://webfoundation.org/about/jobs/ Anyone qualified is encouraged to apply including women; those from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia; and LGBTQI persons. Please also share with your networks. thanks and take care, Dhanaraj -- Dhanaraj Thakur Research Director World Wide Web Foundation <https://webfoundation.org> +1 857 498 8869 (USA) @thakurdhanaraj PGP: 0xFCB84FE2A0E7C147 *World Wide Web Foundation | **1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA.*

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Artificial Intelligence and IR/Foreign Policy: Reading List
by Sophia Ignatidou 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Dear friends, I am trying to find an extensive reading list on AI and international relations but surprising enough I cannot find much. I found some papers by Corneliu Bjola and the book *Artificial Intelligence And International Politics*, but I was wondering if anybody has more tips. Any help would be much appreciated... Kind regards, Sophia -- Sophia Ignatidou ----------------------- /Freelance Journalist and Researcher /Academy Stavros Niarchos Foundation Fellow at the Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership at Chatham House, London (2018-2019) mob (UK): +44 (0) 7572348972

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CFP: Exploring Social Media in Shifting, Transforming, and Transitioning Markets
by Drenten, Jenna 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

CALL FOR PAPERS - CONFERENCE TRACK Exploring Social Media in Shifting, Transforming, and Transitioning Markets (A track of the 45th Annual Macromarketing Conference) We are pleased to introduce the first dedicated social media track of the Macromarketing Conference -- a community of scholars devoted to understanding how markets, marketing, and society are connected into a networked system that shapes economic, political and ecological outcomes as well as global human welfare. The 45th Annual Macromarketing Conference will be held in Bogota, Colombia, July 7-10, 2020. Submissions are due January 31, 2020. For the "Exploring Social Media" track, authors can submit via our online portal for the track: https://macromarketing.wishpondpages.com/social-media/ For more information, view our "Exploring Social Media" track poster: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1faNtXXCuStUn_URLrrMkQrgh7t45THbO/view Works in progress and early-stage research are welcomed across all disciplines. Please contact the track chairs with any questions. Track Chairs: Jenna Drenten, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Loyola University Chicago (jdrenten(a)luc.edu<mailto:jdrenten@luc.edu>) Akon E. Ekpo, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Loyola University Chicago (aekpo(a)luc.edu<mailto:aekpo@luc.edu>) Track Description: Facebook. WhatsApp. Instagram. Twitter. YouTube. Through social media, consumers can speak to healthcare professionals, organize political protests, watch global disasters unfold in real-time, raise funds for a loved one’s cancer treatment, and purchase illegal goods and services. Much of the research at the intersection of social media and marketing focuses on micro-level consumer behavior. However, the implications may have bigger impact at the market system level. Thus, this track seeks to expand understanding of the role of social media within the broader macromarketing discourse. In line with the conference theme of transitioning markets, contributors to this track should think boldly and broadly about the role of social media in creating, supporting, transforming, and disassembling market systems. This track invites submissions that critically examine how the emergence and evolution of social media and digital consumer culture are reshaping marketing, market systems, and society. Possibilities for this track include, but are not limited to: * The interplay between online and offline marketplace practices and market systems * Ethical implications of social media algorithms, data harvesting, and consumer privacy * Marketplace activism and resistance through social media * Intersection of social media and issues of power, marginalization, inequality, and/or accessibility * Dynamics of a cashless culture and social media-based market systems * Deepfakes, bots, and how marketing operates in a post-truth information marketplace * Formal and informal regulations (e.g., government censorship, parental control) of social media marketing and social media platforms * New forms of marketplace labor, services, products, and economies emerging through social media * Critical-historical analysis of social media marketing and case studies of specific social media * Methodological advances and ethical considerations in social media research For this track, social media are defined as Internet-enabled services that allow consumers, communities, organizations, and governmental entities to collaborate, connect, interact by enabling them to create, co-create, modify, share and engage with user-generated content. Contributors are encouraged to explore a broad range of social media and their interplay with market systems and society across a range of functions: * transactional (e.g., Venmo, eBay, GoFundMe, Patreon) * relational/social (e.g., WhatsApp, Tinder, Ancestry) * informational (e.g., Wikipedia, Reddit, TripAdvisor) * entertainment (e.g., Spotify, Pokemon Go, TikTok) Exploration of non-Western markets and culturally specific social media are strongly encouraged. Both conceptual analyses and empirical studies are welcomed. Contributors should examine offline and online dynamics of social media as related to core macromarketing concepts, such as marketing ethics, quality of life and consumer well-being, globalization, market system dynamics, sustainability and environmental issues, consumer culture, socioeconomic development, and distributive justice. To advance macromarketing theory, contributors are encouraged to integrate theoretical perspectives from new media studies, digital humanities, and related fields. Submission Types * Competitive Papers (max. 8,000 words) * Extended Abstracts (max. 5 pages) * Special Session Proposals *Please format your submission: MS Word, Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced -- Jenna Drenten, PhD Assistant Professor of Marketing Quinlan School of Business Loyola University Chicago jdrenten(a)luc.edu<mailto:jdrenten@luc.edu> 803.212.8402 @jennadrenten<http://twitter.com/jennadrenten> See recent publications: * Sexualized labour in digital culture: Instagram influencers, porn chic and the monetization of attention<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gwao.12354> (Free Access) * Video gaming as a gendered pursuit<http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=exOKDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA28&dq=i…> * The hashtaggable body: Negotiating gender performance in social media<http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=exOKDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA101&dq=…> * Visual storytelling and vulnerable health care consumers: normalising practices and social support through Instagram<https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JSM-09-2018-0262/full/h…>

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Call for nominations - The International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award 2020 - Deadline: 1 March 2020
by Cristian Vaccari 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

*Call for Nominations for **The International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award 2020* *Deadline: 1 March 2020* The call for papers is also available at https://cristianvaccari.com/2020/01/08/call-for-nominations-for-the-interna…. Please feel free to share to anyone who might be interested. Nominations are invited for the annual International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award, to be sent to IJPP Editor-in-Chief Cristian Vaccari by email no later than March 1. *Rationale* The International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award honors internationally-oriented books that advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the linkages between news media and politics in a globalized world in a significant way. It is given annually by the International Journal of Press/Politics and sponsored by Sage Publications. The award committee will judge each nominated book on several criteria, including the extent to which the book goes beyond analyzing a single case country to present a broader and internationally-oriented argument, the significance of the problems addressed, the strength of the evidence the book relies on, conceptual innovation, the clarity of writing, and the book’s ability to link journalism studies, political communication research, and other relevant intellectual fields. *Eligibility* Books published within the last ten years will be considered. Monographs as well as edited volumes of exceptional quality and coherence will be considered for the award. Books by current members of the award committee are ineligible and committee members will recuse themselves from discussion of books by members of their own department, works published in series that they edit, and similar circumstances. *Award committee* The award committee consists of Cristian Vaccari (the editor of the International Journal of Press/Politics), Kimberly Gross (chair of the Political Communication Division of ICA), and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (chair of the Journalism Studies Division of ICA). *Nominations* Nominations including a rationale of no more than 350 words should be emailed by March 1 to Cristian Vaccari at c.vaccari(a)lboro.ac.uk. Self-nominations are accepted. The nomination must specify why the book should receive the award by outlining the importance of the book to the study of media and politics and by identifying its international contribution and relevance. Please include links to or copies of relevant reviews in scholarly journals. Arrangements should be made with the publishers of nominated books for one hard copy to be sent by March 1 to each of the three committee members at the following addresses: - Cristian Vaccari, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Brockington Building U.3.19, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom. - Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel - Kimberly Gross, School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University, 805 21st Street NW, Suite 400, Washington DC 20052, USA *Presentation*The award will be presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association and will be announced on the IJPP website. The awarded book will also receive recognition in issue 4/2020 of the journal. *Past winners of the award* 2019: Maria Repnikova, Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2017). 2018: Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril, and Claes H. de Vreese, Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2014). 2017: Katrin Voltmer, The Media in Transitional Democracies (Polity Press, 2013). 2016: Andrew Chadwick, The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power (Oxford University Press, 1st edition 2013). 2015: Rodney Benson, Shaping Immigration News (Cambrige University Press, 2014). Cristian Vaccari ****************************************************** Professor of Political Communication, Loughborough University <http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/socialsciences/staff/cristian-vaccari/> Co-Director, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture <https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/> Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Press/Politics <http://journals.sagepub.com/home/hij> Chair, APSA Information Technology & Politics section <https://www.apsanet.org/section18> ****************************************************** Brockington Building U.3.19 Epinal Way, Loughborough, LE11 3TU United Kingdom ****************************************************** Personal website: https://cristianvaccari.com/ Google Scholar profile <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3_TethEAAAAJ&hl=en> Twitter: @prof_vaccari <https://twitter.com/prof_vaccari>

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CfP Special issue on The Datafication of (Media) Audiences in Mediekultur
by David Mathieu 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Dear colleagues, This is a reminder that there is less than a week left until the deadline for abstract submission (Jan 15th) to the special issue in the journal Mediekultur on The Datafication of (Media) Audiences. See more details below. Call for papers: Datafication of media (and) audiences 2019-11-13 Special issue of MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research Guest editor: David Mathieu (Roskilde University) Theme editor: Ana Jorge (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Miguel Torga) Academic knowledge built over the last five decades on media audiences may be called into question by algorithmic recommendations, machine learning, platform design and new metrics that describe, anticipate and shape the audience’s every move. While we hold that audiences are selective in their choice of content (Katz et al., 1974), form communities of interpretation (Fish, 1980) and are freely giving their attention to public issues (Warner, 2002), it would appear that they are now increasingly being selected, calculated, interpreted and anticipated by media on the basis of a wide range of data provided more or less willingly and consciously. This datafication of media (and) audiences – i.e. the quantification of audience mediated experiences – is not to be understood simply as a new form of knowledge, but also as a new era in the commodification of audiences, challenging our understanding of audiences as an agentic and autonomous subjects. This special issue invites contributions that: * explore critically the tensions between, on the one hand, attempts at control and commodification made possible by the datafication of media (and) audiences, and on the other hand, the reactions and agentic possibilities of audiences to comply, avoid or cope with these attempts at control; * provide empirical basis to answer broad and worrying questions about the democratic and societal consequences of datafication, about its impact on media consumption, everyday and cultural life, by operationalizing media audiences as a key actor in mediated processes of datafication; * shed light on and theorise new forms of relation and mutual influence that link media with their audiences in the age of datafication. Contributions can address, but are not limited to, these topics: * Type, nature and origin of data collected on media audiences and their purposes in media production and practice * Media practices made possible by data that contribute to the quantification, objectification and commodification of audiences * Coping strategies and reactions of resistance or appropriation to datafication from the part of media audiences * Audiences’ experiences of normalization, trust, comfort, compliance, numbness, resignation, anxiety in the face of datafied media * Implications of data collection, aggregation, analysis, prediction, profiling and brokering on audience agency * Consequences of the quantification of human experience, the transformation of subjective experience into ‘objective’ knowledge, the algorithmic personalization and recommendation of media content on the mediated experiences and everyday life of audiences * The transformation of news practice, public connection and audience engagement in the age of datafication * The (lack of) transparency and accountability of data practices in media industries, and especially the challenges this poses for audiences’ capacity to read the media (their media literacy) * The new asymmetries and power relations that data practices may bring between media institutions and audiences, or between different segments of audiences * Cultural specificities of the processes of datafication of media and the reception by audiences, including cross-cultural variations * Impact of datafication on theories and methodologies in media and audience research References: Fish, S. (1980). Is There A Text in This Class, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U. Press. Katz, E., Blumler, J. G., & Gurevitch, M. (1974). Ulilization of mass communication by the individual. In J. G. Blumler, & E. Katz (Eds.), The uses of mass communications: Current perspectives on gratifications research (pp. 19–32). Beverly Hills: Sage. Warner, M. (2002). Publics and counterpublics (abbreviated version). Quarterly Journal of Speech, 88(4), 413–425. Call for contributions and key dates: Interested contributors to this special issue are first invited to provide an extended abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to mathieu(a)ruc.dk<mailto:mathieu@ruc.dk> with the subject ‘Datafication of media (and) audiences’. Following a first review process, invitations will be sent to provide a full paper of 6000-8000 words (including references) through the Open Journal System, which will then go under peer review following the usual procedure of the journal MedieKultur. Invitation to submit a full paper does not guarantee acceptance for final publication in the journal. Accepted languages of contribution are English and Danish. January 15th 2020: Deadline for abstract submission February 1st 2020: Invitation to submit a full paper June 1st 2020: Submission of full paper July 31st 2020: Notification of acceptance and/or revisions August-October 2020: Revision period October 31st 2020: Final submission About the editors: David Mathieu is associate professor at the Department of Communication & Arts at Roskilde University, Denmark. He chairs the Audience and Reception Studies section of the European Communication, Research and Education Association and is leader of the research group Audiences & Mediated life. His current work focuses on audience and reception research in the context of social media, digitalisation of communication and datafication of society. Ana Jorge is Guest Assistant Professor at Universidade Católica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Instituto Superior Miguel Torga, Portugal. She is Vice-Chair of the Digital Culture and Communication section of ECREA. Best, David -- David Mathieu, Ph.D. Associate professor in Communication Studies Head of research group Audiences & Mediated Life (AMLife) Chair of the Audience and Reception Studies section of ECREA International Coordinator in Communication Studies DCA, Roskilde University Universitetsvej 1, Postboks 260 4000 Roskilde, Denmark Office 41.3.02, phone: 4674-3144

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Senior Researcher Position in Computational Social Science at the Leibniz-Institute for Media Research in Hamburg, Germany
by Felix Victor Münch 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Dear AoIR list members, there is still one weekend left to apply for an awesome senior researcher position in computational social/communication science to plan, build, and manage our Media Research Methods Lab. https://leibniz-hbi.de/en/news/senior-researcher-computational-social-scien… > From 2020 onwards, HBI will pool and expand its methodological competencies in a "Media Research Methods Lab" (MRML). The MRML will focus on linking established social science methods with novel computational methods (for example, automated content analysis/natural language processing, image recognition, network analysis, log data analysis, experience sampling, and machine learning). This can also include work in the areas of regulatory science such as case law, the analysis of text corpora, and the ethical-legal components of data collection and evaluation procedures. In addition to delving into further methodological development, the lab will focus on the transfer of specialist knowledge within the institute and to the wider scientific community as well as to other HBI stakeholders. Together with Dr. Sascha Hölig, the successful candidate will be expected to manage the MRML and further develop its conceptual direction. Please consider applying for this until 15.1.2020 (canary:event?ts=600260405.00) or relaying this vacancy to possibly interested candidates: Feel free to ask me anything about the position, the institute, Hamburg, or Germany. Best, Dr. Felix Victor Münch Postdoc Researcher Leibniz Institut for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI), Hamburg https://leibniz-hbi.de/ https://felixvictor.net (https://felixvictor.net/)

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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Cyber-Social Health: Promoting Good and Countering Harm on Social Media
by Ugur Kursuncu 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting your papers on the topic of "Cyber-Social Health: Promoting Good and Countering Harm on Social Media" for the Special Issue of IEEE Internet Computing. Link for the CfP here: https://www.computer.org/digital-library/magazines/ic/call-for-papers-speci… Please kindly share with your colleagues, students, and collaborators. This special issue welcomes theoretical, analytical, and empirical contributions using any kind of research method, including experiments, primary data from social media logs, case studies, simulations, surveys, and so on. Submissions are encouraged to examine the nature of both harmful and social good intentional behaviors on social media towards understanding, detecting, and monitoring good communication while countering harmful communication, by employing computational social media analytics techniques. The target audience for this special issue will consist of researchers, practitioners, and graduate students from various disciplines, including (but not limited to) behavioral science, computer and information sciences, psychology, sociology, political science, cognitive science, cultural study, information systems, terrorism and counter-terrorism, operations research, and communication. Through this special issue, we aim to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines, to share, exchange, learn, and develop preliminary results, new concepts, ideas, principles, and methodologies on social, cultural, emotional, communicative, and linguistic aspects of harmful communications and their content on social media. *Topics* include, but are not limited to: - Misinformation, disinformation, fake news (e.g., during elections, epidemics, and disasters, as well as regarding health topics like vaccines), and spreading deep fakes - Online extremism - Harassment and cyberbullying - Hate speech - Gender-based violence - Human trafficking - Illicit drug trafficking - Mental health implications of social media - Validity of social media in smart health and well-being - Ethical and privacy-preserving social media analytics - Emotional and psychological support - Trust relationship and community dynamics - Relationship of social web and mainstream news media - Cultural implications of social web usage - Social good campaigns and movements - Influencer identification and community detection for movements *Important Dates* * Paper submissions due: April 15, 2020* First-round reviews due: July 8, 2020 Revisions due: August 12, 2020 Final decision notification: September 16, 2020 Camera-ready submissions due: September 30, 2020 Publication: November/December 2020 *Guest Editors* Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas, USA Ugur Kursuncu, AI Institute, University of South Carolina, USA Hemant Purohit, George Mason University, USA Amit Sheth, AI Institute, University of South Carolina, USA

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New Book: "Deep Mediatization" by Andreas Hepp
by Leif Kramp 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

New Book: "Deep Mediatization" by Andreas Hepp Published by Routledge This book takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and communications research: how digital media is changing society. Often, such questions are discussed in isolation losing sight of the overarching context in which they are situated. Andreas Hepp has developed a theory of the re-figuration of society by digital media and their infrastructures and provides an understanding of how profound today’s media-related changes are, not only for institutions, organizations and communities, but for the individual as well. Rooted in the latest research, this book does not stop at a description of media-related change, instead it raises the normative challenge of what deep mediatization should look like so that it might just stimulate a “good life” for all. Providing original and critical research, the book introduces deep mediatization to students of media and cultural studies as well as neighbouring disciplines like sociology, political science and other cognate disciplines. José van Dijck (Utrecht U) says: “Andreas Hepp’s new book provides a profound and ‘deep’ reflection on how digital technologies have penetrated all aspects of our daily lives. His critical reflections cover not just the mediatization of institutions and infrastructures, but also of social and symbolic interactions. Scaffolded by quantitative and qualitative evidence, his argument that we are ushered into a new era of ‘deep mediatization’ is very convincing. Invaluable reading for anyone grappling with a global information order.” Karin Gwinn Wilkins (U Miami) writes: “With previous work by Hepp, Couldry and others we witness an essential conceptualization of mediatization that helps us understand contemporary communication landscapes. With this new edition, Hepp elaborates this framework in critical ways, reminding us that digital media more than channel our communication, but also create and reinforce new information, through our cultural practices, societal infrastructures, and institutional parameters. This is a powerful treatise, thoughtfully building on the most relevant and promising scholarship toward a positioning of communication theory that offers a significant critical argument on our most contemporary and concerning communication practices.” Silvio Waisbord (George Washington U) recommends: “Andreas Hepp has written a state-of-the-art, nuanced argument about the power of mediatization. Blending sociological sophistication and a critical eye, Hepp demonstrates the multiple and dynamics dimensions of mediatization. This book should be mandatory for media scholars grappling with how the media have transformed contemporary societies.” And Fred Turner (Stanford U) comments: "With Deep Mediatization, Andreas Hepp gives us a way to slip beneath the choppy surface of contemporary media and to see currents of social change that are stronger, older, and longer-lasting than many of us have imagined. This is social oceanography at its finest.“ Further information on the publisher's website: https://www.routledge.com/Deep-Mediatization-1st-Edition/Hepp/p/book/978113… <https://www.routledge.com/Deep-Mediatization-1st-Edition/Hepp/p/book/978113…> Hepp, Andreas (2020): Deep Mediatization. Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies. Routledge, 248 pages, 8 B/W illustrations, 24.99 GBP

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